Told you so. He's a thug, no better than the Soviets or the ChiComs.Read it all.Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corrie,You are continuing with your campaign of demonization and delegitimization against Israel, a campaign that now manifests itself in a shallow anti-Israel propaganda play being staged in Seattle. All this, of course, came after your earlier open letter to the world, "A Call to Action; Rachel's Words Live," which was reprinted in many different media outfits, including the viciously anti-Semitic Counterpunch magazine, and the Guardian of the UK. ...
Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent, as one who had - perhaps wittingly and perhaps not - recruited herself on behalf of a genocidal movement of Arab fascists seeking to destroy Israel and murder as many Jews as possible. Your daughter died while interfering with an anti-terror operation carried out by an army in a land in which she had no business being at all. You demand that we in Israel feel your pain at the loss of your daughter, yet your daughter conscripted herself as an aid for those seeking to murder my children.
Obama's Monday night foreign policy speech is more than just clever language. He displays a commitment to moral principles and a serious foreign policy usually found in the halls of the American Enterprise Institute, or the pages of the Weekly Standard: promoting the American interest through a strong offensive military that, in conjunction with diplomatic, political and economic means, is used to remake foreign nations in a liberal democratic image. ...Read it all.
There were plenty of Democratic tropes. Global climate change is mentioned, and venom for the current administration and the War in Iraq is frequent. But issues like "oil addition" are mentioned not as environmental concerns but as a way to "weaken the hand of hostile dictators." Taken as a whole, and enacted with a willingness to pursue the American interest, Obama's speech shows an understanding—dare I say a conservative understanding—of America's foreign policy challenges. If nothing else it raises the hope that, as Professor Weinberg of Puget Sound reminds us, "candidate Obama may want to bring the boys home, but President Obama will see that decision in a different light."
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Connecticut native and global troubadour David Rovics sang at a fundraising concert Thursday night at Edge of the Woods to benefit this year's (21st annual) May Day celebration on the New Haven Green. Introduced by Paula Panzarella, who's been the co-organizer of the event for all but two of those years, Rovics sang a dozen of his own compositions, which ranged from hysterical ("I'm a Better Anarchist Than You") to romantic to as timely as the day's headlines, like this song for Rachel Corrie. The fourth anniversary of her killing by an Israeli soldier driving a U.S.-funded bulldozer as she tried to protect a Palestinian's home in Gaza was Friday, the day after the concert, and articles appeared in various media taking note of it.Actually, St. Pancake was trying to protect terrorist smuggling tunnels, and the home itself was not being razed that day. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good Jew-bashing. Check out the words to the song. Rovics seems to have the idea that the bulldozer actually ran over St. Pancake, when it was the blade and the dirt pile that struck her. Don't forget that Rachel Corrie was still alive when she was taken from the scene, but seeing how a dead martyr is more useful than an injured activist, it makes me wonder what took place in the ambulance.
