Links and Minifeatures 05 09 Tuesday

Carnival of Liberty

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Holy Rabid Moonbats Batman! Ten Leftist Conspiracy Theories



I'm perfectly willing to entertain evidence in support of any of them. Given the realities of the situation, however, I'd more likely bet the ranch the other way than bet a nickel that any of them are likely to be true.



HT Wrightwing



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Chapomatic has an interesting post titled "On A Genocide Prevention Corps" Worth reading in that it tells us what we need to do if we really want to get involved in genocide prevention.



Unfortunately, the political will to succeed at genocide prevention does not exist in this country. I wish it were otherwise, but wishing does not make it so. We're having enough political trouble with the die-hards about what's already on our plate, in which the United States has vital immediate interests. I'm not sure we have the leftover resources for Darfur, but if those who run our military say we do, I'd vote for intervention. Every person whose government treats them like that makes for a less secure, less happy world, and any investment we make will be repaid many times over. But if we were to intervene, many domestic interests would turn it for their own ends, with the end result that we'd depart with the mission unfinished and the end situation would be many times worse. Indeed, the false hope engendered would magnify the damage.



I'm not a religious man in the traditional sense, but if I were I'd hope there was a special hell reserved for people like Milosevic and the Khartoum government, among others. And second one right next to it for those who play political games for their own benefit with the victims of those in the first one.



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Eidelblog goes a bit over the top in taking apart a socialist methodology, but I suppose that if you need shaped charges to penetrate the solid neutronium head plating. It makes a lot of points that cannot be made too often.



While you're there, Eidelblog also ably defends the Laffer Curve, while directing me to Poor and Stupid's excellent speech to the National Organization of Investment Professionals.



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Wizbang notes that Israel may have saved the life of Palestinian president Abbas from the Hamas thugs in his own government. I'm no huge fan of Abbas, but he's all that's keeping an even worse group of terrorists from complete control of the Palestinian apparatus and an even worse situation for the civilized world.



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via Argghhh! , an Orson Scott Card piece that says at length what I said in about two paragraphs a couple of weeks ago. He gives more depth, more examples, but the conclusion and basic reasoning is the same.



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Jihad Watch has the text of the letter President Ahmadinejad sent to President Bush.



I'm going to hide some text here so that you won't read interpretations until you've looked at it, if such be your desire.







Please read it for yourself. I am interested in what others have to say.



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I'm likely to have retreads for the morning article for the next couple of days. I gave you folks five articles last week, and it looks like I may have to dial it back a little this week.