Links and Minifeatures 2008 07 14 (Monday)

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Professor Bainbridge has about the sanest response to Fannie and Freddie troubles I've seen.

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A minor miracle has happened: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's President. Not that it hasn't been obvious the government in Khartoum was behind the Janjaweed for at least five year - but that the ICC - dominated by accomodationist european nations - actually found the courage to file the charges. We'll see how far they go.

al-Bashir is unlikely to be sent to The Hague any time soon. Sudan rejects the court's jurisdiction, and senior Sudanese officials said the prosecutor was politically motivated to file the charges.

A dissenting view from Drina, a pseudonymous Sudani

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Obama gives us his plan for Iraq, and ends up somehow showing himself even more naive than I thought he was. Al-Maliki's request for a timetable for withdrawal is not a request for complete withdrawal - he simply wants a timetable for full normalization and American troops to pull back to more or less permanent bases and American troop operations stop being a part of life in Iraq, as BBC reported. Al Maliki knows they're going to need us for a long time to come. If he really did request us to leave, and we honored that request, they'd immediately tell us they didn't mean it. But Obama can't be bothered to find out what Al-Maliki actually said, he writes as if Al Maliki said what Obama wants him to say. You'd think someone who's allegedly as smart as Obama's supposed to be could figure out that the head of foreign governments aren't likely to be his sock puppets.

Read Christopher Hitchens for more rebuttal, and Michael Yon for still more. Pay particular attention to the powerpoint presentation.

Yon says we do need to do something to turn Afghanistan around, though.

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An eyewitness account of Zimbabwe's election

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Hot Air's on a roll today, with this humorous piece on the new iphone from Will it Blend?

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UPDATE: Still haven't had the tooth out. At this point, still hoping to schedule it for tomorrow (Tuesday). The interaction of painkiller and antibiotic is doing strange things. I was going along fine, then it's like I hit a wall. Expect things to continue to be strange until I'm past this.

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