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The Valletta Papers on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:04:54 PM
First, make sure you see the video of Hamid Karzai responding to left-wing reporter Jennifer Loven’s question about terrorism. Great response from an ally!
As the President ordered, parts of the National Intelligence Estimate have now been declassified and released. Go here for the key judgments. You’ll note that its conclusions are just the opposite of the main-stream media’s defeatist version.
The Power Line Blog reviews how the Associated Press leftist zealot, Jennifer Loven (see story above where she embarrasses herself with Karzai), continues to distort the key judgments of the NIE. The AP, according to Power Line, “is apparently relying on the assumption that hardly anyone will read the report's conclusions.”
I love today’s brief blog by Clarice Feldman on The American Thinker. In “The Chutzpah Prize,” Feldman asks an important question: “Where did the [New York Times] paper get the notion that it was okay to misrepresent classified information illegally leaked to it, but bad to declassify that information and expose the lie?”
Ralph Peters of the New York Post calls for what many in America have been calling for – an end to all leaking of national security leaks. He writes that “the climate of leaks-without-penalties must end. But it probably won't. Why? Because senior figures in both parties see political advantages in well-timed leaks. They're willing to betray our nation for a brief partisan edge.”
Don’t miss Richard Miniter’s latest column in the Wall-Street OpinionJournal: “What Clinton Didn't Do . . . and when he didn't do it.” This stuff sure doesn’t match-up with Clinton’s claims in the Chris Wallace interview.
In his recent column, “A Battle Lost in the War on Terror,” Tony Blankley writes that “three weeks ago, Pakistan signed the terms of the Waziristan Accord with the northern region of its country called North Waziristan. It was, effectively, the terms of surrender by Pakistan to the Taliban and al Qaeda, which dominate North Waziristan.” The entire column should be read.
“Make no apologies for the use of ‘Islamic fascism,’” writes Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online. The entire article is worth the read.
Andrew McCarthy argues in his latest column on NRO that “it is bad enough when the Muslim charlatans opportunistically use American policies they don’t like for militant propaganda purposes. It is reprehensible when American politicians do it. Jihadists hate us because they hate us, not because of Iraq.”
“When Push Comes to Torture” is Jonah Goldberg’s excellent addition to the discussion on “just what exactly isn’t” torture. A good and recommended read!