Soccer Dad

Submitted 07/10/07

This weeks' Watcher's Council nominations are up.

The Glittering Eye writes What's in a name (Al Qaeda edition)? His argument is that too often terrorism is attributed to Al Qaeda when it ought not to. I had some doubts about his thesis, thinking I remembered that Daniel Pipes had written that Al Qaeda was diffuse without a strong structure. (Thus it could be involved in a lot of terror, even if not associated with Bin Laden.) I didn't find that article, but I did find Daniel Pipes making much the same argument three years ago.

In North vs. South, Colossus of Rhodey.Hube looks at some speculative, post-apocalyptic science fiction. I hope he's feeling better and over that flu bug.

In Independence Day, Done with Mirrors considers the contradictory American impulses for freedom and for (moral) standards.

In High Noonan, Big Lizards expresses high dudgeon at Peggy Noonan's latest broadside against President Bush. He argues that Reagan would have understood the Islamist threat and not retreated to the isolationism of many of his followers.

Okie on the Lam synopsizes the latest shocking Baqubah Update from Michael Yon.

Rhymes with Right writes about Another Human Rights Atrocity in Malaysia in which a woman's religious freedom is trampled on by the authorities.

Education Wonk considers his responsibility and re-considers his role as an influencer in recommending the military as an option to students given his own ambivalence to the way the war is being run in Army Recruitment and the Influencers.

Bookworm Room's Bad Medicine is a refutation of Michael Moore's "Sicko."

Cheat Seeking Missiles sets the Clinton records straight on presidential pardons in Hillary's Grand Failed Coverup.

JoshuaPundit takes down last week's notorious editorial advocating withdrawal from Iraq in NYT Run Away! Run Away!

Right Wing Nuthouse writes about the difficulty of succeeding in Iraq if the Iraqi government does nothing to help politically in Success in a vacuum.

My own contribution to the Council is High class terror in which I write about the presence of the middle class and upper middle class among the ranks of jihadists.

Read. Enjoy. Be informed.

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Posted by SoccerDad at July 12, 2007 4:43 AM