5-15-08

Col. Austin Bay: Dictatorships Kill…In Burma, a few (the junta) wield vast physical power over the rest. Ditto North Korea. Ditto Sudan. Economic sanctions, economic rewards, harsh words, warm words and sharp threats may nudge these regimes, but the dictators only move when it’s in their interest. When 100,000 deaths serve the interest of the local thugs, then the realistic options are starkly limited.

BDS sufferer Keith Olbermann to Bush: Shut the Hell Up!

Dr Roy Spencer: I only hope when global warming ends, and is accepted to be a largely natural phenomenon rather than manmade, that all of the regulatory mistakes we’ve made can somehow be undone.

Paul Mirengoff of Powerline: A Tale of Two Memos…The case can be made that all Bremer and Armitage achieved by delaying the turnover was the instability and terrorism Armitage himself had predicted would likely result from U.S. domination of the post-invasion government.

Historian Victor Davis Hanson: The battle over wartime reputations can wait until hostilities cease.

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