David Crosby-- drunk, drug addict, recipient of a donated liver despite being a drunk and drug addict, and now piss-poor political commentator alleges that the job of US servicemen and women in Iraq is to "kill mothers and sisters in Iraq".

The Feckless Peanut Farmer is at it again, trying to boast about his successful diplomacy with Iran.  In an interview with Ed Walsh of Boston's WBZ-AM, the FPF even calls them "his" hostages.

Do you remember that airspace incursion about a week or so ago where the Syrians claimed they "scared off" some Isreali F-15s and all of a sudden Israel became real silent?

The Sunday Times has a very interesting article that posits the hypothesis that the Israeli F-15s actually destroyed a secret Syrian nuke facility about 50 miles from the Iraqi border.  Not only that-- but the facility was laser targeted by IDF Special Forces that had landed just hours earlier.

If they did, good for them!  I tip my bourbon to the IDF.

If they didn't, good for them too, for making everyone think they did.

Rich Lowery over at National Review Online has a fantastic commentary piece on the Inspector General report about the failure of the CIA to accurately predict and deal with the threat of terrorism on US soil.

Charles Krauthammer has joined the growing chorus of nay sayers against Iraqi PM Nouri al Maliki (like Senators Clinton, Reid, and Levin) in calling for his removal.

Just something we might want to keep in mind:  the last time the United States President ordered/authorized a coup de tat against an the sitting head of allied state, that President was dead two months later from an assassin's bullet.

President Kennedy authorized the coup de tat that resulted in the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, 1963.

Now, before the Oliver Stones of the blogosphere start going nutso over this bit of trivia, I am not trying to establish a conspiratorial cause to the Kennedy assassination.

I am just pointing out that George W. Bush doesn't have much incentive to tease a repeat of history.

From the blog CARPE DIEM, between 2002 and 2007 -- the greatest period of "globalizing economics" the world has ever seen, stock market capitalizations have increased $35 trillion dollars.  That is a doubling in value in just five years.

It took us almost 2000 years to reach the original $35 trillion dollars.

This success is the result of ever-increasing integration of the global economy, which fuels growth and prosperity for all people, given the chance.  But if the so-called Progressives in the Democrat party get their way, no one will be given the chance.

Question is:  when will we be able to get Africa into the game?

The President really lit a tinderbox in his speech to the VFW this week when he invoked the aftermath of the Vietnam War as a lesson for us in Iraq.

Ralph Peters has a must-read article in the New York Post.

According to this article from Bill Gertz in Friday's Washington Times, the Dragon apparently offered the US the opportunity to split the Pacific in half.

I ask that question, because Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute -- deputy National Security Advisor and War Czar -- thinks it might be a good idea to consider reinstating the draft.

I think regular urinalysis tests at the National Security Council might be a good idea, too.