War Quotes of the day

ManoloShoeBlog rips apart a celebrity who refrained from serving in the military to defend her country because it would interfere with her job as a celebrity.
Excerpt:

Does she not know that the respectable peoples usually couch their objections to personal military service in more nuanced terms. The bien pensants do not say, “I did not serve because I wanted to party down in Ibiza, or New York, or Yale” but rather, “I did not serve because the military is taking advantage of the poor minorities, discriminating against the gays, and chopping down the rain forest with the depleted uranium chainsaws...

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Another job of fisking idiocy comes from Blackfive:

....(it was) in accordance with the Geneva Conventions... It is a military matter and it was executed as such.

As for the bin Laden family – sorry about dear old dad. Go float a wreath.

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another "fruit" of the "Blackhawk down": The failure of the international community to intervene in Africa's terrible wars. But things are slowly changing:

Among the big Western powers, particularly the US, the French and the UK, there has been a greater engagement on Africa at a higher political level and a greater willingness to bury past differences on Africa and co-operate. This has been in part because of a real sense of guilt at the failure of the West to prevent or halt the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. But it is also because of a new post 9/11 consensus in the West that, quite apart from humanitarian concerns, there are compelling strategic reasons (oil, Islam and terrorism) for preventing Africa from slipping further into poverty and conflict. In policy terms these factors have led to greater support for Africa’s own efforts to deal with conflict, support for beefed up UN operations and, when all else fails, a greater preparedness to commit Western troops in response to African crises.