Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The Brit Hume interview was much better than the “hearings”. No extraneous noise and no pontificating by an unlistening questioner. Nothing but straight facts. Too bad the congress critters were too busy talking instead of listening.
Of course, the uncovered story is the identification of the congressmen who issued passes to the demonstrators.
I appreciated the interview with Brit, couldn’t watch the testimony yesterday due to work. Probably couldn’t have stood listening to it anyway. Can you imagine what the Gen. is facing today, with all those presidential “hopefuls” on those committees? Enough to make ME cry, whether he does or not.
A different opinion about Petraeus:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
It’s certainly an opinion convivial to the “alternate” news media types who’ve jettisoned the biases of main stream media outlets. In favor of their own.
It’s not at all hard for me to believe that four star flag officers playing in the same sandbox can find a way to step on eachother’s toes. What would be surprising is that Fox Fallon would characterize Petraeus the way he was reported to have done within earshot of anyone who’d share it with the press.
Each of them are advocates for their mission, that’s natural. And there’s a tension between those missions, that’s for certain. Hopefully it’s a creative one.