http://www.bestoftheblogs.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:43:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past couple of weeks there have been two BoBs. This one and one with a new look, easier to read, easier to post comments, and a way to let the blogger know if the post was useful or not. However, some of you have been missing out on ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/29/there-is-a-new-best-of-the-blogs-now/ One strategy that I have seen bandied about for Afghanistan, is to arm local tribesmen to fight the Taliban. OK, I will say that it is a big stretch to assume that someone will fight the Taliban on our behalf if they are not doing so already. We ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/27/a-few-more-afghan-comments/ So where do I start? OK. President Obama looks serious about keeping his campaign rhetoric about fighting the war in Afghanistan, as the right war. I am sorry, it cannot be done. And for all this talk about President Bush having ignored the place, we lost ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/27/the-afghan-war-is-already-unwinnable/ This morning's Japan Times reprints a Washington Post article by Sally Quin titled "Pastor Rick's Evolution." In her lead paragraph she writes, Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration has been characterized as -- at best -- a giant blunder. But it might turn out to be ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/24/obama-warren-faith-and-change/ It is very good to see the listing of executive orders and memorandum that have begun to accumulate after the first two days in office for the new President.The deadline to close Guantanamo, the lobbyist regulations, FOIA access, halt to Bush's last-minute EPA actions, and most especially, the reversal of ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/23/a-nation-of-laws/ President Obama is saying that US forces will completely withdraw from Iraq quickly, within 16 months. The Status of Forces agreement says that every American soldier must leave by 2011. General Ray Ordienero says maybe. http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/21/gen-odierno-iraq-elections-key-to-us-pullout/ He is saying that the withdrawal depends on the success of two Iraqi election happening this ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/22/the-prez-says-leave-iraq-the-general-says-maybe/ Nothing was was more disturbing or more characteristic of the Bush administration than its obsessive secrecy. So, talk about a breath of fresh air. See what our new president says.  http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/21/transparency-and-the-rule-of-law/ This is a must see, but many of the photos are quite graphic. http://www.countercurrents.org/gazapics.htm The photo essay compares photos of Nazi atrocities to Israeli ones. "You shall become what you seek to destroy" http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/21/hitlers-germany-and-israel-a-photo-essay/ My computer here in Yokohama says 2:46 a.m, Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Barack Obama is now President of the United States! My eyes are damp, I'm feeling choked up. I haven't heard a single line that will ring through history. I have heard a serious assessment of where the country ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/20/hail-to-the-chief/ Well, this link explains in one of the best ways that I have seen. http://justworldnews.org/archives/003334.html The supposed deterrence effect of smashing Gaza was just to make Israeli's feel better about themselves. They are oblivious as to any other opinion. OK, well they did stop a few days before Obama becomes ... http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2009/01/19/the-whole-thing-was-about-israeli-self-image/