Tête-a-Tête-Tête: (Another) Sad Day for America

May 11, 2005

Our country's experiment in Iraq continues to go poorly, with sixty more violent deaths.
It doesn't appear that the grenade found yesterday near President Bush was an assassination attempt, as I first thought when I began this post. Had it been, I would have shared my opinion that assassination is, like aggressive warfare, never an appropriate means to an end. It's really just another kind of unlawful killing.
American political and military leaders have been guilty in the past of assassination attempts against foreign rulers, notably including Fidel Castro. One of our allies in this cause was a fairly notorious terrorist, named Luis Posada Carriles. His terrorism included the airplane bomb, attempted assassination of Fidel Castro, hotel bombings, and activity with the Nicaraugan Contra terrorists. Now, he is in the U.S. seeking asylum, and Venezuela is seeking extradition. The article claims that, "US officials say they have no evidence that Posada is in the country and would deal with any asylum application from him as they would with any other." Which would certainly be more believable if the U.S. sponsor of the Nicarauguan terrorists didn't have his own show on Fox News.
Via Scrutiny Hooligans, Army recruiters resort to threatening and harassment of potential recruits... you can hear it for yourself. And this isn't the first time military recruiters have crossed the line. One Good Move has records of recruiters who ask a recruit to forge a high school diploma and help him procure pills to help him beat a drug test. In short, the integrity of our recruiting system is in the gutter, while recruiting shortfalls continue to weaken our already overextended military.

So, anybody know any good news?

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Posted by smijer at May 11, 2005 10:33 AM

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Well, I'd like to say that Geico just saved me a lot of money on my car insurance but not even that is true. I'll keep digging. If I find any good news I will let you know.