Snapped Shot

Say it isn't so! America throwing Israel under the bus?!

JERUSALEM — The United States has rejected an Israeli arms request that would have improved Israel's capability to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, a frontpage report in Israel's Haaretz newspaper said on Wednesday.

The U.S. warned Israel against attacking, saying such a strike would undermine American interests, the paper said.

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Iran is the greatest threat to the very existence of Israel. America knows this. The world knows this. So why aren't we helping Israel eliminate this threat?

At least we can hope.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military action in Georgia.

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Regardless of which side you support or blame, one must admire the efficiency of Russia's military in this confrontation. There was no politically correct hand-wringing, no test of global approval or disapproval, no opinion polls, no bowing to media manipulations.

Russia was challenged and, however disproportionately, Russia responded.

Imagine, for a moment, if Israel reacted to missile attacks in the same manner. What if Hamas or Hezbollah faced this insane level of destruction whenever they attacked and kidnapped IDF soldiers? Would the Islamic fascists of the Taliban and Al Qaeda have any strength left today if America and coalition members used this aggressive force in the first place?

Ulysses S. Grant once said of warfare: "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

Russia knows the Art of War.

March for American history? No way, José:

The Sons of the Revolution are stalled in their efforts to hold the 225th anniversary parade on November 25, a Saturday. The New York City Police Department, which has jurisdiction over parades in the city, turned down the organization's application for a parade on Broadway from City Hall to the Battery.

"I'm concerned that every imaginable ethnic group gets to celebrate their pride, every year, on the main thoroughfares of this city. But we're not allowed to celebrate the end of the war that formed this nation and ensured our liberty as Americans. We only have this parade once every 25 years," the executive director of the Sons of the Revolution, Richard Gregory, said.

Actions like this speak volumes about the future of our nation.

Or the lack thereof.

(h/t Digger)

A horrible story with a tragic ending. After struggling on life-support for over four months, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield has died from a gunshot wound received during a robbery:

"It is an awful story," said Alberta Holt, the young Marine's aunt and his legal guardian when he was a teenager determined to flee a troubled Cleveland school for safer surroundings in the suburbs.

Crutchfield was attacked on Jan. 5 while he and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus. He had heeded the warnings of commanders that a Marine on leave might be seen as a prime robbery target with a pocketful of money, so he only carried $8, his military ID card and a bank card.

"They took it, turned his pockets inside out, took what he had and told him since he was a Marine and didn't have any money he didn't deserve to live. They put the gun to his neck and shot him," Holt told The Associated Press.

This young man risked his life to defend and protect America. This is the thanks he gets?

Enough putting these thugs who commit these crimes in prison. These ungrateful pieces of human garbage should be taken to the worse part of Iraq and dumped off. Only then would they truly appreciate the freedom they abused and exploited in America. Only then would they understand how disgusting and obscene it was to sacrifice that freedom and the life of a man much better than they will ever be, for a mere $8.

R.I.P. Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.

Pakistan, our so-called ally in the Middle East, submits to religious barbarians and agrees to allow the enforcement of the sharia in certain tribal areas:

An agreement to bring peace back to the tribal areas of Pakistan, but by using sharia as the common thread for local politics. This is the agreement signed yesterday by the provincial government of the North-West Frontier, which has released Maulana Sufi Muhammad - leader of the outlaw militants of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TRISM) - in exchange for a cease-fire in the areas controlled by the Islamic militias.

The Pakistani police had stopped Muhammad in November of 2001, while he was crossing the border of Afghanistan to organise the "anti-American resistance". In 2002, the judges had condemned him to 10 years in prison.

Now, with the peace agreement, Islamabad has withdrawn the accusations against the guerilla leader and has dissolved the rest of his sentence. Also according to the agreement his organisation, banned in 2002, will "continue its struggle for the enforcement of sharia law (Islamic Law) through peaceful means".

Through peaceful means? The sharia is a contradiction to 'peaceful,' invoking such barbaric, primitive punishments as stoning to death women who are raped but unable to provide 4 male witnesses. The sharia is akin to witch trials, which has long since been discredited by simple logic and rationality. But when we allow a 7th century mentality to exist in the 21st century, should we really be surprised that such cruelty the sharia perpetuates continues to thrive?

My heart goes out to the modern victims of Muhammad's savagery.

Despite the mainstream media's promotion that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army is inflicting major casualties on American forces, the Iraqi and coalition forces are also doing their damage. How do we know this? Say thank you to the embedded photog agents.

From one location, we can find at least two photographers for one agency that shalt not be named and al-Reuters as well. Thanks to Ali Abu Shish from Reuters and Alaa al-Marjani from (cough, cough). Again, odd finding the two most pro-embed media organizations at the same event.

And, from what can be seen from this photo here, we are not doing that much damage to them as one would think. Note the fat bellies and nice black wood coffins. And not to mention the ability to go out in broad, open daylight without fear. Is that lace I see wrapped around the bodies in later photos??? Awwww. Continue reading »