Why did he have to publicly state that US would hold them accountable? Say it privately, but don’t embarrass them in public and force them to push back…

sheeesh!

“Official: Americans Retake Pirated Ship – TIME”

What do you want to bet the Americans all had guns, and probably bigger and better guns than a bunch of starving Muslim savages?

Question #2 is why don’t sailors from any other country on the globe (including most especially the Frogs and the Brits) react the same way?

This is what Stratfor is arguing? I’d think Friedman would’ve recognized the strategic significance of the Turkish decision to disallow our use of Turkish sovereign space to crush Iraq. Turkey wants EU membership for economic reasons and subversive reasons; it is reverting to Islamo-political domination under the cover of a historical impetus, which thereby deprives the APK of agency in the minds of CFR and other crypto-Hegelian cartoon-worshippers. Come on Stratfor! What a mess the international order is, and frankly it’s all the Europeans’ fault – primarily the French. Oh I know Marie Claude will come on here and throw a frog-accented tantrum at me, but please: the past is, as the Romans said, perfect, and there is nothing you and your derivative little neuroses can do about it, salope.

He turned that around, sometimes with draconian tactics, but turn it around he did. When I arrived one could still hear occasional bombings in the capital; when I left that was history. The Japanese embassy was taken over by terrorists during a Japanese National Day reception (which I missed because my staff were throwing me a farewell dinner) and Fujimori encouraged elite military teams to end the takeover with violence that resulted in only minor injuries to the hostages and zero — let me repeat that — ZERO live terrorists to stand trial. They only numbered something like 6 or 7 anyway, but they were all killed in the attack, several by a single shot in the head. I have to say I think his style of dealing with terrorism could be used with good results elsewhere.

Peru had and has its share of problems. Poverty, burgeoning urbanization in the face of high unemployment, a low literacy rate, infrastructure that reaches only parts of the country, to name just a few. But its Maoist terrorism was an aberration for that country, one that grew not from the peasants, but from the universities. (Same thing one sees in Cambodia, North Vietnam, and many other so-called Third World countries.) Fujimori addressed it effectively, if a little harshly.

And prior to that, his “Self-coup” (when he effectively took the reigns of power from himself, thus extending his term in office unconstitutionally) and his “faceless tribunals” to try terrorist suspects are still pointed to as horrible anti-democratic moves. And human rights advocates were offended in their elegant homes in upscale New York or Madrid neighborhoods, but Peruvians for the most part appreciated what he did. My middle class Peruvian friends did not particularly care for el Chinito, but they certainly appreciated the manner in which he ended the terror reign.

This jail sentence is, as Eggplant has pointed out, the work of fools and moonbats (wish I had coined that sentence) and clearly an act of destructive vengeance. But for Fujimori’s policies, Peru would be Bolivia with a coastline. And if the fools and moonbats have their way, it still could be. F

Pakistan to America: I swear I will pull out! Just trust me! Obama, Ok just this once… sad.

Jim

Question: What makes us think that Obama even understands chess, much less plays it? Hell, dare I mention that Lord Zero can’t even bowl?

Sig, sir, I’m pretty sure most of the old ammo has been fitted with those strap-on fins and guidance packs, and expended judiciously by now. One would hope. After all, new bombs equal well-paying new jobs.

Blert, Linebacker II led directly to the end of the Vietnam War, it was precision (for the time) strategic bombing of all of the North’s ports, forts and whatever else they got. After 11 days, the North surrendered.

The mountainous Af/Pak border is more like the Ho Chi Minh trail, they got no forts, ports, doodly-squat. Our bombers made toothpicks out of jungle and on the other end of that heavily bombed trail, entire NVA Divisions would form. Same way that armed forces materialize in Afghanistan. Tactically, Arclight around Khe Sanh was omnipotent; strategically, Linebacker II ended the enemy’s intention to fight.

Bombing our way to peace seems counter-intuitive, but history argues for its efficacy. Better to get it over with quick. For God’s sake.