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I hear racist attitudes to Obama are also very common in Israel

It's always easier to destroy than to build.

Fair enough, entropy and all that.

This is what makes terrorism so effective.

Whoa, hold it right there cowboy! Maybe you meant: "This is what makes an assymetric war winnable for the "weaker" side."

It takes millions of dollars to defend against weapons costing only a few thousand dollars. A 20 thousand dollar missile can take out a 200 million dollar airplane. A boat loaded with explosives can sink a ship costing several hundred million dollars.

Granted, but conversely, huge resources can also be spent blasting rocks into smaller pieces. I submit: The Price Tag of Afghanistan Dwarfs Country's GDP

It's expensive being on the defensive.

Who's on offense again?

Proof:
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/06/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabilize-iran-via-twitter/

Anatomy of Iran's Right Wing Coup:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/anatomy_of_iran/

Ahmadinijad as counterrevolutionary - There will be Blood:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/iran_there_will/

Ahmadinijad is now opposed by all of the significant Mullahs - who led the 79 revolution. Why? because he - and the Revolutionary Guard - are Israeli puppet-creations. They are now ready to do Mossad's dirty work. "Mahmoud" is Jewish. But you can't see FNORDS, can you?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129649

http://www.rferl.org/content/Were_Ahmadinejads_Ancestors_Jews_/1375318.html

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-iranian-figure-says-ahmadinejads.html#links

Proof:
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/06/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabilize-iran-via-twitter/

Anatomy of Iran's Right Wing Coup:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/anatomy_of_iran/

Ahmadinijad as counterrevolutionary - There will be Blood:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/iran_there_will/

Ahmadinijad is now opposed by all of the significant Mullahs - who led the 79 revolution. Why? because he - and the Revolutionary Guard - are Israeli puppet-creations. They are now ready to do Mossad's dirty work. "Mahmoud" is Jewish. But you can't see FNORDS, can you?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129649

http://www.rferl.org/content/Were_Ahmadinejads_Ancestors_Jews_/1375318.html

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-iranian-figure-says-ahmadinejads.html#links

I'm not the moderator that marked you, I just post AC on political threads on general principle; the same reason why we have secret ballots in the U.S.

Anyway, your post is flamebait because you're trying to incite anger in people using politically divisive statements. Obama "pallin' around" with former "domestic terrorists" is a tired issue. If this issue is so important to conservatives, then where was the rage when Bush nominated Rumsfeld given his notorious terrorist associations. (Well known reference: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/rumsfeld-hussein.jpg) Or we could talk about Cheney's relationships with countries we're not on fond terms with. The whole Cook Group thing was something stirred up just so conservative commentators and Palin could use the words "Obama" and "terrorist" in the same sentence. Unfortunately for them, people would rather keep their houses than remain scared of a "terrorism" boogeyman who last struck over 7 years ago.

Here's a hint for you: the real question here is not "did Obama associate with people with questionable pasts?" Really, who hasn't? Rather, the question is: "Will his past associations affect his behavior as President?" I don't think President Obama is going to try to overthrow the goverment as a favor to Ayers, or wipe out Israel as a favor to Khalidi. Just like Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein didn't influence his attitudes later; or so we hope.

So, yeah, flamebait. Not just because we haven't heard of it, either.

Indeed, one has to wonder.
This article asks the same questions and gives some insight into it:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/08/guest_post_by_d_1/

So it would be interesting to know what President Saakashvili was thinking when, on Thursday night, after days of relatively low-level shelling around the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali (which both South Ossetians and Georgians blamed on each other), and literally hours after he announced on state-controlled TV the cessation of hostilities, he ordered a full-scale assault on Tskhinvali. And mind you, the assault could only succeed if the Georgian units went right through the battalion of Russian troops serving as international peacekeepers according to agreements signed by Tbilisi itself in the 1990s.

Under the circumstances, the Russian forces had three choices: to surrender, to run away, or to fight. And fight they did - particularly because many of the Russian soldiers were in fact South Ossetians with families and friends in Tskhinvali under Georgian air, tank, and artillery attacks. Saakashvili was reckless to count on proceeding with a blitzkrieg in South Ossetia without a Russian counterattack.

"Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago?"

JOHN MCCAIN
(picture of him embracing George Bush) http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/mccain%20bush%20hug%20twn.jpg

"Four more years!"

other sources of interest:

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, and a partner in Cannistraro Associates, an international security consultancy, has written a reasonable, fairly current (news changes daily) summary which will appear in the next issue of Pat Robertson's American Conservative. It can already be read online here

Daniel Ellsberg has an oped at Brad Friedman's Bradsblog. He has called "what Sibel has as more explosive than the Pentagon Papers" do read his oped here The latest is here

Another good source is Steve Clemon's The Washington Note, where i mostly post my $0.02 worth The relevant post is here . And finally lukery's "let sibel speak" blog is here

You are right, I had forgotten Afghanistan. However, I believe this man is pro-iraq war:

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001519.p hp

By backing down they don't just avoid an investigation, they avoid testing the legality of the program. That could be useful if they want to reinstate the program under the next Congress. But more importantly, the claims about wartime Presidential powers that were used to justify the wiretapping program are still being used to justify other questionably legal actions (perhaps even including the covert expansion of the Iraq war into Iran and Syria). The administration wants to avoid a direct court battle over those powers, and by backing down over the wiretapping program it's hoping to pacify Congress without establishing any precedents.

• allow construction of valuable Caspian pipelines
• keep Halliburton and Bechtel's stocks higher than Timothy Leary
• threaten the security of the West

You may or may not know that Judith Miller, the one in jail, was a major supporter of the invasion of Iraq and hyped it incessantly leading up to it. She was also one of the big "hypers" of the entire WMD mythos.

Another interesting piece of news is that John Bolton, (remember him?) was one of Judith Millers sources and he has testifed before the Grand Jury in this matter.

The sharks smell blood...

I think this whole blog thing is getting way out of hand. Who cares that much about someone else life? Most people can't even care for themselves...why should you be worrying about checking out the latest cell phone picture with a story about how the line at McDonalds is too long. Gimme a break.

You're reading the wrong blogs. Here's a few:

http://defensetech.org/
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.juancole.com/
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Don't count on Japan ignoring Airbus forever.

You really need to look at this map.

The Daily Kos (Scoop software)

The Washington Monthly (Movable Type)

Chomsky's Turning the Tide (pay to play: ironic? no, he's just to busy to respond to anonymous comments)

The Washington Note (MT; by a good friend of Josh Marshall)

Ed Fitzgerald's Unfutz (MT maybe; has the best poll aggregations)

Check out a brainy new blog, http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ . . . its author, Steve Clemons, offers a higher ratio of thinking to ranting than the average political blog, I think it's going to be one to watch.