Justus For All

There is an increasing quagmire in Iraq
If we had just left Saddam in power, this wouln’t have happened.
(via Dean’s World)

R.J. Rummel at Democratic Peace has an interesting post up on Africa and why it is so hard to ‘fix.’
To Understand Africa, Understand Its Culture
The reason for their failure was tribal culture. Those of us from more individualistic backgrounds assume that our accomplishments, our savings, our capital accumulations and our property are our own–to keep [...]

Gateway Pundit roundup of protests in Iran
While trouble for the mullahs is always a good thing, I have to admit to being pessimistic about these protests resulting in a regime change, or even any sort of reform.
The most likely ‘best’ result we can hope for, is that the regime will lose goodwill around the world [...]

Aljazeera.Net – Hamas muzzles its fighters
The order on Friday came a day after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and head of Fatah, gave Hamas an ultimatum to back a proposal for statehood that implicitly recognises Israel or face a referendum on the issue.Abbas gave the government 10 days to back the proposal, effectively going over [...]

Instapundit points us to this Strategy Page post about Nigeria
The army and navy forces in the Delta Region are facing better armed and equipped local gangs, and are not able to shut the gangs down. Tapping into oil pipelines and stealing oil continues, and this provides the gangs with a steady cash flow. The better [...]

Strategy Page
The last two weeks have seen an ambitious Taliban offensive shot to pieces. As many as a thousand Taliban gunmen, in half a dozen different groups, have passed over the Pakistani border, or been gathered within Afghanistan, and sent off to try and take control of remote villages and districts. The offensive was a [...]

Washington Post
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) complained directly to President Bush yesterday about the FBI raid, while House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) predicted a constitutional showdown before the Supreme Court.
From what I can tell, the case against Rep. Jefferson is pretty strong, certainly strong enough to justify this raid.
I am simpathetic to [...]

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Taking their message to a state they don’t recognize, the Hamas prime minister gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper and his top aide spoke in Hebrew on the radio Tuesday.Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Cabinet Secretary Ghazi Hamad said Hamas would consider a truce with Israel, though both fell far short [...]

Times Online
A SENIOR member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan.The Sunday Times has established that Gul Khan, a wealthy militant who uses the base of Jamaat-ud Daawa (JUD) near Lahore, is behind a cruel trade in boys [...]

Gib talks to God about the DaVince Code
That is about how I would expect God to react.