This is a rough translation of an article that appears in today’s issue of the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad.

The main characteristic of the tragic events in Mumbai was chaos. For three days we saw the same images full of fear and disorder, and received a continuous flow of information that mostly turned out to be incorrect or incomplete. Pure angst and disarray; the terrorists scored some important points, again.| MORE ›

Writing for his blog “The Skepticians,” (which may soon be added to the utterly disgusting number of blogs in my reader), James Richardson, the Republican National Committee Online Communication Manager for the 2008 election, discusses a recent Florida ruling in which the judge ruled against a ban on gay adoption, noting that it was hypocritical to ban adoption but at the same time allow foster parenting.

Richardson, a supporter of gay adoption, argues that the GOP needs to change its attitude toward this issue or risk being marginalized.

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The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, have caused the tensions between longtime rivals India and Pakistan to rise significantly.

India believes that the terrorists were trained in Pakistan and part of a Pakistani anti-India group. Pakistan responded that there was no definite proof of a Pakistan connection and security officials informed reporters that Islamabad may pull back some troops from the Pakistan-Afghan border and deploy them to the border with India instead “if tensions continue to escalate.” (more…)

The Washington Post has an article from veteran military interrogator Matthew Alexander (not his real name).  While in Iraq, Alexander became disillusioned by some of the methods being employed to get information out of detainees there, namely: torture.  He went on to develop an alternative method where he and his team developed a rapport with the detainees in order to gain their trust and make it easier to draw information out of them.  The method worked and ended up leading to the killing of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June 2006.

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So argues Bill Kristol in a recent article for The Weekly Standard:

Bush should consider pardoning–and should at least be vociferously praising–everyone who served in good faith in the war on terror, but whose deeds may now be susceptible to demagogic or politically inspired prosecution by some seeking to score political points.| MORE ›