Monday interest items

Yossi Klein Halevi & Michael B. Oren write in the Jewish World Review an interesting article on how Sharon, through his skills as a leader and politician beat the Palestinians and the lessons that should be learned and applied by the US and the rest of the world in the war on terror. Boy is that a mouthful of a sentence.

Sharon had to unite a divided country and fight the terrorist like one fights a war. Trying to minimize non-combatant casualties but not abandoning the operation because there are some. The other thing he did is ignore France and Germany who would not support his actions regardless and he stayed focused on the security part and let others in his government take care of the economy and relations with other States (except for the US). Its a good article to read.


MSNBC has this headline "'Distraught' Saddam begging for mercy, Iraqi PM says". To which all I can say is aaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor little baby. Saw this over at Lucianne.com and one of the commentators said in his nice air conditioned cell, play videos of all the people he had murdered, especially those who were begging for mercy. Then remind him why the Iraqi government has shown Saddam much more mercy then he showed others.


Finally, this should be filed under "What where they thinking".

ABIDJAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Twelve French soldiers have been arrested for stealing some $120,000 from a bank they were supposed to be guarding in a rebel-held town in Ivory Coast, the French army said on Monday.

Are French soldiers so poorly paid that they think its worth jail time to steal $10,000 each? ($120,000 divided by 12 soldiers). How did they expect to get the local currency out of the country and convert it into euros? I'm glad the French military is taking this seriously, and for the soldiers involved, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????