It appears that fellow admirers of one of Anita Dunn's favorite political philosophers are on the move in central India. (No, they aren't Mother Teresaists)
RAIPUR: Four policemen died in a Maoist landmine attack in central India and six rebels were killed in a shoot-out, officials said Monday, as government troops prepare to tackle a growing insurgency.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the insurgency, which began as a peasant uprising in 1967, as the single greatest threat to India’s internal security.— AFP
LA Times - Pakistan villagers take up guns, sticks against Taliban -
With police presence in the Swat Valley still spotty, tribesmen band together to keep trouble from returning.
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With most of Swat back in the hands of the government after a military operation that drove the Taliban into hiding, thousands of Pakistanis in towns like Kanju have been banding together to form lashkars, or tribal militias, to help keep trouble from coming back.
Good. Hopefully they will get the support they need
NY Times - Michael Moore irks Chavistas -
During a recent appearance on ABC’s late-night program “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Mr. Moore gave an account — apparently tongue in cheek — of how he drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Mr. Chávez at the Venice Film Festival in September, and how he mistook Venezuela’s burly foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro, for a bodyguard.
Those comments have created an uproar here among some of Mr. Chávez’s loyal supporters, known as Chavistas.
So now the left hates him too. Pretty quick only space aliens will be watching his movies
WaPo - U.S. tested 2 Afghan scenarios in war game -
The exercise, led by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, examined the likely outcome of inserting 44,000 more troops into the country to conduct a full-scale counterinsurgency effort aimed at building a stable Afghan government that can control most of the country. It also examined adding 10,000 to 15,000 more soldiers and Marines as part of an approach that the military has dubbed "counterterrorism plus."
Both options were drawn from a detailed analysis prepared by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the senior commander in Afghanistan, and were forwarded to President Obama in recent weeks by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
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One of the exercise's key assumptions is that an increase of 10,000 to 15,000 troops would not in the near future give U.S. commanders the forces they need to take back havens from the Taliban commanders in southern and western Afghanistan, where shadow insurgent governors collect taxes and run court systems based on Islamic sharia law.
Interesting, but it seems like that is the option that is getting the most attention. So despite the fact that the military has implicictly told the President that option isn't going to work they are going to try it anyway and in another 6 months we will really be in a jam. Hopefully this article will wake somebody up.
more at memeorandum
Yahoo - New bill to make seizure of US companies easier: report -
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A bill to be introduced in Congress by a key ally of President Barack Obama would make it easier for the US government to seize control of troubled financial institutions that are considered too big to be allowed to fail, The New York Times reported.
Citing a senior administration official, the newspaper said the measure would be proposed this week by Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, after extensive consultations with Treasury Department officials.
The legislation would make it easier for the government to throw out the financial company's management, wipe out the shareholders and change the terms of existing loans held by the institution, the report said.
I'm sure this has no potential for abuse.
Newt Gingrich Says He May Run For President in 2012 -
Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in 2012 if he and his wife, Callista, assess the field of candidates in 2011 and feel "a requirement as citizens that we run." His comments came during an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning.
Not a chance. After selling out of Global Warming, and supporting unpopular candidates, there is no way he can survive the primary.
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