End of an Era - Helen Thomas

The New York Times: Reports on the sad end to the journalist career of the Dame of White House Press Core Helen Thomas. It was sad due to the fact that Ms Thomas made very anti Israeli comments, this blog in nearly all cases has supported Israel with the exception of the row over the use of UK Passports for a hit job, and then it was the how not what the Israel did to get rid of a terrorist, but this blog has not called on Ms Thomas to go, as a Liberal Conservative this blog will defend the right of people to say things that this blog find offensive but it’s a matter of free speech, but you cant be a reporter and make comments that in its heart of hearts the NYT wants as US policy. Lets hope at the end of the day we can look at the career of Ms Thomas in the round, as noted she has reported on every President since JFK and had a part in the process of reporting of Watergate scandal, lets hope that Ms Thomas can come back from this after learning a very important lesson, it’s a British thing of not hitting someone when they are down, unlike PC Liberals.

Bad DAY in Afghanistan

BBC News: Reports that NATO lost ten Soldiers today in Afghanistan. It reported by CNN that 7 of the Soldiers that died came from the US. Thus we see the central problem of the War in Afghanistan, the Taliban have no reason to talk, they can see down the line that the fate of Afghanistan will be the same fate as South Vietnam, at the end of the NATO and the Obama Administration can not win Afghanistan, the badlands of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan allow the Taliban / Al Qaeda to have safe heavens that allow them to attack within Afghanistan and then run back in Pakistan. In less NATO places a major force of troops on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan then as in the Vietnam War the enemy can retreat to these areas that are safe and allow them to rebuild their forces. Its going to be a long and bloody War folks, and the end can be seen from the past.