This is not the drone you were looking for: Loren Thompson writes in Forbes that the Iranians don’t have nearly as much of the stealth drone that they’re claiming to have. A telling comment: Iran is not broadcasting pictures of the UAV. Which probably means they’re sitting on a pile of scrap metal. Of course, they’re handing whatever they have to China and Russia, the two biggest aids (besides North Korea) to their nuke program. Update: There’s now a video. I will leave it to the military experts to tell me if that’s really an American drone or not.
The terrorists come home to roost: A Syrian oil pipeline has been blown up by anti-Assad forces. Hoist by his own petard–literally. File under: Delicious, divine irony.
Yes, because that’s truly the issue, politics: Eric Holder, the man who oversaw guns supplied to Mexican drug cartels, says the real issue here is that he’s being ripped by Republicans. Never mind that thousands of weapons, which have already been traced to many murders, will cause many more murders in years to come. Hell, even CNN is no longer calling Fast and Furious a “botched” operation, choosing instead to show the Justice Department’s incompetence:
Operation Fast and Furious began in 2009, and allowed illegally purchased firearms to be taken from gun stores in Arizona across the Mexican border to drug cartels. The intent of the operation was to monitor the flow of weapons to their ultimate destination.
However, hundreds of weapons were lost or unaccounted for, and a storm of outrage erupted when two of the missing weapons were found at the site where Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in December 2010.
And oh yeah–it’s not his fault.
He continued to assert that top Justice officials were not told about the “inappropriate tactics” until they were made public.