"With this accord, a red line has been crossed," the ultra-nationalist foreign minister told Israel's military radio a day after the Palestinian parties announced a surprise reconciliation agreement.
"We have at our disposal a vast arsenal of measures including the lifting of VIP status for Abu Mazen and Salam Fayyad, which will not allow them to move freely," he said referring to president Mahmud Abbas and his prime minister.
And because Israeli foreign policy has been marked so strongly of late with an unbelievable openness and willingness to attend to the concerns of foreign nations, the defense minister couldn't resist chiming in with his own hopes and dreams:
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said "the latest events do nothing but reinforce the necessity of relying only on ourselves.
"The army and the security services will use an iron fist to deal with any threat and challenge," he warned.
It's a Middle-Eastern love fest!
Meanwhile, the Narco Nemo has been ensnared by his giant squid.
With Robert Gates leaving his position as secretary of defense, there are some spots to fill in the administration. And so, a a soldier will supervise our spies while our soldiers are overseen by a spook. It's representative of a trend wherein the responsibilities of the CIA and the defense department are blurring and crossing. And I'm not sure that I like it. Though the CIA quite clearly and appropriately has a role in national security, it also has important obligations in terms of diplomacy. I worry that with Petraeus at the helm, these duties may become somewhat neglected. Likewise, putting Panetta in charge of the Pentagon may improve the effectiveness of our special forces, particularly when it comes to gathering information. However, not everyone in the military is a Ranger or Green Beret. Some guys just drive trucks. I don't know that he has the background to manage the huge logistical operation that is the military.
Clearly though, national security positions will all be rendered moot if our empire loses its source of calligraphers! Where will we be if we have no properly trained scribes to illuminate the musings of our philosopher-kings? Disaster beckons!
Kacee Bait: A conversation with David Thorne. Anyone not familiar with him would be well advised to read his thoughtful correspondence concerning the tragic disappearance of Missy.
Geoff Bait: Well known for their consistency, the Tea Party lobbied successfully to impose a tax on a business and sacrifice more than 1,200 jobs.
In defense of bargain basement blue-bloods.
And here is some slightly more interesting news about a royal.
Considering his notable disgust with technology as ubiquitous as the cell phone, I'm a bit disappointed that Werner Herzog is making a 3-D movie. I prefer that musings on the desperate meaninglessness of human life be delivered conventionally, thank you.
Until the latest Batman is finished (it's shooting in my hometown, I might add), here's a fan made trailer to tide you over.
Somewhere in England, a Nepalese choir is rampaging...
Drat, foiled again!
And now for breakfast with the beautiful Girlfriend who has consented to extend her trip here indefinitely!
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