Cheat Seeking Missiles

funny thing happened last week at C-SM: One day my traffic tripled, and the next day I got over four times my average hits. This usually happens when I get a link in a monster blog, but this time it came from Google searches from all over the world for Piotr Stanczak, the Polish geotech engineer who was kidnapped in Pakistan by jihadists, held for several months, and then beheaded.

I wrote a post on his plight, Fair Treatment of Prisoners, which went into what the case of Piotr Stanczak tells us of the Islamists, and more importantly, what it tells us of Obama and the left and their hurry to close Guantanamo. It resonated with the Watcher’s Council, who voted it the second best entry in this week’s Watcher of Weasels blogquest, tying with Mere Rhetoric’s Austrian Jews Too Terrified To List Their Children As Jewish (Plus: Europe Reaches An Anti-Jewish Tipping Point) another story of Islam’s hatred of Jews and other non-Muslims, and the West acquiescence.

Who did us better? Joshuapundit, with another tale from the same volume, “60 Minutes” Libels Jews And Israel. I won’t watch that show any more - haven’t for years - and neither does the Watcher:

You couldn’t pay me to watch the Sunday night version of the The View meets MSNBC.

After this week’s contest it is clear that one would be challenged to get anything of value from the warped leftist worldview being spewed by the producers of 60 minutes. But that is the challenge every week. This week’s challenge was to find any scintilla of truth from their less than enlightening report from Gaza. If context is everything 60 Minutes is nothing.

Don’t believe me. Go over to winning council member Joshua Pundit and watch how transparent 60 Minutes is in their latest on air attempt to stick it in the back of Israel. Watch the video, pay special attention to the duh factor of Robert Anderson as he sits outside a Palestinian house wondering why the IDF special forces don’t want to be interviewed by the twit. There is stupidity and then there is that moment. Anderson made the Housewives of Orange County look smart by comparison.

I’ll let that last snide remark about my neighbors pass uncontested.

Over on the non-Council side, the winning entry was Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media, with a piece that drew heavily from a report by “SFC Ariel (Orion) Siegelman upon his return from combat operations in Gaza. Siegelman founded the Draco Group as a service in advanced security and training. He served in the Israel Defense Force, Special Forces, as a counter terror operative, counter terror sniper and counter terror instructor. He remains active in the Reserves where he serves on active duty when necessary, as well as an instructor for rapid response teams, counter terror, urban sniper situations, and special warfare tactics.”

And what a report it is! Conventional versus Non-Conventional Warfare and Why Israel Did Not Lose in Gaza makes clear what the rest of the world can’t seem to get - warfare has changed, so the definition of victory has, too. We are no longer in the era of long lines of defeated troops marching slowly back to their demolished homeland.

I also highly recommend American Thinker’s Change: The First Three Weeks, several pages of bullet points outlining the actions of Pres. Obama since he took the Oval Office. Chilling.

For all the winners and scores, go to the Watcher’s post.

Thanks, Watcher, for captaining the good ship Blogquest, taking man (and Bookworm and Debbie) to where they have never been before … or at least since last week … to a new world where there are a whole lot of words.

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