September 13, 2026

U.S. LINKS CHINESE SATELLITE IMAGERY TO IRANIAN STRIKE THAT KILLED THREE TROOPS:

US officials have linked satellite imagery supplied to Iran by Chinese entities to an Iranian attack that killed three American troops at a base in Jordan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Tehran acquired high-resolution images of the installation both before and after the July attack, according to officials familiar with the incident. They described the findings as the strongest evidence yet that Chinese support for Iran during the war has had deadly consequences for American forces.

The officials declined to identify the suppliers and did not accuse the Chinese government of direct involvement.

The July 17 strike hit sleeping quarters at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in northeastern Jordan, killing three soldiers and wounding four others. It was one of three missile attacks on the installation within 24 hours.

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Posted at 12:48 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN NEW YORKERS MEMORY HOLED 9/11:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

JAMES LILEKS: Remember 9/12, Too.

Fury. Not everyone was mad. Right away, the usual scolds flooded message boards — the social media of the day — to caution against overreaction, to remind us that we had sinned against the world, and this was a time for self-reflection. Ever wondered why they hate us? The flame-America-first cohort was already looking at flying flags and getting the cringey ick, as we might say today. That was to be expected. Even to this day, if you tell a leftist to say “9/11 was bad” without adding “but,” it’s like giving somebody shave-and-a-haircut without the “two bits.” They squirm in the discomfort of incompleteness.

On the other side, though, quiet grim resolve. End this. On 9/12, you wondered what was coming, and maybe you thought: all of it. All of it is coming. B-52s over Tehran in 24 hours, surely. Saddam’s house goes up. MOABs generously distributed over Afghanistan. Basically, anyone who cheered on 9/11 gets the business. All scores settled. No more dropping expensive ordnance on tents or sending in a Tomahawk to blow up an aspirin factory. No more sending a message. Oh, sure, maybe Iran wasn’t specifically involved, but if one head of the Hydra bites you, whack ’em all off to make sure it doesn’t happen again. After Pearl Harbor, what did we do? Send in the Doolittle Raid, then call it a day?

Instead, as Lee Smith wrote on Friday, today, it’s as if “9/11 Never Happened.” “[T]he GWOT was a U.S. government initiative deploying enormous human, military, and other material resources to shape current-day reality after a fantasy crafted by progressive Middle East academics, Muslim apologists, and idealistic neoconservatives working inside the administration, along with spokesmen for the states and terror groups aiming their guns at Americans. Agreeing on little else, together these ideological cohorts promoted an ideological fantasy: a culturally rich and politically sophisticated Middle East, like the convivencia of medieval Andalusia, where majority-Muslim polities lived in peaceful and tolerant coexistence with their Christian and Jewish neighbors. America’s post-9/11 mission was the war to restore ‘moderate Islam’—something that had never existed in the first place.”

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll

CANADA ENTERING THE DOOM LOOP?

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS:

Flashback: Megan McArdle in 2014: Don’t Ever Appear on The Daily Show. “If you disagree with the politics of ‘The Daily Show,’ don’t even think about appearing on it.”

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll