Friday, October 2, 2015

Krauthammer: Putin acts because he knows he will not face an American President like Obama again

If only bad regimes feared Obama as much as regular Americans

Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Syria Debacle And A Powerless U.S.
"If it had the wit, the Obama administration would be not angered, but appropriately humiliated. President Obama has, once again, been totally outmaneuvered by Vladimir Putin.

"Two days earlier at the United Nations, Obama had welcomed the return, in force, of the Russian military to the Middle East — for the first time in decades — in order to help fight the Islamic State.
The ruse was transparent from the beginning. Russia is not in Syria to fight the Islamic State. The Kremlin was sending fighter planes, air-to-air missiles and SA-22 anti-aircraft batteries. Against an Islamic State that has no air force, no planes, no helicopters?

"Russia then sent reconnaissance drones over Western Idlib and Hama, where there are no Islamic State fighters. Followed by bombing attacks on Homs and other opposition strongholds that had nothing to do with the Islamic State.

"Indeed, some of these bombed fighters were U.S. trained and equipped. Asked if we didn't have an obligation to support our allies on the ground, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter bumbled that Russia's actions exposed its policy as self-contradictory." . . .
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"Why is Putin moving so quickly and so brazenly? Because he's got only 16 more months to push on the open door that is Obama.

"He knows he'll never again see an American president such as this — one who once told the General Assembly that "no one nation can or should try to dominate another nation" and told it again last Monday of "believing in my core that we, the nations of the world, cannot return to the old ways of conflict and coercion."

"They cannot? Has he looked at the world around him — from Homs to Kunduz, from Sanaa to Donetsk — ablaze with conflict and coercion?

"Wouldn't you take advantage of these last 16 months if you were Putin, facing a man living in a faculty-lounge fantasy world? Where was Obama when Putin began bombing Syria? "



Foreign Policy and Israel; to paraphrase Michelle Obama: for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country and this president

Benjamin Netanyahu UN Transcript: Obama Pulls Kerry, Powers
"There are reports that Barack Obama pulled the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power and Secretary of State John Kerry from Netanyahu’s October 1, 2015 speech. The report says there was a “video conference” with Obama (or maybe not even that). Cowards run and hide. The disrespectful get their full measure of disrespect. (Speech transcript and video below)


John Kerry, Samantha Powers
        John Kerry, Samantha Powers, pictured

"While the Israeli Prime Minister said he is open to peace talks with Palestine with “no conditions,” but Mahmoud Abbas has declined, we know that Palestine will never accept Israel’s right to exist where it is, and Israel will never accept any agreement without that right." . . .

Obama pulls Kerry and Power from audience of Netanyahu's powerful UN speech
. . . "I believe that Netanyahu’s speech may go down as one of the most significant in U.N. history, particularly if Israel takes the military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities that he hinted at.  The League of Nations has vanished from history, but the memory lives on of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie’s 1935 speech warning to that body that his nation was mobilizing for the Italian invasion that was threatened and that followed.  That speech is remembered with shame and cited as an example of the moral and practical bankruptcy of the League.  The U.N. should take note.  History will not be kind to either the U.N. or Obama when the next promised genocide is attempted." . . . 


Benjamin Netanyahu Stares Down the United Nations for 45 seconds –– silence!
Benjamin Netanyahu Stares Down the United Nations for 45 seconds –– silence!

Netanyahu must stand against The Most Dangerous Man In the World  ". . . it’s none other than America’s Barack Hussein Obama.  This is not because of any aggressive, risk-laden actions he has taken, far from it.  It is because of those he has failed to take at critical times to credibly dissuade strategic competitors and potential aggressors, such as Russia and China, from actions that may suddenly compound into  destabilizing confrontations, even war.  When the Middle East cauldron spawned the barbaric ISIS, Obama’s indecisive,
pusillanimous response allowed this Islamic malignancy to rapidly metastasize, compounding and accelerating an existing refugee problem that will involve America.  Additionally, throughout his tenure, overt actions Obama has taken served to steadily and materially, degrade American military capabilities, while enemies grow stronger." . . .
In retrospect, divining Obama’s foreign policy should have been relatively easy given his background – a world seen through the eyes of someone whose father was a Muslim, as was his step-father, whose early education was in a Muslim madrassa, followed by mentoring from the known communist Frank Marshall Davis, associations with Columbia University’s Palestinian activist Edward Said and later, Harvard’s leftist Brazilian socialist Roberto Unger, later close association with admitted communist and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, then followed by 20 years of anti-American and anti- Semitic sermons by Reverend Jeremiah Wright who, placing much of the world’s ills at America’s doorstep, culminated a post 9-11 sermon sententiously intoning, “…America’s chickens have come home to roost.”
Lt Col Ralph Peters angry at Obama’s foreign policy blunders calls him out as a ‘scared kid’  . . . "Obama’s worldview is in tatters. His constant apologizing for the United States and his weakness has invited aggression. Putin is taking full advantage." . . .

. . . "Nevertheless, an effective U.S. response needn’t involve war with Russia. At present, Putin is doing what he is doing because he believes — through his years of experience with President Obama — that he can get away with it.  . . . If confronted by American resolution, in return for retaining these bases and his influence, Putin would likely accept Assad’s replacement and a peace arrangement that allows moderate Sunni empowerment. That said, until Putin realizes America is serious about its Syria strategy, he’ll keep rolling the dice." . . . 

In UN speech, Netanyahu keeps focus on Iran  . . . "Netanyahu, in turn, blamed Abbas for rejecting Israeli peace offers and again called on him to enter negotiations without preconditions. Netanyahu also said that Israel is committed to maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount and protecting freedom of religion.
“Israel stands out as a towering beacon of enlightenment and tolerance,” he said. “Far from endangering the holy sites, it is Israel that ensures their safety.”

Roseburg, OR: "Forget the Zero; Remember the Hero"

Victory Girls Blog

Cal @calumtrail
People always remember the shooter and never the hero. REMEMBER: Chris Mintz who took *five bullets trying to stop the shooter.
"Chris Mintz, 30, was in his first week of class at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday when a man, identified by officials as 26-year-old [name deleted], walked into Snyder Hall, where classes are held, and started shooting.

"Mintz reportedly tried “to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in,” Mintz’s aunt, Wanda Mintz, told Q13 Fox News in Oregon.
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Most of all, Chris’s focus was on his son, Tyrik. In fact, the reason Chris is living in Oregon was to help raise his boy. As he lay wounded after the gunman shot him *5 times, his only thoughts were of his son.
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"As Chris recovers from his gunshot wounds, starts the process of learning to walk again, and hugs his son close – it is worth reading something he wrote on Facebook just a few weeks ago." . . .*Other reports say seven times.

"You're not getting by me."
. . . "According to Fox 8, when the gunman tried to enter Mintz’s class, Mintchris mintzz told the students in his classroom to get to a safe place, then said to the shooter “you’re not getting by me”:

“At that point, the shooter shot him five times and the shooter moved on and apparently didn’t go in to that classroom,” Pastor Dennis Kreiss told People. ”I applaud the guy’s heroism. He may have saved the people in that classroom.”
. . .  "Mintz’s cousin Ariana Earnhardt told Fox 8:

"His vital signs are OK. He’s going to have to learn to walk again, but he walked away with his life and that’s more than so many other people did."

What gun law would have kept this man from his guns?

'The more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight': College gunman, 26, was 'filled with hate,' lived with his mother and asked if his victims were Christian in rampage that left at least ten dead

  • Ch----------------, 26, has been identified as the gunman at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon 

  • Killer with British father died in gunfight with police and had four guns - three pistols and one rifle and bodyarmor 

  • He killed nine and wounded at least seven, and just three days prior he had downloaded This World Surviving Sandy Hook BBC Documentary 2015 according to his profile on a website community 

  • ------------ said he was 'mixed race,' a 'conservative Republican,' 'not religious,' and 'living with parents' 

  • He celebrated Nazis and IRA online

  • In August he praised TV station shooter Vester Flanagan and said killing more people meant 'in the limelight'

  • ------------made his victims lie on the ground and then stand up and state their religion before shooting them according to eyewitnesses, also asking if they were Christian and saying; 'Good, you'll see God in a second'



  • Gallery: On the killer's MySpace page he has several posts and pictures where he appears to praise the IRA and their terrorist activities

    First details emerge of Oregon college killer

    "Two phone numbers associated with the name appeared to have been disconnected.

    "A profile on the site belonging to Mercer on the website Spiritual Singles, which advertises itself as “a free online dating & social networking site specifically for spiritual singles,” and bears a picture of the same person as Mercer’s Myspace page, the alleged killer describes himself politically as a “conservative, republican” whose hobbies are “internet, killing zombies, movies, music, reading” and who lives with parents.

    "In the profile, the personality type he is looking for is “intellectual, punk, introvert, loner, lover, geek, nerd” with an “individuality” of “piercings, psychic, tattoos, vampire”. His preferred religious views are “Pagan, Wiccan, Not Religious, but Spiritual” as well.
    " . . .

    Article on gun control from the Tunnel Wall after Sandy Hook

    Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
    Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
    I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
    As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD