Pat Condell; A Special Kind Of Hate "It is only been 70 years since the Holocaust and now Europeans and liberal professors and students have gone to the streets screaming: "Jews to the Gas!". Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe."
Saturday, February 7, 2015
New weapon in our war against radical Islam: "Strategic Patience"
This feckless president Obama has spent the past 6+ years blaming the previous administration for his own failures. If he just keeps voting "present" till 2017, Obama can live out his life blaming the next president for botching the foreign policy triumphs he passed on. TD
Rick Moran: Forget 'lead from behind'; now we have 'strategic patience'
"President Obama released his new national security blueprint on Friday that was rehash of most of his previous policies. He cited progress against the Islamic State and identified Russia as a major concern.
"But foreign policy experts are raising an eyebrow over the president's call for "strategic patience" and warning against American "overreach."
. . .
"This sort of inattentiveness to potential crises has been a hallmark of this administration since 2009. It's no secret that the president would like foreign crises to go away so he can devote all his energies to transforming America. We all had better hope that the world doesn't go to hell in the next two years." Read more.
Obama's "strategic patience" draws criticism amid ISIS threat . . . "The 29-page document is meant to serve as a blueprint for Obama's final two years in office. The strategy cast the U.S. as an indispensable force in combating global challenges -- including terrorism, climate change and cyber threats. ' . . .
[Susan Rice] defended the administration's pursuit of a international negotiations to roll back Iran’s nuclear program: "We must give diplomacy a chance to finish the job," she said
The king of Jordan wasn't into "strategic patience" "Swift Action vs. No Action; I applauded late last night when I heard the news that Jordan had executed by hanging two Islamic terrorists in retaliation for the horrific murder by fire of the pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. Jordan didn't talk about measured responses, or restraint, or a backlash -- they took decisive action. It made Obama look even worse."
Jordan's hand is strengthened by not having Code Pink or Michael Moore in the country.
. . .
"This sort of inattentiveness to potential crises has been a hallmark of this administration since 2009. It's no secret that the president would like foreign crises to go away so he can devote all his energies to transforming America. We all had better hope that the world doesn't go to hell in the next two years." Read more.
Obama's "strategic patience" draws criticism amid ISIS threat . . . "The 29-page document is meant to serve as a blueprint for Obama's final two years in office. The strategy cast the U.S. as an indispensable force in combating global challenges -- including terrorism, climate change and cyber threats. ' . . . [Susan Rice] defended the administration's pursuit of a international negotiations to roll back Iran’s nuclear program: "We must give diplomacy a chance to finish the job," she said
The king of Jordan wasn't into "strategic patience" "Swift Action vs. No Action; I applauded late last night when I heard the news that Jordan had executed by hanging two Islamic terrorists in retaliation for the horrific murder by fire of the pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. Jordan didn't talk about measured responses, or restraint, or a backlash -- they took decisive action. It made Obama look even worse."
Jordan's hand is strengthened by not having Code Pink or Michael Moore in the country.
Teacher quits French school over ‘insidious Islamism’
France24
. . . "Zitouni, who is of Algerian descent and began teaching philosophy (which is compulsory for all high-school students in France) at Averroès in September, wrote that he could no longer tolerate the school’s alleged contradictions with France’s strictly secular “Republican values”.
“ 'The reality is that Averroès Lycée is a Muslim territory that is being funded by the state,” he wrote. “It promotes a vision of Islam that is nothing other than Islamism. And it is doing it in an underhand and hidden way in order to maintain its [80 percent] state funding.”. . .
You stand against Islam, you better be prepared to pay the price:
The school’s director, El Hassane Oufker, told FRANCE 24 the school’s staff and student body were “hugely shocked and upset” by Zitouni’s comments and said that he would be suing him for defamation.
The Week in Pictures: Fraudcast News Edition
Power Line "Did I ever tell you about the time I was hanging with Pablo Picasso, quaffing espresso at a Parisian cafe, and how I helped him conceive Guernica? Oh, wait—no, I didn’t do that. I had Picasso confused with my kid’s kindergarten finger painting project, and we were in McDonalds. So easy to get these kind of things confused when you’re a busy newsman.."
The world award for congeniality goes to...
Charlie Hebdo, Muslims, and Satire ". . . All this awfulness is seemingly the cause of some obnoxious satire by a French weekly. The West has a long tradition of satirizing both society and government: Aristophanes, Plautus, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Pope and more have all served in the unappreciated satirist’s role. . . .Despite the ire it may draw, satire plays an important role in society: when a society takes itself too seriously, its members are liable to become sensitive to the slightest insult and seek revenge upon anyone who makes them feel belittled or insulted.. . . "
Friday, February 6, 2015
Brian Williams' brush with death or something
NBC News anchor Brian Williams admitted Tuesday he was not in an Army helicopter in Iraq that was shot down twelve years ago, as he's been telling viewers ever since. It's an honest mistake. How many times, when your car backfires, do you think you just got shot down in a helicopter in Iraq. Comedian Argus Hamilton
From Drudge:
How Brian Williams’s Iraq Story Changed "A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous."
Does the barbarism have a logic?
Jordan's King Abdullah flew home from the U.S. and answered the ISIS murder of Jordan's pilot by executing two ISIS prisoners and mobilizing his army. Reaction was twofold. ISIS announced its forces are withdrawing from northernmost Syria and King Abdullah is leading all Republicans in Iowa. Comedian Argus Hamilton
Charles Krauthammer
"Why did they do it? What did the Islamic State think it could possibly gain by burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot?
"I wouldn’t underestimate the absence of logic, the sheer depraved thrill of a triumphant cult reveling in its barbarism. But I wouldn’t overestimate it either. You don’t overrun much of Syria and Iraq without having deployed keen tactical and strategic reasoning.
. . . The savage execution has mobilized Jordan against the Islamic State and given it solidarity and unity of purpose.
"Yes, for now. But what about six months hence? Solidarity and purpose fade quickly. Think about how post-9/11 American fervor dissipated over the years of inconclusive conflict, yielding the war fatigue of today. Or how the beheading of U.S. journalists galvanized the country against the Islamic State, yet less than five months later, the frustrating nature of that fight is creating divisions at home." . . . Full article here.
But even they are mortified by Obama’s blind pursuit of detente with Tehran, which would make the mullahs hegemonic over the Arab Middle East. Hence the Arabs, the Saudis especially, hold back from any major military commitment to us. Jordan, its hand now forced by its pilot’s murder, may now bravely sally forth on its own. But at great risk and with little chance of ultimate success.
Well after all, Brian Williams WAS another voice of NBC
Brian Williams On Katrina: Fact or Fiction? "Louisiana’s Hayride is on the Hurricane Katrina beat and has serious doubts about the veracity of Williams’ claim that he saw a dead body floating down the street:" . . .
Michelle Malkin: My fellow bloggers: You will heartily enjoy this best Brian Williams flashback ever "I am reminded of what this arrogant fabulist once said about us lowly bloggers in2007 during a lecture at NYU’s journalism school:" . . .
CNN Money: Controversy grows over Brian Williams' Iraq apology . . . "Bottom line: this pilot is revising his story - and, because of that, I'm revising mine.
CNN Money: Controversy grows over Brian Williams' Iraq apology . . . "Bottom line: this pilot is revising his story - and, because of that, I'm revising mine.
"What initially looked like an account that supported some of Brian Williams' war story -- that he came "under fire" that day -- no longer appears to be true."
I'm asking the question. And I'm answering it: No, he won't lose his job. NBC News is far too invested in Williams to bump him off over thisyears-long fabrication, and certain media figures seem to be bulletproof, regardless of their infraction. The network had their anchor apologize on air last night, but as others have noted, he still isn't coming fully clean.
Brian Williams may have Dan Rather, but he’s lost Tom Brokaw "According to a report via The New York Post’s Page Six (hat tip to Jammie Wearing Fools), Williams’ predecessor, Tom Brokaw*, thinks that it is in the best interest of both NBC and the Nightly News for the network to jettison Williams." *A colleague of Al Sharpton
Liberal moral equivalency; Obama, ISIS and Christianity
Update Via Bill Clark Yost on Facebook
Lauri B. Regan; Whether a Civilization Endures is Determined by How it Confronts Evil . . . "Future civilizations that rise up from the ash heap of history will look back in wonderment analyzing how we allowed evil to win. The answer to that puzzle begins with Barack Obama and his Democrat colleagues." Full article
Roger L Simon; A Jew Examines Why Obama Never Names Islam . . . "It grieves me much to write this, because it is a horrible situation. Obama is not a Manchurian candidate and never was. He never had to be. He is just absolutely the wrong human being to be leading the West at this point in history. Heaven help us." Emphasis mine, TD
Jonah Goldberg; Obama's Comparison of Christianity, Radical Islam Defies Logic
. . . "It's also insipidly hypocritical. President Obama can't bring himself to call the Islamic State "Islamic," but he's happy to offer a sermon about Christianity's alleged crimes at the beginning of the last millennium."
"President Obama has never been one to go easy on America." .
This column from Jan 12 seems to be relevant: “Je Suis Charlie” Morphed into ‘Je Suis Obama’ Before the Entire World . . . " By staying at home in the White House, purportedly to watch a football game, Obama came out as stridently non-sympathetic to a world worried about terrorism; a politician who thinks it’s good enough to let empty lip service do his talking for him." ....
This column from Jan 12 seems to be relevant: “Je Suis Charlie” Morphed into ‘Je Suis Obama’ Before the Entire World . . . " By staying at home in the White House, purportedly to watch a football game, Obama came out as stridently non-sympathetic to a world worried about terrorism; a politician who thinks it’s good enough to let empty lip service do his talking for him." ....
Obama points the finger at Christians when talking about terrorism . . . “ 'Our religion?” Was that a slip of the tongue? If he is speaking of Christians, where are the nihilists today murdering in the name of Christ that require a push back?
"The president appears willing to say or do anything to avoid speaking the truth about Islam." . . .
NRO: Jindal to Obama: ‘Medieval Christian Threat is Under Control’ . . . "We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.' ”
NRO: Jindal to Obama: ‘Medieval Christian Threat is Under Control’ . . . "We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.' ”
Canada Free Press: Imam Obama comes out at the National Prayer Breakfast
"We can hear it now, much closer than ever before, the Islamic call to prayer, not in the far away MidEast, but here in the villages, towns and cities we call home.
"We’ll be hearing it more often as it begins to drown out the peals of church bells, now that Barack Hussein Obama came out as Imam Obama at Thursday’ National Prayer Breakfast."
Thursday, February 5, 2015
The Roots of Obama’s Appeasement
"The president’s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else."
Victor Davis Hanson
"Members of the Obama administration have insisted that the Taliban are not terrorists. Those responsible for the recent Paris killings are not radical Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. Jihad is a “legitimate tenet of Islam.” And “violent extremism,” “workplace violence,” or “man-caused disaster” better describe radical Islamic terrorism. Domestic terrorism is just as likely caused by returning U.S. combat veterans, according to one report by a federal agency.
"What is the point of such linguistic appeasement?
"The word “appeasement” long ago became pejorative for giving in to bullies. One side was aggressive and undemocratic; the other consensual and eager to avoid trouble through supposedly reasonable concessions.
"But appeasement usually weakened the democratic side and empowered the extremist one." . . .
We've seen all this before:
British Jews: ‘What if?’ – yet no exit strategies
"Anti-Semitism impacts Jewish communal life, but for now Britain is not France."
Jerusalem Post . . . "For them, Europe will forever be defined by the Holocaust, the culmination of nearly 2,000 years of anti-Semitism but by no means its end point, as shown by rising anti-Semitism, borne upon feverish hatred of Israel that can only be rationalized by Europe’s own anti-Semitic past.
"Others will vehemently disagree.
"They, too, have a prewritten narrative. For them, Israel is to blame, because each significant surge of anti-Semitism comes at each of Israel’s wars. Israel is to blame for the wars, its conduct and the ensuing anti-Semitism. It is Israel that always ties itself with Jews, and then Europe’s Jewish leaders always back that message." . . .
'If possible, not Jewish' - French job site sets off scandal with anti-Semitic post
"A French graphic design company came under heavy criticism after it posted a notice for an available position on its website which included "If possible, not Jewish" as a criterion, French media reported on Tuesday." . . .
They claimed they were hacked
. . . "On January 29, the UC-Davis student government voted to recommend the school’s Board of Regents divest from companies that “aid in the illegal occupation of Palestine,” which is to say, by the Palestinians’ own definition, all of Israel. This prejudicial measure, aimed at seeking the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet, passed by an 8-2 vote." . . .
Hey, what's the worst that can happen?
What Would Environmentalists Do If They Owned ANWR?
"Consider the costs and benefits to things like drilling for oil, for one."
. . .
"But talk is cheap, so here's a thought experiment: What would happen if we left the fate of ANWR up to environmentalists? What would they do if they owned ANWR?". . .
"That kind of balanced approach is lost in the ANWR debate today. Under public ownership, ANWR takes on excessive political symbolism: Should we save the Arctic or destroy it for short-term profit? Protect America's last great wilderness or drill, baby, drill? The Rainey Sanctuary demonstrates that it doesn't have to be one or the other. Private ownership gives environmental groups a strong incentive to balance conservation with resource development and resolve competing demands in a cooperative, mutually beneficial way.
"Property rights matter. When environmental groups bear the costs of managing their own lands, their behavior is often very different than what they advocate on publicly owned lands. The experience of the Audubon Society suggests that there is a more sensible approach to environmental problems than the political environmentalism we know today. But, unfortunately, you're not likely to find it in the political debates over ANWR"
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