Sowell on Middle East 'Democracy'

Thomas Sowell  "The Obama administration treated the creation of "democracy" in the Middle East as a Good Thing. Ironically, those who created the United States of America viewed democracy with fear-- and created a Constitutional republic instead.

"Everything depends on how you define democracy. In its most basic sense, democracy means majority rule. But there can be majority rule in a free country or in a country with an authoritarian or even a dictatorial government.
"In this age of sloppy uses of words, many people include freedom in their conception of democracy. But whether democracy leads to freedom is an open question, not a foregone conclusion."

Iran lines up behind North Korea, warns the US of “great losses”

DEBKAfile  "The inevitable convergence of the Korean and Iranian crises confronts America’s three top officials, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, with their most challenging international test.
....
"There, [Kerry] could start bargaining with Russian and Chinese rulers for preliminary understandings with Washington on Iran and Syria that would make it worth their while to use their leverage for bringing the out-of-control North Korean firebrand to heel.

"So long as the Obama administration sticks to its current separate policies on Syria and Iran, Iran and Korea, Moscow and Beijing won’t lift a finger to apply the brakes to Kim Jong-Un before he drives the world to catastrophe.
 

Don’t Fire Until You See The Whites of Their Cassocks

Mark Steyn  "This is one for the “too stupid to survive” files: U.S. Army Labeled Evangelicals, Catholics as Examples of Religious Extremism."

"At the beginning of America Alone, I quote Arnold Toynbee: “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” The urge to suicide is always there; the trick is keeping it confined to the outer edges: In the Cold War this kind of moronic false equivalence was the province of leftie professors and fringe playwrights, who spent three decades failing to notice nobody from West Germany was climbing over the Berlin Wall to get into the East. Now this false equivalence is peddled by the politically correct eunuch bureaucracy of the U.S. military."

"When Major Hasan got a case of Pre-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and opened fire at Fort Hood standing on a table yelling “Allahu Akbar!”, it was just the luck of the draw: He could have been shouting the Angelus. Best to prepare for all eventualities."

U.S. Army lists Evangelical Christianity, Catholicism, and "Islamophobia" as forms of "Religious Extremism" with Al-Qaeda and Hamas

These pictures should help you see why I resigned the Democrat Party

Michael Savage

 

Obama's Soviet Mistake

Russia’s Pravda Declares “Communism Won in America with Obama; US Suffering Has Only Begun   ”  "In an extraordinary column last week, Russia’s de facto government press arm declared that the era of “Miss American Pie” was over in the U.S. Citing Obama’s reelection, Pravda stated that the “Communists have won in America…”
"Why? Because the US is “an illiterate society” that continues to buy off on Obama’s “lies of less taxes while he raises them.” The US educational system is also held responsible, with Pravda stating that it was “conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their Communist presidents.” "

Pravda "The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake."
....

"Let's give American voters the benefit of the doubt and say it was all voter fraud and not ignorance or stupidity in electing a man who does not even know what to do and refuses help from Russia when there was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ....

...." The question is how long will the once "Land of the Free" remain the United Socialist States of America?  Their suffering has only begun.

Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke. Liberal civility update

How will the Obama response be worded?

Sky News   "Baroness Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87.
"Her children Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother had died peacefully following a stroke this morning.

"Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes saying: "Today is a truly sad day for our country. We've lost a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton.
"As our first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn't just lead our country, she saved our country, and I believe she'll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister.""

She knew sanctions wouldn't stop this dictator  "We had sanctions because the United Nations resolution prescribed that we have a period of sanctions and you have to give them a chance to.... sanctions you know don't usually work."

Margaret Thatcher Rips Socialism, “They’d Rather Have The Poor Poorer”… 

Is there nobody of her stature in the US Congress?

Distasteful: George Galloway
 has been rebuked for his
'distasteful' comments following
 the death of former Conservative
 

 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Left's sickening 'celebration' breaks out just minutes after Baroness Thatcher's death 

 

 "Champagne was flowing tonight as the Left took to the streets to celebrate the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
"More than 300 people gathered in Glasgow city centre, while over 100 revellers amassed on the streets of Brixton, south London.
"Within hours of her death, people had taken to micro blogging sites to organise the gatherings.

 

 

 

Who runs North Korea? As Kim Jong-un plays the tough guy, his aunt and uncle hold the reins of power. Emphasis on the Aunt.

UK Telegraph  "But as the "first family", the couple's most important role is to defend the dynasty by forging the young Kim's credentials as a powerful military figure, amid concerns that some generals in the powerful armed forces do not trust him.
"North Korea has been a family affair ever since its inception in 1948 under Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994 but remains its Eternal President."....

Kim Kyong-hui is often only female face on official photographs. She is the daughter of the North Korean Eternal President Kim Il-sung
The pair, who are both 66, were seen on either side of Kim Jong-un at a central committee session of the Workers' Party last weekend, where their nephew pledged to maintain nuclear weapons as 'the nation's life treasure'. The following week saw escalating tensions as Mr Kim threatened the US and South Korea....
She also owns the only burger restaurant in Pyongyang, where the menu offers 'minced meat and bread' rather than using the American word 'burger'.

Vitriol infests Pastor Rick Warren's family grief

USA Today  "Pastor Rick Warren, the best-known name in American evangelism after Rev. Billy Graham, lost his 27-year-old son, Matthew, to suicide this week.
"Uncounted strangers have joined the 20,000 congregants who worship at the ....Warren's nearly 1 million Twitter followers and hundreds of thousands of Facebook followers in flooding social media with consolation and prayer.
"But a shocking number are taking this moment of media attention to lash out at Warren on the digital tom-toms. The attacks are aimed at him personally and at his Christian message
"Some unbelievers want to assure Rick and Kay Warren, his wife and Matthew's bereaved mother, that there's no heaven where they'll meet their son again."....

The story: Megachurch pastor and author of "The Purpose Driven Life" said his son struggled "from birth" with mental illness
More here: http://purposedriven.com/

Examiner.com:   "Many people think that clerics do not face the same personal challenges that occur in the lives of those in other professions, but this tragedy reminds us that this is just not true.      
"In an email to church staff, Pastor Rick Warren wrote that he and his wife had just spent a “fun time” with his son in the hours before his death. Mathew had returned to his home and was overtaken by "a momentary wave of despair." "

Rick Warren Asks for Prayer After Son Takes Own Life  "After Rick Warren's son took his own life, the Saddleback Church pastor turned to his staff for intercessory prayer. Charisma News obtained the following e-mail
Warren distributed. Please join with us in praying for his family."

Update: Left Shows Great Compassion To Pastor Rick Warren On Suicide Of His Son; Accuse His Son, Who Suffered From Mental Illness, Of Being Gay  "Of course, there are many kinds of illness that strike all kinds of people, but leave it to the despicable left to hope to justify their hatred for religion by wishing a suicide was caused by homosexuality."

Norktoons

 

Obatoons

Victor Davis Hanson on the Iraq War. Plus an appropriate update about...North Korea?

   You see here what you may think is a strange juxtaposition of the Iraq War and the years leading up to World War 2 (a war that Winston Churchill called the most easily prevented war in history). Linking the two eras of history is the influence of the pacifist left, then and now.
   In a world growing ever more dangerous, with truly evil men possessing the most awesome of weapons, as happened in the 1930's we see leaders in the free world paralyzed by the pacifist left and unable to meet evil with strength and will. The Nazis and the Japanese noticed college groups and their professors in Britain declaring they would never fight for England and they were emboldened.
   As Winston Churchill observed in The Gathering Storm, in just a few years, many of those very students would be killed or maimed fighting that same Axis they had so encouraged.
   Following 9-11, similar pacifists resisted America punishing the Islamic radicals, they opposed the surge that gave us victory in Iraq and voted for a president who would squander that same victory and tarnish the honor of our nation.    The Tunnel Dweller

Iraq a Convenient Scapegoat  "We can perhaps admire either those who were consistently against the war when it was at first unpopular, or those who kept their support when it was even more unpopular. But how does political convenience — in a war that hinged on the enemy destroying our morale — translate into courage or wisdom?"   (Emphasis added.)

Above: World War 2 cartoon depicting pacifist democracies who would not fight Hitler until it was too late to save Europe and the millions who were murdered by the Axis*.

  .... "Going to war is a matter not of avoiding mistakes, but of seeking to correct them as soon as possible. For a postmodern society that knows no history, mistakes must not occur. And when they do, someone else is always to be blamed."  (Emphasis again added)

Iraq – Agony, Ordeal, and Recovery  "We are an ahistorical, me-only generation. An Okinawa or Hue does not exist in our memories. War is supposed to proceed like apps on an iPhone. No one knows of the intelligence failures surrounding Pearl Harbor, the near criminally wrong protocols of the B-17 campaign between 1942-3, or the failure to provide our troops with adequate tanks and anti-tank weaponry in World War II.

"Going to war is a matter not of avoiding mistakes, but of seeking to correct them as soon as possible. For a postmodern society that knows no history, mistakes must not occur. And when they do, someone else is always to be blamed.

"Axis", for all history-challenged readers is explained here.  We know there are at least 50 million such people in the US.  

 

And North Korea wants all those 50 million to stand by them: North Korea to progressives: Join us in war against U.S. (Update).

"According to a post at the North Korean News Service, the United States is the “common enemy” of all the world’s progressives, including, apparently, those in the United States.  And the regime wants them to join Kim Jung Un in his effort against the United States."  Hat tip to Joe Newby

Those enlisting in this fight will get a free Un-phone.

Hitler Survivor: ‘Keep Your Guns and Buy More Guns’

The Right Planet   "Katie Worthman was born in Austria and lived there for seven years under Hitler’s brutal regime. After World War II, she also lived for three years under Soviet communist occupation. Needless to say, Mrs. Worthman is someone who has an acute awareness of how the media distorts things and tyranny comes to power."