7 posts tagged “war on terrorism”
Winfield Myers writes a revue (one might even call it an analysis) of a Robert Spencer speech sponsored by the Middle East Forum (MEF).
The theme of the speech was the word “jihad” and the near total absence of the word by Republican and Democratic candidates for President in using the word about America’s enemies.
Spencer (who I admire very much) believes the Presidential candidates’ lack of using jihad in naming America’s enemies is due to the fear of being labeled a racist and rocking the Politically Correct boat.
For the Democrats I totally agree with Spencer. They are laying in wait with their political pop guns to shoot the accusation of racist to any candidate that accuses Islam or Islamism of operating a jihad against America.
For the Republicans there may be a tinge of fear of bucking Political Correctness however I suspect most of the Republicans wish to win the nomination on issues that do not connect them to President Bush Policy on Iraq. The reason for this is that the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the Democratic Party have used half truths and out right lies to manipulate the American public that Iraq is a failure and the President is to blame.
The reality is there is plenty of blame game to go around from Bush, to rebellious elements in his Intelligence modus operandi and within the State Department as well as with duplicity in Congress among Democrats that switch back and forth on Iraq depending on how it can undermine President Bush or politically aggrandize a Congressman.
Take or leave my thoughts on the Candidates’ reluctance to name America’s enemies and their declared holy war known as “jihad.” Otherwise I am in total agreement with Robert Spencer.
Here is an awesome post from Gateway Pundit. It demonstrates how the Democrats are in denial about an Anbar Awakening that foreign insurgents (al Qaeda in particular) are crazy psycho radical that are evil and mean to do evil to those who disagree with them: Christians, Jews, other religions, Atheists and even fellow Mohammedans.
Gateway Pundit leads his post with a propaganda video that implies support against insurgency. I wish I could read Arabic to be certain; nonetheless the visuals are very effective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIjGchpYGM.
Dhimmicrats have said we are losing so much the American people are beginning to believe it. Read Al-Anbar Awakening: How Muslims Confronted the Hirabah.
Matt Sanchez is an embedded reporter for World Net Daily in Iraq. He provides a perspective that the Mainstream Media (MSM) has little courage to report honestly because of President Bush hatred. Any smacking of success stories from the troop surge undermines Leftist Democrats and Leftist MSM from their agenda of bringing down the influence of the Christian Right Conservatives and neoconservatives. Currently the former and latter groups I have mentioned are the victims of a relatively successful epithet propaganda campaign. In other words the Left is trying to convince the voting public that the war is the result of the Christian Right and neocon influence and they are correct. The conclusion the Left wishes to impose on the voting public is that the War on Terrorism in Iraq is an abject failure. Thus vote Leftist Democrat even though they have no viable solutions (other than abandoning the mission) to win the war initiated by President Bush supporters.
That solution is mere hate propaganda by the Left to regain political control of America to continue the eradication of Biblical morality and the transformation of America into a Secular Humanist value system that normalizes disgusting lifestyles and denigrates the Christian foundations of America’s heritage.
The ruthless Democrats will use any tool to win voters for their ultimate goals even if it means proclaiming the War on Terrorism and the coming clash with radical Islam a loss and something to flee. That plays well with voters that have become impatient with the war not ending microwave style, i.e. the quick zap and leave.
Since the MSM controls most of the dissemination of information to the public, the microwave generation listens. These are voters that care more about what happens to provide their comfort zone and family life in the now rather than the consequences of bad choices for the future. For the most part this chunk of voters listening to MSM propaganda is not political. If they vote at all it is because of unhappiness that the government is blamed for.
So we have the politically Slanted Right via alternate modes of media (Blogs and the few Slanted Right news outlets) vying with information dissemination of the Slanted Left MSM which supports Slanted Left Democrats. The non-political Joe American that merely wishes to live and pursue happiness votes on the scale that perpetuates their life goals. For these voters (again if they vote) the vote is cast for the person they believe will maintain their pursuit of happiness regardless of political affiliation. These are the voters that were enraged with righteous indignation at the occurrence of 9/11. And these are the voters that the Slanted Left have been working to erase the memory of the attack on American soil on 9/11.
Whew! That felt good.
Anyway back to WND embedded reporter Matt Sanchez.
Sanchez writes how Sunni’s are beginning to reach out to American Troops of the Surge because of the murderous rampage of al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI). Read it and allow it to influence your thought patterns. Remember 9/11!
NewsMax alludes to the addition of the USS Nimitz to the Fleet in the Indian Ocean as a possible reason for Iran giving up on using the British Marines as propaganda and manipulation bait.
Victor Davis Hanson (astute military historian) provides a reason not to bomb Iran. Hanson thinks Iran is going the way of the old Soviets; i.e. imploding politically.
Personally I believe even if Iran is having inner political struggles, an implosion that terminates the present regime will not work out the same as the Soviet Union collapse. Iran’s psychos will take someone down with them. The best case scenario would be a civil war between the Clerics and those of weary of Ayatollah rule. The worst case scenario is the Clerics massacring their Iranian opponents and launching whatever lethal weaponry in their possession against American Allies and Israel.
SlantRight.com Thread: HERE.
I recently wrote that the West has to get medieval with the medieval minded radical Mohammedans. The only way to get the Islamofascists (rogue nations and non-entity terrorists) is to instill fear in their hearts.
The West has had to do this several times in history to get Mohammedans to back off. At Tours/Poitier Charles (the Hammer) Martel beat back Mohammedans in what is now France. Inspired by El Cid (much of his exploits are legend), the Spanish began the Reconquista of Christian Land exploited by Mohammedan Moors.
The Crusades was a defensive action inculcated with Roman Catholic largesse to get the Mohammedans to stop raids on the European side of the Mediterranean. Evidently the Mohammedans would slip into Christian towns to rape, pillage, take booty and kidnap people for slavery. Thus the Crusades embarked for two hundred years until the Mohammedans unfortunately got the upper hand.
Ottoman Turks ravished the Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire that had been whittled down to the city Kingdom of Constantinople of the once mighty Byzantine Empire. From Constantinople the Ottomans ravaged Eastern Europe making it all the way to the Gates of Vienna and finally stopped by Polish King Jan Sobieski in 1683. The Europeans push the Ottomans back to what once was Yugoslavia and Greece .
The brave Greeks revolted in 1821 - 1832 and had their freedom restored. Former Yugoslavia became broken up by those loyal to Christianity and those that chose conversion above suppression by Mohammedans.
The end of WWI became the end of any actual military power base of the Mohammedans as Turkey surrendered and lost their empire over Arab lands to the south and Slavic lands to the north. The bloodlust of Turkish Mohammedans had not abated though. Just before the Turkish involvement ended in WWI, they forced marched Armenian Christians outside of Turkey slaughtering tens of thousands Armenians along the way.
And now Radical Mohammedans influenced by a Sunni Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia and a Shi’ite radicals in Iran are attempting to restore the past via terrorism and oil money. The West needs to find another Charles the Hammer, an El Cid and a Jan Sobieski to diminish Mohammedan designs once again.
Alan Caruba fills in some historical holes that are there due to my brevity: READ IT.
Well I have read that Ayatollah Khamenei was the source of the order given to kidnap British Marines and Sailors in Iraqi waters. The reason given in that story was retaliation for United Nations Security Council sanctions.
Now I am reading from Power Line That Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi der Fuhrer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and ardent political ally of President Ahmadinejad planned the operation as retaliation for American and the Allies of the willing caught Revolutionary Guard spies in Iraq. Safavi’s end game is probably an exchange of British Marines/Sailors captured in Iraqi waters for Iranian spies captured in Iraq.
Hmm … The appearance is that Iran is doing all the sovereignty violations and expects all the due of the one violated? Typical.
Is it time to leave Iraq? Alan Caruba writing in Human Events Online believes this is the case.
Caruba reasons the introduction of Democracy to Iraq failed thus it is time to bail.
Indeed, democratic institutions are something that apparently cannot take in the Western tradition in Mohammedan culture. Nonetheless no one else was willing to address the radical Mohammedanism in the Middle East except George W. Bush. Thus Bush should be given kudos for the attempt.
If the democratic institutions could have overcome the intolerance of Sharia Law and Mohammedan traditions, then radical Mohammedanism would have to rethink its strategy. The experiment has failed. The Mohammedan mindset is too indoctrinated in intolerance, a superiority complex over all other cultures and hatred to embrace democratic institutions.
So should we bail on Iraq before American troops are so involved that years turn into decades? NO!
The strategy needs to change to be molded to new expectations. Simply bailing on Iraq could lead to greater problems than exist now. For one thing the radical Mohammedans will view leaving as a victory validating terrorizing innocent lives to accomplish ends.
The majority crowd in Iraq is Shi’ites and Kurds versus the Sunnis that benefited from Saddam Hussein’s brutal genocidal rule. The new plan should be to enable an Iraqi government that is friendly to America because America liberated a significant population from the rule of terror by Saddam Hussein.
A Mohammedan version of Democracy will work in Iraq. Democratic Institutions molded to conform to the ghastly intolerance of Mohammedanism will work. That will be a Democracy absent of Rights and Liberties. That will be a Democracy in which Mohammedanism will be a State religion and those citizens belonging to a minority religion will be second class citizens.
The key is to establish stability in government. When that moment is satisfactory, it will be time to leave and leave rapidly. The reason being is that a Mohammedan Democracy will eventually evolve into a power struggle in which a personality cult or a specific group will assume the instruments of power that rules.
Another consideration is to build a nation state that is able to stand up to the psychosis known as Iran. The Iranian government is a terrorist factory planting money in non-nation terrorist organizations. Hello! That is the very thing Saddam Hussein was doing after he lost the First Gulf War.
Unless America is willing to lay down and allow Iran to have its way, it is better to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan to surround Iran for the day that psychotic nation becomes bold enough to do something stupid, such as attack Israel or American troops in the Middle East.
As Iran increases in nuclear power that day will ever come closer and closer.
