Monday, December 7, 2015
Hanukkah, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 Show the Wisdom of Strength
The Jewish Hanukkah began at sunset on Sunday, December 6, and continues until Monday, December 14. Hanukkah, called the Festival of Lights, commemorates the victory of the ancient Israelites over the Syrian-Greek army. The Hebrews -- defeated, forced to burn their Torahs, stop practicing their religion, abandon circumcism and eat pork -- were saved by the Maccabees' military victory. To celebrate the purification of the Jerusalem Temple, the menorah candles miraculously burned for eight days, although there was only enough sacred oil for one day. And so, Jewish people celebrate every year by lighting candles each night, singing special songs, reciting special prayers, exchanging gifts, and eating foods fried in oil, to honor their victory and the miracle of the menorah in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. ~~~~~ In addition, today is December 7, remembered by Americans for the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor that destroyed the US Pacific fleet, killed 2,403 and led America into World War II in Europe, Africa and Asia to rid the world of Hitler and his allies. The Pearl Harbor attack was called by President Roosevelt "a date which will live in infamy." ~~~~~ The 9/11 islamist attack on America 60 years later was brutal, killed 3,000 civilians, and resulted in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. President George W. Bush also initiated clandestine strikes against jihadist terrorists around the world. His objective was to crush terrorist power bases and keep the fight in their own lands. Bush addressed the nation on September 21, 2001, saying, "Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution....justice will be done....From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime....As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world." ~~~~~ But on Sunday night, a weak President Obama continued his political retreat from islamist jihadist terror. The San Bernardino attack, planned and carried out by two people radicalized "for some time," according to the FBI, killed 14 at an office Christmas party last week, just hours after Obama claimed, "ISIL is not going to pose an existential threat to us." It is aberrant that the BBC can call it "a Christmas party" while in America it is PC'ed into "a holiday party" as if being Christian were a disease rather than the backbone of American democracy. In his ongoing defense of Islam, Obama said : 'We have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home....Over the last few years, however, the terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase." He could have added that the new phase began when he withdrew all US troops from a then under-control Iraq in 2011. As usual, Obama blamed Congress and Republicans for his own failures : "Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun." Charles Krauthammer pointed out that there are 300,000 people on that list who have no known connection to terrorism at all. Obama continued to berate those who know that guns are not the problem : "I know there are some who reject any gun-safety measures." But, as he and Democrats know, there are thousands of "gun-safety measures" on federal, state and local books now, mostly unenforced. ~~~~~ Dear readers, Senator Marco Rubio was clear about the threat: "These are people who know exactly what they are doing. They are motivated by...calls for global Jihad, the defeat of all non-Sunni, and the establishment of a global caliphate." Obama's attempt to say the San Bernardino attack was part of "a pattern of mass shootings in this country with no parallel anywhere else," is absurd. Even before San Bernardino, 53% of Americans wanted ground troops in the Middle East. Obama is the problem, not the solution.
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If Obama believes what he said about the San Bernardino shootings, if he sets a policy to guard against another based upon his believes we are in dire straits. We have a more incompetent president than we even did with Jimmy Carter. We have a huge problem going forth.
ReplyDeleteOne need only look at France to understand what is also happening here in America.
ReplyDeleteThe United States has self-inflicted its own wounds. The leaders sworn to protect us have failed. Those in opposition are largely weak and the few who speak out are ridiculed. But there is a large percentage of Americans who understand the danger from within. Perhaps it is a majority and we/they are demanding our elected leaders recognize war is being perpetrated in our communities by Islamic terrorists. And most shocking, under the insanity of our Muslim immigration policy, we continue to import those who represent the greatest potential to inflict more harm.
If we are to win this war, then Barack Obama should be impeached and removed from office. His Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, should also be dismissed as the nation’s top law enforcement official at the Department of Justice. Without doubt, neither will happen. So what’s next?
The Presidency of the United States of American is not a job for someone who wants to experiment with ideas that are as foreign as what Barrack Obama has been putting forth.
ReplyDeleteObama does not understand this country, he doesn’t understand freedoms that allow us to make our own ways, He fails to see what the Rule of Law is all about.
Just moments after Sayed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, murdered 14 innocents in San Bernardino, CA, our radical leftist President and his Attorney General dealt with the carnage by attacking the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution. There is no doubt he sees the problem as being American not Muslin, as American citizens not the distorted immigration plans to take in more questionable, non-productive cast-offs of Syria.
Obama is systematically destroying this countries fiber.