Thursday, December 10, 2015
San Bernardino, Runaway Afghans, Iran Missile Tests -- No Wonder Americans Are Worried
We now know that San Bernardino terrorists Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their attack, practicing at a gun range and getting money to take care of their daughter and her grandmother -- apparently by borrowing $28,000 from an online bank. The couple - married perhaps in a terrorist arrangement - lived with their baby daughter and Farook's mother, Rafia Farook, 62, leaving the baby with Rafia on the morning of the attack. FBI investigators have been told Farook talked about an attack in California as early as 2012, raising suspicions Farook - now suspected of having connections to a terrorist currently jailed in the US - was radicalized before he traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with Malik. ~~~~~ Meanwhile, Georgia police say two Afghan nationals probably do not pose a threat after they went missing from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. Valdosta police Chief Brian Childress said Wednesday federal, local and state agencies are working with the military to find the men, who were reported missing by officials on Tuesday morning, after they failed to report Monday to maintenance training with the 81st Fighter Squadron at the base, about 230 miles south of Atlanta. The two had been at Moody since February 2015 in training aimed at improving the Afghanistan air force and were screened before arriving in the US. A similar incident occurred in 2014 when a soldier in the Afghanistan army went missing during a training exercise at a US military base in Massachusetts. He was granted asylum by the United States in January. ~~~~~ Senator Ted Cruz Wednesday attacked Iran after Congress learned of reports that Teheran conducted ballistic missile tests in violation of the nuclear agreement. Critics say Iran could use the tests to finalize its nuclear weapons technology. Cruz said : "Nobody should be surprised that Iran is already breaking the agreement. They never intended to follow the agreement. Iran knew that. The Obama administration knew that. Israel knew that. Everyone knew it." Iran's reported test this week of a ballistic missile is the second since the nuclear deal was announced. Such tests are barred by the UN Security Council, which is investigating the first test. Obama has not commented. Iran has argued that it has not violated any UN resolutions. Cruz says Iran : "will continue breaking the deal, using the millions of dollars the Obama administration is trying to send them to fund radical Islamic terrorists across the globe who will murder innocent Americans, innocent Europeans, and innocent Israelis - and to accelerate their nuclear weapons-development program." He blamed the White House for refusing to better police Iran's adherence to the agreement and preventing missile tests : "Those are questions that the Obama administration is unwilling to ask. Because this deal was never about preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. On the face of it, the only consequence of this deal will be that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons." ~~~~~ Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday attacked President Obama's claim that Republican concerns about Syrian refugees being infiltrated by terrorists are simply a fear of "widows and orphans." Rubio called Obama's remark "baffling" : "We see the same intelligence the President does. For him to say something like that runs counter to information we know that he has." Rubio said evidence shows Islamic terrorists have tried to use drug trafficking networks from Mexico to get people into the country by posing as Syrian refugees, adding : "But it goes beyond that. People also try to use doctors' visas and fiancée visas to get into the United States." ~~~~~
Dear readers, Americans are more frightened of terrorism than at any time since 9/11. Does Obama care? Who can say. Is it any wonder a Wednesday Bloomberg poll shows 64% of likely 2016 GOP primary voters favor Donald Trump's call to temporarily ban Moslems from entering the US, and 37% of all general election likely voters also agree. As Trump said, we need to find out "what the hell is going on."
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Obama has been tested by the various leaders of the various tentacles of the juhad movement and has been found to be unwilling, u wanting, and un prepared to launch a positive counter attack.
ReplyDeleteHe is considered to be weak and not in control. Obama commands no respect in the Arab world. He is the equal of President Carter - and we all know how that senario turned out in Iran
When Obama asserted a while ago that “this is not some superpower chessboard contest,” (in reference to the terrorists/Middle East and Ukraine trouble spots) he either told a lie or he demonstrated his government’s utter cluelessness with regard to the actual situation and consequences of their actions in Ukraine, Syria, the South Chinese Sea, and other hot spots of the second Cold War (which is in reality a continuation of the first Cold War). Either or of these 2 possibilities do not bode well for the future – as we are witnessing today.
DeleteFear is a state of mind, not a thing, and thus requires belief in order to manifest. The only thing we have to fear is the government. And when that Fear takes over your mind the things you are most fearful of just took a giant step to winning the game. You don’t get to control every aspect of life on this planet, such as risk factors and so forth. But in this era, ten times out of ten, things such as terrorism are inspired by and, in all cases, created by governments.
ReplyDeleteIslamic terrorist attacks within the United States, for example. Ask yourself this: Were these happening before the United States government started manipulating, exploiting, harassing, and interfering in Islamic countries? No. If terrorists were truly “targeting the West”, why then has not Switzerland been attacked?
What these terrorist attacks are is a warning - a warning to stay out of their internal affairs. They haven’t got an air force to send the warning by bombing one of our cities, like we do and think to be a more “civilized” action. (I say that in that case, the West gets off lucky. If they had an air force, several Western cities would be rubble.) So they resort to terrorism, which is the poor man’s “diplomacy by other means”. So, if the warning is to stay out of their affairs, what’s so wrong about heeding the warning and staying out of their affairs? What, if you purposely harass a beehive and get stung, is the solution to stick your hand inside it every chance you get? Are the bees to be blamed?
This week secretary of defense Ashton Carter testified before the Senate Armed services Committee and said …” We won’t hesitate to confront ISIS.” What a joke, what a laugh.
DeleteAll that Obama and his administration has done since the faltering days of the Arab Spring and the outgrowth of ISIS is to hesitate. Obama’s ‘leading from behind’ is under no circumstance an act of confrontation.
Obama has drawn lines in the sand, led from behind and ISIS and it’s sister terrorists organizations have grown and grown until the terrorists attack 10 days ago in San Bernardino, CA.
Everything Ash Carter said was predicated by “IF THEY” – meaning Obama has no plans on initiating anything. And we wonder why the American citizens are worried and scared for their own safety … no one is watching the hen house here at home for them they rightfully believe.
Morally we, I disagree with the actions taking place in the Middle East via the terrorists activities – Sunni wanting to cleanse the region of Shiite (or vice versa however you wish to look at it) and then continue into Israel and rid the world of the Jewish people. And morally it is our duty to protect Israel for they are us and we are them.
ReplyDeleteBut excluding Israel from a non-response from the United States … is the Middle East our concern or for that matter anyone’s concern. And if it is our concern then it is our duty to without any delay and post haste stop the murderous terrorism occurring there and in many other regions of the world on a lesser reported regularity.
We need, and by we I mean all free countries of the world need to act or not act, but we do not need to say we’re acting when in fact we are putting on a show.
If we continue this Broadway play production terrorists and terrorism accomplishment much like 9/11, Mali, Northern Africa, France, London, Tokyo, San Bernardino, etc.. will be as common place as it is in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq every day, day in and day out.
Syrians and all of the Middle East need first to want their countries back. But right now it appears all they want is not to die at the hands of the jihadist. And therein lies a great difference.
The “no-fly” list (exactly what it is called. People on this list cannot fly commercial flights) was created by President G.W. Bush and when he left office contained 47,000 names. Today, the list has climbed to over 700,000 names. There are no specified reasons why someone’s name is added to “the list.” In fact, the criterion for determining who is added to the list is totally secret. Not even Congress knows what it is. The technology website TechDirt.com estimates that at least 40% of the list is comprised of individuals who have absolutely no connections to terror groups or activities. In other words, they are American citizens just like you and me.
ReplyDeleteWho are these people who are so dangerous that we can't let them on planes, but we haven't gone out and arrested them? At what point do we actually take action against them if they're under what we think of as passive surveillance? ... If they're too dangerous to be put on a plane but not too dangerous for us to arrest them, what exactly is this list about?
Asked another way: Who is too dangerous to be on a plane but not dangerous enough to walk around in public -- and should that person be denied the right to own a firearm because they land somewhere in that gray space? President Obama's goal was not really to keep the guns out of the hands of possible terrorists, in part because the overlap of the no-fly list and possible terrorists looks more like a Venn diagram (with more overlap) than a circle. It was, instead, part of his effort to limit the availability of guns in general, using the no-fly list as a tool.
Keeping us safe is ALWAYS the mantra used by a government to enslave its people. Terrorism seems to be Obama’s tune.
There seems to be not only a leadership vacancy, but a moral dilemma, and an impasse of any common sense at the Obama administration and in many of the capitals of various other world countries.
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