Friday, March 25, 2016
Saturday Politics : Obama -- Shameful, Tone-deaf, Frivolous
Saturday politics is sometimes about a failed American President. ~~~~~ Tuesday, Americans awoke to the news of horrific carnage in Belgium. ISIS jihadists using suicide bombs had killed 31 and wounded 330 in the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe since November's Paris ISIS terrorist attacks killed 129 and wounded hundreds. ISIS issued a statement saying the Belgium attacks are the result of its participation "in the international coalition against the Islamic State," and threatening, "What will be coming is worse." ~~~~~ Western leaders expressed solidarity, promising to fight against Islamic terrorism. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called it "a dark time for our country....I call on everybody to show calm, but also solidarity." Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, said : "This is a cowardly attack...on our values and on our open societies. Terrorism will not defeat democracy and take away our freedoms." French President Francois Hollande tweeted, "I express my solidarity with the Belgian people. Through the Brussels attacks, the whole of Europe has been hit." ~~~~~ President Obama? He was glad-handing with Communist Cuba dictator Raoul Castro, but found 51 seconds to say : "This is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism" -- 51 seconds -- less time than he spent doing the wave with Castro while watching the Cuban national baseball team on Tuesday after the Brussels attacks. And, the Brussels crisis didn't prevent Obama and his entourage from going on to Argentina, where he danced a tango -- no doubt while praying for the Brussels dead and maimed. The American President gave not so much as a nod to the possibility of American victims. Two were killed. ~~~~~ America's response was swift. Obama said he would not cut short his Cuba visit -- to show that "ordinary" life goes on. He then spent the afternoon grinning and waving at baseball spectators with strongman Raoul Castro. Senator John McCain said : "The fact is that if he came back, very little would change...it's very clear that the President does not view this threat with any seriousness....This is a result of the failed policy of this President who wanted to get out of all wars and either didn't realize or didn't care that wars don't stop when you get out." GOP strategist Anna Navarro said : "It reminded me of when he went golfing after James Foley's head was cut off....It's inexcusable that when the entire world is standing in solidarity with Brussels...the President of the United States is in Cuba sitting next to a dictator....going to the baseball game like he was at Walt Disney World....It was a shameful, shameful disappointing moment for President Obama. I was disappointed. I was not surprised." Former presidential advisor David Gergen said : "people are looking for more forceful action to actually drive back ISIS....we're not winning...I would tell the President...you only gave a few seconds to Brussels, you brushed it off. When you go to a baseball game it looks frivolous. Dancing like that....Restraint does not equal leadership when you are under attack." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the Cuba dictatorship has done nothing to accommodate America, just as North Korea and Iran do nothing : "All of them treat Obama with contempt because...he allows them to take advantage of him....Hillary Clinton...will be no better....after the Brussels bombing she said we shouldn't really be afraid....I know she's had Secret Service since 1992, but the fact is the rest of us don't...we have every reason to be afraid." Obama's former senior advisor David Axelrod called him "tone-deaf." Charles Krauthammer wrote that ISIS "has grown from JV team to worldwide threat.... .it may be poised for a continent-wide guerrilla campaign. In the face of this, Obama remains inert, unmoved, displaying a neglect...that borders on denial." ~~~~~ Dear readers, is there no one who can stop this self-deluded fool of a President from destroying the world?
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In 1992, 41 percent of new permanent residents in the United States — green-card holders — hailed from the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Pew Research Center. A decade later, the percentage was 53 percent. Over that same period, predictably, the number of Muslim immigrants coming to the United States annually has doubled, from 50,000 to approximately 100,000 each year. In 1992, only 5 percent of Muslim immigrants came from sub-Saharan Africa; 20 years later, it was 16 percent. Of the 2.75 million Muslims in the United States in 2011, 1.7 million were legal permanent residents.
ReplyDeleteIn Europe, assimilation has been a disaster. With large isolated pockets of Muslims, there is not only economic discontent, but a place for radicalism to percolate. Now, many European nations have added massive numbers of potentially disaffected Muslims into this combustible mix.
In Germany, one of the most world’s most advanced (and generous) nations, the families of Turkish immigrants who came in 1950s still can’t find their way in mainstream society. Much the same can be said of Algerians in France. Terrorists can come from all kinds of backgrounds, but shiftlessness and poverty probably makes young people susceptible to this kind of radicalism. Importing large numbers of new refugees without any realistic plan to help them avoid a similar fate is cultural self-immolation.
It is hard to argue that some cultures have a propensity to embrace illiberalism and some do not. And the Islamic problem goes well beyond any person who chooses to blow up an airport terminal or shoot down concert-goers or engage in genocide or stab mothers in front of their children. Aside from secularized communities, there is an institutionalized liberalism — brimming with misogyny, anti-Christian sentiment and Jewish bigotry, constraints on free expression, the kind of homophobia that ends with people swinging from the gallows, etc. — throughout the Islamic world. Pointing this out is not racism — theology is not a skin color. And the United States will not be given immunity from dealing with this reality.
The problem with the War on Terrorism is the word “ON”. Our war since 9/11 has been reactionary not aggressive. We are fighting the results, not the root cause. This isn’t Poland 1939 friends.
When a dynamic action feeds the nationalistic case of the fright and top down driven insecurity, any growing nationalistic movements — and Trumpism can be thrown in with them — offer a dangerous counterbalance to the left’s phony empathy. When politicians (people like the president) condemned Americans for harboring legitimate fears about immigration or violence, they will soon look elsewhere for allies. They will embrace bad ideas. And both groups will be responsible for the slow-motion cratering of liberal values at home (a somewhat explanation of ‘why’ the success of one Senator Sanders against Hillary Clinton).
ReplyDeleteIf a full recognition and rejection of the Obama administration and it’s extreme Progressive Liberal agenda is at hand then the embracement must be of positive ideas for our own people – ideas like fences and just saying NO to unwanted and unadvisable immigration.
It’s our country and no place in our Constitution is it written that we have to blindly accept destruction from the immigration of vandalistic religious terrorists’ enclaves inhabitants who are bent on our demise.
Obama continues to support the Muslim Brotherhood that is the bases of ALL the various other militant, murderous Islamic terrorists’ organizations. Iyt’s not only Obama but his administration does also.
ReplyDeleteThere is a ‘secret’ White House directive outlining the policy of backing the brotherhood that is titled – Presidential Study Directive – 11 or commonly called PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011. It outlines Obama’s support for the political reform in the Middle East and in North Africa according to those who are not supporters and brave enough to even discuss it off the record. It is highly classified.
Efforts to have it released under the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) has been unsuccessful to date. Why the Obama Administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined country by country, detail by detail in the PSD-11.
So it seems that Obama has done all he can do to wrap the United States in a gift box with a “thank-you” note for all that the brotherhood has done for his administration.
But without Obama in office does the Brotherhood turn it’s long tentacles of terrorism towards the U.S. and away from Europe?
What more does Islam have to do before Europe, the United States, the entire world wakes the heck up?
ReplyDeleteIslam tells all of us they hate us and they’re going to kill all of us who do not live their life. And, yet, Europe, the US, and the world doesn’t believe it’s going to happen; or they're self-deceived to such a degree that they think they can talk them away from a malevolent worldview that does not include ones specific community.
So, keep on living in denial World. Keep blaming yourself. Keep telling yourself it’ll “get better”. Keep on cutting Islam slack and excusing their verbal abuse and see what happens. I predict it won’t end pretty.
Or … or … you can drink a nice double espresso, slap yourself in the face and say to yourself, “Self … you’re better than this. You don’t deserve this. Your good has been taken advantage of and, starting right now, Islam can officially get out of my country because I’m not going to live like a terrified slave to your verbal or physical abuse any longer.
All our problem may be all the fault or planning of our leaders, but allowing our leaders to do this is our mistakes.
If we set aside Ayn Rand's correct cerebral approach...Animal Farm says it all...does anyone care...or more fundamentally, does anyone even understand what is at stake here?
ReplyDeletePresident Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Reagan was exactly right. Freedom may be in our DNA, but keeping it there and passing it on requires the willingness to fight and die for it. We no longer seem to be willing or able to do this anymore…and the proof of that is in the pictures of Paris, Brussels, any city in the Middle East being exploded daily, New York City on 9/11/2001 as the twin Towers and various other buildings came tumbling down.
This constant in-our-face encounter with terrorism goes back some 800 years for Europe and the Middle East. In the United States it is no less real even in our short experience with Islam & terrorism. Our encounters with this War of Terrorism started with the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games massacre of 11 Jewish athletics were murdered because they were simply Jewish. Those early days before Obama was when the United States stood up for Israel and other friends and people in need.
We were told by intelligence agencies and President Obama that these types of attacks were a thing of the past, that enough red flags would go up when these guys were constructing their suicide vests that they woulWe can all ask many questions about what went wrong in Brussels, or why Brussels at all, but the bigger problem is that such a thriving terrorist infrastructure was allowed to establish itself in the first place. Key operatives and senior [Islamic State] commanders are based in Brussels, where they’re able to draw on a network of operatives and local sympathizers.
ReplyDeleteFor many there may still be some bewilderment about the choice of Belgium as a target of ISIS’ latest attack in Europe. It is not a leading military power like France or the United Kingdom. Yet Belgium is absolutely central to ISIS’ aims to carry out attacks in Europe in the hope of inspiring new recruits to their cause. After all, it was Brussels that first suffered casualties from the foreign fighters returning from Syria: Mehdi Nemmouche, who fought for ISIS in Syria, shot and killed four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014.
Belgium may seem an unlikely hub of jihadism, but despite being a small and peaceful nation, Belgian connections to militancy are long established.
Maybe the question on the lips of people instead of 'Why Brussels", or where is Obama - we should be admitting the known truth about Obama and asking "Why not Brussels?"
ReplyDeleteThe players of the 'One World Order', the Internationalists, the Progressive Socialists, the Leaders of various countries who are leading their constituents over the cliff in order to remain in power and/or be favored by the Islamic Muslim terrorists as they swarm over the walls and take control of another democracy that was defended by the above politicians - have one thing in common and that is their knowledge of the terrorist is less than nil.
Fact 1 - "All Muslims are not Terrorists ... But as proven by history all Islamic Terrorists are Muslim."
Fact 2 - "The enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend."
Acceptance of these 2 simple statements would be better Foreign Policy that what is the Obama Policy or Merkel Policy or the EU's migrant immigration policy.