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| 2007-02-07 |
| By Caroline Glick Kenyan Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju is on a five-day visit in Israel this week and boy, does Israel have a lot to discuss with him. Unfortunately, it would seem that the Olmert government will fail to recognize this. The most important question that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his colleagues should be broaching to their Kenyan guest is how his government is coping with the fact that Washington has apparently lost its will to fight the war against the global jihad. Last week, under pressure from US Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger, Kenyan authorities released from prison Sheikh Sharif Ahmad, one of the leaders of the ousted al-Qaida-linked Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia. In late December, with US backing and support, Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia with forces from the recognized Somali Transitional Federal Government, (TFG). The invasion came a month after the ICU declared jihad against Ethiopia and Kenya. ICU forces, which had set up a Taliban-style tyranny throughout the country, fled before the Ethiopian advance. In just six days, the ICU was overthrown and the recognized Somali government had retaken control over Mogadishu. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 GUARDIAN UK > MUST STOP BUSH FROM BOMBING IRAN AND STOP IRAN FROM GETTING THE BOMB; MENEWS> US CONGRESS MUST STOP BUSH FROM ATTACKING IRAN. How the RN + French Navies are gonna stop the USA wid PROPELLER-GATES [France] + 44 ships or below [Brits] is beyond me. OTOH, WORLD NEWS > US Congressional research office fears Radical Islam = Terrorists will put WMDS-NUKES on cargo ships. IOW, SUICIDE = AMER HISROSHIMA(S) BY SHIP. ALso, FREEREPUBLIC - For thhose whom say that Dubya ought not to had started this war, LETS ALL REMEMBER HOW MANY DEMOCRAT POTUSES LED THE USA INTO WAR AGZ NATIONS THAT DID NOT ATTACK US = NOT ATTACKED US FIRST. * Songs of the the Third World War, DESTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA, the theme from TITANIC. "You're here ... ... forever this way" |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-07 23:13 |
| #8 Visas to the US should be granted to those who have skills & resources needed in the US. E.g., European physicists, Iraqi scientists who are bilingual Arabic/English, etc. People who don't have something to contribute here can go elsewhere "for the duration." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-07 14:23 |
| #7 I think the State Department needs an Enema. I don't blame Condi or Powell for being unable to clear out that sewage basin. If State Department folks can't be fired they should be reassigned to the Vatican desk where they can be ignored. Pretty much all visa's from the Islamic world should be put on hold for the duration, that will clear up a bit of the other work. Visa's from Europe should be either (a) fasttracked, which would accellerate the brain drain and kill Europe (b) Declined, which might keep Europe around long enough to learn to fight back. This decision can be made depending upon Europes attitudes. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-02-07 12:38 |
| #6 He hears those "Death to America" shouts and reads intelligence reports of Iranian public contempt for the Ayatollah parasites. And appears to do nothing. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-02-07 09:10 |
| #5 I like Caroline Glick, but The President is not about to allow Iran to create a preventable ICBM threat to the US Homeland. He hears those "Death to America" shouts and reads intelligence reports of Iranian public contempt for the Ayatollah parasites. |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-02-07 07:41 |
| #4 I hope Condi has no future political ambitions, because her State Dept appeasers and deadenders are killing them with me |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-07 07:41 |
| #3 Well said Dave. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-02-07 07:32 |
| #2 I disagree, Joe. The Democratic Party's opposition to the war has been relentless, monolithic, adamant, hysterical and dishonest, and it began even before the dust settled in Lower Manhattan-- yet the American people gave them a resounding victory last November by handing them control of both houses of Congress. I think anyone attempting a realistic assessment of the situation-- and that includes both our enemies and our allies-- has to conclude that neither America's political class nor the American public has the stomach for a prolonged war. Hit us hard enough and yes, you can shock us into a brief flurry of action-- provided a cowboy Republican from Texas happens to occupy the White House when we are hit. But we quickly get distracted by bright shiny objects waved in our faces-- "universal health care" and "global warming", for example-- and lose interest. Osama bin Laden posited that if you bleed the Americans long enough and hard enough-- and God knows, it doesn't take much-- they will eventually give up and go home. And I think most of the world suspects we are about to prove him right; certainly, listening to our politicians and our media, it's hard to conclude otherwise. And if OBL is proven right, the consequences will be horrible. Not just for us, but for the entire world. I see dead people. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-02-07 06:43 |
| #1 Iff January TV interviews of ordinary Amers are any measure, ITS OUR POLS WHOM LACK THE WILL, NOT THE MAINSTREAM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-07 00:50 |