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| BRANDING THE WRONG THREAT If red scare propagandists in America didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any metrics at all. When jingoists criticize any real or imagined Kremlin transgression, the indictment reads "the Russians did/are this or that." When Arabs, Persians, or Muslims bomb, slaughter, or behead; there are few similar blanket condemnations by race or religion. Indeed, no matter how badly Islamists behave, the threat is universally characterized as "a few bad apples." Indeed, Mohamed’s religious lemmings have ethnic immunity. Muslims are now a race, a religion, and a protected species by acclamation. Russophobia is politically correct, islamophobia is not. Blanket demonization of Russians is patriotic, blanket condemnations of Muslims is "racism." The Benghazi fiasco provides the best example of foreign policy double think on Islam. When Libyan jihadists eradicated the American ambassador, consulate, and CIA annex in Libya, the villain put forward by the Obama White House, the Clinton State Department, and Brennan’s CIA was an American video maker. In fact, Libyan jihadists attacked an amateur CIA gun running operation in Libya. The Agency and the State Department were using the Benghazi consulate ("annex") to collect and transship Kaddafi era weapons to CIA affiliated jihadists to other lost causes in the Levant. In effect, the North African jihad, cut the US gun running pipeline to the Levant jihad. John Brennan, while at CIA, would have you believe that ambassador Stevens and colleagues were killed by an American video or a spontaneous protest riot. Brennan today still does not have any explanation for not sending help to his besieged CIA colleagues when help might have mattered. Kris Paranto, a former Army ranger who survived the Benghazi fight, accuses the Obama White House, the Clinton State Department, and the Brennan CIA of putting "politics before lives." For his candor, "Tanto" Paranto and his mates lost their CIA jobs - and their security clearances. Truth today is often just another suicide mission. Paranto has, however, provided the answer to Hilary Clinton’s infamous Benghazi interrogative before Congress: "What difference does it make?" When politicians lie, Mrs. Clinton, patriots die. Alas, the American Intelligence Community has cultivated three tragic flaws since 9/11; too big and bureaucratic for warning, too timid and political for actionable analysis, and too incompetent to win anything but irrelevant pyrrhic victories, the bin Laden kill included. More at the link. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #5 Not to mention China. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-08-29 13:02 |
| #4 Or, you could spend time trying to convince Europe to not cut off it's own head. But that is what you get when you turn your back on The Lord. At least I still have Eastern Europe still. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-08-29 03:34 |
| #3 So now we must not sheath the sword of containment - and vie to get everything out before this car B Q becomes a firesale, wholesale, of equipment and secrets and nukes, and military options. They shall be cut off from the Congregation. Time to pull in what we have and marshal home with guns facing out in much of this circumstance. They will find the weak horse and exploit it. They have with the Mayor of London. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-08-29 03:25 |
| #2 Islam is not adjusting to Enlightenment values today so much as Europe is choking on the recidivist mores of 7th Century Mecca. Euro-submission is trending from the Bosporus to the Irish Sea. IMO, the most important thing about EUrope is that once Muzzies are firmly in control, they get access to the entirety of Western technology as well as large numbers of competent Dhimmi scientists and engineers. This, IMO, must be prevented at all costs. General Clapper claims Russians are “genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor.” Now, that's sounds familiar. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-29 02:53 |
| #1 I did not write this, but you should read it. I want to de-tension Russia in an impossible political environment. Yet, the big picture is not available. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-08-29 01:29 |