Hard to Believe this guy was just hired by Newsweek.
NO Happy Clappy Democracies: MSNBC'S Mika Shocked Because Pictures From Egypt Seem So Nice While Harvard's Niall Ferguson Schools Her on Muslim Brotherhood & Caliphate
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I recommend all RB'ers watch this. Look at the faces of the MSNBC people. The man makes me proud.
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Ouch. A guy from Harvard slams Obummer who is the darling of Harvard. Wow. He criticized the ONE! He must be racist (snark on). There may be a couple of sane and knowledgeable people in academia.
Posted by: Fire and Ice ||
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He wrote a piece in the WSJ in 2004 which crystallized or explained what was in the back of my mind. Had a ball whamming the zeropeans over the head w/it.
BAsically, the world needs 1 big footprint to keep the peace, it's either the US, islamofascists, the Chicoms or armed camps.
I told the Zeropeans who hated us and wanted us gone, no wonder you want the other 3, it's all you've ever known thruout your history.
Now that I've seen him in action, even tho he's a leftie, swoon.....................teehee.
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For anyone interested, here's a non-firewalled link to the op-ed I believe anonymous2u is talking about. I'd forgotten it -- Professor Ferguson does lay out a devastating argument... unlike some of his university's students. This time I was clever enough to bookmark it.
This is the long piece from Der Spiegel about Youssef al-Qaradawi that some blogs have been discussing. When lib-tards or the DNI tell you that the Muslim Brotherhood is 'secular', you can start your response by pointing to this article.
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/17/2011 00:00 ||
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The Mouth of Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood (without makeup):
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the sheikh insists on equal rights. For example, he says, a woman does not have to ask her husband's permission to blow herself up in an Israeli café.
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Meanwhile the appeasers in the lame stream media keeping pushing the meme that the MB are sponsors of the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Well, maybe not the Girl Scouts.
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Maybe public pensions killing progressive Kalifornia is a good thing. Maybe this realization will be the beginning of an epiphany followed by sanity. But so long as Berkeley is talking about inviting terrorists into their city, and illegals are invited into sanctuary cities, and Brown is governor and public unions who elected Brown continue free reign, Kalifornians will be suffer and wandering in the public union and bankruptcy wilderness for a long time.
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They also discussed whether slavery is still legit (and pretty much decided in the affirmative). Of course, notwithstanding the discussion, defensive jihad, which includes pretty much any violence in any land that was once muslim ruled, is still mandatory as is enforcement of blasphemy laws, etc.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
02/17/2011 14:59 Comments ||
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Opinion Piece from Galrahn of Information Dissemination.
There are two ships heading for Syria from Iran. One is the second rate 1500 Ton POS corvette Alrand and the 33,000 Ton supply ship Kharg, which may be a concern for what it could be carrying.
One point of this piece is that by sailing this duo on this route, the Iranian MMs have pushed the cost of crude up 1.8% or $0.67/bbl.
In the piece, Galrahn discuss what to do about them.
RTWT.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
02/17/2011 03:03 ||
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It's not the navy's fault that American People keep electing idiots.
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Galrahn nails it: it's what the Kharg is delivering to Syria for trans-shipment to the Hezbies. As a naval ship Kharg won't be searched by port authorities, nor by Suez authorities. The Alrand is just there as 'escort', though as Galrahn notes, she's a lousy ship for that.
Galrahn thinks our response should be PR: get photos of an Arleigh Burke class destroyer alongside of the Alrand just to illustrate who's got the strong horse and who doesn't.
Well yes, that might help.
I think my response would be a little more active. And a lot more nefarious.
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/17/2011 9:07 Comments ||
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Mines are easy to place covertly, anonymous and quite capable of destroying a ship. Just sayin...
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar ||
02/17/2011 10:13 Comments ||
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Submarines will work nicely too, in a pinch.
Posted by: Mike ||
02/17/2011 10:36 Comments ||
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I don't see a weakness in the U.S. Navy but a weakness in the present administration.
4:46 PM Iran denies it canceled request to cross Suez. Says transit plan is still on.
UPDATE: Iran cancels request for Naval ships to cross Suez.
No explanation given for the cancellation.
The big talk in Israel (besides the incredible 7.8% growth of Israels GDP last quarter) are the Iranian warships coming down the Suez Canal and traveling to Syria to spend a year docked in their port.
Theyre not really very impressive warships from what I hear (a supply ship and a converted frigate).
But attacking Israel with them is hardly the point.
Theyre not even trying to demonstrate a quid pro quo after Israel sent a submarine (allegedly nuclear armed) through the Suez and towards Iranian waters last year.
Perhaps at best they have a secondary mission of getting some arms to the Palestinian (Hamas) terrorists in Gaza.
And I guess one could reasonably worry theyve got a dirty bomb on board.
But, I think its about something else entirely.
A few days ago these same Iranian ships docked in Saudi Arabia. Now they are on their way to Syria (and Lebanon).
This isnt an Iranian show of Power how strong their fleet is.
This is an Iranian show of Influence.
This is about how long their tentacles are growing, how influential their country is becoming, and what countries the US might soon be losing.
This flotilla is a message to the US that Iran views itself as a waxing global superpower untouchable by waning US influence.
Iran will have nuclear weapons, satellites, ICBMs, naval fleets, and military industries. It doesnt matter if they are all third rate now (and likely to blow up at any point). Their point is that they are on the rise and the US cant do anything about that.
In terms of global perceptions, Saudi Arabia is more likely to align now with Iran in the long term despite the comments on Wikileaks because Irans sphere of influence is growing and replacing Americas wishy-washy, unreliable alliance.
There are other messages in these ships, not all to Israel or the US either. Because thats what these ships are about, not an attack, just a warning shot over the bow.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
02/17/2011 11:17 Comments ||
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It doesn't matter if they are all third rate now (and likely to blow up at any point).
Or even, according to some analysts, vapourware. Because vapour is something a great many people in that part of the world believe in more firmly than hardware and software.
Agreed, Alaska Paul. Muqata raises an important point.
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