#5
Behold the sins of our fathers revisited. The unintended consequences of cheap labor, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. The demographic formula is well proven. We continue to embrace cultural suicide on our southern border. The pace of decline appears to be accelerating.
#7
For this critique to be sound the author is forced to mass credit to that of a leader. To be clear, President Obama is a sap, a stooge, and a patsy. Obama has no discernable convictions much less the passion and determination to carry them through. In marketing terms hes the message not the product. In a sense he is the slogan Hope and Change and all that rot. To attribute strategies and vision to a man with demonstrable symptoms of clinical narcissism is beyond naďve. Obama simply advances an amalgamation of policies that has festered for decades in the realm of progressive international statists. Current events mirror our history replete with failures as a result of such ideologies. By definition he is hardly a leader. One might say Mr. Obamas title is now best that of an international community organizer.
#10
#5 you forgot the over-zealous or manic protection + empowerment of the Soon-to-be-Global US Welfare-Nanny State + Marxism-based National, Global Socialism to the point of existentially risking the national security of the US + Western World.
* GROONG > [ICH = Global Research] THE DESTRUCTION + FRAGMENTTAION OF IRAQ: TOWARD THE CREATION OF A US-SPONSORED [Nuclear?]ISLAMIST CALIPHATE.
* GLOBAL TIMES > VIEWPOINT: US UNDER OBAMA RELUCTANT TO STOP MAKING MESSES ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AMERICA'S TRUE GOAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST - CHAOS.
[Hoover Institute] The many apparent turns, nuances, and shifts in the administration's Syria policy-for instance, repeated promises of enhanced military aid to the rebels, the red line drawn over Assad's use of chemical weapons, the threat to strike regime targets after Assad used his unconventional arsenal, and the decision not to-were parts of a messaging campaign intended to further protect Obama's steel-like determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict no matter what.
Regardless of what one may think of his policy, the fact that Obama deflected every argument, entreaty, enticement, and forecast of impending doom to preserve that policy cannot fail to impress. However, history offers conflicting evidence as to whether single-mindedness and obstinacy are necessarily desirable character traits in a man whose job also requires flexibility, the willingness to listen to seasoned advisers, and the ability to change course-in short, the practical talent of democratic politics.
He owns his decisions on the Syrian conflict so singly and so starkly that perhaps the judgment on his policy can only be equally absolute: either he was right and kept the United States clear of a prolonged conflict in Syria and built the foundations of a new Middle East; or he was wrong and in ruining Washington's decades-long position in the region ushered in an era of instability whose ripples will reach far past the Persian Gulf littoral and affect all the world. Great. Just great.
[DAWN] TWO important speeches yesterday came perhaps a day later than they ideally should have, but the remarks of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and army chief Gen Raheel Sharif ought to be examined closely for what was said as well as what was left out. To begin with, there does seem to be some kind of minimal consensus at last between the civilian and military leadership on how to tackle the threat of militancy. As Prime Minister Sharif himself admitted in parliament, months of trying to secure peace through dialogue have come to naught while Pakistain continued to bleed and hurt because of myrmidon violence. Similarly, the army chief reinforced earlier comments by the military's public relations wing that the North Wazoo operation is a broad-based one and not limited in nature and scope against only a subset of myrmidons. Taken together, the civilian and military leadership's comments suggest a turning point in the fight against militancy -- at least as far as state policy is concerned.
Yet, as ever, the country's leadership has been unnecessarily parsimonious in sharing real-time information and fleshing out rhetorical claims. For example, while the public should not realistically expect information on battlefield plans and actions, details on casualties, civilian and military, are a public right. Similarly, what of the hundreds of thousands of civilians believed to be in North Waziristan? Will they be left to fend for themselves or is there a plan to ease the suffering of the new IDPs? Even more fundamentally, perhaps details on who the hard boyz are, the names and identities of the various groups in North Waziristan and an explicit statement that the named and identified groups are to be targeted would go a long way in putting to rest much of the speculation about whether the country's security-policy architects have finally abandoned good/bad myrmidon distinctions.
Ultimately though, a coherent policy against militancy comes down to two factors: the army-led security establishment abandoning policies of old and the country's civilian leadership rallying the nation and political class together to hold firm against the myrmidon threat, even if it means intense short-term blowback. For now, perhaps the state is showing the unity that the country has long needed to see. But will the political unity -- even Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... has accepted the operation in North Waziristan -- hold firm in the weeks and months ahead when the natural ebb and flow of the fight against militancy causes second-guessing and doubts to be sown? As for the military, with one of the army's long-standing allies, the Haqqani network, firmly ensconced in North Waziristan, will the operation really be the all-out assault or will deals be cut on the side that will leave North Waziristan festering for years, much like parts of South Waziristan has since the major ground operation there at the start of the decade?
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[DAWN] THIS year so far, Pakistain has recorded 82 cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... . Of these, 64 cases emanate from Fata with 53 reported from North Wazoo alone. An overwhelming number of cases come from children under two years, implying they never received a single dose of the vaccine due to the Taliban ban in effect since July 2012. Fata alone accounts for more than 60pc of worldwide polio cases this year.
As of June 1, travellers from Pakistain must produce government-issued polio vaccination certificates. Far from implementing the decision, the federal and provincial governments have wasted time deciding who the responsibility falls on. The polio drops are free and must be obtained from a government hospital, with a certificate issued by a health official.
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The United States has misunderstood everyone in the world outside its borders and mismanaged everything. It has done so with a bipartisan consensus so broad and deep that it has no opposition except simple-minded isolationism. America gets unwanted results most recently in Iraq - because it wants the wrong things in the first place. And there seems to be no way to persuade Americans otherwise. The crumbling of the Iraqi state will provide yet another pretext for mutual recriminations among political parties. The trouble is that both parties wanted the wrong thing to begin with.
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...On the left, we have the likes of Obama's so-called national security team, including human-rights dabblers like Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes. On the right we have the neoconservatives, who believe that Being Determines Consciousness (democratic institutions will make people into democrats), and Catholic natural law theory, which boils down to the assertion that unaided human reason will lead everyone to the Western idea of individual liberty and democratic governance.
...None of this will change in face of practical consequences, even the direst ones. The Republican foreign policy establishment will blame Obama for the stupidity of leaving Iraq without a modest American military force; there will be no introspection, no reflection of the errors that plagued American intervention from the outset. It isn't only that too many careers and too much political capital is at stake: Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.
#2
Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.
How can they? They're not taught real history. They have no record to go on other than what they recall in their own lifetime and what the Marxist infused academia/media tell them.
#4
FTA: "No-one could have gone to American universities and recruited the soldiers, spies and diplomats to execute a plan which preferred the slow and inevitable spread of human misery to a cataclysmic alternative."
Especially now when the domestic economy is faced with the same two miserable choices. Better to keep kicking the can down the road.
#5
Americans may not be taught real history, but the underlying problem is, they don't care about it, and would much rather pursue other interests. They are like perpetual children. 2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
I don't know how people can be taught to appreciate history. However, Cicero also said, Where there's life, there's hope.
#6
"It is a fool's errand to stabilize them [Muslim states]; the best one can do is to prevent their problems from spilling over onto us."
If only. Open borders and feel-good immigration standards don't do much for us or The U.S.
Uyghurs? Aren't they Harry Reid's bestest buddies?
I also doubt the framers could process our current predicament of importing Somali's just to have them go back and raise hell under the banner of Allen. And then come back.
#8
I'm doing my darnedest from deep in red-state Texas, writing historical fiction.
Look, what most people take away from history classes in school is outright bunk ... politically-correct, chewed-to-mush grey goo muck. What they take away from the major pop-media organs is more of the same. What I would say is to support those creators who are working outside the box - indy-published authors, self-financed move makers, amateur historians of every stripe, right down to the local reenactors.
Despair is a sin. Lie down and bleed a bit if you must, but get up and fight again. Isn't our past, our people, our history WORTH fighting for?
*steps down from soap-box*
All right, back to the polite and well-meaning civil discourse.
#9
Once upon a time america knew those in other countries were messed up. We all come from folks that risked all to flee those places. It is only recently that we doubted that opinion but i believe the middle east has restored that opinion.
#10
I was unaware the average people of any country had any effing clue about anything. Apparently that's a uniquely American trait and we should all slit our wrists in angst over it.
2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
And the average Roman in the street during Cicero's time knew little more about history than the myths and legends he heard around the family hearth.
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[Ynet] If kidnapped teens are located in West Bank, government will probably decide in favor of military operation to release them.
It's not easy writing about the three missing teens, as very little is known right now, and it's possible that the circumstances will change by the time this article is published. Nonetheless, there are three insights which should probably be mentioned right now.
The first is actions taken against abductions. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon noted that in the past 18 months there had been 44 kidnapping attempts, and those are only the attempts the army knows about. The fact that all the attempts to kidnap soldiers failed means that the IDF was very efficient in its mission to prevent soldiers' abductions and succeeded in teaching them not to hitchhike.
In light of this success, the lightheadedness of many citizens living in Judea and Samaria is difficult to comprehend. The three teens who were probably kidnapped left their yeshiva in order to hitchhike in the middle of the night. What are this educational institution's instructions about hitchhiking in general and at night in particular?
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[Ynet] As the IDF scours the West Bank for missing teens, Jerusalem worries that extremism has found a partner in Paleostinian unity.
Dear Palestinians,
You blew it. You kept refusing to close the deal, hoping the world would force us into an agreement that was unsurvivable, and now it's too late. The world is much, much too busy facing real problems of their own, and no longer have any attention or money for you.
And we have more urgent concerns.
So stew in your own juices, guys. Because we simply do not care.
Most sincerely,
Israel
In Israel, the general consensus is that Thursday's kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron was carried out by local Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives and that these operatives had no connection to the leaders of Hamas in Gazoo. It appears as though investigations are already in very advanced stages although there is no certainty among Israel's leaders of the outcome.
In any case, the security apparatus assumes that the boys are alive and is acting accordingly. This assumption also has clear implications in the field of military operations - for example, searches and arrests are carried out with the teens' safety in mind preventing certain actions that could be taken if the end goal was only to catch the perpetrators.
It's presumed that the kidnappers and those who worked with them are afraid that the IDF and Shin Bet are closing in on them, getting closing every moment, and therefore they are doing their based to hide beneath the radar.
This could be the reason that the perpetrators aren't going public with any demands, a move that would be expected in the case that the kidnap was successful and the teens were still alive. Meanwhile security officials suspect that the kidnappers are still holding the captured teens in Judea and Samaria.
While searches and arrests continue based on intelligence information, a "counterterrorism" operation is being executed against Hamas' civilian foundation in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A security bigshot explained that these actions are carried out in the presence of a rising wave of murderous Moslem Islam in Syria and Iraq.
The rapid spread of forces in Iraq that originated in unity with al-Qaeda leads to the great fear in Israel that global jihad will find its way into the territories of Judea and Samaria. Some senior politicians can be heard suggesting that the abduction and the events in Iraq prove that the security arrangements that the Americans insisted upon in peace talks with the Paleostinians, especially those connected to the IDF's presence in the Jordan Valley, won't be enough to ensure security.
The abduction of Israeli teenagers is testament that similar developments could progress in the West Bank as a result of actions from the murderous Moslem Islamists, especially now that a reconciliation agreement has been reached between Fatah and Hamas, now controlling territories in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem.
The action against Hamas' civilian base serves a few purposes. These include applying pressure to give up intelligence information and to punish Hamas for their support and performance of kidnapping. The arrests of senior politicians linked to Hamas are intended to give Israel a sustainable bargaining position if they are forced to negotiate for the teens' release.
Finally, government officials in Jerusalem openly admit that the abduction provides a rich opportunity to de-legitimize the Paleostinian reconciliation deal on the international stage.
#4
Yet when man and woman on the street interviews were conducted most people could not cite one thing that she had accomplished as eye candy for WJC (forgive the snarkiness), as Senator, or as Secretary of State.
#10
This is the face of the Evil, despotic, communist, childish democrat party.
This Woman, this carpetbagger, who few want to associate with, who has done nothing in her life, who really has no merit... has become the new cult of personality de jour for the whores of marxism.
It is UN-believeable they cannot find real leaders.
#13
Would you fly in a plane piloted by the wife of a real pilot? Or undergo brain surgery by the wife of a neurosurgeon? Just because you live with someone doesn't mean you understand what they do.
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#13 Would you fly in a plane piloted by the wife of a real pilot? Or undergo brain surgery by the wife of a neurosurgeon?
If a surgeon's wife ran the infirmary;
If she got there by murther and perjury;
If she splashed around ether
And grief for her fief... her
Hub just might let her do surgery!
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[Hoover Institute] The many apparent turns, nuances, and shifts in the administration's Syria policy-for instance, repeated promises of enhanced military aid to the rebels, the red line drawn over Assad's use of chemical weapons, the threat to strike regime targets after Assad used his unconventional arsenal, and the decision not to-were parts of a messaging campaign intended to further protect Obama's steel-like determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict no matter what. 
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