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Just another day at the office for the empty suit hiding under his desk in the oval office.
The "unanticipated costs" may be a significant terrorist attack on the US or a US presence overseas. The roar then run image that the Democrats put into place under Clinton is alive and well under the empty suit. Obviously, before any coherent definitive security program against the islamonuts has to include a thorough house cleaning of the liberal weenies put into the State Department under Clinton, that George should have weeded out. And it also needs to include a thorough housecleaning of the liberal moles and professional leaks that inhabit Langley.
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What the author said was all well and good, but the US electorate will not tolerate / endure nation-building in Turd World Sharia nations.
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The Taliban need to understand that there just may be a "new guy" in the White House in two years, and that "new guy" may decide Afghanistan is a waste of time and resources, plus a danger to one and all. That "new guy", who may very well be a woman, may decide the only solution to the problem is to pull all Americans out of the entire area, and nuke it from orbit until a third of Central Asia glows at night. I could support that.
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Or, the new guy might decide to withdraw it all and nuke everything until it glows. Ya never know...
Republican governors and their records will be a major asset to the GOP in 2012. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's monumental achievement this week in passing a bill to reform his state's public-employee benefits is a prime example. As Gov. Christie said Friday, underfunded pension and health-care obligations are "the core problems of government spending in the country."
This is the kind of leadership Americans want right now: straight talk about the fiscal mess we're in and a plan to solve it. The good news is Gov. Christie is not alone among Republican governors. Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan examples at the link.
Look no further than growing and diverse Texas, a state Democrats targeted in 2010, where data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that under Gov. Rick Perry's leadership the state has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined. That's a record of job creation the Obama administration can only dream about. Putting illegal aliens to work?
Next year President Obama will have to campaign on his record--trillion-dollar deficits, skyrocketing debt and massive tax increases that have failed to adequately rein in unemployment. Meanwhile, Republican governors will have delivered balanced budgets without raising taxes and the entitlement reforms they made will have actually saved jobs. That's assuming the Pubs can count better then the Donks. Meanwhile, Dem governors are not seeking re-election, with poll ratings in the 30s.
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PresidentObama will have to campaign on his record--trillion-dollar deficits, skyrocketing debt and massive tax increases These important issues matter NOTHING to 0's core supporters and to the MSM.
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Whether or not the Pubs can count better than the Donks, so many in the electorate don't grasp simple arithmetic - spending what you don't have must eventually stop.
He built Pakistan's nuclear bomb and is accused of having sold his knowledge to Libya and Iran. Since 2004, Abdul Qadeer Khan has been under a state of house arrest. In an e-mail interview, he now explains why he accepted sole blame for the accusations at the time and points a finger at the Pakistani army
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He stole Europe's uranium enrichment centrifuge designs and the Chinese gave the Pakistani military their atomic bomb blueprints and enough HEU to make 2 bombs. That's what constitutes fatherhood Islamatopia.
On June 10, the All Pakistan Students Khatm-e-Nubuwat (End of Prophethood) Federation distributed pamphlets branding members of the Ahmadiyya community as "wajib-ul-qatl" (obligatory to be killed). The pamphlet, circulated in Faisalabad District of Punjab Province, said, "To shoot such people is an act of jihad and to kill such people is an act of sawab (blessing)."
On June 13, reports revealed that terrorists were chalking out a plan to attack prominent members of the Ahmadi community, starting from Faisalabad. Sources also revealed that different terrorist groups have united for this mission and had initiated the campaign with the distribution of pamphlets and organization of meetings in local seminaries against the Ahmadis, claiming that the Ahmadi citizens of the country were involved in conspiracies against Islam and Pakistan.
Unfortunately, there is little that is new here.
The Ahmaddis have been targetted as heretics since the sect formed in 1889, but things have gotten much worse since Pakistan's parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1974 declaring Ahmadis "not Muslim" -- much worse than mere heretics or apostates. This kind of thing is par for the course wherever Ahmadis are found throughout Dar al Islam; the one place where they can safely call themselves Muslim is in the United States.
If IDF predictions are right, then this flotilla will be a watered-down version of last year's attempt to break the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, senior IDF commanders from throughout the military, led by Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, convened at the Central Command's Lachish training base near Kiryat Gat. As reported in The Jerusalem Post last week, the officers were there for a seminar aimed at preparing them for the expected demonstrations that will break out in the West Bank and along Israel's borders following the Palestinians' expected unilateral declaration of statehood in September.
On the other side of the country, in the North, commandos from the Navy's Flotilla 13 -- better known as the Shayetet -- were making final preparations to stop a flotilla of ships planning to sail to the Gaza Strip and break Israel's sea blockade over the Hamas-controlled territory this week.
This is the IDF in the middle of 2011. Yes, Iran is still a threat and Hezbollah is stockpiling missiles, but this summer the focus is on stopping flotillas and learning how to prevent socalled "peaceful" marches from getting out of control.
If IDF predictions are right, then this flotilla will be a watered-down version of last year's attempt to break the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip.
First, Turkey's IHH organization -- presumed to be the more radical player and which was behind the Mavi Marmara -- has pulled out of the flotilla, while citing more pressing humanitarian concerns, like Syria. Instead of the 15 ships it had planned, it now appears that the flotilla will include 10 at the most.
On the other hand, there will be IHH members in the ships, however unofficially.
.Second, the IDF is better prepared this time around.
Navy commandos have developed new techniques on how to fast-rope down onto the ships' upper decks quickly. They also have new equipment such as water cannons, attack dogs from Oketz and riot-control specialists from the Prisons Service's elite Masada Unit.
The other major challenge is the way Israel will handle the media side of the flotilla.
It seems the government has yet to formulate a clear strategy or policy. On Sunday, the head of the Government Press Office announced that Israel would confiscate the equipment of journalists who join the flotilla and then ban them from the country for up to 10 years. But on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu overturned that decision. If Netanyahu changed the policy so quickly, why did the GPO make such an announcement to begin with? One can only hope that the government's remaining involvement in stopping the flotilla will be clearer and more effective.
In the meantime, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak appear to be more concerned with the State Comptroller's report on last year's flotilla due to be published in the coming months. According to various media reports, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss plans to criticize the government -- and specifically Netanyahu and Barak -- for failing to properly prepare for the flotilla by convening the cabinet, debating the issue and agreeing on strategy. The cabinet meetings held Sunday night and Monday morning were likely (at least partially) aimed at showing that this time around the government is more involved, and on top of things.
In the coming days, the flotilla operation will probably come to an end -- hopefully, this time without casualties on either side.
September, however, continues to loom on the horizon -- and without any diplomatic breakthrough, the flotilla at sea will soon be replaced by mass marches on the ground.
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These "flotillas" are an act of war. Sink the ships, round up the refugees in the water, and throw them in prison "for the duration" - as long as Arabs attack Israel (I.E., forever).
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On June 10, the All Pakistan Students Khatm-e-Nubuwat (End of Prophethood) Federation distributed pamphlets branding members of the Ahmadiyya community as "wajib-ul-qatl" (obligatory to be killed). The pamphlet, circulated in Faisalabad District of Punjab Province, said, "To shoot such people is an act of jihad and to kill such people is an act of sawab (blessing)."
