On Thursday evening I made my regular weekly appearance on Michael Coren’s Sun TV show, discussing Obama’s bizarre and ridiculous plan to fight the Islamic State by toppling Bashar Assad.
Obama: Islamic State’s “actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own”
“Least of all.” So apparently it is far more likely that the beheading of Abdul-Rahman Kassig represented the Buddhist faith, or the Baptist faith, or the Jain faith, or the Methodist faith, than that it represented the Muslim faith. This is despite the fact that the man who actually beheaded Kassig stood over his severed […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 6 Failed Policies Obama Won’t Stop Pushing
In PJ Media today, I discuss entrenched false beliefs that lead to repeated foreign policy errors: Presidents come and presidents go, but the State Department’s foreign policy establishment is forever. And no matter how many times its remedies fail to heal problems (and usually cause worse ones), it keeps on applying them, without an ounce […]
Iranian negotiator: U.S. must bow to our ‘inalienable nuclear rights’
That should be no problem. Obama is good at bowing. “Iranian Negotiator: U.S. Must Bow to Our ‘Inalienable Nuclear Rights,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 12, 2014: Iran’s foreign minister and lead negotiator in nuclear talks said this week that the United States must bow to Iran’s “inalienable nuclear rights” and hinted that […]
Obama mulls giving the Islamic State what it wants and removing Assad
The fact that this is even being considered shows that Obama doesn’t take seriously the Islamic State’s proclamations that it is a new caliphate that is going to keep on trying to expand. He thinks they’re just fighting to get Assad removed, and so if he obliges them, they will melt away. But who does […]
Pakistan Christian leader asks Obama to condition US aid on blasphemy law repeal
Obama should have gotten this idea on his own. It should have been done long ago. Indeed, I have long recommended that there be no U.S. aid for any country that oppresses women and non-Muslims, denies the freedom of speech and the freedom of conscience, etc. But even now, Obama will pay no attention to […]
Chairman of Joint Chiefs praises Israel, Obama State Dept contradicts him
General Martin Dempsey pointed out that Israel had gone to “extraordinary lengths” to avoid civilian casualties among the “Palestinians.” Instead of agreeing with him or just letting it pass without comment, the State Department’s Jen Psaki actually contradicted Dempsey. As Pamela Geller points out, “Gen. Dempsey’s opinion echoes another authoritative opinion by British Colonel Richard […]
Romney hits Obama for “legitimizing” Iran with letter to Khamenei
Romney is right. But Obama’s presidency has been all about legitimizing the illegitimate and delegitimizing the legitimate. This letter to the Ayatollah is of a piece with his Justice Department’s close and friendly relationship with the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and shunning of counter-jihadists. “Mitt Romney hits President Obama on Iran letter,” […]
Exposed: Decade-Old Plan to Create Islamic State—and Obama Helped
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Although the birth of the Islamic state and the herald of the caliphate are often regarded as some of 2014’s “big shockers,” they were foretold in striking detail and with an accurate timeline by an al-Qaeda insider nearly one decade ago. On August 12, 2005, Spiegel Online International published an article titled […]
Former US Ambassador to Iraq: Obama Administration was warned about rise of the Islamic State, “did almost nothing”
The last thing that the Obama Administration wanted to do was acknowledge that there was another Islamic jihad group that was not al-Qaeda, but that shared the same beliefs and goals as al-Qaeda. Nor did Obama want to acknowledge that there were Islamic jihadists among the Syrian “rebels” that he was so anxious to support […]