“Thousands of pages of documentation of the US State Department’s dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood are in the process of being declassified and released to the public.” None of the ensuing revelations will come as any surprise to anyone except Leftists and Islamic supremacists who have for years now ridiculed the idea that the Obama […]
State Dept. ignored warnings of Iranian efforts to destabilize Iraq
The Iranians aided Shi’ite militants and Sunni al-Qaeda forces against coalition forces in Iraq. And now the Obama Administration is seriously considering aiding the Iranians against Sunni jihadists. The incoherence of Obama foreign policy is staggering. “State Dept. Ignored Warnings of Iranian Efforts to Destabilize Iraq,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, June 16, 2014: […]
Robert Spencer, PJ Media: 3 Obama Contradictions Revealed by the Debacle in Iraq
Over at PJ Media I explore the latest contradictions in the foreign policy of the post-American President: Now that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has taken Mosul and Tikrit and has set its sights on Baghdad, Barack Obama has responded with a strong statement – and in doing so, revealed the deep contradictions […]
Kerry: US open to working with Iran against Sunni jihadists in Iraq
These are, mind you, the same Sunni jihadists whose friends and allies the U.S. is arming in Syria. The incoherence of the Obama foreign policy is reaching comic proportions: it is now possible for a man to be a freedom fighter and receive American assistance in Syria, and then cross over the (bulldozed) border into […]
U.S. quietly releases 12 jihadis from U.S. military prison in Afghanistan
Just in case the five jihadis traded for Bowe Bergdahl weren’t enough, Barack Obama has released twelve more. What could possibly go wrong? Ten of them are Pakistanis, and “Pakistani officials have said that returned detainees would be kept under surveillance to make sure they had no militant links.” We all know that Pakistani authorities […]
U.S. to evacuate substantial number of personnel from Baghdad embassy
The embassy is going to remain open, however. This is, then, another equivocal half-measure from Obama. If Sunni jihadists enter Baghdad, Americans may end up wishing he had evacuated the embassy entirely. As it is, he is hedging his bets. In any case, even a partial evacuation of this massively expensive embassy, which was supposed […]
Jihadist released in Bergdahl swap had hand in pre-9/11 al-Qaeda plans, killed first U.S. soldier killed in Afghan war
Obama has said that it is contrary to American principles to keep prisoners in Guantanamo indefinitely without charge. Very well. So why wasn’t Mohammad Fazl ever charged for the murder of Mike Spann? Why was he released outright when it is extremely likely that he will rejoin the jihad in Afghanistan and try to murder […]
U.S. had ISIS leader in custody, let him go
Leftists like Barack Obama tend to believe that the world will conform to their fantasy-based analysis. They think that the jihadis in Gitmo and Camp Bucca in Iraq are just illiterate farmers caught up in a wave of “Islamophobia,” and will go back to their bucolic lives upon release. The reality of the Islamic jihad […]
“Will Hollywood move to exploit the comic potential inherent in an army that’s forced to play by liberal rules?”
In “Our Strangelove Military,” over at Aleteia, William Kilpatrick asks, “What if liberals ran the Army?” And of course they do already, which is why we are in the midst of an unfolding catastrophe. Get William Kilpatrick’s terrific new book here. Dr. Strangelove is one of the funniest films ever made. Produced in 1964 at the […]
Obama: U.S. must stop “jihadists” in Iraq and Syria, and finance and train military forces from other countries to fight them
“Jihadists”? Expect Obama to get a strongly-worded letter from CIA chief John Brennan, who said in 2010 that jihadists were not jihadists: “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic […]