Al-Qaeda is “carving out its own state” in Mali, is operating with apparent impunity in Libya, and its friends and allies the Taliban are on the offense in Afghanistan itself, as well as in Pakistan, and this clown is claiming victory. “Obama, Karzai accelerate end of U.S. combat role in Afghanistan,” by Matt Spetalnick for […]
U.S.-built buildings missing in Afghanistan
What are we fighting for at this point, anyway? The Taliban are never going to surrender. Joe Biden has said they are not the enemy, anyway. American forces have supervised the implementation of an Afghan constitution that enshrined Islamic law as the highest law of the land. Yet Islamic law is nothing like the democratic principles […]
Obama’s CIA nominee Brennan: Islam “helped to shape my own world view”
Brennan retails a benign, positive view of jihad that completely ignores the teaching of all the Islamic schools of jurisprudence, which agree that jihad, among its other meanings, involves warfare against unbelievers in order to subjugate them under the rule of Islamic law. “Islam “˜Helped to Shape” CIA Nominee John Brennan’s World View,” by Patrick […]
Pamela Geller: Uproar in Georgia over U.S. Ambassador’s Pro-Palestinian Maneuvering
The U.S. Ambassador to Georgia is contradicting official Obama Administration policy. Is he working on orders from his superiors? In “Uproar in Georgia over U.S. Ambassador’s Pro-Palestinian Maneuvering” in the American Thinker, January 9, Pamela Geller explains why the Republic of Georgia is abuzz with this question: The Republic of Georgia is in an uproar. […]
Pamela Geller: “The one-two punch of Brennan and Hagel is an insult to all free people”
Yet more evidence of the guiding principles of Obama’s consistent foreign policy. “Pro-jihadist John Brennan to head CIA?,” by Pamela Geller at WND, January 9: …The one-two punch of Brennan and Hagel is an insult to all free people. In the Senate, Hagel amassed a significant track record as one of a hardline hater of […]
Obama ends post-9/11 restrictions on Saudis entering U.S.
What could possibly go wrong? Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals. But not to worry. The Saudis have completely eradicated the beliefs and assumptions that led to those attacks, haven’t they? After all, they were motivated by a twisted and hijacked version of Islam that is nowhere found on earth today, especially […]
Peace in our time: Obama, Afghan authorities release hundreds of jihadists from prison
What could go wrong? No reason to be concerned. They’re Islamic jihadists. That means they just will be working to build friendships across the aisle. What’s that? They may try to wage violent jihad against the U.S. and other non-Muslim states again? Are you kidding? This is a gesture of good will, to which the […]
Iran licks its chops over Chuck Hagel, Obama’s anti-Israel choice for Defense Secretary
Iran’s state-controlled PressTV has this: “Obama to name anti-Israeli Hagel as Defense Secretary: Reports,” January 5 (thanks to Pamela Geller): All signs indicate that US President Barack Obama is poised to nominate anti-Israel ex-Senator Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary soon, informed sources say…. In recent days, Hagel’s top advisers have received “messages of […]
Obama senior lawyer says “military pursuit of al-Qaida” should end soon
Because, you see, they are so severely damaged that we will soon reach a “tipping point” after which military action against them will no longer be necessary, and local police can handle it. This astounding manifestation of an overconfidence of Baghdad Bob proportions, or else of a capitulation attempting to disguise itself as a victory, […]
Egyptian lawyers say Obama gave Muslim Brotherhood $1.5 billion
Surprised? “Muslim Brotherhood took “˜billions” from Obama: Egypt lawyers,” from al Arabiya, January 4 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been accused of taking 10 billion Egyptian pounds (U.S. $1.5 billion) from the American government, according to claims by Egyptian lawyers. An immediate investigation into the accusation was ordered by Prosecutor […]