Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category

They’re Coming to America

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Those Taliban folks, frequently called the “life of the party,” are at it again. In Pakistan.

Beitullah Mehsud, an Islamist leader from the South Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, called several international news agencies in Pakistan to assert responsibility for the armed occupation of the police training compound that ended with 11 people dead.

He also told reporters that he was planning to attack targets in the U.S. capital in retaliation for more than 30 strikes by unmanned U.S. drones that have targeted suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuaries in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.

Hilarity! They can’t even take over a mailbox or whatever in the wild-west (Pakistan) but they think they can explode our own Washington DC? They will need to muster three hundredfold more oxen than were used at Lahore to accomplish this feat. I doubt very much that they can drum up such an army!

Reconsidering Pakistan after the Academy Assault

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Now that Obama has decided to pump 1.5 billion a year into Pakistan without preconditions, I think it might be a good time to examine where this money will be going. You know, aside from “down the crapper.” This is obviously hush money to be given to the Pakistanis to get them out of the way so we can do their job for them. The job we were already doing.

According to a New York Times report last week, the United States was considering expanding its covert war in Pakistan. A Pakistani spokesman said the government hoped Washington would re-think the missile strikes.Reuters

A few days after the Pakistani government beseeched Obama to leave them be Obama announced his new “Afpak” policy. We will be forking cash into Pakistan by the billions for the illustrious right to kill their terrorists. This is like a waiter tipping the diners.

There is no alternative - we must secure the pipelines into Afghanistan that only Pakistan can afford, since Iran can’t be moved despite all the squirming done by this administration. The Taliban has been permeating through the border with Afghanistan, like roaches narrowly avoiding the falling boot. They’ve taken to bombing routes along the main road in Afghanistan to deter the Pakistanis for standing up for what is right.

Furthermore the Pakistani government can’t even be trusted.

The United States has indications that elements of Pakistan’s ISI military intelligence agency provide support to Taliban or al Qaeda militants, senior U.S. military officers said on Friday.Reuters

These billions we’re going to be shoveling into Pakistan could potentially be used to pay the very people we’re trying to stop. The Obama administration’s habit of investing in institutions with dreadful management records is disquieting. We’re burning through budget we don’t have at this time, for no reason. We can destroy the Taliban without injecting capital into Pakistan. Even President Zardari is “totally cool” with his country falling to pieces, because it can only bring more investment from Obama. I guess to prevent his nation from becoming the terrorist hotbed it already is?

Finally there is Swat valley, which has become the greatest disaster in Pakistan, with the Taliban running a fully sanctioned Sharia government.

Pakistani authorities have released 12 Taliban militants in a bid to consolidate a pact struck last month with Islamists in the troubled northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official said Sunday.

They agreed to enforce Islamic sharia law in the region in the hope that Mohammad would be able to rein in the militants.Reuters

Billions upon billions of our money swarming into this country and they must fall back upon appeasement. This is the behavior Obama is reinforcing, sanctioning even, with his new Afpak plan. This is irresponsible and foolish. These people deserve to be liberated and Obama is paying to have them held for ransom.

This is superflous spending. It is a charade of power and we must see through it. It is not charity but blood money being paid so that Obama might do as he wishes in the country, though in reality it will only supply our enemies.

Meanwhile…

We Donated Money to Iran to Build the Bomb

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Oh God, this is terrible.

Four countries designated by the U.S. as terrorism sponsors, including Iran and Syria, received $55 million from a U.S.-supported program promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, according to a report by Congress’s investigative arm.

Iran received more than $15 million from 1997 to 2007 under the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Technical Cooperation program, according to the Government Accountability Office report set to be released Tuesday. An additional $14 million went to Syria, while Sudan and Cuba received more than $11 million each, it said.

The U.S. is the largest funder of the United Nations body’s program and provided $20 million in 2007, or about a quarter of the budget, the report said.

The War on Terror Is Dead

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Just as I said, the Global War on Terror is over.

The phrase “global war on terror” is finished, at least as far as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is concerned.

The top U.S. diplomat told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration has quit using that line to describe the effort to fight terrorism around the world.

Interesting Comparison by Schlussel

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Debbie Schlussel has an interesting look into that unseemly event with the Palestinian youth violin group playing for Holocaust survivors and how the media covered the group’s dismantling.

Full article here.

Reuters quoted Palestinian authorities as saying that acknowledging the Holocaust existed was against their goals, AP’s coverage–by two Muslim reporters–was softened from that statement.

If Obama Isn’t a Muslim He Might As Well Be

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Revelation: I’m not entirely trusting of public officials, especially the messianic Obama. It follows that I am less than stupefied with the current events within his administration. Which events are these? I’ll reveal some dots and whether or not you see them connected, as I do, will be left to your own discretion.

Obama is closing Gitmo - officially old news. What awaits a clarifying (and in all likelihood, terrifying) development is the process by which these imprisoned terrorists will be released and where they will ultimately go. In this vein I present some enlightening remarks from Dennis Blair, our Director of National Intelligence.

Blair said the former prisoners would have get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.

“We can’t put them out on the street,” he said.

While I would agree that we simply cannot release terrorists onto main street, I doubt this is what the man is saying. He is arguing that our tax dollars should now be spent supporting extremists that were actively engaged in activities to bring down our way of life or halt that freedom from coming to others. Before, at least, our money was going to locking up these men to keep them away from us but now what can be said? Such a reversal in policy is tantamount to a betrayal of the public trust. We didn’t capture them in an effort to assimilate them into our greater community. These folks will refuse our freedom wholesale and plant seeds of hate. For some ungodly reason these liberal madhatters can’t recognize the danger.

Blair said this during a “media roundtable” on Mexico and our immigration policies. While I think this remark is both telling and frightening enough in the context of Gitmo, allow me to expand the horizon a bit with a Mexican segue. Hezbollah is permeating through our border with Mexico.

Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.

As we all know, Hezbollah is Shi’a and, according to Obama, the only Muslims that wish “death to America” are the Sunni al-Qaeda and they’re primarily focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wait… “Death to America?” Where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah, Iran and the "Marg bar Amrika"

Oh yeah, Iran and the "Marg bar Amrika"

You can’t avoid Iran when discussing the global struggle with terrorism and Islamic extremism. Obama is attempting feverishly to extend a hand to Iran but I suspect he will find it cut off. Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, has explicitly stated that he wants nothing to do with the US until our policies change. Policies change? I’d say the President of the United States drooling like a fool in front of your entire nation to commemorate a pagan holiday is a “progressive” change in policy.

Now, Hezbollah, which is funded by Iran, focuses on “wiping Israel off the map.” In Obama’s entire speech yesterday morning concerning the direction of the Global War on Terror (which is being renamed so that Obama’s impending cancellation can’t be labeled defeat or failure) he avoids mentioning both Israel and Hezbollah entirely. He is leaving our ally high and dry. It is incredibly rude or at best absent-minded to not mention Israel, which recently engaged in an all-out offensive with the terrorist enemy, Hamas. How can Obama simultaneously abandon them and betray our trust again?

The worst comes last. Obama seems to desire to contribute a delicious helping of injury to the aforementioned insults as he hurdles this smacker our way.

In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation’s most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.

Apparently the Obama administration has run out of the standard qualified candidates for their high-level positions and must now look to an incredibly small minority in our country, Muslims. More concerning is the laughable statement that the candidates have been “carefully vetted.” This hopefully means they’ve all been paying their taxes but I’m betting the administration could easily miss something else, like a history of Islamofascism. Recently it’s become apparent that seemingly even-keeled Muslims are susceptible to the violent leanings within their religion.

Here we can surmise Obama’s actions as disturbing. What is he planning? Is this really an administration trying to be more inclusive for inclusion’s sake, as he would like us to believe about these Muslim candidates for administration jobs? It is something deeper than that, an all-out assault on traditional American institutions by replacing the foundation of this country which has stood since the forging of the Constitution.

Or perhaps Obama is so utterly spineless that in attempts to appear understanding to the Muslim world he only comes across as weak.