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Saturday, March 26, 2011
OBAMA'S FORMER FRIEND DEFENDS KHADAFY
Thousands in Madrid March Against US
EGYPTIAN MILITARY, MB IN 'UNHOLY ALLIANCE'
Chavez Says Capitalism Ended Life on Mars
US RUSHING FRESH WATER TO JAPAN N-PLANT
Obamappeasement of Iran Hits New Low
ONE DEAD, 130 INJURED IN JORDAN CLASHES
SYRIAN UNREST UPDATE: PROTESTS CONTINUE, ANGER INCREASES BUT MANY SYRIANS STILL SUPPORT ASSAD
Friday, March 25, 2011
Islam Issue in French Local Elections
SAUDIS FEEL BETRAYED BY OBAMA
US-SAUDI RELATIONS SOUR BECAUSEGurkha Singlehandedly Fought 30 Taliban
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD EYES LIBYA PRIZE
Iran Accused of Attempted Cyberattack
Syria Protests Spread Across Country
SOUTH KOREA WARNS NORTH COULD ATTACK
China Increasing, US Cutting Third World Aid
Muslim Brotherhood Rising in Egypt, as Predicted
The Islamist group that spawned Al Qaeda and Hamas is a rising force in Egypt, as this report confirms.Thursday, March 24, 2011
THOUSANDS DEMAND 'FREEDOM' IN SYRIA
CHINA PRESSES FOR LIBYA CEASEFIRE
WILL BIDEN CALL FOR OBAMA'S IMPEACHMENT?
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Obama's Libyan Lunacy
Sunday, 27 March 2011
A must-read essay over here about military-Muslim Brotherhood ties in Egypt. The country, long an American ally, is well on the way to becoming an Islamist state. Think "Turkish model" ... only worse.
"The Obama administration’s idea of doing something about the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, on the verge of acquiring the world’s most devastating weapon, currently holding American hostages, and now engaged in a brutal crackdown of Iranian democracy-seekers, is to pass a U.N. resolution calling for the appointment of some individual who will 'submit a report for consideration by the Human Rights Council at its 19th session' in March 2012."
China Confidential analysts say the Saudi King believes U.S. now functionally allied with Muslim Brotherhood and Iran-backed Shiite Islamists.
DRAMATIC WARNING BY SEOUL DEFENSE CHIEF
SUPPORTS CHINA CONFIDENTIAL PREDICTIONS
PYONGYANG PLANNING NEW PROVOCATIONS
China Confidential analysts believe that the North--egged on by Iran--is also preparing a third nuclear test in addition to more missile launches.
Assistance equals influence. But "we can't give money away that we don't have." Read all about it here.
What the article does not say is that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama emboldened the Islamist group by "engaging" it before, during, and after his historic address in Cairo to "the Muslim world," which elevated organized Islam to the level of a global superpower in line with Islamist ideology. The administration views the MB as "moderate," unlike AQ and so-called irreconcilable elements of the Taliban.
In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni Islamists are deeply involved in the Syrian protests, sensing an opportunity, at long last, to overthrow the Alawi Assad dynasty. Should Assad fall--and this would be as momentous for the Middle East as the toppling of pro-U.S. Mubarak--he would most likely be replaced by an even more implacable enemy of the United States and Israel.
Westerners should bear in mind that "freedom" to many Muslims means freedom to follow Islamic law--Sharia--above all. instead of viewing the amalgamation of religion and government as the antithesis of democracy, Muslim societies tend to regard religion as a sword for limiting the powers of their rulers--especially when the rulers are seen as violating or deviating from Islamic law--and as a stabilizing influence and counterweight to disruptive alien ideologies and philosophies, including nationalism and secular democracy.
Ironically, Barack Obama, America's most left-wing-ever President, is sympathetic to the Muslim perspective on religion and politics. His Third World/Muslim heritage and upbringing and past relationships with Black Liberation Theology Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have given Obama an appreciation for the ways in which religion and politics can be combined for supposedly progressive purposes.
There is no reason to assume, for example, that Obama, even today, after all that has gone so horribly wrong in Iran, regards the (Carter-assisted) overthrow of that country's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahalavi, who was both a modernizing monarch and a staunch and strategic U.S. ally, as a bad thing. On the contrary; like the leftists who supported Iran's Islamic Revolution--before being devoured by it--Obama almost certainly sees the Shah's toppling as part of "the moral arc of the universe." Hence, Obama's determination, upon entering the White House, to engage(appease and align with) rather than replace Iran's Islamist regime, in spite of its menacing nuclear and missile programs and imperialist foreign policy (meaning a policy that aims to overthrow the status quo, or power relationships, among nations).
Samantha Power, an Irish-born academician and influential Obama advisor ... who wants to invade Israel ... clearly accepts the European Left's perfidious notion that that right-wing political Islam--a form of fascism, which is itself a socialist heresy--has a progressive side that can be harnessed and exploited in the interest of helping "a better world" to be born.
VP'S WORDS OF WARNING CREATE 'CONSTITUTIONAL FIRESTORM'
FOR PRESIDENT WHO CONSULTED UN BUT NOT US CONGRESS
BEFORE ORDERING ATTACK ON LIBYA DURING FOREIGN TRAVELS
Regarding the forgotten U.S. national interest--a concept that is despised by America-bashing leftists and ignored by many well-meaning but misguided conservatives--IBD gets it right in an editorial excerpted below:
The U.S. appears to be doing the U.N.'s bidding in Libya. But is there another goal that has less to do with Libya than with transforming America's global role?
Hudson Institute and Ethics and Public Policy scholar Stanley Kurtz on Tuesday reminded National Review Online readers that "Obama has had a longstanding interest in multilateral efforts to combat war crimes and genocide." Kurtz notes that Obama's senior director for multilateral engagement in the National Security Council, Samantha Power, has been seeking a way "to solidify the principle of 'responsibility to protect' in international law," which "requires a 'pure' case of intervention on humanitarian grounds." Libya may fit perfectly.
It would explain why Obama didn't go to Congress; as Kurtz put it, "he cannot afford to specify broader ideological motivations he knows the public won't buy."
But it also exposes this administration's hypocrisy.
Campaigning in Iowa in 2007, Vice President Joe Biden said that based on a treatise he had five leading constitutional scholars draft, if President Bush "takes this nation to war in Iran without congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him."
Islamofascist Iran, with its nuclear weapon ambitions, is a real threat to the U.S. The dangers of Gadhafi, whose nuke program was neutralized by the Bush administration, pale in comparison.
If the left's "responsibility to protect" ideology is to become official U.S. foreign policy, it should be debated openly first.
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