Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A Few Foreign Policy Questions for Tonight's Republican Presidential Debate in New Hampshire
Monday, October 10, 2011
Intelligence Update on Balkan Islamism
'Moderate' Islamists Poised to Take Over Tunisia
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
A few foreign policy questions that should--but won't--be asked of anyone running for the highest office in the land, including the current crop of Republican hopefuls and President Obama:
Why didn't the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the long and costly Cold War result in a new era of Russian-American friendship and cooperation--and a peace dividend for the American people?
Why was NATO expanded instead of disbanded after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Communist threat?
After 9/11, why, in your opinion, was the United States unable or unwilling to forge a strong anti-Islamist alliance with Russia and China? Islamist terrorists and separatists threaten Russia and China, too. Logically speaking, wasn't this an opportunity to recreate the old World War II alliance in order to defeat a new common enemy--radical Islam?
Looking back on decades of U.S. covert and overt support for rightwing political Islam, also known as radical Islam, or Islamism, and overlapping forms of organized and state Islam, including the secret intervention in Afghanistan before and during the Afghan-Soviet War, would you agree, in light of 9/11 and the global jihad that the American policy helped unleash, that it was a terrible mistake--that the United States should never have tried to manipulate and exploit rightwing political Islam in the first place?
What do you say to those who argue that the policy of trying to manipulate rightwing political Islam continues, that the Obama administration has narrowed the definition of the Islamist enemy to Al Qaeda alone while trying to appease and align with practically every other Islamist group or entity, including Iran and the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood?
For three decades Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak was a friend and ally of the United States. He preserved Egypt's peace treaty with Israel; and he helped the U.S. fight Al Qaeda. Notwithstanding this relationship, and its importance to U.S. national security and to the security and well being of Israel, the Obama administration undermined Mubarak by reaching out to his Islamist enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, which had spawned Al Qaeda and the Islamist terrorist group that assassinated Mubarak's pro-American, peace-making predecessor, President Anwar Sadat; and soon after the demonstrations against Mubarak began, the Obama administration actually turned against him. Overnight, a key American ally was betrayed and abandoned, depicted as one of the world's worst dictators. He and his sons have ended up in jail and on trial for their lives, like caged animals, while Egypt has disintegrated into chaos. The Christian minority there is under assault, and the Muslim Brotherhood appears poised to take power. My question is this: does all this remind you of what happened in Iran during the Carter administration, and if your answer is yes, how could the U.S. make the same mistake twice?
After 9/11, why wasn't the United States able to destroy Al Qaeda and the Taliban while they were still based and concentrated in Afghanistan, which was then ruled by the Taliban? Did the U.S. lack the weapons or the political will to destroy--instead of to merely defeat and dislodge--the enemy that had slaughtered 3,000 Americans in the worst attacks on the United States in its history?
Would you agree that the Obama administration's policy of trying to engage (appease and align with) Iran was a failure, that the Islamist regime in Iran is closer than ever to becoming a nuclear weapons state?
Is there still time to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state? If so, how--what should the United States do to stop the Iranian nuclear threat?
Are you concerned about the possibility of an EMP attack on the United States, a threat against which the country seems to have no defense, especially if the attack were to come from one of thousands of cargo ships that regularly approach the U.S. coastline? If your answer is yes, could you please explain to the American people why you are concerned about the threat of an EMP attack and what you intend to do about it if you are elected [or re-elected if the question is directed at President Obama] President?
Balkan Islamic extremism, although it is considered as a taboo theme by most of the mainstream media, is still an issue debated in high-level and sensitive discussions between policy makers across the world, due to importance of the region as a historical fault line between the West and the East, in parallel with the ongoing interstate competitions that are cantered around South-eastern Europe.
In a leaked cable of the U.S State Dept, dated back in 2005, the then Ambassador of the States in Bulgaria, John Beyerle noted that "Foreign international organizations and institutions praise Islamic extremism in Bulgaria...the official Islamic charities depend financially on them...Muslim Bulgarian women in Southern Bulgaria are imitating Arabic looks". The cable was classified as secret and events that have happened over the past few years have testified the existence of the aforementioned findings.
According to information by various international security services, in the Balkans and in Bulgaria in particular, quite a few Islamic extremist groups are functioning and a number of Arabic descent Bulgarians are assisting organizations such as Hezbollah in financial terms by diverting a part of the profits they make through trafficking, car theft and narcotics trade.
Moreover, Chechen Islamic extremists operate in Bulgaria and deal drugs sending capital to their brethren in the Caucasus. The Kurdish KGK is also active in Bulgaria and Iranian diplomats have been noted taking part into radicalizing segments of the Pomak minority in the South of the country which is primarily Muslim.
In Kosovo, a recent established political-social movement named "Bashkohu", which means "participation", strives for the acceptance of the hijab in local schools and it includes amongst its circle groups of devout Muslims that want to openly declare the region as a "Muslim territory" and away from European norms and canons. Although the movement was not able yet to acquire the necessary clout to implement its ideas, the overall activity of certain Muslim circles -that has been extensively researched in previous articles and reports- is still gathering pace and it is estimated that as soon as NATO and international forces exit the Province; then it will manifest in an explicit form.
Read more here.
As predicted, Islamists are poised to take power in Tunisia. Click here for the story. Of course, the bearded men will make every effort to present themselves as so-called moderates--compared to the monsters running Iran, say. But that will change; in due course, Tunisia's clerical fascists will drop their masks.
The Idiots of Appeasement have paved the way for barbaric Islamic law in Tunisia.
The Obama administration is presiding over--assisting and cheering on--the Islamization of the Middle East.
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