How Canada Has Eclipsed America In the Obama Years
With the first Gulf War and the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1990 and 1991, the United States arrived at the undisputed summit of the world, with dissident students in Prague and even Moscow uplifting themselves by reading aloud the works of Lincoln and Jefferson, and with the surge of prestige that accrued to the United States as its only remaining rival crumbled.
But the United States has fumbled away its gentle overlordship of the world these last 15 years. Huge current account deficits and colossal federal budget deficits arose, and while the United Sates is generally successful in real wars, its habit of calling policy attacks on sociological problems “wars” has led to the conspicuous failures of the wars on crime, poverty and drugs.
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Obama and Hillary Continue to Humiliate America
Laura: President Barack Hussein Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton double down on their groveling by appearing in a commercial on Pakistani TV issueing further apologies for the murder of Americans by muslims.
What they should have done was to reassert American ideals and defend America’s constitutional right to free speech. The message they should have sent to the muslim world was that their attempts to use violent intimidation to get us to relinquish our free speech rights are futile.
Instead of groveling and apologizing for America’s freedom, Obama and Hillary should have told Pakistan to respect the human rights of women and the tiny number of Christians and Hindus still remaining in the country after most were driven out. They should have told Pakistan to release the 14 year old Christian girl with down’s syndrome who was arrested for blasphemy and in any case was framed. Instead of apologizing for America’s freedoms, they should be telling Pakistan to rid
itself of the brutal, cruel and horrific sharia law.
itself of the brutal, cruel and horrific sharia law.
To do all this would require real leadership and love and reverence for Americanism and the belief in American exceptionalism, qualities lacking in this internationalist, post-American presidency.
Gingrich Calls for Complete Change in Middle East Policy
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is calling for an immediate change in U.S. policy toward the Middle East, including a stronger commitment to Israel’s security, a complete cut off of aid to Egypt, a reassessment of strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new energy policy “that decisively liberates us” from relying on the region.
“I think we should have a total reassessment of our entire strategy for the region,” Gingrich said Thursday in response to the administration’s late acknowledgement that the attacks on the Libyan consulate that left four Americans dead was an act of terrorism.
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UN hosts conference on Jewish refugees
WASHINGTON – A first-of-its-kind event focusing on Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries was launched Friday at the United Nations headquarters in New York, despite strong Arab pressure.
After an Arab demand to call off the event was rejected, the Arab League asked the UN Secretariat for permission to hand out press releases at the entrance to the Israeli event , but that request was turned down as well.
The Palestinian UN observer emailed reporters covering the organization on Thursday night, and attached an article published by senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi on the Huffington Post, in which she accuses Israel of cynically using the term “refugee”.
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30,000 attend Prophet protest in Umm al-Fahm, Israel
This enormous turnout of Arab Israelis shows the power of Islam even in Israel. At least they weren’t violent. Ted Belman
Some 30,000 people attended a Northern Islamic Movement rally held in Umm al-Fahm, in northern Israel, in protest of the film mocking Prophet Mohammed.
The film, titled “Innocence of Muslin,” has sparked Muslim riots worldwide. The violence has so far claimed the lives of over 30 people, including US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other American diplomats.
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The humanitarian approach: Responding to readers – Part I
Into The Fray: Not economic cost, but lack of political will in Israel and perceived legitimacy abroad prevent implementing the humanitarian solution.
- Abu Mazen set off another bomb. In a television interview, he requested that the Arab states grant citizenship certificates to the Palestinians living within their borders. – Haaretz, August 21, 2005
- MK Yossi Beilin called on European countries to declare how many Palestinian refugees and their descendants they would be willing to absorb as part of any future peace agreement. – The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2008
Over the past few weeks, I have presented the reasoning for, and the operational elements of, an alternative humanitarian paradigm to replace the two-state solution (TSS), and to forestall what has been erroneously presented as its default option, the one-state-of-all-its-citizens solution (OSS).
The discussion hitherto
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Obamao’s dangerous consistency
By Caroline Glick
On Tuesday, Egypt’s chief prosecutor issued arrest warrants against eight US citizens.
Their purported crimes relate either to their reported involvement in the production of the Internet movie critical of Islam that has received so much attention over the past 10 days, or to other alleged anti-Islamic activities.
One of the US citizens indicted is a woman who converted from Islam to Christianity.
According to the Associated Press, Egypt’s general prosecution issued a statement announcing that the eight US citizens have been indicted on charges of insulting and publicly attacking Islam, spreading false information, and harming Egyptian national unity.
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Ted Belman
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