Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Two Key Candidates Barred from Iran's Islamist Election
Monday, May 20, 2013
Al Qaeda Affiliate Grabbing Syrian Oil
WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?
The EU is supporting a US-backed group that is affiliated with Al Qaeda.
For Investors Only: Greece Bounces Back
But So-Called Recovery is in Doubt
The new Greek economy: springtime for investors, winter for everyone else.
Syrian Regime and Hezbollah Capture Key Town
Victory Means Arms Can Flow to Iran's Lebanese Proxy
DEBKAfile has the story and what it means. Click here to read it.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
On Benghazi and Obama's Real Foreign Policy Scandal
Regarding Benghazi, the real foreign policy scandal isn't that the administration lied about what happened, which was obvious from day one, or that security at the U.S. facilities was practically non-existent, or, even, that for all the billions of dollars spent on national defense, the Pentagon wasn't able to scramble armed units in time to save U.S. diplomats and support personnel from being slaughtered by barbaric, Third World terrorists and mobs.
All that, bad as it is, pales in comparison with the much larger scandal--namely, that the United States needlessly intervened in Libya in the first place and that the intervention resulted in destabilizing--and Islamizing--a completely contained, former secular enemy that had become an important asset in the fight against Islamism (rightwing political Islam).
In other words, the real scandal is President Obama's pro-Islamist foreign policy, that is to say, his overt alignment of the U.S. with Islamism and overlapping organized Islam under cover of diplomatically engaging (collaborating with) all Islamist regimes and groups with the exception of Al Qaeda, and, in a clear nod to Islamist ideology, an odious embrace of ("outreach to") what he insists on calling "the Muslim world."
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