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The Patriot Post Digest 11-16-2015
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Daily Digest
Nov. 16, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” —James Madison, 1816
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Obama on ISIL: ‘We’ve Contained Them’1
By Mark Alexander
On Friday morning, Barack Obama peddled his failed Middle East foreign policy of appeasement2 in an interview with ABC. When asked about the strength of the Islamic State3, Obama responded, “I don’t think they’re gaining strength. What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them4.”
Friday evening in Paris, surrogates of what Obama previously characterized as the “JV Team5” undertook a well-coordinated attack and slaughtered more than 129 civilians6 to the cry of “allah akbar.”
Obama responded to the attack, saying, “I don’t want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.” He continued, “Once again we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians.” No, actually this was not an “attempt.” They most certainly succeeded.
Obama declared, “We stand together with the French in the fight against terrorism and extremism.” Blinded by his admiration for Islam7, Obama just can’t bring himself to say “Islamic terrorism” or “Muslim extremism.”
Of course his assertion that “we stand together with the French” is true, in the tragic sense that France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande has followed Obama’s model of appeasing Islamic Jihad. And for the second time this year, the French are paying a heavy price for such appeasement.
Obama and Hillary Clinton8 are a case study in foreign policy failure. They have squandered all the blood and treasure9 we expended in Iraq, resulting in a Middle East meltdown10. Their policy legacy11 is framed by holocaust and humanitarian crisis, and a wave of unprecedented terror that is emigrating to Europe and the U.S.
Recall if you will the prophetic warning12 issued by George W. Bush in July 2007: “To begin withdrawing from Iraq … will be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States. It will mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qa'ida13. It means that we would be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It will mean we would allow terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they had in Afghanistan. It will mean that American troops will have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”
President Bush took the battle to the enemy in order to keep the front on their turf, not ours. Obama has retreated, opening the door for Islamists to move the front to our homeland.
In my analysis last year on the threat to our homeland, “Islamic Jihad — Target USA14,” I noted, “The most likely near-term form of attack against civilians on our turf, will be modeled after the conventional Islamist assaults in the Middle East, bombings and shootings, as we have now seen in Paris, London, Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, New York and Washington. This type of attack is low tech but effective in terms of instilling public fear with the long-term goal of civil acquiescence.”
Indeed, on the eve of the Paris attack, the “chatter” on Islamic websites was, “American blood is best, and we will taste it soon.”
Jihad has been around for 1,400 years, and having just celebrated the 1775 founding of the Marine Corps I note that one of the Marines' earliest deployments after we became a nation was under Thomas Jefferson against the Islamist Barbary Pirates in 1801. Islamic Jihadists have been terrorizing the world for a long time, and in the last three decades they have emerged again with much deadlier consequences, most notably the 9/1115 attack on our homeland — the masterminds of which came into the U.S. on Bill Clinton’s watch16.
On Obama’s watch, there have already been numerous smaller attacks, among the more bloody Islamist assaults at Ft. Hood in Texas and here in Chattanooga17. This is the result of appeasement — and the consequences are coming to a theater near YOU!
This year, the Islamic State has posted numerous online “kill lists18” of U.S. military personnel with their names, addresses and photos. Perhaps we should reconsider Obama’s plan to seed 10,000 Syrian Muslims in communities across our nation, now that at least one of the terrorists entered France masquerading as a refugee19. Of course, the first wave of “refugees” has already arrived20, many of whom fit neatly into the Islamic terrorist profile21. Perhaps they should only be sent to “sanctuary cities.”)
And in a final gesture of appeasement, last week Obama approved the release of five more Islamist detainees from Gitmo22. The Yemeni radicals23 arrived in their Middle East host country just hours after the Paris attack.
Power does not tolerate a vacuum, and Republicans better get it right24.
The Paris Attacks and the Suicide of the West25
By Louis DeBroux
Following the attacks in Paris Friday, French President Francois Hollande issued a statement calling them “a horror” and “an act of war,” vowing to be “merciless” in fighting terrorism. Calling the attacks to be “against us all,” the leaders of the European Union issued a joint statement, saying, “We will face this threat together with all necessary means and ruthless determination. Everything that can be done at European level to make France safe will be done. We will do what is necessary to defeat extremism, terrorism and hatred.”
It will be interesting to see if European leaders indeed keep these promises. Until now, these same leaders have responded to Islamic jihad with calls for tolerance, mutual respect, inclusion and even a level of introspection in order to determine how Western culture is to blame. It has been a policy of intentional weakness and capitulation, even as the Islamic State and other terrorist groups become bolder in their rhetoric, and their attacks more frequent and more violent.
Despite Obama’s claim in 2011, as he pulled out all American forces from Iraq9, that he was leaving behind a “stable, sovereign and self-reliant Iraq,” the reality is that the Islamic State was born in the aftermath of America’s departure, filling the power void left in our absence. More violent even than al-Qaida, from which it came, the Obama-dubbed “JV team” swept across the region, taking and holding land, easily defeating military units in place to stop their advance, gathering up abandoned guns and combat equipment as they went.
In recent weeks, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the mid-air bombing of a Russian airliner, resulting in the loss of more than 200 souls. With this wave of attacks it can no longer be denied that the Islamic State and its affiliated groups, and the so-called “lone wolves26” they recruit, have the power to reach out and bring death to our cities. A response of fecklessness, hand-wringing and mea culpas will only increase the body counts each time we are attacked.
It is time for Obama to admit his central campaign theme in 2012 — that “al-Qaida is on the run”27 — was a blatant lie, and that we are in more danger now than at any time since the Twin Towers were brought down. It is a false narrative he is desperate to maintain.
Don’t miss the rest of this article here25.
Terror’s Progressive Accomplices28
By Arnold Ahlert
Denialism was on full display Friday when Americans learned the first group of what will ultimately amount to 10,000 Syrian and Afghan “refugees” arrived in New Orleans20, prior to their dispersal into other areas of Louisiana — and another 180 American communities. New Orleans FBI chief and anti-terrorism expert Jim Bernazzani voiced the obvious: “If I was in charge of ISIL, logistically I’d take advantage of this situation and put my people in, into the United States.” He then assured us the FBI and the joint Terrorism Task Force will thoroughly vet these individuals.
Really? Then why did FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach and DHS Director Matthew Emrich both admit29 there is no system to reliably screen these individuals? Moreover, what can the nation expect in terms of vetting from an administration so mired in political correctness, the FBI ignored30 multiple Russian warnings regarding the radicalization of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
At least one of the jihadi attackers in France registered as a Syrian refugee. Think that won’t happen here? Barack Obama just opened the jihadi pipeline31 into the U.S. |
