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The Patriot Post Digest 3-23-2016
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Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, said, “This is a cowardly attack, an attack on our values and on our open societies. Terrorism will not defeat democracy and take away our freedoms.”
French President Francois Hollande tweeted, “I express my solidarity with the Belgian people. Through the Brussels attacks, the whole of Europe has been hit.”
The “leading from behind” leader of the free world took time away from prostrating himself20 before the lecturing of communist Cuba’s diminutive dictator, Raul Castro, long enough to proclaim: “This is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism.” A lovely and meaningless platitude, but we suppose we should be grateful that Barack Obama didn’t use the moment as an opportunity to again lecture us on the dangers of global warming or on the sins of American imperialism and the medieval Crusades.
Obama spent less than one minute21 of his speech from Cuba discussing the Brussels attacks — less time than he spent doing the wave with the Cuban dictator while watching the Cuban national baseball team.
On a related note, Obama ordered flags at half mast almost immediately — something he waited five days22 to do after the jihadi attack in Chattanooga.
Showing that not everyone has lost their minds to politically correct orthodoxy, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz reiterated his position that there should be no attempts to bring in Syrian refugees to the U.S. following these latest Islamic terrorist attacks, stating that the U.S. program to vet Muslim refugees is “woefully inadequate.” He also called for a more robust response from Obama than just “another lecture on Islamophobia23.” Unsurprisingly, Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton called Cruz’s comments “unhelpful.”
Following the Paris attacks24, French PM Hollande vowed to be “merciless” in the fight against terrorism, calling those attacks “a horror,” “an act of war,” and attacks “against us all.” A joint statement by leaders of the European Union declared that the EU would “face this threat together with all necessary means and ruthless determination … to defeat extremism, terrorism, and hatred.” After Paris, Obama likewise promised to do all that was needed to combat the Islamic State; ironic, since he’d stated only hours earlier that his administration’s efforts had “contained25” that jihadi threat.
Writing in his book, “The Life of Reason, Vol. 1,” philosopher George Santayana opined, “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. … When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. … This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”
Worse than infants, modern “progressive” leaders in Western society not only have failed to learn the brutal lessons taught by several decades of relentless Islamic extremism, which openly seeks nothing less than the destruction and subjugation of Western society, they openly rebuke the obvious truths which their eyes reveal. As a result, thousands of their citizens are dead. Rather than declare Islamic extremism as the evil that it is, they wring their hands and engage in a form of twisted group therapy to try and discover why the attacks are really the fault of the West.
Without an awakening, and an undaunted determination to crush the evil of Islamic extremism, thousands more will die at the hands of Islamic terrorists in the years to come. The blood of those victims will be on the hands of those leaders who chose the path of willful ignorance and the appeasement of evil.
MORE ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE
ANALYSIS: Is Hillary the Weakest Candidate?26
Chance of Contested Convention Slims27
Weighing in on Brussels23
Hillary Clinton Panders to Pro-Israel Lobby28
Belief in God in Dwindling, but What About the Afterlife?29
A Green Energy Proposal That Isn’t Bad30
TOP HEADLINES
Belgian Terrorists Can Still Enter U.S. Without a Visa19
Bomb-Making in George Mason Univ. Dorm: 3 Students Arrested31
Foster Girl Removed Over Her Native American Heritage32
For more, visit Patriot Headline Report33
OPINION IN BRIEF
Michelle Malkin: “To borrow a useful phrase coined by British journalist James Bartholomew last year, we have reached the oversaturation point of post-terrorism ‘virtue signaling’: Hashtags, avatars and animated GIFs ad nauseam. These are the easy advertisements and maudlin displays of one’s resolute opposition to an unidentified something that must be stopped somehow by unspoken means. Virtue signals are ‘camouflage,’ Bartholomew explained. They are sincere-seeming shows of collective unity that disguise the millennial-age indulgence of publicly patting one’s own back for supposed moral courage. ‘No one actually has to do anything,’ he opined. Virtue now ‘comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs.’ Pre-Twitter, outraged Americans all donned ‘Never forget’ magnets and ribbons on our cars and lapels after 9/11. I was one of them. But after 15 years of hapless homeland security theater and bipartisan pandering to terror-coddling ‘Islamophobia’ shriekers, I’m so, so sick of noble gesture paraphernalia. … We’ve had enough piles of memorial flowers. We’ve heard enough hollow lip service paid to resolve. Where is the world’s active resistance to the sharia-imposing soldiers of Allah?”
SHORT CUTS
Nailing it: “I’m going to say something that is going to sound pretty harsh, but I think it is true. [The president’s statement] wasn’t a mistake. That wasn’t weakness, that was policy — his going to the ballpark and spending less than a minute on the attack. I actually believe that the president’s policy, in his heart of hearts is: That is not that big a deal.” —former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden
Still missing the point: “This isn’t about a religion. This is about a warped and brutal, depraved ideology that continues to be attractive to a small number of people in the Muslim faith — radicals and extremists.” —State Department spokesman John Kirby
Half-hearted: “You know, I call it radical jihadist terrorism because, you know, it is clearly rooted in Islamic thinking that, you know, has to be contested first and foremost by Muslims around the world.” —Hillary Clinton
Everything is awesome: “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people. … I want you to know, I believe my visit here demonstrates that you do not need to fear a threat from the United States.” —Barack Obama
Non Compos Mentis: “In many ways, the United States and Cuba are like two brothers who’ve been estranged for many years, even as we share the same blood.” —Barack Obama
Observations: “The whole story of [Barack Obama’s] presidency and its foreign policy was seen in the [television] split screen. On one side you had the video footage of the attack in Belgium. This is the real world. And on the other side was Obama in a fantasy world he inhabits where Cuba is of some geopolitical significance. … Obama calls [ISIL] the JV team, he pretends it’s contained and controlled. It is not. Instead he does this ideological holiday trip in Cuba while the world burns.” —Charles Krauthammer
Late-night humor: “The big story is President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba. After landing [Sunday], Obama immediately tweeted out, ‘What’s up, Cuba?’ And Cubans opened up a window and yelled, ‘We don’t have the Internet! It’s like 1955 here!’” —Jimmy Fallon
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Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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