The Patriot Post Digest 7-15-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 7-15-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Jul. 15, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788.)

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Progressively Bloody Price of Obama/Clinton Appeasement1

By Mark Alexander

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die.” —George Washington2 (1776)

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, we are preparing solemn observances for the five military personnel3 murdered by an Islamic terrorist on July 16th of last year.

Barack Obama waited five long days before ordering flags to half staff4 in their honor. His administration waited five long months before declaring the attack terrorism, and finally issuing Purple Hearts to those killed and wounded5 at the Naval Reserve center here. The Chattanooga attack was followed by increasingly violent attacks in San Bernardino6 and Orlando7.

Notably, my friend, CDR Tim White, was the only armed person at the Navy facility — and he returned fire to provide cover for his people. As I wrote after the Jihad attack at Ft. Hood, military personnel are prohibited from having firearms on military bases, but The Patriot Post and military support groups objected to prosecution of White and the Navy filed no charges8. In fact, today the Navy officially announced it will require armed personnel9 at Naval centers nationwide, no longer leaving them exposed as “gun-free zones10.”

Last night, two Americans, Sean Copeland and his 11-year-old son Brodie from Austin, Texas, were among at least 84 men, women and children murdered, and many more injured, after Islamist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, yelling “Allahu Akbar,” plowed his deadly 25-ton “assault weapon” into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France. This was the bloodiest attack on French soil since last November’s Paris attack11 by another “JV team12” member, as Obama calls them.

There were also French Muslims among the infidels slaughtered by their fellow Muslim on the Promenade of Angels. Hamza Charrihi, whose mother was among the dead, told L'Express: “She wore the veil of Islam and practiced a true and balanced religion … a real Islam. Not the one of the terrorists.”

The assailant had “assault rifles and grenades,” all of which were later determined to be inert. But his assault truck was anything but.

Bouhlel and his truck were on the closed street hours before the celebration. He had been questioned several times by French police. Though he had been investigated by police for a violent crime in the last year, they did not ask him to move his truck — most likely avoiding any charges of profiling13.

So, let’s quickly review.

After 9/1114, George Bush declared a global “War on Terror,” prosecuting al-Qa'ida terrorists in Afghanistan15 and Iraq16 and elsewhere — and keeping the battle on their soil rather than ours.

Shortly after his 2008 election, Obama declared an end to the War on Terror and vowed to retreat from the region.

As we noted in 2011, Obama’s foreign policy appeasement17, particularly his ill-advised re-election campaign retreat from Iraq18, created a meltdown in the Middle East19, and the resulting power vacuum was quickly filled by the Islamic State20.

Consequently, hundreds of thousands of Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, and growing numbers of civilians in Europe and the United States are being murdered. Their blood is, irrevocably, on Obama’s hands, and by extension, that of his inept former secretary of state and heir-apparent, Hillary Clinton21.

For her part, when asked about the latest Islamic attack, Clinton reasserted her ineptitude. “They would love to draw the United States into a ground war,” she said. “I would be very focused on the intelligence surge.” Asked about the Islamic ideology behind the attacks, she said, “It’s not so important what we call these people as what we do about them.”

Memo to Clinton: We are in a ground war right now, and it is, with increasing frequency and lethality, on western ground. As for an “intelligence surge,” she has not experienced one of those since partnering with Bill Clinton22 back in 1975. On “what we do about them,” Clinton, like Obama, has no idea.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Obama’s former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, repeated what he has also been warning about the War on Terror since Obama ordered the withdrawal from Iraq: We’re “losing the war.” He added, “The enemy has more than doubled in capacity and capability and geographical footprint around the world. We’ve lost the strategic initiative in this war. And the enemy has the strategic initiative.”

Flynn asserts, “Good intelligence has to start with properly and clearly defining this enemy. Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, [Obama] has eliminated any training or any use23 of the term ‘radical Islam.’ That’s what we’re facing. The president says, ‘What difference does it make what you call the enemy.’ Are you kidding me?”

Yesterday, political observer Charles Krauthammer declared, “Obama is certainly responsible for the resurgence. … Al-Qa'ida in Iraq, the progenitor of ISIS, was defeated, humiliated in 2008 by the [Bush administration]. We had the boot on the neck of ISIS and al-Qa'ida in Iraq and released it. Obama thought if we could run away, if we could withdraw, if we get out of the region, we could show the Muslims, as he said in the Cairo speech, that we are their friends and everything would be fine. Of course the opposite happened — he’s been in denial.”

With equal clarity, Newt Gingrich responded, “Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be. Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported. Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up Sharia — glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door. We need to be fairly relentless about defining who our enemies are. Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS or al-Qa'ida or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail.”

Following each attack on American soil, Obama has politically pivoted to “gun control24” as the solution. But neither “gun control” nor “truck control” will resolve this metastasizing threat.

As for all the media “terrorism experts,” two key points.

First, some have suggested that because ISIL25 is claimed to be losing ground26 in Iraq, that assaults in the West are increasing.

That claim is absurd. As I have warned, Jihadistan27, the worldwide caliphate that Islamist extremists are seeking to establish, is not about geographic territory. It is about ideological territory.

Second, they are trotting out the “lone wolf28” profile, but that claim is equally absurd. All Jihad Terrorists27 are directly tied to worldwide Jihad by way of the Qur'an, the foundational fabric linking all of Islamist violence. Describing Islamist assailants as “lone wolf” actors or “radicalized” constitutes a lethal misunderstanding of the Jihadi threat29.

Finally, as I warned in “Islamic Jihad — Target USA30,” “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 — vehicle bombs, suicide bombs and mass shootings.” We have now seen that across Western Europe and increasingly in the U.S.

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But as I noted previously31, Islamists have proposed using vehicles as assault weapons since 9/11. Recall that Mohammed Taheri-azar drove his SUV into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina. And Omeed Aziz Popal drove his SUV in a crowd at a Jewish community center in San Francisco.

A new easily accessible weapon of mass murder has emerged.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Charles Krauthammer: Resisting the Revisionists: Finally, a First Step32
David Limbaugh: Obama, Clinton and Race Exploitation33
Tony Perkins: [A Win for Conscience in the House(https://patriotpost.us/opinion/43782)

For more, visit Right Opinion34.

TOP HEADLINES

GOP Derails Anti-Trump Movement at Convention35
28 Pages From 9/11 Report to Be Released36
Transgender Woman Videotapes Teen Girl in Target Fitting Room37

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report38.

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Trump-Pence 201639

It’s official: Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Trump delayed the news conference in light of the attack in France, but Pence had to either opt in or out today because Indiana law prohibits him from simultaneously running for governor and vice president.

Clearly, Pence is a strategically safe and smart pick. What he brings to the ticket is a solid record built on socially and fiscally conservative principles. He is a genuinely nice guy and a traditional values family man. Pence describes himself as, “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” He’s a former host of a conservative talk radio program who was elected to congress in 2000, and who then won election as governor of Indiana in 2012. He’s good friends with House Speaker Paul Ryan, which would help advance Trump’s agenda.

He has been a favorite of the Tea Party movement. While a congressman, he willingly broke with George W. Bush, voting against “No Child Left Behind” and Medicare drug expansion. While governor of Indiana, he cut tax rates helping to spark an economic recovery. He’s also a big proponent of free trade, having supported of recent Pacific and European trade initiatives.

From Trump’s perspective, having Pence as his running mate communicates that he is serious about standing for conservative principles. While Pence won’t be the aggressive attack dog that Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie would be, passing over Gingrich or Christie doesn’t mean both won’t continue to be effective surrogates. As a seasoned politician, Pence knows how to handle the pressures of public office and the media. Now the pair have the weekend to make a splash before next week’s convention.

Ginsburg Can’t Put Toothpaste Back in Tube40

Regrets, she’s had a few. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now sorry for speaking her mind41 about Donald Trump so unrestrainedly in the last few days. “On reflection,” she now says, “my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.” Circumspection was at least on display from her fellow justice, Stephen Breyer, who wisely dodged, “If I had an opinion [on her comments], I wouldn’t express it.”

We suspect Ginsburg’s regret is influenced at least in part from backlash even from fellow leftist travelers. “Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit,” The New York Times editorialized.

The question now is whether she’ll have the decency to resign or at minimum recuse herself in future cases involving either Trump or Hillary Clinton. Her ability to be impartial is permanently suspect — as if it wasn’t already. And being “more circumspect” in the future doesn’t mean her mind is changed. The problem with a resignation, however, is that any successor either Barack Obama or Clinton might nominate would be at least as leftist and without the public relations problems. So as we’ve said so many times we’ve lost count, the principle issue in this election might just be the Supreme Court. And on that, Trump is vastly superior42.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Democrats Veer Left43
Are We Ready for the South China Sea Powder Keg?44
FBI to Clinton-Investigating Agents: ‘Shhh!’45
NARAL Thinks Abortion Is Just Hilarious46
Climate Prosecution Is a Double-Edged Sword47

OPINION IN BRIEF

David Limbaugh: “You would think that at a funeral of fallen cops — ones murdered by a self-avowed hater of cops and whites — Obama would keep his powder dry. He could have just been neutral — silent on the matter. Instead, he launched into a diatribe about the allegedly unequal treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system. Let me ask you: If you were the parent of an individual slain at the hands of a certain hater, would you want the eulogizer to shift into criminal defense mode for the killer? Would you expect him to categorically denounce the criminal justice system and law enforcement as racially tainted, to whatever degree? Would you expect him to stump for gun control? To align himself with the Black Lives Matter agenda? … I pray and pray that one day, a significant percentage of all minorities in this nation will come to realize that one political party is exploiting and damaging them, and it’s not the party they think it is.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Upright: “We have to fight them there, or we will have to fight them here. Obviously, it’s happening here.” —Charles Krauthammer

Ouch: “The local paper reports that the terrorist was ‘of Tunisian origin,’ which surprises no one, of course. But since he was killed by police, President Obama may never know his real motive.” —Mark Krikorian

Non Compos Mentis: “How this plays out politically in the U.S. presidential race really depends on whether people react … emotionally or logically. Donald Trump clearly wants people to react with emotion, to react with fear and anger and he hopes that causes them to turn to somebody who, basically, promises nothing but emotion. … Hillary Clinton, of course, has experience dealing with the terrorism issue, and her solutions are in some ways less emotionally satisfying because they recognize that this is not an easily solved problem. And, you know, in a way that’s a tough sell.” —Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson (Clinton has experience lying about the terrorism issue and implementing policies that allow it to fester.)

“I don’t know who created ‘Pokemon Go’ but I’m trying to figure out how we get them to ‘Pokemon’ go to the polls!” —Hillary Clinton, showing how hip she is

Late-night humor: “The Pokémon craze just seems to be getting bigger. In fact, I read that even members of Congress have been trying to catch Pokémon in the U.S. Capitol. Meanwhile, Pokémon were like, ‘Oh my God — I just caught a congressman at WORK!’” —Jimmy Fallon

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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