The Democratic Platform: Not One Word on Islamism or Any Support for Arab Liberals and Allies
When the authors of the Democratic Party’s platform’s sections dealing with the Middle East—I dealt with the section on Israel in a previous article—finished it, they were no doubt quite satisfied. They felt that they had built a strong case for reelecting President Barack Obama along the following lines:
America is more secure and popular. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are on the run. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are ending. America is supporting democracy, women’s rights, and gay rights around the world. Isn’t this great leadership? How could anyone not vote for Obama?
When I read the platform I am shocked and disappointed. I can pick a bit at the issues of popularity, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But the failure to deal with revolutionary Islamism is ridiculously glaring — they didn’t use the tiniest fig leaf to cover themselves — making a mockery of the democracy and human rights pretensions. The treatment of Middle East allies is shockingly insulting. The issues of Syria and Egypt are simply dodged. There is not a single mention of the opposition in Iran. All terrorists not directly involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks are ignored. There is not the slightest hint that any Democratic regional strategy for America exists at all.
Not a single word implies that the United States is willing to help allies fight revolutionary Islamist threats. In fact, the words “Islam” and “Muslim” do not appear once, even in some discussion of good Muslims versus bad radical heretics. They could not even bring themselves to say something like: “Islam is a religion of peace but there are some extremists who wish to distort its teachings, take power, and institute repressive and anti-American dictatorships. We support our allies in defending themselves against these threats and support true democratic reformers in fighting against such oppressive forces that deny equality to women, religious minorities, and gay people.” But they didn’t even do that.
If they don’t even see the main threat at all, how can one trust such people to rule the country and provide leadership in the region?
What can American allies in the region — aside from Israel — expect from President Obama to protect them from internal revolutionaries, international terrorists, and revolutionary Islamist states? Here’s the passage in its entirety:
President Obama is committed to maintaining robust security cooperation with Gulf Cooperation Council states and our other partners aimed at deterring aggression, checking Iran’s destabilizing activities, ensuring the free flow of commerce essential to the global economy, and building a regional security architecture to counter terrorism, proliferation, ballistic missiles, piracy, and other common threats.
That’s all you get Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates! How confident are you in Obama’s leadership?
Well, here’s the lead of a Reuters story on this topic that came out during the Democratic National Convention: “The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideological affiliates in the Arab Spring uprisings has stoked fears among Gulf Arab governments that the United States may one day abandon its traditional allies as it warms up to Islamists.”
Back to the platform. Let’s get the bragging out of the way first:
When President Obama took office in January 2009, our armed forces were engaged in two wars. Al- Qaeda, which had attacked us on 9/11, remained entrenched in its safe havens. Many of our alliances were strained, and our standing in the world had diminished. Around the world and here at home, there were those who questioned whether the United States was headed toward inevitable decline.
On one hand, whatever George W. Bush’s faults he had already essentially won the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (as much as that was possible) and dislodged al-Qaeda from its “safe havens.” Obama criticized the strategy that won in Iraq. So that’s a lie.
This is a party that intentionally left out any mention of God, or of Jerusalem being Israel’s capital. And then, when those became an issue, and the party leaders had to ram in amendments for them, the amendments got at best 50% of the voice vote, while needing a 2/3 majority. But the fix was in, committee chair Villaraigosa was reading the 2/3 majority off of a teleprompter, and there was a oud chorus of boos. Now were they booing the fix, or the amendments? Or both?
Oh please, can we just cut it with the false pious concern about God? You people (well, some) are about to cast your vote for what many in the mainstream Christian community (especially on the right) consider to be a heretic, a Mormon heretic! Apparently the last revelation wasn’t good enough, so they had Joseph Smith come up with a better one.
The mask is off. You people don’t care about God. You use God as a pretext for a political agenda, but ignore God when it isn’t convenient, or at the very least, you’re willing to cast aside everything you say you believe in so that your team wins, even vote for a heretic. You are a bunch of God babbling hypocrites.
Didn’t Jesus warned you about such groups when he said in Matthew 24:24 that in the last days many false christs and false prophets will arise and deceive many. Mormonism is exactly that, a manifestation of a false prophet: Joseph Smith, who taught all these things.
At least the Mormon seems to care about the USA. Obama seems to be doing his best to bankrupt and sink her. Surely, even you can appreciate that.
Actually, I’m not much of a believer. But between the Fascist-Democrats (and they are fascist, just soft ones at this point) quick pivot and your angry rant, it seems to have struck a nerve.
Why so sensitive?
You People??!!
RAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldnt resist
as I heard Ryan say earlier this evening, they were against God before they were for Him!
I’m sickened by the democrats….lies after lies
The demoncrats don’t have time to deal with reality or the Caliphate their demi-god Hussein O. is helping to create.
One of President Barack Obama’s top allies said Thursday that Democrats have a long history of incompetence and just made another of many mistakes when they omitted from the party platform a reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“We are too busy stealing the peoples money and ruining the country and so it is very hard to keep up with our pretenses about Israel”,Senator Chuckie S. said.
This just might be why!
Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty. But her story and her life begin in the Middle East, not the Midwest. She was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran. Her parents moved to Shiraz, known for its poets, wine and flowers, as part of a program that sent American doctors and agricultural experts to developing countries to help jump-start their health and farming efforts. Her father was on the staff of the brand new Nemazee Hospital, where Jarrett was born.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
“We’ve Heard It All Before” (Extended Cut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZgQhnNRSuw&feature=player_embedded
This is a party who’s platform is in sync with the world view of ISO -International Socialist Organization- Calling them Democrats is an insult on our intelligent. Finally they have decided to showcase their true identity. Godless, Spineless, Morally corrupt bunch of cowards.
If Obama is such a socialist, why did he appoint Wall Street sympathizers Tim Geithner and Larry Summers instead of alternatives like Sheila Bair or Paul
Volcker or Joseph Stiglitz?
And why is “Obamacare” dependent on private insurance companies in contrast
to the single-payer plans put forward by Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
And why were the real socialists demonstrating outside the convention hall
in Charlotte?
Moderate Muslims. There were “moderate Nazis” you know. People who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Cloak yourself in the religion of choice of POTUS and you truly can get away with murder…most foul.
Actually, I’m not much of a believer. But between the Fascist-Democrats (and they are fascist, just soft ones at this point) quick pivot and your angry rant, it seems to have struck a nerve.
Wait – let me get this straight – are the Democracts socialists or fascists?
And is Obama a Muslim or a Nazi?
Some of the Nazis actually were Muslims.
Not sure why you’re surprised, Barry. It could have been worse. They made some claims, they papered over Islam (or ‘Islamism’), they claimed to have a plan for dealing with America’s enemies.
Intelligent people should be able to see through this by now. If not..
Barry — While what you say is all true, I don’t recall the Repubs saying much of anything about it either. While it is so that a strong economy and the capacity to stand up to Islamic fascism are entirely interconnected, it is sad, sad, sad that jobs, job, jobs seems to be the only issue that appears to matter, at least to the newspeople, pundits, politicos and candidates. What a tiny conception of the world! At least you can be sure that we’re all being jobbed!
Re your–”it is sad, sad, sad that jobs, job, jobs seems to be the only issue that appears to matter, at least to the newspeople, pundits, politicos and candidates.”
Are you employed?
No, it is not “sad” at all as the current job shortage is, as it should be, the direct first concern of these “democrats”…..and the Republicans….but it also advertises both of their lack of ability to be doing anything about it. They both want the public to think that they’re “on it”.
Easier said than done. Recessions have great inertia.
Jobs and the economic health of our Nation should indeed come well before externals such as United States Aid Billions to these ungrateful, grasping, two-faced Karzai-types and Maliki-types. This used to be called “Green Mail”, but a direct reference to punning on the Green-of-Islam is delicious, and unavoidable. Further, insert “Greed” with any mention of some of our “allies”.
Whatever we Americans have left over AFTER paying off our horrendous deficit, MAY be considered as Aid to some other nations on an ad hoc basis.
Where is the gratitude of Th’ World for the countless American lives and bales upon bales of American Green cash expended since 1917?
Quick questions!…..who can tell us what the “Marshall Plan” was all about?
Who out there right now, remembers when General deGaulle said in roughly 1962, “All Americans out of France!”….the context then was N.A.T.O……now……who needs N.A.T.O. today?…..where is it in operation?…using which nation’s major contributions of cash and equipment?
Who remembers Dean Rusk (Dean who?) asking, not entirely rhetorically, “Does he mean out of the American Cemeteries in France also?”
Yes indeed. Jobs come first now in our America.
Thanks, Mr Rubin for writing this:
….”Let us imagine a party platform in, say, 1950, that didn’t mention Communism, devoted just a few sentences to the USSR, ignored supporting the liberation of the satellite states, and put forward no strategy for dealing with this challenge. Liberals and Democrats met the challenge of the Cold War. They are not facing up to this one.”
We Americans are ignoring [at least it seems so publicly] the direct parallels of Muslim infiltration and subversion of the present being carried out, right this hour as we read this here by their madrassas and mosques being established, to that same type of Soviet Communist infiltration and subversion of the 1930-1989 era. The Muslim mosques and madrassas in our midst today are equivalent to the Soviet Red Cells of the Cold War.
We are willfully ignoring that these Muslims repeatedly declare themselves to be at war with the American Great Satan and they’ve demonstrated this by a very, very well executed surprise aerial attack upon New York and Washington D.C., with those Saudi nations being in the majority….and…the likes of their mole, the US Army Major Hassan.
Ostrich feathers are fluttering everywhere. What will it take to wake us up?
….Correction: read: “….with those Saudi nationals…”
The Dems couldn’t say anything about Islamism (at least nothing negative). The Obama regime is in bed with the Islam terror-organization Muslim Brotherhood and 100+ Muslims were at the DNC…
The damnocrats are fence straddlers, they like to appease everyone. They have gotten in bed with the islamist but can not survive without the Jew’s votes! The crash should be fun! If only they had a pair of gonads to be bruised!
Why would they?
You know
The enemy
Would want to announce themselves
The barbarians are inside the gates and will for the Democrats. We will only wake up when Europe goes down under the weight of welfare to immigrants and violence in ever-growing Muslim enclaves.
correction; will VOTE for the Democrats