Obama Appoints Islam’s Apologists
In November of 2003, Hagel, along with John Kerry — Obama’s nominee for secretary of State — refused to vote for the Syrian Accountability Act, which was designed to hold Syria accountable for its support of terrorism and its occupation of Lebanon. Only four senators refused to vote for the act; Obama’s nominees for secretary of Defense and secretary of State are two of them.
As late as 2009, Charles Hagel was still advocating a policy of supporting the butcher of Damascus, Bashar Al-Assad. Maybe Hagel got it right on Iraq, but he has totally blundered on Syria. Could it be that Hagel has been simply consistent in supporting Arab regimes that are in an adversarial relationship with the United States? Support for Saddam Hussein and support for Bashar Al-Assad would just be different manifestations of the same consistent mindset.
No one has been as effusive in his praise for Bashar Al-Assad as John Kerry, who made five trips to Damascus and became a public-relations mouthpiece for the Syrian dictator long after human rights groups had detailed and denounced his brutal regime. Kerry saw Assad as moving Syria into a new relationship with the U.S. and giving up its alliances with Iran in the formation of a Shi’a crescent stretching from Tehran to the Mediterranean. Kerry strongly advocated Israel’s returning the Golan Heights to Syria, in what must be one of the stupidest proposals by an American diplomat in recent years. One shudders to imagine Israel’s strategic situation if she had done so, given the consequences of the raging civil war in Syria.
One of Kerry’s first jobs as secretary of State will be to convince the man he once called his close friend, Assad, to retreat into exile so that the bloodshed will end. Will Kerry do this, or run interference for his friend?
Clearly Obama is not a Muslim, but Obama is the first Muslim president in the sense that Bill Clinton was the first black president. Few holders of the presidency, or even candidates for it, have been as sympathetic to the Islamic world as has been Obama, and these three appointments confirm a perspective that is far removed from the mainstream view of what American interests are in the world. The second Obama administration will pursue the same failed policies in international relations and national security as the first, hoping insanely for a different set of outcomes.
If you believe that the Islamist threat can be dissipated by engagement, then you will cheer these appointments. But if you believe that the Islamist threat is rooted in its traditions, culture, history, and statecraft, then you can not help but fear the disaster the continuation of Obama’s policies will perpetuate with these three men.
Well,this is what you should expect from people who worship at the Church of Hitler’s Dick
The French are having serious troubles with bottom-up islamism. Here we seem to proceed merrily with subversion from the top. Way to catch up!
What else would you expect from the islamist in chief?
Yes, it’s getting very scary. I hope Israel can survive.
Israel can and will survive. Let’s pray America can survive as well.
WaAlaikumAssalmu!!
May I remind America that Israel isn’t the victim here….The Jews are as spiteful as they come, an i am not a Jew hater. I love all the people an i care not if you Arab,Pakistan,Palestine. I know Israel n America have there scams n have this Bullshit relationship.Iran deserves to have their own plant n not for the murderous of Jews, but because its about time they have a plant to save their own without having to sell its soul to America or Israel!! Bill Clinton, we want to really discuss his actions of shaking hands with the Saudis Kings while they make another lucrative america…people stop listening to bias, an learn from the people themselves…please go to a international site n talk to the people who this is affecting an then come write your paper.!!!
Thank you for listening an there is a lot of My Thinking in America…White-Blood, Baby Killers get used to a New America because before long it will be intolerable for your Racist Bull Crap!!
The Obama Administration isn’t quite the armpit of the universe, but it is certainly becoming the Neville.
“Clearly Obama is not a Muslim” is not correct, there is no doubt he is. The threat BHO poses to our Constitutional Republic is the most problematic aspect of his presidency followed closely by foreign policy: “suck up to the Muslims, kiss the a** of the Russian Bear and bow and scrape to the Chinese”*. This is not original but I cannot write where I heard it ’cause I don’t remember!!
If I ever see a birth certificate that doesn’t look like something that came out of a Cracker Jacks box or a record of O’s college grades, maybe then, I will consider that he is clearly not a muslim. Meanwhile, just keep bowing to folks that hate America.
“…and bow and scrape to the Chinese”
This when China is not even the World Super power as of today.What is needed is to have the klingons ,the Romalans , The Vulcans, The Andorians and even the Ferengi if possible they know how to take the right side as we prepare for the coming Borg Atheist Communist Capitalist future Culture/ Military superiority take over of the world and even we have the beauty Diania Troi half Betazoid types on our side we still fail against the coming Borg unless we know the Almighty God is on our side
What a big battle we face
Hey Waxwing I recommend you go back and read through your PJM comments AFTER the LSD wears off if you’re looking for a good laugh.
“….All of these candidates are rabidly pro-Islam, pro-Arab, or both. All are apologists for those causes. All are strong proponents of Obama’s vision of the world, a diminished U.S. military, and a more sympathetic outreach to Islam….”
And this surprises who??
Those who expected otherwise are either stupid or just arrived on earth from another solar system.
you were doing ok until the butcher of Damascus shtick. If Assad falls the bloodshed will only be getting started.
Agree. It’s Aiens vs. Predators. Neither of them merit our support. After the Islamists take over, Syria’s Christians and Alawites will be targeted, maybe the Druze as well. Secular Muslims won’t have it easy either. And many of those active in the opposition have already indicated that after dealing with Assad they’ll turn to confronting Israel.
come on , what else could all of us expect ?
My thought is that to every thing there is a season. Ecclesiastes 3
One time military duty , as Benedict Arnold has shown, is no prohibition to Treason.
Why not kerry and more obama Treason? Seems it is the season.
It was Red China who made North Korea win not our president and it was China who made the North Vietnam win not the boy John Kerry
Obama Appoints Islam’s Apologists
The shared perspective of Hagel, Kerry, and Brennan.
And just what kind of a change does this represent?
None, because Panetta and Clinton and Petraeus are all Islam apologists too, especially Clinton and most especially Petraeus.
Even George W. Bush was a big Islam apologist.
“Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate. Mohammad’s word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.”
George W. Bush !!!
I challenge anyone reading the above to come up with any more vomit inducing pro Islam statements than those by George W. Bush. Good luck.
Wow.. have you EVER provided a comment pertaining to the PRESENT column?
I can play the poo-flinging game as well if I so wish to troll DailyKos, Huffpo etc.,
Whether it’s your possible A D D or inability to comment on PRESENT policy and/ or not be a useful idiot to all things Illiberal – something you should consider.
It’s 2013, FeralCat. I have the stones to see EVERY administration for what they are. Do you?
In case it somehow escaped your notice, this column is about Islam Apologists and there has been none bigger than George W. Bush as the quoted words above prove.
If you think I am a “troll” for DailyKos, Huffpo etc, you have extreme deficit attention syndrome.
As regards your claim to “have the stones” to see EVERY administration for what they are – you must be kidding or you wouldn’t be so exercised about my quoting George W. Bush’s own words.
If we are to break down the differences between islam appologists, it could be said that G.W. was trying to appease the peaceful muslims in this world before he was forced to send 100,000 of our troops somewhere between here and hell to fight off the bad muslims from the dark ages. Obamas apologies are of a much scarier playbook.
Are you nuts? GWB ordered the take-down the Afghan Taliban, and Saddam’s Iraq. As I recall, the Muzzies (particularly Hizhallah, et al.), were pretty damn upset by those events — along with the eurotrash media. Or did you miss all that?
Sure, the Islamists are on a roll now, but who’s fault is that?
And Obama ‘killed OBL’ – so what? Those worshiping words about how wonderful Islam is are George Bush’s, not mine, and you think I am the one who is nuts. What are you, some kind of Imam?
I can…….your face.
The building formally known as the White House has become a G-d damned mega mosque whore house of servicing Muslims. The Wimpy Weasel there masquerading as a Commander-In-Chief has no regard for America and it’s Constitution or his own county’s citizens and he is an all out son-of-a-#itch, traitor, and chronic liar!
“Obama Appoints Islam’s Apologists” to his second-term cabinet.
Obama pretends that he is Abraham Lincoln, but he is, in fact the exact opposite. He is Neville Chamberlain.
Look, Obama does not care about Israel. He does not care about the Middle East. He doesn’t care anymore about Egypt’s “Arab Spring” any more than he did about Iran’s “Green Revolution.”
Obama is single-focussed upon “fundamentally changing” the America that the “baby boomers” emerged from.
This is why we “baby-boomers” are often described as the “worst generation” — we have NOTHING of the love of country that our parents had (have); we have no passion; we have no sense of duty.
We (if I may speak for my g-g-g-generation), have nothing but guilt for turning our backs on our older brothers, who suffered and died in the jungles of Viet-Nam; and this disgusting twisted pride for having done so. I was there, and I can tell you that the draft-card burners had one motive: Cowardice.
And so here we are. The Worst Generation, guarding the doors of succeeding generations. And we are stamping them all out in our own cowardly image — scared shitless of stepping into the jungle to face our greatest fears. God knows, I was.
And now we have this fabulous new STATE that came out of f***ing nowhere after the crumbling of the Twin Towers to guarantee our safety and creature comforts. Can’t make it on your own? No problem! Consumed by the unfairness of history and what-all? Step into the fold. We are here for you. Oh yes. Progressive America is there for you, and me, and, gosh, just about everyone. So long as you are not expecting “equal representation” in, uh, the Mainstream Media (including your local news channel) … the current Democratic administration … tenured Academia … the U.S. Congress (see particularly the Senate) … and, oh yes!, Hollywood — Hooray!
Liberal plumb jobs remain LILY white, because, well, it’s all about connections and credentials. You do have those, don’t you?
Well that’s okay, because even if you are clearly not going anywhere, the guilty-white-liberal cappuccino-sipper, has a place for you in the coming Utopia.
But I digress. .. .. Israel.
All I know is that the tinhorns and terror dons who surround Israel know one language, only: Violence. Kill them every opportunity you have. Kill their capos, because nothing makes them howl more that that. The little lives mean nothing to them. The terror dons smile and rub their tummies anytime a little one dies — regardless of which side she is on.
Do not look to America, Israel. Trust in your own courage and strength. I wish there was a “Jewish Lobby” or “Global Jewish Cabal” to save you from the latest holocaustal threat — but you all know better than anyone else that such a shield does not exist.
God bless you and keep you, O Israel. You remain the only culture that can redeem Man from his sins.
Recently the admin has all but sworn they’ll do nothing in Syria. The problem is that people like a winner and right now Al Qaeda looks like its going to win in Syria. For years to come it will be, “We won and the great satan left you out to dry.” Have you seen the videos from the Free Syrian Army?- in all of them they can’t shut up with the “Allah Akbars”
Dear Doctor,
From the very beginning it was the poverty stricken alien that come to America and build this nation bringing with them all their sins and all their repentance given 2nd chances and third and 4th and 5th chance up to 77 times 7 chances as Jesus say in God’s word the Bible and why given such changes ? Because they had no where else to go and their children and their children’s children made a beautiful world for themselves as the dream was kept alive to let other poverty aliens in and Israel copy this
then
someone had the burning desire to let the elite intellectual brilliant smarter than 95% of the people in the world and every single secret nation had is stolen to bring to their homeland as we build bigger walls to keep the poverty people out
Are you an idiot too Doctor for supporting this?
One fact, one question. For years and years Lebanon was a stable power with huge Christian participation and was surrounded on three sides by Syria and never had a problem with them. Since when has it been a policy issue and a preference among Conservatives to oppose the Syrian Regime?
The WH goes apologist while Hollande of France bombs the living hell out of “rebel” Islamic strongholds in Mali; go figure!!!! Hollande obviously knows who the “rebels” are in this case, and he’s apparently not lying or running guns either!!
Miller’s conclusions about the Obama administration are grounded in the research. 2nd term presidents tend to appoint cronies, buddies, and kindred spirits rather than go through the exhaustive search process of finding the best people. This latest crop of Obama appointees are worse than usual. Plus, what does choosing Chuck Hagel or Brennan say about Obama. If these are the people he chooses to hang around with, God help us all. At least W’s Harriette Meir was competent and mainsteam.
” An Egyptian magazine has claimed that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.
The December 22 story was published in Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine and was translated into English for the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). The story suggests the six turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers, IPT said.
The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164009#.UPGOWY6UAy6
This has been Obama’s plan all along. Convert all of the Mulsim lands to the Islamic crescent. Look how the dominoes are falling and ask yourself if it can be coincidence.
well, fortunately the Islamists will spit in their eye. Let’s see how long they keep telling us that’, no, it’s just rain…..
Here it is a sign to change this secularism’s new world order with that link
http://www.islam-2012-newworldorder.com
Spread that link around the world for the call to freedom of all muslim nations around the world !
When the man wears a ring that states “there is no god but Allah” what do you expect from our Muslim in Chief. Those of us who respect truth have known from the beginning that Obama was a muslim and not a Christian. The Good Book says that if a nation ever abandons the laws of God, then God will put women and wimps in place of leadership. Our abandonment began in the 60′s when we kicked God out of the schools and make infanticide legal. We are now moving full steam ahead with legalizing sodomy. We have the leadership we deserve and America will soon fall if we don’t change course.
These appointments are indeed worrisome but not unexpected. What truly is disheartening is that America has been coopted by its enemies from within. Enemies Hitler would have admired for their cunning bloodless stealth.
As for Syria and the Assad regime, I will beg to differ in that while the Assad regime is hostile to Israel (ultimately all its neighbors are and have been) it represented a stable status quo (relatively speaking) entity, whereas what may replace it will make those who wished for its demise look back with nostalgia. Sometimes one has to chose between the lesser evil and states/societies as pragmatic actors must be prepared to reconfigure (sometimes in haste) their foreign/national security policy.Remember vividly my conversations around Syria in ’91 and even then it was a time bomb. The Aramaic Christians hated the Arab Muslims and Assad…but today they look to him as though he is a savior and/or their last best hope. So nothing is ever static. Ironic, that it is the Russians that are turning out to be Assad’s loyal ally and not the Persian mullahs who have always been a conniving, duplicitous bunch within and without Persia (Iran was a Reza Shah construct in 1935…1935…derivative of “Aryan” to identify w/the racist Nazis…unfortunate the Brits after they had him removed/replaced by his son didn’t pressure the last Shah to reverse back to Persia vice Iran). In a sense, the mullahs best reflect the ethos behind the name “Iran” as they are yet another version of the Nazi totalitarian ideology. Apologize for digressing w/this little tidbit but it is for those who may not be aware and that terms/names have psychological/ideological significance.
You know how it is, islamists have to stick together, no easy task destroying a country from within.
Watch the video on Youtube of Herr von Hagel defending the Palestinian terrorists, explaining that they are desperate because of their mistreatment by Israel and they do not plan, their acts are not terrorism, they are “tactics.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F-tEy1CrdE. It looks like something that might have been filmed in 1939 at Hitler’s headquarters.
I hope someone in Congress asks Hagel if he would categorize 9/11 as a tactic.
Come to think of it, I would like to get Hussein Obama’s categorization. Would he call it workplace violence? It is time for daily protests in front of the White house by large crowds of disgusted Americans. We can’t impeach him on his antisemitism and his support for the Muslim Brotherhood and love affair with the unholy Koran but he certainly should be impeached for his coverup of Benghazi. Get that man out of the White House before he destroys America.
Both the New and Old Testaments tell us that the antichrist will promise peace, yet deliver war and misery.
He will be aided by a False Prophet who also delivers soothng words of peace that hide a cult of death.
PAY ATTENTION and remember – the false messiah comes BEFORE Christ, claiming to BE Christ so as to lead as many as he can away from the true path.
In the months and years ahead, when you hear people celebrating, saying that Jesus has come back (He’s here! He’s back!) KNOW that they follow the False One.
This is an amazing article. Really well done.