The Global War
Killing Americans serves several purposes in the war being waged against us (we have yet to seriously engage against our known enemies): first, it’s what the war is all about. They want us dead or dominated. Second, it helps recruitment, which had dropped after the defeat of Iran, Syria, and al-Qaeda in Iraq. Morale had also dropped, and stories claiming that the top American in Libya had been raped before he was executed feeds the blood lust of jihadists, whose language and fantasies are rich with such images. Third, it enhances the power of the unseen moving hand. Fourth, it discourages our current and would-be friends and allies.
No serious person believes that an obscure movie shown to less than a dozen people many months ago was the “cause” of the simultaneous assaults in Cairo and Benghazi. Or that the assaults were unrelated, let alone spontaneous. Or that there was no state actor involved in the operation.
The event is strikingly similar to the “cartoon riots” against Denmark. In both cases. there was no reaction to the original “offense” against Islam. Many months passed before the cartoons — duly altered to enhance the presumed “Islamophobia” — were publicly displayed to justify a carefully planned campaign that turned out to have been crafted by the Iranian regime and its Syrian ally. In the current case, the Iranians were ready with a crowd to demonstrate at the Swiss embassy in Tehran (our surrogate in Iran).
If the cartoon crisis is a good model, it will be a while before we sort out the identities of the various actors. But it seems unlikely to me that those who chanted “Don’t shoot, Morsi made me do it” were truth-tellers. Manipulators do not come out early to take credit for their schemes. This thing took time to organize; and simultaneous terrorist attacks are the trademark of Hezbollah (aka Iran) who taught the technique to bin Laden in Afghanistan (or was it Sudan? Senior moments abound).
Whoever masterminded it has scored a win against the United States, and signals to our friends and enemies that killing Americans incurs no cost. All will be reminded of the long, bloody chain running from the bombings of our embassy and the Marine barracks in Lebanon through Khobar Towers to 9/11, whose anniversary was celebrated in the best jihadi fashion in Libya and Egypt. All will see an America that apologizes to our killers as we retreat from Afghanistan and slash our military power. All will be reminded of Clinton’s humiliation in Somalia, and Carter’s humiliation in Iran, and Reagan’s humiliation in Lebanon. If you believe that sanctions can win this war, you should ponder the effect on countries and corporations deciding how rigorously to cooperate with us.
The first thing a new President needs to do is clean house at the pentagon. It has become nothing but a G_d damned mega mosque whore house of servicing mulsims and islam.
I would include the State Department along with the Pentagon.
I thought few people noticed the easy with which our Generals throw our troops under the proverbial bus, while pleading understanding for the enemy’s culture. What happened to our warriors?
WWII and the Civl War both started with needing to weed out the peacetime parade-ground Generals and Admirals. This war is no different. Just have to elect a government that’s willing to fight and it will find the officers it needs to lead the troops. But as long as we have a government run by the likes of Obama and his pathetic cronies, they will find officers to dither and backpedal.
Steady on, upper echelon State Dep’t and Pentagon peacocks follow simple directions and have their uses: ‘You’re going to help clear that minefield. Walk that-a-way. Full ahead. Don’t look back.’
Exactly right.
Nimitz was promoted over 28 Flag Officers to succed Kimmel following 12/7/41.
Roosevelt actually wanted to win the war, not the admiration of the brass.
Many are allergic to truth telling, but most readers (minus the trolls) at PJM know the score.
Therefore, the following will (most) likely resonate, and hopefully add to the west’s arsenal. Most intrinsically, readers must cease trying to separate one Islamist group from another. While they have their differences – one vying for power over another – their main thrust is the destruction of the west.
Firstly, they are laser-focused on Jerusalem, but then their sights are set towards Washington, via much assistance from the Islamist-in-Chief.
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Time to get with the program!
Islam is an aggressive, totalitarian ideology disguised as a religion. I do not believe Judeo-Christian based societies can peacefully co-exist with Islam. Continued appeasement of Islam will inevitably lead to catastrophe.
True enough, but the FIRST first thing we need is a new President!
As bad as all of this is, perhaps it has a silver lining. One can only hope that the gut-wrenching disgust felt by some Americans over what is going on in the Middle East, as well as over the response of Obama and his minions, spreads to those who have been too busy living their own lives to notice what has been happening. Hopefully, this apparent indifference by Obama and the current administration will be the spark that lights the fire under the silent majority and cooks Obama’s goose.
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Repeal the 17th, enforce the 10th and may God bless America!
Ain’t it the truth. The State Dept has always been full of traitors, but an irresponsible Pentagon really has been a shocker through two losing wars now.
Back in the 70/80′s my brother said a shave head does not mean they are not a hippie. We are now 4th generation military in May 2012 my nephew became a submariner (even his liberal Mom is proud).
It is time to acknowledge the obvious; the clash of civilizations has been joined. There is no reconciling our liberal Western traditions and ethos with the primitive theology of Islam. It is a bridge too far. The philosophical differences cannot be papered over or finessed. The dry rot embraced by John Kerry, master of nuance, and asshole extraordinaire, Jimmeh Carter, failed peanut farmer, Barak Obama, intellectual non-entity, and the dedcomposing carcass that is the democrat party as now reformulated by the extreme left, must be scourged and excised. If not now, when? If not us, who?
Anders Breivik was just ahead of the curve.
I think you should clarify, expand on your remark. It is a little too cryptic for some of us.
Breivik was the shooter in the Norwegian mass killing awhile back. I don’t know that we want this guy to explain further.
Carla, I think you are my cousin. And if you’re not the woman with whom I reconnected after many years, you share her opinions and political philosophy and impart them succinctly in this medium.
Allison
May your cousin be blessed with health, prosperity and a long life.
C
In a sense we are supporting the regime opposition in Iran.
We are doing this by letting the Mullocracy bleed in Syria (although I doubt that anyone high up in the Obama admin sees it this way). Already a few dozen to a few hundred fully armed IRG types have appeared in Syria with a few hundred to a few thousand or so less armed. Some of them have become fatalities. Between $3B and $10B of the Mullocracy’s funds have gone to subsidize Assad in the past 18 months. Turkey and Iran have become very suspicious of each other. The Iranian rial, which even without the Syria problem, is something of a wackadoodle of a currency, has become more unstable and, at least on the blackmarket, has fallen up to 20% in the past 18 months.
Slower please might be a better strategy
Except for that pesky little problem of Iran’s nuclear program. Slower please? Are you serious?
We can start with supporting the party that is trying to beat Chavez. Then move to Lebanon and get hezzbollah’s leader who lives in a bunker. And while were doing this support the true people of Iran who want to live free.
What we need is some cojones. Sarah Palin for Commander-in-chief!
No,no, I definitely disagree.
Whenever I think of her I think of her resigning as Governor of Alaska, apparently her own choice, although I forget now what her prompt was.
Even if she had a few successes or “wins” while in office, they can’t trump a resignation in the middle of her term. That’s not a mark of a National Leader.
Why did she stand for election? Just because she could? Governors can’t just “change their minds”.
Let’s, instead, look at the steadfastness (I like that old-fashioned word) of John Bolton. Now, he’d be a welcome asset just about anywhere he’d want to be assigned.
The “Clash of Civilations” has been going on for centuries. We took time out to have our own Civil Wars (Ours in the 19th Century, the Europeans in the 20th)and now it’s back to the one that counts. It’ll be a while before we engage fully, in the meantime I ave the unpleasant feeling that befoer we are done the 50 million lost in WW2 are going to look like a rounding error.
My God in Heaven! The muslim problem would be so easy to solve. We just find the monster with the most smarts and most balls in any given region, arm him to the teeth, assuring him total dictatorial control ( only gubmint these goons are fit for ) and tell him if even one terrorist attack is launched against the western world from his sector or his allies, whatever city he is in will be nuked. If we miss him we just keep glassing over major population centers until we get him. Crazy? We’d do it to nazis if they came back. We did it to the Japanese. But we choose suicide instead these days.
Caveat: OK &ussies. You can use 20,000 lb bombs.
Well, that’s pretty much what the Western Powers and Russia/USSR had done since the 17th Century. The British and French had their strongmen, the Germans flirted with having client states as did the Russians. From The Black Sea to China there was a constant chess game between the British and Russians to move one or another minor and a few major potentates from one side to the other and British policy was dictated by maintaining control over access to India from the North to keep the Russians from casting a coveteous eye on it. As the Ottomans began to run out of the wealth and power the Muslims had confiscated over the years from the Byzantines and their empire began to whither, the Russians and later Soviets made inroads into the Ottoman and British spheres of influence. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, the local tribes, potentates, and kings were organized into something like the countries on the map today, though few of them have any reason for being other than lines drawn by Western diplomats. After WWII, the US supplanted to British and French as the patron of various strongmen and other titular leaders and the Soviets used Muslim opposition to Israel to get clients heretofore inaccessible to them. A rough stasis prevailed until that idiot Carter didn’t have the CIA give Khomeni a 9mm brain hemorhage and Iran fell out of the US orbit and has been a trouble maker ever since. Iraq was generally a Soviet client as was Syria and militarily at least Egypt and Libya were, though both played the coy non-aligned game. The Muslim World was basically kept in relative peace by patron states propping up strongmen in client states and pushing and tugging at each other to try to turn them from one side to the other. It is beyond me why GWB, personal revenge notwithstanding, would want to replace a relatively secular but Sunni-aligned Bath’ist regime in a country that was bound to become Shia dominated. Likewise, Syria, the last nominally secular Bath’ist power left. Now in the aftermath of the fall of Sunni power in Iraq and with the ascendency of whatever the Hell Comrade Obama’s policy towards the Muslim World purports to be, the whole of Southwest Asia and North Africa is poised to come under radical Shite hegemony. Except for The Zionist Entity, Ottoman irredenta in The Balkans, and Moorish Spain, the Caliphate at the height of its scope and power has just about been restore. Soon, soon …
Agreed. However, despite having been a Carter supporter at the time, I wanted Iran nuked as a response to Khomeini’s actions. Admittedly, I was a hot head and a 9mm Luger would have probably done the job admirably. I believe nothing short of a carpet bombing will work now.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
F-in A!
Ilike your plan. I think it has legs.
One of the most effective policies to defeat the Islamists, is to to all out drill for oil & gas in the U.S. and off our coastal waters, plus use our vast coal reserves and of course nuclear. It would crater the price of oil and topple Iran, plus a few other regimes that depend on high prices to fund not only their economies, but also Jihad.
Then we need to get a new President. The current policy of bending over to make Muslims feel good is a giant disaster. I never in my lifetime thought that I would live to see a President that is worse than Jimmah Carter. Appeasemnt never works, it only encourages them. And get some Marines that have real bullets in their guns at the embassies or shut them down. And pull the foreign aid for every Muslim country, plus the vile United Nations.
Oh and pray. Things are such a mess, only God can save us.
You gotta want to be saved.
We did it once before: Alaska’s North Slope and the North Sea provinces were brought into production in the late ’70s, early ’80s with the highest uplift rates of any major fields in the World. Uplift rate is production as a percentage of known reserves. In other words, the US, GB, and Norway were sucking those fields dry as fast as they could. Crude was nominally $35/bbl. in 1981 and by ’86 had fallen to less than $10/bbl. It was Hell for the Oil Patch; there were lots of paydays that we sweated whether the State of Alaska’s pay checks would cash in those years. That Godawful uplift rate is the reason Alaska is going to be a Helluva lot less than cooperative with the US about offshore developement in the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea provinces. They are both in federal waters but under the Statehood Act, we’re supposed to get 90% of the revenue from federal waters. Of course the US has never honored any of its committments in the Statehood Act. We endured almost two decades of penury and saw our production go from over 2MM/bbl./dy. to now less than .6MM/bbl./dy. today so the Lower 48 could have cheap gas and drive Escalades. We’re not giving away oil again and while it is federal oil, they have to get it out through Alaska and we’ll get our price or they won’t get the oil out.
In rough terms, North America has 25% of the worlds known oil reserves and only 10% of the population. We have abundant natural gas and coal. We have great nuclear know-how. There should be no Middle East oil problem for us. Our strategy should be to lend aid and military support to any democracy there that needs us. Let the other countries do their thing for another 1000 years but destroy any attempts at nuclearization. If they come here and cause trouble, we’ll deal with it as it happens.
The US actually imports very little oil from the Middle East or from anywhere outside the Western Hemisphere. Our gallant European allies and our Asian trading partners use a LOT of Middle Eastern oil the supply of which we have protected for them. If we cared as much for the Europeans as they for we, we would let them figure out how to manage their oil issues without our help; we could live nicely off our own and other Western Hemisphere oil sources and if Hugo didn’t like what we’d done, we could simply kill the SOB. We here in Alaska would very much like to export oil to Asia since they have much more refinery capacity and we don’t have to pay the Godawful transportation costs to the US West Coast on double bottom, US built, and US union crewed tankers that eat the well-head value of our oil.
There is usually a union story within any story where government policy is involved. The annoying thing is that they sell us on the idea that this extra cost is extracted from the oil companies. But it is always passed on to the consumer. The only reason that unionization works for some is that the rest of us foot the bill. If we all made expensive and unreasonable demands on our employers, then everything would cost more and no one would be ahead on the average. The typical non-union private sector person just cannot see this irrefutable truth.
I have never forgiven Reagan for not carpet bombing the Beqaa Valley after the Marines were murdered. One fully loaded B-52 bombing run for each Marine.
Syria was a Soviet client and they might have had some objection to our carpetbombing their client.
Syria? There’s enough of Bekaa in Lebanon, swarming with Iranian operatives.
But to Reagan. They say he was a Cold Warrior and he didn’t understand what the Lebanon attack was, namely the first salvo in World War IV (III being the Cold War). We had FDR for II, Reagan for III, and ??? for IV. For the record, I don’t think ??? will be Romney, even if he wins two terms. We won’t get serious on Islamist ass until 2021.
“They say he was a Cold Warrior”? Excuse me. Does the Soviet Union still exist? Reagan played the game his way and won. He is not responsible for what susequent presidents did to squander his legacy.
Yes, the Soviet Union still exists. Sure, they changed the name, and the flag, but it’s still the same enemy, still has a KGB man in charge. As usual the US snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by not supporting pro-US factions in Russia as fully as possible.
More importantly, the Cold War had more than two major players, China simply changed it’s strategy. And, as of this writing, they are winning the Cold War hands down, using the oldest of the communists gambits. . . turning capitalist greed against us. Popular culture when I was a child made fun of the Indians for selling Manhattan for a handful of beads. . . today we’ve sold the whole country for cheap tinkets at Wal-Mart, and iPhones.
It’s not WW 4.
It is THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR.
See comment #17 below.
~ The Infidel Alliance
I.Alliance! No, this war is probably IV? it is against the global network of terrorists and against the senior terror masters. the great “Prof. Norman Podhoretz” in his book “World War IV” shows that how the global war against Islamofascism is as vital and necessary as the two World wars and the Third War that was against evil empire (Soviet Union).
Article over on American Thinker called ‘time for Real-World intel on Iran’ was on 9/11. Basically it said that there are a lot of anyalists (or data handlers) who downplay the threat of Iran’s nukes, or for Reagan the connection of the Soviets to supporting not just the terrorist states like Syria, but directing them to support terrorism. Thus Soviet monies were buying ‘clean hands’ and terrorists. Without confirmation, Reagan was hard pressed to go further than he did.
I suspect part of this is the result of WW1 and WW2 in Europe with all the attendant ‘WW1 was a mistake, and WW2 resulted from Treaty of Versilles from the mistakes of WW1… if we all play nice we can avoid killing another 50million+’ …. at this point I’d say we are going to kill a few, it is just a choice of when. Hitler opposed in 1938, or even in 1936 (Occupation of the Rurh valley about 3 months to early) and WW2 is avoided, or deminished in magnitude
less than 60 days to longer needing to impeach obummer -
if we can make it.
K’siva v’Chasima Tova
- a year of good health, shalom, bracho and simcha for you and your readers.
yes slower
Iran has had U 235 at 20% for a long time. What’s stopping them from going to 95%. The answer is Syria.
I’m glad you’re so confident and I hope you’re right. But with all due respect, how would you know anything concrete about Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities? What do they need Syria for anyway once they have nukes? It would seem logical to me that their nuclear program is their highest priority. Anyway, they seem quite capable of playing in Syria and continuing their enrichment.
U enrichment from 20% to 95% is pretty straightforward but it takes a lot of centrifuges spinning fast. It takes a lot of electricity to do this. It takes a lot of work to bring the other components together. It takes a lot of high level monitoring to make sure the engineers keep to the program and don’t spill information to the international watchers. It takes higher level monitoring to watch the high level monitoring. It takes a lot of attention from the council of guardians and a lot of briefings to the ayatollah in chief.
Yes, both could be done at the same time but its not easy having two super high priority projects both of which have to have day to day management by the same people.
Thank you for explaining that. And I sincerely do hope that your assessment is correct. I just worry that although both things may be high priority, one is higher and the Iranian theocracy knows that. Or at least enough of them do. From what I have observed, they are quite savvy about controlling the populace by alternating with pseudo-reforms and then cracking down. I think we are dealing with a relatively sophisticated organization and, while I will never underestimate the ability of fundamentalists to overplay their hand, I don’ think we can at all rely on that. And it’s a calculation we can’t afford to get wrong. Nukes in their hands are a nightmare scenario. The stuff of armageddon movies…
Joyt
Yes, as you point out they might be able to distinguish a higher priority and that higher priority might be getting nukes and they might then be able to put it all together without the monitors (or our satellites or our various other electronic protocols and devices) noticing.
Even given all that, it is still, IMO, a good strategy to let the Syrian situation continue in a violent stalemate and let the Iranian national guard firm up their presence in Syria and, thus, suffer more casualties and let the Iranians Govt. divert resources to Syria. Everyone of those things helps the Iranian opposition. If Dr. Ledeen wants to help the Iranian opposition, then that’s the best way to do it and the easiest.
Of course, the violent stalement in Syria means a lot of innocents dying and that is heart breaking. But there is no assurance that armed intervention in that conflict would reduce the deaths. Sadly, in the real world, there are sometimes going to be innocent lives lost that are a consequence of policies that are, nonetheless, needed.
“Mixed signals”. Romney said “mixed signals” and to expand on that that has been the mideast policy for years. ‘We will give you money to be our friends, we will bribe you, buy your oil, introduce democracy, befriend your tyrants, take your insults, celebrate you,appease you, arm you, and drone assassinate the trouble makers.
A diplomatic outpost is American soil, and attacking that is an act of war. Attacking several outpost is a probe for a larger attack. That is the square one baseline. At that intersection there should be no mixed signals, no compromise, no speeches about the right to free speech and religion. The not mixed signal is the line not to cross.
I must disagree with you for the first time, Mr. Ledeen. I believe we (America) will never know an enduring and true peace with Islam. Not because we wouldn’t welcome such an event, but obviously because the muslims would never agree to a peace with either capitalism or Christianity. Sadly, we must accept our inescapable role as Christian Soldiers and fight for our culture, our very survival, just as we fought the fascism of Germany and Japan seven decades ago. Fortunately, thanks in large part to George W. Bush’s military buildup, we have the capacity, but do we have the will? Enough is enough. Expel the muslim brotherhood spies and operatives within our own government and ruthlessly defend American lives and interest around the globe.
The first offensive should begin immediately. I am a 46-years-old multiple combat veteran (U.S. Army-82nd Abn/1st Ranger Bn) retired after 22 1/2 years service. I will volunteer immediately to serve in any capacity our leaders find suitable for my service. God Bless America.
Agreed. It is ANOTHER Islamic world war. The first was stopped in the 1570′s at the naval Battle of Lepanto. All that stood between the Ottoman Empire and conquest of Europe was a coalition of galleys from various Christian principalities. They consigned their cause to the Virgin Mary and prayer of the Rosary. They defeated the Islamists but Islam is spread by the sword~~it is not a “peaceful” religion. It’s their way or….death. They are beginning a new assault and the question is, do we have the WILL to defend ourselves?
Actually the first successful defeat of Muslims was in 678 when the Byzantines destroyed a Muslim fleet in the Sea of Marmara. The second major defeat was the destruction of an Arab army and fleet by the Byzantines in 718. Just shows what can be done by a determined resistance to Islam. However you are correct in mentioning Lepanto as a historical turning point.
Religion is a mental illness.
Wrong, I say. Organized religions are usually followed by the mentally ill and are doggedly intransigent in pursuit of their own institutional survival. Many religious people are not insane, being legitimately concerned about the unknowable future of all mortals. The Islamic religion is not a religion at all. It is a controlling institution and most Islamist followers are therefore pretty much insane. ABO2012
Invariably, “name callers” only describe themselves…
Atheism, secularism, humanism, agnostic’s et al have one thing in common: they “believe”…exactly as self described “religious” people “believe”; but there is a difference…Atheist ultimately become cannibals.
EG: The correct description could therefore be: The ultra religiously secular Kelly Staples “believes” and is assumed to be a true “believer” in…exactly as the Pope is a true believer…
This is a real stretch. Just say you are offended by the insult of religious people. Don’t try redefining an agnostic as a religious person. Maybe an atheist can be construed as to being religious about his atheism, but an agnostic is, by definition of the term, not religious. Humanists can be described safely as being somewhat religious, I suppose. But the necessity to include every term used to describe non religious persons as a support to your attempt to turn the insult upon the insulting party is heroic, if not very convincing. To be just as insulting and equally convincing, just say that Kelly Staples is insane. You savvy.
OK – After November and the Conservatives occupy Washington in January the Leftists and the RINOs better run for the hills. Under the Nuremberg Principles there are a lot of crimes they need to answer for. Now I know many of you may think this Brooklynite is a nut and extemist but don’t you think 16 trillion and surrounding yourself with admirers of Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Dong a bit extreme. The election is over except for the voting. The press has been exposed as a propaganda tool (I always knew that) of the left and the DNC. I was there in 79 and 80 but this time you SOBs there ain’t going to be no hostage situation. This time I’m definitely getting some lambs blood. Have any of you seen the dust rising in Egypt? It’s Ramses and the Chariots and they still haven’t learned there lesson. Long live America and the children of Abraham, Issac, Israel and David. Sarah was right all along. The line of Ismael has spit in the face of God and placed the idol of Mecca above him. They were given the wealth of the world and praised God with murder, deception and glutony. Those who stand against the line of Israel stand against the blessing of Sarah.
All of us in these forums have wailed about Iran and the Middle East for over thirty years. If it wasn’t the Mullahs or Saddam, it was HezBollah or Arafat. On occasion it was Syria and Lebanon. For these over thirty years we have cajoled, bribed, threatened, ignored, sanctioned our way into a fine pickle. The poor village idiot who graces the peoples’ house doesn’t know the difference between a client state and an ally. Nor does he care.
What would happen IF we were serious? Let’s say that we developed our energy sources to their potential. What would be the result? What if every country of this region were declared out of bounds and the whole of the middle East were embargoed? What would happen if no ships, no air traffic, no trade were allowed? What if the whole of the area were declared a no-fly zone patrolled by armed drones? As crazy as it sounds, it’s very feasible.
Sure, China would step in and gobble up all of the petroleum assets. The Europeans would take what was left which is the Russian production. But then who would China sell its plastic ware to?
The point is that this people would knuckle under and wait for the next scheduled grain delivery. They can’t feed themselves. Not one country in the Middle East including Israel can feed itself. Not one. David Goldman has written about this extensively. The only thing sustaining the politics of the Middle East is the arrogance that comes from sitting on those oil reserves. If they became irrelevant, perhaps a little modesty would prevail.
I have this crazy fantasy that there are drones flying over every Muslim country armed with Hellfire missiles and EVERYTHING with wings is a target on the ground. No muss, no fuss, no fly.
There would be no angst over putting troops on the ground. Taking out every surface-to-air site would conclude the airshow. Let them understand that no visas, no foreign aid, no petroleum wealth would leave them sifting the sand for the leftover seed that was brought in ten years ago and given to them. I’m sick of it. The idea that we give them the tools with which to kill and massacre us is offensive to me.
There is NO country on earth that can defeat us IF we choose not to roll over. This is madness.
The first duty of an officer is to protect his men. We seem to have very few, if any, men left in our general officer ranks, while the unopposed slaughter of our real men continues with breathtaking profligacy.
It well could be that Romney’s finest hour is about to unfold. The righteous anger simmering below the surface was hard to miss. If he gets angry enough and gets the helm, I believe he’ll move like a hot knife through butter to turn the impotent degeneracy that passes for our national “security” and foreign policy on its head.
When he expanded on the planks of his foreign policy–“confidence in our cause, clarity of purpose, and resolve in our might”– he described the exact course correction we need to make. He convinced me he means to do it.
Re your:
“It well could be that Romney’s finest hour is about to unfold. The righteous anger simmering below the surface was hard to miss. ”
I hope that that righteous anger is widespread among our lower income levels to overcome the mindless 53% who put our Chameleon in office. I doubt that though. I think it’ll be a very near thing like Bush/Gore, because those mindless-charisma-oriented 53% frankly don’t have the insight to understand the harm their Obama is doing. They’re not open to reason and evidence.
All that their ilk want is to continue “sticking it” to th’Man and continue with their entitlement “attitudes”.
Dr. Ledeen and fellow readers,
We must face the facts:
1) Obama is an Islamophile with an Islamic civilizational consciousness, not a Western civilizational consciousness.
2) We are not in a ‘War on Terror’.
3) We are in THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR
4) Obama is aiding and abetting the enemy, who in word and deed seeks to destroy us, facilitating bin Laden’s vision of a militant supremecist Islamic Super-State.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR – We are not the only targets of the current Islamic jihad.
It is Islam against:
- the Catholics in the Philippines
- the Ahmadiyya and Christians in Indonesia
- Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia, decapitated for Ramadan
- infidel Western cafe patrons in Hindu Bali, blown up twice
- Australian women in Sydney (Islamic rape brigades)
- the ethnic Chinese, Christians and non-Muslims in Malaysia
- the Buddhists in Thailand
- the Hindus & Sikhs in India
- the Zoroastrians (exterminated), Jews, Christians, Baha’i and homosexuals in Iran
- the atheist Chinese in Xinjiang
- Russian schoolchildren in Beslan
- the Chaldean Christians in Iraq
- the Jews in Israel, Mumbai, Toronto, Seattle, Caracas, Buenos Aires…wherever Jews live
- the Coptic Christians in Egypt
- the Christians, animists and pagans in Somalia
- the Christians in Sudan, Kenya and Uganda
- the Christians in Mali and Nigeria
- American Embassies in Libya, Egypt, Tanzania & Kenya
- Spanish train commuters in Madrid
- bus and tube commuters in London
- French civilization in France
- Jews in France – Read the grisly story of Ilan Halimi
- Swedish civilization in Malmo
- Swedish women(Islamic rape brigades)
- the Dutch in Rotterdam
- Danish cartoonists, death fatwa
- Dutch politicians, savagely murdered, death fatwas
- Dutch cinematographer Theo van Gogh, savagely murdered
- American soldiers on a bus in Frankfurt
- Western civilization in Germany (home of 9/11 plotters)
- Western Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, decapitated
- Nicholas Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong, decapitated
- Airport in Scotland, blown up
- Pan Am Flight 103, blown out of the sky
- infidel Christmas day Delta airline passengers, Islamic underwear bomber
- infidel American Airlines flight 63 passenger, Islamic convert shoe bomber Richard Reid
- the Free Worlds financial center, the Twin Towers, bombed in ’93, destroyed in ’01
- the Free Worlds defence center, the Pentagon
- heroic infidel United 93 passengers, incinerated in crash
- soldiers at Ft. Hood, slaughtered by Islamist infiltrator Maj. Nidal Hassan MD
- Times Square pedestrians, failed islamic car bomber
- military recruiters in Little Rock, assasinated by Islamic convert
- Western-Latin civilization in Paraguay/Brazil/Argentina tri-border region, Hebollah base
And on, and on, and on…
It is Islam against all non-Islamic peoples, civilizations and territories. It is unending, universal holy war, JIHAD, inspired by Allah, mandated by Muhammed and commanded in the Koran.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR – it’s real. It’s the real conflict we are in.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR – We must get this term into our modern lexicon and use it!
~ The Infidel Alliance
(Please feel free to copy and circulate this)
We must also understand the Islamic ‘prime directive’ that is making these fellow human beings, these Muslims, engage in this ISLAMIC WORLD WAR. Straight from the Islamic ‘holy’ texts:
Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 327: – “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
Muslim (1:33) – the Messenger of Allah, Muhammed, said “have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Quran (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.”
Quran (8:39) – “And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion should be only for Allah”
Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Quran (48:29) – “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves”
Quran (61:4) – “Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way”
Quran (61:9): “He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist.”
Bukhari (52:220) – Allah’s Apostle Muhammed said “I have been made victorious with terror.”
Islam’s prime directive…..COULD IT BE ANY MORE CRYSTAL CLEAR???
~ The Infidel Alliance
DHIMMINOT is a term I prefer.
Islam is comprehensive (religion, law, behavior, to-do list,dress code, and menu)and miniature. In it are those who prefer the earlier verses, sit by the road and friend to man; and those who prefer the later verses about liquidation and achieving rule. Our present difficulty is with the Later Verse Enthusiasts.
Islam recognizes their tremendous vulnerability that the Early Verse Enthusiasts may convert to something more nourishing, such as Christianity etc.
My preference is to tell Islam not to harm the Dhimmi masses or else, and otherwise let Islam do Sharia and follow the reform guidance (10th Century?) on avoiding pollution and apostasy. A Muslim outside of Dar al Islam is considered a colonist with loyalty only to Islam. We should acknowledge that. We should not soil Islam with trade in objects produced by blasphemy. Muslim students in the West should not study blasphemy such as anything to do with science or natural law or music, just subjects related to religion and literature and history of crafts and trading. Sharia will make Dar al Islam into the envy of the world.
Unfortunately Americans like many past civilization never learned from history. Everyone assumes that my enemy of my enemy is my friend and he can help me defeat my enemy. Absolutely not, the enemy of enemy still and always be my enemy. After WWII Churchill warned FDR of the incoming threat of USSR, but he ignored it, as a result we got half of a century of cold war. Then comes USSR invasion of Afghanistan and what Jimmy the peanut farmer do? He creates an alliance with radical Islamist against USSR. The result? Exactly what happened after WWII, the new enemy ended up more deadly than old one. When it comes to war is kill or be killed. You decide.
Almost all of the region’s mischief is financed by Iran. And Iran get’s it’s revenue from one thing: petroleum. It seems to me that almost everything in Iran would come to a screeching halt very quickly (including it’s nuclear program) if the oil stopped flowing.
And I hear on the John Batchelor show (WMAL, DC) that “The FBI has joined the hunt in Libya for the people that attacked the embassy.” Once more, treating an act of war as a police action.
It appears that the American people has lost its will. Or, the American people has changed so much – demographically and in terms of education level – that all these plans can’t be enacted. Or, if they might be, then only with a strong, conservative President. We all know Obama is not that President; to even think about that possibility for a second causes massive, brief waves of dissonance to flow. In my opinion, Romney is also not that President, though he is certainly necessary to stop an American collapse and slide into near-total chaos.
I believe the problem is at home, it’s internal, intrinsic and so on. The average person does not support massive energy exploration and recovery. The average voter does not demand that his or her representatives get off their rear ends and drill for oil, and dig coal, while exploring green sources simultaneously.
About the regime in Iran, well, Obama has propped it up by not supporting the June protesters from 2009. It does look like Israel – against the will of the United States (and perhaps against Romney’s preferences as well) – will take the actions, for reasons of survival, that may lead to the end of the ‘Twelvers’ regime in Iran..
America fight back!? Now there is a comic line if there ever was one. The Iranians have killed hundreds of Americans and used to get a few empty threats. Now they get pleas.
A nation that elects someone like Barack Obama president is dying, I dread what is going to follow.
First, the video trailer, first uploaded in July. No one much heard of it, much less seen it. The hits it managed on YouTube were minimal. Suddenly, in the days leading up to 2011 anniversary of 9/11, it came out of left field and went viral.
The second point to note is that there now videos. The first one was produced in English by some private parties. The second video, which is at the centre of these attacks, dubbed in Arabic and is mostly shown on TV, not YouTube, by state-owned stations and the likes of Al Arabiya and Hezbollah.
There is already speculation on the BBC (actually, tip-toeing around the issue without ever coming to grips with it). It is being said the second video is not a straight-forward dubbing, but it was doctored, in a very ameteurish ways. There are voice-overs, which were not there in the original video.
The third point is that in the intervening weeks between July and now, someone got hold of the first video, produced the second video and then waited for 9/11. The rest is now history.
There is more to come. Morsi has instructed his Embassy in America to file suit against the producers and will name the State Dept in that suit. Morsi has also called for a million-man “peaceful protest” in front of Egypt’s mosques. The protests have spread far and wide, faster than any California wildfire.
OK, let me get this straight.
According to you Dr, Iran is behind al-Qaeda(plus other Sunni jihadist/radical types) and is ultimately responsible for the murderous attack on our consulate and the besieging of our embassies. Maybe
The US, its Western Allies, and Arab Gulf paymasters, are behind the Syrian “rebels”, who are actually a bunch or Sunni jihadist/al-Qaeda mercenaries (Libyans amongst them), attacking the Iranian interest in its Syrian ally. That’s a certainty.
According to you, it seems as if the US and Iran are employing the same or same types of outfits to wage war against one another.
Care to explain how this could be possible? Other than al-Qaeda types thinking they are somehow dealing a blow to both the “Great Satan” and the “Shia Heresy” simultaneously, I see no answer other than you being dead wrong. Then, you do still think Christian Russia is the Godless USSR.
PS
What possible “mortal enemies” can Brazil and Argentina have for Heaven’s sake? Unless you are referring to the UK in regard to Argentina and the Falklands…. Chavez couldn’t threaten his mama, let alone Brazil.
so far as i know we aren’t doing anything of the sort either in syria or iran. and brazil and argentina are very worried about iran, which after all committed mass murder in buenos aires, and iranian aooies venezueoa, nicaragua. bolivia and ecuador.
As far as I can tell, Brazil is even against Iranian sanctions, or at least was very recently; Lula even hosted the Iranian weirdo when he came to visit. Hardly a nation agitating for war with Iran. Argentina seems to be in much the same camp. I don’t think either nation is calling for war with Iran.
There also seems to be zero evidence of Iranian involvement with the 1994 Argentine terror incident. Our own Ambassador said so.
I bet we could put an end to this “war” if simply popped some nukes on top of the latest offenders, say Tripoli, and Benghazi.
Oh, and bounce a practice bomb labeled “20KT” off the back of the Aswan Dam.
Once the Muzzies (and esp. their leaders!) know that the price for attacking Americans is indiscriminate annihilation, this will quiet down, FAST! They aren’t THAT enamoured of their 72 virgins…
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0kY9nwHdY&feature=watch-vrec
Hate to do this because I agree entirely – but the correct first sentence of the Churchillian quote is:
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor.”
mr ledeen………you’re Beautiful man….just Beautiful……..
let get rid of these basters in iran…………and all will be calm………if you wanna cure a disease like ISLAM……..you have to go to the root……..
beside persians are not REALLY moslems anyway…..they are ZOROASTRIAN……and they know it now…..so lets give that a big jump start……and we will start the revolution…………
faster pleaseeeeeeeee
David, Dr. Ledeen indeed is unique man among his ilk in Washington and an extraordinary in this world!!! But unfortunately, and sadly that “Life is unfair”…But it’s not surprising and it’s not unusual, because this bad world is awash in defeatists, cowards, wimps and accomplices…” Alas!?
While I appreciate your views and agree with what you wrote, I think you missed the main two points completely.
as I reported to every member of congress in 1989…If Bush 941) were talking to Khomaniac the conversation would go like this..
Bush: “Your rules violate our rules; over here sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt us”
Khomaniac: No, your rules violate out rules; over here we rush-to-die to protect us from the satanic verses of the west.
This war, as predicted by me in 1989, is about freedom of speech to criticize Islime. Should scare every American that the leadership of neither party will say so…in 2012.
How can you listen to Netanyahu say “red lights for Israel”, and remain in de-nile that the aircraft carriers et al in the Persian gulf are not there to intimidate Iran but to keep Israel from defending itself from a nuclear Iran.
The US policy remains: keep the dictators in Iran, that parade as religious, in power at all cost.
Yes, indeed Mr. Obama’s administration is a great dishonor to the United States. It has played an effective role to “undermine” U.S. influence in the region and the world, while at the same time has given the large neutral opportunists “Chinese and Russians” to extend their evil influence around the world.
You always PREFER to support freedom and democracy revolutions rather than using Hard-Power…You have supported successful peaceful revolutions in Central Europe and today likewise you struggling for Iranians freedom. But the situation today is different, the Islamist regimes want you dead. their survival is a serious threat to your existence. SO THE BIG WAR must take place and also must reach those who sold the Jews to the Nazi. The United States along with its CLOSE WESTERN ALLIES, INCLUDING ISRAELIS must destroy the evil regimes on the surface of the earth. ((Just throw small against the wall, and smash and tear up large!!!))
Michael, I must have missed on those things that see Argentina and Brazil as friends, because the last bit of news, during the London Olympics, about Argentina, was that it was forbidding English, or British, ships to be loaded.
As for Brazil, I would say relations between it and Chavez of Colombia, are better than Brazil and the US.
The pigskin discriminates against Islime and must never be used…
If the Americans wanted to win the war and end recruitment for Al Qaeda; the USA would publically bury every terrorist in “pigskin”; but they do not want to win; they want a nice long war and sell lots of weapons financed by high oil prices.
John Stewart and Steven Colbert do parody every day on every subject but that does not offend liberals; only the current Islime film offends liberals.
Sorry, I left off the sentence that American football must be banned…the pigskin insults Islime…
About the violence against the US interests in Muslim world due to the barbaric protests against a movie that insults allegedly Prophet Mohamed. In fact the barbarism of Arabs and Muslims has no boundaries, so the great ultimate solution for this barbarism I suggest it for Americans is “the Kabaa and the tomb of Mohammed in Medina must be deterred someday!!!”
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/us-pulls-out-embassy-staff-as-al-qaeda-calls-for-more-attacks-267917
Unfortunately our American culture has changed dramatically in recent years more so since Clinton years where he rubbed shoulders with the Hollywood crowd on a regular basis.
We have a “hip hop” culture and more dangerously a “hip hop” President now who is blindly followed by a “hip hop” nation following every dumb move he makes like it comes from pages of bible or even better said Koran!!!
We are heading deep and furious into hellish times and the ignorance of our elites and their following masses will assure us of such outcome!
Scary times ahead unless we can topple the Obama regime and educate our ignorant masses!
Yeah exactly like the Syrian opposition! With the beheaded bodies! Decapitated civilian bodies, four year old girls without head on their chest can help you Americans to get rid of your enemies!
But U.S B-1 B lancers are resting with their open wide assholes in their nests! Dr Ledeen, instead of talking about a slaughtered weak nation to up rise in your favor and your ease, some do shout loud in the slept fighter pilots ears to shake them and force them some Rock’n Roll to confront against the basher and Iranian military cowards, please.
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