“Let it Burn”
There’s a new first in the Middle East. “For first time, Britain, France may recall ambassadors to protest Israel’s settlement construction”.
Moves against Israel will be made in the next few days following Netanyahu’s decision to move ahead on planning in E1 and build 3,000 housing units in the settlement blocs, and in East Jerusalem, say senior European diplomats.
Why now? Maybe that’s because the West has run out of other ways to stop the fire in the Middle East. Getting Israel to appease the growing unrest is one last thing to try. But will it work?
General Carter Ham has described the inexorable spread of al-Qaeda in Africa. Al-Qaeda. You know, the agency that President Obama has declared dead? The New York Times reports that: “Al Qaeda’s affiliate in North Africa is operating terrorist training camps in northern Mali and providing arms, explosives and financing to a militant Islamist organization in northern Nigeria, the top American military commander in Africa said on Monday.”
This came only a few days after an Obama administration official mulled the possibility of ending the war on terror in order to legally close Guantanamo.
In Johnson’s view, once al-Qaida’s ability to launch a strategic attack is gone, so too is the war. What will remain is a “counterterrorism effort” against the “individuals who are the scattered remnants” of the organization or even unaffiliated terrorists. “The law enforcement and intelligence resources of our government are principally responsible” for dealing with them, Johnson said, according to the text of his speech, with “military assets in reserve” for an imminent threat.
The war’s over. But who won? Ham’s report said that “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has used the momentum gained since seizing control of the northern part of the impoverished country in March to increase recruiting across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Europe”.
“As each day goes by, Al Qaeda and other organizations are strengthening their hold in northern Mali,” General Ham said in remarks at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. “There is a compelling need for the international community, led by Africans, to address that.”
In addition to the risks inside Mali, General Ham also said that members of Boko Haram, an extremist group in northern Nigeria, had traveled to training camps in northern Mali and have most likely received financing and explosives from the Qaeda franchise. “We have seen clear indications of collaboration among the organizations,” he said.
West African leaders have been increasingly alarmed at deteriorating situation in Mali. But any hopes that General Ham’s command could stop it were quashed by him. Maybe the West African leaders should wait for General Steiner. The AP reports that “Ham said that any military intervention done now would likely fail and would set the precarious situation there back ‘even farther than they are today.’” Negotiation, Ham said, is the best way.
By coincidence the previous Belmont Club was about the Fall of South Vietnam. On the subject of negotiations – even as the PAVN tanks were closing in on the Presidential Palace some diplomats still thought the conflict could be resolved by negotiation. “It was widely assumed that Minh … who had long-standing contacts with the communists, would be able to establish a cease-fire and re-open negotiations. This expectation was totally unrealistic, as the North Vietnamese were in an overwhelmingly dominant position on the battlefield and final victory was within reach, so they saw no need for power-sharing, regardless of any political changes in Saigon.” Negotiations don’t always work, especially when the ground belongs to the enemy.
The African Union and United Nations are currently discussing the funding, troops and other assistance necessary to take back northern Mali from the extremists that took control there earlier this year.
“Negotiation is the best way,” Ham told an audience at George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute. “Military intervention may be a necessary component. But if there is to be military intervention it has to be successful, it cannot be done prematurely.”
How do you negotiate with al-Qaeda when it’s dead, via a ouija board? But Thomas Donnelly at the American Enterprise Insitute says political Islam isn’t dead. On the contrary, it’s out of control. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Donnelly says the true character of Obama’s foreign policy towards the Islamic world is “let it burn”. He’s given up trying to put it out. In a hold-my-beer moment he lost his chance at stopping it. All that is left is to make the fire look like a good thing.
Obama began, Donnelly says, by reassuring everyone he would not do precipitately abandon American interests in the Middle East. He then proceeded to abandon it. And what do you know?
In 2008, the United States looked as though it was in Iraq to stay. Even Barack Obama had moderated his campaign promises of a precipitate retreat. His lieutenants, particularly in the Pentagon, where Robert Gates still ruled and a cadre of Trumanesque Democrats filled most policy posts, talked of a continuing if lesser garrison and a renegotiated “status of forces” agreement. And in 2009, the president pledged his own “surge” of troops in Afghanistan. But that commitment was hedged by an even stronger commitment to a date-certain drawdown, and Obama was out of Iraq by 2011. Since then, there’s been a series of events—the abandonment of Hosni Mubarak, the “leading from behind” campaign in Libya, persistent public displeasure with Benjamin Netanyahu, the empty call for Assad “to go,” the “Pacific pivot,” reductions to the defense budget—that adds up to a pretty clear signal: The Middle East is now, at best, an “economy of force” interest for the United States. The Obama Doctrine—let it burn—has supplanted the Carter Doctrine, under which control of the Persian Gulf region was deemed a vital U.S. interest.
When Obama says ‘resistance is futile’ his actions appear to mean that Western resistance is futile — not political Islam’s. Donnelly continues his analysis:
When Barack Obama declared, “the tide of war is receding,” what he meant was that the United States would no longer play the directing role it had previously assumed in the greater Middle East. That role began well before 9/11. It grew out of the enunciation of the Carter Doctrine in 1979. The 1990-1991 Gulf War marked a further Rubicon. Then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney famously promised the Saudi king that U.S. troops would leave once the job of kicking Saddam Hussein’s army out of Kuwait was complete, but they didn’t. There wasn’t a stable status quo to return to. There isn’t one now. We have chosen what’s likely to prove a very bad time to tire of intervening in this region. …
“Offshore balancing” in the emerging Middle East will be very much like shelling the continent of Africa, as Joseph Conrad put it: emotionally satisfying but without purpose or result. Some of the satisfaction will be lost when we balance the human cost of letting local conflicts run their course, as in Syria. But beyond what our moral sense can tolerate, there will be more tangible consequences. No one can predict with precision what they will be, but it’s a pretty good bet that the one thing worse than trying to put out all the fires will be letting them burn.
We are now in the magical phase of Western diplomacy. Like a shaman without any real cures they are now resorting to mumbo-jumbo. Unable to affect events in the Levant, helpless in North Africa, powerless even in Mali Paris and London now want the world to believe that by withdrawing their ambassadors from Israel some purpose is served. What will it do in Damascus? In Libya? In Iran? In Mali? What will it do about Assad’s chemical weapons. Nothing and nothing and nothing. And nothing. These shambolic incantations are the last gasp of a failed policy. It’s the Three Card Monte of international affairs.
What happens when this too fails like all the rest of it?
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What happens next is what usually happens next in these situations: aggression, atrocity and eventually, victory by the most determined and most ruthless. That will mean Islamic Fascism will sweep the Middle East. It is inevitable. It will happen.
Had the USA held the line in Iraq, had Obama decided to follow in Bushs footsteps, perhaps we could have done for the Middle East what we did for Germany and Japan; build countries that would mirror Western values, and serve as examples for the region. It would not have been easy, it was not easy after WWII to do what we did, it took a very long time but it was worth it. Perhaps such an effort could not have succeeded in the Islamic culture of the Middle East, but it was a noble ambition and worth trying. The point at where such a solution might have worked is now past.
Because in place of that we have exactly two options: submission or fight. We can indeed, let the Middle East burn – until the Islamic Jihad reaches US soil again, as it inevitably will. Then our choices will be submission to Islam, de facto slavery, or total war. There will be no in-betweens. Of those options, frankly, I find total war less horrifying than Islamic slavery.
Battler
but it was a noble ambition and worth trying
It was certainly noble, and we did try.
And we did learn that we will never fix the Islam problem. Islam must fix itself, and it will do this by coming face to face with the damage that Islam is doing to Muslims, just as the Russians had to be made to face the damage of communism. My estimate is that this damage will involve the deaths of two generations of Muslim males.
There will be other damage too, to the societes on “Islam’s Bloody Borders”, and internally in societies with large Islamic populations, such as Europe.
The native populations of these countries are not yet willing to deal with this problem, their lives are not yet sufficiently discomoded. Just give it time, and the burn in MENA will spread. Europe will have its Gitmo, but now without a hint of shame. Things must get worse before the West can develop the stomach for what is coming.
Israel senses Islam’s weakness and its turning into the widening gyre.
That’s the plan. There can be no other.
ADE
Battle…
I fear that you may be tilting at pyramids.
Every dog has his day…
And Malthus has been so patient….
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What you’re seeing is the typical end-game when a Gonnabee is ‘in charge.’
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And to think: Barry’s undone all of this in his first term.
His electoral mandate turns into a pumpkin this January. From thence forth, he’ll be on stage solely due to his self-enabling acts: truly a Machine made Man.
The final analogy implied by the video was spot on. The Christians were correctly seen as a Jewish cult in the 1st century AD. Jews were considered an even greater threat than their supposedly pacifist offshoot. There were up to 1 million homes burning sabbath candles in Italy before persecution drove them to either migrate into Germania or convert to Christianity. The Jews will again serve in the role of scapegoats for failure in the face of barbarians by Western societies.
We now see the consequences of the Big Lie of the “Peace Dividend” that was spread by the Left after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The argument that the world had become a safer place and that the US could reduce its’ military to spend resources on social programs was untrue then and has predictably left us unable to respond to real threats. The so called Peace Dividend line was merely a follow on to the shrinkage of the Armed Forces and Isolationism that followed the US defeat in Vietnam.
The belief that the US is the threat that destabilizes the world, and that Israel is the colonialist proxy of the US, comes straight out of Comintern propaganda. It underlies Leftist arguments for the last 65 years and European policies for the last 50 years, and US Democratic Party policies for the last 40 years. Libertarian Isolationist arguments among ostensible conservatives have been encouraged by the Left because they serve to advance the Left’s agenda.
We now lack the forces to control Syria. We now lack the forces to control Iran. We now lack the forces to control China. We now lack the forces to control Mali for crying out loud. We have eaten our seed corn and produced what? A gay military, where no one dares to stop Private Manning from plundering the message files or stop Major Hassan from plotting mass murder, armed with flimsy Littoral Combat Ships threatens no one. The money has been pissed away on Chevy Volts and Cash for Clunkers and Solyndra and Wagyu beef for Moochelle.
Maggie Thatcher, that up-from-the-commons, true woman-of-the-people (and thus hated by the Establishment, Left and Right) champion of political sanity, said that “The veneer of civilization is very thin”. We’ve seen how thin it was in London a while back, and as for the Mideast, it was always a whispery thin veneer.
Yet the baying mobs of murderous Muslim “boxers” slaughtering the thousands (something going on for 1300 years now) is still a rabble, and if dealt with firmly, without hesitation (BotP’s total war), they’re (literally) toast.
The question is whether the West, even as in Israel itself, is still man enough to stomp down on its own civilization-destroying jihadists (the Left) and do the necessary. One would hardly think so since that paragon of the West, the U.S., re-elected a Marxist who would rather destroy the rich than anything else.
In Israel the Left is very strong too, and dangerously stupid–essentially suicidal (we see that with our own Left).
“We’re in a pickle, Mr. Frodo, and no mistake.”
I guess we now know why ancient republics and democracies ended up in dictatorships.
An Préachán
And when Assad (aka known as “The Reformer” to the Vanity Fair crowd) uses those chemical and biological weapons (the ones that Saddam Hussein shipped there so he didn’t get busted with them when we invaded Iraq) on his own people, and our troops that will get sent over there when b.’INSANE’ obama’s “red line” has been crossed WHAT THEN!!!!
Our troops will be up against the Russian troops (that are ALREADY IN SYRIA), with our troops handcuffed by the same REDICULOUS ‘rules of engagement’ that they are constrained by in afcrapistan. Putin’s boys will be there to win and our guys will be there to not kill a SINGLE civilian and will be slaughtered by the hundreds (if not thousands) and b.”INSANE’ obama will be on a golf course somewhere smirking to himself that they got what they deserved.
WHEN (not IF) the towelheads set off a nuclear weapon in the continental United States the American people would be fortunate if it went off in the middle of Washington DC when obama, the entire Congress and the Supreme Court were all there to enjoy the “fruits of their labors”. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Yer all barking up the wrong tree.
For this administration, the war against the middle class is far more important than the war against Al-Qaida.
File under: First things first.
Who knew that Jerusalem zoning laws are more important to the defense of Western Civ than Egypt going the full enchilada on sharia?
That would assume, of course, that any Western president, minister or honorable mucky-muck gave a rat’s ass about defending Western Civilization, or even knew where it came from or what it meant in the grand scope of this thing called being human.
The political and social codex of Mohammedanism is pure totalitarianism and extremely alluring to Western politicians everywhere whose grand vision for the state is being thwarted by the constraints of constitution, court and law. Why suffer those insults to your intelligence when one can do as Morsi just did and simply decree that no court can overrule you? Do you think that Obama would not do the same if he could?
I suspect that Western Europe and probably the USA now too have passed beyond the tipping point of choosing representative government over the appearance of favorable short term outcomes to economic and perceived social problems. The only real question remaining is whether the great unwashed can get ahead of the politicians in enough redoubts to stall the madness and survive as the Remnant.
#6
A horrible conclusion is that Russia, far more likely than not, will be the defender and bastion of Christian (Western) Civilization.
That will take some getting used to. It became apparent to me when I realized that the USA was on the wrong side of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Milosevic’s distastefulness and Communist provenance, unfortunately, masked what was but another battle in a very long war against Mohammedanism. Bill Clinton handed victory to the jihad, and much to our detriment.
You know, I have been taking the trash out to the curb for decades. I think I should be done by now. The trash has been killed and my trashcan is alive. I declare victory.
I think it sums up things so well when the most horrible thing them nasty joos can do is BUILD HOUSING! Can you believe their perfidity? Can you comprehend their arrogance in creating something for the future? What dispicable people! Why aren’t putting their efforts into peaceful uses of nuclear energy, like Iran, or space exploration, like North Korea? Or creating skyrockets for joyous displays, such as Hamas (I will admit that their range safety approach has some flaws)?
The media recently carried a newsclip from the anti-Morsi protests in Cairo. Two very attractive, articulate, fashionable, blond women were blaming the Muslim Brotherhood. I felt sorry for these women just as I felt sorry for the women who have suffered and died under the Taliban.
I have doubts that the modern, secular, nominal Muslims will be able to resist the rising tide of waxing Islam. I don’t know what the twists and turns of events in the Muslim world will be but the Islamic fundamentalists have made no secret of their endgame. With their willingness to employ violence and terror in the name of Allah, I expect many dark days ahead. After ten years, the secular world has tired of fighting the latest thirty-year war and wants no part of it but how will we ignore it?
We live in a world of instant images over satellite communications. We see almost more than we can comprehend or emotionally process. With the fundamentalist tide sweeping Islam, it’s almost certain that in the coming years we will be witness to more and more atrocities. We’ll hear more first-hand accounts and may even personally know a victim or perpetrator. Perhaps we’ll be witness to the destruction of Israel and the Islamization of Europe.
How will we react?
I suspect many will rush to change the channel.
I predict a flood of Muslim ”boat people” heading our way: the Muslims who don’t murder, demonstrate, etc and just want to live and be left alone.
Will we welcome them?
When arguing with liberal colleagues about Iraq I pointed out that 60 years after the end of the Korean “Conflict” the US still had 35,000 or so troops there. I advocated the same for Iraq but they were unwilling to connect South Korea’s prosperity with the presence of our troops.
There is a latent assumption that the West will take blow after blow until, in one convulsive awakening, we will strike back with terrible but ultimately victorious strength. Would that it were so. On the other hand, seemingly formidable nations and empires have fallen in the blink of an eye historically. I fear Vichy Europe and America more than I see the sleeping but increasingly impotent Giant (the West) roused from its sleep to destroy our enemies. We will be the Samson whose hair never grew back.
hammaknocka (#11) and Gordon (#12), There are no moderate Muslims! the Moderate Muslim, you know the one that “don’t murder, demonstrate, etc” are the ones that “in a crowd” yell “Allah Akbar” and throw the second, third, fourth, etc. rocks at the teenage Girl that was raped but their “Moderate” Qur’an says she’s the guilty one, the “Moderate” Muslim is the “Mob”, the 8, 9 10 babies per wife(!) Mob. the could careless and actually supports Jr. when he becomes a Jihadist! Islam is a Death Cult. Put two “Moderate Muslims together and you have a Terrorist cell!
bftp @ 4: We now lack the forces to control Mali for crying out loud
Or the Somali pirates.
Or Major Hassan.
For Hannaknocka – from Richchet:
Pejman Yousefzadeh
Your Arab Spring (Egypt Edition)
December 3, 2012
“I am sure that this is all part of the grand plan for achieving democracy:
Egypt’s ruling party is paying gangs of thugs to sexually assault women protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square against President Mohamed Morsi, activists said.
They also said the Muslim Brotherhood is paying gangs to beat up men who are taking part in the latest round of protests, which followed a decree by President Morsi to give himself sweeping new powers.
It comes as the Muslim Brotherhood co-ordinated a demonstration today in support of President Mohamed Morsi, who is rushing through a constitution to try to defuse opposition fury over his newly expanded powers.
Incidentally, it is probably worth noting that this sort of problem doesn’t seem to be affecting Israel. Gosh, I wonder what kind of lesson might be drawn from that comparison. Also worth noting: Egyptians are warning the United States that Morsi is no friend of ours. Instead of making Morsi out to be “a pragmatist,” the Obama administration should probably take heed of that warning.”
Contrary to what the Pejman wants, I believe the Islamic Terrorist in the White House is all too happy to have “Let It Burn” apply equally to America, the West, Eqypt and the rest of the Middle East . All the better to bring on the coming Caliphate.
“Put two “Moderate Muslims together and you have a Terrorist cell!”
Good joke, but it is not true. Muslims come in enough different skin tones to make your local VP of Diversity Outreach & Apology wet her pants in joy. Sudanese, Indonesians, Malaysians — they are all over the globe. Even in the Arab homelands, I bet most people (especially women) would find Muscat, Oman to be more civilized, gentler, more honest, & safer than London, England. People are people, the world over. Let’s not construct a false narrative of monolithic Islam. In addition to being wrong, that prevents us from recognizing the vast opportunities for exploiting fissures within that polity.
Back to Syria for a moment — Assad’s forces being pushed back implies that someone has been running guns to the Jihadist opposition on a pretty large scale. Can’t take on a modern government with bows & arrows. Maybe our boy Soetero has been playing a more active role than even the NYT would like to admit?
@18…
You’re looking at a revulsion cascade.
Most of the rebel forces are getting their weapons the bloody way: from Assad’s depots.
In all true civil wars, the army fractures, and triggers the end game.
16. Josh
. . . . Or the Somali pirates.
I understand that the pirates are a spent force, and while we were all distracted elsewhere, beefed up security on shipping was the primary reason for that decline.
#9 has it right. As we speak, Israel is continuing to expand and strengthen it’s ties to Russia. A very smart move if you ask me. The Russians among others like Canada are going to help Israel develop it’s offshore oil and gas deposits. Contracts have been signed. The Israeli military is working together with the U.S. and Russian military in the South Caucasus to help secure the pipelines and resources there. Israeli agricultural and military technology will help the Russians as will the excellent port facilities. Please remember that the Russians will lose their only remaining Mediterranean port when Syria falls. Both Russia and Israel have too much to gain and too much to lose if they don’t become closer friends. So, they will. Just because that complete idiot in the White House is clueless doesn’t mean the rest of the world is sitting still.
Looks like it isn’t only the middle class that the Confabulator-in-Chief is going after:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334695/what-budget-impasse-really-about-mona-charen
Yep, seems like he’s got America playing Russian roulette. With the media cheering from the sidelines.
Now who woulda thunk that?…
File under: Shocka!!
#18 Kinuachdrach
That works only up to a certain point. I am sure that there were some reasonable people in Germany or Japan who really were not responsible for the events of early December 1941 [both Pearl Harbor and Hitler's less than optimal declaration of war on us]. But the key point is that they were not in any position to ever influence policy in those countries, and had to be treated as the enemy as much as the aircrew from the Kido Butai or members of the SS. Similarly, there may be reasonable Democrats who do not desire to destroy our country and re-make it into a Collectivist Paradise™ while placing anyone more conservative than Trotsky in death camps [which was the running "joke" amongst the Democrat leadership in Pueblo County, CO in 2008]. But if we have half a lick of sense, we have to treat Democrats as Democrats en masse, and not look for the mythical “good” Democrat.
The tides of history are moving. One side or another will not survive. Co-existence is not possible any more.
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On a related note, there are reports that Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi, installed by “Teh Won”, has had to flee the Presidential Palace due to demonstrations against his seizure of power over their courts. He has fled, but not lost power. Anyone want to give odds whether rescuing Morsi’s Sharia gluteal musculature will be worth committing Marines to the MENA, while saving our people in Benghazi wasn’t?
Subotai Bahadur
Don…
And here I thought it was the Russian Navy blowing them out of the water, right and left.
Unlike all of the other naval powers, Russia does not bring pirates to trial. They simply machine-gun them to chum and toss them into the ocean.
Then they post videos on Youtube.
It’s enough to ruin morale.
Maybe the West African leaders should wait for General Steiner.
“Mein Fueher…. Steiner…”
We might all just as well be waiting for Steiner.
Barry@ 22
Mona Charon has got it all wrong. The budget negotiations are clearly not about trying to keep American ‘civilization from unraveling” – they are instead about giving the appearance of doing something to stop the decline. Like Buraq, – Boethner, McConnell, McCarthy and Cantor are all about appearances – not substance. What they are doing is a variant of the old “RINO” meme – “We’ve got to show we can govern”! This time it’s “We’ve got to show we can paper over the decline”!
But they are not serious. The Boehner proposal is just another cowardly capitulation by the RINO Leadership that will only accelerate this runaway Crony Socialist freight train of an economy right of the cliff to economic collapse. For their $80 bil in tax increases the Pubs only want $140 bil in likely phony cuts. What does that do?
By some estimates, after tax disposal income will decline a whopping 6% in the early months of 2013 due to tax increases alone. Add to that the effects of thousands of enterprises cutting employee hours to less than 30 a week due to Obamacare, the huge increases of health insurance this year, the multitude of firms planning huge layoffs, the over 50% of Fortune 500 companies who foresee a decline in investment this year and the new 4000 regulations Obama has scheduled to unleash on America – again this year.
Boehner & Co. fail to address any of these concerns. They are worse than utterly clueless. They are Buraq’s compliant and all too willing stooges.
They are Buraq’s compliant and all too willing stooges.
Hmmm, sorry.
The way I look at it, they are trying to take a responsible position—and survive politically—while dealing with a madman holding a gun to the head of the country, as it were (with a braying media in lockstep with the hostage taker), in a situation that may not be at all salvageable without massive, massive pain.
For Obama, it seems clear that brinksmanship is beautiful. Either way, he believes, the GOP is screwed. And if the US goes down the tubes, well isn’t that the plan, anyway?
So a little bit of mercy, please.
File under: I Kings, 3:26
I am still stunned that we re-elected the worst president in my lifetime.
Duncan, we didn’t.
He self-selected himself.
Check out the polling in Venezuela…
And how Hugo Chavez was able to up end the polls by twenty points.
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The Chicago Machine did the same for Barry.
1) The Pink House took direct control of the US Census database — four years ago, remember?
2) Barry received Mega-funding from Red China — it’s dropped off the MSM screen.
3) The typical tabulation is performed in a Windows network environment. Black-hatters have a thousand back-doors into it. (Note how Google execs are moving into the maladministration.)
4) Barry hired on a platoon of Google coders to Win The Future. See “The Atlantic”.
5) His vote was skewed UP to match the bizarro polls that only the Democrat Machine were pitching in the weeks before November 6th.
6) And, look at all of the Youtube clips, wherein babes in the ‘hood swear they could vote all day long — no ID required.
7) RNC has signed a consent decree ( circa 1982 ! ) that essentially blocks the RNC from countering any Democrat voter fraud. This court settlement was written by the Democrat Machine in New Jersey. It can and will be extended, unilaterally, by the Democrat Party. It currently runs through 2017. That’s a 35-year run.
8) Republicans were run out of Philadelphia wards — which later reported voting a unitary block for Barry; not one single vote, even errant, for Mitt.
9) Packed campaign events for Mitt didn’t translate to votes beyond McCain’s baseline. This, even though McCain drew limp responses in 2008.
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What’s stunning is the way America is rolling over for a Marxist ‘professor’ and permitting Chicago on the Potomac.
What happened to Germany, Russia and China — madness — has now reached America.
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BTW, No-one has been able to junk the Chicago Machine in all these decades. It’s always had ties to the Mob.
And, America has a tradition of fraudulent elections and Democrat Machines. Now, the MSM is permitting their dog to take us over the cliff.
Unsk…
It’s looking like it’s going to be a global race to the bottom.
At the end, we’ll all be Chinese.
At the end…
Not if Russia behaves to form.
And one hopes it’s a bit too early to heart John Hersey’s nightmarish “White Lotus”.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Lotus-John-Hersey/dp/1568495323/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354705634&sr=8-1&keywords=%22white+lotus%22
http://radio.rumormillnews.com/podcast/2011/01/25/whitelotus/
I’ve been watching Masterpiece Theater’s “Upstairs, Downstairs” set in the 1930′s, some decades after the original series timeline.
The BBC very proudly has one of the main characters, an officio in the Foreign Office, take a principled stance against Hitler, in opposition to the appeasement policy being formulated by Chamberlain and Halifax at that time.
My, aren’t we bold and far-sighted, when history has taught us the lessons of the past, NOT!!!!!
70+ years later and the British Foreign Office is readying up to set the stage for another Holocaust. And once again, as in the time of FDR, the Jews of the world cannot look to an American President to champion their cause.
blert # 30
Thanks
Re: all comments about approaching the fiscal cliff. We have already gone over the cliff. Our financial situation, when looked at honestly, is well past the point of return. We are in that weightless period during the fall, that can almost seem calm. Brace for impact.