http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/appeasement/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:41:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418613/posts One has to marvel at the opening graph of this Politico story: Growing evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a commercial airliner as it landed in Detroit Friday spent time in Yemen and may have been fitted with customized, explosive-laden clothing there could complicate the U.S. government’s efforts to send home more than 80 Yemeni prisoners currently at Guantanamo Bay. Yes, reality is complicating the Obama administration’s war on terror policies. It must be maddening to the Obami that they are presented once again with inconvenient evidence that their insistence on emptying Guantanamo of dangerous... Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418613/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418443/posts ...Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives. Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech in Prague in April, vowing the U.S. would take dramatic steps to lead the way. Eight months later, the administration is locked in internal debate... Officials in the Pentagon and elsewhere have pushed back against administration proposals to cut the number of weapons and narrow their mission.... The debate represents another collision... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418443/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418169/posts The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) — an extremist Shia group allied to Iran — after 31 months and spent his first night of freedom at the British Embassy in Baghdad. He is expected to fly home today. Times on line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418169/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416278/posts (24/3/09) The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.' ..." The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416278/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415851/posts The story of the United States and Iran regarding sanctions and pressures reminds me of Woody Allen's joke in the film "Sleeper" after he awakes following 2000 years asleep: My analyst was a strict Freudian and if I'd been going four times a week all this time I'd be cured by now. The proposal to send Senator John Kerry to Iran is one more signal that the Obama Administration seemingly will do anything to avoid, or at least postpone, increasing sanctions on Iran because of that country's nuclear weapons' drive. Such a move can only be taken by Tehran as... Barry Rubin Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415851/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:24:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412849/posts Never before in our history has an American president, deliberately and by design, risked our very survival to a maniacal enemy power sworn to remove America from the world. Yet from all appearances, this is exactly what Obama is doing by failing to vigorously oppose Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. But in spite of the fact that over 60% of the public favors militarily destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities, there’s nary a word of protest from the Republicans in opposition. They’re so paranoid about being labeled warmongers, they have shamefully abdicated their own national security responsibilities, just as John McCain did... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412849/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:56:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410394/posts Radical "Grinch" Clerics in Jerusalem trying to pervert Christmas.From CBN:JERUSALEM, Israel – A handful of anti-Israel Palestinian Christian leaders are taking advantage of the Christmas season to call for a boycott against Israel and are calling on Christians worldwide to treat the Jewish state like the former apartheid regime in South Africa.The initiative called "Kairos Palestine-2009: A moment of truth" was authored by a number of prominent clergymen in Jerusalem. It declares that as Palestinian Christians the "military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity". read the rest.[The result of years of "dhimmi" conditioning, and... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410394/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410367/posts Obama proposes U.S. liaison in North Korea-Yonhap By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed setting up a liaison office in North Korea next year in a step to ease tensions between the two rival states, Yonhap news agency said on Friday. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, December 1, 2009. (REUTERS/Jim Young/Files) The offer was in a letter for leader Kim Jong-il that Obama's first envoy to the secretive state delivered when he went to Pyongyang last week for discussions aimed at reviving dormant... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410367/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410136/posts WASHINGTON — Negotiations with Russia to replace an expired Cold War-era arms control treaty have bogged down and now appear unlikely to be concluded by the end of the year as the White House had hoped. As the two sides seek a breakthrough, President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, plan to discuss the nuclear negotiations in a meeting Friday on the sidelines of United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. The two leaders are not expected to seal a deal. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, say negotiations with... The Associated Press (hosted on Google) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410136/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409406/posts Caveats:1) The streaming video, located on THIS Japanese news web page, may only be up for a half day or so. The link could go dead, or could link to another, new story.2) Not all computer systems might be able to play the video. You might need Microsoft Silverlight installed, but probably most can see the short stream.3) Go to the link and hit the photo with the white triangle and stream. Now for the explanation of this important video taken today of photos of the cargo of an aircraft seized in Bangkok which was heading from North Korea... NNN (Nihon Television) Network, Japan (Evening News) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409406/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:52:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408634/posts Twice In the past four days Iran has thumbed its nose to President Obama and the international community's effort to prevent the terrorist regime from developing nuclear weapons. Documents uncovered a few days ago show Iran is working on a neutron initiator, a key component of a nuclear bomb. that There is no peaceful purpose for the initiator. Today Iran fired its most sophisticated missile a high-speed surface-to-surface Sajjil-2 missile (sajjil means baked clay). Fox News / The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408634/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:32:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408505/posts God Bless those enterprising, digging Japanese journalists and their film crews.A hot one in North Korean black weapons smuggling case was captured for all of Japan to see last night at the 11 p.m. TV news on NNN Network.The pushy and curious Japanese journalists and cameramen with their long lenses (and fluent Farsi and Korean speaking investing staff in Tokyo), discovered some VERY interesting things about the North Korean aircraft stopped this week in Thailand with Ukranian crew flying weapons in violation of US sanctions. The flight crew has been very tight lipped, but the Japanese journalists nevertheless caught some... NNN (Nihon Television) Network, Japan (Evening News) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408505/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:54:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408471/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks, a senior State Department official said Tuesday. The letter was delivered to North Korean officials last week by Obama's special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, during a visit to Pyongyang aimed at restarting the stalled negotiations, the official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the diplomacy, would not describe the contents of the letter but said... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408471/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:22:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406960/posts A nuclear bomb consists of three main parts: Nuclear fuel, launching systems and a neutron initiator that is needed to trigger a fission chain reaction. The initiator makes sure that the chain reaction happens at the right time. To obtain projected nuclear yield of the bomb, you need to have enough neutrons within the supercritical core at the right time. If the chain reaction starts too soon, the result will be only a "fizzle yield," much below the design specification; if it occurs too late, there may be no yield whatever. It is the initiator that makes sure the neutrons... Times of London/The Lid/Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406960/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406428/posts FBI agents showed up in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon to talk with Somali youth, but they weren't behaving like investigators. What unfolded for a few hours inside the Brian Coyle Center was groundbreaking. The agents, young Somali men and women and Somali elders sat on folding chairs and got acquainted with one another without an immediate crime or crisis hanging over their heads. The event marked another step toward mutual understanding in a tense year that has brought federal indictments against 14 local Somali men accused of providing support to terrorists. A key figure at Saturday's... StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406428/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405439/posts Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand why this is the case it is enough to consider the fortunes of two green movements. On the main stage of global affairs this week we have the much touted UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. Standing with 15,000 delegates representing green activism groups and politically correct scientists the world over are international celebrity leaders like Nobel Peace Prize laureates Barack Obama, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu and their fellow celebrities and Oscar and Grammy winners Al Gore, Leonardo Dicaprio,... Caroline Glick http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405439/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405432/posts Earlier this week tens of thousands of Israelis protested against a government freeze on building and construction in Judea and Samaria. In a country where the population is only around 7 million, this was a major, major demonstration. As predicted it did not recieve widespread coverage, at least objective coverage, from the MSM. This "freeze" is the result of intense pressure on Netanyahu from Obama and the Europeans who acting out of appeasement policies. Where are you Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Rush Limbaugh? Why won't you add your voice to that of Sarah Palin in opposing this pressure from... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405432/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405058/posts A visit to North Korea by U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth ended in failure Thursday to convince the North to return to multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. "We identified some common understandings on the need for and the role of the six-party talks and the importance of the implementation of the 2005 Joint Statement," Bosworth told reporters. "It remains to be seen when and how [North Korea] will return to the six-party talks." He added, "This is something that requires further consultations among all six of us." But Bosworth claimed he had "very useful" meetings with senior North Korean officials. Further bilateral... Chosun Ilbo News, Seoul (English) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405058/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:36:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402789/posts U.S. envoy Bosworth arrives in Pyongyang: N. Korean media SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. envoy on North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday, the North's media said, in the highest-level visit to the communist nation since the Barack Obama administration took power in Washington early this year. Stephen Bosworth and his entourage "arrived in Sunan Airport" just outside the capital, the Korean Central News Agency said. Bosworth departed from the U.S. Osan air base in South Korea at around 2 p.m. on a three-day mission to bring the North back to a multilateral forum on its nuclear program Yonhap News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402789/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:04:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401957/posts To the thousands of men and women stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii sixty-eight years ago today, it was a Sunday morn not unlike any other. Sunrise at half past six arising over a partly cloudy sky with a moderate breeze lending to slight wind ripples on the water in the bay. It was, by all measure, dawning as just another day in paradise. But by the time that paradise sun shown down at high noon its rays could barely pierce the clouds of acrid black smoke billowing from hulks that just four hours earlier comprised the United States Pacific Fleet.... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401957/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:25:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401405/posts Why Bosworth Should Not Go to Pyongyang By Chris Green [2009-12-04 16:48 ] Author of, among other things, “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World,” Gordon Chang has today called for Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. chief nuclear negotiator, not to make the trip to Pyongyang for bilateral talks that he is scheduled to make on December 8th. Writing for Forbes, Chang asserts that for Bosworth to go to Pyongyang at this time is both playing into North Korean hands and completely undermining the policy which Washington had appeared to be adhering to since Barack Obama came to office, namely... Daily NK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401405/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:01:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401265/posts This is a short video clip of the top news from the major Japanese JNN Network today. The link is to a Japanese news page on Yahoo!Japan; one just needs to click the arrow to stream the report.Before streaming, please note:-Not all PC/Mac systems can stream the video but most can.-The video may be up for only a few more hours. Then (usually) the links go down. Please see while you can.-You may need to have Microsoft Silverlight installed on your machine.The horrid news report about North Korea, in Japanese, is HERE.And HERE is a clip of what the... JNN News (Television) from Japan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401265/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:53:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401068/posts Despite intense pressure from the Obama Administration, other misguided world leaders, and despite diplomatic isolation, the Honduran Congress remained resolute in defending it's democracy and voted overwhelmingly not to reinstate the would-be usuper Mel Zelaya:From La Gringa's Blogcito-TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, 02 December, 2009 - With a vote of 111 in favor and 14 against, the National Congress of Honduras today overwhelmingly rejected the restitution of Mr. José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the presidency of the Republic. Bibi's Bad Week-Caroline Glick writes:"Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason." "Thursday's headlines told the tale. The day... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401068/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:31:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397817/posts The United States is about to lose a key arms-control tool from the closing days of the Cold War -- the right to station American observers in Russia to count the long-range missiles leaving its assembly line. The end of full-time, on-site access will likely ignite complaints in Congress, with insiders from both parties arguing over whether the George W. Bush or the Obama administration is responsible. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397817/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396338/posts Well Mr. President, How is that outreach to terrorists working out for you? Today Iran provided its answer to the Presidential appeasement, they have announced they have approved a plan to build TEN new nuclear power plants. The Iranian government on Sunday approved a plan to construct 10 new uranium enrichment plants, just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency voted to rebuke the Islamic Republic for building an enrichment plant in secret. The new enrichment plants would be the same size as its main enrichment complex at Natanz, state broadcaster IRIB reported. Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran... Haaretz/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396338/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:13:41 GMT