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Posted on 11/06/2009 2:40:55 AM PST by Scanian
As USS New York pre pares to join the fleet, she will enter a world of crises. As we obsess over worthless Afghan real estate, truly vital problems loom abroad.
Violent challenges to our security and strategic position are slighted or ignored, while a combination of politics, pride and inertia bind us to a distant land of marginal relevance.
The crises highlighted below are not in order of priority. Any of them could take a painful bite out of Washington's complacency:
Iraq: Given its strategic location, iconic importance in the Arab world and vast oil reserves, Iraq matters to us. It also matters to al Qaeda, which is trying to reengage in Iraq while blowing off Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
But the end result will be the same. Iraq will turn into an Islamofascist theocracy like Iran and be ruled by the same Shia Clerics and Imams. Any decent will be dealt with in the public squares at the end of an executioner's sword. The Democrats are powerless to stop them now. This was the Imams plan the moment that Bush left office. And they are patient. Time means nothing to them and they use it well against us in the neurotic Western World. All we seem to care about is our next text message, our iphones or who is in first place on American Idol.
This is only the beginning of the greatest World crisis known to the Human Race. The critical and decisive time to act has passed. America has grown weak and cannot afford a large war and the rest of the Western World has grown apathetic or complacent. Disaster is a mild way of putting it.
The day the Iranians get the bomb it's a game cganger. Obama seems content to let it happen.
Saudi Arabia: Why bother mentioning, yet again, that Saudi Arabia's No. 1 export isn't oil but the Wahhabi fanaticism that remains the basis of Islamist terror? It doesn't do the least bit of good, since the Saudis have bought up so much influence in Washington that we might as well add a minaret to the US Capitol.
,b> Al Qaeda was merely the instrument of 9/11. Saudi bigotry, fanaticism and hate-mongering fostered it. Saudi funding made those attacks possible. And Saudi money continues to spread hatred wherever there's a Muslim community. Now we have a president who bows to the Saudi king. Peace be upon you . . .
The Saudis.... PBUT*.
P*ss Be Upon Them
“As we obsess over worthless Afghan real estate, truly vital problems loom abroad.”
We really have very short attention spans. Afghanistan was of utmost importance on September 12th, 2001. And so was any country that didn’t join the war on terror.
“United We Stand” - - - How soon they forget.
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Thanks for the ping. Yes, this is one of Ralph Peters’ best columns, I think. And it’s true. For decades, we all thought that the worst crisis of history was the confrontation with the nuclear armed Soviet Union.
But the confrontation with Islam is far worse and more dangerous. And Putin is actually helping them, so that hasn’t really gone away, either.
As yet, the vast majority of people still won’t admit what the problem is. And the barbarians are now inside the gates.
Soon to be nuclear armed barbarians.
The FBI had plenty of evidence that the Fort Hood Shooter was a terrorist sympathizer, at least six months ago. But they did nothing, and now they will rapidly cover it up, as they have done numerous times before.
That said, they can't lose in Afghanistan...they are as invested in keeping a footprint there as anyone else. How will they spread their socialist misery to the world if the ME doesn't join?
No...they really don't want to lose this or Iraq for that matter. They are just as much about globalization as the big business monopolies and the banks. In this case the extreme left and right are in bed. The leftist media won't tell you this...but it's true. Goldman S is filled with opportunistic leftists getting rich.
Our Fort hood shooter knew this about Obama and his czars. There really are not two parties any longer. People of faith or who believe in religious freedom and being able to make your own living had better step up to the plate...there will be no freedom with global socialist oppression and the erasure of individual and national sovereignty. You won't even be able to call someone a camel jockey, a cracker, an evil evangelical,a sissy, a feminazi or a honkey without the Feds putting you in jail. Big brother goes global. What an insane nightmare.
No negative expression or communication allowed will irrupt into more war. People need to express their differences or they go underground and express it through violence. Leftists think they can control human nature and the entire planet through oppressing...it won't happen. But they will try...again.
This entire admin is a debacle. They are trying to implement a world socialist takeover all at once...before everyone wakes up and in the process...they are sounding the alarm.
If Afghan real estate were truly useless, why have so many nations, plus the Afghans themselves, fought over it so many times?
For the past the answer is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.
That may or may not be so true for the present or future, however we still don't need it as a training ground for terrorists.
If Afghan real estate were truly useless, why have so many nations, plus the Afghans themselves, fought over it so many times?
For the past the answer is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.
That may or may not be so true for the present or future, however we still don't need it as a training ground for terrorists.
We elected one and put him in the White House, that's the reality we best face very soon.
Actually, it's already too late
The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa from the time of the Crusades (11th century) until the early 19th century. Based in North African ports such as Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé, and other ports in Morocco, they sailed mainly along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast.[1]Until the Declaration of Independence in 1776 British treaties with the North African states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. Morocco, which in 1777 was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United States, became in 1784 the first Barbary power to seize an American vessel after independence. That action got the attention the sultan sought; it followed several years of fruitless diplomatic efforts to get an American emissary to come negotiate a treaty. Thomas Barclay, American consul in France, went to Morocco in 1786 and negotiated a very satisfactory treaty based on the draft he had carried from Paris and requiring no future tribute or gifts.[19] Experience with Algiers was different. In 1785 two ships (the Maria of Boston and the Dauphin of Philadelphia) were seized, the ships and cargo were sold and the crews were enslaved and held for ransom.[20]
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then the ambassador to France, and John Adams, ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, a visiting ambassador from Tripoli. The Americans asked Adja why his government was hostile to American ships, even though there had been no provocation. They reported to the Continental Congress that the ambassador had told them “it was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave,” but he also told them that for what they considered outrageous sums of money they could make peace.[21]
1. A medieval term for the Maghreb after its Berber inhabitants.
19. Roberts, Priscilla H. and Richard S. Roberts, Thomas Barclay (1728-1793): Consul in France, Diplomat in Barbary. Lehigh University Press, 2008. pp. 189-223.
20. Richard O’Brien-Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1785, Boyd, Julian, et al. (eds), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, v.8, p.440.
21. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams-John Jay, March 28, 1786, Boyd, Julian, et al. (eds), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, v.9, p.358.
“Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
America’s first confrontation with the Islamic world helped forge a new nation’s character. ...... My quest sent me to some less obvious secondary sources, in particular to Linda Colley’s excellent book Captives, which shows the reaction of the English and American publics to a slave trade of which they were victims rather than perpetrators. How many know that perhaps 1.5 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780? We dimly recall that Miguel de Cervantes was briefly in the galleys. But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by “corsair” raiders in a single night?
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html
Ralph Peters was real good at tonight’s BOR show telling Bill that the shooting muzzie major in Texas is nothing but a home brewed TERRORIST, pure and simple!!!
It is my hope that the victims will sue the hell out of the military for negligence and PC!!!
Yes. I wouldn’t say that lawsuits are the answer ordinarily, and of course the taxpayers will pick up the tab, as usual.
But it’s about the only way I can think of to call attention to these clear failures in the command and security systems.
Even if they didn’t think this nutcase would carry out his threats—and they were wrong—what were they thinking of, promoting an incompetent and, at best, crazy Captain to Major, with all those lousy fitness reports from his immediate superiors? And letting him “counsel” troops with mental or emotional problems, when apparently his counseling was known to involve criticizing the war and persuading them to convert to Islam?
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