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The guy that many believe and proudly exalt as the most intelligent politician to come along is clueless on many issues. His foreign policy cluelessness is the most dangerous. He believes that we can just sit down and talk it out with the likes of Ahmadinejad or Bin Laden like we sit down with our neighbor to discus where to place our trash cans. Unfortunately a large part of the voters this year never lived through the Jimmy Carter friendly sheepish diplomacy years. It can be safely stated that if it weren’t for Jimmy Carter’s “Understanding” of the plight of the Ayatollahs Iran wouldn’t be the mess that it is. (See the American Thinker article below).
Obama a repeat of the Carter Fiasco:
Obama will create even more problems for America and in turn the world. The islamists are already emboldened by our wimpy Democratic lead congress and the American MSM. The likes of Ahmadinehad are already feeling their oats. An Obama presidency would give them greater confidence and encourage their boldness. The next Carteresk move by Obama will lead to an even greater debacle for Americans than we have seen thus far. Obama asks us to believe that he can talk to thugs and killers and they will see the light. This coming from the man who has a Tizzy Fit over a cartoon on a magazine. (See the Michelle Malkin Article below)
Iraq is a testimony to Freedom and Democracy:
Whether you like the War or not the results are irrefutable. Iraq is just beginning to taste the wonderful elixir of Freedom. We cannot desert the Iraqi people now that they have come to the table of life and partaken in the first morsels of Democracy. Soon they will be eating a healthy diet and strengthening their muscles to grow into a thriving Democratic Nation. The Iraqi economy will grow and thrive, freedom will encourage the Iraqi people to push on and achieve great things. Meanwhile the Iranian people will continue in suppression, poverty, persecution, and death under the Ayatollahs.
Hugh Hewitt writes, “One of the greatest gifts delivered to Iraq by the overthrow of Saddam was this freedom to argue and decry, inveigh and satirize. Those who want with Obama to bolt on the Iraqis are indifferent to amazing march of freedom in the former tyranny, and cannot be a friend of the Iraqi people or the broader Arab world which is watching a multi-party democracy take hold and deepen its roots.” (See the Hugh Hewitt Post Below)
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From the American Thinker:
July 02, 2007
Iran: It’s Time for a Progressive Revolution
By Amil Imani
The father of the Islamic coup d’etat in Iran is also considered one of the twentieth century’s founders of Islamic terrorism: the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini was an extremely brutal man, instilled from his upbringing with Islamic superstitions and prejudices, but otherwise possessing little education. Claiming to be descended from Muhammad, Khomeini was steeped in anti-secularist, Islamist supremacist thought that is often bred in Islamic seminaries.
As his religious beliefs inevitably mixed with political and social doctrine, he became a part of Iran’s rapid descent from a nation re-emerging as a free and prosperous country to an Islamic theocracy. His role became increasingly one of justifying and urging Sharia and the suppression of human rights as a means to perpetuate Islamic rule. He insisted that all Iranian freedoms not specifically authorized in the Quran were a part of the American and Zionist “agenda”, and he urged civil unrest throughout the nation.
He was deservedly exiled to Iraq for 15 years. In the midst of the civil unrest, Khomeini returned to Tehran in February, 1979 and turned the rejuvenated Islamic passion into rabid anti-Americanism and anti-Western values.
Fortunately for him, Khomeini would soon find that he had friends in high places. The US had just elected Jimmy Carter as President, a man considered hostile to Israel and pro-American interests in the Middle East. It was Jimmy Carter who reassured the world that the Ayatollah Khomeini was a peaceful and “Holy Man”. With Carter’s support, the Ayatollah Khomeini was installed as the unelected dictator of Iran. For his monumental ineptitude, President Carter earned for America one of the greatest and shameful events known as the “Iranian Hostage Crisis”, which perhaps not only cost Carter his presidency but also helped the hostage taker, President Ahmadinejad, earn his. (Full Article Here)
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Michelle Malkin has a great piece on Obama’s cluelessness:
Educating the ignorant Kumbaya candidate
My syndicated column today looks at Barack Obama’s dopey, dangerous views on ending jihad with “understanding.” He shouldn’t be protesting cartoons. He is a walking, talking cartoon.
Diplomas won’t make jihadis go away, Barack
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
In all the brouhaha over the New Yorker’s satirical cover cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama, a truly “tasteless and offensive” passage in the magazine’s feature article got lost. The magazine piece quotes Obama’s recommendations for how to stop jihad in a local Chicago newspaper op-ed he had published eight days after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It’s a self-parody of blind, deaf, and dumb Kumbaya liberalism:
“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”
Is this man for real? Osama bin Laden’s murderous legions are plenty able to “imagine” the “suffering of others.” Go watch an al Qaeda beheading snuff video. Just Google it or surf YouTube. Imagining the suffering of infidels is covered amply in Basic Jihadi Training 101. (More of Michelle Malkin’s Article)
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From Hugh Hewitt:
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:20 AM
I interviewed AEI’s Fred Kagan yesterday, who has just returned from an 11 -day trip around Iraq. The entire transcript is here and the podcast is here.
I asked Kagan about media and political debate in Iraq as the country approaches the crucial provincial elections:
HH: Now talk to us a little bit, we take so granted our free political press and the benefits it gives us, and the pleasure it gives us, and the outlet it provides us. What’s the media like in Iraq right now?
FK: Oh, the media is ferocious in Iraq. I mean, there are lots of media outlets, there’s free press. Most of the outlets, as in America, reflect one view or another, or one party or another. But there are enough of them that, and Iraqis can get them all, that they can get a pretty full picture. And there’s very vibrant political discourse, and there’s lots of arguments and name calling, and all the kind of stuff that we would be very familiar with. But the other thing about Iraq that’s found is when you fly over an Iraqi village, and it’s four mud huts on the ground, two of them will have satellite dishes.
Americans tend to take for granted the joys and benefits of a completely free media, one in which the temptation to political violence is always held down by the opportunity to organize and vent. One of the greatest gifts delivered to Iraq by the overthrow of Saddam was this freedom to argue and decry, inveigh and satirize. Those who want with Obama to bolt on the Iraqis are indifferent to amazing march of freedom in the former tyranny, and cannot be a friend of the Iraqi people or the broader Arab world which is watching a multi-party democracy take hold and deepen its roots.
Read the entire Kagan interview. He, Kimberly Kagan and Jack Keane are owed an immense set of thank-yous for the work they have done to persuade the Administration and the country to save Iraq and to publicize the unfolding victory there. (Full Post Here) (Entire Kagen Interview here)
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Savage Politics has this to add to Obama’s Cluelessness:
Amateur Hour
July 17th, 2008 J Cifre, J.D.
Obama Claimed That Arabic Linguists Needed In Afghanistan Were Being Sent To Iraq, But Arabic Is Not A Language Spoken In Afghanistan:
Obama: “Right now, we don’t have enough troops and NATO hasn’t provided enough troops because they are still angry about us going into Iraq. So we just don’t have enough capacity right now to deal with — and it’s not just troops by the way, it’s like Arabic interpreters, Arab language speakers. We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them, and obviously they may not speak Arabic, but the various dialects that they speak in Afghanistan oftentimes people who speak Urdu or Pashto or whatever th e languages are, they are going to be needed in those areas and a lot of them have ended up being placed elsewhere. So, we’ve got to focus on Afghanistan.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Cape Girardeau, MO, 5/13/08)
The Languages Spoken In Afghanistan Are: “Afghan Persian Or Dari (Official) 50%, Pashto (Official) 35%, Turkic Languages (Primarily Uzbek And Turkmen) 11%, 30 Minor Languages (Primarily Balochi And Pashai) 4%, Much Bilingualism.” (CIA World Factbook Website, www.cia.gov, Accessed 5/13/08)
* “The vast majority of military translators in both war zones are drawn from the local population. Naturally they speak the local language. In Iraq, that’s Arabic or Kurdish. In Afghanistan, it’s any of a half dozen other languages — including Pashtu, Dari, and Farsi.” (David Wright and Sunlen Miller, “Obama Gaffes On Iraq And Afghanistan,” ABC News’ “Political Radar” Blog, blogs.abcnews.com, 5/13/08) (Full Post)
