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Regarding your editorial “The New World Disorder” (Sept. 13): As the Romney campaign and the White House bicker over whether an apology was made over the cause of the tragic attacks on the U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, it’s worth noting that the current situation isn’t entirely unprecedented.

In 1936, Vanity Fair published a cartoon lampooning Japan’s Emperor Hirohito. In a gallery of unlikely historical situations, the mikado was shown dressed in uniform, pulling a cart containing the Nobel Peace Prize. It was considered an outrageous insult because it suggested that the Emperor wasn’t Peace Prize material and depicted the divine emperor as a coolie.

The Japanese government banned the sale of the magazine in its empire and demanded an apology. During a meeting with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Amb. Hiroshi Saito seemed satisfied with the secretary’s regret over the incident. But an apology was not offered. The misunderstanding was unfortunate but the secretary would not speak to the merits of the cartoon. In a telegram to the American Embassy in Tokyo, Hull advised: “For your information and guidance. Department considers the caricature . . . not repeat not offensive.”

He reaffirmed his position that he was sorry for how the cartoon was received but not for the cartoon itself in another telegram, this time to American missions in China: “For your particular information: any reports which may affirm that the Secretary made [an] apology or any statement tantamount thereto are contrary to fact.” Hull rightly realized that apologizing for someone’s exercise of free speech was out of the question, regardless of the expression’s tenor or tone.

Craig Gropper

La Canada, Calif.

Posted at PJM: http://pjmedia.com/blog/spring-time-for-sharia-in-araby/?singlepage=true Cross posted at my blog: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/09/17/spring-time-for-sharia-in-araby/ A review of Andrew C. McCarthy’s Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy [3] The release of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy [3], former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy’s brilliant, evocatively written jeremiad, could not be more timely. As Americans solemnly commemorated the […]

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2239/-Theyre-Killing-Us-Because-Were-Infidels.aspx Paul Sperry rakes the Pentagon response to jihad inside the wire — more “sensitivity” training — in the New York Post this week (must have been Prince Talal’s day off). Top officials believe culturally offensive behavior is the motivation behind the killings, so it’s stepped up Islamic sensitivity training for our troops. “Top officials” […]

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In the past few days and in the midst of the murderous jubilation expressed by the Muslim communities throughout the Middle East for their new found Arab “Sprung” freedom, insider attacks number 37 and 38 reaped the religion of peace and our government, six more ISAF and American dead, two British Soldiers killed in an attack on Camp Bastion and some $150,000,000.00 worth of equipment including six Harriers destroyed and two severely damaged.

Not a bad five day’s work for Allah’s “peaceful worshippers”!

Of course the single most outrageous act of the week was the pre-planned, coordinated attack on our Embassy Staff in Benghazi which yielded another four completely unnecessary American deaths; an attack this administration, as of this writing still refuses to acknowledge as a pre-planned, coordinated attack.

Some clarification is in order at this point. Let’s define what elements define a “coordinated attack”:

1. The use of combined arms, ie small arms fire (rifles), rocket assisted direct fire weapons (RPG’s), indirect fire weapons (Mortars).

2. The assignment of individuals to specific elements of the attack:

a. Base Fire Element which provides, preparatory and suppressing fires – Mortars combined with machine guns, rockets and small arms are used to soften the target and render defenders inoperable.

b. A Maneuver element – a lightly armed unit(rifles, RPG’s, light machine guns), whose principle responsibility is to carry the attack to the enemy and engage them, one on one.

3. Rehearsal – Practice, Discussion, Intelligence coordination and dry runs to insure all individuals and elements understand their responsibilities and most important, the disposition of the other elements in relation to each other and the target.

Any coordinated attack that contained the two first elements would have been rehearsed for reasons that should be obvious even to a complete novice. The Base of Fire Element which is designed to soften up a target can be deadly if not coordinated with the Maneuver Element. This means a pre-designed communications/signal plan telling the Base of Fire when to cease fire, or shift to make a safe avenue of approach for the Maneuver Element.

US State Dept. Considers Releasing Blind Sheikh to Egypt http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/18/US-State-Dept-To-Considers-Releasing-Blind-Sheikh-For-Humanitarian-and-Health-Reasons The US State Department is actively negotiating with Egyptian President Morsi’s government about transferring Omar Abdel-Rahman from US custody to Egyptian custody. Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” is currently serving a life sentence in the US for his role in the 1993 World […]

Le Figaro story on Charlie Hebdo– Will the Orthodox Jews riot, burn cars and storm the Bastille?….rsk

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/09/18/01016-20120918ARTFIG00616–charlie-hebdo-caricature-a-nouveau-mahomet.php

“Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoon again”

The satirical weekly is published in its issue of Wednesday cartoons of the Prophet in daring positions. The government feared further violence.

A little less than a year after the publication of a cartoon of Muhammad that led to the arson of his local recurrence Charlie Hebdo. The new issue of the satirical newspaper, on newsstands Wednesday, contains new caricatures that might make about them. The one stage is indeed an imam pushed in his wheelchair by a rabbi with the title “Untouchables 2: do not laugh!”. The traditional heading “The one that you have escaped”, located on the last page, has two naked cartoons of the Prophet, including one particularly daring. The news channel i-Télé continuous decided not to publish on its antenna, unlike BFMTV.
The government is worried

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NI18Aa01.html TEL AVIV – It is hard to remember a moment when the United States’ foreign policy establishment showed as much unanimity as in its horror at the prospect of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran. In a September 10 report for Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, Anthony Cordesman warns, “A strike […]

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MOTHER JONES IS A PREDICTABLE LEFTIST RAG…BUT THE CONSERVATIVES SUCH AS WILLIAM KRISTOL AND PEGGY NOONAN WHO JOINED THE BRAYING ASSES IN CRITICIZING ROMNEY ARE FOOLS….RSK

“Here was Romney raw and unplugged — sort of unscripted,” writes David Corn of Mother Jones about the newly released video of Mitt Romney at a Boca Raton fundraising event in May. “With this crowd of fellow millionaires, he apparently felt free to utter what he really believes and would never dare say out in the open.”

It’s not that simple. As citizens become more interested in what our prospective presidents really believe, politicians become more guarded about sharing their beliefs. If everyone wants to look behind the mask, the incentives lead hyper-ambitious but hyper-cautious politicians to wear layers of masks. Corn’s idea that a presidential candidate at a fundraising event is baring his soul is either tendentious, since it helps Corn condemn Romney as a callous plutocrat, or naïve. A more plausible interpretation is that the video finds Romney giving one more speech to one more audience, calibrating, as all politicians must: the message he wants to deliver; the message that particular audience desires and is capable of hearing; and the result he’s hoping for, which is usually votes, but sometimes the investment of money, effort, or enthusiasm.

The contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney now features symmetrical embarrassing, surreptitious tapes from fundraisers. Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser in April 2008 about the “bitter” people in the small towns of Pennsylvania and the Midwest who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations” is one bookend. Romney’s discourse on the “47 percent who are with [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it” is the other.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner As Mike correctly notes, there’s plenty to say about David Brooks’s faulty logic. I’ll stick to one aspect of it. Progressives like Brooks see government as if it were not merely a sentient being but one to whom we could transfer our personal responsibilities — as if there were virtue in spending other people’s […]

Undercover in Ramallah — on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
A photographer dresses up as a leftist hippie and journeys inside a death cult. This is his tale.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/undercover-in-ramallah-on-the-glazov-gang/