http://washingtonexaminer.com/jed-babbin-why-obama-chose-chuck-hagel-for-defense/article/2517794 To understand why President Obama chose former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., to be the next secretary of defense, it’s only necessary to compare the biggest challenges facing the Pentagon to Obama’s ideology and agenda. For Obama, Hagel is an almost ideal ideological choice. Hagel has been outspoken in support of Obama’s foreign policy and […]
To repeat myself….One must choose one’s battles wisely…and I despise Chuck Hagel…..not only as a Jew and supporter of Israel, but as a hawkish conservative American….Frankly, I find the nomination of John Brennan far more inimical to American Security as chief of intelligence. He did fall on his sword for President Obama for his cover of the Benghazi scandal and he is being rewarded for it.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS ON HAGEL IS OBSCURING THE FACT THAT JOHN BRENNAN IS JUST AS PROBLEMATIC….NOT BECAUSE OF WATERBOARDING….BUT HE IS ANOTHER OF THOSE DESPERATELY SEEKING A MORE “MODERATE” HEZBOLLAH… AND A MORE “PLIABLE” (READ SUICIDAL) ISRAEL…..THE THREE HORSEMEN….KERRY, HAGEL AND BRENNAN WILL SURELY PROMOTE THE APOCALYPSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST…..RSK
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/iranian-terror-espionage-highlighted-in-new-dod-report#ixzz2HO84zKFf
A new report by the Pentagon’s Irregular Warfare Support Program details the role played by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in defending the Islamic Republic and targeting regime opponents around the world.
“MOIS is active wherever the Iranian government has interests,” according to the unclassified report, published last month by the Library of Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz.
“MOIS provides financial, material, technological, or other support services to Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), all designated terrorist organizations under U.S. Executive Order 13224,” the report states.
Prior to his assassination in 2008, senior Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh lived under MOIS’ protection, and Iranian intelligence also provided support – including guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and armor-piercing roadside bombs – to jihadists attacking U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
Sunni/Shia doctrinal differences haven’t prevented Tehran from collaborating with al-Qaida. Cooperation between the two “is based on their shared opposition to U.S. hegemony in the region -Iraq and Afghanistan, chiefly -and dates to the 1990s,” the report says. “The fact that al Qaeda operates in many countries helps Iran achieve its goal of diverting U.S. attention away from Iran’s immediate neighborhood.” In return, “al Qaeda uses Iran as a place where its facilitators connect al Qaeda’s senior leadership with regional affiliates.”
MOIS operates in Latin America, working in conjunction with other Iranian intelligence agencies like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/jihad-denialist-nominated-to-head-cia/print/ President Obama’s determination to keep his Middle East outreach agenda alive, no matter how at odds with reality, continues. Yesterday, John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, was nominated to head the CIA, replacing scandal-scarred David Petraeus. “John knows what our national security demands,” Obama announced. “John has an invaluable […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-libyan-war-breeds-horror-in-mali/ “When it was my turn, they took me blindfolded,” the thief said. “Suddenly I felt a pain in my right hand that was out of this world. My hand had just been chopped off.” This is Gao, once the seat of an empire, and then a glorified village, and now a city the size […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337101/sandy-katrina-and-pro-government-party-mona-charen Just a few days after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the New York Times’s Paul Krugman crowed triumphantly about the federal government’s response to the disaster. “After Katrina the government seemed to have no idea what it was doing; this time it did. And that’s no accident: the […]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/07/Obama-CIA-Pick-Brennan-Stormed-Out-Of-News-Offices-When-Asked-About-Legitimate-Jihad-remarks
Monday, President Barack Obama picked top counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to become the next head of the CIA. Brennan’s views on radical Islam may concern hawkish Senators who will scrutinize Obama’s choice for CIA chief.
In May of 2010, Fox News reported Brennan defended Jihad as a “legitimate tenet of Islam.”:
The president’s top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a “legitimate tenet of Islam,” arguing that the term “jihadists” should not be used to describe America’s enemies.
During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.”
He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not “terrorism,” because terrorism is a “tactic,” and not terror, because terror is a “state of mind” — though Brennan’s title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, includes the word “terrorism” in it. But then Brennan said that the word “jihad” should not be applied either.
“Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children,” Brennan said.
The Washington Times Opinion Page met with Brennan three months later at an editorial board meeting and asked him about his remarks. Brennan asked for the meeting because he objected to an editorial the opinion page had written previously.
Brennan lost his temper relatively quickly during the question and answer time between him and then-TWT deputy editorial page editor (now with USA Today) David Mastio:
Then TWT Senior Editorial Writer Jim Robbins questioned Brennan about the issue of jihad. Brennan lost his patience at one point and decided to leave the TWT offices without answering any more questions:
TWT: You mentioned jihad, for example, and would you agree with the lesser and greater and lesser jihad framework? I mean, that’s pretty standard.
BRENNAN: Sure, it is…absolutely.
TWT: Can you give me an example of a jihad in history? Like, has there ever been a jihad…an armed jihad anywhere in history? Has it ever existed for real, or is it just a concept?
BRENNAN: Absolutely it has.
TWT: Example?
BRENNAN: I’m not going to go into this sort of history discussion here.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/erasing_israel_from_the_map.html The denial of Israel’s right to exist by erasing it from maps is a regular component of Palestinian children’s schoolbooks. In September 2011 the official PA map of “Palestine” featured the PA areas and all of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) wrapped in the Palestinian flag. In 2009 the British airline, BMI “removed Israel […]
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/01/07/will-obama-demand-israeli-disarmament-again/ On Jan. 4, Turkish President Abdullah Gul demanded Israeli nuclear disarmament in order to achieve a nuclear free Middle East. Iran’s news agency reported: TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Ankara believes that Israel’s nuclear disarmament is necessary because it is key to the establishment of a nuclear-free Middle-East. Speaking to Foreign Affairs […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3529/christian-aid-conference-holy-land Something has gone badly wrong when a conference of Christians praises the side most prone to violence and least disposed to peace; presents falsehoods as facts, and even denies that there is serious persecution of their own brethren in the Palestinian territories. The Christian Conference on Peace and Justice in the Holy Land took […]
