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http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2012/02/29/the-afghan-debacle
The Afghan Debacle
The Obama administration’s strategy in Afghanistan is in tatters. This month’s violence, sparked off by the reported burning of Qurans at an American military base, has claimed at least thirty lives. Two of the dead were U.S. Army officers murdered at their post inside the Afghan Interior Ministry, supposedly one of the most secure locations in the country.

The killings prompted General John Allen, who commands U.S. and NATO forces, to pull his personnel from Afghan government buildings, while NATO advisers in Kabul have limited communication with Karzai’s ministries to telephone and e-mail.

The problem is not new. In May 2011 a U.S. Army study established that murders of Westerners by Afghan national security forces did not represent “rare and isolated events”: between July 2010 and May of last year, more than thirty NATO personnel were killed by Afghan soldiers or policemen. Even before the latest incident there had been little trust between U.S.-led coalition forces and their local Afghan “allies” in the elusive quest for peace and stability.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/108922/sec_id/108922

A speech by Paul Weston
delivered on Feb 15, 2012 to a private group in Nashville, TN. on behalf of the British Freedom Party.

What I really want to talk about tonight is to warn America not to go down the same Islamic road that Europe finds itself on, particularly so Britain, which is almost on the point of no return – or perhaps no peaceful return. Samuel Huntingdon was not necessarily writing about Britain when he penned his prescient book “The Clash of Civilisations”, but one particular theme he raised very much applies to my poor old country where he refers to the dying of civilisations and the lack of concern amongst their native people, due to what he terms the “Illusion of Permanency.”

No one in Britain expects tomorrow to be very different from today. No one really expects things to be particularly different this time next year, or the year after that. People find it inconceivable that the future could possibly be radically different to the recent past, but certain things have happened in Britain over the last 50 years that will make the next 50 years a period of total and utter transformation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/17/george-soros-obama_n_785022.html

WASHINGTON — At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president.

The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side gathering of donors who had convened in Washington D.C. for the annual gathering of the Democracy Alliance — a formal community of well-funded, progressive-minded individuals and activists.

According to multiple sources with knowledge of his remarks, Soros told those in attendance that he is “used to fighting losing battles but doesn’t like to lose without fighting.”

“We have just lost this election, we need to draw a line,” he said, according to several Democratic sources. “And if this president can’t do what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else.”

Current Issue Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu meets President Obama in Washington on March 5th for discussions. There is yet another emerging impasse on which option to pursue with a truculent nuclear Iran and concerns about the rise of an Islamist alliance in Syria should the brutal Assad regime be toppled. That Islamist alliance ringing Syria and […]

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-the-hot-seat/ ASHINGTON (JTA) — As the 2012 campaign heats up in Ohio, Republicans are pinning their hopes on a young Jewish military veteran to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown. Josh Mandel, a 34-year-old US Marine Corps veteran and the current state treasurer, has faced a number of challenges but he is doing well in […]

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/27/sting-and-the-police-state/#.T06dckO_Xf4.email

Sting and the Police State
WELL DIDN’T MME. HILLARY SAY BASHAR WAS A REFORMER JUST ONE YEAR AGO?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143161

In terms of lifestyle, dictators and rock stars occupy the same stratum. Consider only a fraction of what they share: palace residences, obsessively broadcast concern for the poor, appearances before strange crowds who chant their names, flattery from identical media sycophants, protection from hired flunkies who allow their eccentricities full expression, an ever-ready foul word for Israel, and another for the United States. Experientially, rock stardom is dictatorship without death squads and the pretense of governance.

Perhaps that’s why newly released pictures of British rock star Sting laughing it up with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2008 seem to capture a moment of natural affinity. Who but a rock star understands the demands of the dictatorial daily grind? Viewing photos in the Daily Mail of the two happy men with glamorous wives in tow, it’s easy to imagine they’re trading stories of bumbling private-jet stewards or the headaches of polo-court installation or condemning rapacious capitalists (present company celebrated, of course) or whatever else the dictator-rock star class gets up to when not dictating or rock starring.

Sting’s second career is self-righteous pontification. He has irritated on the matters of trees, earthquakes, and the poor. He has served since 1981 as “ambassador” for Israel-bashing Amnesty International. He is the unparalleled rock-star activist self-parody. Which, of course, is why his flirtations with human-rights abusers are so delectable. Yes, flirtations—plural. Sting is one of those human-rights promoting singers who take big money to sing for human-rights abusers (while opposing the evil regime of George W. Bush, naturally.)

GAFFNEY: Shariah’s threat to civil rights
Frank Gaffney
02/28/2012 12:28 AM
As we witness surging Muslim violence against non-Muslims in Afghanistan, Egypt and even here, the response seems increasingly that the victims must apologize to the perpetrators. In particular, the United States government — from President Obama on down — has been assiduously seeking forgiveness for giving offense to Islamic sensibilities after accidentally burning Korans. Read more…

Interpol takes hack out of Anonymous with arrests
AP
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Breaking_news
Interpol said Tuesday 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. Read more…

Read more at: http://times247.com/

EDITORIAL: Obama’s goofy green gas
Washington Times
02/29/2012 12:40 AM
President Obama says there are no “silver bullets” that can shoot down gasoline prices that have skyrocketed from $4 a gallon to $5. Nevertheless, he’s seized upon algae – his fuel of the future – as a solution. Read more…

Read more at: http://times247.com/

ANDREW BOSTOM WRITES:
The abject failure of our Balkan Islam policy was based on the same flaws we have seen repeated over and over again since, most notably, disregarding what our jihadist allies’ write and say in their own words.
One needed only read Izetbegovic’s jihadist Islamic Declaration (originally written in 1970; and summarized in my 2008 blog) to see that such a leader’s hopes and dreams–and those of his ardent Muslim followers–could never be compatible with Western aspirations and interests. Our main “regional ally”, pseudo-secular Turkey, also made its aspirations known at an OIC conference in Istanbul in June, 1992: direct military intervention against Serbia, lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslims, blockading and ultimately dismantling Yugoslovia. Simultaneously, Turkey provided maximal support and aid to Muslim Albania, which became the first European member of the OIC. A Turco-Albanian friendship agreement was signed and Turkey gave unreserved support for the Kosovo separatists and their unabashed ambition to merge with the Albanian “fatherland.” Indeed it was “secular” Turkish President Ozal who openly proclaimed a policy of not only “fencing in the Serbs”, but also made it clear. “..that the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina are to Turkey what the Palestinians are to the Arabs.”

It is well past time for the architects of this failed policy to offer a mea culpa, acknowledge what they have learned since about Islamic goals, and pledge not to advocate similar jihad-abetting, OIC-orchestrated policies in the future

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292196/epa-s-day-court-hans-von-spakovsky A number of states have joined with industry organizations to challenge new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency on the grounds that they run contrary to the Clean Air Act. Oral arguments began on February 28 before D.C.’s Court of Appeals. Previous cases have not gone so well. In 2007, in Massachusetts v. EPA, the […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/29/genocidal-liberalism-the-universitys-jihad-against-israel-jews/

Editor’s note: The interview below is with Dr. Richard Cravatts, the author of Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews, a new book published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. To order a copy, click here.

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Richard Cravatts, a Professor of Practice and Director of the Master’s Program in Communications Management at the Simmons College School of Management. He is President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a grassroots community of over 50,000 academics on more than 3500 campuses worldwide, and a board member of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, the Investigative Taskforce on Campus Anti-Semitism, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. He is also the author of the new book, Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews (David Horowitz Freedom Center).