PART TWO: DANIEL GREENFIELD MUSTREAD
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CAN YOU TAKE THE TURKEY CHALLENGE
Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s loony neo-ottomanist foreign minister, is offering to teach Israel how to be a normal country. Davutoğlu didn’t mention if those lessons would include occupying territory, repressing an entire people, banning their language and using chemical weapons against insurgents in another country. All things that Turkey specializes in.
WHEN CRAZY AND EVIL MET CRAZY AND EVIL
What happens when two crazy dictators meet and shake hands? Sparks fly. Atomic sparks.
Zimbabwe’s chief thug Mugabe has cut a deal with Iran’s chief thug Ahmadinejad for that precious commodity that two countries with serious food shortages need most of all. Uranium.
SERIOUSLY GUYS, THE SORCERY THING WAS MORE PLAUSIBLE
In the ongoing split between Iranian leaders Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, the former have accused the latter of having wizards serving him, and now of being secretly friendly to Israel. Imagine a country where David Icke and Alex Jones were doing attack ads, and you get some idea of how crazy Iran is.
It’s a lot more plausible that Ahmadinejad has magic powers than that he’s a secret Israel lover, but accusing each other of secretly working for the Jews is a typical tactic in Muslim fights. Both sides in the Egyptian revolution have been accusing the other of working for Israel. It’s just something you do when your religion is rabidly bigoted and your society is so backward that smashing people over the head with stone clubs seems like the height of progress.
THE ROUNDUP
Mencken asked us not to underestimate the decency of the human race. That can be hard sometimes. But Melanie Philips has a reminder that it still exists. Though finding it can be a challenge.
In these terrible times when western elites are dominated by the fellow-travellers of Islamo-fascism and genocidal Judeophobia, it is very important to realise that there are also some outstandingly decent, courageous and rational individuals who are putting their heads above the parapet and speaking up for Israel, truth and justice.
As Memorial Day approaches, Robert Hall presents his book, “The Coming Collapse of the American Republic“.
Robert makes the point that we face converging threats that risk bringing an end to the republic.
1. The incomprehensible debt and unfunded financial liabilities of all levels of government;
2. The threat of uncontrolled, illegal immigration to our economy and culture;
3. The asymmetric war imposed on us by Islamic Jihadists; and,
4. The rise of China as a competitive military and economic power determined to dominate Asia.
I don’t necessarily agree with his entire proposed approach, but it’s worth thinking about. And some of his advice, from a successful veteran of political campaigns needs to be considered today.
Elections are won in the middle. They are usually decided by people who are not too interested in and don’t like politics. By voters who are much less informed than activists about current events, government and history—the independents. Think about the people on Leno’s popular feature “Jaywalking,” all voting. Think about people being given a ride to the polls on election day who ask the driver, “Who’s running?”
Robert is a Vietnam Vet, a former member of the Massachusetts State Senate and money from sales of the book will go toward wounded veterans. He has a blog at Tartan Marine.
Speaking of worst case scenarios, a look at the feasibility of Alaskan secession from Arctic Patriot. (Via Western Rifle Shooters) Of course if worst comes to worst, it won’t be the US army at work here. It will be something that looks like the Soviet Union, an army of the criminal and the unemployed, overseen by political commissars, with none of the finickiness about rules of engagement and collateral damage. Hungry people who don’t care about very much except who feeds them. Still the Finns provide an example of fighting in a cold climate and using it to their advantage.
Want to see the future of Palestine? Read Steven Plaut’s Palestine 2013 Peace At Last
How do you feel about paying to bring Islamists to power? The G8 have committed 20 billion to the Arab Spring. It’ll be 200 billion before it’s done.
At INN, Dr Rhynhold tries to quantify the Obama Doctrine as applied to the Arab Spring. (Via Israpundit)
While admitting that there will be bad days as well as good days, the Obama doctrine rests on a quasi-religious American creed that believes in the inevitable and universal triumph of liberal democracy. For Obama, the ‘Arab Spring’ recalls the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution, Rosa Parks and the struggle for civil rights, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Eastern European transition to democracy.
That’s the rhetoric it rests on, these are traditional liberal beliefs, but I doubt Obama and his associates are doing anything more than using ideas like these as cover. We are not dealing with great believers in democracy here, but in getting their way. And their way is not democracy. It’s power.
The question is power for the sake of what?
Speaking of a world power that knows how to throw its weight around, FrontPage Magazine has the story of the DeSinifcation of Red Dawn.
The updated version of the film, which was ready for distribution in 2010, substituted Chinese troops for the Soviets. But that worried MGM execs, who didn’t want to jeopardize future movie deals in China’s massive market. So MGM ordered the film to be radically redone in post-production, taking what The Los Angeles Times calls “the highly unusual” and “extraordinary step of digitally altering a film to excise bad guys from the communist nation lest the leadership in Beijing be offended.”
The result, according to published reports, is that most references to China have been replaced with North Korea. The MGM self-censors have gone so far as “digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols.”
So when the invasions comes… the invaders will be… those guys.
Another interesting phenomenon of the species that Australian readers may be more familiar with are the John Marsden Tomorrow books which feature an invasion of Australia by an unknown foreign speaking enemy with vast military resources and the ability to intimidate the United States– but whose identity is never clarified.
There’s something tragic about such ponderings of a war against an enemy we dare not name.
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