PART TWO: DANIEL GREENFIELD…THE WEEK THAT WAS
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NEWS AND VIEWS
Meet the horse soldiers who won the War in Afghanistan… before Obama lost it.
Before Obama’s disastrous Afghanistan surge cost 1,500 American lives and 15,000 wounded, before wars were won by “Hearts and Minds” and CVE, the War in Afghanistan was won by America’s horse soldiers.
Near Ground Zero stands a sculpture of a mounted special forces soldier titled, “De Oppresso Liber” or “To Liberate the Oppressed”, the motto of the Special Forces. The unveiling of the monument was attended by Vice President Biden and General Petraeus.As a clueless technocrat, Obama has never been able to understand that you do not defeat an enemy with drones from thousands of miles away, but through the sacrifice of brave men and women, fighting under “non-optimal” conditions and adapting to their environment.
Will Obama launch a war as an October Surprise? My thoughts on why not. Has Obama really stood on the side of democracy… or the side of Islamists?
Obama did not mention Islam even once in the debate… and we never lost Syria because we never had Syria.
The Free Syrian Army wants weapons from us and then they’ll want us to upgrade our commitment by opening a No Fly Zone and acting as their air force. And then once we’ve helped them take over Syria, we can watch our consulate in Aleppo burning on the evening news.
And a brief spotlight on Ben Emmerson, special rapporteur on Human Rights to the UN who threatened Americans that if they voted for Romney, they would face human rights sanctions because of Romney’s willingness to waterboard Muslim terrorists.
Or rather a spotlight on some of the atrocities committed by just one of Emmerson’s Muslim war criminal clients.
KLA soldiers forced Witness 38 and her relatives to join a convoy of people. At some point, they were taken from the convoy and brought to a mill in Junik. She and her father were forced to undress. She further testified that she was kept naked for a considerable amount of time and that she was forced to re-join the convoy while still naked. Witness 38 also testified that the soldier forced her to eat a bank book, tore off half of her father’s moustache, and tied both their hands with barbed wire.
The UN and its human rights apparatus, as always, has all the moral authority of Charles Manson and none of the charm.
THE HIP TYRANT
My article, A Star Falls Over Chicago, proved far more popular than expected and has been the topic of a lot of discussion on Free Republic and Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom has commented on it in some depth.
he was a man of constructs and mannered rhetorical tics; a man of tone, not of ideas. He was a fraud, and to those who don’t find comfort in belonging to a hipster ethos — which is no different than belonging to, say, a chess club or band camp, only on a grander scale — he was a fraud who was trying to turn statism and tyranny into the new cool, the new black, if you will.
…None of these attacks on individual sovereignty were ever cool or hip. Rather, they were an attempt to turn collectivism into a hipster pose, and reduce individualism to a superficial denial of certain truths: namely, that you didn’t build that, you aren’t ever going to be self-reliant, and that rugged individualism is a punch line, as trite and G-rated as an episode of Little House on the Prairie.
What happened that turned comformist statists chanting Obama’s name into the epitome of cultural hipness? What made submission to the state an act of supposed defiance of The Man?
The progress of the left has always been to exploit anger, resentment and dissatisfaction, turn them into revolution and then turn the revolution into the building blocks of a new tyranny.
Let’s overthrow the system and replace it with a nightmare that will make you think fondly of Louis and Nicholas and Nixon.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Courtesy of Doug Ross, a step into the Twilight Zone of another three years of this. Not four. Only 3.
(FLASH/AP) At approximately 9:03am EST this morning, terrorists believed to have been associated with Ansar al Islam detonated a 15 kiloton atomic weapon in the harbor near Manhattan’s battery. Radio reports indicated that the terrorists were operating a speedboat and that a pursuit by the United States Coast Guard was underway when the explosion occurred.
Three Nuclear Emergency Response Teams (NEST) were on the scene and initial casualty reports estimated as many as 75,000 dead and 750,000 wounded. Area hospitals were overwhelmed with cases of severe burns, radiation sickness, and major injuries. A triage facility was established at 103th street/Corona Plaza and all medical personnel were asked to report immediately to their respective facilities.
It’s all too plausible, except for the Obama part. Oh sure, Obama’s speechwriters would dust off some of Bush’s speeches, but no waterboarding and martial law would only be declared to protect Muslim bodega owners from the anger of New Yorkers.
MEANWHILE IN EUROPE
… there appears to be a crackdown on anti-Islamic movements. Pamela Geller has the story from the UK and Gates of Vienna has some coverage of the situation elsewhere in Germany and France.
BRIEF BOOK SPOTLIGHT
Evan Sayet has his book, “The Kindergarten of Eden: How Modern Liberals Think” out. And fellow blogger, Meryl Yourish has put out a young adult fantasy novel, “Darkness Rising”
HOW DESPERATE IS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IN OHIO?
So desperate it’s courting the murderer and rapist vote.
The Obama campaign has reached out to felons in Ohio, where only those behind bars on election day are barred from voting. Estimates put the eligible felon vote in Ohio at more than 700,000.
Four more years sure has a new meaning over there.
THE RECOVERY, SHE IS COMING
But the data are clear that Obama’s economic recovery — which started in June 2009, five months after he was sworn in — has been worse than any recovery since the Great Depression.
Overall economic growth has been slower in this recovery than in any of the previous post-World War II recoveries, according to the Minneapolis Fed, using data from Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Which is as it should be, because government doesn’t really cause an economic recovery, it can just slow it down. In worst case scenarios, as in Japan, it can retard it completely.
Obama, like FDR, has badly slowed down the recovery. And he’s claiming credit for an anemic recovery, that like drilling, he has done everything possible to kill.
EVERYONE GET ON BOARD THE OBAMA PARTY PLANE
Times are tough. For everybody. Everyone who isn’t a government employee. Back during the Bush days, Washingtonite liberals whined to the New York Times that Bush had killed the party circuit, but these days all the privileged champions of the oppressed are dining lavishly at taxpayer expense on the endless Obama party circuit.
President Obama has spent far more lavishly on White House state dinners than previous chief executives, including nearly $1 million on a 2010 dinner for Mexico’s president
The Obama extravaganza two years ago for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, which included a performance by pop star Beyonce, cost $969,793, or more than $4,700 per attendee, the documents show.
Gary Walters, who ran presidential household operations for 21 years during Democratic and Republican administrations, before retiring in 2007, told The Examiner the costs reflected in the documents were “excessive. They are high.”
The chief usher of the White House from the Reagan to George W. Bush presidencies, Walters consulted a former White House colleague and said neither of them could recall entertainment costs anywhere near those revealed in the documents provided to The Examiner.
“The highest [cost] event we could remember was $190,000 to $200,000 range, and that was for a very large dinner outside that was probably somewhere in the vicinity of 500 people with two different tents,” Walters said, noting that the event was held under President Clinton.
Four more years. No?
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