http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/people-do-vote-for-tyranny?f=puball As the world watches and waits for the Egyptian people to vote in a nationwide referendum to be held December 15 on a new constitution drafted largely by the Muslim Brotherhood, it would be well to consider another constitutional referendum from 33 years ago when another people who’d just been through a revolution went […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/what-next-for-the-eu-the-nobel-prize-for-economics?f=must_reads Does anyone seriously suppose that, but for the EU, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg might annex the Belgian province of the same name? Or that, unconstrained by Brussels, the Italians would re-occupy Nice? Does anyone imagine, these days, that the right-on, pacifist Germans, who can barely be persuaded to join Nato peacekeeping operations, are […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/egypt-the-arab-spring-not-exactly-a-1776-moment PATRICK DUNLEAVY IS AUTHOR OF AN ESSENTIAL BOOK ON RADICAL IMAMS IN THE PRISON CHAPLAINCY PROGRAMS WHO CONVERT AND RADICALIZE YOUNG INMATES…..RSK The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection by Patrick T. Dunleavy (Sep 2011) They say a picture paints a thousand words. If so, then there can be no greater image to […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-future-of-liberty-in-a-post-literate-culture “The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such […]
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Barack Obama says he’s a Christian. Good for him (and for the Gospel). But rarely has a Christian paid such obeisance to another faith and ideology. The president’s bow and scrape to Islam knows no end. That’s not so good
The U.S. Army is soon to issue a handbook instructing soldiers to copy Mr. Obama’s example of when and how to defer to an alien ideology that stands against everything Americans are taught, whether by faith, ethics, morals or another code of good conduct.
The new manual, which runs to 75 pages, orders American military personnel to refrain from saying anything to offend the Taliban in Afghanistan, to be careful not to criticize the practice of sexual relations with children, the abuse of women, beheadings, massacres of girls and the killing of “unbelievers” and Muslims who Taliban enforcers regard as insufficiently devout in the faith. Holding to what they have been taught, whether at Sunday school or a mother’s knee, is presumably OK for American soldiers, at least for now. But they must keep such ideas to themselves.
The manual, issued in the name of the U.S. Government, obviously at the command of the commander in chief, suggests that Western ignorance and arrogance and not the Taliban are responsible for the surge in deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the soldiers of the allied coalition.
U.S. troops should prepare for “psychologically challenging conditions” in Afghanistan, and be prepared for “stressors” that some American soldiers have remarked from previous deployments, such as finding Afghan security forces “profoundly dishonest and [having] no personal integrity,” and “gutless in combat,” and “ignorant and basically stupid.”
The manual’s bottom line, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is that “troops may experience social-cultural shock and/or discomfort when interacting with [the Afghans]. Better situational awareness/understanding of Afghan culture will help better prepare [coalition] forces to effectively partner and to avoid cultural conflict that can lead towards . . . violence.”
The Army, citing “etiquette,” specifically orders soldiers to avoid “conversation topics” such as “anything related to Islam, mention of any other religion and/or spirituality, debating the war, making derogatory comments about the Taliban, advocating women’s rights and equality, directing any criticism towards Afghans, and mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct.” The manual, according to the Journal, is the work of the Army’s Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Some lessons, alas, are still to be learned.
Some of this advice would be just good manners at a proper dinner party for the elites and the effetes, where custom forbids talking about religion or politics. But bitching about anything and everything is a soldier’s cherished right. Any top sergeant (or major general) could tell you that bitching is crucial to good morale.
FIRST: The definition:
per·sev·er·a·tion (pr-sv-rshn)
a. Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
b. The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
c. The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
Some decent supporters of Israel remain under the trance of the two state delusion. They get their knickers in a knot over the Palarab declaration of “independence” for jihadis, and they wax eloquent on the dangers.
What are the dangers that so upset them? The threats to Israeli tranquility, and peace and survival? Nah. The threats of another terrorist enclave at the heart of Israel? Nah. The outrageous abrogation of Israel’s legitimate, historic and strategic rights? Nah.
What so many of them see in the whole charade at the United Nations is the threat to…..”the peace process and the possibility of two states…..etc. blah…blah….”
Having learned nothing they just perseverate the same old drivel, proffering more hope and expectations to Israel’s enemies.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ben-shapiro/jamie-foxx-celebrates-murdering-all-the-white-people/ Dominated for decades by a Hollywood establishment intent on convincing them that America is an evil and racist place, indoctrinated for years by a university system that says the founders were early Nazi incarnations, today’s white liberals celebrate their own demise. Literally. That’s what happened Saturday night on Saturday Night Live. With Jamie “Our […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/gun-control-people-control-and-thought-control/print/ The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ A candle is a brief flare of light. A wick dipped in oil burns and then goes out again. The light of Chanukah appears to follow the same narrative. Briefly there is light and warmth and then darkness again. Out of the exile of Babylon, the handful that returned to resettle and rebuild the […]
http://www.steynonline.com/5319/bond-in-bankruptcy For some reason, the quadrennial humiliation of the Republican presidential candidate now coincides with the release of the new Bond movie. Don’t ask me why; probably a constitutional amendment I missed along the way. Last time round, Kevin Sessums interviewed Daniel Craig and, as a final question, asked which presidential nominee would make the […]
