Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Foreign Policy Magazine – Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies
New York Times – Ten Years of ISIS Attacks in Iraq (an infographic).
Peace Prize Update: The White House believes it has a brief window to pursue diplomacy, this official said…
Operation Empty Chair
Via Gateway Pundit;
Ayad Jamal Al-Din: I was very surprised by the American statement, which pledged to support Iraq in keeping with the strategic agreement. On the same day, the U.S. declared that it would weaken… The war in Syria and the war in Iraq are one and the same – both in Syria and in Iraq, it is a war against ISIS. The U.S. strives to weaken the Syrian regime, and this benefits ISIS, but in Baghdad, it supports the regime against ISIS. This is suspicious and perplexing, to tell you the truth.
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ISIS is composed of the same terrorists who are fighting in Libya, in Somalia, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Nigeria, and elsewhere. The names of the organizations may vary, but their terrorism is one and the same.
It’s Probably Nothing
Iran has sent special forces and a unit of elite troops to Iraq to bolster floundering efforts by the Iraqi government to halt the advance of militants from an al-Qaeda splinter group.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
TheBlaze: The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq…
Operation Empty Chair
Islamist insurgents in Iraq have seized the city of Tikrit, their second major gain after capturing Mosul on Tuesday, security officials say.
Tikrit, the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein, lies just 150km (95 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has vowed to fight back against the jihadists and punish those in the security forces who have deserted.
The insurgents are from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
ISIS, which is also known as ISIL, is an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
Mass beheadings reported.
Mapping Al Qaeda’s Grand Ambitions In Iraq And Syria.
Related: War Gear Flows to Police Departments
One Giant Tweet For Womankind
Adam Carolla Interviews Dinesh D’Souza
In a 90-minute interview, Dinesh D’Souza and Adam Carolla discuss the many problems plaguing America and the sure road to socialist irrelevance awaiting the nation if it continues down the same path it has been heading. A few callers ask some interesting questions, including one contrasting D’Souza’s more optimistic outlook vs. Dennis Miller’s very pessimistic one. Definitely cathartic listening for SDA regulars.
Strange Happenings in America
Just when you thought happenings in Obamamerica couldn’t get any more bizarre, this happens:
The Taliban was ‘thrilled’ when Bowe Bergdahl’s father ‘claimed the White House for Islam’ by thanking Allah in his press conference with President Obama, it has been claimed.
The father of the freed soldier – who former colleagues claim was a deserter – said he was speaking Arabic and Pashto because his son’s English was poor after five years in captivity.
But commentators accused him of giving the Taliban a priceless propaganda tool, with one saying extremist sources in Pakistan were delighted.
More here.
Multicultists the world over must be joyous!
“America has disappointed him”
A nation fails her leader;
I find nothing paradoxical about Obama’s recent pattern of behavior, nothing mysterious about the golfing, partying, traveling. It is quite obvious: Obama has given up.
He knows that his agenda is now limited to executive orders and bureaucratic regulation, and that even these measures are likely to be in the courts for years. He knows that his foreign policy agenda of engagement with the enemies of America will prove controversial and unpopular. He knows his staff has been ducking-and-covering ever since Lois Lerner announced the IRS had targeted Tea Party groups, and that they have been playing defense through Edward Snowden and Syria and Healthcare.gov and Crimea and the VA and now Bowe Bergdahl. He knows there is a chance that the Republicans will control Congress next January, and he has said, according to Politico, that this “would make his last two years in office unbearable.”
Nothing left to do but swing the wrecking ball.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Smile Superpower – you’re on Taliban camera!
When The Narrative Fails
…bring on the Alinsky: White House smears vets, claims ‘swift boating’ of Bergdahl
More from Ralph Peters – Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Yes, that was unfair and gratuitous. It’s why you keep coming back here every day.
‘Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim’
After Bergdahl finished his statement and his praise for Allah, Obama hugged him.
This Is Awkward
Via Glenn Beck: Susan Rice struggles through Sunday morning interviews following Bergdahl release.
Related.
Update: A stunt intended to push the VA scandal from the news cycle goes horribly wrong?
Commanders In Chief
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose…
“Because for me, to speak is to act. “
“We have been through a long season of war. And I managed to lose them all. I just want you to remember, in case you feel like blaming me, that it’s Bush’s fault.” (h/t Steve)
Uh Oh.
Bad news for Scooter Libby.
The Day Obama’s Presidency Died
If the U.S. had not won World War 2, Midway would never have existed in Japanese history. The average man of course read nothing in the papers, heard nothing on the radio, saw nothing in the newsreel. But perceptive Japanese “felt” something momentous had happened though they could not identify its cause. It’s impact, though denied in the press, shuddered through the whole imperial fabric. From that day forward events seemed to take a downward trajectory. Only after the war did the Japanese know the root of their misfortunes.
h/t bdoggins
Operation Empty Chair
From the safety of Europe, Mr. Zeidan conceded what was obvious all along: Libya’s post-Gaddafi government has no army and no way of establishing its authority over the hundreds of militias that sprang up in the vacuum that followed the revolution. Libya has fragmented into fiefdoms, its oil industry is virtually paralyzed, massive traffic in illegal weapons is supplying militants around the region and extremist groups such as Ansar al-Sharia, which participated in the Sept. 11, 2012, assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, are unchecked.
The Obama administration and its NATO allies bear responsibility for this mess because, having intervened to help rebels overthrow Gaddafi, they then swiftly exited without making a serious effort to help Libyans establish security and build a new political order. Congress might usefully probe why the administration allowed a country in which it initiated military operations to slide into chaos.
Well. This will be interesting.
Trey Gowdy tapped for select committee to investigate Benghazi.
Pitbull.