Former top officers are baffled by Washington’s telegraphing of its strike on Assad.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
It’s Probably Nothing
A new front in the War on Man Caused Disaster;
Pakistan-based militants are preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once Western troops leave Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.
Intelligence sources in India believe that a botched suicide bombing of an Indian consulate in Afghanistan, which was followed within days last week by a lethal cross-border ambush on Indian soldiers in disputed Kashmir, suggest that the new campaign by Islamic militants may already be underway.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Undecimated: Al-Qaida’s Won This Round–So Far
“Killing people is a means to an end for most groups,” says Bruce Hoffman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. “The terrorists’ stock in trade is creation of fear … as much the threat of violence as the act of violence itself. It’s all about getting people to respond or react in a manner that the terrorists think will be beneficial to their cause.” For those doubting the severity of al-Qaida’s ability to terrify Americans anymore, despite a decade of war, look no further than the 19 embassies that are shuttering their operations across the Middle East and the Persian Gulf for more than a week; the worldwide travel alert; the Air Force transporting personnel from Yemen.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Via Weekly Standard;
Two spectacular al Qaeda prison breaks in Iraq, freeing over 500 of its members in two separate prisons simultaneously this week, demonstrate the group is back with a vengeance. Al Qaeda’s Iraq branch is also the moving force behind the jihadist success in Syria. The resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq has sobering implications for what is likely to follow the drawdown of NATO forces in Afghanistan for the al Qaeda mother ship in Pakistan. […]
…if American pressure on al Qaeda in Pakistan diminishes after the NATO withdrawal of combat forces next year from Afghanistan, we can expect a rapid regeneration of al Qaeda in Pakistan. The drones all fly from bases in Afghanistan, without which there is no pressure on al Qaeda next door in Pakistan. Iraq is a sobering lesson in what happens when a battered al Qaeda movement gets a second chance.
Related: More than 1,000 escape in Libya prison break
He Who Rewrites History
Intends to repeat it.
“…we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
— President Obama talking to reporters alongside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
Ah, it’s probably nothing.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Had Obama followed Truman, we’d be speaking Japanese right now;
Al-Qaeda in Iraq-recently rebranded, after a merger with its Syrian affiliate, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-has already been displaying formidable capabilities, given that it now seems to set off a major explosion at least once a week. The raid to free imprisoned al-Qaeda members-which featured complex, military-style maneuvers-is a further sign of its strength. And of course with the aid of the newly released terrorists, al-Qaeda in Iraq will only get stronger still.
Related – …estimates of the death toll from the Syrian Civil War – 83,000 to 110,000 – are now reaching the low end of the Iraq War casualties; by the time the bloodbath over there ends, it may surpass the death toll from the Iraq War.
Benghazi Colonel Still Secret
Marine Corps Col. George Bristol was in a key position in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) chain of command the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. As such, he’s high on the list of people that some Republican members of Congress want to interview. But they don’t know where he is and the Pentagon isn’t telling.
Maybe when he sees his name in the news, he’ll call them.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Family members of Navy SEAL Team VI and special forces soldiers on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., with regard to the deaths of their sons, whose helicopter was blown from the sky by Taliban jihadists on Aug. 6, 2011 in Afghanistan. […]
The plaintiffs claim that certain disclosures of classified information by Vice President Biden and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding SEAL Team VI’s responsibility for conducting a secret mission that ended the life of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, placed “targets on the backs” of the servicemen and their families.
Bragging about the killing of Bin Laden resulted in the Taliban retaliated by blasting the helicopter out of the sky and killing all on board, according to the plaintiffs.
Not A Muslim
The post-racial President
And yet, where are we now?
As the first black candidate for president, he was for very many people symbolic of the great advance beyond race prejudice that has been the hallmark of most Western societies. Thus his world popularity.
I Miss W
All SDA regulars should get together for a 5-second choir and belt out, “I told you soooooooooooooooooo!!!”
Global Test
Standing before world and regional leaders on May 26, Kerry said plaintively, “This will help build the future. Is this a fantasy? I don’t think so.”
Abbas and his underlings wasted no time, however, in demonstrating that a indeed, Kerry’s plan is fantasy.
I Miss W
Related – Rolling Thunder Roars Into Washington
I Miss W
Benghazi: “What difference at this point does it make?”
Three Big Developments on Benghazi: “She left Americans to die horrible deaths” is pretty much the worst charge a presidential candidate could possibly face.
Miss Me Yet?
Charles Krauthammer: George W. Bush is our century’s Harry Truman
Related.
Forward!
I Saw Something, So I’m Saying Something;
I’ve seen Obama stand before the United Nations after the jihad-crazed slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi, including our ambassador, and proclaim “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
So much for America’s right of free speech! And freedom of religion! Can you find anything in that bizarre sentence with which the Boston bombers would disagree? No wonder Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was an Obama supporter.
I’ve seen Obama’s minions arrest and jail an obscure California film-maker for creating a YouTube video that criticizes Mohammed. Incredibly, I then witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempt to blame the hapless guy for inciting the Benghazi slaughter. How about arresting Obama’s pal George Clooney for bad acting? That would make more sense.
Related: Conciliatory FBI policies toward Islamism hampered probe into Boston bombers, experts say
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Turns out there is: Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’
“That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”
The famous investigative journalists are always the last to notice.