Monday, August 11, 2014

The American Crisis Has Gone Global: The Islamic State Arrives at the White House Tweeting a Chilling Threat and Message

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776) 
Scanned original publication of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis (1776)

Topic: The Global Crisis

 Ladies and gentlemen, I called this inevitable invasion in the spring when ISIS formed the Islamic State as it conquered Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. The lone means of successfully manifesting their global caliphate is to invade Anatolia. The Islamic State threatened over the weekend to invade Turkey, which will spell calamity for all and the last global war to be launched. Once they invade Turkey - this is not a matter of "if" they will, but "when" - they will have attacked a NATO ally of the U.S. and Europe on its sovereign soil, and America is obligated to defend the government in Ankara who is our ally due to its 62 year membership in NATO. Russia historically has coveted total control of the Bosporus Strait separating the Balkan Peninsula from Istanbul (Constantinople); the Russian Empire dating to Czarina Catherine the Great waged numerous wars against the Ottoman Empire over control of the Bosporus Strait, but also the Crimean Peninsula. Once the threat of ISIS reaches where it might invade one of the former Soviet republics, Vladimir Putin will be faced with the single great dichotomy in Russian history as to whether he will remain inactive and allow ISIS attack his NATO foes and take the opportunity to invade Eastern Europe through this political diversion, or to join NATO in encircling ISIS from the east as the U.S. and the rest of NATO drives towards ISIS from the west.

This is not a matter of "if" ISIS is going to invade Turkey; rather, the question is "when" they will do so, and whether Hamas and Hezbollah either join them as allies or disengage and fight over what they too desire: their own formation of a caliphate in accordance to their design. For the first time since the Ottoman hordes sacked Constantinople and toppled the Byzantine Empire in 1453. The world, not just America or NATO and our Israeli allies who will always maintain their very special relationship with us long after President Obama is gone, faces its greatest existential threat to its existence in its history. No life on any of the six settled continents is free nor will be spared from the hordes diffusing across the Arab world through the genocide of thousands of Christians and all who are impediments to their absolute power in accordance to their interpretation of the Quran. As all terrorist cells are linked globally, the world must always remain cognizant of this. If we are to slay the leviathan, all its heads must be severed. With our allies across the Atlantic and in defense of the sovereign state guarding Jerusalem, the following phrase by Benjamin Franklin during the American Revolution is most imperative and beyond the need of provocative thought:
"We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-In the Continental Congress just before signing
the Declaration of Independence, 1776.
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The Islamic State Arrives Across from the White House and in Jerusalem:

With the president the same as admitted his intention to limited even the airstrikes over Iraq and never once discussing the same situations in Syria and Lebanon, the problem has diffused well beyond the fledgling caliphate. Over the weekend, I read first in The Times of Israel of the Islamic State's flag with its emblem located in Jerusalem where it previously had not been, nor had any insurgency of the organization occurred; it since has been removed from the site. The following piece by Before It is New addresses the very frightening proposition that it has officially dispatched agents into the Holy Land:
As we witness the brutalization of Iraq by the ISIS terror organization consider this: this Islamic march of death leads to Jerusalem. The leading result of the call of the people in the Arab world for the overthrow of unsatisfactory leaders has been their cause being hijacked by insurgent jihadist terrorists.
We saw that in Libya with the fall of Gadhafi. We saw it in Egypt where Mubarak was replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood, in this case an in-house jihadist movement. We see it in Syria where the people’s cry against Assad has led to an influx of Al-Qaida type groups vying for dominance. Now we witness the conquest of Iraq by a vicious Islamic terror regime against which Al-Qaida pales into moderation.
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) is headed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He transformed a few small terror cells into the most brutal and lethal terror group on earth. Mercy is not in this man’s vocabulary. Abu Bakr picked up the mantle after Abu Omar al Baghdadi was killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation in 2010. Al-Qaida in Iraq was under the leadership of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who, in a 2005 letter to the head of Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, put the aims of Al-Qaida in Iraq into four stages;
1. Drive America out of Iraq.
2. Create a Caliphate in Iraq.
3. Use that as a base to attack other countries.
4. Attack Israel.
When both al-Zarqawi and al-Baghdadi were killed by American forces it looked as if Al-Qaida was decimated in Iraq, but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reformed a weakening terror group by leading it in battle, honing its fighters’ training and experience in Iraq and Syria, and by using political savvy to link his growing group to local and tribal demands and interests. It became both a fighting force and a social benefactor, winning local hearts and minds along a bloody path of victory. He absorbed the al-Nusra Front terror group in Syria into his ranks, demanding their obedience. Seeing the growing threat, Al-Qaida’s al-Zarqawi, from his hiding place somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan, criticized ISIS for not concentrating on Iraq. In response, a confident ISIS hit back, accusing the Al-Qaida chief of “Sheikh Osama (bin Laden) gathered all the mujahedeen with one word, but you divided them and tore them apart.”
ISIS has attracted thousands of foreign fighters to its ranks, increasing its power and size. The shockwaves caused by its Iraqi Blitzkreig in seizing the towns of Mosul, Tikrit, and Fallujah was met by a mocking response by ISIS.
“The battle is not yet raging, but it will rage in Baghdad and Karbala. Put on your belts and get ready” as they contemptuously called Iraqi leader, Nouri al-Maliki, an “underwear salesman.”
Clearly, the battle for Iraq is along sectarian lines with the Sunni ISIS, representing the majority of Iraqis, challenging the Shia al-Maliki rule. Clear also was al-Maliki’s refusal to allow American forces to stay on in Iraq, but the ISIS victories were enhanced by the military vacuum in Iraq following the American pullout, and this responsibility can be put at Obama’s White House door.
Obama’s self-proclaimed foreign-policy “achievements” have been U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq, and “Al-Qaida has been decimated and is on the run!” These two boasts have now come back to haunt him. Al-Qaida has morphed into a bigger monster that is about to take over Iraq. And what was President Obama’s response?
“We don’t have the resources. Let the local leaders deal with them.”
This is shortsighted weakness, and dangerous. This was emphasized on Friday, June 13, when Obama, confronted by the deteriorating situation in Iraq, decided to head off to California for a fund-raising event and some golf. America spilled blood and treasure in Iraq including 4500 lives, $17 billion in military training to Iraqi forces, and $15 billion in military equipment. Now ISIS terrorists are seen driving around in American military Humvees.
The United States embassy in Baghdad is the largest global American embassy. It has 15,000 workers. It would be a mistake to think that they did not pick up intelligence on the gathering Islamic terror storm. They did, and it fed it up the chain to the State Department and the White House, for months. Neither of those bodies acted on the intel. As one staffer told Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters,
“We couldn’t convince the President that this is serious!”
Now the Baghdad embassy could be under ISIS fire, making Benghazi look like child’s play. And the attack on Americans will not end there. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was captured, imprisoned, and then released by America in Iraq, just as Obama recently released the five top Al-Qaida/Taliban prisoners at Gitmo.
America, and others, will pay for both these foolish gestures. As Ken King, the commander of the Bucco Camp that was ordered to release al-Baghdadi, related on the Fox News “Kelly Files” program, as a parting shot the ISIS leader glared at King and warned:
“I’ll see you in New York!”
In a strange twist on “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Republican lawmakers called for a partnership with Iran to stop ISIS from attacking Baghdad. Senator Lindsey Graham warned that ISIS “will eventually march on Jordan and Lebanon. They’re going to take the King of Jordan down.” The unspoken implication is that Israel will be next. ISIS is now pumping Iraqi oil. It grabbed half a trillion dollars when it seized Iraq’s central bank in Mosul making it the richest terrorist organization in the world. ISIS has been called too extreme for Al-Qaida with justification. Al-Baghdadi is being crowned “the next Bin Laden.”
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Appeasement does not a leader make. Note I intentionally refrained from the usage of either "good", "great", "bad" or "terrible". To garner any one of those four distinguished adjectives would entail being described as "a leader". There is not one characteristic redeemable of the president here because he does not lead; he golfs on the weekends or attends multiple fundraisers every week. And again, why did the FBI release Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from Guantanamo Bay detention center as he did the top five terrorists with the al-Qaeda alliance with the Taliban? Why again are U.S. military vehicles being used by the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria to this very day?

 To answer you with some satisfaction, refer to this key Iraqi politician and philosopher of the Islamic faith:


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Even the Russians see Obama's strategy of playing sides to see which emerges as the strongest of the lot:


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I only disagree with Scottish gentleman from the realm of United Nation's legitimization of the conflict; the issue of "third world poverty" is quite another, but will not be discussed in this article. The UN not only will never solve this issue, it is the problem. The UN is colluding with Obama on this issue; it is serving as his faux third-party conduit to provide arms, munitions and hundreds of millions of dollars to finance Hamas' role in this war. Qatar, one of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood's major regional supporters. The gentleman failed to acknowledge that chemical and biological warfare agents and nuclear weapons have been recovered by the Islamic State over the past two months. The UN, which sent weapons inspectors under the direction of Hans Blix during the early 2000s, failed to locate these weapons; so too did our military as well as the British Royal Army. Engaging such a social and political powder keg with any state or terrorist organization in the Middle East is not only shortsighted - a comment I firmly agree upon with Scotsman, but dangerous; Obama is now facing his worst nightmare as a result. And when a government funds proxy wars in Syria and fails to research just who it is and if they will remain true to the cause for liberation, everyone loses, and so too are the people living the daily threat of violent executions at the direction of al-Baghdadi. 

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For any president, his sole duty if all others are cast aside is to preserve America's sovereignty by way of our fiscal solvency and national security. I posted in the article revealing Obama's funding of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) as well as Hamas and his position according to Egyptian media as a high-ranking official within the Muslim Brotherhood, but also in his funding subversion in Latin America in proxy wars or dictatorships friendly to his influence in that nations that included engaging in amnesty policies with us. The president also used Panamanian and Venezuelan civilians to enter Cuba to research its society, most especially its form of socialized medicine in 2009. Strikingly, America's health system is rather similar to Cuba's: medicine is too expensive today under Obamacare than ever before in our history, and the wealthy and foreigners continue to enjoy greater access to quality health care than our own middle class and impoverished. 

The greatest danger always unfolds when irresponsible fiscal policy leads to breaches in the national security. With the border breaches leading to what I am about to show you in photographed tweets, it becomes difficult to discern just what are the president's goals for America and if they entail its very dissolution of a sovereign one-state political map by manufacturing it into a hemisphere-wide Pan-American state, with Canada the likely outlier in dissent:





And most disturbing of all after a toddler breached the White House's fencing just a day or two prior was this photograph tweeted under the cover of night across from the White House:


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Assuming these are verifiable, the war has landed on our soil. And most likely, the Islamic State agents arrived by crossing our border from Mexico and the rest of Latin America. 

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The tweet immediately above resulted in the Twitter account being deleted. 

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 The Islamic State Threatens to Invade Turkey

As stated in the introductory paragraph, the third global war will be launched following the Islamic State's invasion of Turkey. This is not a matter of "if", but rather "when". The Times of Israel reports the following, and it should serve as both a wake-up call and a rallying cry to avoid appeasing the Islamic State at all costs as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made the same fatal mistake with Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938:
Islamic State levels threat at Turkey
Radical terrorist group active in Syria and Iraq says Turkey must reopen Euphrates dam — or be conquered
BY YIFA YAAKOV August 9, 2014, 11:44 pm 25
The Islamist State, the al-Qaeda offshoot that has been terrorizing and executing its way through Syria and Iraq in recent months, may have its sights set on Turkey next, a rare interview with one of its members published Saturday indicated.
The hardline Sunni group, which some American officials have dubbed “a terrorist army,” recently overpowered lightly armed Kurdish units in a blitzkrieg that has threatened the Kurdish region and the American personnel stationed there, causing US military forces to respond with airstrikes — and drawing Washington back into the Iraqi fray.
But now, the Islamic State may have a new target — Turkey.
In an interview with an Islamic State operative in Raqqa, Syria, where the group’s stronghold is located, VICE reporter Medyan Dairieh — who was said by VICE to have gained “unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria,” and who the Turkish Hurriyet daily said was the first journalist to expose the inner workings of IS — was told that the “apostate” Turkish state would have to capitulate to IS’s demands — or be conquered.
These demands are, chiefly, the reopening of a Turkish dam on the Euphrates River, preventing drinking water from reaching neighboring Syria.
The Ataturk Dam, located close to the Turkish-Syrian border, was closed earlier this year.
“I pray to God that the apostate [Turkish] government reconsiders its decisions [to close the dam]. Because of they don’t reconsider it now, we’ll consider it for them by liberating Istanbul,” warned the IS operative in the interview, which was conducted on the banks of the Euphrates, with the operatives’ children splashing about in its waters in the background.
Dairieh, who was embedded with IS for three weeks, then asked the operative if his words were meant as a threat.
“Yes, this is a clear threat, and God willing, if they don’t open it, we’ll open it from Istanbul,” he warned.
Dairieh’s report, which was aired in two parts starting August 7, also showed a Belgian IS member indoctrinating children to kill “all infidels” — including in their native Belgium and Europe — and revive the Islamic Caliphate.
The roots of IS hark back to the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad and the attempt by Western-backed rebel groups to overthrow his Ba’athist regime. As the months passed, the fighting morphed into a brutal civil war, causing the country to descend into chaos and creating a vacuum into which Islamist terror groups — as well as more extreme breakaways such as IS — could step.
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Keep in mind again that Turkey is a member of NATO, a strategic partner since 1952 as the easternmost state in the alliance. The list of member states may be accessed on NATO's official website. The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, which expands to other Middle East states, is located here.

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The Border Crisis' Most Disturbing Find from Pakistan and Afghanistan:

For months now, we have read about Middle Easterners arrested as members connected with Hamas among other terrorist cells by Gov. Rick Perry's National Guard and what little border patrol remains along the Rio Grande border. I have yet to address this issue due to time constraints as well as ill-health, but it should now be revealed. IJ Review reported this in July, and what you will see, while not causing reason to be shocked, is indeed an indictment on America's national security situation:
What This Rancher Found Near The Mexican Border Should Sound The Alarms
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Texas rancher Mike Vickers found an odd book on his property: an Urdu-to-English dictionary. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, and is spoken in Muslim areas of India and parts of Afghanistan.
This is certainly an unusual item to find on the border of Mexico, which is a Spanish-speaking country. From The Blaze:
While local ranchers have to contend with torn-up fences, broken water lines, contaminated wells and robbery on a daily basis from illegal immigrants streaming through, a Texas Border Patrol agent told The Blaze there is “no doubt” that among the hordes of Central Americans are also crossers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, raising significant national security concerns.
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“We have limited resources,” said the agent, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “It’s frustrating for all of us and there’s no doubt that we have OTMs [Other Than Mexicans] coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and other parts of the world that we are very concerned with — these guys won’t be turning themselves into Border Patrol like the family units or children.
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I expect we’ll see more the OTMs of special interest this year and next, now that they know they can get in easier and they won’t be turned back home.”
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“We’ve found Korans, prayer rugs and many other unusual items at the border that certainly raise concern,” the agent said.
While many on the left describe the crisis on the border as “humanitarian,” the real crisis is the fact that people from all over the world – including the Middle East – now have the ability to cross freely into America – without proof of identification.
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The enemy is, in fact, here. It has been here for five and a half year. And he resides in the White House. I have accepted that the expansion of the Islamic State is to trend towards Turkey and that warfare is inevitable. This has to be stopped before that invasion is launched, for it Turkey falls, so too will Europe, as nearly a quarter of the continent's population are, in fact, Muslims, most of whom are sympathetic to Hamas and thousands having left their homes to fight for the Islamic State. The chart below will demonstrate where it has expanded already:

The intended expansion of the Islamic State, which leaders into the Iberian Peninsula once ruled by the Moors, and into the Balkans, the Indian Subcontinent and Russian territory.
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This cannot happen. If I could medically be cleared to fight in our armed forces, I would lay down my life not simply as an American citizen, but as a Christian. The next article will describe the Islamic State's genocide of Christians, and in the future, one dedicated to Boko Haram and the Obama administration's role in its formation. 

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

My Response to Readers Complaining About the Format of My "Diatribes" and Replies

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am making this as short and sweet as I can since I am receiving complaints over my posts being lengthy "diatribes". 

Please people, prove that mankind really has not devolved.


I have one request for everyone who chooses to read my blog. After 20,313 hits in 128 published articles, I know my material is receiving attention just by the volume of people reading it, and I do not expect everyone to agree with my positions nor all my choices for documentation or media across the globe. However, if you do not like reading why events occur politically through a historical lense which entails that write expository exposes at varying degrees of length, I do not want you to read my blog, nor if you find it a matter of aversion to actually read rather than choosing to spin propagandized cliches like the zombies the Department of Homeland Security is funding measures to defend America against the undead. I do not cater to sycophants nor will I dumb down my articles for anyone, nor will I ever limit the extent nor choice for eclectic sources of information nor the careful details I find through laborious research. I will not lower my standards for you simply because you are unwilling or sadly incapable of simply meeting me halfway.

By the way, for those of you complaining about President Obama and the Democratic Party destroying America and our world by chiding me for embarking upon long diatribes, please allow me to use this little book called a dictionary to define the word "diatribe" for you:

di·a·tribe
ˈdīəˌtrīb/Submit
noun
a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
"a diatribe against the Roman Catholic Church"
I write diatribes against whomever I observe to be guilty of committing political subterfuge or profligate and libertine behavior. If this is a Democrat or a Republican, regardless of which party or ideological branch, I fully intend to state my peace on the matter, and there is nothing any of you can do to stop this even if you opt to no longer frequent my blog; after all, Fox News Channel is the most watched news programming in America over ABC, NBC and CBS, and while Obama complains that the network is obstructing his capacity to govern as if a caesar, he likely is learning about his next scandal now following a long day at the golf course. This post is indeed a diatribe against those who sadly struggle to read or are illiterate altogether, and who accept syphoning upon whatever bone the mass media tosses you to consume when fact is often stranger than the fiction you watch. Like any good politician who may or may not be corrupt, if you wag the dog, the general public will behave accordingly and remove their attention off the big picture in order watch CNN covering the aerial assault on Baghdad in January 1991. If you wish to pose as the past generation's product for why this one is doomed to the worst quality of education in our public schools due to Common Core, that is your right; I will not denude you ever of it. To the contrary, if you intend to read my articles and complain mostly about their length and details, I again ask you to stop reading it because I have no intention to catering to ignorance nor someone who struggles to read Dr. Seuss, much less a 600 page biographical account with primary source documents titled Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Portrait (1974) by the late UCLA Professor of History Fawn M. Brodie. If you struggle to place words together to form a sentence, combine multiple sentences to manufacture a paragraph and last, group a few paragraphs in order to form a single page multiple times, you are a waste of my time researching and writing, and I do not want you trolling this blog.

 Thank you,
Jonathan Henderson
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My Reflection on the 40th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Resignation

Topic: Forty Years Later, What Have Americans Learned from Richard Nixon?

Yesterday, Friday August 8, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon delivering his address to the nation announcing his resignation from the presidency effective at noon the following day. At that time, Watergate was merely the latest in what had been a generation of unprecedented social and political turmoil plus bloody warfare during the height of the Cold War; the issue of stagflation remained a growing burden not soon to be solved, too. Nixon was noted for his political pragmatism and one of the elite foreign policies ever crafted by National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, as he embarked upon the first true initiative to turn the Soviet Union on its ear by opening the door to the People's Republic of China in 1972 to economic globalization and a diplomatic relationship with Washington, plus Beijing's eventual seat at the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member. As the Soviet Union under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev had embarked upon a retraction of Destalinization in favor of its most repressive foreign policy objective ever and the launch of the world's largest military expansion in human history, Tricky Dick served as the last true stop gap in preventing Moscow from expanding beyond its doctrine of Soviet absolutism in dominating its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In 1979, Brezhnev ordered the invasion of Afghanistan, which alongside the Iranian hostage crisis demonstrated the impotence of Jimmy Carter as president of the United States and America's decline from a nation of patriots and minutemen to one of angst and dashed dreams as well as hopes. 

In dealing with the era where for the first time in recorded history both unemployment and inflation soared following his predecessor Lyndon B. Johnson's signing into law a tax hike inclusive with a 10% surcharge in 1968, he employed the failed principles of Keynesianism through price fixtures and quantitative easing for his monetary solutions. The result was the acceleration of an already steep rise in inflation while doing nothing to stall the equally soaring unemployment. When in 1973 OPEC implemented its embargo on oil exports and gas prices reached unfathomable prices, his political career was already on the rocks due to the previous year's breakin at the Watergate Hotel, which was at the time the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. More than a generation of a deteriorating and debilitating public stream of consciousness amid the zeitgeist of America's apparent decline by way of social malaise seemed to have peaked in its abysmal collapse. Once Nixon resigned 40 years ago yesterday, the Civil Rights Movement, the counterculture and beatnik movements, plus Vietnam had cost one president his life and upon his announcement to resign the presidency, two to resign after quelling the public's once-unconditional trust in government.

While Nixon was never impeached, the articles for it were being drawn; it was a mere fait accompli. He fell upon his own sword, realizing his complicity in the Watergate scandal had effectively destroyed his political career, his presidency at that time metastasising the greatest divide in the history of American politics. It was the latest and perhaps greatest example of what once was a nation of unconditional sycophants finally transferring into everything the Founding Fathers ever feared, a government looking over its shoulder. Richard Nixon effectively destroyed this culture of naivete, for following the debacles of his successor Gerald Ford and then Jimmy Carter in their inability to avoid the economy and incompetence in foreign affairs becoming insolvent, the damage was nearly final. The last president's "crisis of confidence" admonition of a guilty American public was the final straw. The die was cast for the Reagan Revolution to unfold its wings and as if the bald eagle, fly shotgun to return to Lady Liberty her confidence and unmatched exceptionalism.

As America today faces her greatest existential crisis in her history, we are plagued most not by Islamic terrorist emanating from the Middle East and Central Asia, nor Russia and China, but here at home residing in Washington at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - the White House, with his legs propped atop of the desk of the people's Oval Office running his government while ignoring that we the people are who foot his bill and pay his salary; this is only if he is not attending a fundraiser or golfing. As he continues to circumvent Congress entirely, defying both representatives and senators within the GOP as well as his own Democratic Party, he ordered in the wee hours of Friday morning "targeted airstrikes" designed to "contain, not destroy" ISIS so long as they agree to maintain their present position as a state rather than drive them from Iraq and Syria as the horde of barbarians that they are. As our borders continue experience the obvious deluge of Hispanic Americans crossing over to escape persecution in their native lands, few understand that this would never have occurred had the president not funded contra operations in Venezuela, Panama and yes, Cuba. His goal was to launch an invasion of a clandestine variety by driving Latin American populations from their nations in funding rogue state governments colluding within to achieve amnesty while engaging in proxy warfare to topple those regimes not friendly to him in these efforts. The American people's sovereignty had never been more at risk nor in peril of its usurpation through this anarchical measure for unfiltered violence and pillaging which would lead to we the people, the sovereign and the general will, being forced away from our God-given right to rule with one individual, one vote.

Far more pernicious than even this exodus from Latin America are the untold scores of Islamic terrorists who stand to enter legally into America via international passports and through cross the Rio Grande and the acquired Gadsden land purchase. As ISIS just filmed an organizational operative proclaiming their intent to "liberate" Turkey should they fail to open the Euphrates Dam, the die was cast: the question is not whether Turkey will be invaded, but when ISIS intends to cross over into Anatolia, or sovereignty Turkish territory. And once this occurs, America is pledged by our commitments as the chief NATO power to defend our Turkish allies, also an alliance member since 1952. Upon the time this invasion occurs, the initiation of the next great and penultimate global war will come to fruition. The fight will peak over control of the Bosporus Strait connecting the Balkan Peninsula to Asia Minor at Istanbul (Constantinople). Should ISIS succeed in sacking that large city and gaining control of the Bosporus Strait, Western Europe and, indeed, all Christendom and the European Jewry, will be in mortal peril, with Russia standing to find itself at a dichotomy to either remain neutral while NATO fights ISIS or to defend her former Soviet republics while surreptitiously "liberating" them too, albeit installing puppet governments friendly to Moscow upon forcing out of power the besieged states. Russia historically has coveted control of the Balkan Peninsula and the Bosporus Strait; Catherine the Great initiated multiple wars to occupy it for the Russian navy and sea merchant vessels to have access to the Mediterranean Sea. Russia also has fought Turkey over the Crimean Peninsula; Turkey under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 committed the genocide of millions of Armenian and other Aryan peoples dues to their Eastern Orthodoxy or Jewish faiths. The world is imperiled, and there still remains the Asian question with an expansionist China under its president, Xi Jinping.  

John Basil Barnhill was quoted to have said that when government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear government, there is tyranny. Richard Nixon truly feared the people, but rather than check his own paranoia through his insecurities, he ordered FBI surveillance performed on individuals he considered subversives to the state, among them being John Lennon. Once the Watergate Hotel was raided, however, that mistrust like a hot pot of grits on the having been heated at too high a temper for far too long, overflowed. A man so gifted politically and intellectually an elite like Nixon fell prey to his own neuroses; he did not merely distrust the people, but managed to engage in a primitive means to check the power of the people as if his own electors were a mob of sans-culottes poised to storm the Bastille that was his own White House. For all the good he achieved in foreign policy - among the greatest collection of feats in our nation's history - he failed the people he was elected to promote their general welfare, one of the Constitution's two major commandments alongside providing the common defense. Democracy has never been a good government, but as Winston Churchill stated before Parliament, it is better than all others. Good government listens to the people, but has a leader which cautiously balances popular consensus with his or her own conviction. Richard Nixon's mistrust of the Americans he pledge to serve faithfully in his execution of the office of President of the United States provided credence 185 years following the opening of the federal government in New York City why we the people must always be on guard, to always trust but verify, to ensure that we are always prepared so that we may always be free.


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Obama Ordered the Inevitable Air Strike Too Late to Prevent Global Warfare

Topic: President Obama Orders Air Strikes Against ISIS - Why Now? What is the End Game?

By now, ladies and gentlemen, you each have either read about or what via the news reports of the bombing of ISIS compounds in Iraq. This is an issue which should have been resolved months ago in Syria shortly after the terrorist cell was formed and unleashed its hell upon the innocent bystanders in the region by shackling their slave women while punishing those considered to be disobedient by tossing acid at their faces, rape and of course, the obligatory savagery behind their measures of murder, much less the actual acts of committing these atrocities. Children are being shot dead execution-style, beheaded and used as with Hamas like shields in order to protect their terrorist zealot captors. 

Christians are being purged in two manners in Iraq today: they are either told to leave Iraq or they face execution. To date, several thousand have been killed, though so far as I have been able to read, no figures are available to confirm the exact total. Iraqis fleeing for their lives are slaughtered en masse, are decapitated and like with the old stories of Vlad Tepish Dracula of Transylvania (Romania), their heads placed upon spikes. This is today the world's greatest exemplifier of evil, unprecedented and unadulterated, and my debate this morning over Twitter with a pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism American civilian from Santa Barbara, CA proved to me why the entire religion that is Islam and each one of its followers is filled brutal savages bent upon global domination and in need to be completely wiped off the map so far as it takes to once and for all ensure that no more genocides of any peoples of other faiths ever happen again:








































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Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) is the husband of "conservatarian" political analyst and commentator, Dana Loesch (@DLoesch). I talk fairly regularly to Chris, as he is a musician and like his beautiful and intelligent wife, a conservative. I grew to be friendly with him not long following a major debate with a series anti-Second Amendment individuals in late May, one of whom apparently is a figure of authority within Moms Demand Action. Dana was accosted by one lady from New York City,  half Jewish and half black but not one mention as to the obvious white blood coursing through her mulatto veins. The lady labeled herself as "ultra progressive" and despising bigotry... except that she was discriminatory against Dana over her conservatism guided by Christ. That will be a post for your enjoyment one day very soon. For now, I will segue into the air strikes in Iraq versus ISIS.

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Breaking News: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Iraq

Evil has been attacked with a veritable slap upon the wrist for ISIS, but rather than stating the fundamental truth that this in no way has phased these evil, barbaric hordes, all the president really achieved was simply proclaiming, "We're coming to help!" 
The only peace the president knows is the one in which he is in bed with most intimately: a religion by which all are obligated by its governing faith-based standards to follow its deity and prophet or face annihilation. The only peace Obama understands is a religion of his absolutism, which he is demonstrating overseas with his undying support of both Hamas and ISIS. And make no mistake, this bombing of ISIS is not only a diversionary tactic, but it will kill more of the same Christian refugees he superficially is intent upon defending while the president simultaneously both feeds them while funding the terrorists he is playing "wag the dog" to "stop".

A late night announcement for humanitarian aid and airstrikes mark an eerily similar strategy employed by outgoing president, John Adams, with his "midnight appointments" of Supreme Court justices, including noted anti-Jeffersonian and legendary Chief Justice John Marshall, under the cover of night and in stealth in the hope of sabotaging his successor. But I would rather declare this action Obama's "eleventh hour foreign policy initiative" because he is not engaging in this conflict out of concern for Christians being slaughtered in an act of genocide, but rather for an underlying reason. He has already been funding ISIS since early this year with senatorial approval. And after all, he has never attended a White House press conference earlier than a half-hour late.
There are several issues with his announcement I find very disturbing. One, why did the president tip his hand and endanger our jet fighters by announcing these airstrikes when nearly every other one during my lifetime were not made public until during or after the mission? Two, why now is the president planning to bomb Iraq and ISIS, which will result likely in more civilian casualties than terrorists killed or wounded, the superficial reason why the administration bitterly opposes Israel's airstrikes in the Gaza Strip when the media only until yesterday was willing to provide photographs of Hamas targeting civilian areas since the president has made it abundantly clear he is siding with the terrorist cell in the dispute? Third, why now as there is a humanitarian crisis along our border with Mexico, he continues funding Hamas and ISIS during this time, and he just pledged many billions of dollars to Africa's poorest nations for among other issues, state discretionary expenditures, when Boko Haram likely will receive these funds alongside dozens of African dictators and warlords beneath the guise of humanitarianism and compassion? 

 For the Democratic Party, which just days ago bitterly opposed any militarism and further defense cuts in the budget to subsidize these terrorists crossing our border to live undetected in the U.S., they have now embarked upon their historic notoriety of the Truman Doctrine in Korea and the Johnson foreign policy of waging a objective-barren war against a largely invisible foe in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. Whether this is a diversionary tactic or another measure to propagate the welfare state to bribe the civilian population and more illegal immigrants to acquire more taxpayer-funded subsidies, this is not at all a measure for a humanitarian answer to a crisis, but rather to continue playing enemies (ISIS and Hamas) of the administration's enemy (Israel) against the other, with Iran poised to having its hand forced on whether to tolerate the preeminent nation of the West it so hates virulently, or to support ISIS, who have all but achieved its end of toppling Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

 Russian state television RT provided some footage of the targets being pinpointed and the bombs deployed:

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To now, I have not read of any civilian casualties, nor do I expect to ever learn from our domestic media - Fox News included - if human collateral damage was incurred. 

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Col. Allen West: Why Now, Obama? Innocent Children are Being Beheaded

Allen West, the former U.S. Marine colonel railroaded by the Defense Department who also served one term in the House of Representatives, stated his peace regarding the false comforts to be derived by such a bland action:
During my morning run, I pondered last night’s address by President Obama regarding the current situation in Iraq. What immediately struck me was that Obama spent more time talking about what he did not want to do than really defining what needed to be done. 
Everyone is talking about an F/A-18 aircraft striking an ISIS artillery piece — hardly a strategic objective. This does back up what Obama so narrowly defined last night as his intent – address the threat to Americans in Irbil and Baghdad. I am pleased that we took the action to provide humanitarian relief.
The president was very careful in his words, and they were mostly political – not practical. But Obama was more adamant in declaring what he is not going to do — meaning the enemy has been provided a gap to exploit.
However, why was Barack Hussein Obama in such a rush to provide U.S. military resources in Libya supporting Islamist forces? We were told it was a humanitarian crisis, but it seems now hardly so. And please, don’t tell me it was just NATO — America is NATO. And now Americans know Libya as the place where an ambassador and three other Americans were killed in a terrorist attack, our embassy has been evacuated, and as we reported here, the same Islamists we supported have established a caliphate in eastern Libya.
Last night, President Obama had the chance to define a clear and present evil in our time. ISIS represents the Nazis of this century. There is no clearer portrayal of 7th century barbarism than this movement which we have allowed to gain strength, momentum and victory. Its blitz across Syria and Iraq can easily be compared to that of the 20th century blitzkrieg of Hitler. And the savagery being inflicted is beyond belief — consider the marking of Christian homes — history does repeat itself.
President Obama hid behind the excuse of Iraqi government reconciliation — destroying ISIS is not linked to the success or failure of Iraq’s governance. The destruction of ISIS is a global imperative — and someone has to lead. President Obama referred last night to opening discussions with other partners, the UN (who backs Hamas), and I suppose he will chat with a local Kiwanis Club and the Boy Scouts. Last night was a moment where Barack Hussein Obama could have shown Churchill-like leadership — instead he took the cautious path of Neville Chamberlain. And again, why was he so anxious in Libya and not now?
There is a quote, sometimes attributed to Sir Edmund Burke: “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” In the grander scheme, bombing some artillery pieces is doing nothing. If I were Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi listening to Obama last night — and trust me he was – he isn’t threatened. Evil has knocked on Barack Obama’s door on his watch. You can’t just turn up the volume on the TV inside and attempt to ignore it. Frankly, it’s like Obama turned on the sprinkler system to try and scare it away.
Would you like more detail on the evil we face? How about the fact that ISIS is actually beheading children.


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In the interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, Chaldean-American businessman Mark Arabo said that the “world hasn’t seen an evil like this for generations.” “There is a park in Mosul, where [ISIS] they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick and have them in the park,” he explained. “More children are getting beheaded, mothers are getting raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.”
Last night Obama could have made the case for that evil – but he did not. We hear that compassion means allowing illegals to invade America. We condemn Israel for defending itself against a declared Islamic terrorist organization that exists to destroy it — and will dig tunnels under Israeli kindergartens to do it. In ISIS we have the embodiment of evil and we have a tongued-tied President Obama who just will not say it is so.
ISIS is not something that just appeared over night. This monstrosity has festered over almost a year — and the Obama administration has watched. I’ve been on the battlefields of the 21st Century. The enemy only understands one language: the language of strength. Unfortunately that was not spoken last night by President Barack Hussein Obama.
All you needed to say last night, Mr. President, was this:
“I must apologize for allowing this evil to be born and grow. I ran as a president who wanted to end wars. I now realize my campaign promises and personal desires are not of any consideration, because the enemy also has a vote.
The Islamic State represents the most reprehensible evil the world has seen since that of Nazi Germany — and the world did nothing then. I shall not allow this on my watch. America will lead and we shall destroy this 7th century barbarism. Tonight, I am committing American military power to kill ISIS, wherever it is. If America sees the black flag we shall kill those who raise it.
First however, we will rescue the Yazidi and Christians trapped in the Sinjar mountains — and we shall kill any ISIS forces impeding that objective. Then in concert with our Kurdish allies, we will begin a committed offensive operation to ensure that Islamic totalitarianism and jihadism is defeated. God bless liberty and freedom. God bless America….and God curse ISIS.”
Sadly, that was not said, and the situation is even more confused than ever.
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The reason the president did not proclaim "God bless America" is because does not believe in God. He believes in Allah. As you read in my tweeted debate with the Muslim gentleman from Santa Barbara, I made it abundantly clear that I do not recognize Allah as my God, Isa as having ever been Jesus and furthermore, I consider it offensive to read Islamic verses from the Quran stating all the right things about Jesus Christ, except for how He never was crucified. To read verses from the Quran only proves what Muslims believe it must do in order to coexist with Christians: relegate all who are disciples of Christ to slaves just as they believe Jesus was a slave to Allah, who is not God but in my estimation, Satan.
ISLAM
1. Do Muslims believe he was a Messenger of One God? YES
Belief in all of the Prophets and Messengers of God is a fundamental article of faith in Islam. Thus, believing in Prophets Adam, Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them) is a requirement for anyone who calls him or herself a Muslim. A person claiming to be a Muslim who, for instance, denies the Messengership of Jesus, is not considered a Muslim.
The Quran says in reference to the status of Jesus as a Messenger:
"The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger before whom many Messengers have passed away; and his mother adhered wholly to truthfulness, and they both ate food (as other mortals do). See how We make Our signs clear to them; and see where they are turning away!" (Quran 5:75).
2. Do Muslims believe he was born of a Virgin Mother? YES
Like Christians, Muslims believe Mary, Maria in Spanish, or Maryam as she is called in Arabic, was a chaste, virgin woman, who miraculously gave birth to Jesus.
"Relate in the Book the story of Mary, when she withdrew from her family, to a place in the East. She screened herself from them; then We sent to her Our spirit (angel Gabriel) and he appeared before her as a man in all respects. She said: I seek refuge from you in God Most Gracious (come not near) if you do fear God. He said: Nay, I am only a Messenger from your Lord, to announce to you the gift of a pure son. She said: How shall I have a son, when no man has ever touched me, and I am not unchaste? He said: So it will be, your Lord says: ‘That is easy for Me; and We wish to appoint him as a sign unto men and a Mercy from Us': It was a matter so decreed" (Quran 19:16-21).
3. Do Muslims believe Jesus had a miraculous birth? YES
The Quran says:
"She (Mary) said: ‘O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me.' He (God) said: ‘So (it will be) for God creates what He wills. When He has decreed something, He says to it only: ‘Be!'- and it is" (3:47).
It should also be noted about his birth that:
"Verily, the likeness of Jesus in God's Sight is the likeness of Adam. He (God) created him from dust, then (He) said to him: ‘Be!'-and he was" (Quran 3:59).
4. Do Muslims believe Jesus spoke in the cradle? YES
"Then she (Mary) pointed to him. They said: ‘How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?' He (Jesus) said: ‘Verily! I am a slave of God, He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet; " (19:29-30).
5. Do Muslims believe he performed miracles? YES
Muslims, like Christians believe Jesus performed miracles. But these were performed by the will and permission of God, Who has power and control over all things.
"Then will God say: ‘O Jesus the son of Mary! recount My favor to you and to your mother. Behold! I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit (the angel Gabriel) so that you did speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught you the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel. And behold: you make out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and you breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by My leave, and you heal those born blind, and the lepers by My leave. And behold! you bring forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the children of Israel from (violence to you) when you did show them the Clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: ‘This is nothing but evident magic' (5:110).
6. Do Muslims believe in the Trinity? NO
Muslims believe in the Absolute Oneness of God, Who is a Supreme Being free of human limitations, needs and wants. He has no partners in His Divinity. He is the Creator of everything and is completely separate from His creation.
God says in the Quran regarding the Trinity:
"People of the Book (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and attribute to God nothing except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His command that He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and in His Messengers, and do not say: ‘God is a Trinity.' Give up this assertion; it would be better for you. God is indeed just One God. Far be it from His glory that He should have a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. God is sufficient for a guardian" (Quran 4:171).
7. Do Muslims believe that Jesus was the son of God? NO
"Say: "God is Unique! God, the Source [of everything]. He has not fathered anyone nor was He fathered, and there is nothing comparable to Him!" (Quran 112:1-4).
The Quran also states:
"Such was Jesus, the son of Mary; it is a statement of truth, about which they vainly dispute. It is not befitting to the majesty of God, that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be' and it is" (Quran 19:34-35).
8. Do Muslims believe Jesus was killed on the cross then resurrected? NO
"“They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did.” (Quran 4:156) “God lifted him up to His presence. God is Almighty, All-Wise” (Quran 4:157) .
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Islam claims Jesus appears in "the image of Adam", and thus is not our Savior due to his serving as an emblem of the first man's Original Sin, the entire purpose of why Jesus saved our souls upon His dying upon The Cross. Most maddening is the following reiteration of a very inflammatory verse:
‘Verily! I am a slave of God, He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet; " (19:29-30).
Or the faith's disavowal of Trinitarianism:
"People of the Book (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and attribute to God nothing except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His command that He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and in His Messengers, and do not say: ‘God is a Trinity."
Islam claims Jesus was not The Son of God:
"Say: "God is Unique! God, the Source [of everything]. He has not fathered anyone nor was He fathered, and there is nothing comparable to Him!" (Quran 112:1-4). 
"Such was Jesus, the son of Mary; it is a statement of truth, about which they vainly dispute. It is not befitting to the majesty of God, that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be' and it is" (Quran 19:34-35).
Finally, the most damnable lie the Quran tells is how Jesus never having died on The Cross:
"“They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did.” (Quran 4:156) “God lifted him up to His presence. God is Almighty, All-Wise” (Quran 4:157) . 
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The matter that Islam teaches these lies assists its worshippers in justifying lying to achieve its barbaric measures for committing genocide against "people of the book".

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Conclusion: Shall We Dare to Live, or Die from Idleness?
Below was the deadliest proclamation for peace in human history. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared upon returning to London from Munich following signing the peace agreement with Adolf Hitler to pursue no further expansionist ambitions that there is to be "peace in our time." But you and I have read a great deal about history; we choose to learn from our mistakes tradition hath wrought upon us. We conservatives opt to hearken upon the past for valuable lessons on continuing what always has worked and what needs to change. We are not at all static, but rather realists; objectivists. As Chamberlain himself was guilty of the most damnable act of appeasement ever recorded, we need only to listen to his speech and then read about the more than 60 million people globally slaughtered through combat, by way of collateral damages due to the nature of modern warfare, but most damning through genocide. Adolf Hitler was indeed guilty of this through "The Final Solution" whereby he ordered the arrests and detainment of millions of Jews, gypsies (Roma), disabled peoples and pro-Soviet sympathizers (communists) to be exterminated.

I beseech you all to watch this very short video of Prime Minister Chamberlain, the arrogance of his unwitting cowardice to avoid conflict over a growing set of wrongful abuses and imperial conquests on the continent, and finally in his serving as the emblem for the final toppling of the British Empire:

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Hitler's orders for the extermination of those he considered undesirable to remain mum before the general public may be viewed in the following photograph: 

Bormann's letter banning public mention of the final solution
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Immediately below is an excoriating statement by four-star (full) Gen. Barry McCaffrey (U.S.A., ret.), who in discussing the air strikes with NBC political analyst Chuck Todd that President Obama’s intent to use limited force in response to the “huge tragedy unfolding” in Iraq demonstrates the administration’s “muddled thinking.” 


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The Associated Press last night reported that the president wants to "contain, not destroy" ISIS. In a harsh criticism of this policy of appeasement, which Robert Burns and Lara Jakes quoted Sen. John McCain who referenced it as containment akin to the Cold War's first measure of opposing Soviet expansionism globally, he explains why such a strategy not only will not work, but why it never can, nor will it ever:
By ROBERT BURNS and LARA JAKES
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain - not destroy - the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country's northern region. That leaves open the questions of how deeply the U.S. will be drawn into the sectarian conflict, and whether airstrikes alone can stop the militants' momentum. 
Obama insists he will not send American ground troops back to Iraq after having withdrawn them in 2011, fulfilling a campaign promise. Still, even the limited airstrikes against the vicious insurgency show the president's conviction that the U.S. military cannot remain dormant after having fought an eight-year war that temporarily neutralized Sunni extremists but failed to produce lasting peace. 
U.S. military jets launched several airstrikes Friday on isolated targets, including two mortar positions and a vehicle convoy in northeastern Iraq, near the country's Kurdish capital of Irbil. U.S. officials announced Friday night the second airdrop of food and water in as many days for imperiled refugees in northwestern Iraq. 
The next move may be up to the Islamic State group, the al-Qaida inspired extremists who have chewed up Iraqi opposition so far. 
About three dozen U.S. military trainers and a U.S. consulate are in Irbil, where Kurdish forces are fighting off a militant advance. That's no easy defense. 
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said of the Islamic State group, "They are well organized and they're armed and they are a significant threat to the stability of Iraq." 
Will there be further airstrikes? State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said the Islamic State group must at least halt its advance on Irbil to prevent further strikes. 
Iraq has been pleading for months, if not years, for additional U.S. military help to combat the extremists, but the U.S. pulled out of Iraq in part because it couldn't reach an agreement with the government on legal immunity for U.S. troops. Harf said the Obama administration acted now out of concern that "there was a crisis that had the potential to get much worse." 
U.S. officials said the Islamic State extremists in recent days have shown military skill, including using artillery in sophisticated synchronization with other heavy weapons. Their force had overwhelmed not only Iraqi government troops but also the outgunned Kurdish militia.
The Obama administration steadfastly insists the airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops are not the start of an open-ended campaign to defeat the militants.
The president's critics say his approach is too narrow. 
"A policy of containment will not work," Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a joint statement. They are among the chief critics of Obama's foreign policy in general, beginning with his decision to stick to the 2011 timetable set by President George W. Bush for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. 
The Islamic militants are "inherently expansionist and must be stopped," the senators said. "The longer we wait to act, the worse this threat will become." 
Beyond airstrikes, the administration has been asked to provide arms directly to the Kurdish forces defending Irbil. Until now, the U.S. has been willing to do that only through the central government in Baghdad, which has long feuded with the semi-autonomous Kurdish government in Iraq's north. 
Michael Barbero, a retired Army general who ran the U.S. training mission in Iraq from 2009 to 2011, said Baghdad never delivered about $200 million worth of American weapons that were designated for the Kurds. Pentagon officials maintain they can provide arms only to the Iraqi government, although Harf said Friday the Kurdish forces play a critical role in the crisis. 
"We understand their need for additional arms and equipment and are working to provide those as well so they are reinforced," she said. 
The CIA could supply the Kurds under a covert operation. An agency spokesman declined comment when asked whether that was happening. 
In announcing his decision to intervene militarily, Obama stated plainly that he would not allow the U.S. "to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq." 
But Obama's limited use of air power leads some to ask whether that approach will make a lasting difference. It also raises questions about whether Obama underestimated the staying power of the extremists, who control an impressive stretch of territory from the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo to most Sunni-dominated areas of northern and western Iraq, up to the edges of Baghdad. 
The insurgents frequently launch bombings and other attacks in Baghdad, mostly targeting Shiites and government officials, often within sight and hearing of the U.S. Embassy, which is located in the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone. In another sign of the region's instability, the State Department on Friday warned U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Iraq and said those in the country were at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence. 
"I think the administration realizes that we're dealing with that rarest of things in President Obama's world, which is a military situation that has to be resolved militarily," said James F. Jeffrey, who was the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad when American troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011. The basic problem, Jeffrey said, is "these guys have to be stopped. And it's not a matter of whether the U.S. should stop them - it's a matter of when." 
Across the Mideast, the U.S. has deployed considerable military power, including warplanes and an air operations center in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. Additionally, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush currently is located in the Persian Gulf and was the launching site for Friday's airstrikes. 
The crisis appears to be falling to Washington to deal with - despite Obama's consultations with other nations and the U.N. - as the U.S. struggles with the parallel challenge of Islamic extremists' gains in neighboring Syria. Vice President Joe Biden, in a call Friday to Iraqi President Fuad Masum, emphasized the threat the extremists present to all Iraqis and affirmed U.S. support, the White House said. 
The Islamic State fighters have been surprisingly successful in pursing their stated goal of creating a caliphate, or Islamic religious state, straddling Iraq and Syria. The extremists are a mix of Iraqis and Syrians as well as foreign fighters. 
U.S. intelligence officials say some of the Islamic State's fighters have military training, and the group's recent seizure of the Iraqi army's American-supplied armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition has left it better armed than its Kurdish opponents. 
Containing the fighters "will require a sustained ground effort," said Cedric Leighton, a retired Air Force colonel and intelligence specialist. "It should be a coalition effort" in concert with local Iraqi forces, he said. 
Others, however, say even a small taste of American air power may be enough to tip the balance. 
The Islamic State "may be good at beheading bound captives and threatening helpless civilians, but they have not yet undergone the kind of physical and psychological trauma that American airpower can impose upon them," said Charles Dunlap Jr., a former Air Force lawyer and now a Duke University law professor.
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Associated Press writers Ken Dilanian and Lolita C. Baldor, and AP Radio reporter Sagar Meghani contributed to this story.

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Conclusion: The Stench of Appeasement will Bring About a Third Global War

Appeasement has a rather nauseating stench, ladies and gentlemen, and it wrought upon the world the most terrible war in human history, its ripple effects which we today continue to bear as our penance for permitting evil to be done. The issue that only two 500-pound bombs struck the "Iraqi Pentagon" is most telling in the president's resolve to solve a crisis. If he is intent upon merely containing ISIS in a nation that was already sovereign, which the president claim was "solvent" and "self-reliant" just three years ago, the remainder of the embattled nation will fall to ISIS, Kurd rebels will be slaughtered in that measure of genocide, all Christians killed or expelled, and eventually their focus shifted to invading Lebanon and Turkey. And once Iraq invades Turkey, it will have spread to Europe, invaded our strategic NATO ally furthest to the East, and ultimately there will be the final shot heard 'round the world; for upon that moment, the third global war will be initiated, and the launch of ISIS's official campaign to first conquer Europe and then the U.S. as well in accordance to the concluding video of this blog. 


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Friday, August 8, 2014

A Brief Moment for Humor: CNN is Geographically Challenged

CNN: Jeff Zucker's Cure for the Common Illiterate Socialist!

This is why more people turn to Fox News for fair and balanced news rather to what the creators of Common Core choose to watch with regards to beating the classic video game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?


Just get out a dartboard, ladies and gentlemen, and let fly a few random ones and pray to God it lands at about as accurate location as is President Obama's foreign policy! No wonder Edward Snowden travelled to Hong Kong first; he not only is freer in Communist China than in his own homeland, his own government would have never located him had he not revealed his location!
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