LEE RODGERSWHY EMBASSIES IN HOSTILE
COUNTRIES? ...
OBAMA LIES, BIG MEDIA COVER-UP--AS USUAL ...
FACT-FACING TIME: WE LOST IN AFGHANISTAN
OBAMA LIES, BIG MEDIA COVER-UP--AS USUAL ...
FACT-FACING TIME: WE LOST IN AFGHANISTAN
The slaughter of an American ambassador and other U.S. citizens working at a consulate in Libya plus attacks on our embassies in other insane Muslim countries prompts this question: Why do we need embassies and consulates in all these hostile nations? Other than as bases for intelligence-gathering operations, what practical purpose do they serve? Based on evident results, they don't even function very well in the pursuit of intelligence.
What vital business could not be as well done via the multiple communications links available in today's world? Why do we need the aggravation, expense -- and yes, exposure to danger -- of planting a handful of Americans in expensive real estate in an endlessly hostile environment? Given serious thought, the whole concept seems a relic of some 19th-century hidebound tradition. "You burn 'em, we fix 'em." Stupid.
Instead of sacrificing our own interests, money and people in order to "engage" with people who hate us, perhaps we might do well to remember this piece of timeless wisdom: "Good fences make good neighbors."
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Notice how the Libyan riot and murders were front page news in liberal rags and the lead story on TV when Obama & Co. were blaming them on some video nobody's ever seen that supposedly insults Mohammed ... but the story got quickly minimized when it became clear that it was all an organized 9/11 anniversary terrorist plot and there was no riot? Yes, bin Laden's dead -- but Muslim terrorism sure as hell isn't.
Re the media reaction: As Jack Paar once said to a newspaper columnist who'd insulted him in print and later apologized when they chanced to meet in a restaurant rest-room, "Okay, but next time insult me in the men's room and apologize on the front page."
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Wes Pruden (Washington Times) on where we stand vis a vis Obama's beloved Muslims ...
"The American embassy in Pakistan battens down under siege. The prime minister of Iraq, thought to be an American ally, beats the dead horse on which the infamous video rides. Protests and demonstrations shut down a U.S. consulate in Indonesia. Crowds in Afghanistan chant death for America (when they aren’t killing American soldiers.) But serenity is the rule in Washington.
"The president prefers life in his bubble, where he can survey the world as he imagines it is, eager to hear another speech, rather than the world as it really is, full of bad people on their way to the mosque and keen to kill, maim and dismember Americans to please Allah. If only Israel would behave and the First Amendment disappear. Peace and love would envelop us all.
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Consider it. With the threat of war looming ever larger in the middle-east, your president has time to peddle lies via David Letterman's suck-up TV show and even time to BS with a local Miami disc-jockey who calls himself "The Pimp with the Limp," but can't find an hour to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister who faces a ticking clock in the form of Iran's nuclear program. A Prime Minister who may be forced to respond to repeated threats of extermination of his nation by launching a pre-emptive attack that could quickly escalate into nuclear war.
Of course, Obama has other priorities. Like keeping up with the purchase of his Hawaii retirement mansion by rich donors who have profited enormously from his presidency. After all, he wouldn't want to retire to the political sewer that spawned him, Chicago, where you can only play golf seven months a year.
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Reality check: The last of the additional "surge" troops Obama ordered into Afghanistan almost three years ago have now left, with 68,000 American troops remaining. This is the war Obama said was "necessary" and more important than Iraq.
It is far past time to face the fact: We lost. We got more (over 2,000) American troops killed and achieved what? Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. No matter how much window-dressing is applied, we lost. Again (a la Vietnam).
There was never either the public or political will to win. All that's left is broken-hearted families grieving for their lost loved-ones without even the consolation that, unlike those who gave their lives in World War 2, these soldiers accomplished ... in the end ... nothing. They paid for the stupidity of incompetent politicians. More accurately, an incompetent politician.
"Necessary?" Oh, really?
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Here's how loaded polls are calculated to deceive ...
A new Pew Research poll has Obama up by 8 percent. In the fine print: Their surveyed sample consisted of 37.1% Democrats ... 30.6% Republicans ... 32.3% independents.
What result would you expect?
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Was this intended as comedy? Barack Obama spent his first two years in office in a cozy relationship with both houses of Congress controlled by his own party, and he says he learned that Washington "can't be changed from the inside?!"
Then does he want to be back OUTside?? Let's hope ...
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So now Kato Kaelin, a key
witness in the O. J. Simpson murder trial, says O.J. did
kill his ex-wife. Anybody surprised?
I vividly recall the
day the verdict was announced. At ABC in San Francisco, all who
could break away from their duties for a few minutes gathered in a
large conference room to hear the verdict.Before it was announced, the station president asked for a show of hands.
"How many think he'll be found guilty?" All but one person raised a hand.
"How many think he won't be found guilty?" One hand rose. Mine. There were gasps. Many voices asked, "You don't think he's guilty?!"
"Of course I do," I responded, "But look at him ... then look at the jury. That black jury will never convict him."
I was right, of course. For the same reason, I don't expect all the logic in the world to dissuade 90%-plus of black voters from voting for Barack Obama.
That isn't racism talking. It's common sense, supported by history. Actor Samuel L. Jackson was being candid when he, a black man, plainly stated, "I'll vote for him because he's black."
And all the political correctness the liberal goo-goos can muster won't change that reality. And sadly, Dr. Martin Luther King's dictum that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin is in the dead-letter office.
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Today's recommended reading ... AMERICANTHINKER.COM website and the article by Frank Lipkes. Prepare yourself.
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Two news stories ...
Polls say Obama leads in the key state of Ohio ...
Median household income in Ohio lowest in 25 years, poverty highest in 30 years.
How do those two items add up? Are that many Ohioans just plain nuts?
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Seven of the ten richest counties in the nation are in the Washington, D.C., area. The answer to one question explains why: Who is the largest employer in that area?
That was too easy, wasn't it? So's question #2: Who's getting screwed-over, taxpayers, or government employees?
Class dismissed.
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Victor Davis Hanson, correct as usual ...
"As a candidate and as president, Obama assumed that his own multicultural politics, his familiarity with Islam, his novel transracial personal story and his repudiation of George W. Bush would all combine to win over the Middle East. Supposedly, Middle Eastern dislike of America had little to do with longstanding existential differences that did not start with Bush and won't end with Obama.
"That myth-making is now discredited. But it still makes it hard for the administration to admit that hatred in Egypt is deep-seated and irrational -- and has very little to do with a silly video. Those in the Arab street hate the West and America because they are told daily that our supposed godlessness and decadence should not make us so rich and powerful -- especially when such pious believers as themselves are so poor and impotent."
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Something to ponder at bedtime. The finances of this nation and your personal financial future are largely in the hands of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Based on the ample evidence of his actions and announced plans, the man is either a fool or a gambler willing to risk the value of the dollar, our national economy and your economic future in what amounts to a crap-game. And he is betting on a scheme he's already used twice -- "stimulus," meaning printing more increasingly worthless money -- and it failed.
NOW try to sleep.
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Words to read and heed ...
"We are at war. We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious, as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn’t know it from our behavior. During WWII we didn’t refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters. We didn’t call the Gestapo, militants. We did not justify the Nazis rise to power as our fault. We did not grovel before the Nazis, confessing to abusing and mistreating and humiliating the German people.
"Evil – ultimate, irreconcilable, evil threatened us and Roosevelt and Churchill had moral clarity and an exquisite understanding of what was at stake.
"In WWII we won because we got it. We understood who the enemy was and we knew that the end had to be unconditional and absolute. We did not stumble around worrying about offending the Nazis. We did not measure every word so as not to upset our foe. We built planes and tanks and battleships and went to war to win….. to rid the world of malevolence." -- Rabbi Schlomo Lewis, Atlanta
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Pollster Scott Rasmussen is correct in opining that, if Romney manages to lose an election that should be a walkover win against an utter failure in the White House, the Republican "establishment" might as well pack it in.
The Tea Party will become the de facto Republican Party. No wussies need apply.
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Reader Rick contributes some sterling examples of politically-incorrect British humor from various publications there ...
Police in London have found a bomb outside a mosque.They've told the public not to panic as they've managed to push it inside.
I was reading in the paper today about this dwarf that got pick-pocketed. How could anyone stoop so low?
During last night's high winds an African family were killed by a falling tree. A spokesman for the Birmingham City council said "We didn't even know they were living up there".
Rick, go to your room!
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."