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		<title>Not Destroying ISIS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's weakness is undermining the cause. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/image_update_img.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242084" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/image_update_img.jpg" alt="image_update_img" width="325" height="277" /></a>Let me be clear:</p>
<p>Now is not the time for a hard rhetorical &#8220;<span style="color: #0463c1;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/17/obama-central-command-iraq-syria-tampa-dempsey-ground-troops/15766543/">red line</a>&#8220;</span> by the Obama Administration against sending American troops into Iraq or Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) threat.  U.S. Presidents should not fight wars focused on political slogans – “no boots on the ground” – that <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2014/09/11/a-president-surrenders/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">show</span></a> weakness and limit them from getting the job done.  Besides which, it is simply not true; the U.S. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/army-chief-of-staff-says-us-may-need-more-troops-in-iraq/2014/09/19/63917a0c-400e-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">already has</span></a> sixteen hundred troops “on the ground.”</p>
<p>Now is also not the time to focus on building a new force of Syrian rebels that will actually be trustworthy, pro-American, and well-trained. A project like this will take months, if not years, to bear fruit.</p>
<p>Now is also not the time for indecision about <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/03/conflicting-signals-obama-vows-to-destroy-isis-make-it-manageable/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">whether</span></a> to “manage” or “degrade and destroy” ISIS.</p>
<p>Now is not the time for theoretical <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-speech-outlining-strategy-to-defeat-islamic-state/2014/09/10/af69dec8-3943-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">discussions</span></a> about the nature of Islam, especially when the Obama Administration has no actual expertise on this subject.</p>
<p>Now is not the time to <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/218756-obama-calls-on-muslim-world-to-reject-isis-in-address-to-un"><span style="color: #0463c1;">focus</span></a> on getting the support of the U.N. for anything, as it is an international group of <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/07/antiamericanism-increasing-at-the-united-nations-n1590060/page/full"><span style="color: #0463c1;">anti-American</span></a>, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Is-the-United-Nations-anti-Semitic-361842"><span style="color: #0463c1;">anti-Semitic</span></a>, extremists, and brutal dictators.</p>
<p>Now is not the time to limit our air strikes to nighttime raids that <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/isis_air_strikes_designed_to_minimize_terrorist_casualties.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">minimize</span></a> the death and damage to ISIS.</p>
<p>Now is not the time for the U.S. to consider the Iranians as an ally against ISIS. Iran is an even more powerful Islamist enemy of the U.S., who is still <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/adam-turner/rushing-to-war-with-iran/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">engaging in</span></a> a thirty-five year bloody war directed against the U.S.  Besides which, the pro-Western Arab nations – Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia – are unlikely to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/france-to-take-part-in-military-strikes-over-iraq-against-islamic-state-1410772479"><span style="color: #0463c1;">cooperate</span></a> with the U.S. if there is a real collaboration between the U.S. and Iran.</p>
<p>And perhaps most importantly, now is not the time for more superfluous blather by <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/218409-obama-its-the-world-vs-isis"><span style="color: #0463c1;">President Obama</span></a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/21/-sp-climate-change-protest-melbourne-london-new-york-protest"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Secretary Kerry</span></a>, or any other member of the Administration about this crisis.   The problem with this administration is not that outside observers believe they are reticent to express their views on this, or any other, topic. It is that outside observers believe that all the Administration does is talk, but never do they follow their talk with any real action.</p>
<p>And the U.S. must act, now.</p>
<p>Let me be clear – ISIS is an immediate danger to the U.S.  ISIS terrorists beheaded two American citizens, laughing and insulting the U.S. and President Obama as they did so.  ISIS has its own state, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/the-terrifying-rise-of-isis-2-billion-in-loot-online-killings-and-an-army-on-the-run/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">two billion dollars</span></a> in its bank accounts, oil fields, tons of modern weaponry, along with thousands of dedicated terrorists ready to kill infidels and crusaders.   It also <a href="http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-isis-kills-300-iraqi-soldiers-chlorine-gas-attack-saqlawiyah/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">has</span></a>, and has used, chemical weapons.   U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/218392-obama-takes-anti-isis-pitch-to-united-nations"><span style="color: #0463c1;">acknowledged</span></a> that more than 100 U.S. citizens with passports have fought alongside the terrorist organization in the Middle East.  Some of them already have, and all of them can, easily <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/218494-white-house-radicalized-americans-back-in-us"><span style="color: #0463c1;">return</span></a> to the U.S. to conduct terror attacks.   And who knows how many Americans still within the continental states are sympathizers of ISIS.  Further, the leadership of ISIS has time and again threatened <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/213117-us-officials-warn-isis-worse-than-al-qaeda"><span style="color: #0463c1;">President Obama</span></a>, the U.S. and Americans throughout <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/isis-video-us-troops_n_5835036.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">the world</span></a> and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/isis-leader-see-you-in-new-york.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">at home</span></a> in America.</p>
<p>ISIS is <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2014/09/14/the-president-pushes-back/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">electrifying</span></a> the extremist Islamist world with its battlefield successes and flaunting of American power, making the U.S. look weak in front of the rest of the world.  Having heard President’s speech to Americans about ISIS and Iraq, the ISIS barbarians posted a video, which in the words of the Weekly Standard, can be <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/isis-us-bring-it_805252.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">summarized</span></a> by the title “ISIS to U.S.: Bring It On.”</p>
<p>This situation is extremely dangerous.  Because of the President’s current show of weakness, and his previous foreign policy mistakes, ISIS, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and every other bad actor in this world have taken measure of President Obama and they have determined him to be a feeble and indecisive man.  None fear him.   And now, they are continually taking advantage of him.  That, more than anything else, is what is driving the increasing chaos and danger throughout the world.</p>
<p>Let me be clear – President Obama needs to brush up on his <a href="http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince17.htm"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Machiavelli</span></a>; “whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? …because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.”</p>
<p>And there is only one way that he can create fear in the hearts of ISIS.  The U.S. must destroy ISIS.  The U.S. must kill “Caliph Ibrahim.”  And the U.S. must execute the jihadists who personally beheaded the two American citizens.</p>
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		<title>The End of Obama&#8217;s Bad Deal with Iran &#8212; What&#8217;s Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 04:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Turner]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/357455_Iran-Hassan-Rouhani.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234204" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/357455_Iran-Hassan-Rouhani-450x338.jpg" alt="357455_Iran-Hassan-Rouhani" width="309" height="232" /></a>Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/WATCH-LIVE-Steinitz-to-discuss-Iranian-threat-at-Herzliya-Conference-355732"><span style="color: #0463c1;">expressed</span></a> his hope that the U.S. would not make a “bad” deal with Iran regarding the nuclear negotiations.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there can be no doubt about what is going to happen.  The Obama Administration released five senior Talibani terrorists – and perhaps some additional <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-department-still-wont-say-if-bergdahl-ransom-was-paid/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">ransom money</span></a> – to the Taliban/Haqqani Network in return for one captured American serviceman, who may have been a deserter.  Any nuclear deal between the U.S. (and others) and Iran, including an extension of the current one, produced by President Obama and his team of “<a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/020714-689345-obama-names-series-of-incompetents-to-key-diplomatic-posts.htm"><span style="color: #0463c1;">smart diplomats</span></a><span style="color: #0463c1;">,</span>” will <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379920/mocking-obama-tehran-mona-charen"><span style="color: #0463c1;">inevitably be bad</span></a>.</p>
<p>This is <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/article/2013/08/embracing_the_costanza_doctrine.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">President Costanza</span></a> we are talking about, after all.</p>
<p>On July 20, 2014, the P5 + 1 nations’ Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with Iran officially ends.  The JPA was the bad deal promoted by President Obama that <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/an-israeli-assessment-of-the-iran-deal"><span style="color: #0463c1;">recognized</span></a> Iran’s right to enrich nuclear material and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/president_costanza_and_the_nuclear_deal_with_iran.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">gave</span></a> it relief from crippling economic sanctions in return for almost nothing of any real significance to restrict Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.  Under the JPA, Iran was allowed to keep every one of its 19,000 plus centrifuges spinning, and was even able to continue to construct more.  Some limited caps were placed on Iran’s ability to enrich, but nothing was done to prevent it from expanding its stockpile of uranium.  Meanwhile, the JPA gave the Iranian regime an economic windfall of well over $20 billion.</p>
<p>It must be understood that the JPA was not just a bad deal, but it was, in fact, an exceptionally bad deal from the perspective of the U.S., Israel, the Arab states, and the Western World democracies.</p>
<p>• According to The Tower, “Iran is now mathematically certain to have <a href="http://www.thetower.org/0461oc-amid-new-evidence-of-sanctions-busting-congress-moves-for-greater-role-on-iran/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">busted</span></a> through the caps on energy exports set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), which had eroded the sanctions regime, despite months of promises and ongoing declarations from administration officials insisting that violations of the remaining sanctions would not be tolerated.”</p>
<p>•While the Iranian concessions <a href="http://www.thetower.org/top-iran-negotiator-iranian-nuke-concessions-reversible-one-day/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">are</span></a> easily reversible, the Western concessions in the JPA are likely irreversible, meaning the existing sanctions regime was gutted with no realistic prospect of restoring those sanctions to previous levels.</p>
<p>•The JPA promised Iran the right to nuclear enrichment simply for good conduct over a relatively small period of time, ignoring the fact that the Iranian regime is inherently aggressive and dangerous.</p>
<p>•The JPA deal <a href="http://makeadifference.cufi.org/?m=20131203"><span style="color: #0463c1;">did</span></a> nothing to stop Iran from using its new installments of cash and time to advance the weakest parts of its nuclear program &#8212; bomb technology and the ballistic missiles needed to deliver such bombs to Israel, Europe or the U.S.</p>
<p>•The JPA deal was in <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/14/Iran-Celebrates-American-Surrender-Obama-Says-Give-Peace-a-Chance"><span style="color: #0463c1;">direct contravention</span></a> of six U.N. resolutions, all of which stated that Iran had no right to nuclear enrichment and required that Iran dismantle its vast nuclear infrastructure.</p>
<p>•The JPA deal actually <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/text-of-iran-implementation-agreement-sent-to-congress"><span style="color: #0463c1;">included</span></a> a provision allowing the Iranians to veto reports of their own violations of the interim agreement.</p>
<p>•The JPA <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/13/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSBREA0C11C20140113"><span style="color: #0463c1;">increased</span></a> the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s access in Iran to monitor the agreement, but not enough.  It still falls short of what the IAEA says it needs, and it is less than the wide-ranging inspection powers the IAEA had in Iraq in the 1990’s.</p>
<p>•The JPA <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/congress-wont-budge-iran-sanctions-nuclear-program.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">did not</span></a> allow the West access to such places like the Parchin military base in Iran, which is believed to be used as a covert nuclear weapons development site.</p>
<p>•Soon after the JPA’s announcement, Iranian President Rouhani – a <a href="http://politichicks.tv/column/guest-writer-sarah-n-stern-geneva-betrayal/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">supposed</span></a> moderate – gloated on <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/irans-rouhani-world-powers-surrendered-iranian-nations-will_774616.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Twitter</span></a> (later <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iranian-president-rouhani-deletes-wests-surrender-boast-twitter-feed-1432434"><span style="color: #0463c1;">removed</span></a>) and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=14757"><span style="color: #0463c1;">video</span></a> about the world powers capitulating to Iran.</p>
<p>Now the question becomes, what will replace the JPA? <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/09/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0EK1LL20140609"><span style="color: #0463c1;">According</span></a> to the press, the negotiations to craft a more permanent agreement between Iran and the P5 + 1 are going nowhere, fast.  Bilateral talks are <a href="http://www.thetower.org/0498oc-worries-grow-of-divide-and-conquer-tactics-as-iran-announces-bilateral-talks-with-u-s-russia-france/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">springing up</span></a> to complicate the negotiations.  Many observers <a href="http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKBN0EF0BK20140604?irpc=932"><span style="color: #0463c1;">expect</span></a> that the President and his team will simply agree to an extension of the interim agreement for another six months, as is provided for in the JPA.</p>
<p>In other words, these observers believe that the JPA will be replaced by the JPA.  The same bad agreement currently in existence.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration will eagerly sign onto an extension, so as to prevent yet another obvious foreign policy fiasco on their watch.  After all, they currently face <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/11/al-qaeda-rebels-take-tikrit-force-500000-to-flee-mosul/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Iraq</span></a>, where a jihadist group too violent for al-Qaeda is carving out its own state and the U.S. can do nothing about it, because all of the American troops were removed by President Obama.  They face <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/05/20/if-presidential-candidates-records-mattered-this-would-destroy-hillary-clintons-chances/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Libya</span></a>, where the U.S. “led from behind” to oust the dictator Gaddafi, which resulted in the collapse of the Libyan nation, the <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/obama-foreign-policy-successes-not-libya.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">spread</span></a> of U.S. weapons to jihadists groups throughout the Middle East, the seizure of parts of Mali by jihadist groups armed with American weapons that prompted French intervention, and the death of the U.S. Ambassador by elements of al-Qaeda on the anniversary of 9/11.  They face <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/05/14/assad-races-across-obamas-red-line/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Syria</span></a>, where the Administration blustered with its red line against the use of chemical weapons before caving, and the dictator Assad continues to use those weapons against civilians in the bloody civil war.   And there are so many more foreign policy disasters under the current Administration.</p>
<p>Perhaps even more importantly, the Obama Administration will sign onto an extension of the JPA as a way to <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/obama-seeks-to-leverage-his-iraq-debacle-into-rapprochement-with-iran.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">facilitate</span></a> plans to “open direct talks with Iran on how the two longtime foes can counter the insurgents” in Iraq. (More “smart diplomacy” in action.)</p>
<p>The Mullahs in Iran will also probably agree to an extension of the JPA.   As we know, they are giving up almost nothing regarding their nuclear research, and getting huge benefits in time and money in return.  Plus,  the JPA does not seriously infringe, in any way, with the Iranian leaderships’ ability to threaten the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639812/Jihad-end-society-rid-America-Irans-supreme-leader-Ayatollah-Khamenei-chilling-threat-U-S.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490"><span style="color: #0463c1;">U.S.</span></a> and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097252/Kill-Jews-annihilate-Israel-Irans-supreme-leader-lays-legal-religious-justification-attack.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Jews</span></a>, support <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2013/225328.htm"><span style="color: #0463c1;">terrorists</span></a> and/or wars of aggression in <a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/hezbollah-threatened-iran%E2%80%99s-financial-woes"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Lebanon</span></a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/syria-a-bargaining-chip-i_b_5456720.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Syria</span></a>, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4343/iran-egypt"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Egypt</span></a>, <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-31/news/sns-rt-us-yemen-iran-20140330_1_last-month-hadi-abd-rabbu-mansour-hadi-yemen-president"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Yemen</span></a> etc. and/or <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/12-ways-rouhani-is-no-human-rights-moderate/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">oppress</span></a> its own people.</p>
<p>So why would the Iranians not take advantage of President Obama, if they can?  Every other bad actor is doing it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Endowment for Middle East Truth's warning for America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gh.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220929" alt="gh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gh-450x265.gif" width="360" height="212" /></a>The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) has just launched a major internet Ad campaign, in order to refocus world attention on the threat posed by a nuclear Iran. Ever since the Iran Nuclear Interim Deal was announced in November of 2013, EMET has strongly opposed it. The deal gives Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in return for almost nothing of any real significance, leaving Iran’s nuclear infrastructure almost totally intact. Iran keeps every one of its 19,000 centrifuges spinning and is able to continue to construct more. While caps will be placed on Iran’s ability to enrich, the deal will do nothing to prevent it from expanding its stockpile of uranium, which means that Iran will emerge from the Iran Nuclear Interim Deal closer to its goal of a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>In return, the U.S. and its allies give the Iranian terror supporting regime immediate economic relief from the economic sanctions that have left it so weakened as to be close to collapse.  The treaty widens permissible trade in oil, gold and auto parts, giving the Iranian regime an economic windfall of over $20 billion.  It also releases frozen Iranian assets to the tune of about $8 billion. Worst of all, while any Iranian concessions are easily reversible, Western concessions are likely irreversible, meaning the existing sanctions regime will have been gutted with no realistic prospect of restoring those sanctions to previous levels.</p>
<p>Until now, the American media has largely focused on how the Iran Nuclear Interim Deal will impact Israel.  However, by framing the conversation on Israel, which the Iranian regime regards as only “the Minor Satan,” the U.S. media has largely avoided discussing the very real threat that Iran still poses to the United States, which they have long referred to as the “the Great Satan.”</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Rushing&#8217; to War with Iran?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-five years of denial that the Islamic Republic is in a state of war with the U.S. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AyatollahAliKhamen_2162837b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213432" alt="AyatollahAliKhamen_2162837b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AyatollahAliKhamen_2162837b-450x346.jpg" width="270" height="208" /></a>In November, there was some talk of “a march (or rush) to war” against Iran.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration used this <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131113154723/http:/news.yahoo.com/white-house-warns-congress-opposing-iran-deal-could-183651386.html">line</a> to dismiss those – including EMET – who dared to disbelieve the sincerity of negotiations regarding the Iranian regime’s program to develop nuclear weapons, and seek to expand U.S. sanctions against that nation so as to keep the pressure on them to prove their sincerity.</p>
<p>The major problem with this charge is that Iran and the U.S. are <a href="http://emetonline.org/emettv/ledeen/01.html">already at war</a>.  And every few years, Iran or its proxies (most especially Hezbollah) conducts another hostile act, which results in the death or harming of Americans.</p>
<p>Here are just some of the acts of war Iran has conducted against the U.S.</p>
<p>In 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy, and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/world/meast/iran-hostage-crisis-fast-facts/">took</a> 52 (originally 66) of its personnel hostage for 444 days.  Iranian Foreign Minister I. Yazdi, along with other Iranian officials, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yaOknKJ3bNgC&amp;pg=PA287&amp;lpg=PA287&amp;dq=seizing+embassies+violation+of+international+law&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Hw7z5o3lsI&amp;sig=9dqAZkHYYtUFwyM8xPROCT97u4Y&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=DT6vUuvWDcarkAfZ6oCQBg&amp;ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg">indicated</a> official Iranian support for the seizure when he said, “The action of the students enjoys the endorsement and support of the government.”  Reza Kahlili describes the seizure in his book A <i>Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran</i>:</p>
<blockquote><p>This was not a rout.  It was not an act of passion.  It seemed too managed for that.  The people who rushed in seemed to know one another and to know what to do.  Military members of the Guards arrived quickly.  I wondered how they heard about the break-in so fast.  Then the Komiteh, the religious police recently given official status by Khomeini, came and promised to keep order.  But the only thing they kept orderly was the takeover itself.  Busloads of people arrived and joined the demonstration, another sign that this gathering was not spontaneous.  Within minutes, the protesters controlled the compound.</p></blockquote>
<p>For its illegal actions, the Iranian regime was cited by the <a href="http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=334&amp;p1=3&amp;p2=3&amp;case=64&amp;p3=5">International Court of Justice</a> and by the U.N. through <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/461.pdf">two U.N. Resolutions</a> for its violation of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 the international treaty that governs diplomatic immunity.</p>
<p>Iran <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Yadlin-Scope-of-Iranian-retaliation-to-potential-strike-is-exaggerated-334035">set up</a>, continues to support, and often directs, Hezbollah, a State Department-listed Lebanese terror group that has kidnapped, tortured, harmed, and/or killed Americans.  In 1983, Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut and killed 241 American servicemen who were sent to Lebanon for peacekeeping purposes.  Hezbollah is <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizbollah.html">believed</a> to have kidnapped and tortured to death U.S. Army colonel William Higgins and the CIA Station Chief in Beirut, William Buckley.  It kidnapped around 30 other Westerners between 1982 and 1992.  Imad Mughniyah, a former senior Hezbollah leader, was, prior to 911, “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082000980_pf.html">responsible</a> for the deaths of more Americans than any other terrorist.”  He and two other members of Hezbollah, Hasan Izz-al-Din, and Ali Atwa, were on the FBI’s list of 22 Most Wanted Terrorists for the hijacking in 1985 of TWA Flight 847 during which a U.S. Navy diver was murdered.  In 2007, Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq allegedly <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365813/why-obama-administration-courting-hezbollah-jonathan-spyer-benjamin-weinthal">played</a> a significant role in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq.  In 2011, the U.S. government <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizbollah.html">seized</a> drug profits linked to Ayman Joumaa, a drug trafficker and money launderer, linked to Hezbollah, and in April 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department took action against Hezbollah for working as a drug cartel.</p>
<p>Iran was involved in the 911 terrorist attacks.  A U.S. District Judge “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2011-12-23/aYoOcZ6NT3wo.html">ruled</a> that Iran and Hezbollah materially and directly supported al Qaeda in the September 11, 2001 attacks and are legally responsible for damages to hundreds of family members of 9/11 victims who are plaintiffs in the case.”  Also, post-911, the Iranian regime <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082000980_pf.html">protected</a> members of al-Qaeda, including the son of Bin Ladin, even as the latter planned and implemented other bombings that wounded or killed civilians.  Because of these and many other actions, the U.S. State Department describes Iran <a href="http://www.theettingerreport.com/Palestinian-Issue/The-Iran-Nuclear-Agreement-and-the-Common-Sense-Te.aspx">as</a> the “leading sponsor of anti-U.S. Islamic terrorism.”</p>
<p>This position is neither controversial nor partisan.  Jeffery Goldberg noted in <i>The Atlantic</i>, Iran is “is <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/iran-killing-american-troops-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/241486/">waging war</a> against the United States of America” in Iraq.  Michael Ledeen writing in <i>The Weekly Standard</i>, reaches the same conclusion saying, “(T)here is abundant <a href="http://old.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200603280728.asp">evidence</a> for Iranian involvement in Iraq, most including their relentless efforts to kill American soldiers.  The evidence consists of first-hand information, not intelligence reports.  Scores of Iranian intelligence officers have been arrested, and some have confessed.  Documentary evidence of intimate Iranian involvement with Iraqi terrorists has been found all over Iraq, notably in Fallujah and Hilla.”</p>
<p>These facts have been widely reported. During the U.S. occupation of Iraq (from 2003-2011), hundreds of American soldiers were killed or wounded by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-30/iran-again-arming-iraqi-groups-attacking-u-s-troops-gates-says.html">roadside bombs</a> or <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8624489/Iran-supporting-Shiite-groups-in-Iraq-that-are-killing-US-troops.html">other weapons</a> that were constructed, and supplied, by Iran to Iraqi rebels.  The Iranians <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/how-iran-is-killing-us-troops-in-iraq/">gave</a> these IEDs to both Shiites and Sunnis alike.</p>
<p>Iran has consistently grabbed American citizens and held them hostage.  The latest three are:</p>
<p>• In 2007, former FBI agent Robert Levinson was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-levinson-still-a-hostage-in-iran/2013/11/25/604319f0-55f9-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html">seized</a>.  (Even if reports that Levinson is a spy are true, Iran’s response of making him disappear is unusual and particularly aggressive.)</p>
<p>• In 2011, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/world/meast/iran-american-prisoner/">taken</a> while visiting his grandmother.</p>
<p>• In 2012, Pastor Saeed Abedini was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/06/congress-to-hold-hearing-on-plight-jailed-iranian-american-pastor/">grabbed</a> while visiting relatives in Iran.</p>
<p>In 2011, Iran <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2011/10/11/gIQAiaYxcL_story.html">plotted</a> to bomb a Georgetown restaurant to kill a prominent Saudi diplomat.  “The Justice Department unsealed charges against two Iranians — one of them a U.S. citizen — accusing them of orchestrating an elaborate murder-for-hire plot that targeted Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi envoy to Washington and a key adviser to King Abdullah.  The Iranians planned to employ Mexican drug traffickers to kill Jubeir with a bomb as he ate at a restaurant, U.S. officials said.”  Needless to say, this might have killed dozens, if not hundreds, of American civilians on our own soil.  Luckily, this bombing was prevented.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Iranian regime continues to pour out harsh rhetoric towards the U.S.  Every year since 1979, on November 4th, the day the Embassy was seized, the Iranian regime <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/04/thousands-of-iranians-shout-death-to-america-burn-flags-to-mark-anniversary-of-u-s-embassy-takeover/">sponsors</a> a “Death to America” day.  The Iranian regime continually <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/10/11/-Death-to-America-the-Great-Satan-.html">refers</a> to the United States, as “The Great Satan”, and Israel as merely “The Minor Satan.”   The Iranian regime promotes demonstrations where the American flag is spat on, burned, or tread upon.  They have even <a href="http://freebeacon.com/former-u-s-embassy-in-iran-turned-into-anti-american-museum/">turned</a> the Embassy that they illegally seized into an anti-American museum.</p>
<p>Of course, none of these facts really matter to the President, and his Administration.  As we have discovered, they live in a utopian dream world, where facts do not <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obamas-stable-world-delusion/">exist</a>; red lines <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/120513-681885-obama-sacrifices-syria-victims-for-iran-deal.htm">disappear</a>; lies are <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/12/3814911/politifacts-lie-of-the-year-president.html">true</a>, and peace on earth only requires a little “<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=smart+diplomacy">smart diplomacy</a>” by the Administration.</p>
<p>So, because President Obama believes that the U.S. and Iran are not at war, then we aren’t.  And, according to the argument of the Obama Administration, their critics are guilty of trying to march us into a war that – according to international law and common sense – we have already been embroiled in for almost thirty-five years now.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/715EF026-9B88-4C31-A0CA-539A56F4286F06062013_Samantha_Power_article.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197234" alt="{715EF026-9B88-4C31-A0CA-539A56F4286F}06062013_Samantha_Power_article" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/715EF026-9B88-4C31-A0CA-539A56F4286F06062013_Samantha_Power_article-450x327.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>In selecting Samantha Power as his nominee for United Nations Ambassador, President Obama has chosen an appointee whose stated positions are detrimental to promoting a strong American foreign policy and would weaken the position of one of our strongest allies, Israel.  She also seems to have a temperament that is not especially suited to diplomacy.  (Just <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/hillary-clinton-s-a-monster-obama-aide-blurts-out-attack-in-scotsman-interview-1-1158300">ask</a> Hillary Clinton.)  Yet, despite her many flaws, politically attuned observers still confidently predict that Ms. Power will win Senate confirmation.</span></b></p>
<p>How so?  Well, she intends to follow the Chuck Hagel method of winning Senate confirmation – she will <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/31/republican-hagel-faces-gop-critics-at-hearing/">reverse</a>, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/277177-hagel-says-he-regrets-jewish-lobby-comment">apologize</a> for, explain away, and/or deny her record.  Power has already started this process.</p>
<p>The premiere example is her response to the “thought experiment” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  In 2002, Samantha Power was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFdt6fjdHQw">asked</a>: “Let me give you a thought experiment here …without addressing the Palestine – Israel problem, let’s say you were an advisor to the President of the United States, how would you respond to current events there? Would you advise him to put a structure in place to monitor that situation, at least if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving toward genocide?”  She answered:</p>
<blockquote><p>…what we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing — or investing, I think, more than sacrificing — billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence. Because it seems to me at this stage (and this is true of actual genocides as well, and not just major human rights abuses, which were seen there), you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to put something on the line.  Unfortunately, imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful. It’s a terrible thing to do, it’s fundamentally undemocratic. But, sadly, we don’t just have a democracy here either, we have a liberal democracy. There are certain sets of principles that guide our policy, or that are meant to, anyway. It’s essential that some set of principles becomes the benchmark, rather than a deference to [leaders] who are fundamentally politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people…I do think in that sense, both political leaders have been dreadfully irresponsible. And, unfortunately, it does require external intervention.</p></blockquote>
<p>During the 2008 presidential campaign, when Power was advising then Senator Obama, this hypothetical answer began to attract critical comment, so Power completely <a href="http://www.miftah.org/display.cfm?DocId=16291&amp;CategoryId=5">disavowed </a>it: “Even I don’t understand it.  This makes no sense to me. The quote seems so weird.”</p>
<p>Similarly, besides the above answer, she has addressed other concerns vis-à-vis her views of Israel.  Power has claimed that the Israeli soldiers committed “<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2008/02/11/more-samantha-power/">war crimes</a>” in fighting Palestinian terrorists in Jenin, despite that no such crimes occurred.  She has implied that the Israelis are <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/soft-power-comes-to-washington.php">paranoid</a> and are <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/soft-power-comes-to-washington.php">bastards</a>.  She has <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350297/samantha-power-exemplary-pick-charles-c-w-cooke">written</a> that by backing Israel, the U.S. has lost its right to discuss human rights to the rest of the world.<b>  </b>Power has even <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2008/01/26/obama-and-israel-continued/">blamed</a> Israel for instigating the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  But, in 2011, in a private meeting with American Jewish groups, Ms. Power <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/defending-samantha-power-_b_3395646.html">explained away</a> any anti-Israeli bias on her part, claiming that she had been “misunderstood” and “falsely accused.” Further, she became so “deeply emotional” that she “struggled to complete her presentation as she expressed how deeply such accusations had affected her,” and finally burst into tears, prompting all of those in the room to be “deeply moved by this incredible display of pain and emotion.”</p>
<p>Apparently, these simple disavowals of her previous record are <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-03/opinions/40349808_1_patriotism-united-nations-israel-s">enough</a> for some people to wipe the slate clean for Power.   And apparently, since her nomination for U.N. Ambassador, Ms. Power has been, and will be, continuing this process of “personal evolution” through her meetings with U.S. Senators and her eventual nomination appearance.</p>
<p>So, we can probably expect more reversals of, apologies for, explanations for, and/or denials of, her record. In the interest of assisting this “evolution” I’ve proposed some options for Ms. Power to select from while explaining away her record. For example:</p>
<p>• In 2003, in a <i>New Republic</i> article, Power <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/srebenica-liberalism-balkan-united%20nations">made</a> a number of statements expressing her belief that the U.S. has, in the past, sinned in its conduct of foreign affairs and needed to apologize.  She may address any complaints about these comments in the following manner – “So sorry about that.  My bad.” (Some tears or sighs might also be appropriate.)</p>
<p>• In a 2008 <i>TIME Magazine</i> column, Power <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704682,00.html">derided</a> concerns about Iran’s nuclear weapons program as a figment of the imagination conjured up and promoted by former President George W. Bush.  If questioned about this, she can say, honestly: “Iran has made real strides in five years.” She doesn’t have to mention that these strides have been <i>towards</i> nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>• In a 2008 article in the <i>New Statesman</i>, Power <a href="http://www.notable-quotes.com/p/power_samantha.html">expressed</a> her politically correct concern about linking the religion of Islam and terrorism.  “All we talk about is &#8216;Islamic terrorism&#8217;.  If the two words are associated for long enough it’s obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.” Actually, there is no need for Power to disavow this statement, considering the Administration she would be serving in.  At her hearing, if pressed, she might further explain, “The real problem, as we all know, is excessive <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/dem-blames-political-correctness-for-fort-hood-massacre-controversy/">workplace violence</a>.”</p>
<p>• In a 2008 radio interview, when Power answered concerns regarding Barack Obama and his views towards Israel, she <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/samantha_power_unplugged.html">stated</a>, “So much of it is about: &#8216;Is he going to be good for the Jews?”  A further clarification of this statement might be warranted.  Perhaps she might say, “My appointment is good for the Jews.  Did you know that I am married to one?”</p>
<p>This kind of strategy will likely get Samantha Power through the U.S. Senate.  Whether it will serve our nation<i> </i>at the United Nations, a place where the United States faces determined foes and where political debates have real consequences, is another question entirely.</p>
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		<title>The Divine Hand of the Europeans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/adam-turner/the-divine-hand-of-the-europeans/2223556912_1afaa9f61b/" rel="attachment wp-att-184352"><img class=" wp-image-184352 alignleft" title="2223556912_1afaa9f61b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2223556912_1afaa9f61b-450x307.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="184" /></a>The Biblical Book of Joshua begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>And it was after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, “Moses my servant has died and now arise and cross the River Jordan. You and all this nation go to the land which I give the Children of Israel. Every place on which the soles of your feet will tread I have given to you, as I have spoken to Moses. No man shall stand up …</em></p></blockquote>
<p>“Not so,” say diplomats in the United States and the rest of the Western world.</p>
<p>These leaders have their own, alternate supreme authority, which delineates not just the borders of Israel, but also that of every other nation within the Middle East.  They consider their authority to be an entity far more powerful than the Lord – the European colonial powers, especially the United Kingdom and France.</p>
<p>Just look at today’s map in the Middle East, and you can see what I mean.</p>
<p>Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, etc. all still exist within the borders that the European colonial powers drew for them.  These borders had nothing to do with their history.  They had nothing to do with their ethnic homogeneity.  They had nothing to do with their religious homogeneity.  They had nothing to do with their linguistics.  And today, the mix of peoples within each state is sometimes even more divided than when the borders were first drawn, as the different peoples within them often have different natural growth rates, or emigration rates, which have altered the balance of power in a major way. Simply put, these borders no longer make sense, if they ever did.</p>
<p>But don’t you ever think about touching those borders.  That is not to be allowed.</p>
<p>When the United States ousted the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and occupied that country, our officials were careful to maintain a unified state out of the hodgepodge of nationalities and religions created by the British-French pen.  The Iraqi population is roughly 30 plus million divide as follows as follows – about 18 million Shia Arabs, 5 million Sunni Arabs, 5 million Sunni Kurds, who are a different ethnic group than Arabs, with the remainder largely Christian Arabs (those who haven’t fled yet).  Generally, the three main peoples live in different areas of the nation, with the Kurds in the North, the Sunni Arabs in the West, and the Shia Arabs predominating elsewhere.  Historically these three groups have been in opposition to one another.  But, even during the height of the Iraqi post-war insurrection, when Shia Arabs and Sunni Arabs and Kurds were all at each other’s throats, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12572371/">almost</a> no American of any significance considered the logical option of dividing the country into three sections. Perhaps the world felt that since Europe colonialists had already spoken on the matter, the Iraqis would just have to learn to live together.</p>
<p>Also, consider Syria and Lebanon.  France originally drew their boundaries.  Both were drawn to maximize French interests, especially in Lebanon, where the French were interested in producing a majority Christian nation.  Today, the conflicts originating out of these lines have led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people.</p>
<p>In Syria, there are 23 million inhabitants.  16 million are Sunni Arabs.  Over 3 million are non-Sunni Arabs, mostly Alawites, but also including some Druze. Both the Alawites and the Druze live primarily in the Western, more mountainous areas.  There are about 2 million Kurds residing in the northeastern corner.  And there were more than 2 million Christian Arabs, prior to the rebellion.  Currently, much of the country is in flames, as Sunni Arabs – led by jihadists – seek to violently overthrow the Iranian-backed Alawite dictator Assad.  Over 70,000 people have died during this civil war.  Yet, among all the various peace plans that have been proposed by the international elites, precious few advocate the seemingly obvious idea of splitting Syria into its different constituent parts, so as to better protect minorities.  (The Christians may not be concentrated enough to create a separate state, although it is possible that they might be more safe in an Alawite or Kurdish state.)</p>
<p>In Lebanon, there are around 1.2 million Sunni Arabs, more than 1.2 million Shia Arabs, 1.4 million Christians (whom are further subdivided) and 200,000 Druze.  Because Lebanon is so heterogynous, it has had over twenty-five years of civil war, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and currently is under a fragile “truce” thanks to the ability of the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah to forcibly control the nation.  The Lebanese communities are, once again, mostly segregated.  But, once again, no major international peace plans for Lebanon have ever made the case for a sensible division of the country.</p>
<p>So, now we come back to Israel.</p>
<p>After God had had his way, the British stepped in.  In 1921, the British chopped off 80% of the land to give to their ally, the Hashemite Abdullah, whose family had just lost their prior kingdom in what is now Saudi Arabia.  The monarchy of Jordan – as it became – has been in existence ever since.  Of course, as befits a kingdom arbitrarily drawn up by the British, a majority of the population of Jordan is actually made up of Palestinian Arab emigrants.</p>
<p>After the British tired of keeping peace between the warring Arabs and Jews in the remaining 20% of Palestine, the United Nations – led by the European diplomats – tried to organize that rump into competing areas of Arab and Jewish control.  This led to war, which resulted in the 1948 armistice lines.  Since then, Israel has been forced to fight numerous times against the Arab world.  In each of these struggles, the lines have changed.</p>
<p>But the world – led by the diplomats of Europe – still doesn’t recognize the current borders of Israel.  Neither does the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/obamas-middle-east-map-erases-israeli-territory/">Obama Administration</a>.</p>
<p>Then again, perhaps this isn’t too surprising.  The British never got their final say on Israel’s borders, did they?</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/adam-turner/egypt-too-big-to-fail/mohamed-morsi-via-afp/" rel="attachment wp-att-178290"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-178290" title="Mohamed-Morsi-via-AFP" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mohamed-Morsi-via-AFP.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="206" /></a>Recently, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt, a supposed “moderate” Islamist, <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/02/05/when-tyrants-and-hatemongers-embrace-ahmadinejad-morsi/#more-818128">met</a> with Iran’s anti-Semitic, genocidal, President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-egypt-iran-visit-20130205,0,2067370.story">Reportedly</a>, they had a friendly discussion.  Perhaps, in addition to the official topics, they also conversed about their mutual anti-Semitic attitudes.  President Ahmadinejad is already well-known for his hatred of the Jews.  President Morsi’s bigotry, on the other hand, has only publicly come to light this past year.  In 2010, President Morsi <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3363">delivered</a> a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews. Soon after, Morsi described Jews as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.”   When confronted by U.S. Senators on his impolitic language, Morsi <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/23/exclusive_morsy_implies_jews_control_the_american_media?wp_login_redirect=0">implied</a> that this was only a controversy because the American media was controlled by Jews.</p>
<p>But the two Islamist Presidents have much more in common than just their anti-Semitism.  Both lead radical, dictatorial, and anti-American regimes.  Like the radical Iranian government has since 1979, President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood Party continue to <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/28/famed-egyptian-democrat-declares-30-day-emergency-threatens-army-crackdown/">crack down</a> on pro-democracy demonstrations in their country (Egypt), <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/01/20/261444.html">persecute</a> independent members of the media, and actively <a href="http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2013/01/29/Egypt-death-sentences-makers-anti-Islam-film-upheld_8155771.html">pursue</a> death sentences against Westerners or Americans engaging in Free Speech IN the West.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, none of this negative behavior by Egypt’s leadership seems to matter much to the U.S. government.  The administration’s immediate response – sending four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt.  A bipartisan Congress <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/01/senate-kills-rand-pauls-bill-to-prohibit-sales-of-f-16s-to-egypt/">voted</a> to support the sale.  This is all part of the $1.5 billion or so U.S. aid, most of it military, which has gone to Egypt annually since 1979.</p>
<p>When questioned about the consistent flow of U.S. aid to Egypt, the same argument is often made by the foreign policy elites – Egypt is the colossus of the Arab world, and it would be irrational and unwise for the U.S. to simply let it become a rogue state, or to collapse, as a failed state.  And so the U.S. money spigot must be kept consistently open, if not cracked a bit wider, regardless of how the Islamist-run Egyptian government acts.  In fact, if you persist in doubting this wisdom, sometimes you are belittled as an ignorant isolationist-like opponent of all foreign aid.</p>
<p>But let’s re-examine that pearl of conventional wisdom regarding U.S. aid to Egypt. It simply isn’t valid, as Egypt under the MB is already a rogue state, and it is also pretty much guaranteed to become a failed state.</p>
<p>The fact that Egypt is a rogue state should be patently obvious at this point.  The Egyptian MB has <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4167267,00.html">produced</a> Hamas in Gaza, a well-known terrorist organization.  In fact, the MB and Hamas are so close that thousands of Hamas warriors may have been <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/report-hamas-militiamen-helped-prop-up-morsi.php">sent</a> to Egypt to help President Morsi protect his regime by crushing Egyptian democratic protestors.  President Morsi and his MB have already shown their willingness to <a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/1328/21/Open-letter-to-President-Obama.aspx">corrupt</a> the democratic process, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-egypt-police-torture-death-20130204,0,1263536.story">kill</a> Egyptian demonstrators, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/05/egypt-coptic-christian-pope-criticizes-country-constitution/">discriminate</a> against the Coptic Christians, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-abdellatif-women-in-egypt-20130210,0,1774012.story">allow</a> for the harassment or rape of women, and <a href="http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/02/10/egypt-free-speech-backlash/R0tIzXWzm2H5CPfLtzdBNJ/story.html">prevent</a> the exercise of a culture of freedom of speech among ordinary Egyptians and foreigners alike.  For more information, see <a href="http://www.emetonlineblog.com/2012/03/throwing-money-down-the-bottomless-pit-of-egypt/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/08/24/After-Muslim-bros-Egypt-Coup-Can-We-Stop-funding-Egypt%20-now">here</a>, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/is-egypt-giving-the-united-states-its-marching-orders/">here</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/adam-turner/mishandling-morsi/">here</a>.  Even President Obama – in a moment of clarity – <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-egypt-not-ally-enemy-122704386.html">revealed</a> that he is unsure whether Egypt’s MB regime is an ally of ours.</p>
<p>Egypt’s coming economic failure is not so obvious, perhaps because of Western wishful thinking.  But, as David Goldman <a href="http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/01/29/the-cfrs-steven-cook-misrepresents-me/">writes</a>, Egypt currently requires more than $22 billion a year simply to meet its basic needs.  Because of the increasing violence there, the once flourishing tourist industry is kaput, and people with money and knowledge and skills are fleeing.  A black market of U.S. dollars has <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/10/egypt-currency-idUSL5N0BA2EZ20130210">developed</a>.  Almost half of the population is illiterate.  There are no major sources of oil, natural gas, or other natural resources in the nation.   In other words, Egypt <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/OA23Ak02.html">can’t</a> – and/or won’t – continue to exist without outside help.  So, the question is: is the U.S., or the world, ready to supply that $22 billion – every year – to prop up the Islamist regime of Mohammed Morsi?</p>
<p>Perhaps some believe that the Gulf States and Europe will pay for some of this aid.  Maybe.  So far, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201301211320.html">given</a> Egypt only $9 billion in financial aid and Saudi Arabia <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-saudi-egypt-brotherhood-idUSBRE8400ZM20120501">may not</a> be willing to deliver this money indefinitely to a MB-dominated government.  And Europe is in really bad economic straits these days.  So that leaves the U.S., and the various international organizations.  But I repeat myself – the U.N. and other international groups may have promised grants/loans, but much of their budget actually comes from the U.S.</p>
<p>There is another point to be made here.  Even if we believe that “Egypt is too big to fail,” why would we ever let the Egyptians know this? As any true believer in realpolitick would know, if Egypt is aware of how vital it is to the U.S., then that nation will do whatever it wants to do, even if what it is doing is in opposition to U.S. interests. This means that it is imperative that the U.S. credibly pretend, even if it would never actually stop its aid to Egypt, that it is open to cutting off the money. <a href="http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/f.a.q.-on-u.s.-aid-to-egypt-where-does-the-money-go-who-decides-how-spent">Attaching</a> conditions to the aid, and then waiving them, simply does not cut it.</p>
<p>Aside from the question of U.S. foreign aid to Egypt in general, there is also the question of military aid in particular.  About 80% of the U.S. aid to Egypt is military.  There are really only three possible reasons why Egypt would need a strong military: 1) to crack down on its own people; 2) to go to war against Israel, a U.S. ally; and/or 3) to conquer or intimidate other neighboring nations, like Libya, Sudan, Jordan, etc.  None of these actions are in the U.S. national interest.</p>
<p>The most frequently asserted reason to provide the Egyptian military with this aid is that the military is, or will be, a counterweight to the MB.  Now, when the Egyptian army was a more secular-led institution under President Mubarak, bribing Egyptian military leaders to win their support made sense. But <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/01/28/secretary-of-state-kerry-shows-he-doesnt-have-a-clue/?singlepage=true">considering</a> that Morsi personally named the new army leadership, that the armed forces have shown they don’t want to get involved in politics, and that many officers are pro-Brotherhood or even pro-Salafist, is this really a good reason anymore?  I don’t believe so.  Certainly, Morsi and the MB don’t seem too <a href="http://bikyanews.com/84830/breaking-egypt-army-granted-right-to-arrest-civilians/">concerned</a> about the army opposing them.</p>
<p>President Morsi is an Islamist, and his Muslim Brotherhood Party is an Islamist party.  They run a regime that is un-democratic, anti-human rights, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian.  And they need our economic help, just to survive.  It is well-past the time we let them know that, unless they change their ways, their nation’s ride on the U.S. gravy train will end.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/adam-turner/positive-news-for-israel-in-the-new-year/israeli-flag-projection-o-007/" rel="attachment wp-att-173285"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-173285" title="Israeli-flag-projection-o-007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Israeli-flag-projection-o-007.jpg" alt="" width="271" height="219" /></a>With the holidays behind us, and the elections, I do have some good news to report about Israel.</p>
<p>No doubt, this is shocking to you.</p>
<p>Only recently, the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/02/statistics-bureau-estimates-palestinians-will-outnumber-israeli-jews-by-2020/">issued</a> its usual press release about how, in 2020, if the current trends persist, the number of Palestinian Arabs will outnumber the number of Israeli Jews (but only if you include Gaza, land which virtually no Israelis are interested in recovering).  Of course, this headline is meant to scare Israelis, and the West especially, into restarting the “Palestinian Arab-Israeli Peace Process” by encouraging new pressure on Israel to make concessions to those noted “moderates” in the Palestinian Authority.  Not that this reset would be necessary, by the way, if the PA had not <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/70_Abbas1.html">consistently refused</a> to come back to the negotiating table since 2008 and not <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=295242">violated</a> the prior peace process – the Oslo Accords – by getting the world community at the UN to recognize the <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/13/palestine-does-not-qualify-as-a-state/">non-nation(s)</a> of “Palestine.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately for the Israel haters, though, time is no longer on their side.  Consider these facts:</p>
<p>• The population of Israel is <a href="http://www.theettingerreport.com/Demographic-Scare/The-Westernization-of-Muslim-Demographics.aspx">booming</a>, in contrast to most Western nations, and even many countries in the Arab world.  Meanwhile, Palestinian statistics consistently overstate their actual numbers by 1 million.  I have already written about this <a href="http://emetonline.org/index.php?/articles/8_facts_to_remember_about_the_israeli_palestinian_arab_crisis">here</a>.  One <a href="http://www.theettingerreport.com/Demographic-Scare/Jewish-Arab-Demography-Defies-Conventional--Wisdom.aspx">new point</a> though – the current 66% Jewish majority in the area of the pre-1967 Israel, Judea and Samaria could actually increase to an 80% majority in 2035, if Jewish immigration increases from the former USSR, France, Britain, Argentina and the US.  This is quite possible, in response to Israel’s positive economic indicators, the intensification of European anti-Semitism (largely because of growing Muslim populations), and the growth of Jewish-Zionist education.</p>
<p>• Israel’s economy is also booming.  Israel’s 2009-2012 economic growth of 14.7% <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6938">leads</a> the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, ahead of Australia – 10.7%, Canada – 4.8%, US – 3.2%, Germany – 2.7%, France – 0.3%, Euro Bloc – 1.5% decline. Also, Israel’s unemployment rate edged <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4327543,00.html">down</a> to 6.7% in November from 6.9% in October. Tourism numbers went up to an all-time high of 2.9 million tourists in 2012. Simultaneously, much of the civilized world is or seems about ready to sink into a recession.  Also, unlike the US and many other nations, Israel does not have crushing debt and entitlement burdens.  Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.dw.de/arab-post-rebellion-economies-are-struggling/a-16347543">few</a> of the non-oil producing Arab nations are doing well economically.</p>
<p>• The “Arab Spring,” or more accurately, the “Arab Winter,” has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-wading-into-the-middle-east-morass/2013/01/06/8879ec84-55c6-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html">demonstrated</a>, pretty convincingly, that Israel is not the cause of all of the problems in the Middle East.  Even an Arab writer in the Arab News has <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/arab-spring-and-israeli-enemy">acknowledged</a> this fact.  It has even prompted the Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt, whose leaders <a href="http://www.newsmaxworld.com/Newsfront/morsi-palestine-israel-negotiations/2013/01/04/id/470066">continue</a> to spout disgusting anti-Semitism and eliminationist rhetoric, to <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/11/21/ceasefire-in-israel-hamas-war/?singlepage=true">refuse</a> to stick their necks out for its “little terror brothers” in Hamas, especially when Egypt has so many <a href="http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/12/06/egypts-economic-breakdown-deepens-the-crisis/">non-Israel related problems</a>.</p>
<p>• With the Syrian Assad regime in its death throes and Hezbollah <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-assad-goes-hezbollah-will-be-alone-in-the-levant--much-to-the-delight-of-israel-8304965.html">worried</a> about its position in Lebanon, Israel can focus on Iranian nukes without worrying about these Iranian allies.  And, by the way, the Iranian Regime, while still very dangerous, has its own <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/who-is-responsible-for-iran-s-economic-plight.premium-1.491334">economic</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/jamie-glazov/how-civilizations-die/">population</a> problems that could hobble its drive to world power.</p>
<p>• Related to the above, although Syrian Sunni Islamists are leading the charge against Assad and could gain power in Syria, they have a major problem to face – at least 40% of the nation’s population is made up of Alawite, Christian, Kurdish, Druze, and other non-Arab or non-Sunni minorities.  Many of these minorities, including the Alawites, the Kurds, and the Druze are located in select areas of the country and have substantial amounts of weaponry, and in some cases, the protection of mountainous territory.  In reality, while the Sunni Islamists may lead the ouster of Assad, the likely forecast for Syria in general is for a continuing civil war, which should distract its rather disorganized participants from picking a fight with Israel.</p>
<p>• Related to the above, the Kurdish peoples, perhaps one of the more <a href="http://www.jpost.com/JerusalemReport/Article.aspx?id=173112">pro-Israeli</a> Muslim groups in the Middle East, have established their own quasi-states in Iraq and now Syria, and have become a force to reckon with wherever they live.  They are a big threat to the Islamist government of Turkey, which is also facing its own economic problems and a <a href="http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/david-p-goldman/demographic-sources-turkeys-foreign-policy-crisis">decline</a> in the birthrate of the native Turkish population.   The Turkish Kurds, in contrast, are still growing demographically.</p>
<p>• Israel has <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/10/keeping_the_flame_alive">discovered</a> a vast amount of natural gas – and oil as well – off shore, which should make it energy independent soon, and might even make it a net exporter of energy.  Beginning in 2009, discoveries were made in: 1) the Tamar field, with 8-9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; 2) the Dalit field, with 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas; and 3) Leviathan, with 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Some estimate that Leviathan alone could provide Israel with all the natural gas it would need for the next 100 years. Also, Israel may have shale oil reserves totaling 250 billion barrels.  Simultaneously, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14190215">some</a> of the oil producing Arab nations, including <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/saudi-arabia-may-run-out-oil-2030-citigroup-761449">Saudi Arabia</a>, may be running low of their own oil supplies for export.  Coupling these changes with the rising price of and demand for oil/gas, other energy discoveries in non-Arab/Muslim nations, and the advent of new technologies to extract energy supplies that have been developed in the West, a huge shift may occur in the field of energy, with Israel and the West gaining ground vis-à-vis the traditional Arab/Muslim OPEC Bloc.  This, in turn, could lead to a reevaluation by many other nations of their relations with Israel.  Money talks, as we all know.</p>
<p>• Continuing problems integrating its Muslim minorities into a secular society are prompting some Europeans to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/02/27/europe-s-extreme-righteous.html">reevaluate</a> their respective relations with the Arabs and the Israelis.  Remember the old saying – the enemy of my enemy is my friend?  This is indeed happening in Europe.  Look at the new “Right” that is springing up all over Europe and is, in many cases, shockingly, pro-Israel.  <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3991733,00.html">Geert Wilders</a> is one prime example.</p>
<p>• The Palestinian leadership – in both the PA and Hamas – while being corrupt, undemocratic, and genocidal, is also just plain dumb.  For example, a bad actor should be able to, and willing to, tell a lie to advance one’s overall position. Thus, when dealing with the West, it would behoove the Palestinian leadership to talk nice and seem reasonable, while secretly planning to murder the Israelis (and the Jews).  Yet time after time, Palestinian leaders blurt out (<a href="http://www.palwatch.org/">see here</a>) that they don’t want any sort of compromise with the Jewish state but want <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=826&amp;doc_id=7641">all</a> the land, that the Jews have <a href="http://palwatch.org/pages/news_archive.aspx?doc_id=5069">weak ties</a> to the land, and that Palestinians (and other Arabs) must <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=6098">kill all</a> of the Jews, including the women and children.  They can’t seem to control their emotions, even when doing so would help them achieve their purposes. Such vicious stupidity is a huge weakness.</p>
<p>In the coming year, Israel does have some big challenges facing it, most especially dealing with the threat of Iranian nukes from a genocidal and desperate – for economic and religious reasons – regime.   But, it also has a lot of positive factors coming into play that should help it weather the tide.</p>
<p>So, next time some opinionated anti-Zionist gives you a hard time about Israel, and your support of that nation’s desire to stay alive, I hope you quote some of the above listed positive factors to him.  And be sure to smile.  They really hate that.</p>
<p><em>Adam Turner serves as staff counsel to the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) and the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum. He is a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee where he focused on national security law. This column was originally written for EMET.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/adam-turner/mishandling-morsi/mis/" rel="attachment wp-att-168248"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-168248" title="mis" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mis.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="212" /></a>Only a week after being praised by the Obama Administration for his supposed helpfulness in ending the fighting in Gaza between Palestinian Hamas terrorists and Israel, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Member and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi apparently decided to cash in his praise “chips” early.  Most prominently, President Morsi made himself immune from the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court’s oversight, thereby essentially assuming dictatorial powers over his nation.  Less prominently, one of his <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/morsis_sharia_justice_death_penalties_for_expatriate_innocence_of_muslims_producers.html">appointed</a> judges convicted eight persons, including seven Americans, for their “blasphemy” towards Islam.  Included in this group were well-known Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who has burned several Korans in the United States, and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, one of the people behind the controversial American film “Innocence of Muslims.”  So far, the Obama Administration has lodged <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/obama-administration-treads-carefully-on-morsi-pow">no complaints</a> (and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/28/Egypt-Condemns-Coptic-Christian-YouTube-Video-Filmmakers-To-Death">here</a>) with the Egyptian regime over either action.</p>
<p>It should be shocking to the Obama Administration, and Americans, that a foreign nation can sentence our citizens to death for the “crime” of free speech.  Free speech, and the First Amendment, is supposed to be sacrosanct in the US.  Our Founding Fathers were certainly very supportive of it.  President George Washington said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”  Benjamin Franklin understood that, “(i)n those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own.  Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”  And prominent Supreme Court Justices have continued to praise free speech over the years.  Justice William O. Douglas stated, “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”  Justice Louis Brandeis believed, “Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.  Men feared witches and burned women.  It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fear.”<strong> </strong></p>
<p>Based on the strong historical support for freedom of speech evidence by these quotes, you could be forgiven for thinking that any<strong> </strong>attempts by foreigners to infringe upon American speech in our own country would prompt our nation to do something about it.  But, apparently, we are living in new times.  President Obama has already said at the UN that “(t)he future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Perhaps he believes that a little thing like the First Amendment in the US Constitution should not be allowed to get in the way.</p>
<p>In fact, instead of objecting to this kind of Egyptian bad behavior, the US continues to reward it.  The American foreign aid money keeps flowing to Egypt.  Roughly $1.5 billion a year, most of it military aid.  Over $50 billion total since 1979.  There are new proposals by President Obama for $1billion in debt relief for Egypt.  And through international organizations like the IMF, even more American aid is coming.</p>
<p>Technically, much of this aid is conditioned on good behavior by the Egyptian regime, but the dirty little secret is that the Obama Administration always waives these restrictions when they aren’t met by President Morsi.  And no bad behavior stops them.  When President Morsi first won his term, he immediately demanded the release of convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, i.e., the “Blind Sheikh,” the spiritual and terrorist leader for the first Islamist attack against the World Trade Center that killed six U.S. citizens.  Silence from the Obama Administration.   Morsi allowed Islamist protestors to overrun the US Embassy in Cairo – sovereign US territory – and raise the black flag of the Islamists.  President Obama did nothing.  The Morsi regime continues to suppress protests by ordinary Egyptians, most horrifically <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241374/Muslim-Brotherhood-paying-gangs-rape-women-beat-men-protesting-Egypt-thousands-demonstrators-pour-streets.html">by paying gangs</a> to go out and rape women and beat men who are demonstrating in opposition to Morsi’s new judicial immunity and new dictatorship.  No objections for the US.  The MB-led Egypt is rushing to institute Sharia law, a barbaric code of law which requires that raped women be put to death for adultery.  No complaints came from Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.  Morsi’s Administration has presided over a regime that slaughters and discriminates against Egyptian Copts.  The crickets are chirping in the US government.  Figures in the MB <a href="http://www.jewishpost.com/news/Simon-Wiesenthal-Center-Condemns-Muslim-Brotherhood-Genocidal-Calls-Against-Jews-Yesterdays-Rants-May-Be-Tomorrows-Official-Policy.html">call</a> for another genocide against Jews.  “Never mind,” the Administration says, rather than “never again.”</p>
<p>“Don’t worry,” the foreign policy experts assure us, countless times, “US money provides us with great influence over the new Egyptian rulers.”  The MB is a “moderate, secular organization.” “If we keep funding them, we will get a seat at the table.”</p>
<p>Of course, President Obama only sits silently at that table.   This isn’t too surprising, since we already know from his UN speech that he doesn’t always value speech.  So what good is that seat anyway?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142162" title="National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-Relations(CAIR)-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>It has come to my attention that I may be suffering from “CAIRophobia.”</p>
<p>Almost certainly, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), I am already afflicted with “Islamophobia,” which they <a href="http://www.cair.com/Issues/Islamophobia/Islamophobia.aspx">define</a> as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam. Such fear and hostility leads to discriminations against Muslims, exclusion of Muslims from mainstream political or social process, stereotyping, the presumption of guilt by association, and finally hate crimes.”  Islamophobia is actually a term the Muslim Brotherhood – the granddaddy of all Islamist groups – and their cohorts may have <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278722/rational-fear-islamism-robert-spencer">invented</a> to take advantage of the bleeding hearts among the politically correct.  So, if I am suffering from it, I suppose it is just a short hop to also suffering from “CAIRophobia,” which I define as having a very rational fear of CAIR.</p>
<p>I accept this phobia.  In fact, I sure wish some others had CAIRophobia.</p>
<p>CAIR is very busy pressure group these days.  Recently, it <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/24/cair-pushes-dod-to-drop-ex-cia-operative-lecturer-claims-anti-islam/">demanded</a> that the Pentagon drop a former CIA operative who worked inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, known by his pseudonym of Reza Kahlili, as a lecturer at the Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy.  Although Kahlili is primarily known for teaching, writing and lecturing about the dangers the radical Iranian regime poses to the West, CAIR still felt the need to call for his dismissal for his supposed “anti-Islam agenda” as a former Muslim-turned-Christian.  This is all part of CAIR’S continuing quest to purge the Defense Department and other government departments or agencies of the services of any expert who identifies radical Islam as a major threat to our nation.  CAIR’s public relations “jihads” have been waged against such people as <a href="http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails/tabid/316/ArticleID/26749/mid1/777/currPage/6/Default.aspx">Robert Spencer</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/15/425947/tennessee-county-sheriffs-office-brings-in-anti-muslim-speaker-to-train-officers-about-muslim-culture/">John Guandolo</a>, and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/anti-terrorism-instructor-fired-over-politically-incorrect-material">Matthew Dooley</a>.  In Kahlili’s case, the Pentagon refused to drop him, but it did go out of its way to assure CAIR that Kahlili “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/24/cair-pushes-dod-to-drop-ex-cia-operative-lecturer-claims-anti-islam/#ixzz21gqlb8F4">does</a> not lecture on or about Islam or any religious treatise, and his personal beliefs are his own.”</p>
<p>CAIR has also recently been hard at work <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-grateful-constitution-limits-michele-bachmanns-mccarthyism-163069136.html">attempting</a> to shame and malign Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and her four congressional compatriots for their letters to the Inspector Generals (IGs) of the Defense Department, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  These letters asked the IGs to investigate thoroughly the degree to which members of, or sympathizers with, the Muslim Brotherhood are active in our defense and intelligence communities, and what impact that possible infiltration might be having on our national security.  Through its pressure, CAIR presumably hopes to force the congressional leadership to block any such investigation. Harming the political careers of these Congressmen and intimidating others from ever addressing any issue related to radical Islam is an added benefit.</p>
<p>Further, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSrNzo0nRW4">CAIR</a>, with the help of its left-wing friends at the <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon0418jm.html">Associated Press</a>, along with other <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/nypd-spying-new-brunswick-muslim-surveillance-new-jersey_n_1701340.html">politically correct leftists</a>, has also sought to embarrass and intimidate the New York Police Department (NYPD) from doing its job: protecting the public of New York City.  The NYPD has found itself in CAIR’s crosshairs because of its continuing surveillance of Muslim people, mosques, etc. in public areas.  Even though going to Muslim-inhabited areas to surveil Muslim terrorists makes as much sense as going to an Italian-American club to surveil possible members of the Italian Mafia or going to an Irish-American bar to surveil potential IRA terrorists, CAIR believes that Muslim Americans deserve the special right not to be surveilled.</p>
<p>The amazing part of all this is that CAIR has an uncanny, Teflon-like ability to avoid mainstream criticism of its own disturbing background.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Obama's foreign policy continues.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hillaryclinton.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139251" title="hillaryclinton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hillaryclinton.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="166" /></a><em>&#8220;This morning, I spoke by telephone with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. I once again reiterated our deepest regrets for the tragic incident in Salala last November.  I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives.  Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives. We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.  We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again. As I told the former Prime Minister of Pakistan days after the Salala incident, America respects Pakistan’s sovereignty and is committed to working together in pursuit of shared objectives on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respect.”</em></p>
<p align="right">Secretary of State Clinton <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/07/194502.htm">Statement</a> – July 3, 2012.</p>
<p>Thanks to this apology, and along with a <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/03/154961/pakistan-to-reopen-supply-routes.html">promise</a> of extra money, the Obama Administration, and Secretary of State Clinton, was able to repair our “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/obama-pakistan-relations-strained_n_1381948.html">strained relations</a>” with Pakistan.  As a result of this, it has been announced that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, which had been closed to the U.S. after the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.  This is admittedly cost effective, as the <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/03/u-s-pakistan-relations-still-bizarre/#more-798770">closure</a> of the “GLOC” (Ground Line Of Communications), although it did not stop NATO operations in Afghanistan, was still costing an extra $100 million a month to ferry goods from Central Asia.  But was it a good idea overall?  What sort of precedent does it set?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the attack which precipitated the airstrike in question was initiated by Pakistan.  The U.S. military completed its investigation of the incident, which <a href="http://www.aco.nato.int/pakistan-border-incident-investigation-concluded.aspx">described</a> how Pakistan not only did not inform the U.S. of the position of the Pakistani soldiers, but also confirmed that these Pakistani border guards fired on U.S. and Afghan soldiers first.  Afghani officials have <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142829824/afghan-officials-fire-from-pakistan-sparked-attack">agreed</a> with the U.S. description of the incident.  In fact, the incident may well have been deliberately initiated by Pakistan.   After all, “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/alan-w-dowd/chaos-in-pakistan/">(g)iven</a> that Taliban, Haqqani and al Qaeda forces have no helicopters, the Pakistanis cannot claim to be doing this by mistake.”  And Pakistan has a long <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/asia/pakistanis-tied-to-2007-attack-on-americans.html?pagewanted=all">history</a> of firing first on U.S. and NATO troops, and the number of such incidents seems to be <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-20126772/u.s-troops-shot-at-from-pakistan-more-often/">increasing</a>.</p>
<p>So why are we giving Pakistan an apology and the promise of more money?</p>
<p>I have already written two separate columns on our erstwhile “allies,” the Pakistanis.  I have written about their duplicity and unfaithfulness to the United States <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/adam-turner/top-10-reasons-to-kick-pakistan-off-the-dole/">here</a>.  I have also tackled their “blasphemous” human rights record <a href="http://www.legal-project.org/1344/blasphemy-in-pakistan">here</a>.  I apologize for repeating myself, but apparently, what I have to say needs repeating.  We should not be supporting Pakistan financially, let alone apologizing to them, in any way, shape, or form.  Consider just these three important facts:</p>
<ul>
<li>At least some elements of the Pakistani government knowingly sheltered Osama Bin Laden – who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11/01 – for more than a few years.</li>
<li>The Pakistani government has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/shakil-afridi-osama-bin-laden-pakistan-doctor-prison_n_1635753.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,pakistan">thrown</a> in jail the Pakistani doctor who UNWITTINGLY helped the U.S. find Bin Laden.  And Pakistani public opinion approves of this, as they consider the doctor to be a traitor.</li>
<li>The Pakistani government sponsors terrorist groups which regularly kill American soldiers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Looking at these simple facts makes it readily apparent that Pakistan, of course, is really an enemy of ours, not an ally.  This makes the Pakistan apology yet another example of the Obama Administration’s <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/navigating-the-new-middle-east-the-obama-administration-is-lost-at-sea-and-on-the-rocks/">noted</a> foreign policy of “rewarding enemies and punishing friends.”  And because Pakistan is really an enemy, the Obama administration strongly believes in utilizing a “carrots and sticks” approach to it, as long as “sticks” are limited to only general ambiguous threats followed by no concrete steps.  This policy is, as Barry Rubin notes, “wrong, dangerous, and likely to lead to defeats for the United States, the weakening of its allies, the strengthening of its enemies, and the spawning of future crises.”</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons to Kick Pakistan Off the Dole</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Turner]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/us-pakistan-flags1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-133844" title="us-pakistan-flags1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/us-pakistan-flags1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="242" /></a>What does it take for a country to be kicked off the U.S. foreign aid dole?  We might soon be learning the answer to that question, thanks to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and its consistent efforts to antagonize the United States and oppose our interests.  Recently, the U.S. Congress <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/view/world/215667?device=mobile">voted</a> to reduce Pakistan’s aid because of our “ally’s” decision to convict a Pakistani doctor for “treason” for helping the U.S. find Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.  The doctor is named Shakil Afridi, and he was <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/25/angry-senate-votes-to-cut-aid-to-pakistan/">recruited</a> by the CIA to run a fake Hepatitis-B vaccination program in Abbottabad to acquire a DNA sample from one of bin Laden’s children in the compound where he was hiding.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18196669">an investigation</a> by a former member of the Pakistani army has concluded that Afridi probably didn’t even know he was helping the CIA find bin Laden specifically, but the Pakistanis still convicted him, and are now busy <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-pakistan-doctor-bin-laden-case-called-corrupt-013819138.html">trashing</a> his reputation.  If the congressional vote stands, the $1 billion going to Pakistan this year in U.S. aid will be $33 million less, one for each year that the doctor was sentenced to.  The Obama administration originally <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-14/us/31058543_1_overseas-contingency-operations-proposals-civil-society">requested</a> more than $2 billion, but Congress eventually cut this in half.  This is small change overall, though, as since 9/11 alone, the United States has <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-pakistan-usa-aid-idUSBRE84M03Y20120523">given</a> Pakistan a total of more than $20 billion in foreign aid.</p>
<p>As I see it, this is just a baby step.  The U.S. needs to make a complete cutoff of all U.S. aid to Pakistan.  There are so many different reasons the U.S. should stop its aid to Pakistan that it is hard to list all of them.  But, in the spirit of David Letterman, here is my “Top Ten” list of reasons to stop providing foreign aid to Pakistan.</p>
<p>1. At least some of Pakistan’s government officials <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/02/spinning_osama?page=0,2">deliberately</a> and/or <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-ally-from-hell/8730/?single_page=true">knowingly</a> <a href="http://www.aijac.org.au/news/article/bin-laden-s-death-and-its-implications#Article_2">sheltered</a> (see: <a href="http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15920413,00.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-denial-_n_856948.html">here</a>) Osama Bin Laden, the head of the terrorist Islamist group al-Qaeda and the mass murderer of over 3000 Americans.  This reason alone merits the end of U.S. aid.</p>
<p>2. Pakistan’s cooperation in the U.S.-led “War on Terror” and invasion of Afghanistan has been tepid, at best. See: the case of Dr. Afridi; Pakistan’s decision to cut U.S. supply lines for the Afghan war, unless the U.S. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/0520/Why-Pakistan-still-hasn-t-reopened-NATO-supply-lines">apologizes</a> for drone attacks that have targeted terrorists in Pakistan and pays a hefty ransom; Pakistan’s intelligence ties to Islamist <a href="http://www.cfr.org/pakistan/isi-terrorism-behind-accusations/p11644">terrorists</a>; Pakistan’s army’s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/28/chaos-in-pakistan/">consistent</a> “mistaken” attacks on U.S. and other NATO helicopters, which, considering that the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces have no helicopters, can’t really be written off as a mistake; Secretary Clinton’s admission that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who inherited the al-Qaeda leadership after bin Laden’s death, is also <a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/09/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-pm-gilani?cat=world&amp;type=article">hiding</a> “somewhere in Pakistan”; Pakistan’s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12757244">imprisonment</a> of an American contractor for murder and blasphemy until more than $2 million in blood money was paid, presumably by the U.S.</p>
<p>3. Pakistan has been the foremost supplier of <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-ally-from-hell/8730/">nuclear</a> technology to such rogue states as Iran and North Korea.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Turner]]></dc:creator>
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<p>January 10, 2012 was a big day for terrorist Anders Breivik, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067604/Anders-Breivik-insane-massacre-psychologists-conclude.html">diagnosed</a> paranoid schizophrenic (but now being <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/13/court-orders-new-psychiatric-review-breivik/">reevaluated</a>), who on July 22, 2011, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anders-breivik-hearing-closed-pulpit-alleged-shooter/story?id=14152129">bombed</a> the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office and, soon after on that same day, gunned down seventy-seven Norwegian teenagers at a political camp near Oslo.  The Norwegian justice system will now <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/isolation-ends-for-norway-mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik/story-e6frg6so-1226240701501">permit him</a> to receive visitors, ending almost six months of isolation.<strong>  </strong>This will allow Breivik to give interviews to the media to expound his wild theories justifying his murderous actions, and even entertain adoring supporters.  Undoubtedly, the resulting attention, stories and interviews will create outrage among the still grieving Norwegian population. And undoubtedly, the leftist, politically correct Norwegian elite will use this public outrage to continue their campaign to restrict, or even shut down, all speech they perceive as “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>Brevik’s horrendous mass murder has already been used by Norway’s liberal elite for political gains.   Shortly after the attack, the Prime Minister’s Labor Party used it to <a href="http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2581/norway-islamist">smear</a> the party’s main political opposition – the Norwegian Progress Party – as a bunch of hate-filled, Breivik sympathizers.  The Progress Party’s only real connections to Breivik <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/23/us-norway-killer-idUSTRE76M1P420110723">were</a>: 1) that he used to be a member of their party before <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/110724/europe-right-wing-political-parties-Breivik-manifesto">ditching them</a> for their unwillingness to resort to physical violence; and 2) that they, like Breivik, oppose multiculturalism and unrestricted immigration.  In the Norwegian local elections on September 10, the elite’s strategy was shown to be hugely successful, as the Labor Party received a large sympathy vote over the Progress Party.  Simply put, Norwegians were shamed into voting against the party that had been “linked” to the mass murderer.</p>
<p>The political ramifications of the Brevik attack are not unique to Norway.  In nation after nation in the West, the elites have used Breivik’s attack as a way to restrict debates regarding Islam-related issues (<em>i.e.,</em> topics including Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding).  They have done so in one of three ways: 1) as previously illustrated, as an electoral club against anti-immigrant, anti-Islamist, “right wing” political parties; 2) as a call to push new legislation to restrict free speech concerning Islam-related topics; or 3) as an attempt to shame certain leading commentators and scholars from speaking about Islam-related topics.  Unfortunately for proponents of universal free speech rights, these leftist elites have had increasing success by all of these methods.  Several European nations besides Norway have used this smear in political campaigns – see <a href="http://blogs.jpost.com/content/silencing-dissent">Finland</a>; see <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/08/swedish-witch-hunt.html#more">Sweden</a>; see Denmark; see Germany; and see – of course – the <a href="http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/opposition-wants-dutch-pm-to-speak-on-wilders_166961.html">Netherlands</a>.  Some others, such as Austria, have used it to justify the strengthening of their “hate speech” codes; where in October of 2011 the Austrian Parliament <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/10/end-of-freedom-of-expression-in-europe.html">passed</a> the Terrorism Prevention Law.</p>
<p>In the United States, the cultural liberal apologists have used the Brevik attack to both shame and silence those commentators and scholars who work on Islam-related issues.  There are essentially two arguments that the PC elite media have advanced here.  First, they have <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=opinion">claimed</a> that the criticisms of Islamism (or of Islam) made by the counter jihad movement actually “fostered” Breivik’s terrorist actions.  Second, the elite media has made the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/anders-behring-breivik-and-the-anti-jihadist-blogosphere/242533/">argument</a> that since their foes have acted irresponsibly with their own language and have some of the same positions as Breivik on Islam-related issues, they must also be somehow at fault.  A frequently used tool to connect Breivik and a specific counterjihadi is the “cite and numbers game” in Breivik’s manifesto <em>e.g.,</em> “Breivik, in his manifesto, cited scholar X 12 times, which must mean that scholar X fostered, or is associated with, the terrorist attack.”  Since Breivik’s manifesto is over 1500 pages long, it has been relatively easy for members of the press to find connections in it to a number of prominent bloggers, among them: Mark Steyn, Fjordman, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, and Bruce Bawer.  Finally, after making the connections, the elite media then demand that the counterjihadi activists need to be shamed into reining in their criticism of Islam-related topics to prevent future terrorist attacks.</p>
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