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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; ISIS</title>
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		<title>New Islamic Caliphate Leads to Piles of Garbage and Hepatitis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Schools barely function, doctors are few, and disease is on the rise."]]></description>
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<p>ISIS really is bringing <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-islamic-state-is-failing-at-being-a-state/2014/12/24/bfbf8962-8092-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html">back the old Islamic way of life</a>. There on the right is the undrinkable water. On the left are beheadings. Next to you are the piles of garbage. And its friendly murderous inhabitants all have hepatitis.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just like the Islamic paradise, crawling with suicide bombers and rivers of all sorts of things you don&#8217;t want to step in.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the Iraqi city of Mosul, the water has become undrinkable because supplies of chlorine have dried up, said a journalist living there, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his safety. Hepatitis is spreading, and flour is becoming scarce, he said. “Life in the city is nearly dead, and it is as though we are living in a giant prison,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s Islam. A giant prison that hates human life.</p>
<blockquote><p>A trumpeted Islamic State currency has not materialized, nor have the passports the group promised. Schools barely function, doctors are few, and disease is on the rise.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Islamic states work about as well as Communism. Let&#8217;s hope Obama can reach out to the Caliph and end this embargo.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group’s self-styled capital, water and electricity are available for no more than three or four hours a day, garbage piles up uncollected, and the city’s poor scavenge for scraps on streets crowded with sellers hawking anything they can find, residents say.</p></blockquote>
<p>Three, four hours is more electricity than Mohammed had. If ISIS truly is sincere, it will get rid of all the electricity as an innovation.</p>
<blockquote><p>When electricity workers raced to repair cables damaged by government shelling in the town of Deir al-Zour, the Islamic State detained and lashed them for violating a prohibition on working during prayer time, said the Deir al-Zour activist.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a start.</p>
<blockquote><p>Videos filmed in secret by an activist group show desperate women and children clamoring for handouts of food, while photographs posted on the Internet portray foreign militants eating lavish spreads</p></blockquote>
<p>Much like the early days of the USSR. The  Communists just shot the women and children with the approval of Western liberals who also visited and chowed down on the lavish spreads while orphans were being shot.</p>
<p>Maybe ISIS will be more merciful to the beggar children than leftists were.</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no indication that the Islamic State’s income, estimated at $12 million a month, is suffering. Syrians continue to sign up because there are no other jobs available, residents say.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like leftist governments everywhere.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Western Myopia of the Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow explains the "Hydra of Jihad" and Western blindness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248028" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg" alt="hydra" width="301" height="226" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, was recently interviewed on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo.  Topics ranged from Joe Biden’s ISIS failures to the “Hydra of Jihad,” to Islam’s influences on non-Muslims throughout history.  <a href="http://www.audreyrusso.com/Raymond_Ibrahim_1114_intro.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Click here</span></a> to listen to the 25-minute interview.</p>
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		<title>Jihadis Now Attacking ISIS for Being Too Moderate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's like ranking serial killers based on how many people they didn't kill.]]></description>
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<p>When you&#8217;re a bunch of homicidal psychopaths whose idea of a good time is burning a village to the ground, selling the women into slavery and using the children as soldiers, terms like &#8220;extreme&#8221; and &#8220;moderate&#8221; are extremely relative.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like ranking serial killers as nice based on how many people they didn&#8217;t kill.</p>
<p>So every Muslim terrorist group is going to look moderate compared to some gang of Koran-spouting serial killers. And extreme compared to some other bunch of homicidal psychopaths.</p>
<p>When ISIS dominated the news, the media began insisting that Al Qaeda was now moderate and ISIS was extreme. Now it&#8217;s time to anoint <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189017#.VJpcQ14CD8">ISIS as the new moderates</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Monday, ISIS reportedly executed four of its members for planning a series of attacks against the jihadi group, which they accused of failing to apply Islamic law strictly enough in the areas under its control.</p>
<p>During the video, an audio recording of the four men was played in which they confessed to the charges. The men were all apparently foreign fighters from Turkey and delivered their confessions in a Turkish dialect.</p>
<p>They admitted to having planned attacks against ISIS in Iraq, Syria and &#8220;surrounding areas&#8221;, according to the paper, on the grounds that it was an &#8220;infidel organization&#8221;, and denounced the group&#8217;s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as being &#8220;outside the fold of Islam&#8221;. Their grievance apparently centered around the fact that ISIS has not declared the entire populations of Iraq and Syria as infidels, and has collected money &#8211; via taxation and extortion &#8211; from &#8220;infidel populations&#8221; in those countries to finance its campaign.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not clear if they mean declaring even the Sunni Muslims infidels, in which case we&#8217;ve hit a new level of crazy, but those are just details.</p>
<p>ISIS is killing, raping and dhimming its way across the non-Muslim population. And the differences between moderate and extreme often involve the treatment of Muslims rather than non-Muslims. Which is why the whole Takfiri thing is a non-issue to anyone who isn&#8217;t a Muslim.</p>
<p>Historically this is how it usually happened going back to the time of Mohammed. The Islamic revolutions ended up having to kill their way to some kind of consensus by eliminating their own Jihadists, much like the Communists had to do once they took power, or the fighting over dogma would never stop.</p>
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		<title>ISIS Jihadists Vow to Conquer Europe, Kill 500 Million People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a problem that can only be solved with more Muslim immigration.]]></description>
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<p>This is a <a href="http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/576934/20141223/isis-conquer-europe-iraq-mosul-turkey-germany.htm#.VJpetV4CD8">problem that can only be solved</a> with more Muslim immigration.</p>
<blockquote><p>The radical terror group ISIS has claimed that it is only a matter of time before its fighters conquer Europe.  The claim was made by the spokesman of the outfit to veteran journalist Juergen Todenhoefer, who undertook a risky visit to the the ISIS controlled areas in Mosul of Northern Iraq.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen. But it is certain. &#8230; For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines,&#8221; the spokesman identified as a German ISIS fighter told the German journalist.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s like Imagine as performed by Cat Stevens.</p>
<blockquote><p>Defending mass enslavement and beheadings, the ISIS spokesman said it is planning to carry out &#8220;the largest religious cleansing campaign&#8221; in history and will not hesitate to kill hundreds of millions of people, if required, reported the Christian Post.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our expansion will be rapid and perpetual. The Europeans need to know that when we come, it will not be in a nice way. It will be with our weapons. Those who do not convert to Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed,&#8221; the spokesman said.</p>
<p>On Shiite Muslims not ready to share the same beliefs as ISIS, the spokesman said anyone refusing to convert will be killed. &#8220;150 million, 200 million or 500 million, it does not matter to us, we will kill them all.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly these fellows just need to be better integrated&#8230; in something. Also it&#8217;s America&#8217;s fault. Or Israel&#8217;s fault. Or Islamophobia&#8217;s fault.</p>
<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s the fault of any country that takes in large numbers of people from a supremacist and racist ideology that believes it has to kill hundreds of millions of people and conquer the world.</p>
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		<title>ISIS&#8217;s Sex Slave Pamphlet &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the Islamic references in the Islamic State's new "rulebook."]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>ISIS&#8217;s Sex Slave Pamphlet</strong>, explaining the Islamic references in the Islamic State&#8217;s new &#8220;rulebook.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the West&#8217;s Paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow discusses Islamic aggression and what the West must do about it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Durie explains why ISIS's new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by <a href="http://www.markdurie.com/"><b>Dr. Mark Durie</b></a>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking, </strong>explaining why ISIS&#8217;s new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.</p>
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		<title>Jihad in an Australian Chocolate Shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jihadist hostage-taking comes to the West.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247461" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj-450x253.jpg" alt="kj" width="274" height="154" /></a>The details are still sketchy, but this is what is apparently confirmed as of this writing (8PM EST Sunday night): <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/a-man-is-holding-several-people-hostage-at-martin-place-cafe/story-fncynjr2-1227156241649">as many as 50 people</a> have been taken hostage in the Lindt Chocolat Café in Sydney, Australia’s central pedestrian mall, Martin Place. Some of the hostages have been forced at gunpoint to hold up the black flag of Islamic jihad against a window of the café.</p>
<p>The flag says in Arabic, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet” – the Islamic confession of faith. It will thus be hard to claim this one was workplace violence, but the mainstream media and Western leaders are no doubt already strategizing on ways to do so. Falling quickly into politically correct lockstep and ignoring the jihad flag in the window, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-reports-of-hostage-situation-inside-martin-place-cafe-live">insisted</a> that “we don’t know the motivation” of the gunmen.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, police have evacuated the area, as well as the Sydney Opera House, where apparently a suspicious package has been found. Abbott issued a statement declaring that while “this is obviously a deeply concerning incident but all Australians should be reassured that our law enforcement and security agencies are well trained and equipped and are responding in a thorough and professional manner.”</p>
<p>That is no doubt true, but this is an unprecedented event in the West. There have been jihad attacks, and hostage situations, but this is the first jihadist hostage event in a Western country since the Islamic State issued this threat <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/21/isis-audio-threat-canada_n_5859062.html">in a September video</a>: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted. This is His promise to us; He is glorified and He does not fail in His promise. If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.”</p>
<p>In that video, Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani told Muslims:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.</p>
<p>Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone&#8217;s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war [the civilian by belonging to a state waging war against the Muslims]. Both of their blood and wealth is legal for you to destroy, for blood does not become illegal or legal to spill by the clothes being worn.</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Adnani also made this specific threat: “You will pay the price as you walk on your streets, turning right and left, fearing the Muslims. You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms. You will pay the price when this crusade of yours collapses, and thereafter we will strike you in your homeland, and you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards. You will pay the price, and we have prepared for you what will pain you.”</p>
<p>The chocolate shop siege in Sydney could well be a fulfillment of that threat, and a harbinger of things to come not only in Australia, but in Western Europe, Britain, Canada and the U.S. And for the first time at least in recent memory, we see Islamic jihadists taking hostages in the West, as they have for so long in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.</p>
<p>If the fate of these hostages is determined according to Islamic law, and there is every indication that it will be since the hostage-taker appears to be a devout and observant Muslim, they could be freed outright, ransomed, enslaved or killed:</p>
<blockquote><p>“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, <em>al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah</em> (<em>The Laws of Islamic Governance</em>).</p></blockquote>
<p>Over the last few months, the world has recoiled in horror as the Islamic State released several videos of the execution of their decision to kill numerous hostages. But that was far away, in lands most people have only ever seen on television. Now we may be forced to witness the same scenes unfold on the streets of our own cities and towns – just as the Islamic State has threatened.</p>
<p>Epitomizing the West’s absolute lack of preparedness for this, despite Abbott’s reassuring words, was this from a reporter for the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-reports-of-hostage-situation-inside-martin-place-cafe-live">UK’s Guardian</a>: “I am seeing a lot of people tweeting/asking about the supposed police raids taking place in Lakemba at the same time as the siege. <strong>Ray Hadley</strong>, a conservative presenter with 2GB, said raids of homes in Lakemba, which has a large Muslim population, were taking place now.</p>
<p>Sources have told my colleague <strong>Michael Safi</strong> there are no raids underway in that suburb. About 20 police are touring the Lakemba mosque as part of a police induction day, which may have been the source of those reports.”</p>
<p>So police were at the mosque for outreach as a jihad hostage situation began to unfold in downtown Sydney. The black flag of jihad that the hostages were forced to hold against the window showed up the bitter irony in this. Instead of challenging Muslim leaders to fight against this Islamic State ideology that they ostensibly reject, police were busy reassuring Muslims that they were not “Islamophobic,” just as jihad came to their very doorstep.</p>
<p>As Australians, and in due course Americans and Britons and Canadians, grow accustomed to the new possibility that a stop for a cup of coffee could result in one’s head being separated from one’s body, the time for this politically correct unreality about the jihad threat is over. Realism about the nature and magnitude of the threat is long overdue. The patrons inside the Lindt Chocolat Café, now hostages, deserve nothing less, as do the rest of the citizens of the embattled and besieged West.</p>
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		<title>Turkey, Friend or Foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Timmerman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247168" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey-436x350.jpg" alt="turkish-prime-minister-turkey" width="369" height="296" /></a>As the battle for the Syrian border city of Kobani raged and prospects of an ISIS-led massacre of thousands of innocent civilians loomed this fall, the BBC interviewed the vice-chairman of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party in Ankara.</p>
<p>Why hadn’t Turkey responded to NATO’s request to launch joint military operations to halt the ISIS assault on Kobani? How could Turkey just sit back and watch so many innocent civilians die, BBC correspondent Jonathan Marcus asked.</p>
<p>The replies from Yasin Aktay are telling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is Kobani the most important problem?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;There is no tragedy in Kobani as cried out by the terrorist PKK. There is a war between two terrorist groups. You mean we should… favor one terrorist organization over another?&#8221;</p>
<p>The AKP deputy leader <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29555999"><span style="color: #0433ff;">went on to explain</span></a> the calculus of death as seen from Turkey’s point of view. &#8220;Less than 1000 people have been killed in Kobani, but more than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria. Which is more important?”</p>
<p>Aktay’s remarks reveal much more than just a callous disregard for the Kurds, who comprise roughly one-third of Turkey’s overall population, or for the popular Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which broke off peace talks with the Turkish government in October to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">protest Turkey’s stranglehold</span></a> over the Kurds in Kobani.</p>
<p>According to Vice-president Joe Biden, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/biden-says-erdogan-admitted-isil-mistake.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=72530&amp;NewsCatID=359"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Erdogan himself admitted</span></a> that Turkey had ordered border guards to turn a blind eye as new ISIS recruits flooded across Turkey’s borders to join the battle against Assad in Syria. (Okay, when Erdogan was informed of Biden’s comments, he hit the roof <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-erdogan-biden-apologize-apology-isis-2014-10"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and demanded that “loose-lips” Uncle Joe retract them</span></a>).</p>
<p>In response to a Harvard University student’s question whether the U.S. could have intervened earlier in Syria, Biden went even further:</p>
<p>“[O]ur allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends – and I have the greatest relationship with Erdogan, which I just spent a lot of time with – the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.</p>
<p>“Now you think I’m exaggerating – take a look. Where did all of this go? So now what’s happening? All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So what happened? Now all of a sudden – I don’t want to be too facetious – but they had seen the Lord. Now we have – the President’s been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can’t once again go into a Muslim nation and be seen as the aggressor – it has to be led by Sunnis to go and attack a Sunni organization.” [h/t to Mark Langfan for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPjrt0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excerpting this Q&amp;A</span></a> from Biden’s speech]</p>
<p>But Erdogan’s treachery goes much deeper.</p>
<p>Kurdish sources tell me that the initial Turkey-al Nusra front agreement was made more than two years ago, and included Turkey’s agreement to help smuggle arms to the Syrian rebels from Benghazi and other parts of Libya.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Turkish and Qatari intelligence officials met with senior ISIS leaders in Jordan to plot the take-over of Mosul and the predominantly Christian Nineveh Plain.</p>
<p>Also at the meeting was a representative of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani, who has worked closely with the Turkish government and has spearheaded massive Turkish investment in northern Iraq. Barzani apparently believed ISIS would stop their advance after seizing Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, and ordered his peshmerga fighters to withdraw rather than fight the ISIS advance.</p>
<p>The most dramatic events occurred in Sinjar, when 13,000 peshmerga fighters mysteriously “melted away” in August rather than confront an ISIS assault force of around 1000 men. While much of the national media focused on the plight of the Yazidis, a Shiite sect considered heretical by most Sunnis, ISIS continued to march eastward through the Nineveh plain, massacring the Christians who failed to flee.</p>
<p>Not until they began threatening Erbil, the capital of the KRG, did Barzani apparently realize he had been duped and called on the United States to supply heavy weapons so the peshmerga could halt the ISIS advance. As <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/kurds-accuse-turkish-government-supporting-isis-278776.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kobani was falling</span></a>, Barzani authorized Kurdish fighters from the PKK and <a href="http://kentimmerman.com/news/2007_1017-pkk-pjak.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PJAK, who had bases in northern Iraq</span></a>, to transit through his territory to relieve the besieged city.</p>
<p>A former ISIS communications technician, using the pseudonum “Sherko Omer,” recently sat down with Newsweek reporter Barney Guiton and spilled the beans on Turkey’s deep relationship to the Islamic State.</p>
<p>ISIS fighters traveled regularly back and forth from their stronghold in Raqaa, Syria into Turkey to acquire supplies and new fighters. “ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” Omer said.</p>
<p>It was imperative for the Islamic State to establish a secure supply line through Turkey in order to bypass areas in northern Syria controlled by Kurdish fighters from the Democratic Union Party (YPG), which is allied to the PKK.</p>
<p>“ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria,” Omer said. “The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey.”</p>
<p>“I have connected ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” Omer said.</p>
<p>In the same report, a YPG <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spokesman told Newsweek</span></a> that Turkey was providing ISIS with arms and ammunition, in addition to allowing Islamic State fighters to cross unimpeded back and forth between Turkey and Syria.</p>
<p>His accusations were repeated in Berlin Claudia Roth, a deputy speaker of the German parliament and a Green Party MP.</p>
<p>President Erdogan’s “dealings with the ISIS are unacceptable,” <a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Roth said.</span></a> “I could not believe that Turkey harbors an ISIS militant camp in Istanbul. Turkey has also allowed weapons to be transported into Syria through its borders. Also that the ISIS has been able to sell its oil via Turkey is extraordinary.”</p>
<p>Turkish opposition politician Ali Ediboglu <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed in June</span></a> that ISIS had already exported oil worth $800 million through Turkey through special pipelines and convoys of trucks, without any opposition from the Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>(For more on Turkey’s support for ISIS read <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/14486/turkey-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Daniel Pipes’ summary</span></a> of what Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals have been writing, and this <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-bordering-on-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excellent if lengthy report</span></a> from the FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer.)</p>
<p>President Obama once named Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan among his top five <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/obama-names-turkish-pmerdogan-among-trusted-friends.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=11897"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“best friends”</span></a> on the world stage, “an outstanding partner and an outstanding friend.”</p>
<p>No longer. According to Erdogan, the two no longer chat on the phone. The time of Obama <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/03/26/obama-hearts-turkish-leader-erdogan-as-he-oppresses-his-own-people-and-stabs-america-in-the-back/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“hearting”</span></a> Erdogan are over.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-longer-talk-obama-turkeys-erdogan-100909241.html">Erdogan says</a></span> their falling out began in September 2013, when Obama failed to order unilateral military operations against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad once he faced resistance in the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, why is Obama letting Erdogan off the hook for his support for ISIS?</p>
<p>It’s time to let Turkey choose: they can continue to be a NATO ally and join us in the fight against ISIS and other enemies of freedom. Or they can continue to support ISIS and suffer the consequences. Which is it?</p>
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		<title>Obama Can&#8217;t Decide What Kind of War Authorization He Wants</title>
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<p>Even by the standards of Obama Inc, its approach to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force and ISIS has been completely incoherent.</p>
<p>At one point his people actually asked Congress to kill the Iraq War AUMF and then later suggested that they were relying on it. Obama has refused to offer an AUMF even though he could get a virtual blank check for anything he would put in there.</p>
<p>Kerry has told the Senate what Obama doesn&#8217;t want in an AUMF, which appears to be anything specific whatsoever, and would just rather keep on fighting it based on whatever.</p>
<p>Kerry could have legitimately argued that the fight against ISIS is covered by the 9/11 AUMF, but he chose not do that either.</p>
<p>The whole mess is another reminder that&#8230;</p>
<p>A. Obama refuses to accept any level of Congressional oversight or limits to his authority</p>
<p>B. Obama is also incapable of making up his mind about a war leading to a constant state of indecisiveness</p>
<p>This is a problem because not only do you have someone who wants absolute authority, but you have someone too indecisive to know what he wants on any issues that he isn&#8217;t politically comfortable with.</p>
<p>Then add on that&#8230;</p>
<p>1. His White House staffers are inexperienced and incompetent when it comes to practical governance.</p>
<p>2. Wars are really run through his cronies who fight out the agenda among themselves</p>
<p>3. Neither Obama nor his people care about the law</p>
<p>So we end up with banana republic stuff. This is how Napoleon III or Fidel Castro did things.</p>
<p>Obama can&#8217;t decide what to do. He also doesn&#8217;t want input from anyone outside his charmed circle as to what to do. And he isn&#8217;t interested in talking to Congress about what he wants to do.</p>
<p>So there is no AUMF. If Congress takes the lead, he&#8217;ll just ignore it and his people will tell the media that Congress is obstructing the war against ISIS, not because it&#8217;s true, but because he&#8217;s a liar who tells the same lies whenever it comes to protecting his power.</p>
<p>Obama didn&#8217;t want to bomb ISIS. He&#8217;s stuck doing what he doesn&#8217;t want to do. The execution is poor and the professionals are being hampered by a guy who doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing when it comes to this, but knows that he doesn&#8217;t want to work with anyone else.</p>
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		<title>Congressman’s Idea: Hey, Let’s Combat the Islamic State’s Ideology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Sherman (D-CA) is sure that Muslim scholars can refute the caliph.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246791" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg" alt="Black and White Gala for Barack Obama" width="320" height="259" /></a>Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/brad-sherman-state-dept-should-hire-islamic-scholars-to-combat-is-ideology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had a great idea</span></a> Tuesday: the U.S. needs to combat the Islamic State not just militarily, but ideologically. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQl819bFR9A"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Speaking at a congressional hearing</span></a>, he said: “We have the outreach–what we don’t have is the research. Keep in mind, the State Department has a thousand lawyers. I think they ought to hire one or two experts in Islamic jurisprudence, whether they be practicing Muslims or others who have the expertise.” He added: “It’s not enough to say, ‘look at what ISIS did, they beheaded somebody, it’s evil.’”</p>
<p>Instead, Sherman said, the jihadis had to be refuted on Islamic grounds. “One must be able to turn to the Quran, to turn to the Hadith and show how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion,” he explained. “You cannot appeal to Islamic jurists unless you can cite Hadith, unless you can cite Quran, unless you can do all the things you would do in working before any other jurists anywhere in the world. You need legal expertise to get the Islamic legal scholars to be on our side.”</p>
<p>Sherman has a point. For years now, I have been calling on self-proclaimed moderate Muslims in the West to produce an interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah that would refute Islamic jihadists’ exegesis and blunt their ability to make recruits among Muslims by convincing them that groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were the authentic exponents of Islamic teaching. Muslim spokesmen have responded to this call with ridicule, scorn, and exegeses of the Qur’an that were riddled with half-truths and telling omissions, such that it was hard to escape the impression that they were produced in order to reassure credulous infidels, rather than to convince jihadis to lay down their arms.</p>
<p>One notorious example of these deceptive pieces came last September, when the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Fiqh Council of North America unveiled with great fanfare what they presented as a refutation of the religious ideology of the Islamic State, in the form of a lengthy “open letter” (not, interestingly enough, a fatwa) addressed to the Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.</p>
<p>If Sherman knows about this “open letter,” he probably believes that it does what he wants, and shows “how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion.” He would probably be pleased if the State Department hired some of its signatories to wage the ideological battle against the Islamic State. State could offer contracts to Professor Mustafa Abu Sway, the integral professorial chair for the Study of Imam Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem — and a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/hamas-in-the-florida-classroom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas activist</span></a>; Dr. Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case; Mustafa Ceric, former grand mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/08/bosnias-muslim-spiritual-leader-calls-for-incorporation-of-sharia-into-bosnian-constitution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called for Sharia in Bosnia</span></a>; Professor Caner Dagli, a venomously hateful Islamic apologist at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/why-cant-muslims-debate-again"><span style="color: #0433ff;">traffics in Nazi imagery about “unclean” unbelievers</span></a>; Ali Gomaa, former grand mufti of Egypt, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/egypts-top-cleric-denies-saying-that-muslims-could-leave-islam-without-punishment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">endorses wife-beating, Hizballah, and the punishment of apostates from Islam</span></a>; Hamza Yusuf Hanson, founder and director of Zaytuna College, USA, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/12/hamza-yusuf-muhammad-teddy-bear-madness-was-our-fault"><span style="color: #0433ff;">blamed the West for Muslim riots over a teddy bear named Muhammad</span></a>; Ed Husain, senior fellow in Middle Eastern Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-moderate-muslim-ed-husain-seizing-jihadis-passports-would-only-increase-jihad-threat"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recently claimed</span></a> that seizing British jihadis’ passports so that they couldn’t return to the UK from the Islamic State would only create more jihadis; Muhammad Tahir Al-Qadri, founder of Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, Pakistan, who drafted Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law and <a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/24/the-hypocrisy-of-the-fatwa-against-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">issued his own disingenuous and hypocritical Fatwa Against Terrorism</span></a>; and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council and former head of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</p>
<p>The signers’ unwholesome associations and allegiances were just one indication that there was far <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/international-group-of-muslim-scholars-refutes-islamic-states-islamic-case-while-endorsing-jihad-sharia-caliphate"><span style="color: #0433ff;">less to this open letter</span></a> than the mainstream media’s rapturous reception suggested. In fact, the “moderates” who signed on to this open letter by doing so endorsed elements of Islam that most non-Muslim Westerners consider to be “extremist.”</p>
<p>“All Muslims see the great virtue in jihad,” says the open letter. It repeatedly stresses that jihad warfare is strictly defensive. “There is no such thing,” the scholars assert, “as offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions. This is the position of Abu Hanifa, the Imams Malik and Ahmad and all other scholars including Ibn Taymiyyah, with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Shafi’i school is one of the four great schools of Sunni jurisprudence. If some Shafi’i scholars allow for “offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions,” can it really be said to be un-Islamic? Are the scholars pronouncing takfir on the Shafi’i school? Or just deceiving gullible non-Muslims? The answer is clear.</p>
<p>What’s more, restricting jihad to defensive warfare looks even worse in light of the fact that in Sunni Islamic law, only the caliph has the authority to declare offensive jihad, but defensive jihad is obligatory upon all Muslims when a Muslim land is attacked, and need not be declared by anyone. So since the caliphate was abolished in 1924 to this day (except for those who accept the Islamic State’s caliphate claim), all jihad attacks, even 9/11, have been cast by their perpetrators as defensive – hence the jihadist tendency to retail long lists of grievances when justifying their actions.</p>
<p>So if 9/11 was defensive jihad, and these “moderate” scholars are endorsing defensive jihad, their “moderation” should send just a bit of a chill up the spine.</p>
<p>“Regarding Arab Christians,” the scholars remind the Islamic State’s caliph, “you gave them three choices: jizyah (poll tax), the sword, or conversion to Islam.” Jizya is the tax specified in the Qur’an (9:29) to be levied on “the People of the Book” as a sign of their dhimmitude, their subjugation and submission to Muslim hegemony. This, the scholars say, was wrong, because “these Christians are not combatants against Islam or transgressors against it, indeed they are friends, neighbours and co-citizens. From the legal perspective of Shari’ah they all fall under ancient agreements that are around 1400 years old, and the rulings of jihad do not apply to them.”</p>
<p>However, then the open letter asserts that “there are two types of jizyah in Shari’ah (Islamic Law)”: the first “applies to those who fought Islam,” but the second “is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.”</p>
<p>The scholars tell the caliph that the Arab Christians are friends of the Muslims, they “did not wage war against you” and thus should not have been subjugated as dhimmis. But then in the next paragraph they say that “the second type of jizyah is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.” Thus how is the Islamic State transgressing against Islam by levying the jizya on those who did not wage war against Islam?</p>
<p>In any case, the “moderate” scholars are apparently fine with a religion-based poll tax, a sign of the subjugation of the religious minority, in an Islamic state. In this the authors also contradict their earlier claim that jihad is only defensive; now “those who do not wage war against Islam” are to be made to pay the jizya, which results from Muslims fighting the People of the Book: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)</p>
<p>Despite all this and more, Brad Sherman would likely be thrilled with this open letter. With so many infidels so eager to be fooled, the work of groups like CAIR and the Fiqh Council of North America is easy. But the great work that Sherman called for – a refutation of the Islamic State on Islamic grounds – that has still not appeared in any genuine form, and that in itself is telling.</p>
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		<title>Should the United States Declare War on the Islamic State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 04:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress authorized military force against Al Qaeda and its various affiliates on September 11. ]]></description>
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<p>Rand Paul is pushing for a resolution declaring war on the Islamic State.</p>
<p>Most of the criticisms of it involve its implicit recognition of the Islamic State as a country. Even after September 11, the United States did not declare war on Al Qaeda. Paul&#8217;s resolution declares a &#8220;state of war between the United States and the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m less concerned with inflating ISIS by declaring a war against it, though it would have that effect. In a more practical sense, the resolution is pointless.</p>
<p>ISIS used to be Al Qaeda in Iraq. There were authorizations to use force against Al Qaeda and against Iraq.</p>
<p>Paul&#8217;s resolution specifies that,</p>
<blockquote><p>Nothing in this section shall be construed as declaring war or authorizing force against any organization-<br />
(A) other than the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); or<br />
(B) based on affiliation with the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).</p></blockquote>
<p>You can see the problem with that already.</p>
<p>Paul has to list two names for ISIS and include affiliates, which is a grey area that could concievably cover half the world considering some of the international pledges of loyalty coming in.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s likely that Rand Paul didn&#8217;t realize that, he did after all run a filibuster which also suggested that Al Qaeda affiliates weren&#8217;t our problem, which raises other questions about his basic understanding of the War on Terror.</p>
<p>ISIS has gone through multiple transformations. Its affiliates consist of umbrella groups which call on the loyalty of militias whose names shift and whose people blend together. This is one reason why the CIA tried to put the brakes on arming any rebels.</p>
<p>A terrorist group is not a country. It&#8217;s one thing to declare war on a country. It&#8217;s another to declare war on a terrorist group which keeps morphing and transforming and which relies on extended international networks.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t make sense to declare war on a terrorist group which is not bound by any treaties or international laws and which doesn&#8217;t even have a conventional shape or clearly defined territory.</p>
<p>What happened if ISIS renames itself? Do we need a new declaration of war? It&#8217;s an absurd but serious question considering that his resolution also attempts to repeal the Iraq AUMF by arguing that &#8220;The Authorization for the Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) does not provide any authority for the use of military force against the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State, and shall not be construed as providing such authority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not only did the 9/11 AUMF cover that, but the Iraq AUMF explicitly mentioned the presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq as one of the reasons for military action. It states that,</p>
<blockquote><p>acting pursuant to this joint resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take  the necessary actions against international terrorist and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.</p></blockquote>
<p>That clearly covers conflicts with Al Qaeda in Iraq. So Rand Paul is wrong unless his entire argument is that a terrorist organization that changes its name requires a new resolution.</p>
<p>Rand Paul isn&#8217;t really doing this to declare war, but to roll back assorted warmaking powers. But he isn&#8217;t very good at that either.</p>
<p>After declaring war, he tries to bar the use of ground troops, but leaves open use of &#8220;advisory&#8221; ground troops. He doesn&#8217;t seem to be aware that Obama designated the remaining US troops as advisory. US forces in Afghanistan will soon be advisory too.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a hole the size of a barn door which again shows that Rand Paul is inexperienced when it comes to the practical issues.</p>
<p>This resolution is pointless. Congress authorized military force against Al Qaeda and its various affiliates on September 11. It authorized military action against terrorists to prevent future attacks on America.</p>
<p>Considering the threats ISIS has made and its growing collection of weapons and fighters, it&#8217;s clearly covered by the 9/11 AUMF.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no reason to puff up ISIS by treating it like a country. We have enough restraints on fighting Muslim terrorists that we don&#8217;t need to pile on more.</p>
<p>Until not that long ago, it was understood that fighters who did not wear uniforms or follow any laws of war had no rights or protections of any kind. They were pirates. Since 9/11, the rights and protections accorded to terrorists have increased significantly. The last thing we want is to start treating them as prisoners of war.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic State Widens its Bridgehead in North Africa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An impotent Obama watches as the ISIS cancer spreads from Algeria to Egypt.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246554" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/isis-450x300.jpg" alt="isis" width="365" height="243" /></a>As ISIS continues its brutal occupation of large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, effectively blurring the border between those two pseudo nations, a new, if not more menacing threat is emerging in North Africa where the Islamic State is looking to plant its cancerous roots.</p>
<p>In Egypt, the Sinai based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Islamist organization responsible for dozens of terror attacks throughout the country <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29993183"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announced</span></a> on its Twitter account that it had forged a union with ISIS and swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed Caliph. ABM has mimicked the Islamic State’s macabre methods and has made use of social media to publicly broadcast <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/28/Sinai-militants-claim-beheading-of-4-Egyptians.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grisly beheadings</span></a> the group videotaped. ABM has also taken responsibility for the murder of America oil worker, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/american-oil-worker-said-killed-by-islamic-state-in-sinai/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Henderson</span></a> and was believed to be behind a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-hands-behind-sinai-attack-say-egypts-leader/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deadly bombing</span></a> attack in Sinai that killed over thirty Egyptian soldiers.</p>
<p>In Tunisia, the birthplace of the so-called Arab spring, ISIS has found a virtual recruiting ground for eager volunteers. Tunisia boasts the dubious distinction of being the nation that has contributed the most foreign fighters to Islamic State’s ranks, at least 3,000 according to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tunisia-after-igniting-arab-spring-sends-the-most-fighters-to-islamic-state-in-syria/2014/10/28/b5db4faa-5971-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">published reports</span></a> and many more have been prevented from joining by Tunisian authorities.</p>
<p>Algeria, a nation that experienced 10 years of brutal civil war between Islamists and government forces that claimed the lives of 150,000, is witnessing a resurgence of Islamic militancy. A group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah (&#8220;The Caliphate&#8217;s Soldiers&#8221;) has also recently sworn allegiance to al-Baghdadi. The newly formed group, which splintered from its al-Qaida affiliate, was responsible for <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/24/islamic-state-linked-group-beheads-french-national-in-algeria/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheading</span></a> a French national in September after ISIS issued a call for the killing of nationals belonging to countries contributing to US led coalition strikes against the Islamic State.</p>
<p>As evidenced by the Iraqi and Syrian experience, ISIS thrives in an environment where lawlessness and chaos prevail and Libya, which saw the overthrow of Kaddafi in 2011, has provided the Islamic State with fertile ground to carry out its objectives and spread its ideology. Libya’s central government is weak and has been unable to exercise any meaningful authority over the country, which has witnessed the rise of a plethora of militia groups with various Jihadist affiliations.</p>
<p>The Libyan town of <a href="http://www.distance.to/Crete/Darnah"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Darnah</span></a>, situated on the Mediterranean coastline just south of Crete and east of Benghazi is currently under the <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-expanding-into-north-africa-a-1003525.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complete control</span></a> of a Jihadist militia that has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. It is also first town known to be under ISIS rule in North Africa. The allure of ISIS in the Muslim world coupled with the lawlessness that characterizes the current state of affairs in Libya makes it a near certainty that other Libyan enclaves will sooner or later come under Islamic State influence.</p>
<p>President Obama has yet to publicly address the growing threat of ISIS in North Africa and given his past foreign policy fiascos, the prospects of this administration forming a coherent strategy to deal with this looming crisis just south of Europe’s vulnerable underbelly is in serious doubt.</p>
<p>It has widely been acknowledged that the emergence of ISIS as a growing and influential force in the Muslim world is largely due to Obama’s failed policies in the region.</p>
<p>Despite the urging of congressional leaders and other intelligence officials, Obama stubbornly refused to provide aid to moderate groups opposed to Assad until it was too late. His risible “red line” threat after Assad’s usage of chemical weapons against his own populace proved to be nothing short of a colossal foreign policy embarrassment. Faced with a loss of hope, Syrians opposed to Assad gravitated to extremes. In Iraq, Obama continued to provide assistance to Nouri al-Maliki’s government despite the fact that Maliki instituted discriminatory policies against Iraq’s Sunni population which exacerbated already heightened sectarian tensions.</p>
<p>A confluence of events in Syria and Iraq created the ISIS Frankenstein and Obama was instrumental in its creation. He then compounded his error by dismissing the threat posed by ISIS, pejoratively referring to the group as the “<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/20/obama-dismisses-al-qaeda-resurgence-theyre-jv/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">JV team</span></a>.” To make matters worse, the ISIS offensive prompted a panic-stricken Obama to <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Report-Romney-slams-Obama-for-legitimizing-Irans-Khamenei-with-letter-381176"><span style="color: #0433ff;">send a letter</span></a> to the Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Leader” Khamenei, suggesting that the two nations cooperate in their fight against a common foe. Khamenei incidentally, is the same man who authored a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-supreme-leader-touts-9-point-plan-to-destroy-israel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">step-by-step instruction guide</span></a> on how to destroy Israel and this is the man Obama wishes to do business with.</p>
<p>In 1942, American and British troops landed in French North Africa in an invasion that would ultimately culminate in a pincer action that would see the defeat and ejection of fascist forces from North Africa. Seventy-two years later, fascism is once again rearing its head in the region. Unfortunately, the leader who presides in the White House today is paralyzed with fear, indecision and incompetence and prefers to appease and accommodate evil rather than obliterate it.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Hard Work Being an Islamic State Jihadist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m fed up. My iPod doesn’t work any more here. I have to come back.”]]></description>
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<p>Being an ISIS Jihadist isn&#8217;t all beheading and raping non-Muslims. Just like the Communist Revolution, the Islamic Revolution <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-01/indian-is-recruit-quits-after-being-told-to-clean-toilets/5932520?WT.mc_id=Corp_News-Nov2014|News-Nov2014_FBP|abcnews">has lots of room on the bottom</a>. That&#8217;s why Twitter&#8217;s ISIS Jihadists are mostly coming from America and Europe.</p>
<blockquote><p>Areeb Majeed, 23, who left for Iraq with three friends in late May, flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was arrested and charged by India&#8217;s elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) with terror-related offences.</p>
<p>Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the jihadists for whom he fetched water and performed other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.</p></blockquote>
<p>And it&#8217;s hard to find a Radio Shack<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/jihadists-in-syria-write-home-to-france-my-ipod-is-broken-i-want-to-come-back"> to fix your iPhone during the Jihad</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a series of letters seen by Le Figaro newspaper, some of the 376 French currently fighting in Syria have begged for advice on how to return. Others have complained that, rather than participating in a noble battle, they have been acting as jihadi dogsbodies.</p>
<p>“I’ve basically done nothing except hand out clothes and food,” wrote one, who wants to return from Aleppo. “I also help clean weapons and transport dead bodies from the front. Winter’s arrived here. It’s begun to get really hard.”</p>
<p>Another writes: “I’m fed up. They make me do the washing up.”</p>
<p>One Frenchman whinged that he wanted to come home because he was missing the comforts of life in France.</p>
<p>“I’m fed up. My iPod doesn’t work any more here. I have to come back.”</p></blockquote>
<p>ISIS recruits were promised that they would be the master race. Instead ISIS, like any armed force, has lots of support positions and an established hierarchy.</p>
<p>Not as much fun as the Koran made it seem.</p>
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		<title>Minnesota Imam Refuses to &#8220;Jump to Conclusions&#8221; About ISIS Beheadings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where am I? What year is this? Where did this money that I just wired to ISIS come from?]]></description>
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<p>After every Muslim terrorist attack, Obama goes on television warning us not to jump to any conclusions. <a href="http://thereligionofpeace.com/">This Imam has gone him one</a> better by still refusing to<a href="https://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2014/11/minnesota-imam-looks-caliphate-through-islamic-lens"> jump to any conclusions </a>about the Islamic State after over a decade of mass murder carried out under various names.</p>
<blockquote><p>Sheikh Jamel Ben Ameur, an Islamic scholar and imam of Masjid Al-Tawba Islamic Cultural Community Center in Eden Prairie, has refused to denounce the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria for one reason, he says: because the news reports about the Islamic State are “confusing” and “complicated.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p>Some news reporters say that ISIS is beheading non-Muslims. Other news reports say it&#8217;s raping non-Muslim women. And the Sheikh just can&#8217;t decide.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so complicated.</p>
<blockquote><p>When he spoke to a crowd of about 100 Muslims at Masjid Al-Tawba earlier this fall, Ben Ameur said many people in the Muslim community ask Islamic scholars to condemn the group. And Ben Ameur has a message for those seeking his view on the ISIS issue: “We don’t need to accuse people of something we don’t know about. We don’t have to jump into judgment.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Would the Sheikh be equally non-judgmental if non-Muslims were beheading Muslims?</p>
<blockquote><p>Despite international media reports of the murder of these men — which U.S. and British officials as well as family members have confirmed — Ben Ameur has expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the videos and news reports. “We don’t know if [ISIS] did it or not,” he said. “This is confusing; we don’t know the news that’s coming to us. [Therefore], we don’t want to name names.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Where am I? What year is this? Where did this money that I just wired to ISIS come from? What are all these tapes with Anwar Al-Awlaki&#8217;s name? It&#8217;s so complicated and confusing. Who can tell?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Islamization of Jerusalem is the story of Muslim conquest and occupation of the land and culture of the indigenous Jewish people. It&#8217;s an occupation that continues today due to excessive tolerance and international support.</p>
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<p>The racist Muslim settlers occupying the Jewish holy site of the Temple Mount engage in vicious and violent behavior. They spew hatred at every opportunity. <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4627.htm">This video is just a sample of the</a> v<a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/4627.htm">iolent bigotry of the Muslim occupation</a> that goes by the name of the Al Aqsa Mosque.</p>
<blockquote><p>In an impromptu sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian Arab Muslim preacher Ali Abu Ahmad called on Allah to annihilate America and its coalition.</p>
<p>Ali Abu Ahmad: &#8220;Who will come to the aid of Islam, if not us? Who will come to the aid of Jerusalem, if not us? Who will come to the aid of the Caliphate, if not us, oh servants of Allah? Do you want America to bring you a caliphate tailored to its interests? Such a caliphate would sanction the killing of Muslims, would shed their blood, and would violate the honor of their women, in the name of Islam. Absolutely not, oh servants of Allah. We want a caliphate in the path of the Prophet, which will protect lives, will defend women&#8217;s honor, and will liberate Jerusalem from the Jews, the most vile of creatures.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>By &#8220;defend the honor of women&#8221;, Ali means rape them and then behead them if they resist the way his ISIS pals are doing.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Oh servants of Allah, do not resort to the international community. Do not resort to the international institutions or the Security Council, for they are the ones who brought the Jews to the land of Palestine. They share the blame for their barbaric crimes against the Muslims in Palestine. Seek refuge in Allah the Almighty, the Avenger. Only Allah can break the backs of America and the Jews, as he did to Pharaoh and Nimrod.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s an ironic reference considering that the odds are good that Ali or his ancestors are Egyptian Arabs while the indigenous Jewish people he is persecuting were enslaved in Egypt.</p>
<p>But this is typical of the way that Muslim colonialism hijacks the history and culture of indigenous peoples.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do not be deluded by the arrogance of the Jews, or by their crimes against the Muslims of Palestine. This is merely a prelude to their elimination, Allah willing, at the hands of the loyal mujahideen within Palestine and abroad.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So we&#8217;re talking genocide here. That has always been the endgame of the racist Muslim settlers.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Oh Allah, annihilate America and its coalition. Oh Allah, enable us to cut off their heads. Oh Allah, help our brothers, the mujahideen in the land of Iraq and Syria.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Iraq parts confirms that he&#8217;s an ISIS supporter.</p>
<p>The Islamic occupation of the Temple Mount only serves to provide a platform to ISIS supporters like this.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A distinguished panel diagnoses the frightening state of American defenses at Restoration Weekend. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “Obama&#8217;s Assault on the Military,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> What I want to hear from your guy&#8217;s perspective is on all the issues we could be looking at in defense and foreign policy and everything now, what are you hearing and what do you think is important for folks to know.  So maybe, Jerry, can start with you.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin: </strong>Yeah, one of the things that I was very concerned about going into this year&#8217;s election was the fact that there was not enough being said about national security.  There was not enough attention paid, and by the way, for those of you veterans who are Marines, I want you to know that I don&#8217;t use big words so you&#8217;ll be okay.  All right and if you do have a problem with something that I say, just get with one of the Army veterans and he&#8217;ll translate it for you so.  I know I&#8217;m in trouble.  I was very concerned about a lack of focus on the national security, and obviously we&#8217;re here to talk about the military and I think that one of the things that people are not paying enough attention to is the destruction of our military.  I mean that&#8217;s kind of the title of our &#8212; our military is being devastated at the same time that all of our enemies, all of our potential adversaries are ramping up.  Nobody&#8217;s coming down but America, so what am I concerned about Jim?  I&#8217;m concerned about the fact that our military will not be capable of meeting the threats of the future and America is not focused on it and thank God for ISIS because if it wasn&#8217;t for ISIS there would have been no focus and no attention.  I&#8217;ll say this as a final thing.  Our military&#8217;s been at war for 13 years.  Our military is broken.  They&#8217;re tired.  Suicide is at an all-time high.  PTSD is rampant and families are falling apart at the seams, but we&#8217;re going to send 4,000 people to fight Ebola.  Now, let me just say I don&#8217;t know what glue our President has been sniffing, but if you really want to protect America, close that southern border and stop the terrorists from coming across.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>Yeah, always a tough act to follow.  He is the senior guy here, by the way.  Name of the panel with the discussion is Obama&#8217;s assault of the U.S. Military.  That has an underlying assumption that he has a strategy against our military, and I would tell you that, that&#8217;s probably a falsehood as well because obviously he has a difficult time with strategy and articulating a strategy.  The difference between the ways, means and the ends, so what I think we&#8217;re suffering through is through a series of increments of benign neglect, where we&#8217;re not getting the attention but still being used.  I agree whole-heartedly with General Boykin, with Jerry that you can send people to Western Africa, but you certainly are going to add more advisors, but tie their hands and this has not been a discussion topic.  I think this is probably be something very good to take forward, and I think McKinnon said it today that it would be dead on arrival.  Congressman McKinnon said today that any more advisors going into Iraq without the proper rules of engagement to fully engage and beyond their advice is going to be dead on arrival into Congress and the same thing with any AUMF, and in terms of applied use of military force.  That also, unless it&#8217;s got the right rules of engagement, these kind of discussions are just on the periphery.</p>
<p>The real discussion is we&#8217;ve been used and used and used well beyond the capacity.  We have not recapitalized our force, our equipment manning, and it is now evident, and a systemic break across the force of the suicide rate as Jerry said, and also, I think you&#8217;ve got a combination of substance abuse, PTSD and the other injuries that we don&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s happened.  I think we talked about it last year a combination of traumatic brain injury being heavily researched, but very little done about so far.  That also fits into the PTSD portion, and then the substance abuse just has caused I think almost one veteran a day and I don&#8217;t know I forgot the numbers.  I just heard it, just a phenomenal amount of suicides, not just in the active military force, but also in the veteran force as well.  And these are system failures of wanting to use the force, but not wanting to renew the force and this is a conversation.  This is both Army officers, all army officers, the force that we love, being used and used and spent.  We&#8217;ll never say no to a mission, but we want to have the right things to do to them and that&#8217;s a conversation that needs to take place whole-heartedly.  Good place to start it is this year, but it&#8217;s got to be carried back to the people who can help make the decision.</p>
<p>We have opportunity now with the change in the Congress and the Senate, and I hope that we use that wisely.  It&#8217;s our moment.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> Yeah, we should get back to that point because I think it&#8217;s really key as to where we go from here.  Because I&#8217;d like to take that same question from a different direction, which is part of the reason why the force is stressed out is because of all the things we&#8217;re sending them to do.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>Right.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> So this President&#8217;s remarkable.  I mean he&#8217;s an incredible strategist.  He&#8217;s managed to make every part of the world less safe for us, which is &#8212; how do you do that?</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>Yeah, good way of looking at it.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> But actually, one of the things that we&#8217;ve been doing at the Heritage Foundation is if you actually look at, there&#8217;s two curves.  As the world&#8217;s getting increasingly less safe, but if you actually look at all the documents that the Pentagon has produced consistently since 2010, it all tells you that the world&#8217;s getting safer and it&#8217;s all because of Obama and therefore we can spend less, have a smaller military and everything else and we haven&#8217;t had a real honest strategic assessment &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>That&#8217;s fair.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> &#8211; since the President came in office. It&#8217;s extraordinary.  So one of the things that we&#8217;ve been doing is developing something called the Index of Military Strength, which is every year beginning this year, we&#8217;re going to issue a report that says this is where we stand today, and part of that is not only looking at the state that your military is in.  I want to get to that, but part of it&#8217;s also looking at the things you have to deal with in the world.  Where are the trouble spots you have to go in the state of where your adversaries are?  So one of the decisions that we made, when we were doing this, and what would be great, is we said well look, lots of bad things can happen lots of places in the world, but there are three parts of the world that are just absolutely vital, you just cannot get wrong and that is Europe and the Middle East and Asia.  And so we really focused on those three, and of course there&#8217;s no good news coming from any of them, but I&#8217;d be interested from your perspective is if you were talking to a new congressman or senator or somebody that was interested in running for President, and they asked you the question what&#8217;s the most dangerous part of the world, what really keeps you up at night, what do you really worry about?  What you&#8217;d answer.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>I&#8217;m still and probably will be for a long time, I&#8217;m extremely concerned about Iran and will continue to be concerned about a nuclearized Iran because what that is going to do to the rest of the Mid East in terms of a potential nuclear arms race.  That&#8217;s what keeps me up at night that we continue to, you know, they buy time with negotiations and that time gives them more time to do whatever they want to do sub-surface, no pun intended.  That continues and the mixed message you get from Washington is, hey, this is great.  We have, the State Department&#8217;s wonderful about it, and I think besides the existential threat to Israel, you have got a grander threat to the rest of the Mid East.  You&#8217;re going to have the Saudis, you&#8217;re going to have Kuwaitis.  The rest of them are going to say, if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen over there, we&#8217;re going to need to deter as well.  We can&#8217;t rely on anybody else we&#8217;ve seen.  And that&#8217;s also part of the witness of the Obama administration establishing red lines that you do not commit to, commit force or anything to, and have those red lines just become pink.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> So November 24 is the deadline for a nuke deal.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>It is.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> What do you think&#8217;s going to happen?</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>They&#8217;re going to push it off to the right again.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>I think they will.  They&#8217;ll find some way.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano:</strong> Play rope-a-dope.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>Continue to get sanctions.</p>
<p><strong>David Fridovich: </strong>Correct.  Because they&#8217;re happy with that, they can live through the sanctions.  They just want to extend the time.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>Well, yeah, true, Jerry, because we talked about this because one of the reasons why Iran has to be our friend is they&#8217;re going to help us out with ISIS.  And I know that&#8217;s an issue that you&#8217;ve got some concern about.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin: </strong>Yeah, I do.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>I just ask the questions, folks.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin: </strong>Listen, this whole strategy of shifting our focus to the Pacific Rim, look, China&#8217;s a problem.  China&#8217;s a huge threat economically more than anything else probably, but we&#8217;re never going to get out of the Middle East.  We&#8217;re never going to get out of the Middle East first and foremost because we are dependent upon Middle East oil.  If we would drill here drill now, build a pipeline, become energy independent, we could get away from that.  And that&#8217;s a huge problem for us, but there&#8217;s another reason that we&#8217;re never going to get out of the Middle East, and that&#8217;s this little speck of land there called Israel.  We made a commitment to Israel in 1948 that we&#8217;d be there if they needed us.  Okay, this President, and I have &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin: </strong>&#8211; and I want you to understand my children are Jewish.  Their mother is a Jew, so I am very passionate about Israel, but the idea that this President has not been anti-Semitic is absolute nonsense, and when I discuss this with my Jewish friends, they act like I&#8217;m an idiot.  We are going to be in the Middle East forever because we have made a commitment to Israel that we must fulfill and Israel is now, every time we ignore the threats of things like ISIS and the Iranian nuclear program and the serious threats coming out of Syria and other parts of the Middle East, every time we ignore that we do that by risking the future of Israel.  So I think that we are going to stay tied to the Middle East.  We have to stop Iran.  We cannot avoid this and this administration thus far has done absolutely nothing to stop Iran.  In fact, I think Jim would tell you the same thing.  They&#8217;re actually cooperating with Iran and Iran&#8217;s going to have a nuclear warhead and when they do, the first target is Israel.  The second target is Saudi Arabia and what&#8217;s America going to do about it?</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin: </strong>And the answer is thus far absolutely nothing.</p>
<p><strong>James Carafano: </strong>And I mean you can have this thing that they&#8217;re not disengaged from the Middle East, but, for example, you can think what you want about Benghazi and why those four men died and why it went down the way it did and what kind of response should have been in place, but the reality is today the footprint that the U.S. military has to respond in that part of the world is smaller.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Oh great &#8211;</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Smaller than it was on the day those four guys died.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>Yeah, greatly reduced.  Right, yeah.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>So let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s do that.  Let&#8217;s look at this from the other perspective of because the challenges in the Middle East are only on top of the problems we have with the rest of Russia and a rising China and a proliferating transnational terror threat.  Let&#8217;s look at the capabilities we bring to the table.  Let me ask you what part of the force you worry about the most, and for me this is a really personal issue.  There&#8217;s this thing called the hollow force, which is when you have a military and it maybe it looks fine on paper until they actually have to do anything and then people die.  So by my account, I&#8217;ve already been through this three times and I count my dad&#8217;s service.  My dad fought in the Korean War, and what we did in Korea was horrific, sending men into battle with sneakers and machine guns that didn&#8217;t work and ammunition that was rusted shut.  We survived that experience.  We had this horrific hollow force in the 1970s coming out of Vietnam, Jimmy Carter&#8217;s military.  I used to call it the Okay Army.  They were already old guys by then, but that was the one I was commissioned in.  Everything was okay.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>What?  You talking about us?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>No, no it really was an Okay Army.  I didn&#8217;t have the troops I needed to train with but that was okay because we didn&#8217;t have any money to train with, and that was okay because we didn&#8217;t have any equipment to train on so everything was fine as long as we didn&#8217;t actually have to fight anybody.  Ronald Reagan did this and we all lived through that military, some miraculous effort to rebuild the U.S. military, arguably the finest military that&#8217;s ever been put in the field, and then under President Bill Clinton, the military was going hollow again.  I remember being with the Army Chief of Staff when the senior guys came in to talk about a deployment in Kosovo and they said we have to send 15,000 guys to Kosovo.  That&#8217;s going to break the back of the Army, that was a 15,000-man deployment and we&#8217;re heading off the cliff when 911 happened, but now if you look what&#8217;s happened the last 6 years.  The threat of the hollow forces is I think a greater than error and the difference between 2012 and 2016.</p>
<p>In 2012, we could have had a different President, could have made different decisions.  He could have fixed some alliances.  He could have made some investments, we&#8217;d have been fine.  In 2016, I think it&#8217;s going to be broken and just being real.  So I&#8217;d be interested from your perspectives, what part of the force do you worry about the most and why?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>There is no constitutional right to serve in the United States Military, it&#8217;s a privilege, but nobody has a constitutional right to serve, which is why we need to stop all this nonsense we call social experiments inside of our military.  We&#8217;ve got to stop it.  There&#8217;s no such thing as fairness in a war.  We got to stop it.  We&#8217;re destroying the readiness of our military.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Thanks.  So let me turn to the far left of the panel.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>Oh my gosh.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>That&#8217;s painful you know that don&#8217;t you?</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>Well, from their perspective he&#8217;s on the far left.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>I know that I got that part too.  Of the more parochial, I&#8217;m much more concerned about the Army and primarily because while you do defend sea lanes communication and all that converse and all that, the Navy seems to be doing all right.  My parochialism has to do with the land force and the unnecessary requirement to actually occupy and interface with people on the surface of the earth, land, and also because special operations forces draw their force primarily from the Army.  If it goes from 570,000 to 420 or less, we won&#8217;t be able to maintain the two forces, the operational force, the divisions that Jerry talked about and the institutional force that creates and trains and grows young soldiers into older soldiers and capable leaders.  Which is also something that I found over the course of 37 years that&#8217;s unique to our military that we really do look after our middle management and understand that&#8217;s how things actually get done in the force that those lieutenant colonels and majors and colonels really run the force with that great NCO background that executes the orders.  That&#8217;s unique to us.  Foreign armies strive to that, to get there, but they don&#8217;t have that.  That&#8217;s being broken right now.  I also see a U.S. military in the hole that&#8217;s just kind of handcuffed because of sequestration; we used to be able to say we&#8217;re going to fight two wars.  We&#8217;re going to do a win or a hold and win.  No one can sight &#8212; and then from there you could figure out how many divisions and how many fleets and how many Air Forces you needed to do all that.  We don&#8217;t have a strategy we can wrap our brains around.</p>
<p>I believe the service keys are really handcuffed at this moment.  They couldn&#8217;t tell you, and I think the Army&#8217;s been beaten up a lot lately about telling their story what they&#8217;re supposed to look like in the future primarily because we don&#8217;t have a national military strategy.  We don&#8217;t have a national strategy.  We keep coming back to those words that what is it you want us to do.  If it&#8217;s these &#8220;eaches,&#8221; we&#8217;ll put together forces, but at a certain point you&#8217;re going to reach into that bucket and they&#8217;ll be nothing there, or if it&#8217;s there it&#8217;s not trained and ready.  That goes to your point, Jim, about the hollow force.  So it&#8217;s the point about what is it in the long term you envision this force doing, whether that long term be &#8212; I&#8217;d be happy with 6 months from now.  I&#8217;d be really happy with 3 or 5 years from now, we could build a force not just use a force.  And like I said earlier, we have to recapitalize the force itself.</p>
<p>The other part that I think that we&#8217;re missing is as the youth of the America looks, and I think this is your point about the privilege to serve, what is it that draws them to the military?  I think that&#8217;s a key part.  If they see the way the veterans are treated, they&#8217;re not that much more willing to come, so that&#8217;s the other part, the end state of how we do on the end in taking care of our veterans, whether they served 3 or 4 years or whether they served 30-odd years, but that&#8217;s the whole human dynamic to this, but it comes back to what&#8217;s the direction.  And we get our direction, we get the money from Congress, we get the direction from the President, and that&#8217;s again, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s lacking.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah.  So I&#8217;m going to put one more on the table, which is the state of our nuclear and missile defense forces.  And Chuck Hagel came out and said he&#8217;s very worried about the state of our nuclear forces.  Chuck Hagel is a brick.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Yeah, that&#8217;s true.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>If Chuck Hagel is woken up and worried about something, then you ought to be very, very afraid.  So we have about 10 minutes.  I want to put one more question out there because for me it&#8217;s really important and then I want to get in as many of your questions as we possibly can, so be ready.  So this is a really quick &#8212; so here&#8217;s my prediction: 2016, everybody running for President is going to be running against Obama&#8217;s defense and foreign policy.  Even if Joe Biden&#8217;s the candidate for the Democrats, he&#8217;s going to be.</p>
<p>Because everybody look at this, you look at what&#8217;s going on around the world today.  Nobody can say this is working.  Nobody can say our military&#8217;s better off, so they&#8217;re all going to find their way to see their thing, which I think&#8217;ll be a change for conservative Republican candidates differentiating their brand from a sense, from what the Democrats are going to say.  Because they&#8217;re all going to say, we&#8217;re going to do better than Obama too so just real quickly from both you guys.  What would you advise people to say about how they&#8217;re going to rebuild the American military and our presence to the world?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Well, first of all, we&#8217;ve got to stop these budget cuts, they&#8217;re devastating our military.  Secondly, we&#8217;ve got do what we should have done when we went into this and that is start with an understanding and appreciation of who the enemy is in the future and then what the risks are and determine what we&#8217;re risking, we&#8217;re willing to take. So after you&#8217;ve done that we can come up with a reasonable, logical budget to include cuts in the defense budget.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Right.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>But we didn&#8217;t start with that.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>That&#8217;s not that difficult.  I mean, that&#8217;s, what you describe is exactly the way it&#8217;s supposed to happen.  What are the threats or the long-term threats?  What are the forces that you need to go ahead and manage those threats in, defeat them without apology, defeat them?  Unconditional surrender is a very good term and then to take that and say this is the best case and let&#8217;s say what the requirements are to get the force that we&#8217;re going to need to do this and it&#8217;s a total joint force as well.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>Let me say this and I&#8217;ll stop.  I could save the Pentagon a $1 billion this afternoon.  At 3:30, I can walk down the hall of the Pentagon and anybody&#8217;s that not in their office, I can fire them and they&#8217;ll never know they&#8217;re gone and we&#8217;ll save $1 billion this afternoon.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Can I get some hands? Some hands, yeah. Questions?  Yeah, question over here.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>But my concern is for the VA, for the veterans and how they are taken care of at the Veteran&#8217;s Administration and the care that is given to them, and also I&#8217;m concerned about the fact that I understand that Obama put out some type of literature to the veterans and end of life choices so that they would not take advantage of medications and medical equipment to shorten their life.  Because the administration realized that, they could save a lot of money if veterans did not enjoy a long life.  I&#8217;m concerned about that and my question is will Israel do &#8212; I have a shirt that one of my kids came back from Israel that says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry America, Israel&#8217;s behind you.&#8221;  Do we anticipate Israel doing the dirty work for the rest of the world with this wonderful relationship that Obama has built with Netanyahu and so forth?  And then and probably will come to pass that Israel has to do this.  What do you think?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>So let me ask Jerry if you want to just briefly &#8211;</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Here&#8217;s what will happen, I think Israel is going to have to strike because America won&#8217;t and when that happens Iran will try to shut down the Straits of Hormuz.  The Saudis will go behind closed doors, open a bottle of wine, drink it and high five each other and then go to the U.N. and condemn Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>But they&#8217;ve got to do it, they&#8217;re reaching a point where there&#8217;s no, there&#8217;s no option.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>But they&#8217;ll be a &#8212; there&#8217;s another question over there and let me ask while we&#8217;re doing it.  Dave, you want to talk give me a brief assessment what you think of the new VA leadership?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Not much.  I mean, I saw the 60 Minute thing and I think this President picks people who are going to get along with him, and not give share bad news.  It&#8217;s just, the service chiefs are like that.  I think the VA chief is like that.  I think General Shinseki, a man I still admire.  He used the military model where he trusted people.  He didn&#8217;t know everybody.  It&#8217;s not the same model, he got caught very short and I think a lot of veterans paid the price because of that.  It&#8217;s a difficult place to fix.  It&#8217;s going to take a long, long time.  The effort that you make is a phenomenal effort and all those other organizations, to include, now as a member of a Jewish organization, I appreciate what you do for us as well, all the other organizations but it&#8217;s a matter of, we&#8217;re going to have to have a concerted effort.  Again, it goes back to what is it you want it do.</p>
<p>And I will tell you, General Shinseki shared this with me, he said, this is well in his first term there, he said that he&#8217;s got the best job in the world.  He loves it because he&#8217;s taking care of the military.  What he didn&#8217;t realize was, he had been the Chief Staff of the Army, he could take care of that 570,000-person force.  Now he&#8217;s got the entire Department of Defense from World War II veterans all the way to the War on Terror veterans.  Population is immense with about a $440 billion budget not enough and here&#8217;s a man with great skills.  It&#8217;s going to take a concerted effort, so one guy for a couple months is not enough.  But it&#8217;s going to take groups like this asking those tough questions of their legislators and of the President to make sure they stay on task.  I&#8217;m not going to say you owe me, but I saw you, all the veterans and I know you all, this is a family crowd when it comes to that.  That&#8217;s the thing that stands between us and being a completely different country.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Right.  $22 million  and second largest federal budget.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Yeah, I was wondering what is your opinion on the traditional lack of leadership to fight for the military by the highest levels of management in the military.  The shut up and do your duty mantra, it&#8217;s repeated over and over by the highest levels, that the generals are so worried about doing their duty, which means keeping my job that they don&#8217;t fight for the fighting force.  There has been no mention of anything about the VA crisis that&#8217;s been going on for 30-plus years from the generals themselves.  Is there any way that they can have their male parts put back on them so that they can fight for their troops?</p>
<p><b>James Carafano: </b>Well, let me ask Jerry if he still has his male parts?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Yeah.</p>
<p><b>James Carafano: </b>It&#8217;s what it says here, I mean.  How are you?</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>I wrote an op-ed yesterday.  I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve seen it, if you haven&#8217;t go to Breitbart and that was the whole focus on my op-ed and what I said was it is time for some generals and admirals to walk in and lay their stars on the table and tell the President I will no longer preside over the demise of this military.  It is time.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>But that is the last thing they want to do.  They need to be inside the machine to fight.  They don&#8217;t need to pinching out and walk away.  Maybe one, but they all just need instead of speaking up and risking their reputation on what they know is right.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>Presumably you&#8217;d rather have a Leon Panetta that stays there, supports bad policies, and then gets out and writes a tell-all book.  No, the courageous thing to do is to standup and say I will not support this.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Fighters fight and they need to fight from the inside in the &#8211;</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>Yeah, that&#8217;s a copout.  That&#8217;s an absolute copout.  That&#8217;s a copout.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Gentlemen, thank you.  Jim, thank you.  It&#8217;s good to see you.  The last time I saw Jim was at a congressional hearing, where we testified together, but one quick point and then two quick questions.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>But I was innocent though.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>That&#8217;s what they all claim.  You mentioned about the southwest border, as a former INS agent, we&#8217;re leaking everywhere.  We&#8217;ll talk about that tomorrow, but the southwest needs to be secured, but the whole system is permitting terrorists to enter and imbed themselves right now.  The two quick questions, No. 1, there&#8217;s been seemingly a purge of officials within the Army, which I find very disconcerting, so I&#8217;d love your comments on that.  Item No. 2, apparently, China has done a great job of stealing our technology with their new aircraft and so forth.  How do we address that issue?  So first, what do you read into the purge and second, how do we deal with this problem with the Chinese stealing our technology?  Thank you and thank you for your service gentlemen.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Pick one and I&#8217;ll give him the other one.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Give him the other one, he&#8217;s pretty good.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>Which one you want?</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>He&#8217;s pretty good.  Stealing technology goes both ways, it does, but what we know from the open source is that we can find it is state sanction.  It&#8217;s state run, and they just give a very good blank face and shrug their shoulders and go, okay.  Yeah, we got it.  I don&#8217;t think that new fighter that you&#8217;re talking about is the one that they, they showed it off, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s really the one that they really have is their highest level and I think you&#8217;re probably aware of that as well, but the technology, we&#8217;ve got to do a better job inside our own military defense industrial complex to secure it, and I think that&#8217;s a real issue.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Do you think having the students at our school with the Chinese students &#8211;</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>They&#8217;re within the top ten number of students in our schools and I worry about the fact that we&#8217;re training our enemy.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">David Fridovich: </b>Yes, it&#8217;s a great question and I&#8217;m in agreement with you.  It&#8217;s by design when you have that large of a population.  You have that large of a population you can almost mandate I want all of 100 million of you take this test.  The top 10 percent, 10 million, the top 1 percent of that become those engineers, get visas, go to America, go to Stanford, Cal Poly etc., etc. on the West Coast, MIT, Harvard, the whole area on the East Coast and inculcate and take back and then also get jobs in those places after a while.  So yeah, I would say it&#8217;s by design and because they&#8217;re generational, they can take their time and do it.  They&#8217;re very patient unlike us.  So yeah, I&#8217;m in agreement with you.  I&#8217;d love to talk more about just that, but part of the weaknesses and inherent weakness in our own system.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah, I&#8217;m going ask Jerry to address the &#8212;  I didn&#8217;t want to jump on the cyber thing real quick because this is one area where Congress says, oh, we can actually get together and legislate on this.  And so there is a potential for legislation in the next Congress and the answer is these are serious threats so be careful what you ask for.  The Internet is the greatest engine of liberty and freedom and economic development that mankind&#8217;s ever created.  We don&#8217;t want to turn it over to the government to control it.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Right.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>We don&#8217;t need an Obamacare version of cybersecurity.  We don&#8217;t need a Dodd-Frank version of cybersecurity, so whatever legislation they pass it should do no harm.  I mean, the President&#8217;s already has policies that tax the Internet, bad idea to have net neutrality, which is nothing about being neutral.  It&#8217;s about empowering some people and disadvantaging everybody else, and about turning the Internet over to the United Nations and countries like China and Russia to run.  These are all incredibly bad ideas something we should be very, very concerned about.  Michael, we need to do a cyber-panel next time.  Okay purges.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>The purging, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s what you think it is.  It&#8217;s not what you see, it&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t see.  A lot of these generals and admirals needed to go because they&#8217;d been involved in some pretty bad behavior so they needed to be fired.  Now, that said, there&#8217;s been a state of people getting into trouble.  So you have to ask yourself how did they get into these senior positions?  And I think it&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t see.  What you don&#8217;t see are those really good young brigadiers and major generals and rear admirals that are passed over because they are considered to be not supportive of the President&#8217;s agenda and people who will support it are put into those positions and then their real character comes out.  So that&#8217;s what I see as being the bigger concern about the purge.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah, I want to say how often on David Horowitz&#8217;s panel do you hear about purging and male parts, really? So we have, okay.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Question here, what if anything should we do about ISIS?  Do we care if ISIS wins or Iran wins or Syria wins?  Anybody who wins is bad anyway, why should we waste our treasure fighting ISIS?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>So there&#8217;s an ancient Chinese saying the enemy of my enemy can also be my enemy and they all need to die, but Jerry?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Well, first of all it&#8217;s important to understand that ISIS, once they&#8217;ve accomplished what they&#8217;re trying to accomplish in Iraq and Syria, where do you think they&#8217;re going to go next?  Some would speculate they&#8217;re going to go into the Persian Gulf, but I speculate their next big target for credibility globally is Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Is Israel.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>So I go back to what I&#8217;ve said, we&#8217;ve got to support Israel.  Now, if our blood and treasure, trust me, it means a great deal to me.  That said, we either fight ISIS there or we fight them on the streets of America.  It&#8217;s just that plain and simple and when, thank you, but when the members of Congress standup and say as Chaffetz did and who was the other one?  Was it Jordan or something?  Forget who it was.  ISIS is in America.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Yeah.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>We&#8217;ve caught a dozen of them coming across the border.  Ask Robert Spencer. They&#8217;re in America.  ISIS is in America and more are coming because they&#8217;re coming into the South America and Central America and they&#8217;re making their way up across our border.  They&#8217;re coming across our border.  Their Korans, prayer rugs and terrorist training manuals in the &#8212; on the American side of the border.  We fight them there or we fight them here.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Yes, and Dr. Bob, they said that they were coming.  They said, I mean they gave us a message.  It just said, hey, look we&#8217;re coming and we&#8217;re running that play, get ready, and again, like I cited before, generationally, they&#8217;ll wait a long time, but they&#8217;ll get here.  Make it an away game, kill them there, and be prepared to kill them here.</p>
<p><strong>Ken Timmerman: </strong>Generals, Ken Timmerman, I wanted to ask you a question about Benghazi.  I spoke to people at Africa Command when I was doing my book Dark Horses: The Truth about What Happened in Benghazi.  You know that General Carter Ham has said two things to Congress.  The first is that they looked at the possibility of doing an overflight over the annex and they said that it wouldn&#8217;t make any difference so let&#8217;s not do it, and the second thing he said, when he was asked by Jason Chaffetz precisely, why didn&#8217;t you do everything you possibly could have done to bring forces to bear at the Benghazi?  His answer was we were never asked.  I wondered what your opinion is of General Ham.</p>
<p><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>Go ahead, David.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Well, because I do have my male parts, in that situation I&#8217;ll be honest with you, I don&#8217;t know.  I know him very well.  We were brigadiers.  We were in the same cohort together, and I would up until that point I&#8217;d say, a good man.  Obviously, you&#8217;re getting a mixed message.  So am I.  I don&#8217;t know what happened.  I know that the part of the force that we come from would have made every attempt to get there no matter who was on the ground doing what.  We don&#8217;t care the odds, the rest of it, we&#8217;ll get there, we&#8217;ll get them out.  He&#8217;s lived that.  We&#8217;ve all had those get on the helicopter and go moments and you don&#8217;t second-guess.  You have Americans in trouble.  I&#8217;m getting chills now.  You have Americans in trouble, you go, and you take everything possible to get them out.  So I don&#8217;t know what happened and I don&#8217;t know why the mixed message, but that is clearly a mixed message, so if we&#8217;re both leaving confused that&#8217;s the answer.  Sorry.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>There was, for those of you who don&#8217;t know, Mr. Timmerman has written a pretty dog gone good book on this, haven&#8217;t you?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>So we have copies out, there&#8217;s copies in the &#8211;</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>And it&#8217;s a good book and thanks for your question.  I think the military&#8217;s going to get pinged on this thing.  I think the military&#8217;s comfortable.  I think the military could have gone and could have made a difference and they didn&#8217;t, and this idea that we weren&#8217;t asked is a hyphenated word for that and in mixed company I won&#8217;t use it, but I&#8217;ll just say nonsense. Okay? The military could have gone and the idea that we left those four men there when they, when said look William Tecumseh Sherman said to Ulysses S. Grant in a letter on the 8th of March 1864, when he came out of Tennessee, he said I knew wherever I was that you thought of me and that you would come if I got in a tight spot.  That&#8217;s in American English that&#8217;s, an American value, violated at Benghazi.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah, so we&#8217;re going to keep going until Mike gives me the high signs.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Two quick things, how can we address the restrictive rules of engagement for our troops and sort of, what I see as a cultural shift in our military?  It&#8217;s anecdotal but I think that even West Point is much more liberal in its mindset now.  Can you talk about those things please?</p>
<p><b>David Fridovich: </b>The rules of engagement, commanders do have the right to push back on the rules of engagement that they need.  So they go into an environment and you&#8217;re asking me to do X.  I mean, I lived this in the Southern Philippines.  They said hey, here are the state and we go okay and we would go back and we would get very creative with the rules engagement so much so that when yeah, Paul Wolfowitz showed up to visit us to visit us in the Southern Philippines we briefed him.  We were very honest.  We&#8217;re transparent, we said here&#8217;s the situation and he said okay.  I&#8217;d wish you wouldn&#8217;t get as creative as you are to get the work done, but what do you need from me to get that done and we told him what we needed and we got re-written rules of engagement when Rumsfeld was on leave, which was the Secretary Defense.  And he signed, I mean that&#8217;s what happens and he signed the order and shot it out.  We were good.  It might have been just an afternoon off, but it was enough.</p>
<p>Commanders have the responsibility in the field and operationally to go back and say you&#8217;re putting these guys in harms&#8217; way here&#8217;s, what I need and keep pushing.  And saying, because it&#8217;s not yes, the President&#8217;s going to say hey, I&#8217;m assuming the risk.  He&#8217;s not assuming the risk.  It&#8217;s that force on the ground, it&#8217;s that force in the sea, on the air that&#8217;s assuming the risk and they need to know.</p>
<p>So when we jump out of an airplane, you have two parachutes, a main that&#8217;s supposed to work and a reserve.  You don&#8217;t ask permission to pull your reserve.  If the main&#8217;s not working, you know what you&#8217;re supposed to do to save your life.  Why would we ever put people in a situation where they don&#8217;t have that choice, and that&#8217;s what I believe in and I believe commanders.  This is where it gets to the other gentleman&#8217;s comment, commanders to safeguard the thing that they love, the force, have got to go back and say wait a minute.  Here&#8217;s the situation.  We&#8217;ve assessed the ground situation.  It&#8217;s real.  Here&#8217;s what we need to be able to safeguard our force.  Nothing you, nothing a commander or even the commander in chief can ever say well, limit the soldiers&#8217;, sailors&#8217;, airmen, Marines&#8217; inherent right of self-defense, and that&#8217;s the start point of everything.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>I really want to add though that you can talk about culture all you want, this generation of soldiers like every generation of Americans is the greatest generation.  They&#8217;re an unbelievable group of young men and women.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Yeah.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>I remember a couple years ago coming to a Horowitz event and they had Tibor Rubin here, who is an incredible Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War, and you ask how can anybody have that kind of courage and the truth is all of them have that courage.  And this generation of kids, they are the best that you could ask for and God bless them the ones that fight for us, they really are.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Yes and thank you.  I would just like to submit that everything that&#8217;s been discussed here is just the symptoms, and that one only need read Obama&#8217;s own books and then read Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s analysis of those books to conclude that this is not an accident.  This guy I wish he were incompetent.  He is not incompetent.  He&#8217;s the most competent President we&#8217;ve ever had.  They just think that you want to go to Los Angles but he&#8217;s headed for Moscow.  This guy is malevolent and somebody like the Heritage Foundation or someone should start telling the truth.  This is not an accident.  You say foreign policy looks ad hoc, no.</p>
<p>If your goal is worldwide chaos, this guy gets an A plus.  If your goal is to destroy America, if your guy &#8212; I spent my whole life in the financial services business.  We were dominant, with Dodd Frank, but he&#8217;s killed it.  He&#8217;s destroyed financial services.  He&#8217;s tried to destroy the energy industry, but it&#8217;s too hard to control.  See the reason too big to fail was to make them all bigger, because you can control five big guys.  These oil and gas people, you can&#8217;t control, that&#8217;s what his problem has been.  But when are we going to face the fact that this is all intentional.  This is not an accident.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Yeah.  I don&#8217;t think the panel disagrees, so one last question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>I wanted to ask now that we have &#8211; look I was on the board at Visitors of West Point 30 years ago and I used to lecture at the National War College.  What&#8217;s happening in the Army particularly in the military, but the Army most particularly, is really frightening.  What I have not seen and I&#8217;m going to ask you this question, I&#8217;ve not seen from the House Armed Services Committee, that the Republicans have controlled, and I&#8217;m wondering now that the Senate Arms Services Committee will be chaired by John McCain, the man who said that Samantha Power and Ms. Rice were perfect for their jobs.</p>
<p>What do you feel, will the Senate Republicans, will anybody stand up and take on and investigate what is in fact you&#8217;re describing the hollowing out, the purging of the military, the turning it into &#8212; all bureaucracies have leadership that is &#8212; people would rather get ahead than care about their country or anything else, and we&#8217;ve seen that now presently at the top of the military.  When will we, well, do you have any confidence in that?  Do you have any belief that we will see that coming out of this newly Republican-controlled Congress?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Jerry on that.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>Jerry Boykin: </b>I think that what you will see is you will see a sincere effort to stop the sequestration cuts as a first order of business and think that they are recognizing now that those cuts are way too deep and that they&#8217;re going to hollow out our military.  Now, will they succeed?  I don&#8217;t know.  Will Obama sign legislation?  I don&#8217;t know, but I think that you&#8217;ll see an effort to do that.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>That&#8217;s, my question is, all right, I agree on the sequestering, that&#8217;s one thing, I&#8217;m asking a different question. Will they go into what is a preplanned and clearly being executed effort to hollow out the moral leadership in the military particularly the Army?  Besides the sequestering, I want to know when you expect the Republicans, if ever, to standup on this issue and do you have any confidence in John McCain, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee will do that?</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">Jerry Boykin: </b>No.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>James Carafano: </b>Well, let&#8217;s just poll the panel. No.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>No.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>Okay so you&#8217;re 3 for 3. But actually, you bring up the really the most important point.  We always say what is our President doing?  What is our Congress doing?  And what really matters is what are we doing, all right?  So the most famous battle in American history is maybe Gettysburg, and at Gettysburg, the Union stood because one guy at the far left of the flank, who was just a guy.  He wasn&#8217;t a general, he wasn&#8217;t a President, he wasn&#8217;t a congressman.  He might have even been drafted.  He was just a guy and he was standing there, and they said if the Confederates get around you we will fall and if we fall, the army will fall and if the army falls the nation will fall and that person stood their ground.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;"><b>David Fridovich: </b>Yeah.</p>
<p><b style="color: #323333;">James Carafano: </b>So when you ask whose going to save this country?  Who&#8217;s going to make sure that the men and women that defend us have what they need then look around yourselves at the table because we are them. Thank you.  Thank you everybody.</p>
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		<title>ISIS Calls for Poisoning and Running Down Westerners</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorist group calls on Muslims in the West to do their duty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246076" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis-450x253.jpg" alt="isis" width="304" height="171" /></a>In a new video, ISIS threatens to murder Westerners through a wide range of new means, including poisoning of food and drink and hit-and-run attacks.  This marks an increase in ambitious threats as ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh) calls on Muslims to wage “jihad in the path of Allah” using easily accessible weapons.</p>
<p>The seven-minute video, entitled, <i>What Are You Waiting For</i>, opens with a group of Francophone ISIS fighters denouncing the West and throwing their French passports into campfire. French is the spoken language in the video, which also contains Arabic and English subtitles.  One jihadi known as Abu Osama Al-Faranci, states: “This is a message from your French brothers who have made Hijra, to the Muslims who are still living in the land of Kufr.”  In other words, it is an appeal by ISIS fighters who have emigrated to lands controlled by the Islamic State to Muslims living in the land of the infidelity.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-246046" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="413" height="269" /></a>Though the fighters in the video mostly speak to Muslims living in France, they also have a broader audience in mind; for instance, Abu Maryam al-Franci addresses “those Muslims in France and elsewhere.”</p>
<p>The jihadis featured in the video implore Muslims to make “Hijra” and emigrate to lands controlled by the Islamic State. But if Muslims do not emigrate, Abu Maryam (holding a machine gun and a machete) reminds them, “Indeed you have been ordered to fight the Kafir [unbeliever/non-Muslim] wherever you find him” and encourages Muslims in the West to attack civilians in their home countries.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246049" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="293" /></a>Abu Salman al-Faranci introduces new methods to entice potential terrorists living in the West to commit murder in France, telling them to “terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror.” Abu Salman continues, “There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit… Kill them [infidels] and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars.” He goes on: “Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah.”  Abu Maryam hopes that infidels “will even fear travelling to the market.”</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246051" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="293" /></a>ISIS has proven itself successful at recruiting thousands of fighters from Western countries to join its ranks.  Should this resonance continue and jihadis living in the West heed the new ISIS call, it would have dire consequences for non-jihadi Muslims; any driver, waiter, or grocery clerk could be perceived as a terrorist in waiting.  For all of us, ISIS’ latest message hopes to turn a stroll down the street into a walk of terror and to turn our food and drinks into recipes for murder.</p>
<p><i>Danielle Avel is an investigative researcher and photojournalist. She can be reached through her </i><a href="http://danielleavel.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>website</i></span></a><i>, on </i><a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleAvel"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Twitter</i></span></a><i> @DanielleAvel and on </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Avel.Danielle"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Facebook</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow sheds light on Islam vs. the West throughout history.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #323333;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246100 size-full" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg" alt="0" width="317" height="266" /></a>Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed last month on &#8220;<a href="http://calltorights.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">A Call to Rights Radio Show</span></a>&#8221; with Steve Kates. Topics ranged from the dangers of the Islamic State, history and the Crusades, Christian persecution, and the Obama administration’s policies.  To listen to the nearly one-hour long interview, <a href="http://calltorights.com/audio/CTR100414Hour1.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">click here</span></a> (interview starts around the 9-minute mark)</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama makes the Defense Secretary the scapegoat for his foreign policy failures.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gty_chuck_hagel_obama_wy_141124_4x3_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245969" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gty_chuck_hagel_obama_wy_141124_4x3_992-450x337.jpg" alt="gty_chuck_hagel_obama_wy_141124_4x3_992" width="339" height="254" /></a>Chuck Hagel is out at the Department of Defense, and one administration official <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/hagel-said-to-be-stepping-down-as-defense-chief-under-pressure.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">explained</span></a> that it was because “the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus” – apparently one that doesn’t shed such a bright light upon the smoking ruin that is Barack Obama’s foreign policy.</p>
<p>Hagel may have sealed his fate last week, when Charlie Rose asked him in an interview about the decline of the U.S. military. “I am worried about it,” Hagel responded with unexpected candor, “I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution” – as <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/24/hagel-unchained-departing-defense-secretary-fire-parting-shots-in-interview-last-week/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Bryan Preston of PJ Media has noted</span></a>, he perhaps pointedly left Obama and Joe Biden off this list of concerned officials.</p>
<p>Yet who is the single individual most responsible for the decline of the military? Hagel must have known the answer to that question when he added: “The main responsibility of any leader is to prepare your institution for the future. If you don’t do that, you’ve failed. I don’t care how good you are, how smart you are, any part of your job. If you don’t prepare your institution, you’ve failed.”</p>
<p>Did Obama take that as a reference to his steep defense cuts at a time when the world is on fire? Or did he object to <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120388/chuck-hagel-retires-despite-gop-attacks-he-became-israels-friend"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hagel’s surprisingly cordial relations with Israeli officials</span></a>?</p>
<p>We may never know what the true story is. It may be that Obama chose Hagel, the sole Republican on his national security team, to be the one to take the blame for his spectacular misjudgment of the Islamic State, which he <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/sep/07/barack-obama/what-obama-said-about-islamic-state-jv-team/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">famously dismissed</span></a> in January 2014 as a “JV team.”</p>
<p>Did Chuck Hagel whisper that notorious analogy in Obama’s ear?</p>
<p>Or maybe Hagel is walking the plank for Obama’s insistence upon referring to jihad terrorists in Syria as “vetted moderates.” “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted,” <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/obamas-vetted-moderate-free-syrian-army-collaborating-with-islamic-state"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said Obama</span></a> in September 2014. What was he working with them for? To get them to fight the Islamic State. Yet long before that, in July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters <a href="http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2013/08/christians-massacred-by-free-syrian-army-terrorists-rebels/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh</span></a> and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area.</p>
<p>This was not an isolated incident. <a href="http://www.worthynews.com/12470-free-syrian-army-massacre-christian-village"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Worthy News reported</span></a> that just two days later, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon….Around 350 armed militants forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily executed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then in September 2013, a day after Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Free Syrian Army as “a real moderate opposition,” the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/07/Syrians-Rebels-Kerry-Called-Moderate-Post-Videos-Of-Their-Attack-On-Christian-Town"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FSA took to the Internet</span></a> to post videos of its attack on the ancient Syrian Christian city of Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken.</p>
<p>And <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/us-air-strikes-syra-driving-anti-assad-groups-support-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">now the U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State are reportedly being used by FSA fighters as a pretext</span></a> to join the Islamic State. If this is true, they were never going to fight the Islamic State, and were never “vetted moderates.” Obama’s whole Syria strategy is based on fantasy.</p>
<p>Is that Hagel’s fault?</p>
<p>It is November 2014. It is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, for Obama at this late date to blame George W. Bush for his foreign policy disasters. Another scapegoat had to be found. Hagel, with his unexpectedly warm relations with Israel (in sharp contrast to the chill between Israeli officials and Barack Obama and John Kerry) and concern over the gutting of the military as the jihad rages more violently than ever and the JV team controls a land expanse larger than Great Britain, was the logical stand-in. He is even a Republican!</p>
<p>And so he will be gone from the Department of Defense, as soon as Obama peers at his gaggle of sycophants and chooses one of them for a big promotion. Likely gone with Hagel will be any remaining obstacle to an increasing chill with Israel, and any murmur of dissent from Obama’s mad plan of demolishing the military while simultaneously expecting it to hold back the Islamic State, Ebola, and a host of other threats.</p>
<p>Times are tough when Chuck Hagel looks like a voice of reasoned pro-American foreign policy. And times are indeed very tough, and about to get a great deal tougher.</p>
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