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		<title>Hagel Takes the Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Companies that Sell Global Warming Prevention Tech Write Pentagon Report Warning About Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a smidgen of corruption.]]></description>
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<p>It was bad enough when the Pentagon did this sort of thing when it was buying weapons systems. It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/sponsors-of-pentagons-alarm-raising-climate-study-/">much worse when the things</a> <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=237171">at issue are complete useless,</a> surplus to its mission and also weapons of mass economic destruction.</p>
<blockquote><p>Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>Manufacturers of rubber dinghies warn of importance of preparing for flooding.</p>
<blockquote><p>The report, which the Obama administration immediately hailed as a call to action, was issued not by a private advocacy group but by a Pentagon-financed think tank that trumpets “absolute objectivity.” The research was funded by a climate change group that is also one of the think tank’s main customers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not a smidgen of corruption. Not even a smidgen.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Center for Naval Analyses’ motto is “high quality, impartial information.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Its real motto is &#8220;So long suckers.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the CNA panel’s vice chairmen, retired Navy Vice Adm. Lee Gunn, is president of a private think tank, the American Security Project, whose prime issue is warning about climate change.</p>
<p>The other vice chairman, retired Army Brig. Gen. Gerald E. Galloway Jr., is a prominent adviser to the Center for Climate and Security, a climate change group.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re noticing that there&#8217;s an entire industry of retired generals cashing in on Chicken Littleism, welcome to D.C.</p>
<blockquote><p>In all, four CNA board members sit on the panel of advisers to the Center for Climate and Security, whose statements on climate change are similar to those found in the CNA report.</p></blockquote>
<p>So predictably we have think tanks backed by special interests issuing impartial reports that become government policy.</p>
<blockquote><p>The CNA advisory panel is headed by retired four-star Army Gen. Paul Kern, who sits on the board of directors of a company that sells climate-detection products to the Pentagon and other government agencies. At least two other board members are employed in businesses that sell climate change expertise and products.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the story wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a dirty money trial from a certain Nazi collaborator and wannabe James Bond villain.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Center for Climate and Security has taken donations from the Tides Foundation, which gets money from Democratic Party financier and liberal billionaire George Soros.</p></blockquote>
<p>There we go.</p>
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		<title>The Pentagon’s Bow to Islamic Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the acceptance of Islamic dress codes may make the Pentagon more vulnerable. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-wearing-Hijab.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218612" alt="Woman-wearing-Hijab" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-wearing-Hijab-450x332.png" width="270" height="199" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It’s a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion,” said a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012914-688132-pentagon-allows-islamic-beards-worn-by-jihadists.htm">recent report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This new relaxation of rules for Muslims comes at a time when the FBI is tracking more than 100 suspected jihadi-infiltrators of the U.S. military.  Just last month, Craig Benedict Baxam, a former Army soldier and convert to Islam, was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his al-Qaeda/jihadi activities.   Also last month, Mozaffar Khazaee, an Iranian-American working for the Defense Department, was arrested for sending secret documents to America’s enemy, Iran.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to a Pentagon spokesperson, the new religious accommodations—to allow Islamic beards, turbans, and hijabs—which took effect very recently, would “reduce both the instances and perception of discrimination among those whose religious expressions are less familiar to the command.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The report concludes that, “Making special accommodations for Islam will only attract more Muslims into the military at a time when two recent terror cases highlight the ongoing danger of Muslims in uniform.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But it’s worse than that; for not only will it attract “more Muslims,” it will attract precisely the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">wrong</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> kinds of Muslims, AKA, “Islamists,” “radicals,” etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is easily demonstrated by connecting the dots and understanding that Muslims who adhere to visible, non-problematic aspects of Islam—growing beards and donning hijabs—often indicate their adherence to non-visible, problematic aspects of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Consider it this way: Why do some Muslim men wear the prescribed beard and why do some Muslim women wear the prescribed hijab? Most Muslims would say they do so because Islam’s prophet Muhammad commanded them to (whether via the Koran or Hadith).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regarding the Muslim beard, Muhammad wanted his followers to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/002.smt.html">look different</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from “infidels,” namely Christians and Jews, so he ordered his followers to “trim closely the moustache and grow the beard.” Accordingly, all </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.islam.tc/beard/beard.html">Sunni schools of law</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> maintain that it is forbidden—a “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://alfatihoun.edaama.org/Fatawas/English/Fatawas/V1/Fourteen.htm">major sin</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”—for men to shave their beards (unless, of course, it is part of a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">stratagem against the infidel</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, in which case it is permissible).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The question begs itself: If such Muslims meticulously follow the minor, “outer” things of Islam simply because their prophet made some utterances concerning them in the Hadith, logically speaking, does that not indicate that they also follow, or at the very least accept as legitimate, the major, “inner” themes Muhammad constantly emphasized in both the Koran and Hadith—such as enmity for and deceit of the infidel, and, when capable, perpetual jihad?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even in the Islamic world this connection between visible indicators of Islamic piety and jihadi tendencies are well known.  Back in 2011, when Islamists were dominating Egypt’s politics, secularist talk show host Amr Adib of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuJ8TwkscSk&amp;feature=player_embedded">Cairo Today</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> mocked the then calls for a “million man beard” march with his trademark sarcasm: “This is a great endeavor! After all, a man with a beard can never be a thug, can never rape a woman in the street, can never set a church on fire, can never fight and quarrel, can never steal, and can never be dishonest!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">His sarcasm was not missed on his Egyptian viewership which knew quite well that it is precisely those Muslims who most closely follow the minutia of Muhammad—for example, by growing a beard—that are most prone to violence, deceit, and anti-infidel sentiments, all of which were also advocated by Islam’s prophet.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaking more seriously, Adib had added that this issue is not about growing a beard, but rather, “once you grow your beard, you give proof of your commitment and fealty to everything in Islam.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Similarly, after Egypt’s June 30 Revolution ousted the Muslim Brotherhood, “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/22/beards-niqab-become-liability-in-egypt-after-crackdown/">overt signs of piety</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> [beards and hijabs] have become all it takes to attract suspicion from security forces at Cairo checkpoints and vigilantes looking to attack Islamists.”  Clubs and restaurants </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-club-bans-beards-and-veils/">banned entrance</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to those wearing precisely these two “overt signs of piety.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While Egyptians instinctively understand how fealty to the Muslim beard evinces fealty, or at least acceptance, to all those </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">other</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> problematic things Muhammad commanded, even in fuzzy Western op-eds, the connection sometimes peeks out. Consider the following excerpt from a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06beliefs.html?pagewanted=all"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> piece titled “Behold the Mighty Beard, a Badge of Piety and Religious Belonging”:</span></p>
<blockquote><p> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">[A]ll over the Muslim world, the full beard has come to connote piety and spiritual fervor…. Of course, the beard is only a sign of righteousness. It is no guarantor, as Mr. Zulfiqar [a Muslim interviewee] reminds us: “I recall one gentleman who came back from a trip to Pakistan and remarked to me, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">‘I learned one thing: the longer the beard, the bigger the crook.’ His anticipation was people with big beards would be really honest, but he kept meeting people lying to him.”</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The italicized portion speaks for itself. Whereas the Muslim beard ostensibly represents religious piety, some people, mostly Westerners, are shocked to find that those who wear it are often “crooks” and “liars.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In Islam, however, outer signs of religiosity on the one hand, and corruption and deceit on the other, are quite compatible. After all, the same source—Islam’s prophet Muhammad, as recorded in the Hadith—that tells Muslims to grow a beard </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">also</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7343/islams-doctrines-of-deception">advocates deception</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the plundering of infidels, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-woman-seeks-to-revive-institution-of-sex-slavery/">keeping of sex slaves</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-adult-breastfeeding-fatwas-return/">adult “breast feeding,”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and all sorts of other practices antithetical to Western notions of piety if not decency.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Incidentally, it’s the same with the hijab, or cloak that some Muslim women wear, also on Muhammad’s command. One reformed Islamic jihadi from Egypt </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7334/inside-jihad">accurately observes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “the proliferation of the hijab is strongly correlated with increased terrorism…. Terrorism became much more frequent in such societies as Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, and the U.K. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">after</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the hijab became prevalent among Muslim women living in those communities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And so, at a time when the U.S. should at the very least be wary of those who openly wear their Islamic radicalism around their face and head—beards for males, hijabs for females—the U.S. Pentagon (of all places) is embracing them in “celebration of multiculturalism.” Where loyalty to the U.S. is most needed, the Pentagon embraces those who show that their loyalty is elsewhere (among other things, the beard and hijab are meant to separate “pure believers” from “impure infidels”).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, none of this is surprising considering that the Pentagon also considers Evangelical Christians and Catholics as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/pentagon-classifies-evangelical-christians-catholics-as-extremists.html">“extremists” on a par with al-Qaeda</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
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<p>I don&#8217;t subscribe to the Bin Laden conspiracy theories myself. Obama has been on record as saying that he wanted Bin Laden alive so he could give him a civilian trial. And that&#8217;s consistent.</p>
<p>Looking at this action, it&#8217;s consistent with the policy of being willing to do <a href="http://freebeacon.com/judicial-watch-top-pentagon-leader-ordered-destruction-of-bin-laden-death-photos/">everything possible to avoid offending</a> Muslims. As if the Muslims angry at Bin Laden&#8217;s death would become more of a threat if they could see his body.</p>
<p>Considering the amount of photoshopped Bin Laden death photos out there and the propensity of people in the Muslim world to create their own reality, it wouldn&#8217;t make much of a difference.</p>
<blockquote><p>Judicial Watch announced Monday that it received documents through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit showing that Admiral William McRaven ordered the immediate destruction of any photos of Osama bin Laden’s death within hours of a Judicial Watch FOIA request.</p>
<p>According to the Pentagon documents, McRaven sent his email on “Friday, May 13, 2011 5:09 PM.”  The documents do not detail what documents, if any, were destroyed in response to the McRaven directive. The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit seeking the documents was filed in the United States Court for the District of Columbia only hours earlier.</p></blockquote>
<p>Defying a Freedom of Information lawsuit this blatantly seems more like the work of Obama Inc. than the Pentagon, so as with Benghazi, I suspect the military was just doing what it was told.</p>
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		<title>The Cruelest Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration takes a giant bite out of the military.]]></description>
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<p>On January 3rd, President Obama released his <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1a09fd;">vision</span></a> for military expenditures going forward. It is a plan that calls for reducing troop strength by tens of thousands because, Mr. Obama <span style="color: #1a09fd;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/05/remarks-president-defense-strategic-review" target="_blank">contends</a>,</span> &#8220;we’ve succeeded in defending our nation, taking the fight to our enemies, reducing the number of Americans in harm’s way, and we’ve restored America’s global leadership.&#8221; An integral part of the new strategy? <a href="http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/04/panetta-ending-two-war-strategy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1a09fd;">Abandoning</span></a> the capability to fight two major ground wars simultaneously. &#8220;Yes, our military will be leaner, said the president, &#8220;but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, cut right through the rhetoric. &#8220;This is a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America,&#8221; he contended. &#8220;The president has packaged our retreat from the world in the guise of a new strategy to mask his divestment of our military and national defense.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287320/america-s-disarmed-future-arthur-herman" target="_blank">scope</a> of the divestment is daunting. The additional $500 billion in new spending cuts come on top of the $480 billion this president cut out of the military budget his first three years in office. <em>Neither</em> of these cuts reflect the possibility that an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577142622640612772.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank">additional</a> $500 billion in possible cuts will kick in next January, under &#8220;sequestration.&#8221; And since the 2012 budget request already calls for the reduction of 27,000 soldiers and 20,000 Marines over the next four years, it is likely those numbers will increase as well.</p>
<p>Critical technology has also gotten, or may get axed as well. The Airborne Laser, a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570104576124173372065568.html" target="_blank">project</a> aimed at destroying enemy missiles soon after they blast off was killed 2010, along with the <a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/fcs.htm" target="_blank">Future Combat Systems</a>, a program deigned to coordinate mobile forces and unmanned vehicles. The latter was killed with the promise that modernization resources would go directly to the Army and Marines. So far it hasn&#8217;t happened, and now it may not. The Navy’s hypersonic electromagnetic rail gun, a project designed to intercept anti-ship missiles&#8211;like those that could be aimed at our carriers in a fight with Iran or China&#8211;lost funding in 2011. Cutbacks could also include the F-35 fighter plane, despite its radar-evading stealth technology that would allow us to maintain our dominance in the air.</p>
<p>Why? Incredibly, the president claimed &#8220;the tide of war is receding.&#8221; No doubt that would be news to Iraqis who are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57352655/baghdad-bombs-target-iraqs-shiites-27-dead/" target="_blank">enduring</a> large-scale attacks and the possibility of a civil war, due primarily to our premature withdrawal. So too for the Afghans, who must now contemplate the return of the Taliban, with whom the Obama administration has seen fit to negotiate, using Islamic cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a “key mediator,&#8221; despite his rabid anti-Semitism and his issuance of a fatwa urging the killing of American troops. No doubt Iran, fresh from conducting <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/06/iran-tests-west-with-plans-for-more-war-games-in-strait-of-hormuz/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1a09fd;">military exercises</span></a> in the in the Strait of Hormuz last week, and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/07/us-iran-idUSTRE8041RA20120107" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1a09fd;">further maneuvers</span></a> near the Afghan coast on Saturday, would be equally surprised. And then there&#8217;s the multiple threats the Islamist uprisings, nostalgically referred to as the &#8220;Arab Spring,&#8221; have the potential to engender as well.</p>
<p>Yet the president remains undeterred, with his administration projecting military budget outlays of 2.7 percent of GDP by 2021. That number is comparable to our military outlays in the year 1940&#8211;one year before America&#8217;s fatal flirtation with both isolationism and peace literally blew up in our collective faces at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting the Pentagon down to size.]]></description>
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<p>Declaring that the U.S. military and the nation it defends are at a “moment of transition,” President Barack Obama has unveiled a dramatic scaling-back of the military’s role, reach and resources—complete with troop reductions, force redeployments and a promise to refocus on economic challenges. Or as he indelicately put it last year, “time to focus on nation-building at home.” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls it a “strategic turning point.” Indeed it is. We are left to wonder just what the United States is turning toward—or into.</p>
<p>In his remarks at the Pentagon last week, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/05/remarks-president-defense-strategic-review">called</a> America “the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known.” He’s right about that, but what he doesn’t seem to understand—as evidenced by his sweeping strategic review and retrenchment—is that being a global force for freedom and security is not preordained or written in the stars. Rather, it is a role that requires treasure and effort and sacrifice.</p>
<p>The American people may be ready to give up this thankless job, but that seems doubtful. At the very least, the president needs to make sure they understand what these changes will mean. As Robert Gates warned before he left the Pentagon, perhaps aware of what Obama was planning:</p>
<blockquote><p>If we are going to reduce the resources and the size of the U.S. military…people need to make conscious choices about what the implications are for the security of the country, as well as for the variety of military operations we have around the world, if lower priority missions are scaled back or eliminated…The tough choices ahead are really about the kind of role the American people—accustomed to unquestioned military dominance for the past two decades—want their country to play in the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, there’s a price to maintaining a peerless power-projecting military, but there’s also a price to not doing so.</p>
<p>Speaking of price tags, the reason the president unveiled his plan for a “leaner” military, at least ostensibly, is that Congress, concerned about unprecedented debt and deficits, mandated massive reductions in defense spending—some $500 billion in reductions as compared with what had been projected.</p>
<p>“Over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow,” Obama explained, “but the fact of the matter is this:  It will still grow.” In other words, the president is saying defense spending will grow at a slower rate. That’s a fair point: Slower growth should not be considered a cut. But why don’t the president and his political brethren apply the same logic to social programs? If these aren’t really cuts the president is proposing for the Pentagon, then it’s not really a cut when a reform-minded congressman proposes to slow the rate of growth in, say, Medicare or Social Security or the EPA.</p>
<p>Of course, the reality is that the Armed Forces are not to blame for this budget-deficit mess. We could eliminate the entire defense budget—$662 billion this year—and turn the Pentagon into a mega-mall, and we would still face a budget deficit of $700 billion. (The current deficit is in the $1.3-trillion range.)</p>
<p>The heart of the problem is runaway spending on Social Security, Medicare, stimulus boondoggles and the like. Yet Social Security and other entitlements are simply not as important as national security. After all, our founding document calls on the government to “provide for the common defense” in the very first sentence; then grants Congress the power to declare war, “raise and support armies…provide and maintain a navy…make rules for calling forth the militia…provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia”; authorizes the president to serve as “commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states”; discusses war, treason and America’s enemies in Article III; and emphasizes the importance of a “well-regulated militia” to the “security of a free state” in the Bill of Rights. On the other hand, the Constitution says nothing about retirement pensions, stimulus programs or health care. The Founders understood that if their new government didn’t provide for the common defense, it wouldn’t be able to provide anything else—and the American people wouldn’t be able to live free, let alone pursue happiness.</p>
<p>But back to the president’s plan for a <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf">smaller military</a>. Today’s U.S. military, as the president explained, has “decimated al Qaeda’s leadership…delivered justice to Osama bin Laden…put that terrorist network on the path to defeat…made important progress in Afghanistan…joined allies and partners to protect the Libyan people as they ended the regime of Muammar Qaddafi”—all while defending Europe and the Pacific and the homeland.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truther-philosopher David Ray Griffin aims to mainstream the "9-11 Truth Movement"]]></description>
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<p>Infamous 9-11 conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin, whose books insist the Bush Administration and not al Qaeda blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is launching a speaking tour this week to help merge the “9-11 Truth Movement” with “more traditional Peace and Anti-War groups” against the “illegal and immoral war” in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The tour also presages Griffin’s next book, <em>Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee&#8217;s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory</em>. This volume will make much hay over an Obama White House official’s article in 2008 as a Harvard law professor, suggesting that the government actively rebut conspiracy theories by networking on social websites.</p>
<p>Griffin is a philosopher emeritus at the United Methodist Church’s Claremont Seminary in California and espouses “process theology,” which asserts that God is constantly evolving.  His Center for Process Studies is located at Claremont.  Process theology also posits that history has no destination and that good and evil, often manifest through endless conspiracies transcending generations, are perpetually in conflict, since even God lacks full authority.</p>
<p>Prodigiously, Griffin has been churning out 9-11 conspiracy books since 2004, asserting that U.S. agencies contrived a false flag terrorist attack through controlled demolitions.  His first conspiracy potboiler was <em>The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11</em>. Griffin believes that U.S. history is primarily a long catalogue of conspiracies across two centuries to facilitate American imperialism and aggression.   Griffin faults the United States for killing hundreds of millions of people globally through its economic, military and environmental crimes, making the U.S. more murderous than the old Soviet Empire or the Third Reich.</p>
<p>It’s a heavy burden for Griffin to reveal the largely hidden truth about an endlessly genocidal America, when the cover-up, involving hundreds of thousands of conspirators across many generations has been so successful.  But Griffin, a distinguished looking white haired man with a calm and measured demeanor in his public appearances, is persevering with his prolific writing and frequent speeches.  His latest speaking tour starts April 23 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and will take him to 14 other American and Canadian universities, churches and community centers, where eager truth seekers will gather for Griffin to unwrap the long hidden truth.</p>
<p>“The physical evidence is so strong for the destruction of the World Trade Center by explosives that we’re really on level of truth now not conjecture,” Griffin calmly reported on a recent English language Russian cable network, citing “massive evidence compiled by scientists, architects and engineers.”  There is simply “no other possibility” but “massive scientific fraud,” he declared.  Of the innumerable conspirators, he surmised:  “They lied and they lied and they lied.”</p>
<p>Why did the Bush Administration stage 9-11?  Griffin carefully explained to his Russian cable broadcast interviewer:  “It’s an extreme example of something imperialistic governments have done for a very long time,” i.e. “false flag operations.”  He expounded: “You attack your own people, you blame another country that you already have reasons to attack. Hitler did this in Poland.  Japan did it in Manchuria.  Our government did it planting evidence that these attacks were carried out by members of al Qaeda.”</p>
<p>In a conference call earlier this year, Griffin explained he favors the end of nation states in favor of “global democracy.”  Under this new international regime, “We could get rid of war.  We don’t have money for health care or ecological crisis.  Take money out of the system and militarism out of the system.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, until “global democracy” is attained, Griffin must crusade against the “propaganda machine that we call the Pentagon and mainstream media,” which is “so powerful and so influential particularly on people who haven’t had the kind of education that armors them against this.”   His obstacle is that a “large percentage of people…are so brainwashed that they cannot see the obvious.”</p>
<p>This week, in a 4600 word dissertation on www.911truth.org, Griffin verbosely responded to my own Institute on Religion and Democracy’s critique of him.  “Was the Bush administration too moral?” he sarcastically asked of our doubts that Bush appointees and law enforcement blew up the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  As evidence of the “Bush-Cheney White House” depravity, Griffin cited “lies” about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and about air quality at the post-11 World Trade Center site.</p>
<p>He triumphantly queried: &#8220;Given these facts, why would the IRD consider it self-evident that the Bush administration could not have orchestrated 9/11?&#8221;</p>
<p>As proof of his own scholarly legitimacy, Griffin heralded ostensible endorsements from former Minnesota Governor and wrestler Jesse Ventura, some of the &#8220;Jersey Girls’ 9-11 widows,&#8221; and one member of the Japanese senate.  Griffin asked rhetorically: &#8220;Does IRD believe that such people endorse silly books?&#8221;</p>
<p>In contrast with IRD’s “business of issuing propaganda,” Griffin celebrated that the “9/11 Truth Movement, by contrast, [has] provided evidence &#8212; an enormous amount of evidence, in fact &#8212; showing that the official conspiracy theory [that al Qaeda did it] is simply not believable.”   Indeed, “the weight of expert opinion &#8212; among people in the relevant professions who have examined the evidence and are not dependent upon the government for their livelihood &#8212; is almost entirely on the side of the 9/11 Truth Movement.”</p>
<p>What a lonely battle it must be for Griffin and other 9-11 conspiracy theorists to champion their dark “truth” of fathomless duplicity against a “brainwashed” world enslaved by Pentagon propaganda.  Maybe a deity more powerful than Griffin’s brand of process theology permits will extend him grace and remind him that even evil has its limits.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Chinese leaders believe they can stand up to America anywhere, anytime. ]]></description>
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<p>The People’s Republic of China has denounced the meeting of Tibet’s Dalai Lama with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb.18. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu <a href="http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx/t659091.htm">said</a> the meetings:</p>
<blockquote><p>“have severely violated the basic norms governing international relations….The Chinese Government and people stand steadfast in their resolve to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Any attempt from any person to interfere in China&#8217;s internal affairs under the Dalai issue is doomed to failure.”</p></blockquote>
<p>For Beijing the issue is not just about the oppression in Tibet, but the Dalai Lama’s larger message that it is the responsibility of the outside world to bring Communist China into the mainstream of global democracy,</p>
<p>Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai called in U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman for what were called “solemn representations.” This was the second time in recent weeks that the ambassador has been summoned. The previous time was after the Obama administration announced on January 29 that it would fulfill the commitment made by the Bush administration to sell $6.4 billion worth of defensive arms to Taiwan. Beijing has massed offensive weapons opposite the democratic island. The PRC considers Taiwan to be a renegade province despite its de facto independence for over sixty years.</p>
<p>The U.S. did not summon the Chinese ambassador in Washington for a formal protest after Beijing blocked an American initiative to strengthen sanctions against Iran for its nuclear weapons program. As <em>Global Times</em>, an official publication of the ruling Communist Party, stated<em> </em>in a Feb 10 <a href="http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/editorial/2010-02/504906.html">editoria</a>l, “China has economic stakes in Iran, and China is determined to protect its interest through diplomacy.”</p>
<p>U.S.-PRC relations have soured steadily since the confrontation between the two powers at the UN Climate conference in Copenhagen in December. At that meeting, President Obama came face to face with Chinese intransigence and saw his year long attempt to cooperate with China come to nothing.</p>
<p>While the White House and State Department were rethinking engagement with China, the Defense Department was finishing its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the blueprint for how the U.S. military will meet threats to national security. The February 8 issue of the weekly <em>Defense News</em> had a disturbing sidebar by John T. Bennett to its lead <a href="http://defensenews.com/story.php?i=4489193&amp;c=FEA&amp;s=CVS">story</a> about the QDR. Bennett reported,</p>
<blockquote><p>As the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review moved from a December draft to the February final version, Pentagon officials deleted several passages and softened others about China’s military buildup.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Gone is one passage, present in the Dec. 3 draft, declaring that “prudence requires” the United States prepare for “disruptive competition and conflict” with China.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Altered are passages about Russian arms sales to Beijing and China’s 2007 destruction of a low-orbit satellite.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Why the changes? One Pentagon official said department and Obama administration officials worried that harsh words might upset Chinese officials at a time when the United States and China are so economically intertwined.</p></blockquote>
<p>Trade policy is not, however, in the DoD’s province. It is more likely that the QDR reflects Secretary Robert Gate’s often articulated view that future wars will be like the current small, irregular combat in Afghanistan rather than large-scale conventional warfare against a rival nation-state.</p>
<p>In his joint <a href="http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1416">announcement</a> of the QDR and the 2011 budget on Feb. 2, Gates summarized his vision as, “Rebalanc[ing] our programs in order to institutionalize and enhance our ability to fight the wars we are in today, while at the same time providing a hedge against current and future risks and contingencies.” The “hedge” is not of sufficient concern to justify continuing programs like the F-22 air superiority fighter, or a capability to mount large-scale Marine amphibious assaults, or an expanded national missile defense system. Shipbuilding plans will also see the Navy continue to shrink, with an emphasis on smaller warships.</p>
<p>The QDR states, “successfully balancing requires that the Department make hard choices on the level of resources required as well as accepting and managing risk in a way that favors success in today’s wars.” Obviously, winning in Iraq and Afghanistan are the current top priorities, but Gates has also emphasized his desire to “institutionalize” DoD planning, meaning his vision of avoiding confrontations with a rising “peer competitor” like China or even a major regional power like Iran.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.defense.gov/qdr/QDR%20as%20of%2029JAN10%201600.pdf">QDR</a> did not completely ignore China, though the country was mentioned only a handful of times in 105 pages. Its most complete statement is on page 60.</p>
<blockquote><p>China’s military has begun to develop new roles, missions, and capabilities in support of its growing regional and global interests, which could enable it to play a more substantial and constructive role in international affairs. The United   States welcomes a strong, prosperous, and successful China that plays a greater global role. The United   States welcomes the positive benefits that can accrue from greater cooperation. However, lack of transparency and the nature of China’s military development and decision-making processes raise legitimate questions about its future conduct and intentions within Asia and beyond. Our relationship with China must therefore be multidimensional and undergirded by a process of enhancing confidence and reducing mistrust in a manner that reinforces mutual interests.</p></blockquote>
<p>A bit tougher review of China’s military buildup is on p. 31, before the ludicrous statement about welcoming the “constructive role” of a “strong, prosperous and successful China.”</p>
<blockquote><p>As part of its long-term, comprehensive military modernization, China is developing and fielding large numbers of advanced medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles, new attack submarines equipped with advanced weapons, increasingly capable long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and computer network attack capabilities, advanced fighter aircraft, and counter-space systems. China has shared only limited information about the pace, scope, and ultimate aims of its military modernization programs, raising a number of legitimate questions regarding its long term intentions.</p></blockquote>
<p>The notion that American military leaders and defense analysts don’t know what Beijing is trying to do and need to find out more before determining if there is a danger is disingenuous. Every advanced weapon is being designed to attack and defeat U.S. forces. In Chinese documents, the new anti-ship ballistic missile being developed is shown in artwork as attacking U.S. aircraft carriers.</p>
<p>None of the issues currently roiling U.S.-PRC relations are new. What has changed over the last decade is the wealth and industrial power Chinese leaders now have at their command. Economic growth is being turned into diplomatic influence and military strength. President Hu Jintao built his career as a hard-liner and has centered his leadership position on a close alliance with the People’s Liberation Army. Looking at the turmoil in America, Chinese leaders believe that the balance of power is shifting and they can now stand up to America on issues across the board. Such a change, whether real or imagined, makes for a much more dangerous world whether the Pentagon wants to admit it or not.</p>
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		<title>The Bloody Cost of “Diversity”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Left’s hands are soaked in the blood of Nidal Hasan’s innocent victims.]]></description>
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<p>We’ve known from the start that <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/11/bombshell-walter-reed-shrinks-thought-hasan-was-nuts-since-last-year/">there were warning signs</a> of Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=107&amp;type=issue">Islamic fanaticism</a> well before <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/23/2009/11/13/the-fort-hood-shooting-is-terrorism-not-quantum-physics/">the Fort Hood shootings</a>, signs we suspected were ignored due to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552">political correctness</a>.  But the other night, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/hannity/">Sean Hannity</a> called attention to <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/02/22/ft_hood_suspect_was_army_dilemma/">a recent <em>Boston Globe</em> report</a> confirming our worst fears.  The report claims that Army officials knew Hasan was a radical, but</p>
<blockquote><p>“did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist.”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Examples of Hasan’s radical behavior have previously been disclosed in press accounts based on interviews with unnamed Army officials […] But the Pentagon’s careful documentation of individual episodes dating back to 2005 and the subsequent inaction of his superiors have not been made public before. The Globe was permitted to review the Army’s more complete findings on the condition that it not name supervisory officers who did not act, some of whom are facing possible disciplinary action.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In searching for explanations for why superiors did not move to revoke Hasan’s security clearances or expel him from the Army, the report portrays colleagues and superiors as possibly reluctant to lose one of the Army’s few Muslim mental health specialists. The report concludes that because the Army had attracted only one Muslim psychiatrist in addition to Hasan since 2001, “it is possible some were afraid” of losing such diversity “and thus were willing to overlook Hasan’s deficiencies as an officer.”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>[…]</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In one classroom incident not previously described by the Army – which parallels another episode around the same time that has received press attention – Hasan gave a presentation in August 2007 titled “Is the War on Terrorism a War on Islam: An Islamic Perspective.” But the presentation was “shut down” by the instructor because Hasan appeared to be defending terrorism. Witnesses told investigators that Hasan became visibly upset as a result. “The students reported his statements to superior officers, who took no action on the basis that Major Hasan’s statements were protected by the First Amendment,” the investigation found. “They did not counsel Hasan and consider administrative action, even though not all protected speech is compatible with continued military service.’’</p></blockquote>
<p>Words are almost insufficient to convey the contemptible sickness of this situation.  Thirteen American heroes are dead because of certain minds that held “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=127&amp;type=issue">diversity</a>” to be of more worth than human lives.  They wanted someone with the “potential to inform our understanding of Islamic culture and how it relates to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.”</p>
<p>The question must then be asked: If you want to be informed, why not do the research yourself?  Study the messages of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6176">extreme</a> and <a href="http://www.freemuslims.org/">moderate</a> Muslims alike.  Consult with experts on the subject from within and without the faith, like <a href="http://www.irshadmanji.com/">Irshad Manji</a>, <a href="http://americancongressfortruth.com/">Brigitte Gabriel</a>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Robert Spencer</a>, and others.  To suggest that these peoples’ only option in learning about Islamic culture was from one unstable soldier with known jihadist tendencies is beyond absurd.  How useful did these people expect Hasan’s lessons to be anyway?</p>
<p>It’s hard to imagine a clearer, more damning indictment of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=114">leftist thought</a> than the tragedy that we find at Fort Hood. The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">current commander-in-chief</a> deserves serious blame for not doing something about this twisted dogma that has infected military officials. But the hard truth is that it didn’t start on his watch.  For years, many people, like <a href="http://www.buzzpatterson.com/">Lieutenant Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson</a> (keeper of the “nuclear football” during the 1990s) have been sounding the alarm on the sorry state that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644">President Bill Clinton</a> left our armed forces in, and how, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kinder-Gentler-Military-Political-Correctness/dp/1893554333">in many ways</a>, military effectiveness <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/political_correctness_is_destr.html">has taken a backseat to political correctness</a>.  And for <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/homelandsecurity/bg2294.cfm">all the good</a> President George W. Bush did in the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=91&amp;type=issue">War on Terror</a>, this particular crisis evidently wasn’t on his radar screen.</p>
<p>In the wake of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=146&amp;type=issue">9/11</a>, President Bush and many of his <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=156&amp;type=issue">conservative</a> supporters rightfully said we could not succumb to a pre-9/11 mindset, that we had to wrap our heads around the reality that our nation was at war.  But, nine years later, with a jihadist killing spree on one of our own military bases and <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/11/08/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be-casualty-of-fort-hood/">the Army’s top man worried</a> not about how it happened but about “a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers,” it seems we have to ask ourselves if we really meant it.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://newsrealblog.com/author/calvinfreiburger/">Calvin Freiburger</a> is a political science major at <a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/">Hillsdale College</a>. He also blogs at the <a href="http://thehillsdaleforum.blogspot.com/">Hillsdale Forum</a> and his personal website, <a href="http://rightcal.wordpress.com/">Calvin Freiburger Online</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>CAIR: Fort Hood Co-Conspirator &#8211; by Paul Sperry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood of dead soldiers also on terror front group's hands.]]></description>
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<p>With the FBI cutting off ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations and now subpoenaing some 12,000 internal CAIR documents under temporary restraining order as part of the bureau&#8217;s ongoing criminal investigation of CAIR, the terrorist front group is suddenly cooperating with the FBI &#8212; or at least making a show of it.</p>
<p>Suddenly CAIR, an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, is acting like a good citizen. Suddenly it&#8217;s concerned about young Muslim-American men going on jihad. Suddenly it&#8217;s concerned about &#8220;certain&#8221; passages of the Quran inspiring jihadists.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all too little, too late.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, 42 brave American soldiers were gunned down by an Islamic nut in Texas. That&#8217;s right, thanks to CAIR.</p>
<p>How so? For starters, it was the intimidating and ruthless CAIR that almost single-handedly created a climate of fear of reporting any suspicious anti-American behavior on the part of Muslim soldiers like Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.</p>
<p>The CAIR-induced mass silence led to mass murder.</p>
<p>Fear in the military of being seen as anti-Muslim also blocked intellectually honest discussion of violent Islamic ideology in the ranks.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, the military along with everyone else in government is terrified of associating terrorism with Islam. No one dares utter the M word, lest they be sued for discrimination or branded an &#8220;anti-Muslim bigot&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobe&#8221; by CAIR&#8217;s smear merchants.</p>
<p>&#8220;There were definitely clear indications that Hasan&#8217;s loyalties were not with America,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Val Finnell, one of the Army doctors who served with Hasan. But nobody said anything because &#8220;there&#8217;s a political correctness climate in the military,&#8221; and everybody&#8217;s &#8220;afraid of an equal opportunity lawsuit.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR&#8217;s lawyers have filed thousands of EEOC complaints and lawsuits since 9/11. They&#8217;ve even gone after John Doe citizens who alerted airline crew to Muslim men behaving as menacingly and suspiciously as the 9/11 hijackers. CAIR&#8217;s &#8220;Flying While Muslim&#8221; anti-profiling campaign has had a chilling effect throughout the aviation security industry.</p>
<p>CAIR gulled non-Muslims into the kind of see-no-evil dhimmitude that allowed Hasan to carry out his alleged terror. Had anyone dared officially protest Hasan&#8217;s extremist views, they would have not only risked their military careers but potentially faced a lawsuit sponsored by CAIR.</p>
<p>Hasan was treated with kid gloves because CAIR demanded it.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, a dozen soldiers lay dead, along with 29 wounded, some so severely they&#8217;ll never be deployed in the war on terror again, which is just fine by CAIR.</p>
<p>Since 9/11, the Saudi-funded front group has consistently and vehemently protested the war, even in Afghanistan, while defending the Taliban and other terrorists.</p>
<p>CAIR is the No. 1 generator of the false narrative that America is at war against Islam, which is the single-most compelling force motivating homegrown terrorists such as, allegedly, Hasan, who said as much in his PowerPoint diatribe and comments to colleagues. In fact, the chosen topic of his presentation was, &#8220;Is the War on Terror a war on Islam?&#8221;</p>
<p>Around the same time, CAIR&#8217;s then-chairman answered his question: &#8220;The United States is at war with Islam itself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thus CAIR is the primary Muslim NGO fueling anti-American hostilities and extremism in the Muslim community.</p>
<p>CAIR at the same time has mocked concerns over growing Islamic extremism in America, effectively lowering our collective guard against attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an isolated incident,&#8221; CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said of the Fort Hood terrorist attack, even though it came on the heels of some 70 arrests of Muslims involved in homegrown terrorism over the previous 12 months.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t foresee a rise in religious extremism in the Muslim community,&#8221; CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper sniffed in 2007.</p>
<p>That same year, CAIR mounted a PR offensive against a prescient report from the intelligence branch of the NYPD. Entitled &#8220;Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,&#8221; the report warned that seemingly law-abiding young Muslim men in America can be turned into terrorists through jihadi indoctrination.</p>
<p>CAIR quickly condemned the report as racist. And a confidential CAIR memo reveals its New York operatives feverishly lobbied NYPD officials to amend the report by softening its conclusion that young Muslim men pose a high security risk.</p>
<p>Following the Muslim Brotherhood playbook to Islamize in America, CAIR effectively has shut down all critical debate. CAIR and the Brotherhood are the enemy. And they are winning the propaganda war.</p>
<p>As part of their disinformation campaign, CAIR whitewashes the threat from jihad during Islamic-sensitivity training for the military, while pressuring brass to erect mosques to serve Muslim soldiers (and convert others), including the new one at Quantico. Its sister organization ISNA, meanwhile, goads the military into recruiting more Muslims, while certifying radical chaplains and lay leaders to counsel them.</p>
<p>No wonder commanders are blind to the jihadist threat in their midst. CAIR and the Muslim Mafia have thrown sand in their eyes. They run and control the Muslim racket in the military.</p>
<p>Hundreds of thousands of Muslims &#8212; including even some U.S. military officers &#8212; engage in or support jihad. It makes little sense that they all could misunderstand their religious obligations. Yet that&#8217;s the load of<br />
manure CAIR is cramming down the throats of U.S. authorities, as it privately engages in and supports jihad itself.</p>
<p><strong>CAIR and the 9/11 Mosque</strong></p>
<p>In addition, CAIR has long supported the radical 9/11 mosque where Hasan worshipped, and still protects it from the investigative scrutiny (and bulldozers) it deserves. Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., is a known breeding ground for terrorists, including:</p>
<p>* Fugitive Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, a former mosque leader to whom CAIR funneled at least $40,000.</p>
<p>* Top al-Qaida fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi, a one-time CAIR director now serving 23 years in federal prison for terrorism.</p>
<p>* Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the would-be al-Qaida presidential assassin who trained with a cell led by a former CAIR official.</p>
<p>* Mohammed al-Hanooti, a current mosque leader and unindicted co-conspirator in both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and recent Holy Land Foundation terror finance case.</p>
<p>* Ismail Elbarasse, a founding mosque member and leader who was arrested for allegedly casing the Chesapeake Bay bridge for attack.</p>
<p>* Abdelhaleem Ashqar, mosque leader and suspected Hamas operative recently convicted for obstruction of justice.</p>
<p>* Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of the al-Qaida kingpin whose name appears on the federal terrorist watchlist.</p>
<p>*  Hani Hanjour, 9/11 hijacker and Saudi national who flew the jumbo jet into the Pentagon.</p>
<p>* Nawaf al-Hazmi, 9/11 hijacker and Saudi national who joined Hanjour  on the Pentagon flight and acted as second in command of the entire al-Qaida operation behind hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta.</p>
<p>After 9/11, investigators found the phone number for Dar al-Hijrah in the Hamburg, Germany, apartment of one of the planners of the 9/11 attacks &#8212; Ramzi Binalshibh, a Gitmo detainee who will soon stand trial in Manhattan, if the Obama administration has its way.</p>
<p>Constructed with $5 million from the Saudi Embassy and run by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, Dar al-Hijrah is a terror mill and a direct threat to national security. Yet the only thing standing in the way of the mosque and justice is CAIR, which also happens to be a threat to national security.</p>
<p>CAIR maintains a booth at the mosque, and coordinates fundraising with it. Last year the group listed Dar al-Hijrah among its main supporters &#8212; along with the Saudi Embassy. The mosque&#8217;s leaders are listed as VIP contacts in CAIR&#8217;s executive Rolodex.</p>
<p>And once a month, Dar al-Hijrah&#8217;s lead imam &#8212; Shaker Elsayed &#8212; meets with top CAIR officials on the first floor of their D.C. headquarters. Elsayed has said that Muslims have the right to use violence. &#8220;We do have license to respond with all force necessary to our attackers.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also says he believes in the teachings of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, which he describes as &#8220;the closest reflection of how Islam should be in this life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of what the late al-Banna taught: &#8220;Islam wishes to do way with all states and governments anywhere which are opposed to this ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth &#8212; not just a portion, but the entire planet.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also joining the monthly CAIR breakfast: Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the nation&#8217;s first Muslim member of Congress.</p>
<p>Another imam at the mosque, Johari Abdul Malik, has preached to American Muslims that they are within Islamic law to &#8220;blow up bridges&#8221; and other infrastructure. &#8220;You can do all forms of sabotage,&#8221; he said in a 2001 Hamas conference.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s also called for Islamic supremacy in America.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will see the day when Islam, by the grace of Allah, will become the dominant way of life,&#8221; Malik told his flock in 2004. &#8220;You will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America to being the first<br />
religion in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Malik is a close friend of the former Dar al-Hijrah imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, who privately ministered to the 9/11 hijackers. After the attacks, Awlaki fled to London, where he gave a sermon extolling the virtues of martyrdom.</p>
<p>In an interview with me, Malik defended his friend&#8217;s sermon, arguing Muslims who die while fighting unbelievers in the cause of Allah are no different from U.S. Marines fighting and dying for America in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the same thing as telling Marines in this country <em>semper fidelis</em>,&#8221; Malik said. &#8220;Telling people to give their all for their faith is not an unusual idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>His mosque handled the funeral services of Maj. Hasan&#8217;s mother when she passed away in 2001. It was then that Hasan fell under the spell of Dar al-Hijrah cleric Awlaki, aka Aulaqi.</p>
<p><strong>CAIR and the 9/11 Imam</strong></p>
<p>One of al-Qaida&#8217;s top Western recruiters, Awlaki is considered a rock star among jihadists, and has cultivated fans among CAIR officials. Hooper&#8217;s protege Ismail Royer and his terrorist cell chauffeured Awlaki around<br />
Washington as he looked for new terrorist recruits. Prosecutors also found his phone number stored on their cell phones.</p>
<p>Currently heading his booster club within the organization, with Royer now behind bars, is the civil-rights coordinator for CAIR&#8217;s Los Angeles chapter, Affad Shaikh, who has listened to Awlaki&#8217;s lectures and posted links to his Web site on his blog Muslamics.</p>
<p>Shaikh, who in 2008 was questioned by Homeland Security agents near San Diego, appears to have a death wish.</p>
<p>&#8220;In death there is something to celebrate,&#8221; he recently wrote on his blog in a post titled &#8220;Celebrating Death.&#8221; The essay mirrors one Awlaki previously posted on another Web site titled &#8220;Why Muslims Love Death.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our culture of martyrdom needs to be revived,&#8221; the imam preaches, &#8220;because the enemy of Allah fears nothing more than our love of death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Global Islamic domination is the goal.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will implement the rule of Allah on earth by the tip of the sword whether the masses like it or not,&#8221; Awlaki has written.</p>
<p>In the final slide of Hasan&#8217;s 50-slide PowerPoint screed on Islam, he borrowed a page from Awlaki&#8217;s hatebook, warning fellow Army doctors: &#8220;We love death more than you love life.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also wrote: &#8220;If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the &#8216;infidels&#8217;: ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc.&#8221;</p>
<p>He no doubt had Muslim groups like CAIR in mind, which have certainly accomplished that goal through radical propaganda and the financing of suicide bombings through charitable fronts groups.</p>
<p>Al-Qaida&#8217;s Awlaki, whom Hooper describes simply as &#8220;a former Virginia imam,&#8221; has spoken at Islamic conferences with longtime CAIR director and fundraiser Siraj Wahhaj.</p>
<p><strong>Establishing an Islamic State</strong></p>
<p>Army doctors recall Hasan declaring Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim first and I hold the Shariah, the Islamic law, before the United States Constitution,&#8221; he<br />
said.</p>
<p>Hasan also encouraged Muslims to fight to &#8220;establish an Islamic state&#8221; in America.</p>
<p>Where have we heard this before? From none other than CAIR&#8217;s founding chairman, Omar Ahmad, who once told a Muslim audience: &#8220;Islam isn&#8217;t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>And we&#8217;ve also heard it from CAIR communications director Hooper, who last decade let it slip out that: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want to create the impression that I wouldn&#8217;t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR and Hasan share the same radical agenda.</p>
<p>CAIR may bill itself as a &#8220;civil-rights advocacy group,&#8221; but the FBI says<br />
that far from being a benign nonprofit, it&#8217;s a front group for Hamas<br />
terrorists and the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America. And the bureau<br />
last year cut off formal ties to CAIR&#8217;s national office in Washington and<br />
all 30 of its branch offices across the country.</p>
<p>CAIR at the time blamed the severance policy on the &#8220;right-wing&#8221; Bush administration, and confidently predicted that a Democrat administration would restore relations. No such luck. Nearly a year into the Obama administration, CAIR remains frozen out. Even the Muslim-friendly President Obama has not helped CAIR, much to its chagrin.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Justice Department has blacklisted CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. It ended in convictions on all<br />
108 counts.</p>
<p>Prosecutors have also connected CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide<br />
jihadist movement that seeks to institutionalize Shariah law (think:<br />
Taliban) in America and the West through immigration, coercion and political<br />
infiltration.</p>
<p>&#8220;From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists,&#8221; assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg stated in a court filing.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood is the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida. They share the same goals but use different methods to achieve them. &#8220;The only difference between the guys in the suits and the guys with the AK-47s is timing and tactics,&#8221; explains an FBI official in Washington.</p>
<p>The FBI last year severed ties to CAIR, citing court evidence that its leaders were participating in an &#8220;ongoing&#8221; conspiracy to support terrorists. Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has requested that the FBI&#8217;s anti-CAIR ban &#8220;should be government-wide policy.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>CAIR&#8217;s Proven Ties to Terrorists</strong></p>
<p>No fewer than 15 CAIR officials have been convicted or implicated in terrorism investigations since 9/11 &#8212; including its founding chairman, Ahmad, and acting executive director, Nihad Awad. The two Palestinian<br />
refugees participated in a secret Hamas meeting (wiretapped by the FBI) whereby a plot was hatched to disguise payments to suicide bombers as charity. Millions subsequently were funneled to Hamas through the Holy Land charity.</p>
<p>And the CAIR co-founders remain under government suspicion, as a result of evidence emerging from the Holy Land terror trial.</p>
<p>&#8220;During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and &#8230; HAMAS,&#8221; wrote assistant FBI Director Richard Powers in an April 2009 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p>
<p><strong>Tipping Off Terror Targets</strong></p>
<p>Meantime, CAIR and its surrogates are spying on the FBI. The group has cultivated spies inside a Washington-area law enforcement agency, which resulted in at least one Muslim cop representing CAIR on the force searching a classified federal database and then tipping off a fellow Muslim who had been under FBI surveillance as a terrorist suspect.</p>
<p>CAIR also is aggressively lobbying to deny law enforcement tools needed to crack down on terrorists and protect the nation from another 9/11.</p>
<p>CAIR is a tax-exempt nonprofit bound by IRS rules restricting lobbying activities; yet in one year alone, internal records show CAIR officials made 72 separate trips to Congress to lobby to kill the USA Patriot Act.</p>
<p>Concerned members of Congress led by intrepid Rep. Sue Myrick have asked the IRS to audit CAIR and its shady financing. Americans should know the following about this unregistered foreign lobbyist:</p>
<p>* CAIR&#8217;s major funding comes from Persian Gulf sources, including Saudi Arabia, and not from grass-roots domestic supporters as it publicly claims (in fact, membership dues now account for a puny 1% of CAIR&#8217;s total revenue).</p>
<p>* CAIR leaders, including spokesman Hooper, travel frequently to the Middle East to personally raise cash.</p>
<p>* Bank wire records published exclusively in &#8220;Muslim Mafia&#8221; show a Saudi royal family member recently transferred more than $110,000 directly into CAIR&#8217;s bank account at Citibank, for example.</p>
<p>* After 9/11, the ruler of Dubai took a nearly $1 million stake in CAIR&#8217;s headquarters, just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, and has pledged millions more.</p>
<p>* &#8220;Do not think about your contributions [to CAIR] as donations,&#8221; CAIR&#8217;s former chairman told CAIR&#8217;s UAE patrons. &#8220;Think about it from the perspective of rate of return. The investment of $50 million will give you<br />
billions of dollars in return for 50 years.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR is selling its services to the UAE and Saudi governments by doing their ideological and commercial bidding.</p>
<p>Yet CAIR is not registered as a foreign agent, as required by the Justice Department. And it has never disclosed its foreign funding or relationships with countries tied to 9/11 and potentially still hostile to U.S. interests.</p>
<p>CAIR says it&#8217;s the Muslim ACLU. But it&#8217;s the Muslim ACORN &#8212; only more dangerous because it&#8217;s backed by Arab governments, supports terrorism, and ultimately seeks to convert the U.S. into an Islamic police state modeled after Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Make no mistake. Do not be fooled by the moderate mask. Or the belated patriotic rhetoric. CAIR wants the same demise for America as al-Qaida does.</p>
<p>CAIR helps terrorists, and hates the FBI.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because CAIR is one of the bad guys.</p>
<p>CAIR is America&#8217;s enemy.</p>
<p>CAIR is <em>your</em> enemy.</p>
<p><strong>Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is author of &#8220;Infiltration&#8221; and co-author of the new book, &#8220;<a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America</a>.&#8221; Email: <a href="http://ca.mc882.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Sperry@SperryFiles.com">Sperry@SperryFiles.com</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>Many Evangelical Left elites have embraced pacifism and anti-Americanism as an easy way to differentiate themselves from the supposedly idolatrous patriotism of religious conservatives.  A chief architect of this new fad is Duke University ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, who recently boasted he hopes to be as “toxic” as Jeremiah Wright.</p>
<p>Once hailed by Time magazine as America’s most influential theologian, Hauerwas is a United Methodist who worships at an Episcopal “peace” church but whose primary following is probably about the new Evangelical Left.</p>
<p>Hauerwas was recently interviewed by Religion News Service and reiterated that the Afghan and Iraq Wars, like World War II, failed to live up to traditional Christian Just War standards.   Of course, for pacifist absolutists like himself, no war or act of violence can ever fulfill the ostensibly unattainable Just War check list.   For them, violence in defense of the “empire” is especially pernicious and anti-Christian.</p>
<p>In an interview immediately after 9-11 with enthusiastically approving fellow-pacifist and Evangelical Left Sojourners chief Jim Wallis, Hauerwas asked:  “How in the world are you going to have a just war when you have a Pentagon and a State Department built on national self interest? Just war isn&#8217;t built on national self interest, but the Pentagon and our State Department&#8217;s foreign policy are built upon political realism informed by national self interest.”</p>
<p>Actually, traditional Christian Just War teaching does recognize “national self Interest” in that every government is providentially tasked to defend its own people, no less so than parents are called to protect their own children.  But just as pacifist absolutists would insist, at least in theory, that a parent must only disapprovingly watch while a child is assaulted, so governments must not respond to aggression with anything other than high hopes for peace and reconciliation.   Hauerwas&#8217;s claim of non-violence as the central doctrine of faith would have surprised nearly all the biblical prophets and apostles.</p>
<p>Naturally, in his recent interview, Hauerwas is critical of President Obama’s new Afghan war surge.  “Afghanistan was understood to be part of the war against terror, and that was a decisive mistake because as soon as you said we are at war, you gave Osama bin Laden what he wanted—he became a warrior, and not just a murderer,” Hauerwas opined.  “I would be much happier with a whole reconsideration of our involvement there—not as a war, but as a police function, and how the police might intervene to arrest bin Laden.”</p>
<p>Hauerwas admitted that “police” action against al Qaeda sounds “utopian” but no less than “thinking you’re going to win a war in Afghanistan. I can’t imagine anything more utopian than that. Ask the British. Ask the Russians. It’s never going to happen.”  Of course, as a pacifist absolutist, Hauerwas would oppose any military feat in Afghanistan even if victory were easily attained within minutes.</p>
<p>In his post-9-11 Wallis interview, Hauerwas predictably condemned any possible U.S. military response and instead suggested referring bin Laden to an “Islamic court.”  In his view, “We would have been much better off trying to be patient and working with all the complexities that that might have meant &#8212; to see if they could have brought him to some justice.”  Of course, Islamic courts are not typically pacifist.  What would Hauerwas, or Wallis, have said if such a court had beheaded or dismembered bin Laden?  In fact, such pacifists are never very concerned about Islamist violence, only American military violence.   Still, Hauerwas emphasized to Wallis that he did not think the Taliban and bin Laden are “nice people.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Not nice&#8221; is about as harsh as Hauerws will get with radical Islam.  Hauerwas would prefer to aim at purportedly more nefarious Christians who do not share his absolute pacifism and anti-Americanism.  In his recent interview, he characterized the response by American Christians to 9-11 as “awful” because they refused to distinguish themselves from the imperialistic American “we,” from which Hauerwas emphatically and distastefully does distinguish himself.  With more purported discernment than average church goers, he insisted that the Afghan War was “so deeply ambiguous” that it could not possibly qualify as just, not that he thinks any war could be.</p>
<p>All Christians must be pacifist, Hauerwas further insisted to his recent interviewer.  And they should start by confronting military personnel in their own congregations.  “I have high regard for people in the military, but very seldom are they asked to justify what they’re doing,” he lamented.  He urged President Obama to confess that the “war on terror was a mistake and we’ve got to start, as Americans, learning to live in a world that we don’t control.”</p>
<p>Hauerwas gleefully admitted that his counsel to Obama would be politically poisonous, “just like Jeremiah Wright. I hope I’m absolutely as toxic as Jeremiah Wright,” because “I think what I’m saying is what Christians should be saying.”  Fortunately, most Christians outside of insulated academia and some pulpits do not share Hauerwas&#8217;s nearly idolatrous insistence on non-violence at all costs or his contempt for America.</p>
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