NIE: WE'RE "CREATING" JIHADIS?

Thanks to Reliapundit for bringing me on board. Here's my insight for the day:

The NIE report that the Dems and their media spokesmen are getting so worked up about goes wrong by presenting data through the lens of a particular moral outlook, which clearly is by no means the only one, and as I see it is the incorrect one. These people are data collectors, they're not moral philosophers.

Specifically, to say that the NIE shows the war is "creating" jihadis is no different from looking at social science data showing a correlation between crime and poverty, and saying that poverty therefore "causes" crime. Wrong, it's just data, and the moral judgment you draw from that data is your own.

And of course, my view is that people are morally responsible for their own choices. If someone looks at a picture of a Burger King ice cream cone and sees something which justifies murder, I don't blame Burger King for that, I blame him. But that's just me. Read my entire outburst here.

BUSH'S GOAL - TO TRANSFORM THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST - IS WORKING

DAILY STAR (which is an Arab publication; via RCP):

[According to Zogby polling in several Arab nations]: An Arab middle class with global values was emerging, and Arab populations seemed to be moving toward greater identification with their individual countries, rather than primarily expressing wider pan-Arab or pan-Islamic sentiments. ... one reason for this change was "disappointment and disillusionment with the results of pan-Arab policies and attitudes, ...

Another reason is obviously Bush's forward-leaning pro-democracy/human rights policies.

I hope the polling data is accurate, and that we have the patience and resoluteness to see this transformation through to the end. (We mustn't bail out on this part of our strategy in the GWOT, nor should we bet the house on it, either.) Because it will take time, as in DECADES, like the Cold War. This struggle is at least as important, too: We need to liberate all our brothers and sisters everywhere from the archaic ideologies and vestigial tyrannies which prevent them from achieving their innate universal human rights. That's what "neocons" FDR and JFK believed; it's still just, right and true.

NOTE: Pastorius is growing more restless - with good reason; SEE THE NEXT POST. I'm arguing for more patience, but I am not arguing that we must rely solely on this part of our strategy. We can and should do more to foment more rapid change in the region:

Like demanding an end to all legal misogyny in the region, and an end to polygamy and endogamy.

These archaic inhumane practices are the foundational breeding ground for the enemy's capability for constant hostility and unspeakable cruelty to anyone they consider an infidel. When the most of the enemy's families are based on free choice, love, and respect for women, then they will raise children who love life as much as we do. And then, they will hate terror as much as we do, too.

Waiting For Moderate Muslims Is Like Waiting For Godot

In recent weeks, I have been making the same statement over and over ad nauseum. Here it is:

There is not a single Islamic political organization, media outlet, academic institution, or government, of any appreciable size, anywhere in the world, which is moderate.

Those who read me are probably getting sick of hearing it. Perhaps, wondering if I have lost my edge, my ability to come up with new ideas on a daily basis. Maybe I have, because I confess, I am definately stuck on this idea. It seems to me there is no greater outrage in this world than this one simple truth.

I wonder whether many readers believe me when I write this, so on occasion I challenge those who read me to come up with one example of a moderate Muslim organization. I have yet to have a single commenter even attempt to rise to the challenge. And, if any do, I am extremely confident that I will be able to prove, in short order, that the organization is not at all moderate.

And, if there are any who do not believe me (for it is an extreme statement to make, even if true), well then, here is a Muslim who is saying the same thing as I (from the Toronto Sun):

In a recent column, Michael Coren, my colleague here at the Sun, demanded Muslims apologize for wrongs too numerous to list. Coren is right. I, as a Muslim, apologize without equivocation or reservation for the terrible crimes -- small and big -- committed by Muslims against non-Muslims and against Muslims, as in Darfur, who are weak and easy prey to those who hold power in the name of Islam.

I imagine, however, Coren is not seeking an apology from a person of Muslim faith such as I, who maintains no rank and cannot speak on behalf of the institutionalized world of Islam. Like many others who share his frustration and legitimate anger, Coren is asking to hear a contrite voice from within institutionalized Islam -- to repent for Muslim misconduct, past and present, that is indefensible by any standard of civility and decency, and seek forgiveness.

But Coren and others might well wait indefinitely for such an apology from those representatives of institutionalized Islam convinced of their own righteousness, even as they are engineers of a civilization's wreckage and prosper in it by the art of bullying.

Oh, we will not wait indefinitely. Of that, I can assure you. The problem for moderates who are Muslim is that we are getting sick of waiting. And the day that we become completely fed up will be a very sad day for all of humanity.

ENEMY'S IN-HOUSE PROPAGANDA MACHINE - AS DESCRIBED BY THEIR INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTOR

NYTIMES:

Abu Omar ... began distributing the latest video by Al Qaeda, alerting friends and occasionally adding commentary. “We are the energy behind the path to jihad,” Abu Omar said proudly. “Just like the jihadis reached their target on Sept. 11, we will reach ours through the Internet.” Abu Omar, 28, is part of an increasingly sophisticated network of contributors and discussion leaders helping to wage Al Qaeda’s battle for Muslim hearts and minds. ...

In recent years, Al Qaeda has formed a special media production division called Al Sahab to produce videos about leaders like Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri, terrorism experts say. ... Al Qaeda has been turning itself ... into a propaganda organization,” ... “They now appear to be focused on putting out disinformation and projecting the strength of the mujahedeen....

... Though he does not appear to be directly connected to Al Qaeda, Abu Omar does seem to be on a direct e-mail list for groups sympathetic to Al Qaeda, making him a link in a chain that spreads the organization’s propaganda using code and special software to circumvent official scrutiny of their Internet activity.

Er um.... "putting out disinformation and projecting the strength of the mujahedeen" and "a link in a chain that spreads the organization’s propaganda..." Well er that sounds just like THE NEW YORK TIMES!

INDIA: PAKISTAN'S ISI BEHIND MUMBAI BOMBINGS

BBC:

Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people... The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba ... Mumbai's police chief said.

NYTIMES:

Pakistan's Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, the country's top spy agency, began planning the attacks in March and later provided training to those who carried out the bombings in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Pakistan has in the past denied any involvement in the attacks and it was not immediately clear what implications the revelations would have on the fragile peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Pakistan is a fragile ally with nukes. If the bad elements of their society and the ISI get control of the govvernment, then they'd become - overnight - what we fear Iran becoming: a nuclear armed jihadoterror state. We would have to immediately preemptively neutralize their nukes - with whatever it would take. I assume the plans for this are in a lockbox in the Pentagon, and I'm glad Bush has the key and not a Democrat dove.

DANIEL ELLSBERG STILL HAS SOME JUICE

The man famous for leaking The Pentagon Papers has a piece in the October issue of Harpers in which he calls on government insiders to leak information on any war plans the U.S. government has for Iran. This call to arms from Ellsberg was "leaked" to Editor & Publisher a few weeks ago. Then just in the past week we get a leak from somewhere in the government of the National Intelligence Estimate which seemed to say that the Iraq War is hurting the War on Terror. Okay, it's not exactly what Ellsberg was calling for...he said Iran, not Iraq, but it's close enough. It may be a coincidence, or it may be that the Vietnam era traitor has some sway with the traitors of the modern era.

EVEN AS "ANTI-WAR" CRITICS MOVE GOALPOSTS, BUSH SCORES

BUSH (speaking to ROA):

... from the beginning, our actions in Afghanistan have had a clear purpose... And from the beginning, the American people have heard the critics say we're failing -- but their reasons keep changing.

In the first days of Operation Enduring Freedom, the critics warned that we were heading toward a "quagmire." And then when the Taliban fell, and operations began in Iraq, the critics held up the multinational coalition in Afghanistan as a model, and said it showed that everything we were doing in Iraq was wrong.

And now some of the critics who praised the multinational coalition we built in Afghanistan claim that the country is in danger of failing because we don't have enough American troops there.

...Iraq is not the reason the terrorists are at war against us. ... This argument buys into the enemy's propaganda that the terrorists attack us because we're provoking them. I want to remind the American citizens that we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001. ... You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism.

If that ever becomes the mind set of the policymakers in Washington, it means we'll go back to the old days of waiting to be attacked and then respond. Our most important duty is to protect the American people from a future attack, and the way to do so is to stay on the offense against the terrorists.

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The American Spirit Vs. The Jihadi Spirit

They shoot little girls in the head and leave them to die. American soldiers give them medical care, and try to help them sleep by holding them through the night.

A picture is worth a thousand words, indeed:

"Got a tough, but heartwarming story and a picture of John Gebhardt in Iraq. For those that did not know John, he was our former Med Group Chief.

Anyway, his wife talked with mine last evening and sent this picture. Mindy related that this little girl’s entire family was executed…they intended to execute her also and shot her in the head…but they failed to kill her.

She was cared for by John’s hospital and healing up, but has been crying and moaning. The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair. "

You will never hear of the American Armed Forces following a policy of rounding up families and executing them for following the wrong ideology. It doesn't happen, and it will never happen.

But, if you read the news, you will see that Islamofascist Jihadis do this on a daily basis, killing men, women and children, as a policy, for failing to adhere strongly enough to their Islamofascist ideology.

That's "The American Spirit vs The Jihadi Spirit" in a nutshell.

CARTER - AMERICA'S WORST PRESIDENT EVER - CARES MORE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL OPINION THAN THE USA

brunch/lunckunch or dinner on saturday.







DHIMMI CARTER:

Former President Carter is urging northern Nevadans to elect his son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought "international disgrace" to the country.

Sheesh. I remember Carter. I voted for the creep (back in the days when I was a Leftie more afraid of Reagan than the USSR!). Now I can clearly deduce that he was a TOTAL DISASTER as POTUS, and chiefly responsible for all the serious problems we face: Carter let the Shah fall and ushered in the Ayatollah - and the era of jihadoterror. Carter allowed the USSR to march into Afghanistan, and Central America. Carter told Americans to lower our expectations and wear sweaters. Carter was a freakin' failure who was wrong then and is wrong now.

And now he's arguing that we need to make changes in our political leadership in order to gain friends overseas! Sheesh! Doing the right thing is NEVER a popularity contest - you can't ever take a poll to determine what's the right thing to do - NOT if you have scruples and principles. And you certainly don't take polls overseas or at the UN. Not unless you're a stinking failure trying to remake your legacy. Like Carter - and Clinton. (MORE HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.)

9/30/06 ADDENDUM: All the photos are of private-citizen Carter and socialist tyrants he's gone out of his way to assist, (Arafat, Kim, Chavez and Fidel). He has never gone out of his way to assist the victims of tyranny. 9/30/06 UPDATE #2: VDH agrees about Carter.

THE INNOVATIVE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST VS THE REACTIONARY ISLAMIC EAST

For anyone who has trouble picking sides in the ongoing Middle East Conflict, let's step back from the conflict itself and look at some facts about the two sides. What do the two sides do with their relative resources? (From the Zionist Youngster):

Whatever wealth they have is the result of their good fortune (of having oil under their ground) and not of their efforts. Israel, poor in such natural resources, prospers by the brains and the sweat of its people ... This setting up of industry, science and culture by the Zionists predates the independence of Israel by decades, whereas the invented nation calling themselves “Palestinians” have been engaged in nothing but internecine warfare (of the violent kind), the setting up of terrorist training camps, and the maintenance of a poisonous education system ever since gaining land of their own in 1993.

Such is the difference between Israel and its enemies ...

Yes, but let's look a bit more at the difference. In 2002, the United Nations Development Program released its report on development in the 22 states of the Arab World. Get a load of these statistics:

• No Arab country spends more than 0.2 percent of its gross national product on scientific research, and most of that money goes toward salaries. By contrast, the United States spends more than 10 times that amount.
• No more than 10,000 books were translated into Arabic over the entire past millennium, equivalent to the number translated into Spanish each year.
• Only 370 industrial patents were issued to people in Arab countries between 1980 and 2000. In South Korea during that same period, 16,000 industrial patents were issued.
  

Is the answer, then, that Jews are smart, and Arabs are stupid? No, the answer lies in Islamic ideology vs. Jewish ideology. Arabs are predominantly Muslim. Islam teaches that the Koran is the final word of Allah, and that all circumstances are Insh'allah (as Allah wills it). And, what's more Allah is beyond his creation and totally incomprehensible.

Judaism, and Christianity by extension, teaches that humans particpate in God's creation in every way, from helping to write the Word of God (The Bible) to maintaining the garden, to naming the animals. And, God is not incomprehensible to man. Instead, man was created in God's Image. Therefore, just as God is rational and creative, we are to be rational and creative.

In the world of Islam, it is blasphemy to think this way. And, that is why Muslims invent almost nothing, and produce little wealth with all the revenue from their oil. Well, they did invent the Buzzing Prayer Rug. So, let's give Allah credit where credit is due.

So, even if you have trouble disentangling the politics of the Middle East Conflict, which side would you rather have win? Which side would you rather see increase its influence in this world?

Also see: Observations on Arabs. Isaac Schrodinger also has some important links on this subject.

BUSH FAILS THE CONAN THE BARBARIAN TEST

Drudge is headlining that "The Gloves Are Off" for George W. Bush as he campaigns for Republicans going into the fall elections, just some 40 days away. I'd really like to believe it this time, but these past nearly 6 years have made me pessimistic at best.

I think when all is said and done for George W. and we look back on his legacy (you know, that thing Bill Clinton thinks of 24/7) there will be two major mistakes that stand out. The first, of which much has been written, is his refusal to clear the executive branch of former Clintonites, George Tenet being the poster boy for this failure. The second mistake, his failure to engage his political enemies and instead cling to "a new tone" in Washington. George W. Bush learned quickly that reasoning with our enemy in the War on Terror is a dead end, so why does he refuse to learn this with his enemy at home? Granted, Bush is a very secure person who doesn't care what people think of him. Overall, that's a good thing and part of his strength, but he takes it one bridge too far. The more he's worked with the Democrats (remember the Ted Kennedy Education Bill?) the more they've turned on him. Hell, even the RINO's he's gone to the mat for, Chafee, Specter, can't wait for a chance to stab him in the back.

I don't pretend to know what's in the minds of the majority of voters, but if they're like me, they vote for someone who will fight for what he believes in and will answer the challenges from his enemies. This is what many of us have been waiting for and are still waiting for on the global stage.

WHO IS REALLY KILLING MOST ARABS AND MUSLIMS?

SOLOMONIA (from a lengthy article by Ben Dror Yemini):

...The total count reaches about 60,000 Arabs killed in the framework of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Among them only several thousand Palestinians, although it is because of them, and only them, that Israel is the target of the world’s anger. Every Arab and Muslim death is regrettable. And it is okay to criticize Israel. But the obsessive and demonic criticism emphasizes a far more amazing fact: The silence of the world, or at least relative silence, in the face of the systematic extermination of millions of others by Muslim and Arab regimes.

60,000 SINCE 1949. That's in SEVERAL WARS: in 1949, 1956, 1967, 1972, two intifada's, the Lebanon war and the Hizballah war. That's over 57 years. DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME:

more Arabs were killed by other Arabs - in Algeria alone at least 500,000 have been killed; more Arabs were killed by Persians - in the Iran-Iraw War; more Muslims were killed by Hindus in India; and more Shias were killed by Sunnis in Iraq alone.

Therefore, the whole entire FOCUS of the world on the Israeli-Arab conflict is entirely bogus, a reflection of anti-Semitism and not REALITY. And it also reflects the fact that many MANY people - of all partisan persuasions - have bought into Arab propaganda which demonizes and blames Israel - the "Israel Lobby", the Jewish neocons, the Likudniks - for our current GWOT. But the truth is that Casey Sheehan did not die for Israel, and the three IDF soldiers who are being held hostage are not victims of anti-Zionism. Casey died for humanity's thousand year struggle to attain universal human rights, peace and prosperity for everyone. And the IDF soldiers are hostages because they were on the front-lines of that war.

Those who blame Israel for Arab genocide or for igniting the GWOT are doing the bidding of the enemy.

9/29/06 UPDATE: VDH AGREES: "... radical Islam's hatred of Jews is becoming normalized." RTWT.

ACCORDING TO THE NYTIMES: THE NYTIMES "SWIFT" LEAK MADE US ALL LESS SAFE

NYTIMES:

[Swift’s chief executive, Leonard Schrank, said,] “We are caught between complying with the U.S. and European rules, and it’s a train wreck. But what we have done saves lives in the U.S. and Europe, and we must not lose sight of that.”

The fact that Swift did not notify European authorities about the data transfers until after their existence was revealed in an article in The New York Times prompted criticism of Swift by the Belgian commission.

Mr. Schrank said that Swift had satisfied the relevant disclosure rules, but had decided “not to notify broadly” for fear of tipping off terrorists to security tactics.

TOO BAD FOR US: The NYTIMES tipped off the terrorists. AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE NYTIMES, NO LESS! SHEESH!

Seriously, since the folks who write and publish the NYTIMES are not dummies, we must deduct that they wanted to tip off the enemy. Which makes them TRAITORS. If Bush had balls, then he'd have USAG Gonzales and FBID Mueller frog-march Keller and Sulzberger out of the TIMES' offices and into federal prison.

*******9/29/06 UPDATE: EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW AGREES (via NEWBUSTERS):

... those of us who ... understand the nature and importance of today’s War on Terror, should not rest until the government calls to account The New York Times—in a court of law, with an indictment and hopefully a conviction, under the Espionage Act.

This would be a HUGE blow against our jihadoterrorist enemy. We'd get fewer leaks - and less fauxtography/propaganda, too.

KAFIR: "If you want to understand virtually any Muslim attitude or behavior, you should read the Koran."

CLARITY & RESOLVE:

If you want to understand virtually any Muslim attitude or behavior, you should read the Koran....

Binladen ain't making any of his sh*t up; in fact, it's why Irshad Manji calls him and his ilk LITERALISTS. Meaning, what they say and do is literally in the Koran. It's what their scripture ORDERS THEM TO DO. It's what their culture is based on. Their family life; their goals and wishes. And it's why nearly al the terror and war in the wo9uld involves Islamists.

Just as we had to de-nazify Germany, we will have to de-islamicize that part of the world if we are ever going to have peace and bring universal human rights to all of humanity.

THE MSM SUPPORTS THE ENEMY BY STOKING THE ARAB STREET, AND ALSO BY HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE TRULY FEARSOME "AMERICAN STREET"

All the fauxtography the MSM recently ran on the Hizballah War attacked the IDF and stoked the Arab Street.

This is the same MSM which incessantly ran the Abu Ghraib photos -- (despite the many Pentagon and White House pleas NOT TO, because it would needlessly "stoke the Arab Street") -- BUT REFUSED to show photos of people jumping out of the WTC Tower, (an act Karzai rightfully felt COMPELLED to REMIND to the NYTIMES reporter who asked him and Bush a question which reeked of BDS).

Even the way the MSM reported the Pope's speech in Regensberg was blatantly distorted and reported out of context in order to make the Arab Street angry, and the Pope look bad.

These are just three simple recent examples. There literally THOUSANDS of other insatnces of blatant anti-American reporting by the MSM the last 5 years.

The consistenly Anti-American, anti-West/pro Arab Street bias can only be explained by one thing: the MSM is dominated by post mopdernists who hate the West and want the USA brought down a notch. All the BS about multi-lateralism and a "more even-handed" approach to so-called "Palistinian" issues is window-dressing.

If the MSM reported the facts accurately (AND THEY KNOW THIS!), then the AMERICAN Street would RISE UP, and the enemy would be more easily and quickly vanquished and the West saved. And the billion Muslims suffering under various forms of tyranny, poverty, and ignorance would all begin to become freer, and more proserous. Er um... more WESTERN.

The MSM is the enemy's MOST EFFEFTIVE weapon: the only way the enemy can win is if we give up. And the only way we will ever give up is if Americans can be brainwashed into feeling we have already lost. This is how the Left - and the the MSM they dominate - got the USA to abandon South Vietnam. They want to do it again - TO IRAQ THIS TIME. And they're using the same methods: the BIG LIE, sensationalist stories which misrepresent the truth -- (if you read "news" about Tete at the ntimje then you'd belive we lost! But the fact is... WE WON! When Cronkite reported on it he treated it as a lost, and LBJ said, fampusly, that if he'd lost Cronkite, then he'd lost the country. The MSM has never forgotten this).

MORE HERE - (links to a brilliant piece by Lifson of The American Thinker).

9/29/06 UPDATE: VDH AGREES: "... radical Islam's hatred of Jews is becoming normalized." By the MSM and the academy.

JUST A REMINDER: BDS IS REAL, AND THOSE AFFLICTED ARE REALLY INSANE

Remember the Bush/Kerry debates? The BDS afflicted Left accused Bush of wearing a device to help him answer questions. It was reported by SALON and MOTHER JONES. Of course, this charge was insane.

TODAY... popular Left-wing blogger MARC COOPER (and PJM associate) actually wrote this:

“Whatever else this is, it is not a constitutional democracy. It is a thinly-veiled military dictatorship, subject to only one control: the will of the Great Decider. And the war that justifies this astonishing attack on American liberty is permanent, without end.”

This charge is simply insane, too. This is the same crowd that claims 9/11 was an inside job. WHICH IS BEYOND INSANE!

The Left is dominated by insane, BDS afflicted wackos. And the Left dominates the Democrat Party. Which is why we mustn't let them win EITHER House of Congress.

ISLAM: "LIKE A 3 YR OLD ... WITH ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS"

LILEKS (via VIKINGPUNDIT):

Islam has to be treated with unusual deference, like a 3-year-old child with anger management problems.

The over-indulged "young bullie" comparison is very apt on a political level, too: libs are sterotypically soft on discipling their own kids, and (as Sowell pointed out today - via RCP) they've always been weak on punishing criminals and gangs. Just as they've always blamed gang crime on "social conditions" instead of on the criminals, they blame the USA and/or Bush for jihadoterror - despite the fact that jihadoterror is 1400 years old! Sowell:

... the same people who have for years been more protective of criminals than of their victims who are now more protective of captured terrorists than of those who are their targets. When such attitudes became ascendant in our courts during the 1960s, the declining trend in crime rates suddenly reversed and skyrocketed, as liberal judges created new "rights" for criminals out of thin air and called it constitutional law.

But this goes far beyond judges and far beyond our own times. The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

So, the Left's efforts to appease jihadoterror as if it were a criminal problem - or a form of juvenile delinquincy which "WE" are someow responsible for - is very deep-rooted. And this is why we mustn't allow the Democrat Party - which is now firmly under control of its Left-wing - win control of either House of Congress.

SAUDIS TO BUILD FENCE ALONG ENTIRE IRAQI BORDER

AP (via Drudge):

Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence to block terrorists from crossing its 560-mile border with Iraq _ another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq's neighbors into its civil conflict.

The barrier, which hasn't been started, is part of a $12 billion package of measures including electronic sensors, security bases and physical barriers to protect the oil-rich kingdom from external threats, said Nawaf Obaid, head of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, an independent research institute that advises the Saudi government.

THE SAUDIS ARE BUILDING AN ANTI-TERROR FENCE, AND NEITHER THE UN, NOR THE EU, NOR HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, OR ISM OR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PROTESTED.

BUT WHEN ISRAEL BUILT A FENCE - FOR THE SAME REASON, THEY ALL PROTESTED AND EVEN TOOK ISRAEL TO THE WORLD COURT.

WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD? SIMPLE: ANTI-SEMITISM. AND THIS IS THE VERY SAME REASON WHY ISRAEL WASN'T ALLOWED TO DESTROY HIZBALLAH, TOO. JEWS ARE HELD TO A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES THAN EVERYONE ELSE. IT'S UNFAIR. AND WRONG. THE ENTIRE WEST IS FACING THE SAME ENEMY, AND WE SHOULD ALL PULL TOGETHER.

9/28/06 UPDATE: GATEWAY PUNDIT AGREES.

TOKYO ROSE DIES, BUT HER TRAITOROUS LEGACY LIVES ON IN THE MSM

NYTIMES:

Iva Toguri D’Aquino, the Japanese-American convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda from Japan to United States servicemen in World War II as the seductive but sinister Tokyo Rose, died Tuesday in Chicago.

... Up to the end of World War II, there had only been some 30 treason cases in United States history. When Mrs. D’Aquino [Tokyo Rose] went on trial, five Americans had been convicted of treason for actions in the war, four having broadcast for Nazi Germany, most notably Millard Gillars, known as Axis Sally.

Tom DeWolfe, a special assistant attorney general, told the jury that Mrs. D’Aquino had engaged in “nefarious propagandistic broadcasts” without being under duress.

Er um, it seems to me that most of the MSM is guilty of willingly broadcasting nefarious propaganda for the enemy nowadays! And THIS - MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE - demoralizes our side and helps the enemy recruit.

I truly feel that many in the MSM should be prosecuted for aiding the enemy - especially the leakers, like the NYTIMES. When the MSM repeatedly shows the Abu Ghraib photos and repeats false stories - like al Duras and Jeningrad and the toiletted Koran - they only serve our enemies.

EGYPT SENDS A HARSHLY WORDED LETTER TO HAMAS DEMANDING RELEASE OF IDF SOLDIER

This is a nice PR gesture, but harshly worded letters to jihadoterrorists are about as effective as cursing the wind. JPOST:

Egypt has demanded that Hamas immediately release kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit to avoid a worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and Arab diplomats said.

The Egyptian demand came in a "strongly worded letter" from Egypt's powerful intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to the Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the officials said Tuesday.

It is time the ENTIRE West - and all those who aspire to the freedoms and prosperity of the West - stopped defending itself with harshly worded letters. The West must confront the enemy with real harsh consequences. The only message we need to deliver to Mashal should be delivered by a Hellfire missile via a Predator Drone!

USA HEGEMONY ISN'T JUST A MYTH; IT'S TOTAL BS!

A while back I posted a short essay which entirely disproved the idiotic Leftist notion of "USA CULTURAL Hegemony"; (CLICK HERE).

I will now demolish the Leftist idea of "USA Political Hegemony" - just by comparing the nations said to be under USA hegemony the last 50 years to the nations under Soviet of Jihadist hegemony.

All the nations under so-called USA hegemony expanded their human rights and their prosperity under USA influence and protection - while those under Soviet or Jihadist hegemony had less and less liberty, and became poorer and poorer - (until the whole shebang collapsed!):

Western Europe was better for people than Eastern Europe; South Korea was better for people than North Korea; Japan and the Philipines and Taiwan and Singapore - and South Vietnam and Thailand - were better for people than China and Cambodia and Laos. REPEAT: Hong Kong was better than China. Puerto Rico and the DR are better off than Cuba. Even India sucked until - like China - they abandoned Marxism and opened up to economic ties with the "evil greedy capitalistic USA!"

The last 2 decades of trade with the "evil greedy capitalistic " USA has lifted more Chinese out of poverty than the previous 5 decades of Marxist/Maoist idealism. We have exploited them right into the 21st century!

There is not a single solitary country which was under real USSR hegemony which did better than those under so-called "USA hegemony. " The walls were built to keep them in, not us out! The BOAT PEOPLE were fleeing Vietnam and Cuba, not San Diego or Boston!

And we didn't even EVER conscript their citizens, or tax the people in these "captive client states". In fact, the opposite is quite true: WE PAID EXTRA TAXES TO PROTECT THEM - WITH OUR CONSCRIPTS, OUR SOLDIERS, OUR BLOOD! We sacrificed for their freedom. That AIN'T "dominance"; that's humanistic heroism!

Noam Chomsky, and jerks like Chavez and Moore and Sheehan and Glover and Belafonte and Harkin who admire him, are just plain flat out wrong. TOTALLY FRIGGIN' WRONG.

The best thing for any nation the last 100 years was to become our ally.

AND NEVER FORGET THAT Saddam and Arafat and Assad and Khaddafy and Kim and Fidel - and MOST of the other real tyrants in the world who directly and indirectly threatened our national security (and the security of ourallies) - were supported by the USSR, NOT THE USA.

Sure: we tacitly supported Pinochet (and a few other unsavory authoritarians like Marcos) - but they were nothing compared to the Marxist tyrants. In fact, to this day Chile is one of the best economies in all of South America and it's a result of having been SAVED from Marxist tyranny and Soviet hegemony by PINOCHET!

So when you hear a Lefty start to whine about USA foreign policy over the last 50 years - or 50 months - and say that the USA is just doing the bidding of our power elite, the richest capitalist and industrialists (and Big Oil and Israel and Saudi Arabia) just tell them to STFU!

CHAVEZ RANT MAY CAUSE CITGO TO LOSE LUCRATIVE FLORIDA HIGHWAY LOCATIONS

CONVENIENCE STORE NEWS:

Eight CITGO stations may have to pay the price for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's statement last week about U.S. President George W. Bush. A south Florida legislator wants the state to cancel its contracts with the stations that reside along the Florida Turnpike, the Tallahassee Democrat Capitol reported.

Rep. Adam Hasner (R-Delray Beach) has written a letter to the state's Department of Transportation secretary, Denver Stutler, asking for the contract's cancellation.

"As you are aware, CITGO is wholly owned by Petroleos de Venezuela, the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Hasner wrote last week to Stutler. "We must send a clear message to Chavez and the current government of Venezuela that the state of Florida and our citizens will not support institutions that seek the destabilization of America and our institutions and freedoms."

BRAVO! We should no sooner let Chavez have these locations than let AQ Khan run our ports.

THE LEFTIE DOVES WHO RUN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ANNOUNCE THEY WILL ABANDON IRAQ

... JUST LIKE THEY ABANDONED SOUTH VIETNAM. AND THEY BRAG ABOUT IT!

THE HILL - (VIA INFIDEL BLOGGERS ALLIANCE):

... when pressed on how he could stop the war even if Democrats control the House during the last years of President Bush’s second term, Rangel [WHO WOULD BECOME CHAIRMAN OF THE POWERFUL HOUSE HAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE] paused before saying, “You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?”

Rangel’s views on funding the war are shared by many of his colleagues – especially within the 73-member Out of Iraq Caucus.

Some Democratic legislators want to halt funding for the war immediately, while others say they would allocate money for activities such as reconstruction, setting up international security forces, and the ultimate withdrawal of U.S. troops.

“Personally, I wouldn’t spend another dime [on the war,]” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.).

Woolsey is among the Democrats in Congress who are hoping to control the power of the purse in 2007 to force an end to the war. Woolsey and some of her colleagues note that Congress helped force the end of Vietnam War by refusing to pay for it.

THESE LEFTIE DOVES GET THE FACTS AND DATES WRONG, BUT THE GIST OF WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT VIETNAM IS ACCURATE - Wikipedia:

American combat troops were involved from 1959, but not in large numbers until 1965. They left the country in 1973.... [THAT'S 1973!] the war ... ended on April 30, 1975, [THAT'S 1975!] with the capitulation of South Vietnam. ...

In December 1974, the Democrat majority in Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which cut off all military funding to the South Vietnamese government and made unenforceable the peace terms negotiated by Nixon.

THE CONCLUSION IS INARGUABLE:

South Vietnam would be as free and prosperous as South Korea today (instead of almost as tyannized and poor as NORTH Korea) if the doves of the Democrat party hadn't ABANDONED them in 1975, (effectively).

And they are publicly proclaiming they will do the same thing to the Iraqis. I feel they won't stop there: They will abandon the Afghanis. And then Israelis; (FACT: a majority of Dems polled by the LAT felt that our current foreign policy is biased in favor of Israel!).

MORE HERE - in a must read/RTWT - CFR ARTICLE BY MELVIN LAIRD; excerpt:

Summary: "During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South's ability to defend itself. The result was a success -- until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly."

THE LEFTIE DOVE DEMOCRATS ARE PROMISING THEY WILL NOT FINISH THE JOB PROPERLY!

THAT'S WHY WE MUST NOT ALLOW THEM TO GET A MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE.

VIDEO PROVES AL DURAS LIVES AND FRANCE2 LIES

WATCH IT YOURSELF. WITNESS THE FILTHY ANTI-SEMITIC LIES OF THE PALISTANIS AND THEIR COMRADES IN THE MSM.

HAS AL SADR FINALLY BEEN TAMED?

Yesterday - in a post nobody seemed to notice - I related the fact that US forces had arrested a few of al Sadr's top aides, and I expressed my hope that this was the beginning of the LONG overdue get tough program.

GATEWAY PUNDIT reports news from Iraq which might indicate this new "get tough" program is already paying off; from AZZAMAN - in Iraq:

The Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr seems to be willing to compromise and is urging his followers not to use force in opposing the Iraqi government and the presence of U.S. troops. ... Sadr said his call for comprise and civil resistance was for the sake of sparing Iraqi blood.

This might be another important turning point for the Iraqi government and for Iraqi civil life. If they can get al Sadr's Brigades to chill out, then maybe they can get the sectarian violence to end and civi order restored. Remember, this deal with al Sadr comes on the heels last month's deal in which 85% of the Sunni tribal leaders annouced they would stop aiding the insurgency. And we are still killing al Qaeda bighshots in Iraq, too. SO.... I'd say current indications are that things in Iraq are finally going very VERY WELL. (Once we smash the jihadoterror-sponsoring states on Iraq's borders - Iran and Syria - things will be going GRRRRRRREAT!)

BLAMING THE IRAQ WAR FOR INCREASING JIHADOTERROR IS LIKE BLAMING THE POPE'S SPEECH FOR THE RIOTS WHICH FOLLOWED IT

YUP: BLAMING THE IRAQ WAR FOR INCREASING JIHADOTERROR IS LIKE BLAMING THE POPE'S SPEECH FOR THE RIOTS WHICH FOLLOWED IT. This iditoic approach absolves the enemy of their part, their choices, their guilt. As I have written before: We can NEVER be held responsible for what the jihadoterrorists do.

The fact is, that it was al Qaeda that decided to make Iraq a central front in their Global Jihad, not the USA or the Iraqis. Remember: the Bali bombing was BEFORE the Iraq War even started. As were many MANY other international jihadoterrorist attacks. Like.... er um: 9/11.

But we should NOT be surpirsed that this attack on Bush is being made by the CIA: they've been attacking him since the start of the war; the Plame-Wilson Affair was just one of their efforts - an attempt at a virtual coup d'etat against Bush.

The anti-war crowd always blames America first. Unless they can blame the Pope or Israel.

This crowd is made up of a bunch of post-modern elitists who are fundamentally anti-West. Folks like Kerry's father - a life-long State Department official who wrote a book in which he argued a diminshed USA would be good for the world. QUOTE:

The Star-Spangled Mirror [Richard Kerry's book] is a critique of moralism in America's foreign policy -- and, more than that, it is a critique of America's national character.

"Americans," he writes, "are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white." They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls "ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." As a result, America has committed the "fatal error" of "propagating democracy" and fallen prey to "the siren's song of promoting human rights," falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness.

The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, [Richard] Kerry argues. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes.

Just as Kerry's father, Richard, APOLOGIZED for the USSR and ATTACKED the USA, so too now do they APOLOGIZE for JIHADOTERRORISTS and attack Bush.

WHY IS THIS SO?! The CIA and the State Department are still dominated by post-modern Leftists and anti-Semitic status quoists like Kerry's father.

This report is merely another attempt by these status quoists to topple Bush, and demolish his policies. IT WON'T WORK. WHY?! Patriotic Americans don't retreat. We have only just begun to fight.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wish everyone a happy and healthy NEW YEAR!

LEAKED INTEL' REPORT ALLEGEDLY STATES THE OBVIOUS: OUR COUNTER-ATTACK - (IN IRAQ) - HAS EXACERBATED THE ENEMY.

The inept analysis divisions of the USA intel' community have apparently concluded - according to a politically inspired and timed leak, (intended to hurt Bush and the GOP before the election -- an all too common tactic of late!) - that the Iraq War has exacerbated the enemy. (MEMEORANDUM has a complete roundup.)

SO WHAT?! I mean.... counter-attacking ALWAYS makes the enemy fight-back more! And appeasement, retreat and surrender will always quiet things down - TEMPORARILY. COUNTER-ATTACKS always make the enemy fight-back harder, too - UNTIL THEY SURRENDER - this is just a fact of war; IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN, TOO!

EXAMPLE: In WW2, the Japanese use of kamikazis did not even begin until March 1945! The Japanese became more angry and desperate the closer we got to defeating them, to pulverizing them into unconditonal surrender. The enemy will save their worst most horrible heinous weapons for when they need them most - as they sense that they're getting closer to their defeat.

Until we utterly smash the jihadist enemy EVERYWHERE, they will retaliate - as much as they can, and they will escalate - as much as they can, and they will recruit - AS MUCH AS THEY CAN, becoming more desperate the more we WHACK'EM! This would be true whether we counter-attack them in Iraq or anywhere else.

SO: Can someone PLEASE tell the CIA we're at war with a seriously dangerous enemy!? (And while you're at it: tell the Left and the MSM they dominate.) And there is NO DOUBT that the defeatist anti-American reportage from the MSM has only ENCOURAGED the enemy and their DEFEATIST comrades in the Left! The MSM carrying water for the enemy - operating like a Fifth Column - has a much more negative effect on our resolve and a much more positive effect on the enemy's reslove then our successes on the battlefield.

The FACT is that the enemy has NOT WON A SINGLE, SOLITARY BATTLE IN THE ENTIRE WAR. But the way the MSM is reporting the war, many think we are losing and stuck in a quagmire. This is the result of a deliberate anti-American (so-called "anti-war") effort, and it is truly the most disgusting and dangerous front in the GWOT right now.

And these "anti-war" efforts of the MSM are absolutely going to get worse the closer we get to the election. SO: Brace yourself for more slander and defeatism. Which is why I am always saying: To defeat the jihadist enemy abroad we have to defeat the Left at home.