…and Israel’s right to exist. Bernie made the same kind of faux pas about Israel that Martin O’Malley did about “all lives matter.” They don’t want to hear it. All nations don’t matter to them, only anti-Western ones.
And you could hear a pin drop in the General Assembly this morning when Netanyahu stared them down for forty-five seconds after calling them out on their refusal to condemn Iran’s continuing threats to destroy his nation.
But that’s hardly the end of it:
If some Muslims are willing to go to such lengths to eliminate the already downtrodden Christian minorities in their midst, does anyone doubt that a taqiyya-practicing Muslim presidential candidate might have no reservations about swearing on a stack of Bibles?
Precedents for such treachery litter the whole of Islamic history, and begin with the Muslim prophet himself.
It really is a different kind of religion. But the problem isn’t Muslims. The problem is Islam.
[Thursday-morning update]
Muslims say that sharia takes precedence over the Constitution. Well, at least they’re being honest.
Nothing to see here, move along.
[Bumped]
To be fair, almost anyone can do that. Obama’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. And when it comes to evidence that Amerikkka is a racist country, he’s eager to get fooled.
I don’t think the kid should have been arrested, but I also don’t think he should be lionized. It does appear more and more to be some kind of stunt.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related links from Instapundit.
For me, this is mostly about the idiocracy of the public-school system, and its “zero-tolerance” insanity.
[Update a while later]
The White House behaved stupidly:
Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne “later noted that the president had tweeted about the case and invited Ahmed to the White House before the pictures of the clock were even publicly available. Obama made no attempt to contact her office before making public comments in support of the Muslim teen.”
The country’s in the very best of hands.
It’s time to end it, obviously, because it’s un-Islamic.
Charles Martel weeps.
How he outflanks Obama.
A blind tortoise could outflank Obama.
One of the major goals of the Cold War was to prevent Russia from getting a foothold in the Middle East. Thanks a lot, Barack.
Ashe Schow has a roundup of each candidate’s features and failures.
I have to say that I find the (mostly male) criticism of Fiorina’s “sternness” and failure to smile silly. And maybe even sexist. In her deep knowledge of the issues, willingness to do her homework, and articulation, she is the anti-Trump.
[Afternoon update]
More debate observations from Andrew McCarthy.
[Update a while later]
According to the overnights, it was Carly’s night, and The Donald is starting to hemorrhage support from women:
A Fiorina surge would be more dangerous to the rest of the field than a Carson surge because there’s no reason to think she won’t continue to have excellent substantive debates. Carson tends to disappear at these things and his policy proposals seem like afterthoughts vis-a-vis his persona. If you’re backing him, it’s because you believe in the man and what he represents as a healer and a political outsider, not because you’re excited about his immigration proposals or whatever. Fiorina knows the issues, she’s unflappable, and she’s better than the boys are at taking Trump down a peg. Her weakness is her record at HP, but she was prepared for that last night and Republican voters have proved themselves willing to nominate a CEO whose business was responsible for many layoffs. Besides, the guy who’s ahead of her in the polls is a billionaire whose catchphrase is “you’re fired.” He’s the last person who’s going to try to Romney-fy Fiorina in the debates. I don’t think she’ll be the nominee, but that feeling owes more to simple tradition — people who haven’t held office before don’t win presidential primaries — than to any reasoned “here’s why Carly can’t win” argument. Of the three outsiders in the field, she’s easily the one the donor class would be most comfortable with as nominee. If people like Walker and Christie and even Jeb start to fall away, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Fiorina pick up some of their money (although most of it will go to Rubio).
As I’ve repeatedly noted, Trump is the “front runner” only in the sense that he has a plurality in a field of over a dozen candidates splitting a majority. Seven out of ten want a non-Trump. Some non-Trump is going to consolidate that vote.
Some morons in Texas arrested a fourteen-year-old kid for building a digital clock.
As far as I’m concerned, though, CAIR isn’t doing him any favors by getting involved.
How to clean up after it:
The Iran deal is not a treaty and has no constitutional status. Congress should declare, and try to get a court to declare, that President Obama has no authority to lift sanctions in Iran because he failed to comply with the Iran Nuclear Review Act he signed earlier this year—specifically, the legal requirement that he show to Congress the entire agreement including “side agreements” like the one between Iran and the IAEA.
There are other steps to take. Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA director, has suggested an immediate congressional authorization for the use of force if Iran violates the deal; beefing up U.S. defenses in a meaningful way; and perhaps providing Israel with the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. This “bunker buster” could penetrate even the underground Iranian enrichment facility at Fordow, which is suitable principally for creating an atomic weapon.
But, of course, that would require an administration that doesn’t preemptively take all military options off the table.
I know that people are angry that the Republicans let this atrocity go through, but until they have 67 votes to remove the president, he’s going to continue to ignore the law and the Constitution. It wasn’t a “victory” for Obama to fail to ge majority support for this in either House. Particularly with so much Democrat opposition. At least by having that vote they put the Democrats on record. Everyone who failed to oppose this owns Iran, now.
“…are going up all over Europe, and they’re not coming down in our lifetime.”
Charles Martel weeps. Those who don’t know history…
[Update a few minutes later]
I’d laugh at this, if it weren’t so serious:
President Obama may be feeling double-crossed by his partners for peace. “Obama explained during a town hall event with members of the military that he warned Putin years ago not to support the tyrannical dictator.”
“I remember a conversation I had with Mr. Putin four or five years ago where I told him that was a mistake … he did not take my warnings and as a consequence things have gotten worse,” he said. …
“The strategy that they’re pursuing now by doubling down with Assad, I think is a big mistake,” he said. “You can’t continue to double down on a strategy that is doomed to failure.”
Obama said that the United States would continue talking with Russia to convince them that their actions were bad for Syria. He signaled that diplomacy was the primary vehicle for restoring order in Syria, encouraging the Russians to “get a little smarter.”
The depths of his delusions have no bottom.
[Update a few minutes later]
This wave of immigrants will give Europe an extreme makeover.
So did Attila.
Yes, I wouldn’t have predicted this, either:
One thing I guess I didn’t believe 14 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did, and we’ll be paying the price for a long time.
Yes. But I have to say, while it’s a cliche, for this I do at least partially blame George Bush. I expected more competence and strategic thinking in the wake of the removal of Saddam. In fact, the real disaster began with the Democrat take over of Congress in 2006.
I’ve mentioned that I was in Puerto Rico when it happened, getting ready to head to the airport to fly to CA. When I saw the second plane hit the second tower, I knew there was no point in going.
What I’ve never mentioned, I think, was that we had a going-away party a day or so later (we had a place on the beach in Isla Verde with a nice veranda) for one of Patricia’s co-workers. He was about to take a job in Saudi Arabia. He ended up changing his mind in light of recent events, but one of the topics of discussion was the reaction of many of the Puerto Ricans. Many attending had tales of glee. “The Americans had it coming.”
I saw this tweet from Xeni Jardin this morning:
99.999999% of Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11 and reacted with natural human response of horror and sadness. https://t.co/PWlotnGpIV
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) September 11, 2015
This is delusional. There were cheers and ululations in Gaza and the West Bank, and handing out of candy.
We are not at war with Muslims (just as we weren’t at war with the Russian people during the Cold War), but Islam is at war with us (and has been pretty much since its founding). As I said on Twitter this morning, in the Cold War, our national leadership largely understood that we were at war with a totalitarian ideology that wanted to destroy our way of life. We still are, but the president wants to delude himself that we are not. And the most recent flare up of that war started not fourteen years ago, but thirty-six years ago, when Iran went to war with us, and we pretended that they had not. And they’ve been killing us ever since, every chance they get. With the president’s “victory” in ramming through this disastrous “deal” with them yesterday (a defeat for America, as most of Barack Obama’s “Victories” are) this has to be the major foreign-policy issue in the upcoming campaign.
[Early-afternoon update]
Fourteen years ago, Glenn Reynolds “made his bones and invented the blogosphere.”
I started this blog a few weeks later as a result.