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.
Category Archives: War Commentary
The Iran “Deal”
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.
The Fences
“…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.
Remembering 911
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.
The Iran Deal
Leon Panetta says it sucks, and to get ready for war.
But the notion that Barack Obama is going to do anything aggressive toward Iran is wishful thinking. Valerie Jarrett would never stand for it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Advice to New Jersey Jews: Make an example of Cory Booker.
Also, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Maleducation
Colleges are teaching young people that 911 (an event they can barely remember) was our fault. Of course, they teach them that everything bad in the world is our fault, thanks to Howard Zinn and others.
How To Destroy A City
Hotels are laying off workers. Shops are empty and many will have to be closed. The city is reeling with feelings of guilt and anxiety. Guilt because one of their own murdered guests, the gravest possible offense against the ancient Arab code of hospitality, and anxiety because—what now? How will the city survive? How will all the laid-off workers earn a living with their industry on its back? Sousse without tourists is like Hollywood without movies and Detroit without automobile manufacturing.
Even Tunisia’s agriculture economy is crashing. Prices are down by 35 percent because the resorts don’t need to feed tourists anymore.
Rezgui’s ghoulish attack was spectacularly successful, wasn’t it? A single act of violence and—boom. Just like that, it’s all over.
The lights continue to go out.
The Heroes On The Train
Fear is contagious. So is courage.
Also, who should we trust: Officials, or ourselves?
And no, we shouldn’t extend TSA to trains. We should get rid of it on airplanes.
Looking At The Iran Deal
Hillary’s Air-Gap Problem.
That data should have never been on that server. The fact that it was is solid, indisputable evidence of the commission of multiple crimes. The only question is who all committed them.