The administration is throwing away an opportunity in Syria.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Modern Warfare
How to capture Cinderella’s Castle. Good ideas in comments.
It would be totally worth it just to take out “It’s A Small World.”
Sodomy
…for the sake of Islam. No duty greater than Jihad.
Iranian Terror Cells
I wish I didn’t find this credible:
Kahlili says Iranian terrorist cells inside the U.S. have weapons, explosives, money and safe houses; they use contacts with Mexican and Latin American drug cartels to smuggle explosives and weapons into the U.S.
“They have very detailed information about sensitive sites such as bridges, railroads, airports, military bases, power plants, nuclear sites, water plants, railway stations,” he says.
If the U.S. or Israel attacked Iran, he says, sleeper cells inside the U.S. would launch suicide bombings and sabotage. Iran would attack Israel, and U.S. bases in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, he warns.
Kahlili says Iran has intelligence agents inside American universities, Islamic cultural centers and charitable institutions, posing as academics, policy experts and officers of nonprofits. They try to influence policymakers to encourage negotiations in order to give Iran time to develop nuclear weapons.
Kahlili says the Iranian leadership is motivated by Mahdism, the messianic belief that the 12th imam of Shiism, the Mahdi, will one day reappear to establish universal Islam. The trigger is the destruction of Israel.
Sanctions against Iran won’t work, Kahlili argues. “It’s not about the economy. It’s about ideology,” he says.
Of Obama’s many foreign-policy disasters, history may view his indifference to the Green Revolution, or indeed to the very notion of Iranian regime change, as his biggest.
On Syria
…the administration is AWOL. Nothing new.
Israel, Betrayed
And by the Obama administration, too. What a shock.
It Begins?
Syria has reportedly shot down a NATO (Turkish) aircraft.
Forget Syria
We need to neutralize Iran:
It is unseemly and stupid for Washington to remonstrate with the Russians for playing the spoiler in Syria, for example by providing the Assad regime with attack helicopters. The way to deal with this dog is to beat up the dog’s owner, namely Tehran. Washington’s pathetic display of solicitude towards a terrorist regime that uses negotiations to buy time for nuclear weapons development aggravates every other problem in the region, Syria above all.
Yup.
Midway
Alan West remembers the seventieth anniversary (well, not literally — I don’t think he’s that old). That was back in the olden days, when we were allowed to win wars, and Democrats actually wanted to do that, instead of “end” them.
Winning Wars
Can we do it any more?
Not when the leadership of one of the major parties sees US weakness in the world as a feature rather than a bug.