“…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.