Update
Why I do this blog: " Life is really simple: Do all
that you can, for as many as you can, for as long as you can." –Anonymous US
Marine Corps Sergeant Major.
On Friday, 1/23 my FEV1 average (amount of air I can exhale
in one second) was 1.697, the lowest this month. Thursday, 1/28 it was 1.845,
the highest since March 29. Highest I ever had was a 2.28 in January. Some of
the guys who got two lungs are blowing in the 3.6 range. But two is cheating,
right? ~Bob
General News and Comment
Important: Mitt Romney Opts Out of Third Presidential
Bid in 2016
Excerpt: Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., announced to
supporters on Friday that he will not seek the Republican presidential
nomination for a third time. Romney was the Republican presidential candidate
in 2012 who lost to President Barack Obama. Conservative
pundit and radio show host Hugh Hewitt received a copy of what
Romney told supporters on Friday. Romney insisted that he could win the
nomination but decided against a third bid. (Romney was the front runner among
Republican voters. Jeb Bush was second. I think this makes Jeb the front
runner. If Romney should throw his support to Jeb, it could be over. ~Bob)
Romney announces he
will not run for president in 2016
Excerpt: Bush, in a written statement on Friday, praised
Romney as a party leader and a patriot. "There are few people who have
worked harder to elect Republicans across the country than he has," he
said. "Though I'm sure today's decision was not easy, I know that Mitt
Romney will never stop advocating for renewing America 's promise through upward
mobility, encouraging free enterprise and strengthening our national
defense." A day earlier, it emerged that a key former Romney adviser was
joining up with Bush's team.
A Message From Marco
Rubio
After listening to Mitt Romney's latest... I Thought
you would be interested in this.. A message from Marco Rubio. His FB message to
followers. "Over the past two years, there hasn't been a day when I didn't
think that Mitt Romney would have been a better president than Barack Obama.
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed getting to know Mitt and campaigning for him, was
grateful for his support in my Senate race, and I know what a difficult
decision this must be given his love of our country. He certainly earned the
right to consider running, so I deeply respect his decision to give the next
generation a chance to lead. I wish him, Ann and his entire family the best and
hope he will continue to serve our country and his community as he’s done
throughout his life." To me it kind of looks like Mitt might have been referring
to Marco. Personally, I would love to see Marco run. --Laura (Laura knows
politics. She and her late husband, Ron [A local selectman] were staunch Hall
Campaign Volunteers throughout my five successful races. ~Bob)
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Excerpt: The already-crowded field of would-be Republican
presidential candidates grew again on Thursday when Sen. Lindsey O. Graham
(R-S.C.) announced the formation of an exploratory committee for president. The
launch of the Security
Through Strength committee enables Graham to raise money for a
potential run. It’s the clearest sign yet that he is serious about entering the
race, and comes as a flurry of White House aspirants are taking public and
private steps toward entering what could be the most
wide-open GOP primary in memory.
New signals of Rubio
weighing a 2016 bid as senator makes California
Excerpt: Sen. Marco Rubio this week may be sending the
clearest signals yet that he intends to run for president rather than seek
reelection to a second term in 2016. In a week when the Senate was consumed
with a bill to approve construction of the Keystone XL
pipeline, Rubio (R-Fla.) was in California
raising money for his political action committee and reelection campaign. He
was the only Republican senator who did not vote on final passage of the
Keystone bill Thursday.
Excerpt: So, having talked up Walker ’s chances when many were underestimating
him, I think it’s worth offering a note of caution now that that everybody else
has realized he’s been underestimated. For Walker to realize his potential as a
candidate, he will have to get serious about foreign policy. This isn’t to say
that Walker , to
date, has said or done anything particularly embarrassing when it comes to
foreign policy. But for perfectly understandable reasons — advancing ambitious
reforms in a state while running for election three times in four years — he
hasn’t had the time or cause to do much studying of national security issues
until now.
Elizabeth Warren
backers fund poll stoking Hillary Clinton doubts
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/elizabeth-warren-poll-hillary-clinton-2016-election-114754.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/elizabeth-warren-poll-hillary-clinton-2016-election-114754.html
Excerpt: A group of major liberal donors who want Elizabeth
Warren to run for president have paid for a poll intended to show that Hillary
Clinton does not excite the Democratic base and would be vulnerable in a 2016
general election. The automated poll of nearly 900 registered voters,
conducted last week by Public Policy Polling, found that 48 percent of
respondents had an unfavorable opinion of Clinton ,
compared to 43 percent who viewed the former secretary of State favorably. (I
have a very unfavorable opinion of both Benghazi Hill and Big Squaw Warren.
~Bob)
True, this: Sniping Potshots at American Sniper. By
Andy Weddington
Excerpt:" I saw American Sniper less than two weeks ago
- on a weekday in the middle of the afternoon. Long ticket lines. Packed
theatre. ... And after ignoring nearly a dozen irritatingly noisy previews
of "coming attractions" while lost in thought, the film began."
Good Review: American Sniper: The Voice of Veterans
Excerpt: I fear the plaid shirt, hash-tagging, trust-fund
protestors are going to start coming out of the woodwork. The people who have
kept their mouths shut because the war was still ongoing, are going to come
forward and start openly bashing on us. The war is “officially” over and as a
country, we are no longer engaged in combating terrorism with any sort of
genuine commitment. ... To those that saw it as more “pro Bush/Iraq/Right
Wing/anti-Muslim” political statement and wants to bash it and our military, I
say this: The movie wasn’t for you. It was for the guy with mud on his boots
and a hole in his heart, and for the families that are left to pick up the
pieces. Go back to your latte.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Two considerations led me to turn down all these kind
offers. The first is that my taste in holidays of a lifetime runs more to
observing civil wars than to lolling in the lap of luxury, and while sometimes
expensive to go to, civil wars offer little in the way of sybaritic
possibilities (though there was a surprising availability of pink champagne
during the Liberian civil war, even if it was difficult to chill). The second
consideration was the faintly puritanical belief, no doubt the psychological
consequence of having been born only a few years after the end of the Second
World War, that if one could not afford to pay cash on the nail for the holiday
of a lifetime, one could not afford the holiday of a lifetime. One did not go
deeply into debt for the sake of evanescent pleasures, such as that of a couple
of weeks’ sitting under palm trees by a lighted pool in the tropical sunset,
waited upon by obsequious, and no doubt secretly resentful, flunkies. Even
allowing for the change in my personal circumstances over the forty years, the
irresponsibility of the bank (and other financial institutions) seemed to me –
if one absented knowledge of history, that is - astonishing. There is no doubt,
however, that many people, in fact many millions of people, listened to the
siren song of easy credit, of fritter now, pay later.
Castro To Obama:
Reparations, Gitmo, and Cutoff From Dissidents
Excerpt: Here’s the price for ‘normalized relations.’ The
good news: The discomfort over the embargo of Cuba
has led to a good bargaining position in talks with the US . The bad
news: Raul Castro’s the one that thinks so. Far from being
grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro wants the US to pay reparations for the economic damage
that Castro says the embargo caused, plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay
Decades late. ~Bob
Man Heard Threatening
Police Faces Weapons Charges: NYPD
Excerpt: Elvin Payamps, 38, was arrested after a 54-year-old
man overheard a suspect matching his description talking about killing cops and
having guns at his home while at a TD Bank on Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street in
Woodside on Christmas Eve. ("What do we want?" "DEAD COPS!"
Protesters at Al Sharpton's march. ~Bob)
Excerpt: What is courage? In Valor, his book of the tales of grace under pressure that
have been ignored, suppressed and largely omitted from the recognized history
of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by a press that prefers to focus on
traitors and victims, Washington lawyer Mark Lee
Greenblatt hits on a number of things: an innate or learned
ability to be calm under fire; the impact of training, which builds in some
responses until some reactions become automatic; and a sense of
attachment to cause and to comrades that crowds out all concerns for the self.
"If you reflect on the anecdotes of anyone who has faced death and lived
to tell you about it, there is almost a universal response," a
psychiatrist told Greenblatt. "They did what they had to do. They never
felt it was heroic, and never even felt it was a choice." (This is a
superb article, it covers an important topic better than I have ever seen
before. And it makes a point that we don't usually think about. What takes more
courage to face, the near certainty of imminent death, or the absolute
certainty of a life changed enormously for the worse by huge changes to your
own body, perhaps to your own sense of self, and with a never-ending need for
help and care by others? I vote for Door #2 in a heartbeat. Just facing dying
is one thing, but facing living as a changed being, with your expectations of
what you can do cut far back from what you had up until the explosion
rearranged your body, that's tough, very, very tough. And not just on you, but
on everyone who loves or cares for you. God bless all our people so affected.
--Del )
Excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a
cheating game with the West and Ukraine, not only hollowing out the Minsk
armistice agreements (see EDM, January 22,23, 27), but even shifting the agreed-upon demarcation line on
the ground and on the map. Kyiv is alert to Putin’s con games, but it is forced
to face a stronger Russia
one-on-one, without Western assistance. Ukraine ’s
Western partners are slow, as usual, to notice Putin’s maneuvers, most recently
at the January 21 “Normandy group” meeting in Berlin . There, Russia’s
Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov prevailed on his German and French
counterparts to evenhandedly urge “all signatories of the Minsk agreements to
meet in the coming days to implement the ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy
weapons in accordance with the Line of Contact as agreed in Minsk on September
19 [2014]” (Auswaertiges-amt.de, January 21). (Anyone know this media outlet?
first I've seen it. ~Bob)
Foreign Firm Funding U.S.
Excerpt: A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens
of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States
is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money
laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin’s inner
circle. (Both the Saudis and the Russians, dependent on oil money, have a large
interest in defeating fracking, Keystone and anything the helps the American
oil industry. Duh. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Portugal
is trying to make amends with the descendants of the Jews who were ordered to
convert to Christianity or get out of the country more than 500 years ago. The
country's lawmakers have approved a plan to grant citizenship to Sephardic Jews
who can prove a strong connection to the country through surname, language, or
direct descent from the heavily persecuted population of Portuguese Jews that
once numbered in the tens of thousands, the BBC reports.
(Come back, all is forgiven. Please bring money. ~Bob)
Gun News
Interesting: Guest Post: US Murder Rate. From Del
Standing her ground:
Dad’s gift to college-bound daughter might have saved her life
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/01/29/bearing-arms-dads-gift-to-college-bound-daughter-might-have-saved-her-life-176173#ixzz3QDv1xi1S
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/01/29/bearing-arms-dads-gift-to-college-bound-daughter-might-have-saved-her-life-176173#ixzz3QDv1xi1S
Excerpt: Thanks to her father who gave her a revolver when
she went off to college, college student Sable Nehme was able to save
both herself and her boyfriend when two home invaders
broke into her apartment Tuesday near the university’s Orange County
WSJ Report: “U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars” – Aligns With Our 2013/2014 Maryland MCAC Hub Research…
WSJ Report: “U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars” – Aligns With Our 2013/2014 Maryland MCAC Hub Research…
Excerpt: Over a year ago we brought you the story of
Mr. Filippidis and his family, a Florida Driver who was pulled over by law enforcement in Maryland. The traffic
stop would have been typical except for the fact the responding officer
demanded, at random, Mr. Filippidis’s firearm. Mr. Filippidis did not have
his legally owned -CCW permitted- hand gun, it was home in Florida . Nor did Mr.
Filippidis ever say he had a firearm – yet the officer was insistent
Mr. Filippidis owned one, handcuffed Mr. Filippidis, and strip searched his
vehicle on the side of the road. Numerous Maryland state police arrived to assist in
the search. They found nothing, because Mr. F was telling the truth. After two
hours Mr. Filippidis and his family were allowed to continue their travels, but the entire
process was unnerving. Which prompted Mr. Filippidis to ask “how did a Maryland officer know I
was a gun owner”? Which led to a severely awkward litany of obfuscations and explanations from Maryland that did not make sense.
(This article,
starting with a 2 hour harassment of a Florida
driver in Maryland ,
then leads on to exactly what people said was a Right Wing paranoid fantasy of
police organizations tapping into all kinds of records from all over to find
out who owns a gun or has a carry permit. I am as much a law abiding citizen
and supportive of law enforcement as you are going to find in this country, but
this stuff really bothers me. --Del )
Race Card News
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: With no help from Barack Obama, the U.S. has
launched an energy revolution, becoming the world’s leading oil and natural gas
producer. This has dismayed environmentalists and donors in and out of the
Obama administration. After all, Obama bet big – really big – on green energy.
The oil and gas boom is not the energy revolution Obama was looking for. Saudi Arabia and other petro-monarchies aren’t
happy about it either (which is one reason the United Arab Emirates and other OPEC
states bankroll anti-fracking propaganda in the West). Until recently, Saudi Arabia
was the world’s biggest oil producer, and it is still arguably the most
important one in global markets because its oil is so easy to get out of the
ground. The cheaper it is to extract, the easier it is to maintain profits when
prices go down. That means the Saudis have an outsized ability to affect the
global price of oil.
What Does the Future
Look Like for American Coal?
Excerpt: While coal remains America 's
most used energy resource, it faces mounting challenges, writes Jacopo Zenti,
research fellow at the National
Center United States
produced 1 billion short tons of coal and exported 125 million short tons. More
could be exported: India , Japan and China
all have increasing demand for coal, and China relies on coal for more than
70 percent of its energy production. Demand is also high in Europe -- Germany decided in 2011 to replace its nuclear
energy production with coal by 2022, which led to a doubling of American coal
exports to Germany
between 2010 and 2011. The United Kingdom
and the Netherlands were the
two largest importers of American coal in 2012, and American coal exports to Britain were 73
percent higher in the first three quarters of 2012 than in 2011. (In 8th grade,
I lived with my Grandmother in her large four-square in Collingswood , NJ
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: The Charlie Hebdo massacre once again has
politicians and the media dancing around the question of whether there might be
something a little bit special about this one particular religion, Islam, that
causes its adherents to go around killing people. It is not considered
acceptable in polite company to entertain this possibility. Instead, it is
necessary to insist, as a New York Times article does, that “Islam is no more inherently violent than other religions.” This, mind you, was in an
article on how Muslims in the Middle East are
agonizing over the violent legacy of their religion. ... As an atheist, I have no god in this fight, so to speak.
NO ONE saw this coming: Terrorist released by Obama
for Bergdahl has gone BACK to terrorizing!
http://therightscoop.com/no-one-saw-this-coming-terrorist-released-by-obama-for-bergdahl-has-gone-back-to-terrorizing/
http://therightscoop.com/no-one-saw-this-coming-terrorist-released-by-obama-for-bergdahl-has-gone-back-to-terrorizing/
Excerpt: I mean it’s not like an army of bloggers and
conservatives tried to warn the American public that this deal was full of the
same crap that the negotiator-in-chief was, no. There was absolutely no way
that the Obama administration could have known that terrorists that the Taliban
wanted would go back to terrorism once released.
Obama Funding the Anti-Bibi Campaign. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: The Obama administration is using taxpayer dollars
to fund a radical anti-Israel group that aims to drive Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu from office in March parliamentary elections. And the
U.S.-based group receiving the U.S.
government money, OneVoice International, in turn is working with V15, an
“independent grassroots movement” in Israel , according to Ha’aretz.
V15’s unofficial motto is said to be “anyone but Bibi,” a reference that
includes the prime minister’s nickname.
Excerpt: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Congressman Lee
Zeldin, R-NY-1, today sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking for
information regarding media reports that U.S.
taxpayer dollars are being used to fund efforts to influence upcoming elections
in Israel .
“Has President Obama launched a political campaign against Prime Minister
Netanyahu and his representatives?” Sen. Cruz asked. “This administration’s
relentless harassment of Israel
is utterly incomprehensible. The Islamic Republic of Iran is pursuing the
deadliest weapons on the planet, and there can be no doubt that their first
target will be Israel ,
followed by the United
States . This administration should be
focusing its animosity on the very real enemies we face, not on our staunch
allies.”
Worth Watching: Who ended the war in Iraq
Watch to the end--only one minute long. It will seem
strangely repetitive (because it is), but the finale is really a killer. Pretty
much guaranteed to make you laugh. --Del
What we fight: Isis
publicly behead man in Syrian town square for 'insulting Allah' as he screams
for help
Excerpt: A man was held down and beheaded for “insulting
Allah” in the middle of a Syrian town by Isis
fighters as he screamed for help from the silent crowd. ... Unlike most
victims, the young man was not blindfolded and was forced to the ground face
down to be decapitated. ... One militant dropped his Kalashnikov as the man
fought his captors for several minutes, eventually being pinned down by four
men including one sitting on his back and pinning his arms behind him. ... The group has recently carried out an unprecedented
string of public executions – including throwing men accused of being gay off
towers, stoning a woman accused of adultery and crucifying at least 17 young
men in a 48-hour period.
Excerpt: An ISIS operative traveled across the Syrian border
late last year, settled in a Turkish port city, and began work on a mission to
sneak jihadis into Europe . It has been
successful, he said, in an interview near the Turkey-Syria border: “Just wait.”
The operative, a Syrian in his thirties with a close-cropped
black beard, said ISIS is sending covert fighters to Europe
— as did two smugglers who said they have helped. He smuggles them from Turkey in small
groups, he said, hidden in cargo ships filled with hundreds of refugees.
Worth Seeing: Video: "Islam & Free
Speech"
Dr. Carol Swain, black professor. ~Bob
Where's PETA? Sharp rise in halal abattoirs
slaughtering animals without stunning them first. Experts said the rise in
non-stun killings was due to 'stronger campaigning' from Muslims who wrongly
believed that stunning killed animals
Excerpt: The number of animals killed in halal abattoirs
without being stunned first soared in the last year, figures have revealed. Campaigning
by Muslims for traditional methods of slaughter has led to a 60 percent rise in
the number of non-pain free killings, industry experts said. Last year 2.4
million sheep and goats had their throats cut without being stunned in halal
and kosher abattoirs, according to the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
The political divide
on views toward Muslims and Islam
Excerpt: A separate,2011
survey found that 15% of Muslims said that they see the Republican
Party as friendly toward their community while 48% said they are unfriendly. By
contrast, 46% of Muslims said the Democratic Party is friendly toward them and
only 7% said they are unfriendly. ... In September, a Pew
Research Center survey found that 82% of Republicans are “very
concerned” about the rise of Islamic extremism in the world, compared with 60%
of political independents and 51% of Democrats. Similarly, two-thirds of
Republicans (67%) say that Islam is more likely than other religions to
encourage violence among its believers, compared with 47% of independents and
42% of Democrats.
Yes, and Obama is too dumb to realize that the Western
World will eventually do what they have done in the past...stand up to the
Muslims in a serious way, and then the Muslims will retreat until a future
generation becomes aggressive and brave enough to attack the west again. History
repeats itself. But, too many American voters are "low
information voters" and continue to give Obama the benefit of the
doubt...they keep taking him seriously believing that he is on the side of our
citizens. Unfortunately his bible is Alinsky. --ME
Homeland Security
Adviser Mohamed Elibiary Goes on Hate-Filled Anti-Christian Rant, Attacks
Jindal as ‘Bottom Feeder’
Excerpt: Obama administration Muslim adviser Mohamed
Elibiary is no stranger to regular PJ Media readers. In
September, Elibiary was unceremoniously removed from his fellowship position with
the Department of Homeland Security, which he tried to spin as a “resignation,” but letters sent to members of
Congress by DHS officials indicated he would not be reappointed. Undoubtedly,
one of the chief reasons for DHS cutting ties with Elibiary was a long string
of extremist statements he had been making on Twitter, including talking about
the inevitability of the return of an ISIS-style caliphate — tweets that were
subsequently used by ISIS supporters for recruiting purposes. (A
"moderate" Muslim? If he's moderate, then it's easy to understand how
those not-moderate ISIS guys act. He's smart
though, he tries to make arguments that sound somehow reasonable, but in fact
are just major bias on his part. That's one of the sad things of aggressive
Islamists, they may even thing they ARE reasonable, when in fact they are very
biased. --Del )
Kurdish PM says U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State
faces long war. By Samia Nakhoul,
Ned Parker and Isabel Coles
Excerpt: Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani
warned that despite victories in the war against Islamic State, the global
coalition against the group was inadequate and predicted a campaign to retake
the Iraqi city of Mosul
would not happen before the fall.
The Moderates are Coming! Muslim Brotherhood: Prepare
for Jihad
Excerpt: Egypt 's Muslim Brotherhood, hailed as a moderate voice and welcomed by officials in the Obama administration just
this week, issued separate statements on its English and Arabic websites this
week that appear to contradict each other. A call for "a long, unrelenting Jihad" appeared
on the Brotherhood's Arabic language website Tuesday. The statement, reported
Friday by the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo, starts by invoking a passage from the Quran: "And prepare
against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you
may terrify the enemy of God and your enemy and others besides them whom you do
not know but whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of God will
be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged."
Blast at Shi'ite
mosque in southern Pakistan
Excerpt: At least 49 people were
killed in a powerful explosion at a crowded Shi'ite mosque in Pakistan during Friday prayers, the latest
sectarian attack to hit the South Asian nation. ... Jundullah, a splinter group
of Pakistan 's Taliban which
last year pledged support for the Islamic State group based in Syria and Iraq , claimed responsibility. Jundullah,
a splinter group of Pakistan 's
Taliban which last year pledged support for the Islamic State group based
in Syria and Iraq , claimed
responsibility.
At least 32 killed in
Egypt
Excerpt: Egypt ’s
president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has cut short a visit to Ethiopia for an
African Union summit after his country’s security forces suffered one of the
bloodiest days in their peacetime history. At least 32 people were killed on Thursday
in a series of attacks on soldiers and police in north-east Sinai, where the
government has struggled to contain an 18-month insurgency by militants linked
to Islamic State (Isis).
Here's what a Hamas
training camp for teens looks like
Excerpt: Judging by the orderly rows of hundreds of young
wannabes lined up in crisp military fashion at their graduation ceremony here
Thursday, the armed wing of the Islamist
movement Hamas will have plenty of eager recruits this year. More than
17,000 fresh-faced teenagers and young men, ages 15 to 21, mustered at a dozen
camps over the past week in the Gaza Strip to climb ropes, practice close-order
drills and fire Kalashnikov rifles, all of them pledging to defend the coastal
enclave and ready to fight the next war against their Zionist enemies.
Excerpt: “You 360 million Mohammedans to whom I have had a
strong inner connection since the days of my association with your Grand Mufti
of Jerusalem,” Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust wrote. “You, who have a greater truth in
the surahs of your Koran, I call upon you to pass judgment on me.” Eichmann
knew he could expect a good verdict from a religion whose prophet had ordered
the ethnic cleansing of Jews and which believes the end will
“not come until the Muslims
fight the Jews and kill them. When a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree, it will
say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of Allah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him!’”
University Professors
Blame the West for Paris
Excerpt: Middle East studies professors responded to
the attacks by Islamic terrorists in Paris earlier this month not with rigorous,
informed analysis or even unadulterated sympathy for those gunned down in the
offices of Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market. Their reaction was
instead precisely what one has come to expect from academics more concerned
with shielding Islam from blame and shifting responsibility for its adherents'
actions to the West than with the disinterested pursuit of truth. University of Michigan
Kerik, Harvey: Obama
'In Denial' on Iran
Excerpt: A White House's characterization Wednesday of the
Taliban as an "armed insurgency" rather radical Islamic terrorists is
another example of the Obama administration's failure to grasp the gravity of
the situation, retired Army Col. Derek Harvey said Thursday on Newsmax TV's "America's
Forum." "It is very dangerous because it continues to show that
there's intellectual dishonesty by the administration," said Harvey, who
was joined by former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik to discuss the
Obama administration's paralysis in dealing with terror groups. "They
refuse to define the threat and importantly, it seems that they don't
understand the threat. Words do matter. (Something is really wrong when
you can't even name the enemy properly. Sun Tzu said "know the enemy, know
yourself" if you want to win in a war. We have a "leader" who
can't begin to even name the enemy, or give full recognition to how widespread
this threat to civilization is. And we have to somehow bungle through two more
years of this, while things only go downhill? How worrisome is that! --Del )
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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