Back to the "Wild West" of Terrorism

According to news sources, five Yemeni terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay have been released – four of them to the country of Oman – which is, incidentally, next to Yemen.  Why would the Obama Administration release known terror suspects to a vicinity so close to where their terrorist activity originated? In President Obama’s latest push to close Guantanamo Bay, the release of these latest five terrorist suspects brings the detention center’s number down to 122.

In December of 2014, the Obama Administration released for resettlement five other prisoners to the nation of Kazakhstan, which – by the way – is the country that produced the child executioner who was posted in yesterday’s article. Clearly, terrorism is alive and well in Kazakhstan.

Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte, who referred to Yemen as the “Wild West” for terrorists, warned of fresh terrorist threats yesterday during a news conference when she said,

"Now is not the time to be emptying Guantanamo."

In spite of repeated warnings to keep terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, opinions on closing the prison have changed little since 2009 with 66 percent of Americans polled by Gallup indicating that they are against Guantanamo’s closure. Nevertheless, the President of the United States continues to thwart the will of the people with his Lone Ranger governing tactics.

Resources:

1.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/15/us-announces-release-5-gitmo-detainees/

2.  http://www.gallup.com/poll/171653/americans-continue-oppose-closing-guantanamo-bay.aspx

ISIS Child Soldier Publically Executes Two Prisoners

A  horrific video surfaced online on Tuesday that shows a young boy of around 9 or 10 executing captives claimed by ISIS to be Russian spies. He is supervised by a bearded man who appears to be in his late 20s or early 30s. There is Arabic writing at the bottom of the video. The boy identifies himself as “Abdullah” from Kazakhstan.

The two captured men in the video “confess” to crimes against the ISIS organization. Then the adult ISIS warrior announces that the men are now “through Allah’s grace,” in the custody of the “lion cubs of the Caliphate.” After the speaking ends, the boy steps forward and calmly shoots the two men in the head repeatedly. U.S. and Russian officials have been contacted for comment, but – as yet – none has been provided.

While U.S. Officials have been aware of ISIS using child fighters, this is the first time that one of these child soldiers have publicly executed other people and a video of the murders posted online.

Be warned: ISIS is targeting children in their perverted, aggressive recruitment efforts.

Attribution: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/13/new-isis-video-appears-to-show-child-executioner-killing-alleged-russian-spies/

Supreme Lack of Understanding

No matter how sympathetic President Obama wants to appear about the Paris massacre that took place at Charlie Hebdo last week, his actions speak louder than his words.

To quote Douglas E. Schoen, former Clinton pollster,

“To speak about the most serious terrorist attack on Western soil since 9/11, London and Madrid, in between speeches about his free community college plan demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding for the gravity of the situation in Paris and, indeed, the world.”

And to assert the point that I keep making, this president came in to office with no qualifications in international politics and, by his actions after the Charlie Hebron attack, seems to have learned nothing during his time in office.

The war against radical Islam deserves more than a few casual remarks by the leader of the free world.

Attribution: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/12/obama-awol-in-paris-message-to-america-allies-is-dont-care/

National Security Mistakes

While President Obama's national security mistakes have been legion, the following mistakes and missteps happened during his first 100 days in office: 

• Apologizing for America in Europe and Latin America;

• Bowing before the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia;

• Pledging to base America’s foreign policy toward Iran on “mutual respect” in a video to the Iranian people and Iran’s Holocaust-denying dictator;

• Ordering Guantanamo Bay closed without any idea of where to send the terrorist suspects held there. (Many of those sent back to the Middle East are under loose surveillance and will undoubtedly engage in future terror attacks on the U.S. and its interests);

• Caving to communist Cuba by relaxing travel restrictions and remittances for Cuban Americans before any Cuban political prisoners have been released;

• Shaking hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez;

• Sitting silently though a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Nicaragua’s communist president, Daniel Ortega;

• Releasing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected mastermind of the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole;

• Releasing classified CIA memos outlining our interrogation techniques;

• Telling our CIA agents not to be discouraged when he acknowledges their “mistakes”;

• Declaring a new openness to “truth commissions” and prosecuting intelligence officials involved in enhanced interrogations of terrorists;

• Proposing to send a $900 million foreign aid package to Palestinians in Gaza;

• Asking Congress to relax the law so that some of that money could go to the terrorist organization Hamas;

• Calling for the U.S. to eliminate its nuclear weapons;

• Telling Russian President Demitri Medvedev that America’s commitment to missile defense is negotiable; 

• Dropping the term “enemy combatants” for GITMO detainees;

• Dropping the term “terrorism” for “man-made/man-caused disaster”;

• Dropping the term “Global War on Terror” for “overseas contingency operations”;

• Giving his first interview as president to the Arab language network Al-Arabiya;

• Telling the Muslim world that his “job” was to communicate “that the Americans are not your enemy,” when it’s Muslim extremists who have declared war on us; and

• Proposing that military veterans use private insurance for the cost of a service-related injury before they would be eligible for coverage through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Obama has been an ideologically-driven president with little-to-no knowledge of national security. Let us hope that in the next election we can elect a more qualified leader.

* Attribution:  http://www.cwfpac.com/sites/default/files/100%20days.pdf

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News Du Jour

I have never been a highly political person until recently – and I wouldn’t really say that I am “highly” political now. I am, however, more interested in world and national affairs than I was when I was  a working mother, raising my children, making a living and – oh, yes – working my hardest to get seven uninterrupted hours of sleep at night. But now I have time to indulge in reading the news daily and following politics.

It looks like Republicans are in for some much needed good news with the recent congressional seat gained in Florida by Republican David Jolly. Not that it was a landslide win. We still need to work very hard, if we want to put a dent in the tyranny that is taking over nationally. Tyranny – yes. Governing, no. The Republican party has been trapped in a sinkhole since 2008, but it looks as though things are going to begin reversing.

No one wants Obamacare. The Sebillus gang has cooked the books so many times that even they have no clue how many people have actually signed up and PAID THEIR FIRST OBAMACARE PREMIUMS. No one is connected to reality on that side of the political aisle. From current figures, it has also become apparent that the only people signing up for Obamacare are NOT the uninsured for the most part. Instead, people who already had insurance are the only ones who are signing up for Obamacare.  Only now, most have higher premiums, astronomically higher deductibles and health coverage that is less comprehensive. The government has also performed some very slick sleight of hand in dumping inmates’ health coverage into the Medicaid pool – making it more difficult for existing Medicaid members to get the ongoing medical treatment that they need. Fewer doctors and medical facilities are honoring Medicaid.

The country has become weary of listening to the Obama administration’s excuses on the NSA, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, how much Snowden knows, Bagdad-Bob-Jay-Carney’s news conferences emanating from an alternate reality and liberals whining about Fox News. Regarding the latter, my guess is that most liberals have never watched Fox News.

So, on March 12, 2014, this is how the world goes round. Oh, a couple more news items of special interest:

1.       A family was held captive by their 22-pound house cat; and

2.       Lena Dunham might quit acting.

Regarding the family held captive by the cat: The cat is okay, and the owners have been remanded to therapy. And Lena? Whatever publicity she decides to seek, whether it be in acting or endorsing the right of women to run around naked, let’s just hope that Lena keeps her clothes on.

Over and out until next time.

   

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