Failure to Engage

Folks are not surprised anymore with Obama’s failure to engage in the war on terror.  From the Red Line(s) in Syria, to the pull-out of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, to Obama’s failure to define the threat as Islamic terror, to avoiding the anti-terrorist march in Paris, ad nauseum. The pattern has become quite evident. Our President has no interest in pushing back any more than he has to. He will continue “leading from behind” and only doing enough to appear engaged.

Nothing is worth doing unless you give it your all. But not all leaders ascribe to that philosophy – namely, one: our President. Let us hope that over the next 696 days the damage is not too extensive.

Islamic Terrorist Group Threatens Mall Attacks

On Friday, suicide bombers blew up a hotel compound in Mogadishu, Somalia where a group of government dignitaries from Somalia were assembled. The deputy mayor of Mogadishu and two legislators were among those who lost their lives. Al Qaeda affiliate, Al Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the bloody attack.

Now the Al Shabaab has issued a new terror threat in the form of a video warning of impending attacks on three malls: the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Oxford Street Shopping area in London, England. In their terrorist video are graphic images of the terrorists celebrating the 2013 attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Sixty people were murdered in that terrorist attack for which Al Shabaab also claimed responsibility.

In light of these new terrorist threats, it is especially concerning that the U.S. is a country with open borders. Even more concerning is America’s president who will not call Islamic terrorism what it is: Islamic Terrorism.

When is he going to wake up and enter reality?

Our Greatest Threats are Not Right-Wing Extremists or Climate Change

ISIS is expanding in the Middle East.  Their immediate goal of conquering Libya is to utilize it as a gateway for an imminent invasion of southern Europe. Boko Haram’s acts of terrorism are expanding exponentially in Africa. Sunni countries are warning that if negotiations with Iran allow them to keep their nuclear-producing technologies, there will be an arms race between the Shiite and Sunni nations.

North Korea’s volatile leader paid a visit to a location near the border of South Korea to observe North Korean military drills – a week ahead of joint exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. Kim Jong-un regards the military exercises between the U,S. and South Korea as preparation for an “invasion” of the north.

Russia has violated their cease fire with Ukraine, and Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe is concerned that Vladmir Putin may try to invade and seize Nato territory. Britain’s top general in Nato has also said that this poses “an existential threat to our whole being.”

I do not think that right-wing “extremists” or global warming are today’s greatest threats to mankind. Would someone kindly inform our fearless leader?

Terror Threat

The priest who performed our mass last night had just returned from visiting his family in Southern Nigeria. While he was there, he performed a mass in the northern part of that country. His description of northern Nigeria was startling.

Because the terrorism has become so prevalent in that part of Nigeria, everyone going into the church was searched. I believe that he also said that there were metal detectors. The last thing that Father said was that no cars were allowed to park in the parking lot (because of suicide bombers).

If we don’t get a handle on terror, will this be the fate of the United States?

President Doublespeak

According to Wikipedia, doublespeak is “language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing the target" for bombing, in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language.”

President Obama specializes in doublespeak:

In his State of the Union Speech this year, he declared that foreign wars were over – even as he was asking for Congressional backing to wage war on ISIS. I guess a bombing campaign is not war. He bragged about lower numbers of unemployment but failed to tell us that those “lower numbers” were due to unemployed workers who were so discouraged that they had given up looking for jobs.

Another keynote topic in President Obama’s State of the Union Speech was the closing of Guantanamo Bay. Not mentioned were the five high-level GITMO detainees the President traded for one American deserter – namely, Bowe Bergdahl  -- and that that three or more of these newly released Islamic terrorists were now reconnecting with their terrorist roots.

President Obama emphatically spoke about the persecution of Muslims in response to the murder of three Muslim College students in North Carolina.  While this is indeed tragic, and though persecution of religious groups of any kind is never acceptable, why doesn’t our leader know that the persecution of Jews in the U.S. is vastly higher than the persecution of Muslims? Adding insult to injury, when Obama commented on the 21 Coptic Christians whose brutal throat-slashing murders were broadcast all over the internet last week, our double-speaking leader called it the murder of “Egyptian citizens.”  There was no mention of these poor souls being murdered for their faith. The ISIS video was entitled  “A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross” – as in the cross of Jesus.  Then they threatened to conquer Rome (the seat of the Catholic religion) after they slaughter Christian hostages.

Is this not a religious war?

These are just a few of our feckless President’s attempts at doublespeak, and there are far too many to try to detail them all here. I just wanted to give you an overview.

What is Wrong With President Obama?

What is wrong with our President? He refuses to use the word “Christian.” He refuses to call Islamic terrorism by its name. He gives the cold shoulder to our biggest ally, Israel, and has gone even so far as to refuse to listen to Bibi Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Old Joe won’t be at that joint session of Congress, either, not that it really matters.

Obama has refused to assist in arming Jordan -- another U.S. ally, I might add – with ISIS at its doorstep. Neither will he help Egypt. It seems that President Obama  is a little sore over al-Sissi’s defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt during the Arab Spring. Doesn’t he realize that the Muslim Brotherhood is the terrorist organization that spawned Hamas – another terrorist organization?  Obama also refused to give Jordan and Egypt intelligence on ISIS targets in Syria and Libya.

Quoting the Times of Israel:

 “Ryan Mauro, National Security Analyst for the Clarion Project, wonders why the world agrees that ISIS is morally repugnant even as Hamas gets a pass. ‘Both implement sharia governance, deliberately target civilians, have genocidal beliefs and seek the establishment of a caliphate,’ He further explains that ISIS’s determination to exterminate Iraq’s Yazidi population is “no more egregious” than Hamas’s determination to eliminate millions of Jews. And the only difference between the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and ISIS is in regard to their method of achieving the same goal. The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas wish to establish a Muslim caliphate incrementally, while ISIS is willing to do anything and everything to bring one about as quickly as possible. “

President Obama recently met with 15 Muslim leaders, many of whom are in groups spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood.  The Muslim Brotherhood is not a benign organization. It is, rather, an existential threat to American values and the American way of life.

President Obama offers the usual “Obama Speak” on being part of a “coalition” to defeat ISIS. If he really believes it, then why is he refusing to help our allies?

*Sources:

http://politix.topix.com/story/u44249-obama-refused-to-give-jordan-egypt-intelligence-information-on-isis-targets-youtube

http://madworldnews.com/jordan-egypt-help-isis/

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/the-muslim-brotherhood-isis-connection/

*I use these sources because the lame stream media refuses to report on anything that I have written about. What does that say about the major media outlets?

Where Are the Headlines? Where is the Breaking News?

Forty-six souls were reportedly burned alive in the Iraqi town of Al-Baghdadi less than five miles away from 400 Marines stationed at Al-Asad Air Force Base. I would think that this should grant prominent and immediate exposure in the news media. After all, Fox News reported on it as a breaking news flash. Granted, it is still developing , but there is no reporting on it elsewhere. In fact, there is next to nothing in the news media on the Middle East.

This morning, the lead story at USA Today was Holder ordering a probe of individual bankers’ roles in the financial crisis, and NBC’s was about a burglar who served four years of a 60-year sentence being back behind bars. The headline under the lead at NBC was about why beads are thrown at Mardi Gras. CBS posted legal loopholes for getting through DUI checkpoints as their lead story, and MSNBC posted a lead story about the slow crawl toward justice for the broken-hearted families of victims in police shootings. ABC posted a rolling lead story of the Aaron Hernandez trial, how military action may not be the answer in Libya and, last, a third lead story on the prudish mindset affecting old Hollywood’s silver screen.

I give credit to CNN, though, because at least they posted a lead story comparing ISIS to the Nazis and Khmer Rouge. At least they are talking about it.

Just under the breaking news on the burning alive of 45 human beings in Iraq, Fox News’ lead story discussed State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf’s take on ISIS where she says this on MSNBC’s Hardball:

“We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them. We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether --"  At that point, Harf is interrupted by host Chris Matthews, who astutely points out, "There's always going to be poor people. There's always going to be poor Muslims." Harf continues to argue that the U.S. should work with other countries to "help improve their governance" and "help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people."

“These people?” “We’re killing a lot of THEM?” “There’s always going to be poor Muslims?” Could they be any more condescending? And leave it to an Obama hack to bring job creation and politics into the grand equation of life for those poor souls living in the direct path of ISIS. You cannot create an infrastructure for dead people.

If the American Public is not reading about the atrocities of ISIS and other Islamic terrorists in their daily news, how are they going to know what is happening?