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Some good reads
Sorry don’t have time for a thoughtful blog post, but I’ve read a few interesting pieces that I would like to throw up the links to share them.
Here are two excellent foreign policy analyses by G. Murphy Donovan:
John Derbyshire dissects PC culture:
Andrew McCarthy at National Review dismantled the Obama administration flimsy rationale for not looking at social media content of prospective immigrants:
Tashfeen Malik’s Jihadist Social-Media Posts Were Deliberately Ignored by the Feds
And last, an interesting piece Malcolm Pollack posted on his waka, waka, waka blog, which brought back memories of the Cold War era analyzing photos and broadcasts of Soviet leaders. This article looks at how Putin and several Russian leaders walk:
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My review of the GOP field
Time to gauge where I’m at with the GOP primary, other than wishing it was over and done with. Very tired of the manufactured drama, starring Donald Trump. As I’ve written many times, I will never vote for him and I do harbor suspicions that he is a dupe (not a plant) of the Clintons, because as I’ve watched Hillary Clinton go from the stiff, robotic candidate in the Spring, to the smiling hipster, cracking jokes and yukking it up on late night TV, it’s obvious dramatic changes took place within her campaign. I believe that unlike her 2008 campaign, where she kept one of America’s true political geniuses at bay, in the early months of this campaign, where it looked like she might not survive to the Fall, in desperation she turned to him. I strongly suspect that he set in motion the strategy that has worked miracles for him over the years. Yes, I see the Bill Clinton triangulation strategy playing out, with far-left kook Bernie on the left, Trump sounding more and more like a fascist on the right and there’s “love and kindness Hillary, appearing as moderate and centrist. I’ve mentioned my suspicions many times ( here, here, here).
In the GOP camp, Donald Trump creates drama, chaos and endless controversy. Assuredly, on the big issues he champions, he mouths many home truths that are inconvenient for the DC cocktail party crowd to hear and acts like gasoline tossed on the liberal press and pundits’ self-righteous, politically correct pieties. He’s reduced their arguments to a heaping pile of ashes and for that alone, we should all cheer. However, there are several “buts”, like, but he doesn’t have a clear grasp of The Constitution and his cures often come without clear plans and overstep constitutional bonds. Of course, those who believe in his great business acumen, don’t harbor the doubts that I do – they see the great American success story, while I see the yuge glowing red warning sign of toxic leadership.
I left my job at a retail store earlier this year, where I worked for a man, whom I believe was the most talented merchandiser I have ever seen. Along with that talent came a huge ego and the worst people skills I have ever seen in my life, that is, until I’ve watched Donald Trump brag, insult, bash and mock his GOP rivals. This man threw anyone under the bus to make himself look good and he bragged as much as Trump. He loved to fire people, very much like Trump. One tirade too many right on the sales floor and I decided to put in my two-week notice, after working there many years. He was my 8th store manager and I had never had a single problem with any of the others. YUGE relief is what I feel not having to deal with him anymore!
The only team The Donald is on, is his own. He does not care about the GOP party or causes per se, they’re just the vehicle he is driving to become President, where he believes his dynamic business acumen will single-handedly “make America great again”. He’s right on many issues – even in his latest kerfuffle about Muslim immigration, on the main points he’s right – it doesn’t make sense to be bringing in Muslim immigrants from several countries that are hot beds of Islamist terror and where the collapse of government in many of these regions makes adequate vetting impossible. And he nailed the alarming truth that the Obama administration doesn’t know what the hell is going on with their own immigration policies. A pause makes perfect sense.
Time will tell if the Carville/Begala campaign modus operandi, that I strongly suspect is playing out in the Trump campaign, is true or just a nutty conspiracy theory. For me, it doesn’t take much imagination to envision Bill Clinton calling Trump when he caught wind that Trump was considering running. Trump and Bill Clinton golf together and have known each other for years. Trump was a yuge Clinton supporter. So, the phone call could have been as simple as this:
Bill Clinton calls Trump : Hi Donald, I hear you’re thinking of throwing your hat into the 2016 race?
Trump: Yes, I am.
Bill Clinton: Well, you know I believe Hillary is the best candidate for 2016, but I wish you good luck and you know, Donald, the one bit of advice I’ll give you is you’ll need great political advisers. A national race is really complicated.
Trump: Well thanks for that advice. I am still putting a campaign staff together.
Bill Clinton: No problem Donald, you know I am already taken (laugh, laugh), but the best political advisers are Carville and Begala. Those GOP political advisers don’t have the guts to run a tough race.
Trump: Thanks, you know me, I want the best political advisers. You know I’m going to fund my own campaign, if I jump in. Do you think Carville and Begala would work for a GOP candidate.
Bill Clinton: I can’t speak for them, but you know, business is business, so you’d have to talk to them yourself.
Set-up done. It could have been that easy for Bill Clinton to manipulate the downfall of the GOP primary. Carville and Begala easily could have advised Trump to keep the business relationship secret, because Republicans go into derangement mode about them. It’s obvious Bill Clinton threw his weight around and called in all sorts of favors within the Democratic party to bury this email server scandal and the Benghazi committee investigation to get her campaign on track.
The other GOP field, except for Rubio and Cruz, lies like dying fish washed up on shore, gasping their last breath. Fiorina seemed to have so much potential – smart, well-prepared, excellent public speaking skills, but then she turned into a scorned feminist, who played the victim card at every turn – whining her way to main debate stage. Her “well-prepared” quickly became boring repetitive, rehearsed diatribes and there didn’t seem a hairbreadth’s difference between her shrill, angry “I am woman, hear me roar” harangues than Hillary’s. The rest of the GOP field, many having crystal clear conservative principles and records, due to The Donald’s monopoly of the press and pundits attention, fell to the wayside. Dr. Carson, the other outsider, still seems like a very nice man, who wants to make a positive change. Unfortunately, his contemplative pauses, lack of foreign policy cred and string of odd remarks have doomed his chances.
I could happily vote for Ted Cruz, even though I doubt he can win in the general election. His pitfalls are he always appears as if what he’s saying now is a careful tactical move in some political grand strategy , which on an intellectual level, I admire, but on a more human level, it comes across as cold and calculating. His other main drawback centers on how he speaks with such overblown rhetoric that it feels as if he’s talking down to people. Rubio has boyish good looks and an engaging personality, but I feel he’s misguided on foreign policy and easily led by “military and think tanks experts”, unfortunately it sounds like all of his are neocons, whom I disagree with on most policy issues. I still like him, but it would take a lot of soul-searching for me to support him. Chris Christie comes across well in debates, but here again, as a conservative, I have a hard time with Republican-lite candidates
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What he should have said
Here’s what President Obama should have said on Sunday night. Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska articulates who we’re fighting and what we are fighting for. (H/T Truth Revolt.org)
A niggling incongruent bit of information
Tashfeen Malik, erstwhile jihadi bride of Sayed Farhood and Islamist terrorist has been reported on since the San Bernadino terrorist attack last week. There are many things we know and many things we don’t know and then there are things the press reported that make no sense, if you are to believe the facts as presented. The FBI affirms that both Malik and Farhood were radicalized for some time before this terrorist attack. They’re following all sorts of leads, but one lead they should look into is how this online marriage came about.
Muslim women raised in Western countries have been surrounded by a culture where women interact with men outside their family, without supervision or social stigma. Malik was born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia, so why would this “devout Muslim” woman, whom Farhood’s family claims that they never even saw her face, look for an American husband or for that matter chat online with a male stranger? Somewhere in this mess are middlemen matchmakers, perhaps jihadist family members or a jihadist group, who arranged this marriage. It seems incomprehensible that a devout Muslim woman, with her background, would hook-up with an American, Muslim or not – it just makes no sense, unless she was sent to carry out a terrorist attack or their families arranged this marriage. The press just blithely reported this meeting online, no questions asked, but there’s more to it – more men involved in this.
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Islam, Terrorism
Ralph Peters unloads
Ralph Peters, one of my favorite military analysts and one of America’s most creative military strategic thinkers, calls it like it is. Please be warned Peters used a little salty language, but here again sometimes that says it best. (Hat tip to PJ media, where I saw this video first)
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Diversity does not make us stronger
“Speaking from the Oval Office and surrounded by members of his national security team, Obama said the shooters perhaps had “mixed motives.”
“It is possible that this was terrorist-related. But we don’t know. It’s also possible that this was work-related,” he said.”
‘Mixed Motives’ in California Shooting by Michele Gorman
President Obama lives in a leftist bubble, where he turns every situation into a college classroom debate forum on his ideological causes. He fixates on “narratives” and word choice over substance. Most of the rest of the world lives where reality smacks them in the face, where brute force decides life and death struggle and where stark truths about human nature can’t be edited out, as some politically inconvenient line. Most of us in America live in the real world too, where we look at a situation like the San Bernadino terrorist attack, quickly assess the facts and form our conclusions based on those facts.
With unerring bad timing, President Obama makes bold declarations about America’s enemies, where events unfold that quickly blow apart his carefully constructed “narratives. “ISIL is contained,” the day before the Paris attack or “No specific threat to US,” just a week ago.
In keeping with the Obama administration bad timing, Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, announced all combat positions will be open to women the day after the San Bernadino terrorist attack by Islamic radicals. Assuredly, Secretary Carter believes that “diversity” makes us stronger, which he stated, but here’s the truth – selecting the best qualified people for military positions and maintaining high standards makes our military stronger.
So, selectivity, not diversity makes our military stronger and that means assessing the qualifications that best meet the mission.
In grueling combat jobs, where even most men fail to meet the physical standards, common sense and endless research can pinpoint with reliable accuracy where the female anatomy falls short on meeting these standards. The Army made sure some females made it through Ranger school, where questions of different treatment to get them through the course have been raised, but be that as it may, in reality very few women will rush to get into the elite units and few (if any) have the physical ability to pursue a career in these jobs. Adding women to these jobs adds no advantage – absolutely NONE. It creates another PC myth that must be maintained, even if the lie costs lives on the battlefield. That’s the truth. The entire hoopla about opening these fields to women is really about female officer career advancement, not about making the military stronger.
In the real world, where America’s adversaries size up our force, they hear the claptrap from the Pentagon, but they watch closely what happens in reality, far away from the DC echo chamber. President Obama has slashed our forces, he has purged top generals and promoted sycophants, his military decisions lack any coherence or strategic sense. And then we come to this latest announcement – yes, while feminists cheer about the prospect of women in combat, America’s adversaries are laughing at us. The day after an Islamic terrorist attack on American soil, the President preened on about “mixed motives”. Then his attorney general publicly announced her greatest fear is not another terrorist attack or keeping Americans safe, nope her greatest concern is that Americans don’t use hate speech against Muslims. And finally the Pentagon announced women in combat jobs…
America sits a divided nation – where every public institution lumbers under the weight of highly-charged factionalized fighting. One can only wonder what event or chain reaction will set the final collapse in motion. If our Republic is going to survive, the last thing to believe is that “diversity makes us stronger”. What made America great was not “diversity”, it was diverse people UNITED by a belief in a set of common civic values. Having common civic values and a common belief in The Constitution would help gird up our once great nation’s crumbling pillars. I’ve written about this need to find common ground many times (here, here, here, here and here) and as I said more than a year ago:
Truth matters and therein the fate of America lies. We have hostile camps in America, left and right, black, white and every shade in-between, who find it easier to treat each other as enemies rather than talk and find common ground as fellow American citizens. We’ve got too much diversity training and not enough American citizen training:
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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Just, Get Real!
General Mike Flynn, former DIA director, used the phrase that it’s time to “get real” in our fight against ISIS. It’s time to “get real” in putting the pieces together with this terrorist attack on American soil yesterday! The Obama administration will bend over backwards to call it everything except what it is – A TERRORIST ATTACK! The media keeps yammering on about how this shooter in San Bernadino left this workplace Christmas party angry. The shooter happens to be a devout Muslim, who recently traveled to Saudi Arabia – okay, that could be “not definitive”, but come on he went home and returned with his wife and reports indicate a third person and all of them were heavily armed, wearing black gear. Well, here’s a clue from a co-worker of the terrorist:
“Baccari said his co-worker, who said he was raised on a farm with goats and chickens, was reserved. Several months ago Farook grew out his beard. He appeared committed to his family, and never displayed any unusual behavior or discussed any radical political views.”
The suspect left THREE IEDS in the Inland Regional Center before fleeing the scene of their massacre. Sure, random act by disgruntled employee is to go home and gather together, not only the wife and guns, but IEDs lying around the house. Sure, he went home and just randomly constructed some IEDs, because he got pissed at the Christmas party. GET REAL!
I can tell you that for sure, that while the President will fixate on the gun problem in America, he’s barking up the wrong tree, by assiduously avoiding facing the Islamic radical problem. I know, the left will next say the work Christmas party was insensitive and “incited” this violent response… Yes, don’t make them angry, or else. Just wait, this line of insane reasoning is coming.
So sick of the venal politicizing Islam’s dark, radical underbelly, after more than a decade and thousands of American lives lost in a fight where our leaders refuse to identify the enemy – it’s Islamic radicals who are following an ideology that is promoted and funded by some of America’s supposed allies in the Mid-East! That’s not “hate”, that’s called identifying those who hate America and want to annihilate us (hint: America’s enemies).
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A “get real” approach
Spiegel Online International ran an interview with General Mike Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, November 29, 2015, which offers some excellent insights into the challenges with defeating the Islamic State. It’s rare to find an American general who will candidly state the truth, so I find General Flynn’s “get real” approach, a breath of fresh air. The interview is in English. Here are a few takeaways:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is the Balkans mission a model for the current war?
Flynn: We can learn some lessons from the Balkans. Strategically, I envision a breakup of the Middle East crisis area into sectors in the way we did back then, with certain nations taking responsibility for these sectors. In addition, we would need a coalition military command structure and, on a political level, the United Nations must be involved. The United States could take one sector, Russia as well and the Europeans another one. The Arabs must be involved in that sort of military operation, as well, and must be part of every sector. With this model, you would have opportunities — Russia, for example, must use its influence on Iran to have Tehran back out of Syria and other proxy efforts in the region.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: For that to happen, the West would have to cooperate fully with the Russians.
Flynn: We have to work constructively with Russia. Whether we like it or not, Russia made a decision to be there (in Syria) and to act militarily. They are there, and this has dramatically changed the dynamic. So you can’t say Russia is bad, they have to go home. It’s not going to happen. Get real. Look at what happened in the past few days: The president of France asked the US for help militarily (after the Paris attacks). That’s really weird to me, as an American. We should have been there first and offered support. Now he is flying to Moscow and asking Putin for help.
(Hat tip to Debra Heine, at PJ Media, who posted a more extensive piece on General Flynn’s interview)
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Thinking aloud on radical Islam in America
Time often distances us from realities of our history that, if remembered, would guide us through treacherous waters in the present. America’s difficult past with slavery leads to a glossing over of many inconvenient facts, which seem impolitic to mention in our PC culture. Being fully aware that some will dismiss these facts as mere “conspiracy theory mutterings” or “racist and hate”, I’ve decided to write this post anyway. For regular readers, you’re forewarned, I’ve covered this before in various posts,, but I felt like mentioning it again.
A chronological listing often helps you see connections that you miss when studying history neatly delineated into subject matter or particular eras. Comparing chronological listings from various regions of the world, side-by-side, gives you an added perspective on events. Considering this timeline methodology led me to ponder why the press assiduously avoids noticing the connections between many violent black street gangs in America, Islamic supremacist movers and shakers, and their involvement under the larger umbrella of the ongoing “civil rights movement”, largely controlled by black American groups.
Consider that college kids today have no actual remembrance of the Soviet Union or the Cold War. From the beginning of the Bolshevik control in Russia in 1917, their goal was not just control of Russia, but a spread of Communist ideology world-wide. So, as the Soviet Union emerged, ideological compatriots throughout the West worked to advance their revolution. Just a stone throw’s back on our American history timeline, during the 1930s, Communist Party (CPUSA) made it’s strongest in-roads, recruiting and agitating within the American black community. The Soviet Union directed and funded CPUSA activities. Due to the Great Depression, Marxist ideology gained traction with urban poor. Then add in the alarming fact that many of the most radical activists from the Vietnam-era anti-war movement (many of them communist ideologues and CPUSA affiliated) settled into academia and project an out-sized impact fomenting political upheaval, culture change and divisiveness, in addition to controlling education in America. This anti-American indoctrination, which is institutionalized at the top of our educational system, serves as the springboard for America’s future leaders.
In numerous past posts I’ve chronicled tidbits of information, that while I can’t state absolute cause and effect, form more than just a conspiracy trail leading nowhere. There is some “there” there, the issue is figuring out how much. Let’s look at one such black leader, President Obama and consider his background, minus the conspiracy theory stuff, but sticking to things that are facts. First, his mother and grandparents were not your ordinary American-flag waving, apple pie type folks – that is a fact. His grandfather and likely his mother too, were Marxist ideologues. Growing up in Hawaii, Obama’s grandfather formed a friendship with Frank Marshall Davis, an actual card-carrying member of CPUSA, whom Obama mentions numerous times in his autobiography, “Dreams of my Father,” as his mentor. Obama’s father, likewise, was a Marxist. Looking at Davis, you can see by his political activism in Chicago, there was active recruitment and advancement of CPUSA goals within the black community. Valerie Jarrett’s parents and future father-in-law were also part of this Chicago petri dish of swirling far-left activism.
The Soviet Union directed and funded CPUSA. Here’s a link provided to me in a comment at another blog, which deserves a thorough investigation by US intelligence, because, if true, it would be another foreign attempt to subvert the US Constitution. Back in April 2015, in a comment on another blog I mentioned the connections between violent Muslim black street gangs and these protests in Ferguson and Baltimore. A commenter provided this link to a
“Not strange at all, LB. I commend to your attention this piece concerning Vernon Jarrett, a friend and contemporary of Frank Marshal Davis, and father-in-law of Valerie Jarrett. It explains that connection.”
~M.
This article mentions a 1979 newspaper article written by Valerie Jarrett’s former father-in-law, veteran Chicago newspaperman, Vernon Jarrett, who wrote about OPEC beginning funding of black students and black colleges. The linked article above, by Frank Miele, mentions Jarrett as relating a conversation with Khalid al- Mansour (the former Donald Warden, who a was a founder of the black-power movement in the Bay area). Al-Mansour was a lawyer for OPEC, along with his many other activities. Here’s a link with some bio info on al-Mansour.
While these two articles approach the question raised whether Barack Obama’s law school fees were paid with Saudi money, the larger question is did the OPEC nations or Saudi Arabia undertake a funding project in the 80s and 90s to spread Wahabbi (radical) Islam in black colleges and black communities. Here’s a 2013 piece from The Vancouver Sun:
“In 2003, a United States Senate committee on terrorism heard testimony that in the previous 20 years Saudi Arabia had spent $87 billion on promoting Wahhabism worldwide.
This included financing 210 Islamic centres, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges and 2,000 madrassas (religious schools).
Various estimates put the amount the Saudi government spends on these missionary institutions as up to $3 billion a year.”
The article continues:
“It is widely believed by western intelligence agencies that in the 1980s and 90s, the Saudi government had a deal with Wahhabist terrorist groups like al-Qaida that their fundraising would not be hindered so long as they only operated in foreign countries.”
If true that would be two foreign subversive elements tossing money into fomenting anti-American indoctrination and radical activities in black communities. Watching the evolving black movements in America, it was noted that ISIS signs showed up in the protests, but the mainstream press dismissed that as protests attract all sorts of kooks. Yes, the same thing could be seen in Baltimore, but what the mainstream press completely missed in Baltimore was violent black (Muslim) street gangs were involved in fomenting the rioting, then pretended they were part of the keeping the peace actions and in the mix descended the likes of Malik Shabazz. From my May 10, 2015 post, “Follow the money”, here is who Shabazz is:
“In light of the racial tensions, our federal government and the media pretend all these race riots aren’t being fueled, in large part, by Marxist radicals, stalwart race hustlers like Al Sharpton, and MUSLIM black gangs and thugs – like the Nation of Islam, the New Black Panthers, Black Guerrilla nation and many more. The media, by and large, tiptoes around acknowledging that radical black Muslim gangs serve as a home-grown terrorist training ground.
Malik Shabazz, formerly in the Nation of Islam, former head of the New Black Panthers, a Muslim black supremacist, virulent anti-Semite and now the head of some nicer sounding National President of Black Lawyers for Justice, became a champion of the black people against the police in Baltimore and here’s the connection of the black Muslim gangs banding together for “justice”. Really, the attempt to cover-up the Islamic connection among American academia, the Obama White House, and even the Southern Poverty Law Center is astounding. You can check out the New Black Panthers at the SPLC website and no where in the first pargraph describing the group is the radical Islamic connection mentioned (way down the page you can find his connection to Nation of Islam):
“The New Black Panther Party is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers. Founded in Dallas, the group today is especially active on the East Coast, from Boston to Jacksonville, Fla. The group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement (it frequently engages in armed protests of alleged police brutality and the like), but principals of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s— a militant, but non-racist, left-wing organization — have rejected the new Panthers as a “black racist hate group” and contested their hijacking of the Panther name and symbol.”
So, you got that, Shabazz has now morphed into the benign champion of black men. He is the National President of Black Lawyers for Justice… This also is an old tactic of the Communists – they co-opt western democratic language to confuse and deceive people – they’re all about democratic values and fairness and equal rights oh, and of course “workers rights”… Sadly, young people today don’t even realize they’re being conned. I mean, what could be wrong with a rabid Muslim racist, who advocated for the overthrow of the US (an ANARCHIST), being the leader of Black Lawyers for Justice…. The press goes along with the con.
Americans apparently decided to dismiss inquiring deeper into President Obama’s links to radicals in the black community. Sure, no worries with launching his political career in Bill Ayers living room (a Marxist and domestic terrorist). No worries with choosing an avowed Marxist who wrote a entire manifesto on overthrowing the US (avowed Marxist Van Jones and his STORM). Whenever the topic of communist infiltration in America comes up, the political Left recoils and charges McCarthyism, but the fact is the Bolsheviks initiated just such a program, that continued throughout the Soviet Union’s existence and black Americans were a key target of their efforts. Did the Saudis initiate a similar program in the late 70s?
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