tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post8736984859611720924..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Why Obama's Support for the Muslim Brotherhood MattersMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-83440947602703789732019-10-12T09:20:14.362-07:002019-10-12T09:20:14.362-07:00Nice post thanks for sharing.Nice post thanks for sharing.John Smithhttps://hudsonsailing.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-53147972594932661002015-04-08T06:06:34.381-07:002015-04-08T06:06:34.381-07:00At this point I'd be happy if Obama just pardo...At this point I'd be happy if Obama just pardons everyone in Gitmo on way out the door, as long as he leaves. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-76887396594886008792015-04-08T06:05:56.990-07:002015-04-08T06:05:56.990-07:00At the “Empowering Voices” conference (3/20/2015) ...At the “Empowering Voices” conference (3/20/2015) held by the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was not only given an award by our enemy for his outreach and engagement activities with them – for which DHS brags – he said, at the event, “The reading of the Quran reminded me of two things that MLK said a lot, which are quintessentially American values.” [One is, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Second, ‘I cannot be, what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be in this country.’”]Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-62245794468795024112015-04-07T20:03:16.605-07:002015-04-07T20:03:16.605-07:00Iranians did not out negotiate Obama. He is a Jew ...Iranians did not out negotiate Obama. He is a Jew hater and his base at the Democrat party are Jew haters. They just want Iran to do the dirty job for them. I'm having a hard time figuring out what is it that separates progressives from Nazis anyway. Worship of totalitarian state: check, hatred of individual freedom: check, hatred of Western civilization: check, vicious Jew hatred: check. Hitler would feel right at home.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14901811045493439598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-27822277695317924762015-04-07T18:47:47.298-07:002015-04-07T18:47:47.298-07:00Greg Sheridan in the Australian
Behind a pay wall...Greg Sheridan in the Australian<br /><br />Behind a pay wall but here is an extract<br /><br /><br />US President Barack Obama has now effectively guaranteed that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons, in what will be a black day for the hopes of peace and stability for anyone in the world.<br /><br />The Iranian government has out-negotiated Obama completely. They showed more resolve, more cunning and greater strategic patience.<br /><br />Obama took a strong hand and played it very badly.<br /><br />The Iranians played a weak hand to perfection. They were forced into negotiations by the overall weakness of their position but have emerged with all the main elements of their nuclear program intact. In time, they will acquire nuclear weapons. Obama will go down in history as the president who made this possible.<br /><br />The framework that was announced in Lausanne is a most peculiar document. It is unsigned and interpreted differently in Iran, from in the US. It contains very few details. A great deal of the substance of any agreement remains to be negotiated by June 30. However, as Obama, his Secretary of State, John Kerry, and other senior officials constantly claim that the only alternative to this deal is war, they have effectively given away the last shreds of American leverage.<br /><br />The Iranians know the Obama administration is absolutely desperate to conclude a deal.<br /><br />All the leverage now rests with the Iranians.<br /><br />Even the broad terms of the framework as announced contain all manner of key concessions the Americans not so long ago said they would never make.<br /><br />Among these, Iran gets to keep nuclear facilities, such as its underground Fordow plant, which it developed illegally, in secret, in defiance of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Similarly, it gets to keep its heavy water reactor at Arak, although it will convert it to a facility that for the moment cannot produce plutonium.<br /><br />It gets to keep 6000 centrifuges to enrich uranium of which 5000 will remain operational. There is no purpose in having these centrifuges other than to eventually produce material for nuclear weapons. It will also be allowed to undertake intensive research on building more advanced centrifuges that can enrich more uranium more quickly. It will not have to export its enriched uranium but merely convert it into a more benign form in a process that can be reversed. And almost all the notional restrictions on Iran run out in 10 years.<br />geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-16432136697344187132015-04-07T17:48:06.534-07:002015-04-07T17:48:06.534-07:00When it comes to "good deals" with dange...When it comes to "good deals" with dangerous vicious regimes US Democrat presidents have form. And those who vote them for a second term have short memories.<br /><br />You can be certain that this was not overlooked or forgotten in Tehran. Memories are long. Very long. They laugh at us. For them it's like doing a deal with gold fish in a bowl<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=0&v=6TcbU5jAavwgeoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-36696477393239044202015-04-07T17:30:03.474-07:002015-04-07T17:30:03.474-07:00A comment on an article by Daniel Pipes at Powerli...A comment on an article by Daniel Pipes at Powerline<br /><br />http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/04/daniel-pipes-the-obama-doctrine-serves-up-one-disaster-after-another.phpgeoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-25566046158843851562015-04-07T17:28:12.710-07:002015-04-07T17:28:12.710-07:00Bob Diethrich · Top Commenter · AP Macroeconomics...Bob Diethrich · Top Commenter · AP Macroeconomics Teacher at Katy ISD<br />"Say what you will about his immediate predecessor, but I kind of liked it when our allies laughed at our President, but our enemies feared him, as opposed to the quite opposite current state of events."geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-41279852675040946622015-04-07T14:58:13.050-07:002015-04-07T14:58:13.050-07:00I noticed ( on the EofZ thread) someone drawing a ...I noticed ( on the EofZ thread) someone drawing a comparison between the British government's negotiations with the IRA and Obama's dealings with the MB.<br />Again, there is no analogy.<br />The IRA were a nationalist political movement with a very specific set of political aims. Whatever one may think of them- and people have very different opinions- the IRA chose to further their political aims through the use of violence. That involved severe intimidation and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. And terrorist attacks over much of the 20th Century in Northern Ireland. Later they perpetrated terrorist attacks on the British mainland. Negotiating with them, which started under the previous Conservative government, was morally difficult, but had the aim to bring about peace in NI and to stop terrorist attacks on the British mainland.<br />The IRA had no wider political ambitions. They are not an organisation that has an ideology that requires them to wish to push their beliefs onto any other countries, or parts of the world. Theirs is not a global philosophy or movement. <br />khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651898817618608477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-66974247292739149092015-04-07T14:31:16.429-07:002015-04-07T14:31:16.429-07:00Or perhaps the President's ideology blinds him...<i> Or perhaps the President's ideology blinds him to seeing forces ( even Muslim Fundamentalist forces) fighting against an oppressive regime as new totalitarians in waiting ( vs successors to the civil rights heroes of old.). </i><br /><br /><br />Well, yes. That might be a possibility.<br />However, what would that say about such an <br /><i> ideology </i>?<br /><br />If you know the Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist organisation, which part of their own stated ideology do you believe you can ignore? Why give them the benefit of the doubt? There is plenty of evidence for what they actually believe, and what their longer term aims are. Plenty.<br /><br />As for comparing them with the heroes of the old civil rights movement: What, if anything, do they have in common with Martin Luther King Jr.? <br />In what way is that analogous?<br /><br />http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/01/28/think-again-the-muslim-brotherhood/khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651898817618608477noreply@blogger.com