http://londoncenter.org/2013/09/west-abolishes/?utm_source=Weekly+Commentary+%289-10-13%29&utm_campaign=weekly_commentary&utm_medium=email In 2008 Obama, presidential candidate at the time, spoke in Berlin to the “citizens of the world”. As the intended successor George Bush he wanted to make America popular again. America avoided power politics and became a glorified spectator. Obama has been overtaken by events. In the Middle East he created a void that […]
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/09/08/fundamentally-transforming-the-united-states-of-america/?print=1 Remember when candidate Barack Obama promised his acolytes that they were only “five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America [1]”? That was back in October 2008, when the hectic flush of Obamamania was at its peak. To be fair, it’s taken a bit longer than five days, but here we […]
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/09/01/israel-leper-or-light-unto-the-nations-part-5-whichever-it-is-ive-married-it/?print=1 See the previous installments of P. David Hornik’s fascinating series: Israel: Leper or Light Unto the Nations? Part 1: The Whole World Against Us Israel: Leper or Light Unto the Nations? Part 2: That Bird Could Be a Mossad Agent! Israel: Leper or Light Unto the Nations? Part 3: From Woodstock to the Promised […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/358048/print
To support the president’s enforcement of his red line in Syria requires suspensions of disbelief. Here are several.
I wish it were not true, but there is scant evidence that the world, led by the U.S., went to war in the past over the use of weapons of mass destruction — whether by Gamel Nasser in Yemen or by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds and the Iranians. Understandably, the current West’s reaction, including Obama’s, to possible Syrian WMD use is calibrated mostly on the dangers of intervention, not the use of WMD per se. Thus Obama is now focusing on Syria in a way he is not, at least overtly, on Iran, the far greater WMD threat, because he believes the former could be handled with two days’ worth of Tomahawks and the latter could not. That would be understandable pragmatism if it were not dressed up in the current humanitarian bluster about red lines and the “international community.”
Obama, I think, is inadvertently doing the terrible arithmetic that the last 1,000 Syrians killed by the Assad regime pose a humanitarian crisis that demands his intervention in a way that the first 99,000 did not — on the theory that WMD represent an existential threat. (In fact, from the trenches of World War I to Hiroshima, WMD have never killed more than contemporary horrific conventional weaponry has.) So far Obama has not made that case. We can only wonder whether the forgotten hundreds of thousands butchered from Rwanda to Darfur — without so much as one Tomahawk or Hellfire launched on their behalf — might have been saved had only their killers begun their devilry with sarin gas.
Obama, as senator and presidential candidate, made the serial argument that U.S. military interventions, barring an “imminent threat” to our national security, are both illegal and immoral unless they have the triad of U.S. congressional support, U.N. approval, and American public support.
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2013/09/10/hanson-baldwin-on-the-world-war-ii-second-front-debate-and-the-loss-of-eastern-europe/ Hanson W. Baldwin (d. 1991), a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, was the 1943 Pulitzer Prize winning military-affairs editor for The New York Times, and prolific author. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on military and naval affairs during the World War II (WWII), and Cold War eras, Baldwin’s […]
A bizarre and slanderous attack on the highest Soviet-Bloc official ever to defect to the United States. Is it not heart warming to see that Frontpage which launched and continues a bizarre campaign of slander against Diana West is so touchy about the meanies who attack Pacepa pretending to review a book????? They fume “I don’t know what drove Mr. Gaetan to write this attack, but it is very misguided. I hope he will reconsider his view of Pacepa’s extraordinary book.” It happens that Pacepa is a very accurate and distinguished man and deserves better than a mean spirited review….but the hypocrisy here is odoriferous….rsk
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/spyridon-mitsotakis/in-defense-of-gen-ion-mihai-pacepa/print/
Disinformation, a new book by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the one-time Romanian spy chief turned highest Soviet-Bloc official ever to defect to the United States, was subject to a bizarre attack in the National Catholic Register. The author of the article, Victor Gaetan, writes what amounts to a rehash of the criticisms of Pacepa’s 2007 article, “Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican,” combines it with the latest slanders against Pacepa from the remnants of Nicolae Ceausescu’s entourage, and presents it as a review of the book.
Disinformation is an account of how the Soviet Union used lies to attack its enemies, a tactic known as dezinformatsiya. A key part of this is “framing,” the practice of changing someone or something’s past to suit the present (an example given in the book was the Washington Post‘s fake Mitt Romney hair-cutting bully story, which was meant to frame the former presidential candidate as a nasty homophobe). The primary case study provided in the book is the campaign to discredit Pope Pius XII – providing not only a well-documented defense of the wartime Pope, but an equally well-documented exposé of his accusers (a trail of lies leading right back to the Kremlin).
Striking Syria — on The Glazov Gang
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/syria-to-strike-or-not-to-strike-on-the-glazov-gang/print/
This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Karen Siegemund, Founder of Rage Against the Media, Michael Chandler, a concerned citizen and Borek Volarik, a Czech defector.
Author and freedom fighter Nonie Darwish filled in for host Jamie Glazov.
The Gang gathered this week to discuss Striking Syria, analyzing what America stands to gain — and lose — if Obama launches war.
To watch both parts of the two-part series, see below:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/un-to-us-get-zimmerman/print/ With nothing more important to do than make pompous pronouncements on an already resolved criminal case in Florida, a United Nations sub-group on racism called on the United States government late last week to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the controversial shooting of black Trayvon Martin by the media-designated “white Hispanic” […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/andrew-harrod/how-cowards-are-pushing-women-into-combat/print/ “I wish that every politician would read this book,” retired Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin said at the Family Research Council (FRC) on September 4, 2013 (event video here). Boykin was introducing his FRC colleague and fellow army veteran, retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis, to discuss the recent release of Deadly Consequences: […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-amateurs-war/print/ Syria would be Obama’s fourth war, but it might as well be his first war. The amateur has an impressive war machine that can level entire countries, but not the understanding of how to use it. Obama has reportedly flipped through 50 war plans for Syria, but he hasn’t been able to provide one […]
