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Good read. My favorite excerpt:

You cannot have “Islamophobia” in the real world, because a “phobia” is an irrational fear. You can’t have an irrational fear of somebody pointing a gun at you. That is a rational fear. “Islamophobia” is an imaginary word from people who never check an English dictionary.

For Libs Who Just Got Scared

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This video is a compilation of various homecomings.  It really tugs at the old heartstrings.  I dare you to watch the complete video without crying.  I double-dare you.

by Chris Rowan

General McChrystal’s Rules of Engagement (ROE) for fighting the war in Afghanistan are predicated on the notion that collateral damage resulting in the deaths of civilians creates more insurgents. McCrystal thought that protecting civilians was actually more effective than large combat operations. McChrystal wrote,

Destroying a home or property jeopardizes the livelihood of an entire family — and creates more insurgents. We sow the seeds of our own demise.

In other words, poverty breeds terror. This is a myth, perpetuated by the well-intentioned and ill-informed. But it is a very seductive myth, reducing the unfathomably complex fabric of human existence to mere economics. This is the essence of Communism; namely, that the source of all human misery can be traced to a maldistribution of wealth. Thus, poverty causes crime, teen pregnancy, high school dropout rates, drug abuse, child abuse, and so on.

But General McChrystal is not a communist. He is a liberal.

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In 2008, General Patraeus delivered a report to Congress about how the war in Iraq was progressing.  Many Democrats called him a liar before he uttered a single word.  Now these same democrats sing his praises.  The first video in this playlist sets up the video clips that follow.

NRB: New York Times – Gates Says Taliban Must Take Legitimate Afghan Role http://bit.ly/5KobAs

(From telegraph.co.uk)

By Gerald Warner

If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.

Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora’s Box by publishing the Justice Department’s legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

“Don’t be discouraged by what’s happened the last few weeks,” he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them – or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers.

Obama promised his CIA audience that nobody would be prosecuted for past actions. That has already been contradicted by leftist groups with a revanchist ambition to put Republicans, headed if possible by Condoleezza Rice, in the dock. Talk about playing party politics with national security. Martin Scheinin, the United Nations special investigator for human rights, claims that senior figures, including former vice president Dick Cheney, could face prosecution overseas. Ponder that – once you have got over the difficulty of locating the United Nations and human rights within the same dimension.

President Pantywaist Obama should have thought twice before sitting down to play poker with Dick Cheney. The former vice president believes documents have been selectively published and that releasing more will prove how effective the interrogation techniques were. Under Dubya’s administration, there was no further atrocity on American soil after 9/11.

President Pantywaist’s recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America’s enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?