Posted on 10/17/2011 5:56:12 PM PDT by TitansAFC
WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is charging the Obama administration has failed to undermine the Iranian regime, saying Tehran has been “waging war against us since 1979.”
The Georgia Republican tells CNN’s “State of the Union” he thinks President Barack Obama should have done more to reach out to ordinary Iranians when they protested against the regime. He was questioned about Iran in the wake of allegations that elements of the government supported an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Gingrich says “our goal should be the replacement of the Iranian dictatorship.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Get ‘em, Newt!
And he was wrong... how???
That’s one point for Gingrich.
He is partially right.
Obama is not only “clueless” about Iran, He is just plain “clueless” about everything.
Everything Obama touch’s turns to S**t.
He hasn’t done anything right since he took the oath of office and he had to do a do-over at that.
Never fear. Commander Obama’s off to Uganda to save the world:
Excerpt:
And now for Obama’s Ugandan military adventure
By: Gene Healy | 10/17/11 8:05 PM
Examiner Columnist Follow Him @Genehealy
Friday afternoon, in a letter to Speaker John Boehner, President Obama announced that he’ll be deploying 100 combat-ready U.S. soldiers, mostly special forces operators, to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Congo.
So much for Dinesh D’Souza’s pet theory that “Kenyan anti-colonialism” is the secret motivation behind everything the president does.
The soldiers’ mission is to help Ugandan forces round up the so-called Lord’s Resistance Army, a group that few Americans had heard of before last week.
The LRA, a grotesque death-cult led by Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed “spokesperson” for God, has, as Obama put it, “murdered, raped and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women and children in central Africa” over the last 20 years.
Our soldiers aren’t supposed to engage LRA forces, except in self-defense, and, given that LRA lore holds that anointing yourself with shea nut oil will make you bulletproof, U.S. special forces can probably handle any trouble they get into.
But, following on the heels of Libya — a war in a country the president’s own secretary of defense admitted is “not a vital interest for the U.S.” — Obama’s Ugandan adventure raises the question, what in the world does he think the American military is for?
The LRA is surely a horrible bunch, but, equally surely, they’re no threat to American national security. The president’s decision — in the midst of two ongoing wars — to involve U.S. soldiers in another fight where America has no possible stake, suggests a disturbingly incontinent approach to military intervention.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/10/and-now-obamas-ugandan-military-adventure#ixzz1b5fuQZCa
There, that's more succinct.
Oh come on, Jim!
You know the formula for Obama’s engagement rules:
If there is no threat to American security or genuinely justifiable American interest, it’s a worthy cause worth sending our boys into the line of fire for.
If there’s a threat to American security or justifiable American interest, then it’s an unworthy cause and military involvement is unjust and would be an act of conquest by a tyrannical empire.
Idi Amin, a Muslim, ruled Uganda despite muslims being a minority in Uganda. We both remember Amin’s brutal rule, and also that it gave rise to the Netanyahus, in that the Entebbe raid took the life of Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Yonatan Netanyahu.
IIRC, the Christian population in Uganda is over 80%. However, Obama’s roots in neighboring Kenya are Muslim. His father, Barack Sr, is acknowledged everywhere as having been Muslim. There’s really no disputing it.
Let me suggest that Obama is not concerned about the so-called “Lord’s Army”, but that he is more concerned with the Ugandan government, a Christian government led by a man named Yoweri Usaveni
Museveni is supposedly part of a cult of dominionist Christians called “The Family” (that included Tom Coburn and John Ensign.) http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/11/ugandas-president-museveni-named-in-us.html
One charge is that Musaveni is running an anti-homosexual campaign in Uganda. Given the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and that Uganda has one of the better rates in all of Africa, the charge could be based on Uganda’s refusal to accept any behavior linked to AIDS.
Lifenews reports: “Uganda made news in the fight against AIDS over the past decade because President Yoweri Museveni successfully attacked his country’s high HIV/AIDS rate through a program of systematic behavior modification. President Museveni said in 2004 that, “AIDS is mainly a moral, social and economic problem,” and that the best way to fight it is with, “relationships based on love and trust, instead of institutionalized mistrust, which is what the condom is all about.””
The “Watchmanafrica” site quoted above says: “According to journalist, academic and author Jeff Sharlett, who has spent years researching on The Family, its core agenda includes fighting homosexuality and abortion, promoting free-market economics and dictatorship, an idea they once termed “totalitarianism for Christ”. “
From Wiki: “In 2009, many news sources reported on Jeff Sharlet’s investigation regarding ties between Museveni and the American fundamentalist Christian organization The Fellowship (also known as “The Family”).[56][57] Sharlet reports that Douglas Coe, leader of The Fellowship, identified Museveni as the organization’s “key man in Africa.”[57] Further international scrutiny accompanied the 2009 Ugandan efforts to institute the death penalty for homosexuality, with leaders from Canada, the UK, the US, and France expressing concerns for human rights.[58][59] British newspaper, The Guardian, reported that President Museveni “appeared to add his backing” to the legislative effort by, among other things, claiming “European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa”, and saying gay relationships were against God’s will.[60] The 2009 effort for harsher penalties for homosexual behavior further strengthens existing laws criminalizing homosexuality.”
The US military in Uganda under Obama’s watch should make us look for signs of instability developing in Uganda’s government. If we see it, then a wise man will wonder if “The Lord’s Army” really was the target after all.
Keep talking, Newt. These things need to be said.
Newt is kewl. (Sorry, I like to play with linguistics!)
I’m with Newt on this one too.
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
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