The Obama Borg - How “man-caused disasters” replaced Islamist terrorism in the Obama lexicon

National Review Online ^ | April 30, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

[neverdem]

In Star Trek lore, the Borg was a collective of servile drone operatives that sought to assimilate other species into its “hive mind.”

Something akin to that creepy groupthink arose when the Obama administration took power and sought to reformulate the so-called war on terror. Almost immediately, Obama operatives suggested that radical Islamists were no more likely than any other group to commit acts of terrorism. In fact, the very idea of terrorism — not to mention a war against it — was supposedly a Bush-administration construct unfairly aimed at Muslims.

Obama apparently sincerely believed that there was no intrinsic connection between Islamism and terror; or, if there was, Islamic radicalism...

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Despite the Muslim Brotherhood’s long history of Islamist-inspired violence, and its decades-long anti-American efforts, James Clapper, director of national intelligence (who had worked for the Bush administration and defended its launching the Iraq War by claiming that Saddam Hussein had sent his WMD stockpiles to Syria on the eve of the American invasion), offered an absurd illustration of hive thinking: “The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ is an umbrella term for a variety of movements. In the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.”

John Brennan — who, like Clapper, in his pre-Borg days both worked in the Bush administration and was criticized for his anti-Islamic-terrorism zealotry (among other things, for supposedly promoting enhanced interrogations in Guantanamo of the now-politically-incorrect category of “enemy combatants”) — also was rewired when he became Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor. Soon he duly opined of the now-taboo idea of jihadism, “Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.” Apparently the Tsarnaevs got a bit out of hand as they were purifying themselves in...

[Mogger]

Not "out of hand" at all. "Purifying" one's community means killing all non Muslims.

This isn't "terrorism". It's just Muslims doing what the Holy Quran tells them to do.

It's just another religious activity, just like Christians singing in church.

Americans could easily avoid being killed by simply submitting to Allah, Islam.

I'd like to see feminazis and homosexuals try it out first, please.

[neverdem]

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[publius911]

John Brennan — who, like Clapper, in his pre-Borg days both worked in the Bush administration and was criticized for his anti-Islamic-terrorism zealotry (among other things... ...also was rewired when he became Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor. Soon he duly opined of the now-taboo idea of jihadism, “Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.”

My emphasis underscores once more the ugliest element of the analysis.

It has been said that "...the only thing necessary for an unjust culture to exist is an endless supply of unjust 'administrators.'"

I strongly suggest that where islam is involved, rational human beings are constrained to substitute the word 'Unjust' with 'EVIL.'

Pure, unmitigated and perpetual EVIL : ISLAM.

And yet, bureaucrats, public servants, politicians, delusional modernists, all are capable, like moral and ethical chameleons, vigorously defend the extremes of the ugliest of cultures: rabid, consciously animalistic mass killers, and then, incredibly, with breathless facility, can describe the cognitive dissonant trendy " “Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.”

In my lifetime, I have witnessed contemporaneous unbelievable cruelty by two legged koranimals worldwide, and a total absence of any "holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community” whatsoever

[hosepipe]

"Resistance is Futile."
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Human sentiment. Compassion, guilt, empathy - they're irrelevant.
I am the beginning. The end. The one who is many. I am the Borg.

[Right Wing Assault]

Did they call the Boston bomb a “man-caused disaster?” I haven’t heard that term in a while. Maybe they even thought it sounded stupid. Anyway, it’s sexist and discriminatory against men. It demeans women by implying that they are not capable of causing such disasters.

[onedoug]

Obama apparently sincerely believed that there was no intrinsic connection between Islamism and terror; or, if there was, Islamic radicalism was no more dangerous than right-wing or supposedly Christian-inspired terror.

VDH is deluding himself. It's a real shame.

[ballplayer]

I believe they abandoned the term MAN caused disaster in deference to the women’s libbers!

[Flintlock]

Barry can’t solve the problem.

Barry IS the problem.

[Spartan302]

Muslims protecting Muslims, it has been their goal to quietly invade America in its politics, its schools and infrastructure. the MSM is owned by Muslims.

[GOPJ]

After the Fort Hood shootings, the Defense Department characterized the murders as “workplace violence,” despite the known fact that Major Hasan had been interviewed by the FBI because of his correspondence with the radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki, and even though he yelled “Allahu Akbar!” as he killed twelve soldiers and one civilian and wounded more than 30 others. The military was absorbed into the non-Islamic groupthink to such a degree that Army Chief of Staff George Casey editorialized of the mass murder of his soldiers: “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.” Dismantling the “diversity program” would be worse than the slaughter at Fort Hood? These days our martyrs are to die not on the altar of freedom, but on the altar of diversity?

Guess army Chief of Staff George Casey is a fool... or a traitor. Or too stupid to think beyond a second grade level.. or he's a gay activists who sees enemies everywhere except where they are - or he's a radical Muslim or he hates this country. For now, let's go with cowardly fool... who bends to the idiocy of his 'betters'.... a sycophant close to retirement.

(Urban Dictionary: sychophant www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sychophant‎ a brownnoser. someone who will seek to please a person of authority in order to obtain some grace, usually the grace is something as simple as a pa...)

[Impy]

Obama is a man-made disaster.