Posted on 12/31/2016 2:15:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux
While candidate Trump was demanding that the enemy be named, and me-too Hillary was thus goaded into the occasional mention of “jihadists,” Obama tried to defend his refusal to invoke radical Islam. The defense was classic Obama. Part One was flat wrong: “There’s no religious rationale,” he maintained, that would justify” the “barbarism” in which terrorists engage — something that could only be right if we ignore scripture and adopt Obama’s eccentric notion of “religious rationale.” Part Two drew on Obama’s bottomless supply of strawmen: “Using the phrase ‘radical Islam,’” he lectured, will not make the terrorist threat “go away” — as if anyone had claimed it would.
The point, of course, is not that there is talismanic power in uttering an enemy’s identity. It is to convey, to the enemy and to an anxious American public, that our leader comprehends who the enemy is, what the enemy’s objectives are, and what drives the enemy to achieve them.
Obviously, Obama is too smart not to know this. After eight infuriating years, I am beyond trying to fathom whether his intentional gibberish masks some misguided but well-meaning strategy, some dogma to which he is hopelessly beholden, or something more sinister. The imperative now is to address the mess he is leaving behind, not unwind how and why he came to make it.
If Obama does grasp it what’s the point?
Thanks for the list, Gaffer. About Katie, I agree.
Obama conducted himself as a Muslim would throughout his presidency.
1) He kissed the hand of the King of Saud
2) He made sure that he hired Muslims in the executive branch, some of whom were memebers of the Muslim Brotherhood ( Hamas).In other key positions, like director of the CIA, he appointed a Muslim ( Brennan).
3) He became an apologist for American excellence and power around the world.
4) Obama tried unsuccessfully as an agent of Hamas to dictate terms of house construction in Israel on the settlements in the West Bank of the Jordon and in traditional Judea, where Arabs and Jews live in peace and work together every day.
5) Obama , in victory , stayed home from the day of mourning fr the Paris slaughters, sending an underling instead.Dozens of other leaders at the national level of the EU attended.
Obama was blind to the history of conquest of Islam.Or he consciously wanted to aid Islamic conquest.He did a good job in North Africa, and in Europe, seeding hitherto safe areas with the jihad. Boco Haram was empowered and armed after Libya was destroyed by Obama.Germany has 1 millon immigrants who now will compose the social basis for continuing jihad in Western Europe. Russia annexed Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to prevent the entry of Arab refugees into Eastern Europe.
In short Obama was a psychopomp, and a traitor to his country and traitor to the West in general. Putin understood Obama and his sub-rosa utopian liberal fascist community organizing from the get go, and thwarted him at every turn, expanding Russian influence into Syria and the levant, advancing the interests of Iran in the process. Obama has allowed the Shiites to push back the Sunnis to their Saudi borders.
Obama has disappointed his Saudi masters,emboldened and financed Iran,tried to allow the conquest of Israel, betrayed his own nation, and likely had the CIA work to have Russia’s ambassador to Turkey assassinated.
In all of this Obama has become a marked man, and once out of office will live the rest of his life under the fear of assassination by the reactive forces he has unleashed.That is Obama’s personal legacy.Perhaps one day, a Russian agent , a Libyan ,a member of the Saudi royal family, or an agent from the Mossad will tap him on the back and he will turn around to face his final moments.
Obama ignored the basic nature of Islam as a religion of conquest and non assimilation, to our peril, and created a soft, false view of Islam which fatally weakened Europe and made the West vulnerable to demographic warfare invasion by Arab Spring refugees, created by Obama.
Here is the history Obama managed to ignore, and get Europe’s liberals to ignore:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests_of_the_Indian_subcontinent
“During the mass murder of Delhi, Timur’s soldiers massacred more than 150,000 Indians, and all inhabitants not killed were captured and enslaved.[87]”
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Well done.
Ok. He’s gone a long way toward redeeming himself.
Well done.>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thanks, and so that will be the Obama legacy, once the dust settles.
My motivation for writing is that Obama and all of his supporters MUST be relegated to the dust bin of history, never to return.
As a people we need to help Trump get that done.
He had me until the 15th paragraph. It was in the 15th paragraph where Mr. McCarthy goes off the rails and jumps on the “majority of muslims are good and helpful” bandwagon. To me, this type of muslim apologia is deadly, because Islam IS the problem. It seems to me that most of the conservative intelligencia dances around the truth about Islam as much as possible, and that scares me. I don’t see how we ever defeat that enemy if we can’t speak the truth about it.
“Radical islam” is the great lie. All islam is the same.
What is it about Donald Trump that gets these people so twisted up they can’t think normally.
Trump is a nationalist - of America’s constitutional social, economic and political ideology and tradition. He puts the interests of America first.
Anyone who thinks Trump shows all his cards to his opposition hasn’t been paying attention.
I can recall NOTHING that has gotten past him, in retrospect.
Frankly, I don’t think Andy McCarthy “grasps the reality of” Trump.
An aside, why are the Chinese Muslim communities in prc and roc generally peaceful??
“What is it about Donald Trump that gets these people so twisted up they can’t think normally.”
I think it has more to do with who signs the paychecks of these “pundits” rather than Donald Trump himself.
Give him a change, McCarthy... instead of sucking up to your
NRO handlers.
You should submit that article to some of the online news and opinion sites if you haven’t already.
Bush set us back 25 years in properly addressing the problem with his “peaceful friendly religion” nonsense. I have to wonder if this isn’t an echo of that.
Reality: Islam is a genocidal cult of war with the goal of world domination and then the extermination of all non-Islamic peoples once that world domination is achieved
When they don’t have any non-Islamic people to exterminate, they start in on each other.
Actual quote....
“If we turn against each other based on division of race or religion.
If-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it.
You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative.”
In the early 1970’s, Saul Alinsky realized that the radical marxists were not going to obtain their goals by violent revolution, so he devised and published a strategy to gain their goals by taking over the institutions of the West. If radical Islamists ever read his book, we may be doomed.
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