08.25.10
Damn it! This is why Arizona passed its immigration law
DHS is tossing out a big stack of illegal immigration cases.
We are so hosed.
07.01.10
We haven’t prevailed yet
Leon Panetta may have good reason to feel that we’ve made significant progress against al-Qaida, but the network still has its high-profile operatives who are in a position to do great harm.
06.03.10
Making weakness official
Barry Rubin at Pajamas Media on TCM’s national security strategy document. Where to begin with the ways in which it is a disaster? Openly telling the world that we have overstretched our military resources. “Broadening” the cast of “responsible actors.” Including the fraud of climate change among the top tier of pressing problems we face. Mentioning the U.S. deficit – which this slimy bastard has quadrupled in his tenure so far – as an urgent problem to resolve. Talking about “violent extremism” without mentioning the fact that it is specifically Islamist in nature.
To say that this is scary stuff is to understate the matter.
05.24.10
None of these matters is isolated
Caroline Glick’s Townhall column today demonstrates the interconnectedness of the various and sundry matters vexing us at present.
No one – not South Korea, the U.S. or any international body – is going to do anything substantive in response to the North Korean sinking of the Cheonon.
North Korea completed a successful fusion test recently, meaning it is preparing to add hydrogen bombs to its nuclear arsenal.
All the Turkey-Brazil deal with Iran did was demonstrate the ascendancy of all three countries. It changes nothing about the timeline for Iran being able to make nuclear bombs. That’s plural, and that timeline is measured in months.
Arms of the most lethal sort continue to make their way to Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.
China will build two more nucler reactors in Pakistan.
Why are those with the most to lose acting like their hands are tied in this scenario? Because China cannot be brought on board, not to knock it off with the nuclear projects with Pakistan, not with getting stern with North Korea, not with meaningful sanctions against Iran.
There is this little matter of its financing of the U.S.’s ever-growing debt. And that leads right back to Pennsylvania Avenue, to spending already in place, like the stimulus and socialist health care, as well as the spending in the pipeline, like the banking-reform bill that just passed the Senate, as well as this “infrastructure” monstrosity Congress wants to pass as soon as possible. Let us also not forget cap-and-trade, which refuses to die, no matter how badly “climate science” has been disgraced.
We’re on our own, folks.
05.15.10
Just read it
Mark Steyn’s latest column, that is: “The Self-Mutilation of the West.” It’s interesting; as I type this, a TV news program is in the background replaying Eric Holder’s testimony to a Congressional hearing, in which he goes to astounding lengths to avoid acknowledging the veracity of radical Islam.
I was recently derided by a BN commenter as engaging in garden-variety name-calling for pointing out that this regime and its sociocultural infrastructure will not specifiy the nature of the most aggressive among our enemies. It’s time to state that such derision stems from either profound ingnorance or cowardice.
05.04.10
How do New Yorkers sleep at night . . .
. . . knowing this clueless chunk of dog vomit is their mayor?
And no doubt he was read his Miranda rights
An arrest has been made in the Times Square bomb case. Shahzad Faisal, a Pakistani who became a naturalized U.S. citizen last year. He had boarded – boarded – a plane destined for Dubai at JFK airport. He was pulled off with two other people. No details on them yet.
It’s still pretty early and I’m still on my first cup of coffee, but in my first read-over of this NYT story about it, I don’t see the word Muslim, which Mr. Faisal is, per other coverage I’ve seen.
The pirhannas smell weakness. We can no longer afford to be ruled by this post-American regime with no interest in keeping us secure.
05.02.10
The RP (responsible party) is supposed to pay for it, but the federal government is supposed to deal with it
BTW, I have a real basic question: Do we know what caused this yet?
04.18.10
The Gates memo
That’s right. TCM, the H-Word Creature et al are just hoping some kind of sanction or conciliatory gesture or mix of the two will make Iran’s nuclear program go away. That’s as far as they’ve really thought it out.
This, as is the case with all things TCM, is simultaneously pathetic and horrifying. All that blather about “smart power,” and all the term really meant was “Holy s—, I hope we don’t have to actually come up with ways to address this thing!”
That’s been the H-Word Creature’s approach, anyway. TCM’s take on it is, “Yawn. Can we get back to dismantling economic freedom now?”
04.07.10
He has no qualms about being a thug at home, but thinks it’s hip to show the world a patty-cake face
03.02.10
However you define it, it’s obviously getting closer
Ryan Mauro at Pajamas Media asks, Just what consitutes the “red line” concerning Iran?
02.18.10
The national security pillar is as important as the other two
Michelle Malkin says conservatism had better deal with its Grover Norquist problem.
01.20.10
TCM’s having another one of those bad weeks
Southers withdraws his name from TSA chief nomination.
Hurt and damaged, that’s how you want your Freedom-Haters.
01.08.10
We’re truly on our own now
Founding Bloggers on how the Homeland Security Department has become completely worthless.
01.03.10
TCM may call it vision; our enemies see it as weakness
One senses, from a perusal of top news stories from the past couple of weeks, a dark momentum gathering.
There was the forward-base bombing in Afghanistan that killed several top CIA field officers. There was the suicide bombing of the volleyball game in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 98. There was, of course, the incident with Great Balls of Fire in Detroit on Christmas.
Now, in a rich bit of irony, Iran, having run out the clock on TCM’s December 31 deadline for compliance with IAEA requirements to quit enriching uranium, is issuing an ultimatum to the West.
And the latest headline this morning is that the US and the UK are closing their embassies in Yemen on some tips about an al-Qaeda attack.
Rocket science isn’t required to, as they say, connect the dots. Jihadists are much like pirannhas.
TCM, the consummation of all Western leftist aspirations for a century, may see his approach to the world as some kind of grand sweeping-in of an age of “international community” and “fairness” and “hope” and eradication of poverty and such, but jihadists of all stripes – and residual communists, it’s useful to add – see it as the kind of opening they’ve been waiting for.
They see the several-days-gap between the rhetoric of “the system worked” and “isolated extremist” and “the system failed” and “apparently trained by al-Qaeda” and rightly conclude “ineptitude.” They see KSM get a civilian trial and Great Balls of Fire get lawyered up and think “idiots.” They read about John Kerry’s plans for a trip to Tehran and think “handing victory to us.”
It’s hard enough for the American people to maintain a sense of urgency in a situation that goes on for years. An infantile utopian vision like TCM’s can really muddy it. But then, when a series of developments comes along and those developments happen in ever-faster succession, maybe the public – polls on specific questions related to our war indicate this – gets out in front of its increasingly wobbly overlords and begins to reclaim common sense and the self-preservation instinct as its birthright.
