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In danger of being destroyed

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 24, 2009 2:33:53 AM
"There are three "whys" that ground America's historical success and prosperity. They are tradition, the Constitution, and education. These three concepts are interrelated and interdependent. If one of them falls then all three fall. And, at least at this moment in time, all three are in jeopardy -- not only of falling -- they are in danger of being destroyed."



Saving the Republic
By Larrey Anderson

"What can we do to win back our country?" Conservatives are asking themselves that question -- with increasing urgency -- every day.  They are desperately groping for a way to stop the twin avalanches of deficit spending and socialist programs that are hurtling down and shattering the once great mountain of a free republic that was the United States of America. Continued...
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We are on notice

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:14:13 AM
"In the long term, however, Islamists will likely recognize the limits of violence and increasingly pursue their repugnant goals through legitimate ways. Radical Islam's best chance to defeat us lies not in bombings and beheadings but in classrooms, law courts, computer games, television studios, and electoral campaigns. We are on notice."
 

"The former jihad theorist, Sayyid Imam al-Sharif (a.k.a. Dr. Fadl), now denounces violence: "We are prohibited from committing aggression," he writes, "even if the enemies of Islam do that."

The Limits of Terrorism
by Daniel Pipes
 
Does terrorism work, meaning, does it achieve its perpetrators' objectives? With terror attacks having become a routine and nearly daily occurrence, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the conventional wisdom holds that terrorism works very well. For example, the late Ehud Sprinzak of the Hebrew University ascribed the prevalence of suicide terrorism to its "gruesome effectiveness." Robert Pape of the University of Chicago argues that suicide terrorism is growing "because terrorists have learned that it pays." Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz titled one of his books Why Terrorism Works. Continued...
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The concept of demoralization

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:34:46 PM

To understand the concept of demoralization, let us turn to Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War, Chapter 7: “The secret to motivating people and maintaining their morale is to get them to think less about themselves and more about the group.” In military affairs an army is demoralized the instant the individual soldier thinks only of himself. At that moment, the soldiers begin to run from the battle and the army dissolves. There is no resistance possible when each soldier looks only to his own safety."


Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War

Understanding Subversion
by J. R. Nyquist

Yuri Bezmenov was a KGB officer who defected nearly three decades ago. In 1985 he gave an interview that can be viewed online. What he said is worth hearing.  According to Bezmenonv, “Only about 15 percent of [the KGBs] time, money and manpower was spent on espionage as such. The other 85 percent was a slow process [of] … ideological subversion or active measures … or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that in spite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves….” Continued...
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Abraham Lincoln was born a Muslim?

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:19:56 AM
  In a casting coup, Abraham Lincoln shares equal footage with luminaries of Islamic history like Saladin, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the former President of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed. What do they have in common?


Faruq Masudi, producer and director of
the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary nections 
 
Film Maker Faruq Masudi said: "Barack Hussein Obama is not alone. The 16th President of The United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born a Muslim.According to the Quran, everybody is born a Muslim. It is only by his own free will that a man chooses a different course for himself. In that Abraham Lincoln was not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts like abolishing organized slavery; establishing equality of all human beings, democracy and accountability to God and Man; core Islamic concepts as propounded in the Holy Quran."...

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

The statement above by director of the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary nections  provokes two questions.  First one is how in a world Abraham Lincoln could be "not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts"? It sounds like a wishful thinking and pure fantasy by Faruq Masudi.

First of all Lincoln never considered the Holy Qurana to be the Supreme Law of the Land. That is what every Muslim must do. "It is only by his own free will that" Lincoln  chosen the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the United States only to be the Supreme Law of the Land. President Abraham Lincoln took an oath "to preserve, protect and defend" it. And he did. 

It was Abraham Lincoln's free choice when he unambiguously said: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." 

The second question is related to the Quran that was written in the 7th century, or about thirteen centuries ago. In contrast, the modern Civilization exists for about ten thousand years. 

I feel sorry for all those people who for almost nine thousand years had been born before existence of the Quran. Poor creatures! They never suspected that they were born Muslims according to the strict Islamic doctrine. Those people chosen "a different course for himself". Alas! They did not have  Faruq Masudi with his new Islamic propaganda movie.    
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If you doubt me, just read the report

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:15:42 AM
"A newly unclassified report from Homeland Security, sent to police stations and other law enforcement agencies around the country, says the big threat of domestic violence in the U.S. comes from "right-wing extremists."



War on 'right-wing extremists'
by Ideological Warrior of the Nation - Joseph Farah
 
It's not al-Qaida that has the Department of Homeland Security on edge. It's not Hezbollah that has the Barack Obama administration on guard. It's not Hamas that has the Feds working overtime on intelligence and security. Once again, it's the vast right-wing conspiracy. Here we go, again. Continued...
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Reaching out to enemies strengthens US?

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 20, 2009 2:24:49 AM
“I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. They make us slaves. We must be ready for an aggression,” - 


President Obama shakes hand with Hugo Chavez

President Obama said: "Reaching out to enemies strengthens our [US] hand. The whole notion was that if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us, that somehow would be a sign of weakness. The American people didn't buy it. And there's a good reason the American people didn't buy it — because it doesn't make sense.

It's unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States.

If we are practicing what we preach, and if we occasionally confess to having strayed from our values and our ideals, that strengthens our hand. That allows us to speak with greater moral force and clarity around these issues. Our doctrine for engagement: We're not simply going to lecture you, but we're rather going to show through how we operate the benefits of these values and ideals.

Comment by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada: "I think it was irresponsible for the president to be seen kind of laughing and joking with Hugo Chavez."

Comment by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: "What I find distressing is that the administration opposes opening up oil explorationbut yet Obama has bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia and now reached out to Chavez, who has been conducting a vicious anti-American campaign. How do you mend relationships with someone who actively hates your country. ... Cuba releases zero prisoners, yet we make nice with Cuba. I'm for doing things methodically and calmly ... things that will work, but I'm not for deluding myself about smiles and words."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:  There are three rules of engagement one must follow in dealing with ideological enemies of the Nation: 1. Never reach out to them. Otherwise, it is called appeasement. 2. Never trust their "good intentions". Otherwise, it is called political naivete and blindness. 3. Never allow them to set a stage and dominate it. Otherwise, it is called ideological immaturity. 
 
President Obama did it all wrong. I want to remind my readers that denying these rules was always harmful to any Nation trying to "reinvent a wheel" in the past. I do not know how reaching out to enemies can strengthen US. But I know this does strengthen US enemies.  How deeply it will be "endangering the strategic interests of the United States" remains to be seen. 
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The same enemies

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 20, 2009 2:18:27 AM

"...the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries, mainly Muslim countries."



Romancing the Jihad
Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?
By Clifford D. May

Ask those on the Left what values they champion, and they will say equality, tolerance, women’s rights, gay rights, workers’ rights, and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all that, not infrequently through the application of lethal force. So how does one explain the burgeoning Left-Islamist alliance? Continued... |
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The price of ignorance

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:52:49 AM
"In this war against Jihad, America must decide if it can continue to tolerate the price of ignorance, or if instead it is willing to make the investment in strategic war planning, communication, clear identification of the enemy and its threats, and unified purpose necessary to defeat its enemies." - Jeffrey Imm


President Barack Obama released Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques.
 
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said: “He [president Obama] thought very long and hard about it, consulted widely, because there were two principles at stake. One is … the sanctity of covert operations … and keeping faith with the people who do them, and the impact on national security, on the one hand. And the other was the law and his belief in transparency.

The president consulted officials from the Justice Department, the CIA, the director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department. It was a weighty decision. As with so many issues, there are competing points of view that flow from very genuine interests and concerns that are to be respected. And then the president has to synthesize all of it and make a decision that’s in the broad national interest. He’s been thinking about this for four weeks, really.”

Comment by a former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush: “It is unbelievable! It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are. We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary. … Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again — even in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of American lives are at stake.

I don't believe Obama would intentionally endanger the nation, so it must be that he thinks either 1. the previous administration, including the CIA professionals who have defended this program, is lying about its importance and effectiveness, or 2. he believes we are no longer really at war and no longer face the kind of grave threat to our national security this program has protected against.”

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: "We shall witness new terrorist attacks against the Unites States both, domestically and abroad, because terrorists never stop their sinister actions by themselves. We shall witness new terrorist attacks, because terrorists never satisfied with what they already accomplished. We shall witness new terrorist attacks, because terrorists see an ambiguity of our political elites reflecting anti-terrorist ideological immaturity of own constituencies, and therefore, incapable of decisively combating Terrorism and stopping terrorists from attacking the Nation." - Could We Be Defeated in Modern Terrorist Warfare?
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Obama and Biden are dreamers

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 17, 2009 1:44:14 AM
"If you are going to play the utopian game, why stop at the elimination of nuclear weapons? Why not eliminate evil? Get every world leader on the phone and propose the elimination of evil worldwide. After all, the problem was never in the weapons. It was in the people who built them. Even if you remove all the nuclear weapons from the planet, evil people will try and build new weapons. And they will do so secretly. How does Obama propose to stop them?"



Disarmament 101
by J. R. Nyquist

When we read eye witness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima, which occurred in August 1945, we are shocked at the horror and inhumanity of the world’s most terrible weapon – the atom bomb, which subsequently evolved into the hydrogen bomb. If today’s nuclear arsenals were unleashed against urban centers, hundreds of millions would die. Entire national economies would collapse.  Continued...
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America is no longer a Christian nation

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:56:57 AM
"I would tend to agree with Obama that America is no longer a Christian nation. It certainly once was. All you need to do to understand that is to read the original constitutions and other founding documents of the states. If you want to go further, you can read the writings of the founders."



Not a Christian nation?
In Turkey last week, Barack Obama told the world that whatever America once was, it is no longer a "Christian nation." "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values," he said. Continued...
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Universal truths are universal

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:14:58 AM
"If America ever starts believing that we can be "sensitive to local culture(s)" that legalize any attack on the universal truths of human equality and liberty, then we no longer accept such universal truths of human equality and liberty. We must start by rejecting the very concept of a segregated "Muslim world."  Moreover, our responsibility for equality and liberty to all human beings, including Muslim women, must never be hesitant, halting, or situational."


Muslim world

Exclusive: Does President Obama Hold These Truths to be Self-evident?
Jeffrey Imm
 
What world do you live in? This should be a simple question for anyone to answer – Earth. But some have fallen into using the language of policy wonks that the world actually has multiple "worlds" within it. For example, you continually hear references to "the Muslim world," including President Obama's recent comments to the press. What is exactly is a "Muslim world," and why would we accept the segregation of part of the world to belong to only one identity group? Continued...
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A mole hill out of a mountain

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 13, 2009 10:14:57 AM

"While I think that life of captain Richard Philips is worth all the U.S. resources activated in this case, I am shocked that all these U.S. resources were mobilized just against FOUR TEENAGERS and there were only a few sniper shots by the U.S. marines. Isn't that called "a mole hill out of a mountain"?" - Boris Tiraspolsky


Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton said: "Secretary Gates and I are fully engaged in this matter. We consider it a very serious matter. These people are nothing more than criminals. And we are bringing to bear a number of our assets, including naval and FBI work in order to resolve the hostage situation and bring the pirates to justice. Piracy may be a centuries-old crime, but we are working to bring an appropriate 21st century response."

Comment by Tim King a former U.S. Marine: "Clinton, like Matt Lauer on the Today Show Friday, seems intent on confusing people and changing facts by stating that these pirates are "nothing more than criminals". They are pirates, are the powers to be worried about glamorizing them by calling them what they are?

At any rate, the United States gunned down the young pirates after the captain was clear of the lifeboat they were occupying. Their lifeboat was completely out of gas and dead in the water. It seems logical that they could have been captured. The Navy SEAL's apparently stated that they killed the pirates "before they could pull their own triggers" yet the matter was ongoing. Perhaps they didn't fire because they believed they shouldn't do that during negotiations.

At any rate, it seems clear that Captain Richard Phillips is a man of epic, heroic proportions. His life is more interesting and will always be because of his successful escape from armed pirates. He didn't escape from a simple band of criminals. Hillary Clinton and Matt Lauer may get paid to lie, but Americans need to realize that piracy doesn't mean using your neighbor's Internet WyFy; it means committing crimes on the high seas."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: Do not get me wrong I am delighted that captain Richard Phillips is a free man. However, there are a few problems here. They relate to an effectiveness, or rather futility of the U.S. Federal Government. Think for yourself!

President Barack Obama TWICE authorized the military to rescue a U.S. captain held by Somali pirates and whose life appeared to be at risk. There have been TWO U.S. Departments "fully engaged in this mater" -the Department of State and the Department of Defense. There was the FBI involved too. 

It still was not enough! The president also said the United States needs HELP from other countries to deal with the threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable.

While I think that life of captain Richard Philips is worth all the U.S. resources activated in this case, I am shocked that all these U.S. resources were mobilized just against FOUR TEENAGERS and there were only a few sniper shots by the U.S. marines. Isn't that called "a mole hill out of a mountain"?
 
Let's be fair! Everyone understands that piracy has become a major international problem. No one really knows how effectively to deal with this evil. The problem is still there and needs to be taken care of.

The only solution seems to look back in History. The U.S. should take as its model the 1801 decision by then-President Thomas Jefferson to send a naval force to assault the land bases of Barbary pirates, who were extorting money from U.S. merchant ships off Libya’s coast. The pirates eventually succumbed to a mixture of U.S. military and diplomatic pressure.
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The rest of the world sees it as a test

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 13, 2009 2:02:42 AM
"Obama may think this is a "distraction". The rest of the world sees it as a test. And so, far Obama is flunking. The world will draw its own conclusions very quickly."
 

Let us thank the Somali pirates
By James Lewis
 
Flashback: It's 1979, and President Jimmy Carter is facing a hostage crisis, with American diplomats being kidnapped by Islamist "students" in Tehran. Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew our Cold War ally, the Shah of Iran, with the tacit of the Carter Administration, because it thought of the murderous Ayatollah as "some kind of saint," in the words of former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young. Continued...
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The imposition of human good on human evil

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:09:54 AM

As my colleague Andrew McCarthy wrote, "Civilization is not an evolution of mankind but the imposition of human good on human evil. It is not a historical inevitability. It is a battle that has to be fought every day, because evil doesn't recede willingly before the wheels of progress." Very true. Somalia, Iran and North Korea are all less "civilized" than they were a couple of generations ago. And yet in one sense they have made undeniable progress: They have globalized their pathologies."



Mark Steyn: Civilization walking the plank

Pirate problem joins North Korean missile, Iranian nukes as 'distractions' for Obama. The Reuters headline put it this way: "Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama." Continued...
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The embarrassment and bumbling disaster

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:53:58 AM

"When asked by a reporter about [pirates taken] the Maersk Alabama during a White House event, President Obama responded to the question with: "Guys, we're talking about housing right now," translated as "don't bother me with trivialities." Obama has no clue what is required of a world leader and his advisors less so. A mere three months into its first term, the Obama administration is turning out to be just the embarrassment and bumbling disaster, we feared it would be."


 


Barry and the Pirates
By Lance Fairchok

"There have been more than 50 attacks in the area this year alone and the problem isn't going away, I plan to hold hearings to further examine the growing threat of piracy and all the policy options that need to be on the table before the next fire drill becomes an international incident with big implications."  - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

It is the stuff of movies, a high seas drama, where for the first time in 200 years, pirates attack an American vessel, the Maersk Alabama. In the best traditions of America's merchant seamen, its brave crew fights back and regains control of the ship. To ensure the safety of his crew from the pirates, and at great personal risk, the noble Captain offers himself as hostage. The freighter is filled with humanitarian relief for Kenya, not weapons, cars, electronics, or luxuries. Luckily, an American warship, the USS Bainbridge was nearby. It is a moment for leadership and resolve, where America asserts her might and dignity, where she takes the lead against lawless marauders, and our President stands up full of pride and righteous anger and says.... Well, what he said was, exactly, nothing. Continued...
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