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November 17, 2009
Exclusive: Oval Office Watch – Tuesday, November 17
Obama’s Ft. Hood Speech: A “Shout Out” to General Casey? - HERE.
Obama Is Losing Independents: A number of recent polls show the president would be wise to shift right. Read about it HERE.
Why Fort Hood Really Happened: In war, uncertainty gets you killed. It just did. CLICK HERE.
The Road Ahead: Senate Republicans explain their plans to block Obamacare. Read report HERE.
Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You
Barry Rubin, Gloria-Center.org
How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:
Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.
It was reported that the audience was shocked and frightened by his lecture. He was supposed to speak on some medical topic yet instead talked on the topic: “The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” All you have to do is look at the 50 Power Point slides and they tell you everything you need to know.
It is quite a good talk. He’s logical and presents his evidence. This is clearly not the work of a mad man or a fool, though there’s still a note of ambiguity in it. He's still working out what to do in his own mind and is trying to figure out if he has a way out other than in effect deserting the U.S. army and becoming a Jihad warrior. Ultimately, he concluded that he could not be a proper Muslim without killing American soldiers. Obviously, other Muslims could reach different conclusions but Hassan strongly grounds himself in Islamic texts. Read article.
Tales Of Woe No Excuse For Mass Murder
Charles Krauthammer, Investors.com
What a surprise — that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives.
It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre downplaying Nidal Hasan's religious beliefs.
"I cringe that he's a Muslim. ... I think he's probably just a nut case," said Newsweek's Evan Thomas.
Some were more adamant. Time's Joe Klein decried "odious attempts by Jewish extremists . .. to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs."
While none could match Klein's peculiar cherchez-le-juif motif, the popular story line was of an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
They suffered. He listened. He snapped.
Really? What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
And what about civilian psychiatrists — not the Upper West Side therapist treating Woody Allen neurotics, but the thousands of doctors working with hospitalized psychotics — who every day hear not just tales but cries of the most excruciating anguish, of the most unimaginable torment? How many of those doctors commit mass murder?
It's been decades since I practiced psychiatry. Perhaps I missed the epidemic. Read article.
Obama Dithers While Credibility Burns
The Foundry, Heritage.org
Last month, The Washington Post reported that President Barack Obama had asked senior officials for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan “to help determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help.” He supposedly wanted “the clearest possible understanding of what the challenges are to our forces and what is required to meet the challenge.”
But now two weeks later the Associated Press reports that President Obama has rejected all of the options presented by his national security team and is now asking for “revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government.” The White House continues to assert that Obama just needs more time to properly calibrate how to communicate to the Afghan government that it “must improve in a reasonable period of time.” But Obama has been President for ten months now, and his rhetoric during the campaign would tend to suggest that he has been aware for sometime of our struggles in Afghanistan.
The truth is the Pentagon has been scrutinizing the failures of our AfPak strategy for over two years and the new administration has benefited from all the work done before it took the White House. The argument that we need more study, or that half measures will do, is wearing pretty thin. All this news makes it look like the president is shopping for a rationale to justify a commitment that is “politically” acceptable in Washington. Read article.
Our Kazzaab Government
Jon Christian Ryter, NewsWithViews.com
A "little white" Kazzaab might be needed when it was learned that Hasan played an advisory role in Resident Obama's transition into the White House. Or, another "little white" Kazzaab might be needed to explain how an Islamic extremist who was trying to make himself into a human bomb to kill military personnel in an American military installation in the United States was not checked out better by the FBI or the Secret Service before being invited to join the Homeland Security Policy Institute's transitional task force.
This one shouldn't have been as hard to crack as learning the identity of super spy Robert Phillip Hassen who was caught only because another convicted spy Earl Edwin Pitts rolled over on him.
In Hasan's case, the CIA had been reading his emails for six months. The CIA is still not talking about Hasan because, they said, they are under orders not to. On Nov. 5 the FBI said there was no official investigation of Hasan under way. So although the CIA knew a Major in the United States Army, ready for deployment to a Muslim country, had been attempting to contact al Qaeda to learn how to make and arm a suicide bomb, there was no investigation underway. Even though both the CIA and the FBI are part of Homeland Security, I guess the CIA is still not allowed to talk to the FBI. What was the point of creating the biggest boondoggle agency in the history of stupidity if those agencies, now all part of Snow White's dwarf village, still can't talk to one another? Read article.
One World Government? Globe May Not Be Big Enough
Dana Milbank, Washington Post.com
The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon.
It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon, who as U.N. secretary general is the de facto leader of what conspiracy theorists call the One World Government. One floor beneath the Senate chamber, Ban, a South Korean national, took his place behind a lectern bearing the Senate seal and spelled out his demands.
"I would certainly expect the Senate to take the necessary action; that's what I have encouraged the senators," he told reporters as a trio of lawmakers stood at his side. He added an admonition for the chamber to deliver "as soon as possible."
The One World Government has specific requirements, Ban added, namely a "legally binding" commitment to "25 to 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction . . . as recommended by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Uh-oh. A U.N. official standing in the Capitol telling U.S. lawmakers what binding commitments intergovernmental authorities expect from them? Glenn Beck was going to burst a blood vessel.
But the man who orchestrated this putsch by the New World Order, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Switzerland), did not appear concerned by the imagery. He called the secretary general "Your Excellency." Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana (a Republican, but he drives a Prius) was equally deferential as he spoke of "the privilege of this distinguished visitor." Read article.
A Case Study: Why Do Western Liberals Support Eastern Illiberals?
Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports.com
Without realizing it, Westerners constantly empower Islamism and other reactionary forces in the Muslim-majority countries. Here’s a good example, thanks to a Turkish reader, Okan Altiparmak. Speaking at the Bosphorus Conference in Istanbul, November 2, 2009, former President Bill Clinton thinks he’s being a nice, genial, non-arrogant, sympathetic American while blithely handing out ammunition to an anti-American regime.
As far as Clinton knows, I presume, a friendly and liberal-minded Turk is interviewing him. In fact, this man is the head of a construction company known for two things: being close to the regime and—according to one reliable source--disregarding environmental considerations. By the way, it should be mentioned that although Bill holds no official position in everything he says he is reflecting Obama Administration policy, which is of course implemented by his wife, Hilary, the OC (Other Clinton).
Clinton discusses a variety of issues openly but when he comes to Turkey itself the whole content is one of flattering the current regime. He thinks of it as a moderate Islamic-oriented government, which proves that you can combine Islamic politics and democracy. I, and many Turks, think of it as an Islamist wolf in moderate sheep’s clothing that is continually narrowing the margin of freedom in Turkey and taking anti-American stances (for example, by supporting Iran and Syria).
But there is no hint that Bill understands any of this. Read article.
What’s in It for Them?
Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.com
Obama turned out a record number of young voters, which in turn lifted many Democrats in marginal districts into office. The Virginia 5th is a case in point where university students and young voters swarmed to the polls, lifting Tom Perriello into office. But what has Obama actually done for young voters?
Well the unemployment rate for them is sky-high. And the president is trying to foist a new requirement that even the young and healthy must buy not simply catastrophic coverage but super-duper Pelosi-approved coverage. And it will be more expensive for them as they subsidize older Americans:
The bill would limit how much insurers can vary premiums based on the age of the person buying the policy. The narrower the range, the lower the premiums for older people, a help to those who currently pay some of the highest rates for insurance and often need coverage the most. But such a limitation tends to raise premiums for younger folks, who are sometimes reluctant to buy coverage.
And Republicans have figured this out as well. Maybe young people don’t mind being forced to buy insurance or pay greater amounts so that Pelosi can stifle the shouts from seniors (who are already upset about cuts in Medicare Advantage). But we’ll find out in 2010 when they go to the polls. Or not. Read article.
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