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To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/14/2014 3:22:28 PM
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OUTSTANDING new GOP video mocks Hillary for her “We’re Broke, We’re Struggling” comments(VIDEO)

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The US tops the UK in terms of violent crime with a rate of 2600 per 100,000 vs a rate of 2000 for the UK: Violent crime rises for second consecutive year The 2012 National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 26 of every 1,000 people experienced violent crime, a 15% increase in how many people reported being victims of rape, robbery or assault. usatoday.com U.S. murder rate higher than nearly all other developed countries: FBI data *But the 2012 murder rate — 4.7 murders per 100,000 people — was significantly higher than in most other wealthy nations.* The comparable rate is 0.4 in Japan, 0.8 in Germany, 1.0 in Australia 1.1 in France and 1.2 in Britain, according to figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Among nations assessed by the Paris-based club of market economies, only Brazil, Estonia, Mexico and Russia had higher murder rates. rawstory.com A listing of all the murder rates of countries.........the US is hanging out with Cameroon and Pakistan: nationmaster.com

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/15/2014 10:42:19 AM
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Obama Admin to Spend $2 Million on Lawyers for Illegal Immigrants

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Illegal Immigrants Intentionally Surrendering To Border Patrol

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/16/2014 7:33:12 PM
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Flashback: George W. Bush Predicted Iraqi Meltdown If US Troops Were Withdrawn from Region

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Obama to Issue Gay Rights Executive Order

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In 10 Seconds Two Thugs Learn Why Stealing In Texas Is A Bad Idea Conservative Post ^ \| 6/16/14 A Texas mother of two has a good samaritan to thank for stopping these would be robbers from getting away with her purse. As she was leaving a shopping center the two suspects tried to grab her purse from their car and ended up dragging her down the lot a bit. At that moment a stranger saw this happening and jumped into action pulling his concealed carry weapon on the criminals and stopping them. Once the thugs saw a gun they immediately stopped. Brenda Vasquez, witnessed the whole incident and was interviewed by KHOU tv; “This lady opens her car door, grabs the woman’s purse and they reverse. While they’re trying to reverse, the lady is holding on to her purse still, chasing them all the way to the middle, And that good Samaritan came out, drew his weapon and scared them. And that’s when he pulled them out of the car.” The good samaritan then help them on the ground at gun point until the police arrived. As reported by TheBlaze; The male and female suspects, identified as 34-year-old Shamarion Diana Brooks and 48-year-old Jesse Leroy Grace were arrested by the Houston Police Department. Brooks was charged with felony possession of an unlawful substance and robbery by threat, while Grace saw felony charges of unauthorized use of motor vehicle and robbery by threat. Neither the mother nor the man who Vasquez called a “hero” were identified. Police department spokesman John Cannon told TheBlaze the citizen who held the suspects until officers could arrive is a witness in the case, which is why his identity is not being released. TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas; Click to Add Topic KEYWORDS: banglist; houston; Click to Add Keyword [ Report Abuse \| Bookmark ] Video at link. Another "aspring hip-hop artist" and his baby mama? 1 posted on 6/16/2014, 5:52:31 PM by Impala64ssa [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: Impala64ssa Another win for “concealed carry”.. whoooooohooooooo!!! 2 posted on 6/16/2014, 5:59:37 PM by CyberAnt (True the Vote: MY AMERICA, "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.") [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: Impala64ssa I recall reading about this a few months ago...Is this another incident or the same one? 3 posted on 6/16/2014, 6:02:20 PM by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit) [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: dragnet2 looks like April, this year. still a very happy ending. ..I'm sure the preps. weren't. 4 posted on 6/16/2014, 6:14:30 PM by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-) [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 3 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: Impala64ssa Hmmm, "Shamarion and Leroy". Got to be Amish. 5 posted on 6/16/2014, 6:20:33 PM by doorgunner69

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/16/2014 9:07:39 PM
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Top Bush Sr. and Jr. Advisers: Obama to Blame for Iraq News Max ^ \| June 16 2014 \| Bill Hoffmann "It is a more dangerous Iraq, more dangerous for America today that it was when President Bush left office [and a] direct result of the policies that President Barack Obama put in place.''

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BAGHDAD COULD BE BENGHAZI ON STEROIDS: ......................................................................................................... ‘It’s too politically sensitive’ to Evacuate the U.S. Embassy June 15, 2014 clashdaily.com Some are saying that Baghdad could be the next Benghazi as a Muslim caliphate is forming in Iraq. Megyn Kelly discusses how the embassy in Baghdad is not being evacuated because of ‘political sensitivity’. See below according to Liberty Unyielding: The first is from Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show on Friday, 13 June. In it, she talks with retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters, a Fox military analyst. Peters makes this point: *There is a very good chance our embassy will be attacked before Obama does a thing.* And he conveys this appalling message: I’ve been hearing from friends inside the system. They’re horrified. They’re mortified. The intelligence community has been briefing Obama and his team, his NSC team for months on this, Megyn, and a friend of mine was just distraught when he spoke to me; he said, We still – and this is as of today – we still cannot convince the president that this is serious. Then comes this exchange at the end (emphasis added): Kelly: We are getting reports out of the Pentagon tonight that those in the embassy – that some are very concerned about their own safety…that they are not being evacuated. That the way it’s been put is that it’s too politically sensitive to evacuate them. Peters: Yeah, well, this could make Benghazi look like chump change. Read more: Liberty Unyielding Read more at clashdaily.com

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/17/2014 10:02:32 PM
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Blowback! U.S. trained ISIS at secret Jordan base Aaron Klein Published: 9 hours ago Described as covert aid to insurgents targeting al-Assad Army trainers JERUSALEM – Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq. The Jordanian officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in Syria were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida. In February 2012, WND was first to report the U.S., Turkey and Jordan were running a training base for the Syrian rebels in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert region. That report has since been corroborated by numerous other media accounts. Last March, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported Americans were training Syrian rebels in Jordan. Quoting what it said were training participants and organizers, Der Spiegel reported it was not clear whether the Americans worked for private firms or were with the U.S. Army, but the magazine said some organizers wore uniforms. The training in Jordan reportedly focused on use of anti-tank weaponry. The German magazine reported some 200 men received the training over the previous three months amid U.S. plans to train a total of 1,200 members of the Free Syrian Army in two camps in the south and the east of Jordan. Britain’s Guardian newspaper also reported last March that U.S. trainers were aiding Syrian rebels in Jordan along with British and French instructors. Reuters reported a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department declined immediate comment on the German magazine’s report. The French foreign ministry and Britain’s foreign and defense ministries also would not comment to Reuters. The Jordanian officials spoke to WND amid concern the sectarian violence in Iraq will spill over into their own country as well as into Syria. ISIS previously posted a video on YouTube threatening to move on Jordan and “slaughter” King Abdullah, whom they view as an enemy of Islam. WND reported last week that, according to Jordanian and Syrian regime sources, Saudi Arabia has been arming the ISIS and that the Saudis are a driving force in supporting the al-Qaida-linked group. WND further reported that, according to a Shiite source in contact with a high official in the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Obama administration has been aware for two months that the al-Qaida-inspired group that has taken over two Iraqi cities and now is threatening Baghdad also was training fighters in Turkey. The source told WND that at least one of the training camps of the group Iraq of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria, the ISIS, is in the vicinity of Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, where American personnel and equipment are located. He called Obama “an accomplice” in the attacks that are threatening the Maliki government the U.S. helped establish through the Iraq war. The source said that after training in Turkey, thousands of ISIS fighters went to Iraq by way of Syria to join the effort to establish an Islamic caliphate subject to strict Islamic law, or Shariah.

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/17/2014 10:26:54 PM
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40 Obama quotes on Islam and Christianity ....................................................................... Posted on April 18, 2014 by Joe Newby Since his rise to power, a number of people have wondered whether Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim. A poll once showed that about 18 percent believe he is a Muslim, even though the Democrat-media complex tells us he is a Christian. We haven’t received a press release from the Almighty telling us one way or the other, but a post at Now the End Begins pulled together a list of 40 quotes that are quite telling. 20 are Obama quotes on Islam and 20 are Obama quotes on Christianity. We’ve put together a summary for you, but the original blog has all the quotes, along with links to each one for reference. Here’s the summary – Obama on Islam: 1. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” 2. “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” 3. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.” 4. “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.” 5. “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” 6. “Islam has always been part of America” 7. “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities” 8. “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.” 9. “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” 10. “I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.” 11. “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.” 12. “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed” 13. “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.” 14. “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.” 15. “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality” 16. “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’” 17. “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.” 18. “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.” 19. “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” 20. “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” Compare those to 20 of Obama quotes on Christianity: 1. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” 2. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” 3. “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?” 4. “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.” 5. “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.” 6. From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.” 7. Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.” 8. “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.” 9. “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.” 10. “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.” 11. “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.” 12. “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.” 13. “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.” 14. On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.” 15. “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” 16. “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology” 17. “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.” 18. “We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own” 19. “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra— (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)” 20. “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.” You can find this list, with links referencing each quote, here. Related: Obama angers conservatives with remarks on slander of Islam at United Nations Egyptian paper: Barack Obama member of Muslim Brotherhood GOP Representatives demand answers on U.S. involvement with Muslim Brotherhood Report says U.S. Marines in Cairo not allowed to carry live ammunition Poll: Nearly one in five says Obama is a Muslim Florida professor: Obama an ‘apostle’ sent to create ‘heaven here on earth’ Madonna endorses Obama, calls him a ‘black Muslim in the White House’ Be sure to check out and like our Facebook page and sign up for email alerts using the form on the right-hand side of this page. Y

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/17/2014 10:45:04 PM
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Why Darrell Issa just asked the IRS to hand over a hard drive ............................................................................................... By Susan Ferrechio \| June 17, 2014 Hard drive (ThinkStock) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on Tuesday issued a subpoena to the Internal Revenue Service, ordering the agency to turn over the hard drive they claim is responsible for wiping out two years of critical email communications. Sign Up for the Politics Today newsletter! Issa has dramatically widened his probe into the IRS after the agency announced last week that it had lost the emails, which may have provided information about an IRS policy of targeting for extra scrutiny and delay many conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Issa is not only seeking emails, but wants equipment, “communication devices,” printed documents and just about anything else related to former IRS official Lois Lerner, who has refused to testify before Congress and who the GOP believes is a central player in the targeting scheme. “After a year of beating down efforts by the Obama administration and its allies to obstruct an investigation into targeting, the IRS now says it lost perhaps the most critical evidence,” Issa said. “We still do not have answers about how and why the IRS tried to deceive Congress about these missing e-mails. This subpoena seeks those answers.” This latest order comes a day after Issa suppoenaed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to testify at an Oversight hearing on June 23. Here are the items Issa is asking the IRS to produce: + All back-up tapes, external drives, thumb drives, or other storage media the IRS used to capture, archive, back up, or otherwise record e-mails sent or received by Lerner from Jan. 1, 2009, to Sept. 23, 2013. + All hard drives, external drives, thumb drives, and computers Lerner used from Jan. 1, 2009, to Sept.23, 2013. + All electronic communication devices the IRS issued to Lerner from Jan. 1, 2009, to Sept. 23, 2013. + All electronic files, including, but not limited to, .pst files, relating to the IRS e-mail account Lerner used from Jan. 1, 2009, to Sept. 23, 2013. + All documents and communications that Lerner printed and/or stored for Federal Records Act compliance purposes from Jan. 1, 2009 to Sept. 23, 2013. + All documents and communications referring or relating to the production to any congressional committee or member of Congress of e-mail communications sent or received by Lerner from Jan. 1, 2009, to Aug. 2, 2013. + All documents and communications referring or relating to the creation of “Enclosure 3” from the June 13 letter from Leonard Oursler to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, titled “Description of IRS Email Collection and Production." + All documents and communications between or among IRS employees and employees of any Executive Branch entity referring or relating to the IRS’ production of documents to Congress from May 10, 2013, to the present. + All documents and communications referring or relating to the subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Aug. 2, 2013. + All documents and communications referring or relating to the subpoena issued by House Oversight to Koskinen on Feb. 14.

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/18/2014 12:40:25 AM
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Meet the Syrian Islamist Organization Controlling Senator McCain’s Agenda

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Six More IRS Employees Have Missing Emails; Networks Ignore In Favor of OJ

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How Obama's failure to act decisively has fed chaos in Syria and Iraq ........................................................................................................................ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Highly organized and bloodthirsty, the radical Islamist army called ISIS took but a few days to subjugate the cities of northern Iraq as it dreams of taking over the entire country — while President Obama played it cynically cool. The group’s stunning, barbaric march prompted the President on Friday to offer to review a range of options because America has “a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria.” Returned now to the White House from a long-weekend family vacation in California, the President must face the awful reality that he dodged last week: ISIS is already firmly in charge of large swaths of both of those countries, has ambitions to devour more and is showily slaughtering scores of captured and unarmed prisoners. Al Qaeda Nation is being bloodily born before the world’s eyes. The battle — for now and surely for the long run — has been lost, in no small part because Obama declined to show strength at crucial moments when strength was needed. Still worse, boxed in by his own failures, he’s flailing for a strategy desperately enough to consider partnering with Iran. Yes, that Iran, the country whose regime has held Americans hostage, exported terror against the U.S., supplied weapons to insurgents who killed American troops in the Iraq War and driven insistently toward nuclear weapons capability. Just this month, the grand ayatollah there scoffed, “American cannot do a damn thing.” Yes, that Iran. The taste in the mouth is awful. The world is reaping what Obama helped sow. Elected on the promise of ending the Iraq War, the President was true to his word. He wound down the conflict, enabling Vice President Joe Biden to boast in 2010 that Iraq was “one of the great achievements of this administration.” “We’re leaving behind a stable and self-reliant Iraq,” Obama said in 2011 as the last U.S. troops left a war that cost nearly 4,500 of them their lives. Cold-blooded terrorists slaughter more Iraqi soldiers, execution style, near the Syrian border in a photo released Monday. . But he left no residual force to combat terrorism, having failed to reach a troop agreement with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. In our absence, ISIS grew quickly into a malignant force. Article

To: FJB who wrote (789963)	6/18/2014 10:54:30 PM
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MICHELLE OBAMA OFFERED AS HOSTAGE FOR 400 GIRLS Boko Haram leader declines; Says,"She can do more damage to America where she's at".

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Anti-Gun Group Moms Demand Action Marches on Brooklyn Bridge With Armed Security Written By : Cassy Fiano June 18, 2014 "Moms Demand Action" is a particularly nutty anti-gun group, claiming that a good guy with a gun has never stopped a bad guy with a gun, and advocating for extreme gun control. But when they went on a march over the Brooklyn Bridge for gun control, what did they have to protect them? Guns So no good guy has ever stopped a bad guy with a gun, but just in case, Moms Demand Actions need security guards armed with guns to protect them — apparently, what they really want is guns for me, but not for thee. Do they really not see the hypocrisy there?! Actually, forget the hypocrisy — how do they not notice the idiocy?

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It is astonishing to glance over the foreign policy errors made by the Obama administration since 2009. The deliberate alienation of the UK. Thanks to direct and malicious efforts made by President Obama personally (the Churchill bust, Region 1 DVDs), the oldest and most fruitful alliance of the modern age entered into its frostiest period since the Civil War... in the midst of a civilizational conflict in which the Anglosphere comprised the sole serious opposition. The deliberate undermining of Israel. Again, a loyal and steady ally was cut off for no rational reason. In this case, a country to which the U.S., as the chief representative of the West, owes an unquestionable moral debt. I guess O was listening to all those Jeremiah Wright sermons after all. The dismissal of India. Though generally overlooked, this marks a crucial blow against a future alliance promising profound benefits. The Bush administration put particular effort into widening relations with Asia’s largest democracy. Obama allowed this to collapse, evidently as an insult directed at George W. Bush. The abandonment of Africa. Again, Bush did yeoman’s work in reviving American involvement in Africa, an effort that generated praise even from his political enemies. As with India, our first African-heritage president dropped this without even a second glance. A back of the hand to Central Europe. Both Poland (the ABM system) and the Czech Republic (Early warning and control for the same system) had the rug pulled out from under them by Obama. Not a smart way to treat our most steady allies on the continent. The Russian “reset,” A goofy, ill-informed, and badly-executed reversal of post Cold War policy evidently designed to assure the Russians that we feel bad about 1989 and won’t do it again. Repaid with invasions of Georgia and Ukraine. The North African apocalypse. Someday, somebody is going to drill down to the bottom of this episode and reveal exactly what was going on; contemporary media is too busy attacking the tea parties. It appears that this was the result of a scheme to “liberate” the Mediterranean littoral states, a mixture of U.S. allies and neutralized dictatorships, and transform them into mass democracies under the rubric of the “Arab Spring.” The “democrats” all seemed to be associates of the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, the liberation a cataclysm that threatened to spread across the Islamic world. Obama, as is his custom, dropped all involvement and walked away. Thank Allah for the Egyptians. The demolition of Syria. A direct result of the “Arab Spring” strategy, the Syrian collapse piled one humiliation after another on the administration in the form of Benghazi and arms for al Qaeda. Almost unnoticed, the people of Syria are suffering a humanitarian catastrophe fully the equivalent of Rwanda and the Balkans in the 90s. Obama is handling it with same dynamism that Clinton did back then. The failure to back the “Green Revolution” in Iran. This is something of a mystery -- why undercut an uprising that promised to remove a active threat in the form of theocratic Iran and then two years later embark on something as foolish as the Arab Spring? Perhaps Valerie Jarrett’s future memoirs will enlighten us. Refusal to address the Iranian nuclear threat. See above. The collapse of Iraq. This is undoubtedly another case where Obama was intent on throwing away a Bush success. Fumbling the Status of Forces agreement and dropping all attempts to influence the Maliki government, the administration stood aloof while Noor al-Maliki, essentially a primitive tribal leader in a fancy suit, deliberately trashed the laboriously (not to mention bloodily) established postwar status quo. The smartest man of his epoch somehow couldn’t foresee how this was going to work out. The China Seas confrontation. The administration has allowed the Chinese to get away with their “blue territory” scam at direct cost to our closest allies in the region with minimal response. I guess that “swing toward the Pacific” is still in mid-motion. The rape of Ukraine. The sole reason Putin hasn’t seized the rest of Ukraine must be that he can’t believe what he’s being allowed to get away with. For all the reaction from the White House, he could reoccupy Ukraine, the Asian republics, Alaska, and then move on to Canada with no serious worries.

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Gen. Hayden: The State of Iraq Is Gone ...................................................................... NewsMax ^ \| 18 Jun 2014 \| Bill Hoffmann and Melissa Clyne The country of Iraq is, for all intents and purposes, dead and has been replaced by three successor states, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden told Newsmax TV Wednesday. "The state of Iraq as we know it is gone, and it's not going to be reconstituted," he told "The Steve Malzberg Show." "We've got three successor states there now," Hayden, a retired four star Air Force general added. "As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it's not going to stay together. "We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now. We should give help to the Maliki government, sufficient to settle the current conflict so it just doesn't turn into a humanitarian disaster," Hayden said. "For example, there's fighting around Beiji right now, the oil refinery north of Baghdad. Baghdad needs that for that part of the country to survive, and so we've got to settle the lines of this conflict in a way that Nouri al-Maliki's surviving state, which I'll call Shiastan, has Beiji within it. "Then we've got Sunnistan, and that's the state under the control of ISIS right now, and frankly, we've got to treat that as if it were a safe haven for terrorists and begin to think about it the way we had thought about Waziristan for the last decade-plus. That's a tough message, and I'm afraid that's where we are. "Now we're at a point where we really don't have good options," Hayden told Malzberg. Hayden said "Sunnistan" consists of western Iraq and eastern Syria. "There is no border now," he said. (Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...