Category: Foreign Affairs

Iran Caught Photoshopping Claimed Drone Invention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Iranian military recently announced that its “scientists” had created a drone program that successfully built the first Iranian drone capable of vertical takeoff and landings. The Mullahs also released a photo to prove to the world that they had done so. But the photo of the “Iranian drone” came as a surprise to the […]

 

We Should Cut Off All American Aid To Egypt Until The Dictator In Charge Is Out Of Power

Posted on by John Hawkins

Hosni Mubarak was a secular, largely friendly to America dictator. When his people rose up against him, we chose to support the people. That’s understandable. We’re America. It’s in our blood and it chafes us when we feel compelled to deal with dictators. However, Hosni Mubarak was replaced by radical, anti-American, terrorist friendly Mohammed Morsi […]

 

Surprise! Obama Admin Approved Weapons Transfers End Up In Jihadi Hands In Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Now that the election is long over, the NY Times decides to do a little real reporting The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, […]

 

Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News broke today that President Obama is considering offering the position of the next U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain to Anna Wintour, the editor of fashion magazine Vogue. This caused at least one Brit to call the whole idea “ludicrous.” Indeed, the offer seems incomprehensible. To offer the ambassadorship to one of our most important […]

 

Obama Votes “Present” On Palestinian Funding

Posted on by William Teach

If there’s one thing that Obama has done throughout his political career, it’s avoiding hard choices (and avoiding responsibility for Bad Things along with Blamestorming, but that’s a different story). More often than not he votes “present”. When it comes to dealing with the aftermath of the vote at the United Nations granting the Palestinians […]

 

Obama’s Dictator In Egypt: “I Won’t Be Just Another Dictator”

Posted on by John Hawkins

If Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday. Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to […]

 

NYTimes Rips Israel for Bombing Gaza Media Offices, Ignores 4 Terror Leaders Inside

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times is full of outrage at the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) for its surgical bomb strikes launched against a few buildings in Gaza that held offices and studios of several international media outlets. But in its report the “paper of record” forgot to add one little fact: four highly placed terrorist leaders […]

 

Line in the Sand

Posted on by Michael Fell

Barack Obama stopped in Burma, which he insisted as a “diplomatic courtesy” on calling Myanmar (perhaps pronouncing Pakistan Pahhhkeeeestaan no longer makes him cool enough for the UN), where he managed to repeatedly mispronounce the name of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel winner who led the fight for a free, democratic Burma.:  If that […]

 

White House Acknowledges Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself

Posted on by William Teach

This is surely going to make Obama’s Israel loathing base unhappy (ABC) The White House on Saturday defended Israel’s right to defend itself against attack and decide how to respond to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, blaming the ruling Islamic militant Hamas group for starting the conflict. Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

 

Assoc. Press Delegitimizing Israel’s Capital City/BBC Blaming the Victims

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we see the Old Media using subtle rhetoric in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, this time it’s the Associated Press playing the trick. In a November 16 story about Palestinian rockets being launched into Israel’s civilian population, the AP decided to try and cajole readers into feeling that Israel’s capital […]

 

Go After Obama

Posted on by Michael Fell

Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified Friday that “Al Qaeda involvement” references were removed from the CIA’s original talking points, which had indicated that the CIA knew immediately that an Al Qaeda linked group was responsible for the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which led to the brutal murder of four […]

 

Penitentiary President

Posted on by Michael Fell

Why is Barack Obama about to be sworn in for a second term instead of being fingerprinted and booked into a federal penitentiary? There are at least three people who may eventually be able to respond to that question. In a joint press conference, three Republican senators said the only way for Congress to get […]

 

Obama To Morning Joe: “#1 Priority Was To Secure Americans..”

Posted on by William Teach

Well, you failed completely, champ. (The Blaze) President Barack Obama during a taped interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday refused to answer pointed questions regarding the recent attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Instead, he offered boilerplate assurances that a White House investigation will explain everything. (snip) “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough followed […]

 

Debate #3: Bayonets, Horses, And Jihadis

Posted on by William Teach

I’m not going to write a whole lot about the debate, since I only saw a few snippets, being at a friends house watching the Bears-Lions game, and John Hawkins does a good job of breaking it all down. Two interesting ones I did hear (while walking in the kitchen for a beer or food, […]

 

Surprise! Egyptians Increasingly Like Iran, Want Nuclear Weapons

Posted on by William Teach

Before we get to that, the lead pull over at Memeorandum is a NY Times story about Iran supposedly agreeing to one on one talks with the US The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for […]

 

U.S. Senate, Obama State Dept. Backing Wrong Horse in Ukraine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In September, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution threatening sanctions against Ukraine for the conviction and imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Ukraine’s opposition party. Secretary Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State backed the U.S. Senate, calling for Tymoshenko’s immediate release. But just this month, even the jailed PM’s […]

 

Debate Moderator Crowley Lies About Obama’s Benghazi/Terrorism Lies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s Candy Crowley, the so-called moderator of the second presidential debate for the 2012 elections, misled 60 million viewing Americans in the debate when she wrongfully sided with Obama against Mitt Romney when Romney maintained that Obama refused to call the attacks on our Libyan embassy an act of terror in his Rose Garden address […]

 

Is Syria Obama’s Biggest Bungle?

Posted on by William Teach

The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl thinks so Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, […]

 

On 9/11/12, There Was A Marine Detachment In Barbados, But Not Benghazi

Posted on by William Teach

I supposed they’re there to protect the diplomats from drinking too much rum and avoid gun wielding pot growers if the diplomats take a drive up into the mountains (CNS News) When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, […]

 

NYTimes: Libya Attack Discussion is the Republican’s Fault?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Surprising to no one, The New York Times agrees with the absurd spin from team Obama that the only reason anyone is talking about the Obama administration’s week worth of lies about the attacks on our embassy in Libya — attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, one of them our own ambassador […]

 

The Iraqi Question

Posted on by Matt Vespa

With the supposed conclusion in hostilities in Iraq, Frederick Kagan, of the American Enterprise Institute, and: Kimberly Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War, have outlined that we risk losing Iraq and how our early departure has not only seen an influx of sectarian violence, but an incremental rise in activity from Al-Qaeda […]

 

Obama’s Decision To Put US Forces On The Ground In Jordan Is Lunacy

Posted on by John Hawkins

Did you know that Barack Obama has made the utterly bizarre decision to put American troops on the ground in Jordan The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday. […]

 

State Department To Benghazi Security: “Hey, Stop Asking For Help”

Posted on by William Teach

Smart power (CBS News) One of the men who was in charge of security for U.S. diplomats in Libya says he feared for their safety long before the attack last month on the consulate in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed in the attacks on the Libyan consulate, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The concerned military security […]

 

Romney: “You Know Obama’s A Complete SCOAMF On Libya, Right?”

Posted on by William Teach

OK, he didn’t call Obama a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but, dog whistle, you know? (Fox News) Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a “tragic […]

 

MSNBC Continues to Push ‘Nothing to See Here’ Narrative About Libya Debacle

Posted on by Matt Vespa

In the October 1 broadcast of NewsNation with Tamron Hall, a segment featuring former State Department Middle East officer Joel Rubin focused on how the Romney campaign was “trying to put all of these things in a big pot hoping that something picks up steam” concerning President Obama’s foreign policy. Yep, it’s still the same […]

 

Team Obama Tries New Spin On Benghazi Attacks

Posted on by William Teach

Now they’re trying to say that they always considered it a terror attack (Daily Caller) White House officials are now insisting that President Barack Obama has always treated the Sept. 11 strike in Benghazi, Libya as a terrorist attack by jihadis. “Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the president called it an act […]

 

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on Terror

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on TerrorAs the turmoil in the Middle East roils and President Obama’s foreign policy scheme faces severe pressure, a recent survey of likely voters finds that pessimism about our success in the War on Terror “continues to grow” with 45 percent saying they think the U.S. is […]

 

Surprise! Poll Finds Most Think US-Muslim Relations Worse Under Obama

Posted on by William Teach

Remember this gem from Cairo? “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.” And this one from 2007? […]

 

To Obama, Mid-East Violence and Murders: “Bumps in the Road”, Israel: “Noise”

Posted on by Michael Fell

In comments made during a CBS ’60 Minutes’ interview, Barack Obama described violent attacks on embassies in the Middle East and the murder of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, as “bumps in the road”. When asked if recent events in the Middle East had changed his outlook on supporting the Arab Spring, Obama […]

 

“Bumps In Road” Continue To Roil As Muslims Protest

Posted on by William Teach

The Salafist protests have even reached Athens (Reuters) As delegates from around the world gathered in New York for a U.N. General Assembly where the clash between free speech and blasphemy is bound to be raised, U.S. flags were once again burning in parts of the Muslim world. Iranian students chanted “Death to America” and […]