Category: Middle East

Sirens Of Isolationism

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“O Tay Mr Peabody! Set the dial on the Way Back Machine to 1911!” Prob the best descrip of the recent GOP Debatery that CNN King Grunting Guy kept grunting through (yeah – it was kinda gross) “…Mitt Romney sounded not so terribly different from Obama on Afghanistan, with the crucial difference that he wants […]

 

Palestinian Sympathy Fatigue

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“Palestine!? Wouldn’t I be crazy to want that?” To paraphrase the avuncular Britishy cat (‘ello luv) that seemed psychically on target nigh unto a decade past. Everybody knows about the Nakbah – essentially a land grab by Little Satan’s neighboring nation states that went horribly wrong – granting Little Satan even more real estate! Since […]

 

Obama Bombs Bombing Libya

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Obama has bungled hawkish military action in Libya so badly that even Republicans now appear to be opposing military engagement. While many people have doubts about intervening in the “Arab spring” uprisings sweeping the Middle East, there are a couple of despotic tyrants that most Americans agree must be removed. Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi is […]

 

Libyan Box

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

War Powers! “44 has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of Great Satan’s Armed Forces in Libya.:  Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of Great Satan’s Armed Forces, including for unauthorized chicanery regarding Libya.” Whee! So what? 44’s predecessors have sweetly […]

 

Morning Glory

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Learning to love living in the shadow of the new clear sphinx! Persia’s Preacher Command swears out loud to swap production of higher-grade uranium to an underground bunker and trip, trip, triple production capacity! Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s (no doubt the official guardians of any future new clear weaponry stock) Farsi site GERDAB sweetly floats a […]

 

The rhetorical clarity of moral clarity

Posted on by Bookworm

If you haven’t listened to Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, you must. And I mean listen. I’m usually a speech reader, because I read quickly, and seldom have the time or the patience to sit down and listen to someone give a 45 minute speech. In addition, some speakers have so many rhetorical tics and twitches […]

 

What Say To The Palestinian Perspective?

Posted on by William Teach

Why, yes, The Politico is bringing us the Palestinian perspective on you not understanding that he really wasn’t talking about going back to 1967 border lines, just using them for the discussion about land swaps based on the 1967 lines. Because there’s a huge difference, mostly having to do with how Obama is going to […]

 

Will the West Stop Iran Before It’s Too Late?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Cross-posted at UNCOVERAGE.net Scroll down for updates. Saturday: State Dept. denies that Iran is building missile bases in Venezuela. Sunday: Qiyam 1 missile in mass-production. The temperature has just increased by several degrees in the Iranian hostility toward the U.S. yet there is no national discussion of it. There are many fast-moving Iranian developments, all […]

 

How’d Obama’s Little Middle East Speech Go Over In Syria?

Posted on by William Teach

I hate to do back to back posts on El Presidente, however, he started it with his soaring, grandiose opus of a thousand different ideals, which was meant to tell the Muslim World and Middle East how to act. How’s that working out? Defying a stern warning from President Obama, Syrian forces opened fire on […]

 

How’d Obama’s Speech Do In Arab World?

Posted on by William Teach

We know how it was received in Israel and by Israeli supporters: both are pretty ticked off. Liberals tended to cheer the appearance of Obama supporting the Palestinians, because Liberals tend to support the violent actions of anyone attempting to kill Israeli civilians. But, what of the Arabs? How does “wariness and apathy” grab you? […]

 

5 Things To Watch For In Obama’s Mid-East Speech

Posted on by William Teach

That’s right, Obama is going to give another speech this morning at 11:40am, giving him plenty of time to get 18 holes in As the democracy movement now known as the Arab Spring hurtled across the Mideast earlier this year, President Barack Obama often tiptoed alongside history. His public statements tended to be cautious, his […]

 

Slate: Proving Once Again Why Leftists Don’t ‘Get’ Radical Islam

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

… and Why Liberals are Our Weak Spot For the online, left-wing magazine Slate, William Saletan thinks he’s found something that will damage Osama bin Ladden’s reputation in the Islamic world. But what he thinks is such a big deal proves that he doesn’t understand radical Islam or even the Muslim world. Worse, it proves […]

 

How a U.S. Military Contract Could Impede Women’s Progress in Afghanistan

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Four Afghan women have achieved something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago: they are training alongside male recruits to become pilots in the Afghan Air Force. Amidst headlines about poverty, illiteracy, and breathtaking levels of violence against women, their accomplishments are beyond heartening. Second Lt. Sourya Saleh hopes to serve as a role […]

 

Old Media Ninnies Alert: German Newscast Displays Star Trek Logo as Seal Team 6 Patch

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steve Gill* found an amusing little story. Apparently a German television news show had a report on Seal Team 6, the group responsible for taking down Osama bin Ladden, and the TV folks meant to show the military patch of the Seals on-air. But instead of showing Seal Team 6’s actual arm patch, the morons […]

 

moRon Paul Says We Shouldn’t Have Killed Osama bin Ladden!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul, the GOP’s cranky old uncle, has been spouting his isolationist, appeaser-styled foreign policy ideas for decades but with this bin Ladden business he has again gone too far. Now Ron Paul says we should never have killed Osama bin Ladden. Ron Paul says he would not have authorized the mission that led to […]

 

U.S. University Giving Award to Anti-American, Terror Supporting Al-Jazeera TV

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Columbia University announced last week that its Graduate School of Journalism is awarding its highest award to America’s enemies, Al-Jazeera TV. The university is awarding Al-Jazeera with its journalism award for the Arab-centric mid eastern “news” it has produced. Al-Jazeera is apparently being recognized for “singular journalism in the public interest.” “Al Jazeera English has […]

 

The New Leader Of Egypt: Whoever Hates Israel More?

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Middle East is essentially Africa with more oil, hubris, and radicalism. The problems the Middle East has aren’t insurmountable, but to get things going in the right direction, they’d need to deal with difficult cultural, economic, and political changes. Unfortunately, when human beings have tough work to do, all too often they opt for […]

 

Afghanistan Murder Apologists Reid & Graham Call for Free Speech Limits & Koran Burning Inquiry

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

From Newsreal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! This is utterly revolting: U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they would consider a request by AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai to formally condemn a Florida pastor’s decisionto burn the Koran, after the act triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Note that once again it is being said that one act […]

 

We May Soon Be Bombing Both Sides in Libya

Posted on by Dave Blount

We may have an explanation for Comrade Obama’s inscrutable behavior in Libya. There’s no need to envision a complex, SPECTRE-esque international conspiracy of the sort Glenn Beck is often on the verge of revealing, when our foreign policy is better explained by a single word: incompetence. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya, […]

 

Why Veena Malik’s Smackdown of an Egyptian Mullah was a Seminal Moment for Feminism

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

Two days ago, Allahpundit picked up the story of gorgeous Pakistani actress, Veena Malik, courageously going off on an Egyptian Mullah who accused her of “immorality” because he didn’t approve of her appearance, or the fact that that she appeared on an Indian equivalent of the television show Big Brother. Jonah Goldberg was the first […]

 

When Is a War Not a War?

Posted on by Dave Blount

Thankfully our leaders have clarified what they are up to in Libya. It isn’t a third simultaneous war, launched on behalf of people who are probably our enemies at a time when the economy is already staggering from excessive government spending. It’s a “kinetic military action“: In the last few days, Obama administration officials have […]

 

After Dithering, Obama Decides He Wants To Bomb Libya

Posted on by William Teach

This is going to make Obama’s liberal base happy with his adventurous militarism The US is pushing the UN to authorise not just a no-fly zone over Libya, but also the use of air strikes to stop the advance of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Washington’s ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said on Wednesday […]

 

Wash. Post’s Ezra Klein Absolves Radical Islam, ‘Young Christians’ Perpetrate ‘School Shootings’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Journolister and Washington Post writer Ezra Klein is another one of those liberals in the elite Old Media trying to pretend that there is no Islam in terrorism these days. He’s also another one of those who, in the face of reality, hyperbolically say that Christians are somehow just as prone to terrorism as Muslims. […]

 

Denial: Obama Nat’l Sec. Advisor Says ‘Many Different Faiths’ Turn to Terrorism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What do they say about denial, that it isn’t just a river in Egypt? That old quip constantly is brought to mind as President Obama and his administration prove over and over again that they are in complete denial about the danger we are facing in radical Islam. This time it is the woefully absurd […]

 

Gaddafi Resorts to Obamunism

Posted on by Dave Blount

Is there nothing beneath unhinged Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi? In desperation, he has resorted to behaving like a Democrat. ABC’s preposterous Christiane Amanpour reports: At just about every bank we saw, there were long lines of men and women waiting for the cash handouts that Col. Moammar Gadhafi had just announced. The leader was giving […]

 

Obama’s Limp-Wristed Response To The Bloodshed In Libya

Posted on by John Hawkins

Gadhafi is a monster who richly deserves to be overthrown by the people of Libya. But, what comes after Gadhafi? That’s unknown. It could be anything from a democracy, to a theocracy, to another dictatorship, to a civil war. There’s a huge leadership void in that country and it’s hard to know who or what […]

 

Viva La Middle Eastern Revolutions

Posted on by John Hawkins

The government of Egypt has already been toppled and now there’s turmoil in Libya, Iran, Morocco, Bahrain, Algeria, Yemen, and Jordan. Know what I say to that? Good! In fact, this is exactly what we were hoping Iraq would inspire across the Middle East. Here’s W way back in 2003, “Iraqi democracy will succeed, and […]

 

Iran’s Warships in the Suez Canal: Will U.S. Defend Israel?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

While the pliant liberal and American news media coo over the so-called “freedom” demonstrations in Egypt, there are riots and protests breaking out all over North Africa and beyond — Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain, Tunisia.:  It is obvious to many (except the mainstream media) that the Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to institute a theocratic radical […]

 

NPR And NY Times Say Bush Was Correct About Pushing Democracy

Posted on by William Teach

Get your ice skates out, folks, Hell has just frozen over, starting with NPR: In Egypt, More Proof That George W. Bush Was Right Two weeks of massive street protests have given Egyptians their voice and today Hosni Mubarak has heard them. If the events that led to Mubarak’s resignation after 30 years as president […]