POLICE IN AKKO MAY BE COVERING UP CRIME OUT OF APPEASEMENT

A mother whose son was stabbed by a robber-stalker has accused the police in Akko of this:

(IsraelNN.com) The mother of a young Jewish stabbing victim in Akko believes authorities are keeping the attack quiet in order to appease local Arabs. Speaking from her son's bedside in a hospital in central Israel, where he is in moderate but stable condition, Sari Y. explains that she wants what happened to her child to be made public “so that Jewish blood will not be freely spilled.”

Avoiding violence?
Police and other officials would rather keep the fact that an Arab violently attacked a Jew under wraps, Sari says, in order to avoid an outburst of Jewish-Arab violence. The city of Akko was the site of violent riots just over a year ago following an incident in which an Arab drove into a Jewish neighborhood on Yom Kippur with his radio blaring, and Jews were falsely accused of murdering an Arab driver; since that time, officials have taken pains to ensure that the city regains its reputation for coexistence.

If this is what the police are doing, it should be taken to the Knesset, IMO. That's throughly reprehensible for authorities to be acting out of "cultural sensitivity", and even here in Israel, this is unacceptable.

ALICE WALKER WALKS HERSELF RIGHT OFF MY RECOMMENDED AUTHORS LIST

Actually, I can't say I've ever read any of her books, but those with common sense, her current intentions should raise some eyebrows. From the AP/LeHigh Valley Express-Times:

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents.

"I feel that what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker, speaking by telephone Saturday from the Rafah border crossing as her group waited to travel into Gaza. "I love people, and I love children and I feel that the Palestinian child is just as precious as the African-American child, as the Jewish child."

Walker is part of a group of about 60 women going to Gaza to deliver aid and meet with NGOs and residents. The trip, organized by the U.S. anti-war group Code Pink, is intended to push both Israel and Egypt to open the borders into Gaza, said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink who helped organize the trip.

Aw gee, what a shame she doesn't have the courage to voice her concerns about how Muslims in Gaza or elsewhere raise their children for jihad. No need to waste time on this naive anti-warrist's works then.

HILARY CLINTON REARS HER UGLY HEAD, AND INTERFERES WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY'S BUSINESS

Israel's, of course. She opposes demolishing illegally built Arab houses:

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday promised vigorous and personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts and criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem as "unhelpful."

Clinton also displayed strong public support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

The PA is the "only legitimate government of the Palestinian people," she told a news conference in Ramallah standing next to Abbas.

In recent days, Israel has issued orders for the demolition of dozens of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem, saying the homes were built illegally.

Palestinians say they cannot receive proper building permits from Israeli authorities.

"Clearly, this kind of activity is unhelpful," Clinton said, adding that she would raise it with the Israeli government as well as municipal officials in Jerusalem. She said such actions violate the "road map."

Clinton spoke shortly after Israel issued a new order to demolish five residential buildings containing 55 apartments, said Hatem Abdul Qader, a Palestinian official on Jerusalem affairs.

"It's an open demographic war," he said. He said lawyers have challenged the orders, halting the demolitions until March 10.

Stephan Miller, a spokesman for city hall, said the buildings under demolition notice were empty and had been built illegally.

Abbas said Israel cannot be considered a peace partner if it keeps expanding settlements and demolishes homes in east Jerusalem. "The Israeli government has to respect its obligations under the road map and the two-state solution and completely stop all that is related to settlement and demolitions," he said.

Clinton signaled that she'd be heavily involved in the region, and said her special envoy, George Mitchell, would return soon.

"The Obama administration will be vigorously engaged in efforts to forge a lasting peace between Israel, Palestinians and all of the Arab neighbors. I will remain personally engaged," she said. "This is a commitment that I carry in my heart, not just in my portfolio."

Oh, does she ever. She is as bad as her husband, one of the worst leftist POTUS. On the other hand, she clearly is not concerned at all about something like this. All concerned should email the State Dept. to let her know your opposition to her interference.

THANK GOODNESS: RED KEN LIVINGSTONE IS OUSTED FROM MAYOR'S OFFICE

London's creepy commie mayor, Red Ken Livingstone, has thankfully been voted out of office (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin). His successor is Boris Johnson.

It's fortunate, because this awful, disgusting man has embraced the PLO, Chavez, the Islamofascists of London and just about any other fascist/communist entity possible. I don't know if Johnson is any better, but that Livingstone is out of office is most definitely fortunate, because he was one of the worst politicians to be found in England. Good riddance.

DAN GILLERMAN SUMS IT UP CORRECTLY ABOUT JIMMY CARTER

The Israeli ambassador to the UN has called Carter a bigot (Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines):

NEW YORK - Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

The diplomat was questioned about problems facing his country during a wide-ranging discussion with reporters lasting more than an hour. The briefing was sponsored by The Israel Project, a Washington-based, media-oriented advocacy group.

The ambassador's harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

The ambassador called last weekend's encounter "a very sad episode in American history."

Gillerman is much more suited to be a politician than Ehud Olmert, if you ask me.

MORE ON THE CARTER PROBLEM

In her latest column this week, Michelle Malkin talks about the continuing problem with the disgusting Jimmy Carter. More available here.

He most definitely must have his passport revoked, and even quarantined/confined to his house that he doesn't even deserve. He is a one-man menace who led to much of Israel's current problems, and it's clear that he's incorrigable.

And while we're on the subject, I strongly recommend reading Prof. Paul Eidelberg's book called Sadat's Strategy, to learn about the evil entity Anwar Sadat really was.

ANOTHER ONE OF AL QAEDA'S MASS GRAVES UNEARTHED IN IRAQ

SICKENING.

• THIS IS THE ENEMY WHICH OBAMA WANTS TO RUN AWAY FROM - A COWARDLY ACT OF APPEASEMENT WHICH WILL ONLY REWARD THE ENEMY AND ENCOURAGE THEM.
• TO ADVOCATE THIS, OBAMA MUST EITHER BE A COWARD OR AN ALLY OF THE ENEMY.

ALMOST LIKE LIBEL TOURISM

Just who did the palestinian-supporting groups turn to at Hasbro to have their way about the world version of Monopoly? Well, I think I just figured out how this problem came to be:

...an employee based in London decided on her own without consulting senior management to pull "Israel" from Jerusalem after hearing complaints from pro-Palestinian groups and bloggers who argue that the city is not a part of Israel, Hasbro spokesman Wayne Charness said Thursday.

IMO, this is also similar to cases of libel tourism - because a US-based rep might have more sense not to do things that could cause anguish for the wrong reasons, that's why, if there's a rep available in England who can do a job for them, they'll turn to there for results.

The employee's actions are reason for dismissal, and also for taking responsibility out of the hands of foreign reps for the content of their websites.

LIKE CLOCKWORK: DAYS AFTER DEMOCRATS VISIT ASSAD, HIS STOOGES IN LEBANON ATTACK HIS FOES IN LEBANON - THIS TIME: US EMBASSY EMPLOYEES

• DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN PAY HOMAGE TO REAL DICTATORS AND HURL NASTY EPITHETS AT IMAGINARY ONES - LIKE BUSHITLER.

• WHAT ARE THE FRUITS OF THIS APPEASEMENT?

• JUST WHAT YOU'D EXPECT - IF YOU'RE SANE; HERE'S NEWS OF THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE:

• ONE OF OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY GURU'S ZBIG BRZEZINSKI WENT TO LICK ASSAD'S ASS-AD LAST WEEK.
• ZBIG IS ONE IN A LONG LINE OF DEMOCRAT APPEASERS WHO HAVE PAID HOMAGE TO THIS EVIL DICTATOR.
  
• HERE'S THE RESULT OF THIS MOST RECENT HOMAGE: IHT:

  A bomb evidently meant to destroy a U.S. Embassy car exploded as the vehicle passed by Tuesday, narrowly missing the car but wounding its Lebanese driver and a fellow passenger and killing at least three civilians traveling in the car behind, according to local reports, aid workers at the scene and State Department officials in Washington.
  
  The bomb exploded on a coastal road just north of Beirut in an industrial district called Bourj Hammond. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
  
  Other reports and aid workers said that at least 20 other people had been wounded, including bystanders and people working in nearby shops and offices. At the scene, glass littered the road and the police had sealed off the area. Two cars were badly damaged in the attack, but the American car - a large, four-wheel-drive armored vehicle - sustained much less damage.
  
  Initial reports suggested that the bomb had been placed under a car on the side of the road but this could not immediately be confirmed.
  
  In Washington, the State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, said that two embassy employees, including the driver, had been in the vehicle damaged in the blast. The driver was slightly wounded and the other staff member was fine, McCormack said. He said no American diplomats or U.S. citizens had been in the car.

  AS I PREDICTED BEFORE ZBIG'S BIG ADVENTURE IN DAMASCUS - (ZBIG'S DAMN-ASS-KISS IN DAMASCUS) - USUALLY WITHIN DAYS OF ONE OF THESE "DEMOCRAT-DICTATOR" LOVE SESSIONS - ASSAD ASSASSINATES A LEBANESE FOE TO CELEBRATE.
  
  NOW HE'S SO EMBOLDENED HE'S HAVING HIS HENCHMEN IN LEBANON ATTACK AMERICANS.
  
  THESE ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT: APPEASEMENT ONLY REWARDS THE EVIL-DOERS AND ENCOURAGES THEM. ZBIG'S TRIP ENCOURAGED ASSAD TO BE AND TO DO MORE EVIL.
  

IF OBAMA "THE APPEASER" IS ELECTED - (OBAMA, WHO WILL MEET ANYWHERE, AT ANYTIME WITH ANY ENEMY OF THE USA - WITHOUT ANY PRECONDITIONS), THEN IT WILL BE AS IF GREAT BRITAIN HAD THROWN OUT CHURCHILL IN 1941 AND RE-ELECTED CHAMBERLAIN!

[ASIDE: A STUDY IN CONTRAST: AS OBAMA GURU ZBIG JETTED TO LICK ASSAD'S ASS-AD, BUSH ORDERED MORE SANCTIONS.]

• WHICH POLICY IS MORE EFFECTIVE?

• ASK CHAMBERLAIN.

MORE ON HOW SAUDI PRINCE BANDAR TOOK BRIBES AND THREATENED UK

It's surprising that the Guardian, of all papers, would report this, but they have (via Israel Insider):

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.

Tony Blair leaves behind a legacy of cowardice and appeasement of the most ludicrious kind, that may only be seen in England.

A STUDY IN CONTRAST: AS OBAMA'S ZBIG BROWNS HIS NOSE ON SYRIA'S ASS-AD, BUSH ODERS MORE SANCTIONS

TNR:

Zbignew Brzezinski Is In Damascus to See Bashar Assad; I Believe He's There to Meet With Khaled Mashal

It's no surprise that Zbig Brzezinski is visiting Damascus. First of all, Bashar Assad would be delighted to see him, as he has seen other marginal players in U.S. foreign policy. Secondly, Zbig is a fan of Assad's, as is the ex-president for whom he pondered heavy matters, Jimmy Carter, a really big fan.

Visiting America's enemies is, in any case, a good way to get attention at home. (Jesse Jackson made nearly a full-time profession of visiting our for years. Soneone should ask him what he thinks of President Chavez now.)

The visitors may say they are pushing along the "getting to yes" process. But what they're usually doing is fomenting mischief.

HAARETZ/AP:

Bush orders expansion of sanctions against Syria

President George W. Bush ordered new sanctions on Wednesday to punish Syria for allegedly trying to undermine stability in Iraq and undercut Lebanon's sovereignty and democracy.

Bush, in an executive order, said he was expanding sanctions against senior government officials in Syria and their associates deemed responsible for or to have benefited from public corruption.

The order named no specific officials.

The White House said Wednesday's order expanded action taken in May 2004 when Bush issued an executive order banning all U.S. exports to Syria except for food and medicine. He ordered the sanctions then after long-standing complaints that the Middle Eastern nation was supporting international terror and undermining U.S. efforts in Iraq.

The measures he imposed in 2004 also included a ban on flights to and from the United States; authorization to the Treasury Department to freeze assets of Syrian nationals and entities involved in terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, occupation of Lebanon or terror in Iraq; and restrictions on banking relations between U.S. banks and Syria's national bank.

The measures follow complaints by the U.S. that Syria was supporting
militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and failing to stop guerrillas from crossing the border into Iraq.

• ZBIG SERVES OBAMA AND OBAMA POLICIES HELP ASSAD, IRAN AND AL QAEDA.
• A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR OUR ENEMIES AND THE ENEMIES OF THE FREE WORLD.

PREDICTION: WITHIN TEN DAYS THERE WILL BE ANOTHER BIG ANTI-SYRIA POL MURDERED IN LEBANON

How do I know this?

Simple: About a week or so after every visit by some USA leftie to Assad, he gets emopboldened and whacks another one of the good guys in Lebanon.

SO... today Obama advisor Zbig Brzezinski went to pay homage to the tyrant.

A typical trip for the USA left.

The American left hates FOX TV more than the jihado-thugs.

The American left likes it when the enemy uses force, but hates when we do in defense of our nation, our constitution and our allies.

The Democrat Party cannot be trusted with our national security or the defense of the free World.

Just ask the Lebanese patriots.

AMERICA SHOULD LEARN A LESSON FROM WHERE ENGLAND IS HEADED

Daniel Pipes looks at developments involving Shari'a in Britain, and says that, as reprehensible as Dr. Rowan Williams' approval of introducing Shari'a in the country is, it could still signal where England may be headed to in the future when you consider their acts of appeasement et al, in recent years.

And that's why America needs to learn from the grave mistakes being made in countries like England now, so that they won't find their way into the US and cause whatever problems haven't been caused already. One way is to take note of how there appear to be Shari'a courts being introduced in Texas, Minnesota and even New Jersey. If there are, that's something that no sensible American should ignore.

TWO IMPORTANT SPEECHES

First, Melanie Phillips points to a speech posted at Family Security Matters written by Newt Gingrich, that he gave at a JNF meeting at the Selig Center in which he really nailed what's wrong with today's politicians:

And let's be honest: What's the primary source of money for al Qaeda? It's you, re-circulated through Saudi Arabia. Because we have no national energy strategy, when clearly if you really cared about liberating the United States from the Middle East and if you really cared about the survival of Israel, one of your highest goals would be to move to a hydrogen economy and to eliminate petroleum as a primary source of energy.Now that's what a serious national strategy would look like, but that would require real change.

So then you look at Saudi Arabia. The fact that we tolerate a country saying no Christian and no Jew can go to Mecca, and we start with the presumption that that's true while they attack Israel for being a religious state is a sign of our timidity, our confusion, our cowardice that is stunning. It's not complicated. We're inviting Saudi Arabia to come to Annapolis to talk about rights for Palestinians when nobody is saying, ‘Let's talk about rights for Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabia. Let's talk about rights for women in Saudi Arabia.’

So we accept this totally one-sided definition of the world in which our enemies can cheerfully lie on television every day, and we don't even have the nerve to insist on the truth. We pretend their lies are reasonable. This is a very fundamental problem. And if you look at who some of the largest owners of some of our largest banks are today, they're Saudis.

You keep pumping billions of dollars a year into countries like Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and Russia, and you are presently going to have created people who oppose you who have lots of money. And they're then going to come back to your own country and finance, for example, Arab study institutes whose only requirement is that they never tell the truth. So you have all sorts of Ph.D.s who now show up quite cheerfully prepared to say whatever it is that makes their funders happy – in the name, of course, of academic freedom. So why wouldn't Columbia host a genocidal madman? It's just part of political correctness. I mean, Ahmadinejad may say terrible things, he may lock up students, he may kill journalists, he may say, ‘We should wipe out Israel,’ he may say, ‘We should defeat the United States,’ but after all, what has he done that's inappropriate? What has he done that wouldn't be repeated at a Hollywood cocktail party or a nice gathering in Europe?...

What truly bothers me is the shallowness and the sophistry of the Western governments, starting with our own. When a person says to you, ‘I don't recognize that you exist,’ you don't start a negotiation. The person says, ‘I literally do not recognize’ and then lies to you. I mean the first thing you say to this guy is ‘Terrific. Let's go visit Mecca. Since clearly there's no other state except Israel that is based on religion, the fact that I happen to be Christian won't bother anybody.’ And then he'll say, ‘Well, that's different.’

We tolerate this. We have created our own nightmare because we refuse to tell the truth…None of our enemies are confused. Our enemies don't get up each morning and go, ‘Oh, gosh, I think I'll have an existential crisis of identity in which I will try to think through whether or not we can be friends while you're killing me.’ Our enemies get up every morning and say, ‘We hate the West. We hate freedom.

Gingrich makes a lot of good points about how it is the government itself that is making itself into modern-day Chamberlains and not willing to be truthful about the enemies of the west. Read the whole thing.

Next we have one given by Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset last week, in which he points out that we do not condition our existence on the enemies' agreement:

The UN resolution of November 29, 1947 recognizing a Jewish state was an important moment in the history of our nation, and an important moment in the history of all nations.

Since then, we have made peace with Egypt and Jordan, but the obstacle to widening the circle of peace remains what it has always been: the refusal of Israel's enemies to recognize the Jewish State in any borders.

Our enemies do not want an Arab state next to Israel. They want an Arab state instead of Israel.

Time and again they were offered an Arab state next to Israel: first, in the partition plan of 1947; then, indirectly, in the Oslo accords; later, unequivocally, at Camp David in 2000; and finally, in the countless declarations since then by both Israeli and international leaders which have called for two states for two peoples.

And how did our enemies respond to these offers? Time and again they violently rejected them. In 1947, they launched terror attacks and then an all out war to annihilate the Jewish state.

During the Oslo peace process, they terrorized Israel with suicide bombers; after Camp David, they orchestrated the Second Intifadah in which over 1,000 Israelis were murdered; since then they have fired thousands of Katushya rockets on the Galilee and thousands of Kassam rockets on the Western Negev in order, they say, "to liberate occupied Palestine" -- in other words, "occupied" Haifa, "occupied" Acre, "occupied" Sderot and "occupied" Ashkelon.

There's more to read of this too at the link.

TO THE LEFTISTS, THE TERM COWBOY IS A SLUR...

BUT TO PATRIOTS, THE TERM COWBOY IS A BADGE OF HONOR.

• THE COWBOY TAMED THE WEST.

• THE COWBOY WAS A HERO - A SYMBOL OF AMERICAN CAN-DO ATTITUDE AND TAMING THE FRONTIER.

• JOHN WAYNE.

BUT TO SENOR RICHARDSON, IT'S A BAD THING:

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson says America's image abroad needs a makeover, and he wants to be the one to do it.

"We have to find ways again where American diplomacy is not considered cowboy diplomacy, but is considered diplomacy where we're not the policemen of the world, but the conscience of the world,"

Richardson said Monday after a question about threats facing the U.S. Cowboy diplomacy is a reference to President Bush, who is from the cowboy state of Texas, and his approach to foreign policy.

• THE USA IS THE POLICEMAN OF THE WORLD.

• WE HAVE BEEN SINCE 1915 - TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE WORLD.

• WE PATROL THE SEAS AND MAKE AND KEEP THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY - AND FREE TRADE. WE DEFENDED EUROPE FROM THE COMMIES FOR HALF A CENTURY. DIDN'T CHARGE THEM A PENNY.
  

• SENOR RICHARDSON AND THE DEMS WOULD STEP BACK FROM THAT ROLE.

AND WHO WOULD FILL THE VOID!?

AHMADINEJAD AND PUTIN AND CHAVEZ AND THE CHINESE.

THAT SOUNDS WORSE TO ME.

BUT HEY, IF YOU LIKE THAT, THEN BY ALL MEANS VOTE DEMOCRAT.

DEMONCRATS, DUMMYCRATS, AND DHIMMICRATS

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

VIA DR. SANITY.

THE STORY OF JIMMY CARTER'S LIFE IN SEVEN PATHETIC PARAGRAPHS

The following is a simple Associated Press wire story about how Jimmy Carter got into a shouting match with a member of the Sudanese "security services" while he was on one of his very Carter-like missions to promote peace throughout the world.

It seems to me that, in just seven quick paragraphs the AP writer managed to sum up all the futility that is Jimmy Carters life and his quest for peace on Earth:

KABKABIYA, Sudan (AP) - Former President Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security services who blocked him from a town in Darfur
where he was trying to meet with refugees from the ongoing conflict.

The 83-year-old Carter walked into this highly volatile pro-Sudanese government town to meet refugees too frightened to attend a scheduled meeting at a nearby compound. He was able to make it to a school where he met with one tribal representative and was preparing to go further into the town when Sudanese security officers stopped him.

"You can't go. It's not on the program!" the local security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as "The Elders."

"We're going to anyway!" an angry Carter retorted as a crowd began to gather. "You don't have the power to stop me."

U.N. officials told Carter's entourage the Sudanese state police could bar his way. Carter's traveling companions, billionaire businessman Richard Branson and Graca Machel, the wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, tried to ease his frustration and his Secret Service detail urged him to get into a car and leave.

"I'll tell President Bashir about this," Carter said, referring to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Carter later agreed to a compromise by which tribal representatives would be brought to him at another location later Wednesday. But the refugee delegates never showed up.

What do you know? The tribal representative (the man who is designated to be the leader of the oppressed black Sudanese who are being killed by the Arab-Muslim government of Sudan) never showed up.

You'd think the Sudanese "security forces" would have followed through on their promise to Carter to make sure that he'd be able to meet with the tribal representative, wouldn't you?

No, I wouldn't. After all, it is the Arab-Muslim government of Sudan who employs the "security forces", and it is the "security forces" themselves who kill the black Sudanese Christians, Animists, and Sufi's at the behest of the Arab-Muslim government.

And somehow, in Jimmy Carter's world, where peace can always be achieved through dialogue (and, if wishes were fishes), such simple facts about the Sudanese government are not accounted for.

And so, Jimmy Carter shouted, "You don't have the power to stop me," at the Sudanese "security" man. Man, I'll bet the 83 year old Carter was really feeling his oats there, raising his voice in righteous indignation there in front of such luminaries as Nelson Mandela and Richard Branson. Yes, it must have felt good to let forth with the moral outrage.

But, ultimately, Jimmy Carter allowed himself to be turned back, as Pacifists like himself always ultimately do.

And, when Jimmy Carter turned back, the genocide continued on, as it will continue on, until someone decides to pick up some guns and kill those who are killing the innocent black people of Sudan.

SECOND MISSION ACCOMPLISHED IN IRAQ

PROSPECT/BARTLE BREESE BULL: Mission accomplished

With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively.

The country remains one, it has embraced democracy and avoided all-out civil war. What violence remains is largely local and criminal -

The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians.

By any normal ethical standard, the coalition's current project in Iraq is a just one.

Britain, America and Iraq's other allies are there as the guests of an elected government given a huge mandate by Iraqi voters under a legitimate constitution. The UN approved the coalition's role in May 2003, and the mandate has been renewed annually since then, most recently this August.

Meanwhile, the other side in this war are among the worst people in global politics: Baathists, the Nazis of the middle east; Sunni fundamentalists, the chief opponents of progress in Islam's struggle with modernity; and the government of Iran.

Ethically, causes do not come much clearer than this one.

• EVIDENTLY, IT'S NOT CLEAR ENOUGH FOR THE DEMOCRATS - INCLUDING EACH AND EVERY ONE RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

• THEY ALL WANT US TO RETREAT.

• FROM A CAUSE WHICH IS ETHICALLY CLEARER THAN NEARLY ALL OTHERS.

• WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY?

• IT SAYS THAT THEY ARE UNFIT TO COMMAND, AND CANNOT BE RELIED UPON TO DEFEND THE USA OR OUR ALLIES.

Bull is WAY smarter and sharper and better than Totten.

OBAMA PROVES HE'S A DOVE WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH NATIONAL SECURITY OR THE DEFENSE OF THE FREE WORLD

YAHOO/AP:

Democrat Barack Obama called for ridding the world of nuclear weapons Tuesday and offered his early opposition to the Iraq war as evidence of sound judgment that trumps his lack of Washington experience.

Obama argued that U.S. policy is still focused on the defunct Soviet Union instead of combating the nuclear threat from rogue nations and terrorists. The United States shouldn't unilaterally disarm, he said, but it must work with other nations to phase out weapons and control atomic material.

"Here's what I'll say as president: 'America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons,'" Obama said.

"The best way to keep America safe is not to threaten terrorists with nuclear weapons — it's to keep nuclear weapons and nuclear materials away from terrorists,"

WHAT FREAKIN' IDIOT.

And believe me I know the idiocy of nuclear disarmament from the inside out: I grew up in the movement and was raised by and aming the founding members of SANE. I even marched in Central Park against Reagan's Pershing deployment - along with 1,500,000 other dupes.

(I was very anti-Reagan and anti-Thatcher, but now I can see that they were right and I was wrong. Their policies worked. It's that simple.)

I recently asked one of the founding members of SANE what s/he felt about it now looking back and s/he agreed" "it was idiotic."

Nukes - M.A.D. - kept us safe. And the same deterrent value exists today (except against jihadists). And nuclear parity is what kept India and Pakistan from attacking each other in recent years. NUKES FOR PEACE!

If Obama REALLY wanted to make the world safer, instead of promoting the idiotic "dream" of disarmament, he'd be backing more NMD.

And nukes are the ultimate defense for Israel. Does Obama want Israel to try to deter the arab states without them!?!? If so, then Obama is either an anti-Semite or and idiot or both.

We would no more be safer by disarming ourselves of our nukes, then disarming ourselves of our Navy or Air Force.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: If GUN control doesn't deter criminals, then why would "NUKE CONTROL" deter the rogues and terrorists nations Iran and North Korea.

It's idiotic to think they would abide by any rule or any inspection regime.

SHIT: Iran violated the NPT and all IAEA rules. Disarming ourselves won't make it likelier for them to obey these rules; it will just make it more likely we are attacked.

OBAMA IS AN IDIOT.

The only way to make the world safe is to defeat the bad guys.

Peace Through Victory.

Victory Through Superior Firepower.

Complete round up at MEMEORANDUM.

BOLTON SAYS IT RIGHT: WE SHOULD ATTACK IRAN AND DEPOSE OF AHMEDINEJAD

John Bolton spoke to the British Tories and had the following to say:

Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Tory delegates in Britain Sunday that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country.

Bolton said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was "pushing out" and "is not receiving adequate push-back" from the West. "I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is.

"Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities."

He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Ahmadinejad.

"If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change ... The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back," he said.

Bolton said that the fact that only partial intelligence about Iran's nuclear activity existed should not be used as an excuse not to act.

"Intelligence can be wrong in more than one direction... Responding after they (nuclear devices) are used is unacceptable."

Bolton also said the UN was "fundamentally irrelevant".

The former envoy criticized Britain's "softly softly" approach to Iran's imprisonment of 15 British sailors in April.

They were released after Ahmadinejad announced he was making a "gift" to the British people. "They [Iran] got no response from the UK or the US. If you were the Iranian leader, what conclusion do you draw?"

A very sad thing about how the British navy sailors were freed is that the UK may have paid Iran to get them back (H/T: Molten Thought). If that's so, I'd say it makes England an unreliable partner in the GWOT.