Unbelievable -- Obama blames Bush for Afghanistan turmoil

Charlie Spiering is reporting that White House Press secretary Jay Carney today reminded reporters that prior to Barack Obama's term in office, the Bush administration was responsible for the tumultuous lengthy engagement in Afghanistan.

"The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U.S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced," said Carney, adding that the U.S. goals in Afghanistan would be met with Obama's "clear eyed" policy.

 
The policy that Carney was referring to is really Obama's "clear eye for the queer guy" policy.

Obama, Non-Muslims shouldn't apologize

Frank Gaffney says that as we witness surging Muslim violence against non-Muslims in Afghanistan, Egypt, and even here, the response seems increasingly that the victims must apologize to the perpetrators.

In particular, the United States government -- from President Barack Obama on down -- has been assiduously seeking forgiveness for giving offense to Islamic sensibilities by accidentally burning Korans. This was felt necessary even in a case where the books had been defaced by captured Afghan jihadis as a means of encouraging their comrades to further acts of violence against us.

It seems that Christians are also widely considered to be at fault for having churches, Bibles, and religious practices that offend the ascendant Islamists in Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East. Certainly, no apologies are forthcoming when the Christians are murdered or forced to flee for their lives, their churches and sacred texts put to the torch, etc.

And in America last week, a Pennsylvania judge felt the need to dress down a man assaulted for parading in a Halloween costume he called "Zombie Mohammed." Far from punishing the perpetrator, a Muslim immigrant, Judge Mark Martin sympathized with him for the offense caused, noting -- seemingly without objection -- that it was a capital crime to engage in such free expression in some countries.

Worse yet, the judge suggested that the victim in this case had exceeded the "boundaries" of his "First Amendment rights." Such a view seems to track with the Obama administration’s collaboration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in fashioning international accords that would prohibit "incitement" against Islam.

This is a short step from -- and en route to -- the OIC’s larger goal of banning and criminalizing any expression that offends Muslims or their faith. As such, it poses a mortal peril to the Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech.

What is going on in country after country, in international forums like the U.N. Human Rights Council and even in some American courts is a calculated effort, backed by terrifying violence or its threat, to make us "feel subdued," as the Koran puts it.

The idea is to use Western sensibilities and civil liberties, notably, respect for the free practice of religion, to deny the rest of us our fundamental freedoms. These include the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and, yes, freedom of religion.

The trouble is that when we accommodate such demands, it is seen by Islamist enemies of liberty as evidence of our inevitable submission. According to the doctrine of Shariah, they must, under such circumstances, make a redoubled effort to achieve their ultimate triumph, including through the use of violence.

So, far from alleviating the threat posed by Shariah’s adherents when we accommodate, apologize, and appease, we are actually exacerbating it, at home as well as abroad.

In short, we find ourselves in what is, properly understood, the civil rights struggle of our time. Those who stand up for freedom against Shariah are quite literally protecting the rights of women, children, people of faith, homosexuals, and other minorities sure to be abused by its misogynistic, intolerant, and domineering doctrine.

That means protecting, as well, Muslim-Americans who have come to this country to escape the long arm of Shariah law. In due course, though, Shariah’s repressive strictures would not simply be a threat to these communities. They would be a toxic blight upon all of us.

Ironically, today it is defenders of our freedoms who are being denounced as "racists," "bigots," and "Islamophobes." Such terms are, in truth, being used in much the same way and for precisely the same purpose as the Ku Klux Klan's members reviled an earlier generation of civil rights activists for loving Negroes: to defame, threaten and isolate their opponents. We cannot, and certainly must not, tolerate the Islamists’ intolerance.

Muslims are, of course, free to practice their faith in America like anyone else -- provided they do so in a tolerant, peaceable, and law-abiding way. What they are not entitled to do, in the name of religious practice, is subvert our Constitution, deny us our rights or engage in sedition without facing concerted opposition -- if not prosecution.

Today, every bit as much as in the civil rights struggles of the past, there are those who are prepared to go along with what they know is wrong, in order to get along. Now, as then, the few who recognize that any such accommodation makes more certain the ultimate triumph of evil, may be vilified and even harmed.

A delusional Obama says his apology for Koran burning "calmed things down"
 

 

You can read ABC's propaganda piece here -- it will make you ill.

It doesn't mention that two more American soldiers have been assassinated by our Afghan allies in the lst 24 hours. 

First NATO, now the UN -- off with their heads

Amie Ferris-Rotman is reporting that the United Nations joined Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday in calling on the U.S. military to take disciplinary action against those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO air base, calling the incident a "grave mistake".

Despite an apology from Barack Obama, the burning of the Muslim holy book at the Bagram base north of the capital ignited a wave of anti-Western fury across the country.

At least 30 people were killed in protests, including four American soldiers who were killed by Afghans in military uniforms.

"After the first step of a profound apology, there must be a second step ... of disciplinary action," Jan Kubis, special representative for the U.N. secretary-general in Afghanistan, told a news conference.

"Only after this, after such a disciplinary action, can the international forces say 'yes, we're sincere in our apology'," added Kubis, without elaborating on what action should be taken.

Obama, in a letter of apology to Karzai last week, said the burning of copies of the Koran had been "inadvertent" and an "error".

Distancing the United Nations from the anti-Western uproar, Kubis lamented the attack on a U.N. compound in Kunduz province in the north last week, which angry demonstrators charged with weapons. U.N. staff was relocated around the country.

"We were not the ones who desecrated the holy Koran," Kubis said. "We deeply, deeply, profoundly respect Islam."

In some of the toughest language yet from an international organisation over the Koran burnings, Kubis added:

"We were very hurt that the international military allowed the desecration of the Koran. We rejected and condemned this act, it doesn't matter that it was a mistake.".

The call from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan for action come after Karzai demanded the Koran burners -- whom he said were American soldiers -- be put on public trial and punished.

Again...We apologize, they kill; We apoligize again, they kill again; We apoligize YET again and guess what, they killed two more Americans this morning....Keep it up Barry...Maybe you should give them more $$$$ too.....

The New York Times -- American service members could face disciplinary action

Even as Americans have raced to ease Afghan outrage over the burning, releasing information on Friday that American service members could face disciplinary action, accounts from more than a dozen Americans and Afghans involved in investigating the incineration laid out a complex string of events that will do little to assuage an Afghan public that in some quarters has called for deaths to avenge the sacrilege.

The crisis over the burning, carried out by American soldiers near the detention center in Parwan on Feb. 20, brought a short-term halt to cooperation between the Americans and Afghans and has complicated almost every aspect of planning and negotiation for a military withdrawal. The burning touched off nationwide rioting and the increased targeting of American troops, leaving at least 29 Afghans and 6 American soldiers dead in the past week.

On Friday, an American official close to a joint Afghan-American investigation into the episode noted that the final report would call for disciplinary review for at least six people involved in the Koran burning, including American military “leaders” and an American interpreter. Afghans familiar with the case described the interpreter as an Afghan-American.

Continue reading this garbage here . . .

Flashback -- Derogatorily known as "Pinch", The New York Times Publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., achieved his lofty position the old fashioned way, he was born into the family that has controlled the Gray Lady since 1896.

Pinch was a long-haired, 1960s radical and an anti-war activist.  He had been vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War.  He was arrested more than once at protest rallies.  He famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot.  His own father, "Punch," who was then the Times' publisher, considered his son's words treasonous.

Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001)
 
There must have been dancing in the editorial room last evening.
 
 

Obama used the Quran to take the oath

False!

Obama's "peace" partner, the Taliban, vows to continue to wage jihad

Pamela Geller says as Obama sniffs up the robes of the Taliban, they spit in America's face.  Obama begs and the Taliban laughs.

• Afghan Group's Resolution Calls For Resistance Against U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan, Rejects Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement
  
• Taliban Statement Vows To Continue Jihad, Says: 'The Occupation Of Afghanistan By America And Its Allies Is The Fundamental Problem'
  
• After NATO Summit, Taliban Statement Demands That All Foreign Troops 'Withdraw As Quickly As Possible'
  
• Pakistani Terror Group Advocates Continuing The Blockade Of NATO Supplies, States: 'Among The War Strategies Of The Prophet Muhammad... One Successful Strategy Is Not To Let The Enemy's Economy Prosper'

The legacy of Obama. The Taliban have been warring against US troops in Afghsnistan, slaughtering our soldiers, poisoning girls' schools, beheading anyone and everyone who does not adhere to pure Islam and no matter how monstrous the war crimes, Obama pursues these misanthropes with a blind religious fervor. Last week, Barack Obama used the NATO summit to press the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to engage with greater urgency with the Taliban about a political settlement in Afghanistan...

Any American who is not appalled, profoundly embarrassed and disgusted by this president does not know what it means to be an American ( a result, no doubt, of the left hijacking public education.)

MEMRI reports: Afghan Group's Resolution Calls For Resistance Against U.S. Occupation Of Afghanistan, Rejects Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement

The National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front, a coalition of former Afghan jihadi leaders who fought against the USSR during the 1980s, has called upon the Afghan people to resist the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, saying that the recently signed Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement would prolong the war in Afghanistan, according to an Afghan media report.

The Front is led by Engineer Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, who is the leader of Iqtidar-e-Islami party in Afghanistan. Ahmadzai previously worked with former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ustad Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf. Formed about a year ago, the Front has organized conferences and seminars in Afghanistan.

On May 18, 2012, in Kabul, the National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front held a public meeting against foreign military bases in Afghanistan. The rally was addressed by Engineer Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, leader of the National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front; Muhammad Zaman Muzamel, the deputy chief of the Front; Haji Muhammad Farid, a former member of Wolesi Jirga (the Afghan parliament); and others. The speakers strongly rejected the Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement, saying that the presence of foreign forces would provide the neighboring countries with an opportunity to interfere in Afghanistan's affairs. A resolution was later read aloud at the meeting.

To read the full report, go here..

Special Dispatch No. 4792:  Taliban Statement Vows To Continue Jihad, Says: 'The Occupation Of Afghanistan By America And Its Allies Is The Fundamental Problem'

In a statement about the May 20-21 NATO Summit in Chicago, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government) has said that the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is the country's "fundamental problem," and that the Taliban will continue to wage jihad until the country is liberated.

The Taliban statement also lauded French President Francois Hollande for saying that all French troops will be removed from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. "We call upon all of the other NATO member countries to avoid working for the political interests of American officials and to answer the call of your own people by immediately removing all of your troops from Afghanistan," it said.

The Islamic Emirate also left an open the possibility for resuming peace talks with the U.S., saying: "The Islamic Emirate has left all military and political doors open. It wants to secure the rights of the Muslim Afghan nation through all possible ways and as a responsible force, [and] is prepared to accept everything it announces..."

To read the full report, tgo here.

Special Dispatch No. 4791:  After NATO Summit, Taliban Statement Demands That All Foreign Troops 'Withdraw As Quickly As Possible'

In a statement, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government) says that the NATO Summit in Chicago - which was held on May 20-21, 2012 - failed to make headway in resolving the Afghan problem.

The Taliban statement noted that "disappointment was echoed in all statements" made at the Chicago Summit and that all coalition partners ultimately reiterated previously known positions about the Afghan issue.

To read the full report, go here..

Special Dispatch No. 4790:  Pakistani Terror Group Advocates Continuing The Blockade Of NATO Supplies, States: 'Among The War Strategies Of The Prophet Muhammad… One Successful Strategy Is Not To Let The Enemy's Economy Prosper'

Amid the continuing deadlock between the United States and Pakistan over the Pakistani blockade of U.S./NATO supplies to international troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani terrorist organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) has stressed the importance of using an economic blockade to defeat the infidels, as practiced during the times of the Prophet Muhammad.

In the article, titled "Ulema And Jihad – Cut The Enemy's Economic Jugular," radical militant cleric Maulana Mohammad Zahid, writing in the JeM's Urdu-language weekly magazine Haftroza Al-Qalam, cited a number of examples of economic ambush and blockades used by military leaders during the early Islamic era. The JeM operates out of its headquarters in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur.

The article comes at a time in which the U.S. and Pakistan have repeatedly failed to agree on the terms for the resumption of NATO supplies through Pakistani territory – most recently at the May 20-21, 2012 NATO summit in Chicago. Earlier reports indicated that the U.S. may still be using Pakistani air space to transport supplies to Afghanistan.