President Trump Channeling Hillary On Syria

Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Middle East, Neoconservatism

The conflict in Syria is regional, ancient and, when all is said and done, impervious to outside, top-down reordering and interventions.
Doug Bandow in Chronicles:

Donald Trump campaigned on an “America First” foreign policy. But he hasn’t been immune to the vapors of the Swamp. Not even three months after his inauguration, administration officials were praising NATO; affirming commitments to Japan and South Korea; discussing troop surges for Afghanistan; talking about permanently stationing forces in Iraq, increasing aid for Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, and effecting regime change in Syria. It was as if Hillary Clinton occupied the President’s body.
Trump’s flip-flop on Syria was particularly shocking. Before the dawn of the Neoconservative Age no sane American would have suggested intervening in the horror that this ancient land has become.

… The Syrian conflict quickly turned into a proxy war: The U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf states pushed for Assad’s ouster, while Iran (including Afghan and Iraqi militias under Tehran’s command), Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Russia supported the Damascus government. Turks and Saudis were pleased to work with the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra (the Support Front), which was the local Al Qaeda affiliate; meanwhile, Washington actively battled ISIS while tolerating al-Nusra. True to form, Ankara viewed Kurdish militias (allied with Washington) as the most dangerous faction and focused its malign military attention on them….

Remind me:


Islam in early America:

Extra-Diabolical: A Bomb Packed With Nails

Britain, Islam, Jihad, Terrorism

We know something about the injuries likely sustained by a nail bomb, since Israeli civilians have endured these diabolical devices for decades.

Although the news nitworks rarely cover this aspect, the task facing Israeli medics, and now doctors in Manchester, has become a routine. Surgeons must slice open the surviving victims of these fiendish devices, picking from the flesh and burrowing in the bone for embedded shards of shrapnel, ball bearings, and nails. Palestinian MOPEs (Most Oppressed People Ever) pack their fare with rat poison, a diabolic touch intended to intensify internal bleeding. If they survive, victims are left maimed and wracked with life-long disfigurement and pain.

X-rays taken from victims of suicide bombings reveal pieces of metallic fragments embedded in their skin, muscles, organs and bones, says Dr. Michael Messing, who visited the victims of suicide bombings while at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Suicide bombers pack their bombs with nails and other objects so even survivors of suicide bombings will suffer from the bomb’s effects.

POTUS Should’ve Left Ivanka & Jared At Home

Aesthetics, Donald Trump, Family, Foreign Policy

Melania killed it on President Trump’s protracted romp around the Muslim world, his visit with the Muslim pontiff, and his stop in Israel with Bibi and his klafte of a wife (as in a nag).

Melania deserved to have her moment in the limelight WITHOUT Ivanka (member of the diabolical Javanka duo), who has inserted herself into every issue of state.

As an American Thinker columnist put it, “If you love your father, Ivaka, take your kids and you husband and go back to New York.”

RELATED: “What Ivanka Wants, Ivanka Gets.”

UPDATE II (5/31): NEW COLUMN: Manchester Massacre And The Immigration Vexation

Britain, Homeland Security, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Jihad, Terrorism

“The Manchester Massacre Was Murder-By-Muslim Immigrant” is now on The Daily Caller. An excerpt:

“ISIS” did not attack in Manchester; a second-generation Muslim, son of immigrants, did.

The Islamic State may have inspired 22-year-old Salman Abedi, but ISIS in the Middle East did not murder 22 youngsters and injure dozens at a pop-tart performance in Britain.

ISIS, no doubt, is pleased Salman Abedi has killed in Manchester. The outfit is eager to continue providing inspiration, even training, to his kind. But the ephemeral ISIS did not send Abedi and his ilk to kill Britons.

The Abedis, who fly the Libyan flag outside the family home, were invited into England. Policy makers and power brokers in the West have invited Muslim immigrants to live among us in the belief that, underneath the burqa, the abaya and full-body swaddle they were just like us.

Almost all these Muslim killers are legitimate immigrants. Before the Manchester murderer came Knifeman Khalid Masood, on Westminster Bridge (March, 2017). There were the immigrants who carved up Drummer Lee Rigby, in Woolwich, and the Muslim who gutted an American woman in central London, both in 2013. It’s hard to keep up.

This is how citizenship in the West has been rubbished. Not by ISIS, but by your representatives: State officials who regard all of us impersonally and imperiously. The same overlords squint at the great unwashed of England or Middle America from behind their parapets in Whitehall and Washington. The same sorts despise us all for wanting neighborhoods that are safe, maybe even a tad monocultural.

While the Muslims who strike at our families live among us, they’re not of us.

Look, language mediates behavior. To properly respond to the vipers that elect to kill Americans, Europeans and Englishmen, we need to closely describe them.

To be vested in linguistic accuracy is to be vested in the truth. The closer language cleaves to reality, the greater the likelihood that correct, and corrective, action will follow.

Certainly the term of choice must reflect not ideology, right or left, but reality. For if we don’t describe exactly who’s killing us; we’ll be unable to eject them from our midst. …

… READ THE REST. “The Manchester Massacre Was Murder-By-Muslim Immigrant” is now on The Daily Caller.

Bulldoze the family home, a la Israel, send them packing to Libya.


Winning.


Here’s a loser:

UPDATE II (5/26):

Myron Robert Pauli On Facebook:

Excellent points. These attacks are not carried out by ICBM’s located overseas (and we need to hunt down rocket sites) – they have been carried out by people who get here or into the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany etc. So: [1] On what basis do we let most of these people in as immigrants – especially if they wish to fly foreign flags?, [2] Are there not other more deserving and more capable immigrants?, [3] Why do we let people overstay their visas? [4] Why do we have trespassers released back into the communities to do more trespassing? [5] Why do trespassers get reduced college tuition? [6] Why does not Congress make more sensible immigration rules? [7] How does confiscating my cheese spread make America safer?

In Poland…

Our protectors.

UPDATE II (5/31): We fund their hobby.

He shopped. Nobody said a thing. “Manchester Bomber Bought Most Of Weapon’s Parts By Himself, Police Say.”

It’s in the Qur’an and Sunnah: