The nObama administration will release today its National Security Strategy, a congressionally mandated statement of presidential priorities. Does it matter? Well, releasing a document at this moment that administration officials said will offer a “full-throated affirmation of President nObama’s strategic commitment to deepening American engagement and investment in the Asia-Pacific region” could almost be taken as farce, so one might be forgiven for ignoring the matter entirely. But that would be a mistake.
In what will be only the third installment in 13 years of what is supposed to be an annual report to Congress, we can expect thousands of lines of mostly meaningless syntax. Like the Olive Garden for word salad, there will be unlimited refills. But why now, after a five year lapse? The best guess is that it is because the administration is currently turning endless summersaults on foreign policy: The Ukraine policy is working… Wait, it’s not so we are going to start dumping weapons in Eastern Europe. Yemen is a model for the war on ISIS…. Wait, Yemen is a catastrophe. Iran is on the brink of a peace deal… Wait, we need an endless extension. And Libya... well, let’s just forget about that one.
As the administration prepares to face a restive, anxious Congress, included deeply divided Democrats, on these issues, regurgitating platitudes will do little to convince lawmakers that there is anything more to the president’s foreign policy plans than caroming from crisis to crisis.
“[T]he nObama administration is telling the enemy what we’re not going to do. You know, we’re not going to do this and we’re not going to do that and this is when we're pulling out. We have got to let the military do what it can to address this at the military level and use all elements of national power, obviously, to defeat and destroy this threat.” --Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News
Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch peace plan - Fox News: “European leaders scrambled Thursday to try and forge a diplomatic deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, in an apparent bid to head off U.S. consideration of lethal military aid for the Ukrainian government in its war against Russian-backed separatists. At the same time, a bipartisan call in Congress for the U.S. to arm Ukraine was only growing, with lawmakers saying the military aid ‘is past due.’…Top nObama officials are weighing pleas from both sides, without tipping their hand as to the next step as they hold a flurry of meetings with European counterparts. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, who met with top Ukrainian officials in Kiev on Thursday, offered no definitive decision on the question of lethal aid. But he said President nObama is reviewing all options, including ‘the possibility of providing defensive systems to Ukraine.’…Hanoi Kerry, meanwhile, brought $16.4 million in new humanitarian aid to Ukraine.” -Fox News
Daniel Halper reports: “[President nObama] has promoted his recent executive action on immigration by arguing that he’s only deferring action – holding off on enforcement of the current immigration laws until an immigration reform he approves of passes Congress. But that's not really true; in fact there’s a way for illegal immigrants immediately to receive ‘amnesty bonuses,’ as [Sen. Ben Sasse R-Neb.] terms it. Here’s how. A recent Homeland Security Committee hearing on immigration revealed an alarming consequence of [nObama’s] executive amnesty—that illegal immigrants with deferred status may be able to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Moreover, this person, who is here in the U.S. unlawfully, could be able to file an amended tax return for up to the last three tax years, possibly receiving upwards of $24,000 in tax credits.” -Fox News
(Nile Gardiner) - President nObama’s new national security strategy will do little to reassure America’s allies or intimidate America’s enemies...Today, the White House unveiled a document poorly suited to the challenges faced by the world’s superpower, which are mounting in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. At a time when American global leadership is increasingly being challenged by an array of adversaries, the new national security strategy sends a weak-kneed message on the world stage. Far from presenting a coherent foreign and national security strategy, the nObama administration has merely offered a reheated and unconvincing version of its “leading from behind” approach, couched in the veneer of “smart power,” a phrase coined by former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton. http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/06/obamas-national-security-strategy-weak-underwhelming/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolsq7MZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4EScRgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
(Giuseppe Macri) - Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on Friday raised the first of many criticisms to come about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s aggressive net neutrality plan distributed to commissioners Thursday, which Pai described as “President nObama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet.”... “President nObama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works,” Pai said. “The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband… These new taxes will mean higher prices for consumers and more hidden fees that they have to pay.” “The plan saddles small, independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market,” Pai said. “As a result, Americans will have fewer broadband choices. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly. If we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace, a highly regulated monopoly is what we’ll get.” http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/06/republican-fcc-commissioner-slams-obamas-332-page-plan-to-regulate-the-internet/?advD=1248%2C48782&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D
(americanoverlook.com) - After the horrible terrorist attacks last month in Paris, countries around the world are taking action to prevent it from happening on their lands. But the United States is conspicuously not doing anything...Since America is so sensitive about being politically correct, are we missing a perfect opportunity to keep terrorism out of our country? In China, the government is preventing Muslim women from wearing a burqa in public places. Such an action will prevent Muslim women from carrying potentially lethal devices like bombs as well as make a clear statement that the country isn’t going to allow certain types of activities. It’s not surprising that the Chinese Muslim community was outraged by the announcement and are now accusing the Chinese government of religious oppression. http://americanoverlook.com/china-just-handed-down-this-harsh-ruling-on-muslims-in-their-country-should-the-u-s-follow-suit/35275
(frontpagemag.com) -Ask the White House and it’ll tell you that Al Qaeda is on the run. But it conveniently neglects specifying which direction it’s running in.
It’s still unclear whether there is any Gitmo terrorist that nObama will not free.
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said that the White House pressured him to free more Gitmo terrorists faster. White House reports suggested that nObama fired Hagel because he had been moving too slowly on freeing terrorists, making him guilty of thwarting nObama’s plot to close Gitmo.That would make Hagel the first Secretary of Defense to be fired for failing to undermine national security.
But considering the rate at which terrorists are being released, the only way to empty Jihad Alcatraz any faster would be by moving the whole base to Pakistan overnight.
nObama already freed key Al Qaeda figures, including members of precursor ISIS groups. He freed Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, a bombmaker whom authorities suspected may have known about 9/11. He freed Mohammed Zahir, the Secretary General of the Taliban’s Intelligence Directorate, who was caught with nuclear materials to be used to build a bomb. He was also involved in smuggling drugs to the US.
Each new release explores the outer limits of the type of terror that nObama will reward with amnesty. Now that we know that nObama will release nuclear terrorists, is there any place where he will draw the line? Would he release presidential assassins? As long as their target was President George W. Bush.
Two of the Gitmo terrorists released by nObama had threatened to assassinate Bush.
Muhammed Ali Husayn had “addressed letters to the US President and Congress threatening punishment from Allah, stating that it is ‘time to be destroyed, suffer and lose.’ Detainee has also threatened that the US President would ‘taste the death,’ telling him to await ‘the humiliation by the swords of Islam.’
nObama assumes that Muhammed’s swords of Islam won’t be headed his way. He is the progressive who is closing Gitmo. Muhammed wouldn’t possibly dream of swinging a sword of Islam in his direction.
Muhammed was sent off to Kazakhstan despite an executive assessment stating that without rehabilitation he would go back to his old pals in Al Qaeda. Or maybe this former Koran teacher will go back to the University of Pakistan to finish that unfinished degree in Islamic Studies. Then he’ll have the proper background for making infidels “taste the death” in the appropriately peaceful Islamic way.
Considering that Kazakhstan has its own terrorist groups, he can rejoin the Jihad without too much travel time.
But releasing Muhammed was an easy call compared to freeing Adel Al-Hakeemy.Adel was a senior member of the Global Jihadist Support Network which is exactly what it sounds like. He was a military advisor to Osama bin Laden and had ties to multiple terrorist groups in North Africa. He can counterfeit money, forge passports, command troops and fought us in Afghanistan.
His Gitmo file rates him as posing a high risk to Americans and having a high intelligence value.
He is, in short, exactly the sort of terrorist you don’t want to set free, even assuming that you have for some reason decided to release terrorists.
Adel has joined Muhammed in sunny Kazakhstan. His plans for the future doubtlessly include walks on Kazakhstan’s many moonlit beaches, a graduate degree in the fine arts and a career in standup comedy.
Or we could just pay attention to what he told interrogators in Guantanamo Bay.
“Detainee stated if the detainees at JTF-GTMO are released, they are going to exact revenge against the US. Detainee also stated that he would kill President Bush if given the chance.”
nObama freed a veteran terrorist who had vowed to attack America and kill Bush. Not only has he chosen to disregard American national security and the lives of Americans, but he also chose to disregard the safety of his White House predecessor.
While nObama’s supporters did tend to fantasize about the assassination of President Bush, they didn’t actually do anything about it. By freeing two terrorists, one of them a trained killer, who had threatened to kill Bush, nObama has actually put the life of a former president in danger.
That’s extreme behavior even by Democratic standards.
President Clinton had bombed Saddam Hussein over a plot to assassinate George H.W. Bush.
“The Iraqi attack against President Bush was an attack against our country and against all Americans,” President Clinton told the nation. “We could not, and have not, let such action against our nation go unanswered.”
nObama clearly has a different opinion. He has reversed Clinton by going so far as to free Al Qaeda terrorists who expressed designs on the life of a president making it clear that he has utter contempt not only for the lives of Americans, but also for the life of a former Republican president. There is no terrorist, whether he plots to detonate a nuclear bomb or to kill a president, whom he will not free.
Maybe if Adel Al-Hakeemy had threatened to kill nObama, he would still be sitting in Gitmo.
It was not all that long ago that nObama’s fellow anti-war protesters were marching around with signs calling for the death of President Bush. In contrast to the firestorms that resulted when a rodeo clown mocked nObama or when an outhouse labeled as nObama’s presidential library was featured on a parade float (resulting in a Justice Department intervention), these death threats went unpunished.Even Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry had winkingly gotten in on the act, joking, “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
Now nObama is freeing Islamic terrorists who agree. Is that a coincidence?
None of the anti-war protesters waving signs calling for Bush’s head ever had the guts to follow through on it. Maybe someone in the White House is hoping that Muhammed and Adel will.
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