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 Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace
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Harold Hutchison  
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Flashback: hanoi-John Kerry bragged about 
getting re-election support from foreign 
leaders in ‘private’ conversations
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by Zachary Leeman
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Democrats may be expressing shock over President Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone call with the Ukraine president... but it’s all part of a “do as I say, not as I do” motto politicians have been getting away with for years. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson broke down this motto this week by uncovering 2004 comments from hanoi-John Kerry where he bragged about how foreign leaders contacted him and told him how much they wanted him to beat George W. Bush in the presidential election — to put things into context, hanoi-Kerry is one of the many Democrats claiming Trump did something wrong by suggesting Ukraine investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s ties to his son Hunter’s businesses. “hanoi-John Kerry has been talking to anyone who will listen about the president’s shocking behavior with Ukraine,” Carlson said of the former secretary of state. The Fox host then cut to a recent MSNBC interview where hanoi-Kerry reacted to Trump’s Ukraine phone call. “My reaction is one of absolute shock and abasement … that is a fundamental, profound abuse of power. There’s no other way to put it,” hanoi-Kerry said. “hanoi-Kerry is full of it, as you know. But, just to put some meat on those bones, during the 2004 election, which he lost, hanoi-John Kerry openly bragged about soliciting support from foreign leaders against his opponent that year, the incumbent President George W. Bush,” Carlson said in reaction. “I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, ‘you’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat this guy, we need a new policy.’ Things like that,” hanoi-Kerry reportedly said in 2004. Carlson also criticized hanoi-Kerry for refusing to name the leaders who supposedly said such things to him. The then-presidential candidate kept mum on names because he said that sort of trust between leaders was necessary to run the country...
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Pompeo: 'The United States 
Didn't Give Turkey a Green Light'
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By Susan Jones
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria... allowing Turkey to conduct its "long-planned operation" to clear the area of Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers terrorists, but the U.S. considers allies. Turkish troops began their attack on Wednesday. PBS's Judy Woodruff asked Pompeo about what will happen, now that the "U.S. has given Turkey a green light." "Yes, well, that's just false. The United States didn't give Turkey a green light," Pompeo responded. The mission was that, when we came into office, there were people being beheaded, people being burned, people in cages. President Trump made the decision that we would begin a campaign that would take down the caliphate. We have succeeded in that. On the phone call on Sunday night, it became very clear that there were American soldiers that were going to be at risk. And the president made a decision to put them in a place where they were out of harm's way. That's what we have done. President Trump has been unambiguous about making sure that radical Islamic terrorism, wherever we find it, this administration will take it seriously. And I think the success that we have had in Syria, along with many allies of the defeat ISIS coalition that the State Department put together numbers countries in the dozens and dozens. I'm confident that we will continue to protect the American people from that terrorist threat. Asked if he still view the Kurdish YPG as a U.S. ally, Pompeo said, "The Turks have a legitimate security concern. We have talked about that. I have talked about that repeatedly. They have a terrorist threat to their South...
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The IDF's Secret Weapon Against Iran
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BY ANNA AHRONHEIM  
{ jpost.com } ~ Israel’s military has a secret weapon as the war-between-war campaign against Hezbollah and Iran continues to expand... the Language Teaching Department at the Military Intelligence and Cyber Instruction Unit (MICIU), a language school where soldiers become fluent in Arabic or Farsi in under two months. In a nondescript building in a base in the center of the country sits the largest intelligence school in the entire Middle East. Thousands of soldiers and officers pass through its doors every year, training for positions in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Division. “It’s not like in a normal school where students are taught just a language,” Maj. V., head of the MICIU’s Language Teaching Department, told The Jerusalem Post. “We aren’t here just to learn a language; the language is a tool to get and understand the intelligence we collect.” The school, which has existed for over 50 years, uses innovative approaches and learning environments that within weeks have soldiers understanding both the language and culture of their enemies. V.’s name can’t be divulged for security reasons. The identity of R. and N. are similarly secret. R. has been an instructor at the school for 47 years, and teaches spoken Arabic. Her daughter, Master Sgt. N., teaches written Arabic. “It’s a challenging and hard role because we have the responsibility of the state’s security on our shoulders,” R. said. “To work in this environment is serving the country, on all levels.”...
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Senators Launch Bipartisan Push 
to Sanction Turkey Over Syria Offensive
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By Patrick Goodenough
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Breaking with President Trump over the issue, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joined Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in announcing a bipartisan push for sanctions against the leaders and military of Turkey... a NATO ally – until it halts a unilateral military operation in northeastern Syria and withdraws its forces. Their targets include President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior ministers, military assistance, transactions with Turkey’s military or energy sectors, and visas for Turkish leaders wanting to travel to the United States. They also Ankara sanctioned for buying Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, under a provision of the 2017 Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which seeks to punish those who enter into “significant” financial transactions with Russia’s military sector. Van Hollen said Wednesday the bill would be introduced as soon as Congress returns, and that its sponsors will “ask for an immediate vote to send a clear message to Turkey that it must cease and desist its military action, withdraw its fighters from the areas under attack, and stop the tragic loss of life.” Turkey’s Islamist president on Wednesday announced the launch of his offensive, aimed at ridding territory near the Syria-Turkey border of Kurdish fighters who were allied to the U.S. in the campaign against ISIS. Asked at the White House about the sanctions push by Graham – normally a vocal ally – Trump seemed unperturbed, reiterating that he has himself warned Erdogan to be cautious, or face consequences...
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Uncovered Transcript Shows scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton Did Exactly What Dems Accuse Trump 
of Doing with Ukraine
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By Joe Saunders 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ Democrats convinced they’ve got the goods on the man in the White House really need to look at their own history first... As an “impeachment inquiry” gathers steam, based largely around the accusation that President Donald Trump used his position in the Oval Office to try to influence the outcome of an upcoming election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson hit the airwaves this week with documentary proof of former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton doing that very thing. And his terms were far more explicit, and more politically self-serving, than anything Trump actually said. On Monday’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson dredged up a White House transcript of a telephone call between scumbag/liar-Clinton and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the conversation from February 2000, scumbag/liar-Clinton sought Blair’s help in resolving a commercial dispute between British Airways and two American carriers, USAir and American Airlines. That was an election year in the United States, of course, when Americans would be going to the polls in nine months to select scumbag/liar-Clinton’s successor in the presidency. scumbag/liar-Clinton obviously did not want to make the election more difficult than it had to be for then-Vice President scumbag-Al Gore, who was to win the Democratic nomination after crushing former Sen. Bill Bradley in a perfunctory primary fight. “Back in 2000, President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton had a conversation with Tony Blair of the U.K. and asked him directly to intercede in a dispute between British Airways and two carriers,” Carlson said. “The president, at the time, was much more direct than President Trump was in his conversation. “This is scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, and I’m quoting: ‘In a political season, it would be big over here to get this open sore resolved. If you could have somebody take a look at it.’ Tony Blair responded that he would.” Now, as Carlson pointed out, this set-up is more or less what Democrats are caterwauling about: An American president, speaking to the leader of a foreign country, asks for assistance. In neither the scumbag/liar-Clinton case nor Trump’s now-famous phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky did the American president promise anything in return...
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The Homeless Myth
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Los Angeles used to be known as the epicenter of the entertainment industry, nutty health fads, and compulsive narcissism... These days, it’s ground zero for the homeless crisis and its myths. Every underpass harbors grimy tent cities with their own colonies of rats and roaches. Schizophrenics wander the most fashionable streets shouting at the sky. Human waste and needles litter downtown streets. Typhus and Hepatitis A spread out from these oases of misery into the general population. It’s not that the city doesn’t care. If anything, Los Angeles cares too much. Voters have passed multiple propositions spending over $4.6 billion on the homeless. They raised their own sales tax. They built homeless housing at as much as $500,000 per unit. That’s enough to buy a mansion in some parts of America. Did that solve the problem? Try walking through one of those tent cities and you’ll find out. After all this, the number of homeless is up 12% to 58,936 in Los Angeles County and up 16% to 36,165 in Los Angeles. Despite all those billions of dollars thrown at the problem, only 3 districts saw a decrease in the homeless population. Fortunately, no lessons were learned from this Sisyphean exercise. Billboards all across the city feature a multicultural cast of young activists chanting, “Homes End Homelessness”. The only problem is that homes don’t end homelessness. Homelessness is not the problem, it’s a symptom of the problem. That’s the real news in the latest homeless numbers. While pro-homeless activists falsely claimed that only 29% of LA’s homeless had drug and alcohol problems or mental illness, the Los Angeles Times, after reviewing the same questionnaires used as the basis for the data, found that actually 67% had a mental illness or drug and alcohol problems...    
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Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace
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Harold Hutchison:  The world is not a nice place. It seems odd to have to say this, but in today’s upside-down world such a statement is necessary. In an ideal world, disputes would be based upon high moral values and resolved through nonviolent negotiations that lead to a compromise all sides can live with. In an ideal world, nobody would think of trying to use force to resolve a dispute.

In that ideal world, the People’s Republic of China would be swayed by a simple reminder that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, and that cracking down on peaceful demonstrators or forcibly returning Taiwan to the fold is wrong. In an ideal world, senior leaders of Iran would not be voicing a desire to wipe Israel off the map.

As you are well aware, we are not in an ideal world. We’re nowhere close to one. So, why isn’t China trying to force Taiwan under the rule of the butchers of Beijing? The answer is very simple: If they were to try, they know that the United States Navy has the capability to sweep the People’s Liberation Army Navy from the seas. China would be at the mercy of the United States as a result. That is something that the Chinese are rational enough to want to avoid.

As The Patriot Post team has pointed out during coverage of the U.S. Navy’s issues, navies take a lot of time to build — or rebuild. Could China’s leaders survive such a setback, especially given the situation in Hong Kong? They’re not going to want to take that chance.

In essence, American strength deters hostile action. The same dynamic largely works with Iran. Yes, it shot down a MQ-4C Triton UAV, but its direct acts of aggression and belligerence haven’t caused any American fatalities. Well, no recent fatalities is the more honest way to put it — America still owes Iran for that theocratic regime’s provision of IED components to Iraqi insurgents. But the reason Iran hasn’t moved much beyond talk is that the mullahs know full well that America is willing to deliver a major butt-kicking if they push things too far.

So, from these two examples, we should understand that deterrence, in order to work correctly, has two components. First, there is the ability to deliver a devastating blow, and second, the willingness to deliver said blow should a country cross certain lines. If either of these is missing, then deterrence will inevitably fail.

Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama had reduced America’s deterrence capabilities in both ways. His defense cuts severely limited America’s ability to bring the pain, and he also was singularly unwilling to deal with Iran in the decisive manner needed. In short, BO gave the message that America could be a global doormat.

The fact is, if America is to avoid war, it never hurts to have a strong military in all facets. But it is also equally important to ensure that when a foreign country does something along the lines of firing missiles at a Navy destroyer, then we are able and willing to make them pay. Otherwise, we may very well find ourselves again in an armed conflict in the Middle East. Or elsewhere.   ~The Patriot Post

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