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Hamas gets its breather

Posted on November 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Hamas gets its breather

It’s called “a cease fire,” the thing the international “leaders” like our lying president with his hollow words fall all over themselves to “achieve” when Israel dares to fight back.

I don’t suppose we’ll ever know how much tax money Barry and the Hildabeast promised the puppeteers in Egypt to “restrain” their Hamas proteges for however long they actually do it. A week? Less?

Or what threats Barry made to Bibi to get him to go along? The end of American military support? No more parts for those stretch, two-seat F-16s? Or Blackhawk troop movers? Opening an American consulate in Ramallah or Gaza?

Bibi wouldn’t have folded easily because now his government teeters and his political career is in jeopardy from a fed-up Israeli electorate. Including for the first time the distracted seculars of Tel Aviv whose “bubble” those Iranian rockets finally pierced.

When Hamas (hamas in Hebrew means “violent robbery”) finishes reloading and, inevitably, breaks the “ceasefire,” perhaps whoever has replaced Bibi will have the cahones to cut off Gaza’s water and electricity. Until the go-along (hardly innocent) populace forces their Jihadi masters to surrender. How old mannish of me, thinking rational rules could still apply.

UPDATE:  Starting back in January and at least twenty times this year Jerusalem asked the Dictator’s Club (otherwise known as the U.N.) to condemn and stop the rockets from Gaza bombarding Southern Israel. No response. No action. So the IDF fights back and, suddenly, the UN comes flying in to save Hamas.

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Life in “the encroaching superstate”

Posted on November 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Life in “the encroaching superstate”

Diana West sums up our national predicament quite well. She was writing about the pathetic organized fireworks displays last July 4, with their attendant high security, but with a few strategic ellipses, her comments are more generally applicable:

“By too many measures, we are no longer a self-governing people. Our president dictates law from the Rose Garden, as when he recently bestowed amnesty on more than 1 million illegal aliens (unconstitutional).

“Our Supreme Court rewrites law from the bench, as with the cataclysmic ruling on Obamacare (also unconstitutional).

“Ask Arizona, which the president and the Supreme Court both recently told, as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer succinctly put it, to ‘drop dead.’ Meanwhile…the heavy security apparatus — security checkpoints, baggage searches, ‘eye in the sky’ surveillance, police armed with [automatic rifles] — belie any notion of living in ‘the land of the free.’

“Whether we admit it — and we don’t — we are a nation under siege by Islamic jihad even as our individual autonomy falls to the encroaching superstate.”

Worth reading all of it. But try to ignore the last sentence of the piece. It will only make you feel worse.

And this proposed new law: to let the feds read your email without a warrant, even if you don’t work for the CIA like Petraeus did.

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Israelis: Return to status quo with Gaza won’t work

Posted on November 20, 2012 | Comments Off on Israelis: Return to status quo with Gaza won’t work

Amid talk of an impending cease fire over Gaza, three prominent Israeli observers indicate that something fundamental changed when Hamas targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a return to the status quo is unacceptable.

They hope Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood can be convinced to restrain its terror-protege Hamas and cut off future smuggling of unguided rockets and guided anti-tank missiles. Otherwise, an IDF ground invasion will be necessary.

Retired IDF Brigadier General Michael Herzog thinks most of the rockets and anti-tank guided missiles Hamas had were destroyed in the first air strikes, and if Egypt can be persuaded, a ground invasion might be avoided.

Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy agrees that Egypt’s intervention is necessary, but also thinks it’s time for the Israeli government to development a comprehensive Gaza strategy.

And Brett Stephens, former editor of the Jerusalem Post, who wishes he had not supported the Israeli government’s peace-seeking 2005 withdrawal of IDF troops and Israeli settlers from Gaza adds: “Israel can afford to watch only so many reruns of this same, sordid show.”

UPDATE:  Residents in Beersheba, under rocket assault most of the year, don’t want to see any truce until Hamas is whipped once and for all.

MORE: So Barry-the-double-gamer got what he wanted: a ceasefire, so Hamas can live to rocket another day. How long it will last is anybody’s guess. Not long, I’d wager.

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Texas Rematch

Posted on November 20, 2012 | Comments Off on Texas Rematch

It’s amusing to see the Molon Labe of the Spartans and the Texas Revolution applied to a modern disgust with the D.C. statists and their TSA’s pathetic security circus. I’m not confident this latest example of proposed Texas nullification (there have been others and I have no doubt there will be many more) will succeed, but anything that disturbs (however temporarily) the incompetent federal bureaucrats and their corrupt political enablers is fine by me. Hook ’em, Texas.

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Barry’s double game with Israel

Posted on November 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Barry’s double game with Israel

He’s got their back. Publicly. Privately, he’s intent on making sure Hamas lives to shoot rockets another day. And the easiest way to do that is block any Israeli move to send troops into Gaza to clean out the rat’s nest and the rocket arsenals the air strikes have missed. Probably a lot.

No military campaign in history was won from the air—except the nuke dropped on Japan and that still took a second one. Nukes, we can hope, are off the table here. But when Iran, which already is sending more rockets to Hamas, gets its nukes, well… Now is the time to put Hamas out of the rocket business.

But Barry is making sure Bibi doesn’t do that. So far, Bibi is obeying. I wonder what sword Barry’s holding over Bibi’s neck? And how long it will be before Bibi dodges out of the way?

In World War II, the allies also used the phrase “pinpoint bombing” as the IAF does now. But that’s just public relations. There is no such thing. The only way to get all those rocket arsenals is to go in, preferably on foot, find them and blow them up.

Otherwise, this whole thing will have been essentially for nothing. The Hamas are religious fanatics. What do they care for demolished buildings? The IAF could level the whole city and still not hit all the rocket caches. They have to be rooted out by infantry, with the inevitable deaths and cripplings.

And Jerusalem must be willing to defy Barry and the international screamers to honor their IDF casualties by not stopping until the job is done.

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Petraeus: A useful fool

Posted on November 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Petraeus: A useful fool

He went to Congress and repeated the lie about the nasty anti-Muslim video being the cause of the Benghazi attacks and murders. His usefulness done, he fell under the infidelity sword Barry’s AG had hanging over his head since before election day.

To at least one observer, retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor—a Desert Storm combat veteran whose caustic battle book Warrior’s Rage rants against careerist, non-combat generals like Petraeus—he had it coming.

“Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia…Petraeus was always a useful fool in the Leninist sense for his political superiors….”

And when the fool was no longer useful, Barry exiled him in permanent shame. Now he seems to be telling a new story in Congressional hearings, setting Democrats and Republicans to arguing about what it means.

There’s a clue to the reason behind Gen. P.’s downfall in old photographs of him in uniform: the “chest candy” (once called “fruit salad” in a more modest epoch) that precedes his smile. He wears every ribbon for every paper-pusher medal he ever received as a staff officer and aide to generals, plus more shiny badges than even Colonel Qaddafi used to wear, if not as large. He did dispense with Daffy Duck’s sash. Who knows, in the egotistical, banana-republic style of today’s generals and admirals, he may have one.

Makes you think he wasn’t really very sure of himself, which may explain why he threw his marriage and his children to the winds for a fling with his nubile biographer. He may well have done it before but wasn’t caught.

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Another nice loser pushes us into the fire this time

Posted on November 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Another nice loser pushes us into the fire this time

My mother-in-law said it best, if somewhat sheepishly at using the phrase. Williard, she said, had no balls. No kidding.

That was back in August. I knew she had him pegged after his “me too” approach to Barry’s foreign policy assertions in the third debate. He was just another nice loser, as Thomas Sowell says.

Aided and abetted by obvious Democrat fraud in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago—and possibly Florida’s Gold Coast, as well—which the Republican Party curiously is not protesting. Almost makes you think they  like to lose, they do it so often.

But Sowell, a conservative black economics professor and disciple in his youth of free marketeer Milton Friedman, says their 2012 loss could be disastrous:

“Quite aside from the immediate effects of particular policies, Barack Obama has repeatedly circumvented the laws, including the Constitution of the United States, in ways and on a scale that pushes this nation in the direction of arbitrary one-man rule….

“Obama will now also have more ‘flexibility,’ as he told Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, to transform the international order, where he has long shown that he thinks America has too much power and influence. A nuclear Iran can change that. Forever.

“Have you noticed how many of our enemies in other countries have been rooting for Obama? You or your children may yet have reason to recall that as a bitter memory of a warning sign ignored on Election Day in 2012.”

Let’s hope Sowell is too cynical by half. Hope may be all we have left.

UPDATE:  So much for hope. Barry said he had Israel’s back. He lied. His support for Israel’s self-defense lasted just 48 hours. His public support, that is.

By my reading of the journo tea leaves, he set private guidelines on the first day of U.S. Senate support: i.e. he wants no ground invasion of Gaza to clean out the Hamas rat’s nest and says, BTW, don’t bomb too long, Bibi, ’cause it might endanger the “two-state solution.”

Even W (a veteran who knows military campaigns are not won from the air) waited for a week or two of Gaza ground scouring by the IDF before asking for withdrawal.

UPDATE:  Sure enough, Barry and the Hildabeast pushed Bibi into accepting a ceasefire in which the Brotherhood will decide who the violators are and when. I wonder how much of our tax money Egypt has been promised, not to mention Hamas. Hardly matters. It won’t last a week, if that long, and Bibi’s government may collapse before then.

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