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Bring it on

Posted on September 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Bring it on

Spengler, at least, is ready and waiting for an Israeli bombing attack on Iran. He thinks regional war is inevitable and it might as well begin sooner than later in response to an Israeli attack.

Of course, he has the luxury of not sitting at ground zero. Or does he?

“An Israeli strike on Iran that achieved even limited success — a two-year delay in Iran’s nuclear weapons development — would arrest America’s precipitous decline as a superpower.”

I doubt the decline would continue if Obama is defeated in November. If he is re-elected, a two year delay wouldn’t be long enough. But regional war, Spengler (David P. Goldman) says, would resolve these looming problems:

  • A nuclear-armed Iran;
  • Iraq’s continued drift towards alliance with Iran;
  • An overtly hostile regime in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood government will lean on jihadist elements to divert attention from the country’s economic collapse;
  • An Egyptian war with Libya for oil and with Sudan for water;
  • A radical Sunni regime controlling most of Syria, facing off an Iran-allied Alawistan ensconced in the coastal mountains;
  • A de facto or de jure Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Kingdom of Jordan.

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    Rather daunting list there. Only problem I can see is that wars (and their results) are always unpredictable. The new arrangement could be worse.

    But neoconservatism, the moderate alternative between appeasement and war, certainly seems to be dead. Obama has tried appeasement and gotten a dead ambassador and trashed embassies. Being an ideologue, he may try more appeasement. But Spengler is right. War is inevitable.

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    Can we impeach Obama now?

    Posted on September 16, 2012 | Comments Off on Can we impeach Obama now?

    He literally sends brown shirts (L.A. sheriff’s deputies who wear brown-shirt uniforms) to roust a film-maker whose cheesy video has embarrassed the White House’s suck-up Muslim policies. You apparently lose your First Amendment rights when you do that.

    “He won’t resign, of course. First, the President has the appreciation of free speech that one would expect from a Chicago Machine politician, which is to say, none. Second, he’s not getting any pressure. Indeed, the very press that went crazy over Ari Fleischer’s misrepresented remarks seems far less interested in the actions of an administration that I repeat, literally sent brown-shirted enforcers to launch a midnight knock on a filmmaker’s door.”

    Meanwhile the lapdog media have staked out the filmmaker’s house, figuratively painting a hey-blow-this-place-up sign on his front door and, incidentally, endangering his whole neighborhood. Thanks a lot Mr., ahem, El Presidente. Some president. Can we impeach this clown now?

    As law professor Glenn Reynolds says: “It’s the deputies who should be covering their faces out of shame, but the real shame is on the man at the top of the hierarchy.”

    So, if the sycophant news media won’t call their champion on the clear violation of his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, is there a Republican in the House of Representatives with the guts to file a bill of impeachment? If not now, when?

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    How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

    Posted on September 13, 2012 | Comments Off on How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

    Everybody who thinks they know what Israel will do or when they will do it always seems to think (and talk and write) in terms of jet fighter-bombers dropping bunker busters on laboratories deep within mountains. Or else launching missiles from their tiny fleet of Dolphin submarines.

    Certainly the submarine option would be preferable to risking the lives of young pilots and weapons officers (the guy in the back seat) flying so far away and over so much hostile territory. But there are other options few talk (or think or write) about.

    Except PJMedia’s Dr. Michael Ledeen in his good series “The Iranian Time Bomb.” My favorite of his suppositions as to how it could be done is to think about an inside job. Not just by commandoes, though there are bound to be a more than a few of them already inside Iran.

    But, even more likely, are some of the estimated quarter million Iranian Jews who already live there, all speaking Farsi and all passing effectively (because they are Iranians in a country where many, many people hate the regime) with plenty of means, motive and opportunity. Think about it.

    (If you can’t get to the series at the link above without paying for a subscription, give one a trial. It’s not expensive and so much of PJMedia is so good and so very different from the Democrat news media’s familiar Obozo-lovin’ and Obozo-excusin’ narrative.)

    UPDATE:  A quarter million Iranian Jews still in Iran? Says Dr. Ledeen. Could be far fewer, according to Point of No Return, the Jewish Refugees blog. About 100,000 were there before the 1979 Muslim revolution. Not many have left since and the ones who stayed try to keep out of the public eye since the regime is mortally hostile to them. Still, what better motive could you ask for if you wanted an inside job?

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    The Coveted Russian Dictator Endorsement: Putin Picks Obama

    Posted on September 12, 2012 | Comments Off on The Coveted Russian Dictator Endorsement: Putin Picks Obama

    If you know what’s good for you, America, you will reelect President Barack Obama — says the proud KGB spy and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

    Next up: The Fidel Castro endorsement, followed by critical endorsements from Cesar Hugo Chavez and the Muslim Brotherhood.

    (At least the Canucks have some guts. They closed their embassy in Tehran and kicked Iranian diplomats out of Ottawa. Nice to see someone in North American has balls.)

    UPDATE:  The lust for Putin’s endorsement apparently extended to the Dem convention:

    “On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message. But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.”

    Or was it a mistake? How could it be? Inquiring minds want to know.

    MORE: Well, they say it was a mistake. But they say a lot of things.

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    I Chose The Gun

    Posted on September 9, 2012 | Comments Off on I Chose The Gun

    Peter Van Uhm, defense chief for the Netherlands, explains to an audience of his elite countrymen, why he chose, instead of a brush, a camera, or a pen to make a career as a solider:

    “…not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk … about how we can make the world a better place.”

    Why, in other words, peoples who want peace need armies. His 17 minute talk, calm and persuasive, is here.

    Via Michael Yon.

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    Banning smoking in (wait for it) Lebanon

    Posted on September 5, 2012 | Comments Off on Banning smoking in (wait for it) Lebanon

    Whew. Glad these folks have got their priorities straight. For a moment I thought maybe they meant they were banning the smoking cities of Syria or the way Iran and their puppet Assad would like to export those smoking cities elsewhere.

    But that would be revolutionary.  No, turns out the Hezbollah-backed government of Lebanon is referring to cigarettes and banning them in public places. California exports! Coercive politics, anyhow. What will the terrorists think of next? Banning free speech? Naw. They already do that.

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    Me and Buck Travis

    Posted on August 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Me and Buck Travis

    Gotta like this view of an F-16 from my native state (me and William Barret “Buck” Travis of the Alamo), and the colorful “shock diamonds” in its exhaust. But it needs to come home from Afghanistan ASAP, along with the rest of our troops. Thanks to Obozo and the Pentagon, their mission is a true disaster.

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