The wolves have been at work for a while preparing for such a time as now. These wolves are cunning, patient, low profile, and terribly focused like a laser beam on their target; only their target is not simply a herd of sheep but an entire country that daily becomes increasingly like a herd of sheep. The country is the United States, and the wolves that have been at work are members of the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliate Islamic groups sworn to fulfill the Quran’s commandment to establish a Caliphate; a One-World Muslim religion, culture, law, and maniacal allegiance to their Prophet Mohammed. Any obstacle standing in their way of total achievement and domination is to be fully and completely eliminated – not tampered with, coddled or made friends with, but eliminated.
While a prodigious number of elected officials work diligently to make nice to all people everywhere, and struggle to bring about “political correctness” to win favor and reelection rather than lead for the sake and safety of the citizens to which elected them, and many citizens mumble and resent political correctness but go along with the ever multiplying tentacles, the wolves continue to pick off an institution or significant politician here and there, as they never once stray from their intended target, the elimination of our country! Many law enforcement senior commanders and chiefs have become politically neutered from being the once strong, respected, and proud sheepdog that historically stood post placing himself between the vulnerable flock and the wolves. Add the many facets of “transformation and change” Obama has brought forward, and very few have aggressively opposed, and the public herd is all the more confused and overwhelmed, and simply returns to eating and enjoying life for the moment. Thinking past the moment is too difficult, too scary, too mind boggling so the herd simply continues to enjoy the moment. All the while the wolves continue to focus on their target(s). One target in particular that has been illuminated is the American political process. The wolves’ intention is to become their own political force, but only insofar as to use this force to establish the Islamic Faith form of government and law supplanting the Constitution of the United States with Sharia Law!
You scoff and say this can’t happen! My very good colleague, Clare Lopez, Senior Vice President of The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. shares the evidence to demonstrate otherwise. Watch the five minute YouTube presentation below. Please take steps to understand what is transpiring all around you as the culture and fabric of America is deliberately being shredded. Some of us “sheep dogs” have already engaged in the fight against the wolves consumed with diabolical schemes to eliminate the whole herd, America. While a remnant of the herd have heeded our warnings and have responded to being educated on the clear and present danger, most of the herd continues to eat placidly with not a care on their mind – just as the wolves would like.
Star Spangled Shariah: The Rise of America’s First Muslim Brotherhood Political Party
“The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goal in America is to ‘destroy the Western civilization from within.’ Star-Spangled Shariah: The Rise of America’s First Muslim Brotherhood Party reveals the newest weapon in their arsenal for doing so – a self-described Political Party called the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). This new monograph connects the dots between the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret plan to impose Sharia in America, and the insidious use it intends to make of our democratic political system to that end.”
EDITORS NOTE: The Muslim Brotherhood centrist US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), which is holding a Muslim Capital Day during the week of April 18th is made up of: American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), The Mosque Cares (Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed).
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At the beginning of January 2016, an organization called NORPAC—a lobby whose mission is to support candidates and sitting members of Congress “who demonstrate a genuine commitment to the strength, security, and survival of Israel”—invited its members to “an exclusive and intimate” cocktail reception for Hillary Clinton for people willing to pay $2,700 per individual or $5,400 per couple.
The invitation included a synopsis of Hillary’s credibility vis-a-vis Israel, stating that she had “been a supporter of the US-Israel relationship for many years…and, as Secretary of State, she had stood up against Israel’s enemies….”
Then, NORPAC promptly betrayed its pretense of impartiality by stating: “Please join us in support of Secretary Hillary Clinton for President and share your concerns about the US-Israel relationship with her at this pro-Israel event.”
But the subject here is not the magical thinking of leftists or the suicidal ideation of liberal Jews. Rather, it is to correct the decades-long fantasy that Hillary Clinton is even remotely supportive of Jews, Israel, Zionism, in fact anything to do with Jewish life.Of course, all of this hype was pure fiction, but fully embraced by the leftwing Jews who have essentially abandoned genuine Judaism for the Social Justice causes embraced by the Democrat party, causes that make them feel like “good” people—everything from the redistribution of wealth (aka Communism) to saving the environment (from the colossal hoax known as climate change) to equality for women (except when it comes to speaking out against the vile abuses of Sharia law, the mass rapes by Muslims in Europe, and the rapacious behavior of one Bill Clinton) to the Holy Grail of leftism, abortion, which amounts to the de facto approval of the over fifty-eight-million infants murdered by this gruesome procedure since it became the law of the land in 1973.
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…
So let us forthwith dispense with the fiction that Hillary Clinton is a friend of Israel, of Zionism, of Jews. In fact, she loathes all three, and her ignominious track record of nearly 40 years in public life proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In an article in Newsmax.com in December, 2002, writer Carl Limbacher reported that as far back as 1979, when Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, “it was quite common” for both Bill and Hillary to refer to each other as “a Jew mother f-cker” or a “Jew bastard.” This was reported by Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson, who guarded the couple for six years. Patterson also said that he “won’t go into their generous use of the N word,” but only seven years ago, Bill told Sen. Ted Kennedy of Barack Obama, “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
When Hillary was First Lady of Arkansas, there were few if any Jews in her orbit…simply a demographic phenomenon. So where did her Jew hatred come from? Her reported-to-be Republican parents? Her upbringing in generally leftist Chicago? Her education at elite Wellesley College? Her religion, most often described as Methodist—you know, that lovely Protestant denomination that is relentless in pursuing the Boycott-Divest-Sanction campaign against Israel ? In Wellesley, she was introduced to the writings of America-hating Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals, a man she maintained close ties to, wrote her thesis about, and, to this day, echoes his “America is bad” beliefs.
It’s useless to speculate about where Hillary’s leftism or antipathy to Jews came from, sort of like wondering about the genesis of a particular malignancy. Yet, speculating can sometimes shed light. Perhaps Hillary’s Jew hatred came from the experience she had when, at age 27, the Yale Law School graduate served on the committee to impeach President Richard M. Nixon, and a Jew, Jerome Zeifman, Chief Counsel on the Watergate Committee, fired her for lying and being unethical, according to writer Carole Fader.
In Zeifman’s 2006 book, ‘Hillary’s Pursuit of Power,’ Fader reports, he wrote that, “Hillary Clinton is ethically unfit to be either a senator or president—and if she were to become president, the last vestiges of the traditional moral authority of the party of Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson will be destroyed.”
In an earlier book, ‘Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot,’ Zeifman wrote: “During my 14-year tenure with the House Judiciary Committee, I had supervisory authority over several hundred staff members. With the exception of Ms. Rodham, [special counsel John] Doar, and [senior associate special counsel and future Clinton White House counsel Bernard] Nussbaum, I recommend all of them for future positions of public and private trust.”
Dunetz reports that “even before her marriage to Bill, Hillary Clinton was opposing Israel and promoting the forces of terrorism.” On page 49 of his book, ‘American Evita’, Christopher Anderson wrote that “at a time when elements of the American Left embraced the Palestinian cause and condemned Israel, Hillary was telling friends that she was `sympathetic’ to the terrorist organization and admired its flamboyant leader, Yasser Arafat. When Arafat made his famous appearance before the U.N. General Assembly in November 1974 wearing his revolutionary uniform and a holster on his hip, Bill `was outraged like everybody else,’ said a Yale Law School classmate, but Hillary tried to convince Bill that Arafat was a `freedom fighter’ trying to free his people from their Israeli `oppressors.’”
In November 1999, Dunetz elaborates, Hillary made a trip to the Middle East and met with Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha, who proceeded to accuse Israel of “daily and intensive use of poisonous gas” that caused higher cancer rates in women and children, and of contaminating the drinking water or Palestinians with “chemical materials and toxic gases.” And what did Hillary do in the face of this barrage of Jew-hating lies? She “sat by silently” and then gave Suha a hug and a kiss, in essence endorsing her blasphemy.
When Hillary was the Secretary of State, Dunetz continues, both she and Bill “made mega- dollars from their extensive involvement with Dubai, a leader in the movement to boycott Israel, and a major commerce and shipping point for the `business-side’ of terrorism.” So deep are Bill and Hill into Dubai that “The Clinton Foundation has established Dubai Study departments in universities in the US and London. They worked hard at granting legitimacy to this Jew-hating, terrorist supporting nation.” And there is more. Dunetz reports that when Hillary ran for president in 2007, San Francisco Examiner columnist P.J. Corkery wrote that she “made $10 million a year from Yucaipa, a Dubai firm. Ron Berkle, the owner of Yucaipa companies, was a major fund-raiser for Bill and Hillary.”
The Clintons also had and have a connection to the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism, Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi Royal Family donated $10,000,000 to the Clinton Library. Hmm…they must be interested in literacy.
A BRIEF HIATUS
The above represents a drop in the ocean of Hillary’s longtime predilection to all things Arab and aversion to all things Jewish, with the glaring exception of her run for the U.S. Senate, during which time she was a quick study in learning how to pander for the formidable Jewish vote. And sure enough, Jewish Democrats ignored her paltry track record of public service, overlooked her former blasphemies of Jews and Israel, and continued their fetishistic embrace of all things leftist-cum-socialist, mixed with a dollop of gender politics, and generously laced with perpetual victimhood.
It’s relevant to note that Hillary’s tenure in the Senate yielded few benefits to New Yorkers and few accomplishments, and it didn’t take her long after leaving the Senate and becoming Secretary of State to dismiss a previous deal that had been made with Israel and to call for the end of the construction of new homes in what Israel’s enemies call settlements on the West Bank but which are actually the legally sanctioned territories in Israel called Judea and Samaria.
By this action, Hillary, in essence, told Israelis that they could no longer live in their neighborhoods, and for good measure she threw in Jerusalem as well. Then she and Barack Obama proceeded to keep up a steady drumbeat of vilification, public admonishment, duplicitous dealings, and relentless demands on Israel, with nary the mildest demand on the Jewish state’s fanatically bellicose neighbors.
So obsessed with Israel is Hillary in the basest of ways, she even spoke publicly in 2011 at the leftist Brookings Institute about Israel’s accommodation to the Orthodox community in terms of females singing in the Israeli Defense Forces, comparing the action to the way Iran treats its women. Right. In her mind, there is no difference between simply walking out of a singing performance and stoning the offending woman to death.
The next year, at a forum on US-Israel Relations, she scorched Israel for its supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity toward those poor victimized Palestinians, turning a malevolent blind eye to the serial violations by Palestinian of all their agreements with Israel.
SHE’S BAAACK!
But now that she’s running for president, Hillary the Panderer is back, pretending that she’s a friend of Israel, hoping that the Jewish public she considers quite stupid will forget that as Secretary of State she created and executed the most anti-Israel policy of the most anti-Israel president in Israel’s mere 68 years of existence.
“Old habits die hard,” writes Tiffany Gabbay for TruthRevolt.org. Only last month, Hillary hosted a panel that included Salam al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), “who openly supported Hezbollah in its 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut and who blamed the 9/11 attacks on Israel.”
Hillary’s ties to al-Marayati go way back; Gabbay provides a detailed report developed by Patrick Pool of PJ Media. “Waves of controversy have not stopped Hillary Clinton from continuing to promote Marayati, including appointing him to positions during her tenure as Obama’s secretary of State.” To this day, MPAC continues to vilify Israel and even published “on its website in 2010 that Israel was harvesting the organs of Palestinians.” But he’s still Hillary’s pal! Mmmm… I wonder how much he’s contributed to The Clinton Foundation, which as I type is being investigated by 150 federal agents!
Gabbay also provides a list of these dubious figures tied to the Obama administration. I wonder how many of them have also provided hefty sums to the foundation. With the Clintons, isn’t it always about the money?
An editorial in The Jewish Voice this month cites recent history to describe Hillary’s unique unfitness to be fair and balanced as a president when it comes to Israel. “Her vicious attacks on Netanyahu and the Jewish State are legend during her four years of leaning unashamedly to the side of Palestinian causes,” the opinion piece states, and continues to list some of her egregious anti-Israel behavior:
Her grant of 147 million bucks to the Hamas controlled Gaza which was utilized to repair the terror tunnels and artillery emplacements after they attacked Israel.
Her 45-minute-long verbal phone assault on Netanyahu for his refusal to kowtow to Abbas’ demands.
Her unending calls for “a two state solution,” adding kindling to the fires of hate that the Palestinians keep burning in order to scorch the state of Israel.
Her comments in her book, ‘Hard Choices’,” where she repeatedly mentions, the “illegal occupation” of Palestinians by Israel.
That is not to omit what writer/editor Jerome S. Kaufman reported in Israel Commentary about Hillary’s recent speech at the American-Israel-Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) forum. “She told the outrageous lie that she led the policy of imposing `crippling’ sanctions on Iran to force it to the negotiating table and she supported the agreement that has put a lid on its nuclear program!” Then she said: “We will never allow Israel’s enemies to think a wedge can be driven between us.”
“Huh!” Kaufman writes. “Evidently she does not think that Ali Khameni, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, thinks that, after Obamasigned a lethal agreement with Israel’s mortal enemy giving them $150 billion in spending money plus a virtually unencumbered route to develop nuclear weapons and the unlimited launching of missile tests designed to carry them out, there is a `wedge between Israel and the US.’”
Calling Hillary’s presentation “a con job for Jewish audiences,” Kaufman pleads to her: “Please stop parading as Israel’s friend. That is a complete lie.”
And then there are Hillary’s closer-than-close ties to advisor, family friend, and former advisor to Pres. Bill Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal—he of her private unsecured e-mail server fame—one of those apologist “court Jews” who make the rest of us cringe in embarrassment and revulsion. Writer Lori Lowenthal Marcus describes in The Jewish Press what happened on May 31, 2010, when the Israeli Navy confronted six ships sailing from Turkey, “seeking to blow up the internationally recognized legal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.”
“Starting the very morningof the incident,” she writes,” Sidney Blumenthal began emailing Hillary Clinton, haranguing her to treat this grave tragedy as a whip with which to lash Israel. Blumenthal also sent screeds written by his unhinged son Max, who insisted that the entire incident was orchestrated in advance by a bloodthirsty Israel as a means to blow up the peace process. By the next morning, Blumenthal had written a seven-point memo to Clinton suggesting ways the United States should respond to the flotilla incident, among them, “someone in authority needs to read Israel the riot act”…”
AmericanThinker.com writer Thomas Lifson fleshes out this ugly story. Hillary’s “reliance on Sidney Blumenthal as an advisor, despite the fact that she was forbidden by the Obama administration to employ him as a State Department aide, is now revealed to contain a reliance on the even viler son of a vile man. Just as telling is the way he plied her with his son Max’s articles. Max Blumenthal is a radical left wing writer and the author of ‘Goliath’, a vicious anti-Zionist polemic that attacks Israel’s right to exist and urges its isolation and ultimate dissolution.”
“Hillary is imbibing poison from Blumenthal,” says Lifson, “and went out of her way to do so. She should be shunned by all who care about the survival of Israel.”
A HATRED SO DEEP
Ari Lieberman titles his article in FrontPageMagazine.com ‘Hillary’s Emails: Hating Israel’. In it, he spares no passion in describing the candidate’s flaws (“unrepentant liar,” “unethical,” “serial hypocrite,” “likely a felon,” et al), and then prefaces a further critique with this damning caveat: “If you hate Israel and wish to see nothing but misfortune for the Jewish State, stop reading because Hillary is your candidate. If you care about Israel and its relationship with the United States, read on.”
Lieberman details the nefarious plots and plans suggested to a very interested Hillary by her close aides Thomas Pickering, never a friend of Israel, and Anne Marie Slaughter, Hillary’s director of policy planning. But he reserves his most scathing commentary for Hillary’s closest advisor.
“Another miscreant and perhaps the most troubling on the list of shady anti-Israel characters advising Clinton is Sidney Blumenthal, father and defender of the notorious anti-Semite, Max Blumenthal. Max has never met a Hamas or Hezbollah terrorist he didn’t like and subscribes to every single anti-Israel calumny and conspiracy theory winding its way through the blogosphere. So extreme are his views that even the German Communist party washed its hands of him. Sidney Blumenthal is a passionate defender of his son’s unscholarly, anti-Semitic dung and has passed much of it along via email to a very receptive Hillary. Among the articles forwarded was a lengthy conspiracy piece written by Max for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar. Rather than rejecting it outright, Clinton responded, “interesting reading.”
Lieberman then discusses Hillary’s closest female adviser, Huma Abedin, noting that her history and involvement with the “fascist Muslim Brotherhood are undeniable” …Abedin and her Saudi-connected parents have held high-level positions with various Muslim affiliated organizations that have openly adopted extremely hostile views toward the Jewish State.
According to columnist Caroline Glick, “Hillary would continue Obama’s anti-Israel policies. Saying that her tenure as Secretary of State “was a disaster of epic proportions,” Glick adds that during those four years, “Clinton was a full partner in Obama’s hostile policies toward Israel.”
So it is no surprise that among the other anti-Israel people Hillary has hired to help her win the presidency is former Congressman Earl Hilliard, who, writes Carol Brown in AmericanThinker.com, “was a reliable anti-Israel voice in Congress”—voting against increased military support for Israel and accusing Jews of buying the election that defeated him.
Three-hundred and thirty million people in the U.S.A., and these are the best Hillary could do!
‘Who does Al Qaeda want in the White House?’ is the title of an article by Lisa Daftari, who writes that, “The Wall Street Journal has obtained a translated report of the text which suggests that…former Sec. of State Clinton `will be an extension of the policy of Obama and the Democrats in the region.’” Precisely!
It’s astounding to me, who reads daily newspaper reports of people being arrested and incarcerated for relatively innocuous crimes, that Hillary has not yet been frog-marched into a courtroom, on her way to Leavenworth. Clearly, someone doesn’t want that to happen because of the guilt-by-association that would land that someone in a cell in the same institution. And the media’s reassurances that FBI Director James Comey “is nonpartisan” ring hollow when you consider that on more than one occasion, he has found no criminal wrongdoing in several of the Clintons’ fishy cases.
Tiffany Gabbay comments that Hillary’s associations, which I’ve described above, “are nothing new to the Obama administration, nor to the Clintons. In fact, it is one of the primary reasons why voters concerned about terrorism and national security, or who care for the preservation of Israel, are best advised to refrain from voting for Clinton come November.”
No sane American, no sane Jew, can give that premise a serious argument.
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Mohamed Amin Ahmed is the creator of ‘Average Mohamed,’ a video series published online that deconstructs Islamist arguments via animations.
Mohamed Amin Ahmed is the Executive Director of Average Mohamed, a Minneapolis based organization dedicated to fighting extremist ideas through animated videos. He immigrated to the United States 20 years ago and has played numerous roles in both civic and corporate worlds. After 9/11 Mohamed joined the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism, and has since been the Chapter President for Minnesota.
His counter terrorism mantra is: “It takes an idea, to defeat an idea”. He currently works as a Manager for a local gas company and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and four children.
He graciously agreed to speak with Clarion Project Dialogue Coordinator Elliot Friedland about Average Mohamed and how popular culture can be used to defeat extremism.
Clarion Project: Why did you start making cartoons to challenge Islamism?
Mohamed Ahmed: Fed up with a coherent counter narrative to talk plainly to Muslims, especially kids. The extremists are having their conversation with our youth. No parent talks to their kids about extremism because no parent believes their child can become one.
Average Mohamed is about bridging that gap, getting that conversation by guiding it.
Screenshot from Average Mohamed video.
Clarion: What do you think resonates about your message where government efforts have failed?
Ahmed: Simplicity, no put ups or airs. Just average folks talking. We quote our scriptures, something we never want our government to do, since there’s a separation of state and mosque. Average mohamed speaks plainly with easy to understand easy to get, use and even easier to disseminate talking points.
Our government is doing a lot of things right but in fighting extremism they need to incorporate more every day people.
That is exactly what Average Mohamed does.
Clarion: You’ve spoken about the importance of being comfortable with multiple identities. Why do you think identity is so important in countering extremism?
Ahmed: In past recruitments they extremists ask? Are you an American or a Muslim? As if the two are incompatible.
The extremists use identity as a recruitment tool. The more they can get an individual to deny their identities the easier to mold them into a puritanical nut who is at war with their other identities.
In our democracy we accept an individual can have multiple identities as a treasure trove of our diversity. One identity supplements the next and they are transition-able.
It is important we pass on this knowledge of one being comfortable in their identities. That it is normal and part of life.
Screenshot from Average Mohamed video.
Clarion: Can you describe some of the counter-radicalization work you do with your local community for our readers?
Ahmed: We have been hard at work. We have reached over 5,000 kids in face to face messaging in outreach.
We go to schools, mosques and Madrassa ( Islamic schooling). We do events where we host kids and have conversations. We go to events like the Somali Independence Festival where we distributed 3,000 pamphlets to kids directly on solely the issue of extremism.
Those pamphlets were paid for by high school kids who raised money by doing a Hena event. We distributed over 5,00 bottles of water donated by Halal Stores.
So we are a grass roots based organization. Yet we have over 250,000 views on our messages on social media. The viewership is global.
Clarion: What’s the biggest thing you think people who are fighting extremism get wrong?
Ahmed: Taking the average Muslim for granted. Looking at the average Muslim as a problem and not an asset waiting to do their part. Given a choice overwhelming majority of Muslims value democracy, peace and anti-extremism. Three principles that average mohamed is taking on to pass on to our youths age 8-16 year old.
We are here ready to do our part for we are no longer bystanders. The question is are they, are those fighting extremism willing to give us space, time and access to resources to do this work?
Time will tell. We are not waiting anymore. We are engaging our youth.
Recently disclosed documents suggest that Pakistan’s intelligence agency paid a terror group to perpetrate a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s intelligence agency paid a Taliban-affiliated terror group in Afghanistan to perpetrate one of the deadliest attacks on the CIA in the agency’s history, according to inferences made in recently-declassified U.S. government cables and documents.
On December 30, 2009, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew himself up in Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, located near the border with Pakistan, killing seven CIA employees. The bomber, a Jordanian doctor and double agent, tricked the Americans, telling them he would lead them to Ayman al-Zawahri, now head of al-Qaeda and, at the time, second in command.
A document dated January 11, 2010 , issued less than two weeks after the bombing, reports how the head of the Haqqani network, a Taliban-allied organization designed as terrorist by the U.S., met twice with senior officials of Pakistan’s intelligence agency (the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI) the month of the bombing.
During the first meeting, funding for “operations in Khowst [Khost] province” were discussed. “Funds were later provided to tribal elders in Khowst province for their support of the Haqqani network,” according to the cable.
At the second meeting, ISI officials gave “direction to the Haqqanis to expedite attack preparations and lethality in Afghanistan.”
Although heavily redacted, a cable issued the following month specified the head of the Haqqani network as well as another individual were given $200,000 “to enable the attack on Chapman.” The cable specifically mentions a number of individuals involved in the operation, including an Afghan border commander who was given money “to enable a suicide mission by an unnamed Jordanian national.”
The Jordanian mentioned is assumed to be the suicide bomber, Humam al-Balawi, whom the CIA had cultivated as an al-Qaeda informant. Code-named “Wolf,” al-Balawi turned out to be a double agent, perpetrating the deadliest attack against the CIA in the 15-year history of the war in Afghanistan.
Although each document states, “This is an information report not finally evaluated intelligence,” Admiral Mike Mullen (former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) terms the Haqqani network a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s intelligence agency. The U.S. has long-documented the connection between the ISI and the Haqqani terrorist organization.
The documents were the first public disclosure connecting the attack on Camp Chapman to the Pakistani ISI. They were released in connection with a Freedom of Information Act request. The U.S. had previously blamed al-Qaeda for the attack.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Jennifer Ehle who plays Jennifer Lynne Matthew in the film Zero Dark Thirty about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, head of Al Qaeda. Matthews, a mother of three was described as “one of the CIA’s top experts on al-Qaeda.” She was head of Camp Chapman and killed in the attack on the base.
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It’s time to get back to delivering justice to terrorists.
Donald Trump recently escalated his war of words with CIA director John Brennan. castigating the spymaster for saying he would never bring back waterboarding – even under a future president’s orders.
‘I think his comments are ridiculous,’ Trump said during a phone-in interview with ‘Fox & Friends’ on Monday morning.
‘I mean, they chop off heads and they drown people in cages with 50 in [a] cage – in big steel, heavy cages – drop ’em right into the water, drown people!’ Trump exclaimed, referring to the ISIS terror army.
‘And we can’t waterboard and we can’t do anything!’
Here is video of Donald Trump’s position on waterboarding during a GOP debate:
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I decided today I’d get some shopping done after work and stopped at Times Supermarket. As I was picking my produce, I glanced over at the checkout counter to anticipate how busy it was. I noticed that the majority of people were leaving with at least 3 of the thicker plastic bags in their carts.
I had to laugh inside about this. In Honolulu county, the environmentalists celebrated passing a plastic bag ban several years ago. Despite this “win” for them, I can’t help but question if it truly is making a positive impact if I still see plastic bags around.
Not only are thicker bags around, I’ve got a stock pile of paper bags now because my husband forgets his reusable bags. These bags tear way more easily and are much harder to carry when you’re in tow with a wiggly toddler and school backpacks. These are filling up our closet.
The part bags and the thicker bags clearly require more energy and input to produce. So I have to think if we really are saving the land with these actions? Have we made a greener choice?
If I look at the environmental legislation passed in Hawaii, I think that the short feel good laws haven’t been thought through enough before being passes. Another example of poor legislation is the tourism issue at Hanauma Bay.
In this past week, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported on high volume of tourists coming in via taxis. A law was passed to curb tour companies from bringing in bus loads of people to minimize the impact on the bay. It apparently isn’t working since there is a loophole with other modes of transportation. Was the law really fulfilling its intent?
The same type of thinking applies to the anti-GMO issue. With all the fear mongering around biotech, the green groups aligned with the Hawaiians to demand a ban on biotech taro research. Instead of keeping an option open to build some evidence on how to address major plant dieseases that could devastate the crops, the shortsighted thinkers took away a tool. What is evident is that a new disease is hitting farmers and what tools will they have sustain their livelihoods? Where in mythology was there a way to save a figure?
With companies caving to GM free ingredients, there is a consequence. It might mean more insecticides and different management of weed control. So consumers who associate GM with pesticides may actually be returning us to using more of it. To the consumer who is feeling like they saved the earth by their purchases, they actually did the opposite in reality.
I’m starting to wonder if going green is really a good thing if the ones backing it are setting us up for failures in the future. Did we consider all the consequences before setting to legislate on the issue? If we didn’t ask more questions, then we didn’t look closely enough at the results of our action.
Then again, going green has had a good result in some ways. We have thicker plastic bags to hold more dog poop with and bags that don’t fly away!
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WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new series by the Center for Immigration Studies explores immigration in the presidential campaign and the post-election immigration system that may replace the present policies of non-enforcement and massive, record-breaking numbers of legal immigrants and illegal aliens. Part One examines the public’s powerful voice that has risen to counter the establishment’s conventional wisdom and finally led to a national debate and a once-in-a-political-lifetime opportunity to reform an immigration system which does not serve the national interest.
Stanley Renshon, author of the report and a Center fellow and professor of political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center, writes, “Three factors — Trump, trust, and national security — have created an unprecedented opening for questioning and discarding the narrowly framed and rigidly held narratives that have passed for ‘reform’ in the immigration debate.”
The unprecedented number of immigrants and the challenges to the long held concept of a primary American identity and of the necessity of assimilation to that American identity concerns many Americans. This concern has moved immigration to a top-tier issue in the 2016 public campaign debate and allowed Americans to finally have the necessary national debate, which has been hampered by “a campaign of silencing and shaming with accusations of being anti-immigrant, racist, and worse has been mounted, somewhat successfully, to silence them.”
The issues discussed in Renshon’s series lead to valuable questions all the candidates should be asked:
How many immigrants are a sustainable number?
What kinds of immigrants should we seek?
How can we best help new immigrants to become emotionally, and not just financially, attached to this country?
And how can we keep illegal immigration from being a continuing source of civic distress?
The public seeks an immigration policy which works for the national interest and stands for the rule of law. Renshon asks the question, “Will they get it?”
In Part Two, Renshon will examine “The Collapse of Public Trust and the Chance for Real Immigration Reform.”
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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization. Since our founding in 1985, we have pursued a single mission – providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.
The Center is governed by a diverse board of directors that has included active and retired university professors, civil rights leaders, and former government officials. Our research and analysis has been funded by contributions and grants from dozens of private foundations, from the U.S. Census Bureau and Justice Department, and from hundreds of generous individual donors.
Our board, our staff, our researchers, and our contributor base are not predominantly “liberal” or predominantly “conservative.” Instead, we believe in common that debates about immigration policy that are well-informed and grounded in objective data will lead to better immigration policies.
The data collected by the Center during the past quarter-century has led many of our researchers to conclude that current, high levels of immigration are making it harder to achieve such important national objectives as better public schools, a cleaner environment, homeland security, and a living wage for every native-born and immigrant worker. These data may support criticism of US immigration policies, but they do not justify ill feelings toward our immigrant community. In fact, many of us at the Center are animated by a “low-immigration, pro-immigrant” vision of an America that admits fewer immigrants but affords a warmer welcome for those who are admitted.
This report contains an analysis of over 4,600 unique Islamic State personnel records that were produced by the group primarily between early 2013 and late 2014. The importance of this data for understanding the Islamic State and, in particular, the foreign fighter flow, cannot be overstated. To put it simply, it is the largest cache of primary source documents produced by the Islamic State available in the open-source as of this date. These particular documents were acquired by NBC News from an Islamic State defector and subsequently provided to the CTC (and other entities).
This report provides a window into the organization’s global workforce, revealing information about foreign fighters’ countries of origin, citizenship, points of entry into Syria, marital status, skills and previous occupations, education levels, religious knowledge, fighting role preferences in the group, and previous jihadist experience. In addition to analyzing the data at the macro-level, the report also highlights numerous anecdotes of individual fighters.
Taken together, the analysis in this report reveals an organization that is attempting to vet new members, manage talent effectively within the organization, and deal with an incredibly diverse pool of recruits.
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What has the U.S. gained by doing the Saudis’ bidding all these years? Has global jihad terrorism abated? Have the Saudis stopped spreading their violent and virulent Wahhabi ideology around the world? Have the Saudis stopped the rise of the Islamic State? In fact, the whole “alliance” has been a disaster that has severely weakened the United States.
“How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11,” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, April 17, 2016:
In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.
That’s quite an understatement.
Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook.
Case agents I’ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was “diplomatic immunity.”
Those sources say the pages missing from the 9/11 congressional inquiry report — which comprise the entire final chapter dealing with “foreign support for the September 11 hijackers” — details “incontrovertible evidence” gathered from both CIA and FBI case files of official Saudi assistance for at least two of the Saudi hijackers who settled in San Diego.
Some information has leaked from the redacted section, including a flurry of pre-9/11 phone calls between one of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego and the Saudi Embassy, and the transfer of some $130,000 from then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar’s family checking account to yet another of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego.
An investigator who worked with the JTTF in Washington complained that instead of investigating Bandar, the US government protected him — literally. He said the State Department assigned a security detail to help guard Bandar not only at the embassy, but also at his McLean, Va., mansion.
The source added that the task force wanted to jail a number of embassy employees, “but the embassy complained to the US attorney” and their diplomatic visas were revoked as a compromise.
Former FBI agent John Guandolo, who worked 9/11 and related al Qaeda cases out of the bureau’s Washington field office, says Bandar should have been a key suspect in the 9/11 probe.
“The Saudi ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party,” Guandolo said. “He should be treated as a terrorist suspect, as should other members of the Saudi elite class who the US government knows are currently funding the global jihad.”
But Bandar held sway over the FBI.
After he met on Sept. 13, 2001, with President Bush in the White House, where the two old family friends shared cigars on the Truman Balcony, the FBI evacuated dozens of Saudi officials from multiple cities, including at least one Osama bin Laden family member on the terror watch list. Instead of interrogating the Saudis, FBI agents acted as security escorts for them, even though it was known at the time that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
“The FBI was thwarted from interviewing the Saudis we wanted to interview by the White House,” said former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was involved in the investigation of al Qaeda and the hijackers. The White House “let them off the hook.”
What’s more, Rossini said the bureau was told no subpoenas could be served to produce evidence tying departing Saudi suspects to 9/11. The FBI, in turn, iced local investigations that led back to the Saudis….
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For much of the past fifteen years, the United States government has failed to understand, let alone decisively defeat, the enemy that, under the banner of its al Qaeda franchise, murderously attacked our country on September 11, 2001. The reason why that has been so – notwithstanding the bravery and skill of our men and women in uniform and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars – has been unclear to most Americans, including some in government. Until now.
With the publication by the Center for Security Policy of a new book by two of its leaders, President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and Vice President Clare Lopez, See No Sharia: “Countering Violent Extremism” and the Disarming of America’s First Lines of Defense, the case has been forcefully made that this sorry state of affairs is a product of a sustained and highly successful influence operation by Islamic supremacists. Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Islamists in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular have gained access to and considerable sway over policymakers in the White House, the FBI and the Departments of State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security.
President and CEO Frank Gaffney outlines the failures of the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ program:
See No Sharia describes the trajectory that has flowed from such penetration and subversion. It traces how fact-based counterterrorism and law enforcement have inexorably been supplanted by an approach defined by accommodations demanded by Islamists – purged lexicons and training programs, limitations on surveillance, case-making and rules of engagement and above all, eschewing anything that gives “offense” to Muslims.
In addition to showing the perils associated with such policies and practices as America faces the growing threat of global jihad and its animating doctrine of sharia, this book provides specific recommendations as to how to restore our first lines of defense – the FBI and other law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, the military and the intelligence community – whose effective service is needed today more than ever.
Frank Gaffney noted,
“Americans expect government officials to fulfill their oaths of office by protecting the Constitution, the Republic it established and its people from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The vast majority of our public servants yearn to do their duty. Yet, as See No Sharia makes plain, for at least a decade and a half, they have been obliged to conform to policies that greatly diminish their chances for success. We simply cannot afford to disarm those in our first lines of defense against Islamic supremacism and its jihad – both the violent kind and the stealthy sort the Muslim Brotherhood calls ‘civilization jihad.’”
Clare Lopez added,
“As a career intelligence professional, the extent to which our policy making apparatus has been penetrated and subverted by Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist operatives is deeply problematic. This book is meant to expose their handiwork – and to impel the urgently needed and long-overdue policy course-correction.”
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The Center for Security Policy/Secure Freedom is proud to present this monograph as a superb addition to its Civilization Jihad Reader Series. “The Gulen Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and Its Contribution to Civilization Jihad in America” is available for purchase in kindle and paperback format on Amazon.com.
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The Islamic Republic is a state sponsor of terrorism—That’s why Canada shut down the Iranian embassy in Ottawa in September 2012 . However, I would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to some of the more-particularly inhuman and nefarious activities of the Iranian regime.
The Islamic Republic started with an officially-approved massacre of all sorts of dissidents. Along with the functionaries of the former monarchy, thousands of revolutionaries whose views differed from that of the Islamic Republic, were either hanged or shot dead after sham trials – or even without them.
Later, the Islamic constitution that was established in Iran effectively brought a fundamentalist Islamist regime to power which systematically suppressed all other voices and sociopolitical constituencies like liberals, socialists, women, and religious and ethnic minorities. This has led to a vicious process of violation of human rights in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic regime; a process that still vigorously continues, even after the presumably “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani took office.
As a matter of fact, the violation of human rights in Iran has skyrocketed since Rouhani became president in 2013. Over 2,000 Iranians have been hanged under this “moderate” president’s watch, the largest scale of executions in Iran in the past 25 years. Indeed, the execution spree in the first half of 2015 was not overlooked by Amnesty International, which noted that “death sentences in Iran are particularly disturbing because they are invariably imposed by courts that are completely lacking in independence and impartiality”.
Amnesty International also added: “[Death sentences] are imposed either for vaguely-worded or overly-broad offences, or acts that should not be criminalized at all, let alone attract the death penalty. Trials in Iran are deeply flawed, detainees are often denied access to lawyers in the investigative stage, and there are inadequate procedures for appeal, pardon and commutation.” As a result, Iran has become the top country committing executions per capita, under Rouhani’s watch.
One of the “legal” pretexts of the Islamic regime for executing dissidents is the common charge of “muharebeh” or “enmity towards God”, routinely used against all sorts of human rights activists and dissidents; and which invariably receives the death penalty, sometimes administered in public by mass hangings by cranes – although even stoning is not ruled out legally. Many of those hanged take up to 20 minutes to die slowly and painfully from strangulation. The victims’ bodies are typically left hanging for some time before being removed as a way of intimidating the public into silence.
Many of those who are executed come from minority communities such as the Ahwazi Arab-Iranians – who are predominately Shia – as well as Kurdish and Baluchi Sunnis. The targeting of minorities has not changed since Rouhani’s assuming office. Over the past decade, many Ahwazi Arab political prisoners, ranging from poets and teachers to bloggers and human rights activists, have been executed on trumped-up charges in kangaroo courts.
Rather than finding reasonable evidence for the committing of a crime, judges rely on “confessions” which have been extracted from the accused through physical and psychological torture. Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the accused are kept in the dark, often not informed of where their loved ones have been imprisoned, executed or even buried. Again, NOTHING has improved under Rouhani.
Never mind that Iran is one of the few countries that continue to execute juvenile offenders, where according to the UN at least 160 are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18. The number of child offenders executed in 2014-15 – under Rouhani’s watch – is higher than at any time during the past five years. According to an Amnesty International report released a few days ago, Iran’s authorities have sought to “whitewash their continuing violations of children’s rights and deflect criticism of their appalling record as one of the world’s last executioners of juvenile offenders”.
Such kinds of reports, however, have failed to prevent Rouhani from receiving a warm welcome on his European tour, as top politicians as well as the Pope were eager to meet him. Surprisingly, these days, even the prominent opposition voices in the West, who often complain about their own governments’ disregard of human rights, don’t see a necessity to voice any substantial criticism against the abuses of human rights by the regime of Iran.
That is because much of the world wants do business with the Iranian regime, and they don’t want any fuss over rather “trivial things” such as the violation of human rights by that regime. Indeed, it seems that the rush to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran has twisted and bound all tongues in the West.
How can we possibly improve the condition of human rights in Iran by holding the Iranian regime accountable when at the same time the Liberal government of Canada is going to implicitly legitimize that regime’s violation of human rights by reestablishing diplomatic relations with it?
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It is always interesting to see how absurd some people become in their beliefs. Among the most absurd are those who are “gender confused.” These people may be classified as “genderphobic.”
Genderphobia may be defined as:
An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of forces that cause controversy, fragmentation, scandal, chaos or discord within the LGBTQ community, thereby disturbing homosexual peace and order, which requires immediate and brutal condemnation.
Genderphobia has led to a movement where the absurd (the quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable) has become the norm and national public policy. Among those exhibiting Genderphobia, i.e. ridiculous and unreasonable qualities, are politicians, Hollywood stars, professors, public school teachers, parents and their children.
These people do not believe what science, biology and genetics say about gender.
We decided to compile a list of The Top Ten Absurdities to help normal (a.k.a. homophobic) people understand what they may be confronted with when meeting a gender confused (a.k.a. genderphobic) person. Here is our list:
Questioning one’s birth sex (male/female) is the new normal.
Calling someone a boy or girl is racist, bigoted and makes you a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tolerance is a one-way-street (its my gender confused way or the highway).
Buggery is normal and healthy behavior, procreating is evil.
I can change my sex regardless of the laws of biology, science and genetics.
By simply changing my appearance, I am the sex I am portraying.
The needs of the 2% (gays) outweigh the needs of the 98% (straights).
It is okay to become a priest or boy scout leader in order to have sex with an underage boy.
Child pornography and pornography in general are healthy.
Muslims are our friends, Christians and Jews are the enemy.
So, why is the political left so concerned about the supposed rights of homosexuals, transvestites and assorted sexual deviants?
Well, here’s why – and it’s quite simple: Leaders on the left are aware that a socialist state must be the sole arbiter of morality. It must be able to decree absolutely anything and establish any social convention it deems appropriate, including that which many in any given social order would consider profoundly amoral or primally repellant.
Ayn Rand, the Russian born American writer and novelist, wrote:
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.
Since the 1950s we have seen the absurd become America’s official ideology.
EDITORS NOTE: If you have other “gender confused” absurdities please add them in the comments section below. We will be posting other Top Ten Absurdities lists. If you have any areas of interest please note them in the comments section.
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The Iran/U.S. treaty, that is, the so called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has been a gigantic mistake and the Western Countries now doing business with Iran are blindly acting out of cupidity and simply ignoring the final outcome.
The assured consequences, the assured final impact such gullible Western Countries will eventually suffer.
According to the American Enterprise Institute:
The conventional wisdom over the last few decades has been that Iran is racing towards a nuclear weapon. Iran wants a bomb, “the bomb.” But the real challenge for us is to understand that perhaps Iran doesn’t want just a bomb.
Please watch this short AEI Senior Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka video:
Media reports suggest that Iran has taken delivery of parts of the S-300 air defense system from Russia. This system would greatly complicate Israel’s ability to conduct air strikes against Iran, and would make it harder even for the U.S. to do so. But Iran has also given Russia a shopping list of other military hardware it desires to purchase, including the Su-30 air superiority fighter-bomber (similar in characteristics to the American F-15E Strike Eagle), and the Yakhont supersonic anti-shipping missile system.
Iran’s acquisition of any of these systems would be significant, but its acquisition of all of them could be game-changing. It could give Iran the ability to compete militarily with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and even Turkey and possibly Israel for the first time since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It could even make it difficult or impossible for the U.S. to maintain aircraft carriers or large-deck amphibious ships in the Persian Gulf.
This graphic shows the ranges of the various weapons systems Iran has requested from Russia. A handful of Yakhont batteries, which are truck-mounted and therefore mobile and hard to track, can cover the entire Persian Gulf with missiles against which American ships cannot reliably defend themselves. Four S-300 launchers (which the Iranians have already purchased from Russia and are waiting for their delivery) provide wide coverage against an Israeli air attack. The combat radius of the Su-30 covers almost the entire Middle East.
The graphic also shows the two systems Russia has already deployed in Syria at Latakia and Tartus, which will likely remain there indefinitely. If Russia chose to support Iran in efforts to deny the U.S. or its allies easy access to the region, these systems would form an important part of the overall defense.
Each system would be problematic by itself. Taken together they form the basis of a real access denial capability that could fundamentally alter the correlation of forces in the region.
This week, world elites were rocked by the release of the Panama Papers, demonstrating that world leaders, their friends and family, and the super wealthy routinely use offshore companies for tax avoidance.
Meanwhile, reports out of the Middle East indicate a growing concern of Iran’s activity. From Yemen to Iraq to Gaza, Iran continues to fund and arm terrorist insurgencies that are reshaping the region. Not only Israel, but the Gulf states and their Sunni allies are preparing for potential confrontation. Barack Hussein Obama’s “nuclear deal” has only emboldened Iranian ambitions, and caused tradition U.S. allies to lose faith in the United States dedication to peace and stability in the M.E.
Topics of Discussion:
The Panama Papers
Report: U.S. considering withdrawal from Sinai
Paul Ryan’s Delegation to Middle East – In prep for Republican nomination?
Saudi-led Coalition Prepares for Head-on Collision with Iran
& more…
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The wolves have been at work for a while preparing for such a time as now. These wolves are cunning, patient, low profile, and terribly focused like a laser beam on their target; only their target is not simply a herd of sheep but an entire country that daily becomes increasingly like a herd of sheep. The country is the United States, and the wolves that have been at work are members of the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliate Islamic groups sworn to fulfill the Quran’s commandment to establish a Caliphate; a One-World Muslim religion, culture, law, and maniacal allegiance to their Prophet Mohammed. Any obstacle standing in their way of total achievement and domination is to be fully and completely eliminated – not tampered with, coddled or made friends with, but eliminated.
Clarion Project: Why did you start making cartoons to challenge 
Clarion: What do you think resonates about your message where government efforts have failed?
Clarion: You’ve spoken about the importance of being comfortable with multiple identities. Why do you think identity is so important in countering extremism?
Clarion: Can you describe some of the counter-radicalization work you do with your local community for our readers?
Clarion: What’s the biggest thing you think people who are fighting extremism get wrong?
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For much of the past fifteen years, the United States government has failed to understand, let alone decisively defeat, the enemy that, under the banner of its al Qaeda franchise, murderously attacked our country on September 11, 2001. The reason why that has been so – notwithstanding the bravery and skill of our men and women in uniform and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars – has been unclear to most Americans, including some in government. Until now.
Meanwhile, reports out of the Middle East indicate a growing concern of Iran’s activity. From Yemen to Iraq to Gaza, Iran continues to fund and arm terrorist insurgencies that are reshaping the region. Not only Israel, but the Gulf states and their Sunni allies are preparing for potential confrontation. Barack Hussein Obama’s “nuclear deal” has only emboldened Iranian ambitions, and caused tradition U.S. allies to lose faith in the United States dedication to peace and stability in the M.E.