And now it's happening all over again. OK, so this time the Embassy in question is Britain's not America's. But the similarities are more significant than the differences. What is happening now is happening for a very particular reason: because the West has lost its authority in the Middle East. By attempting to appease it it has shown the weakness which the Islamic world despises and which it is now exploiting with vicious glee.James Delingpole The Telegraph UK
The rot set in, of course, with President Obama's infamous Cairo Surrender Monkey speech, in which, inter alia, he apologised for the crusades, pandered to the Islamist notion of the Ummah, referred to the 9/11 killers not as "terrorists" but "violent extremists", and gave the strong impression that it really wasn't any of America's business which crazed Islamist theocracies run by ravening lunatics hell bent on destroying the State of Israel had nuclear weapons and which ones didn't. Gee, thanks for that one, Barack
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Carter Redeux -- The Embassy
Thursday, November 10, 2011
More Of The Same -- Debates Update -- Now With More Proof
Above the fold update:
As if we need more proof of my point below we get this from CNN (via Real Clear Politics - Video at link):
"Last night at the
Republican debate, some of the hopefuls, they hope to get your job, they
defended the practice of waterboarding which is a practice you banned
in 2009. Herman Cain said, quote, 'I don't see that as torture.' Michele
Bachmann said that it's, quote, 'very effective.' So I'm wondering if
you think that they're uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?"
CNN's White House correspondent Dan Lothian asked President Obama in
Hawaii.
Once again this evening's CNBC debate demonstrated that the media simply do not get it. They operate and the premise of most of their questions are completely at odds with the voters.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
We don't need a new law, we don't need government to stop this or that. We need government to get out of the way.
DKK
Update 11/10/2011 16:07
American thinker puts it like this:
Weak Field" Spanks CNBC Liberals:
On the whole, it was a stunning display of free market and pro-liberty principles versus the nanny state mindset that government must be at the center of all problem solving. Every one of the eight candidates had strong moments against CNBC's self-anointed experts. Especially promising was how the field almost unanimously fingered federal regulations as the main problem with our economy and society -- and they did so as the faces of the questioners went into shock. Moreover there was near unanimity on the idea that the only answer to housing is, well, the economy stupid.
As if we need more proof of my point below we get this from CNN (via Real Clear Politics - Video at link):
CNN Reporter Asks Obama: Are GOP Candidates "Uninformed, Out Of Touch, Or Irresponsible?"
Once again this evening's CNBC debate demonstrated that the media simply do not get it. They operate and the premise of most of their questions are completely at odds with the voters.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
We don't need a new law, we don't need government to stop this or that. We need government to get out of the way.
DKK
Update 11/10/2011 16:07
American thinker puts it like this:
Weak Field" Spanks CNBC Liberals:
On the whole, it was a stunning display of free market and pro-liberty principles versus the nanny state mindset that government must be at the center of all problem solving. Every one of the eight candidates had strong moments against CNBC's self-anointed experts. Especially promising was how the field almost unanimously fingered federal regulations as the main problem with our economy and society -- and they did so as the faces of the questioners went into shock. Moreover there was near unanimity on the idea that the only answer to housing is, well, the economy stupid.
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