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A FOREIGN POLICY OF ARROGANT COWARDICE


America's enemies smell blood and it's type "O."

All new administrations stumble a bit as they seek their footing. But President Obama's foreign-policy botches have set new records for instant incompetence.

Contrary to left-wing myths, I wasn't a fan of the Bush administration. (I called for Donald Rumsfeld to get the boot in mid-2001.) But fair's fair. Despite his many faults, Bush sought to do good. Obama just wants to look good.

Vice President Dick Cheney was arrogant. Vice President Joe Biden is arrogant and stupid. Take your pick.

Don't worry about the new administration's ideology. Worry about its terrifying naïveté.  And ask:  At what point does naïveté become cowardice?

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A LUTA CONTINUA


That's Portuguese for "The Struggle Continues."  It was the mantra and motto of the RENAMO (Resisténcia Nacional de Moçambicana) guerrillas fighting to liberate Mozambique from Communist tyranny in the 1980s.

Of all the anti-Soviet freedom fighters I spent time with, they were the ones I liked the most.  Now, their mantra should be that of conservatives who wish to preserve their country from the Hate America Left. 

It certainly is of TTP member Erik Larson, who commented in the User Forum:

Republicans should tactically exploit the certain fracturing on the Left: we have the Blue Dogs, the Hillary crowd, and radical leftists -- one of whom is about to be speaker. Even the Left's backers like Eleanor Clift (current article on MSN) see trouble ahead. I laughed all day hearing the talk about consensus building and getting along -- there ain't gonna be none! Not with this crew. The Dems have essentially a three way split. The Republicans need to widen it.
This is excellent advice.  I discussed it with a Republican Congressman (happily re-elected) who agreed, especially about the Blue Dogs. 

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A YEAR OF ANNIVERSARIES MAY CATALYZE FREEDOM IN CHINA


2009 may be a year of "interesting times" for China's communist rulers, for it is the:

90th anniversary of the student-led revolt against imperial rule (the model for the Tienanmen Square student protest).
60th anniversary of the establishment of Communist seizure of power.
50th anniversaries of the Tibetan Revolt against Chinese occupation and the Dalai Lama's flight to India.
20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre of students protesting for democracy.
10th anniversary of suppression of the Falun Gong nonviolent spiritual movement.

What might happen?  Let's start with Tibet.

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WILL NOVEMBER 7 BE A CAPITULATION TO MASOCHISM?


If they were honest, liberal scientists who fanatically believe in the religion of anti-missile defense should band together and call themselves SFADA:  Scientists For A Defenseless America.

No matter what breakthroughs are achieved by the Pentagon in missile defense, you can depend on these guys to lie about them and claim they won't work.

Last week, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency reached an extraordinary milestone:  putting a "death-ray" high-energy laser aboard an airplane that can destroy at the speed of light an enemy nuclear missile aimed at the Unites States shortly after its launch.

It was immediately denounced by liberal scientists being paid to lie for the left  -- yet another example of liberal masochism that doesn't want America to be defended.  The question of the moment is whether Americans will capitulate to such masochism next week.

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THE WAY TO WIN IN AFGHANISTAN


I have just returned from Afghanistan, and here is what I have concluded.

America has put its emphasis on establishing a central government based in Kabul as the dominant authority in Afghanistan, something no one - foreign or Afghan - has been able to do for centuries.

Rather than lack of "boots on the ground," victory is being turned into defeat by the insistence on centralized power. That takes the form of a grandiose plan to train and equip a 135,000-man National Army. "It won't work," I sadly told a U.S. general who briefed me in Afghanistan over the recess. "This plan will fail."

The general could not fathom how his plan, based on centralizing power in Kabul, was totally unworkable. I predicted all the militias and ethnic and provincial power brokers left out of the general's plan soon would be hired on by the drug cartels and Taliban fanatics. The situation, I cautioned, would worsen, not improve.

Here's how we can win instead.

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CHINESE SIBERIA


If you're familiar with the Reconquista plan of the Mexican Aztlan movement (to reconquer the Southwest US "stolen" by America in the 19th century), this may sound like déjà vu all over again.  Yet however bad you think our illegal immigrant problem is, it's pipsqueak compared to Russia's in Siberia.

As a news story in mid-October (10/16) by Russia's only independent television station, Ren TV, reported from Vladivostok:

The emerging demographic situation developing here between Russia and China is simply catastrophic. The crisis is due to the creeping expansion of thousands of Chinese migrants. Chinese workers entering Siberia are replacing Russians who are not prepared to toil 12 hours a day for a pittance. 

Chinese students are taught that Siberia is their land, stolen from China in the 19th century.  It is suspected by many Russians here that China is subsidizing the migration of its citizens.  Demographers predict that by 2025 Chinese will be the Russian Far East's predominant ethnic group.  Then, it is feared, they will gain the right to vote and demand union with China.

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NEW WORLD DISORDER


Economic hope produced the American Revolution. Economic hopelessness delivered the French Revolution. Demagogues, not democrats, will hallmark the worsening economic crisis.

The potential for political turmoil is vast. Among the populated continents, only Australia has a chance of avoiding serious violence. We in the West stand at the brink of a terrible global struggle. Our response has been to fight among ourselves.

The order that diplomats adore is crumbling.

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ARAB TRANSPARENCY


Indonesia, as per Will Indonesia Save Islam?, is not the only place in the Moslem world struggling against Jihadi Islamism.  It turns out that there are hosts of folks in the Arab world who oppose the Jihadis, the Saudi Wahhabis, the Salafists who want a Dark Ages Islam.

Now they have a voice.

It's an independent Arabic website called Middle East Transparent.  There are English and French versions (click on "English" in the top banner), but many of these articles are by Westerners.  It is articles by Arabs written in Arabic that make this site so influential.

 "Metransparent" gets around 50,000 unique visitors a day, almost all from Moslems living in the Arab world.  There's nothing else like it - for it gives voice to Arab writers still residing in countries with no intellectual freedom.

These are not exiles safely pontificating from Paris coffee shops and London salons.  These are men - and women - who have the courage to speak out under their own names from within Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, and every other Arab nation.

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THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE


The European Union faces its first existential crisis. The EU worked well in the good times, when dissenting voices could be bought off, but worsening hard times threaten to knock it apart.

Half of Europe is broke (but still putting on the dog), while the other half tries to shun its spendthrift neighbors. Not long ago, the Europeans smugly lectured the US on our financial incompetence. Now it looks like their mistakes were worse.

Greed is universal. But it's especially dangerous when masked by self-righteousness. European financial managers and investors were at least as greedy as our worst Wall Street wizards. They just fell for different -- and even bigger, even worse -- scams.

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WILL INDONESIA SAVE ISLAM?


There are 245 million folks in Indonesia.  88% of them, or 215 million, are Moslem, comprising the largest Moslem population on earth.  Just 8% of Indonesians are Christian, 2% are Hindu, and only 1% are Buddhist.

Yet the most famous landmark of Indonesia - the archaeological wonder of Borobudur - is Buddhist.  In fact, it is the world's largest Buddhist monument.  Indonesia's most famous tourist destination and most famous culture is the island of Bali.  The people of Bali are not Moslem.  They are Hindu.

Indonesia used to be Buddhist and Hindu, and is a long ways from Arabia.  How did this place become Moslem?

Answering that question may lead us to a surprising conclusion:

Our focus in the War on Islamic Terrorism has been the Middle East, then secondarily with fears that Europe is becoming Eurabia.  But it may well turn out that this war will be won or lost in Indonesia.

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YOU KNOW YOU’RE A SYRIAN WHEN…


Having spent the last two months in Damascus, Syria, I have determined through personal experience that you know you're a Syrian when...

...You have a Malcolm X sign on your rear view mirror and think Adolf Hitler was a great man for killing Jews.

...You Love Hezbollah but hate the Lebanese.

...You think all women should be virgins but you want to screw everything that walks.

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THE SUBMISSION OF OBAMA TO ISLAM


How appropriate that Barack Hussein Obama featured Aretha Franklin in his inaugural festivities since her signature song is "Respect."  Literally from the moment she finished belting out "My Country Tis of Thee" on January 20, the new President has been conveying his "respect" the Moslem world.  Unfortunately, the way he practices it seems to be spelled S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.

Several observers have noted in recent days that Mr. Obama's outreach to the Moslem world is not only defensive and apologetic.  It explicitly embraces a narrative that is factually erroneous and deprecating to his own country.

What is really worrying is that Mr. Obama's actions and rhetoric are almost certainly being perceived by his target audience as evidence not of respect but of subservience-- precisely what Islam (the word "islam" literally means "submission" in Arabic) requires of all of us, Moslems and non-Moslems, alike.  

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NORTH KOREA: THE NEXT CHRISTIAN NATION IN ASIA


2008.  That's the number that dooms North Korea's lunatic tyrant Kim Jong-il. 

If there's one thing the Chicoms in Beijing are not going to let anyone screw up, it's their coming-out party to the world, the 2008 Olympics.  They are not about to tolerate some nuclear fruitcake causing a million-death war on their doorstep.  That's why they are studying Romanian history, circa 1989.

That was the year that communist generals in the Securitatae (secret police) staged a putsch and seized power after executing Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.  Their death by machine-gun was videotaped.  Baby Kim has a copy, and is requiring all his subordinates to view it.  It's to teach them a lesson, but you'd think that it would give them ideas instead.

It's a good bet that the Chicoms will soon be instigating a Romanian-type overthrow of Baby Kim and installing a new regime in Pyongyang.  It won't be a pro-West democracy promising disarmament and union with South Korea - but it will be far less belligerent and far more peaceful.

Such a regime will be a colony of China and will resist demands for genuine democratic elections.  What it won't be able to resist is its being rapidly Christianized.

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ELECTORAL VICTORY IN IRAQ


I don't suppose this  will get much coverage in the States as the news is so good.  No, the news is unbelievable.  

Something didn't happen in Al  Anbar Province, Iraq today, Saturday January 31.

Once the most violent and most dangerous places on earth, no suicide vest bomber detonated killing dozens of voters.  

No suicide truck bomber drove into a polling place collapsing the  building and killing and injuring over 100.

No Marine was in a firefight engaging an Al Qaeda terrorist trying to disrupt democracy.

What did happen was Anbar Sunnis  came out in their tens of thousands to vote in the first free election of their lives.
 

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THE DEATH OF THE ARGUMENT FOR MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING


One year ago, in September 2005, you learned what is actually causing whatever global warming the earth is experiencing. 

Solar Warming explained the specific mechanism involved:  the sun's increased magnetic activity deflecting the rain of cosmic rays upon the atmosphere, resulting in fewer clouds reflecting sunlight back into space and thus a warmer earth.

This month, scientists at the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen released the results of very well-designed and controlled experiments demonstrating the chemical mechanism of cosmic ray action upon cloud formation. 

Folks, this a big deal.  These are the results of a controlled experiment by serious scientists, not some GIGO (garbage-in/garbage-out) computer climate modeling.  They experimentally demonstrate how the cause of global warming or "climate change" is the sun, not us.

The argument for man-made global warming is dead.

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