Libya--the Mideast Cuba?
I was just a teenager back in 1959 but I can still recall the great hullabaloo, predominantly positive hulabaloo, over Fidel Castro, with the media referring to him as the “George Washington of Cuba” and exulting over their darling’s victory over the evil Fulgencio Batista, with teachers all a-bubble with excitement since Cuba was finally free.
Not only was Batista, El Hombre, a dictator but he had illegally seized power, had consorted with gamblers and known criminals, and suffered from the severe liability (to American leftists) of being friendly toward the United States.
Similar to the 2008 hype for Barack Hussein Obama, his successor, Fidel Castro was hailed a a savior, a man of the people who would bring joy and prosperity to his island nation. Fidel couldn’t quite walk on water as Obama could but he seemed to share most other Obama qualities and oratorical skills, sans teleprompters.
Not known at the time, with the able assistance of his fellow Marxist revolutionary, Che Guevara, Fidel would imprison and murder tens of thousands of his countrymen, come close to initiating World War III, and reduce Cuba to an economic basket case.
An added bonus for leftist Castrophiles is that, unlike Batista, Fidel hates America.
Although they may not smoke cigars because Islam and Allah frown on tobacco products, the Libyan rebels now on the verge of deposing Muammar Khadaffi and hopefully doing unto him what Iraqis did unto Saddam Hussein may very well turn out to be far worse for U.S. interests than both “mad dog of the Middle East” and the mad dog of the Caribbean.
Khadaffi was certainly not one of America’s best buddies and continued to support international Islamic terrorism yet he, allegedly, abandoned his efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction in 2003, after America massively visited mass destruction on Afghanistan and Hussein’s regime.
Nevertheless, “The devil you know . . . ” and Libyan rebel devils may soon make the United States yearn for the good, old Muammar days.
Our president, peace-lover that he is, refused to concede that our war in Libya was even a war.
The White House opted to describe the conflict as a “kinetic military action” while we kinetically led NATO forces against Khadaffi loyalists, launched hundreds of kinetic Tomahawk cruise missiles against Tripoli and loyalist strongholds, and gave Syria’s equally-treacherous Bashar al-Assad a free pass.
You see, war bad, kinetic military action good in Obamaese. As for Assad, the Obamians haven’t a clue what to do.
Like Fidel Castro who was deemed good contrasted with Fulgencio Batista, the Libyan rebels are likewise considered the good guys compared to Khadaffi. Like Castro, they are likely to bite America on its collective arse, only more severely. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5353.)
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Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī
Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī
You may say Khadafy or Kadaffie and I may say Qadafi or Gadaffie but “Daffy” is definitely not an acceptable or applicable nickname for Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, in Arabic مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī, the Libyan despot, butcher of Libyans, mad dog of the Mideast, murderer of untold numbers of defenseless Americans and Europeans.
Mu, as I will refer to him since I refuse to pay him any respect by repetitively typing Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī is or was anything but daffy. Treacherous, vile, and peculiar yes, but daffy, no; he is or was as wily as a snake, as calculating as Barack Obama. Those alternative present and past tense verbs are necessitated by the fact no one knows as of the time of this writing whether he is alive or if he has already been killed like Obama killed another Muslim terrorist, Usama bin laden.
The only certainty right now, should Mu be in the welcoming arms of Allah, is that Obama with the assistance of Seal Team Six didn’t get him and it’s improbable that he screamed the Islamic war cry, “Alahu akbar!” before Libyan rebels chopped him up for dog food.
Arabs don’t especially like dogs.
It’s doubtful, too, that Mu will get his 72–or 50 virgins in paradise, depending on who’s counting–after he passes to the Great Islamic Beyond because Allah generally reserves that select group of toothless hags for true Muslim heroes and Mu is/was anything but heroic. Killing Christians and other infidels is one thing to Allah. Killing his fellow Muslims which Mu did with a bloody vengeance is quite another in the Islamic playbook.
Whatever Mu’s ultimate fate, a safe bet is that America’s current president will attempt to claim at least a degree of . . .
(Read more at . . . http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5262)
You may say Khadafy or Kadaffie and I may say Qadafi or Gadaffie but “Daffy” is definitely not an acceptable or applicable nickname for Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, in Arabic مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī, the Libyan despot, butcher of Libyans, mad dog of the Mideast, murderer of untold numbers of defenseless Americans and Europeans.
Mu, as I will refer to him since I refuse to pay him any respect by repetitively typing Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī is or was anything but daffy. Treacherous, vile, and peculiar yes, but daffy, no; he is or was as wily as a snake, as calculating as Barack Obama. Those alternative present and past tense verbs are necessitated by the fact no one knows as of the time of this writing whether he is alive or if he has already been killed like Obama killed another Muslim terrorist, Usama bin laden.
The only certainty right now, should Mu be in the welcoming arms of Allah, is that Obama with the assistance of Seal Team Six didn’t get him and it’s improbable that he screamed the Islamic war cry, “Alahu akbar!” before Libyan rebels chopped him up for dog food.
Arabs don’t especially like dogs.
It’s doubtful, too, that Mu will get his 72–or 50 virgins in paradise, depending on who’s counting–after he passes to the Great Islamic Beyond because Allah generally reserves that select group of toothless hags for true Muslim heroes and Mu is/was anything but heroic. Killing Christians and other infidels is one thing to Allah. Killing his fellow Muslims which Mu did with a bloody vengeance is quite another in the Islamic playbook.
Whatever Mu’s ultimate fate, a safe bet is that America’s current president will attempt to claim at least a degree of . . .
(Read more at . . . http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5262)
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Insanity Goes On: America and Terrorism
The Insanity Goes On: America and Terrorism
Einstein’s now-famous theory of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, is in process of being proven as valid as his equally-famous theory of relativity and the leaders of Western civilization are its most proficient proponents.
America’s and the West’s policy toward Islamic terrorism and terrorists, if indeed it can seriously be considered policy, is fundamentally, and insanely, flawed and reactionary: We wait, they do something, we react. It can be reduced in equivalency to the advice many practical parents give to their sons when they are the victims of school bullies: If he hits you, hit him back or else he will continue to hit you, or worse.
Other parents instruct their kidlets to go tell a teacher or tell an administrator or tell it on some mountain, all of which tactics invariably result in Little Johnny being ostracized, labeled a snitch, being bloodied even more by the bully’s buddies and/or by the bully himself off schoolgrounds in a dark alley.
The chief problem for America and the West with employing either of those approaches is that America and the West aren’t being threatened by some snotnosed kid out to make a schoolyard name for himself or merely acting out some psychological issues. Radical Islamists are certainly out to make a name for themselves and are acting out of a deep-seated and perverted visceral fury, intermixed with a disturbed religious fervor, but their aims go far beyond those of a bully.
Their intent is not to bloody noses but to maim and murder Americans and Western Europeans, to destroy our basic institutions and the societies in which those Americans and Western Europeans live, and to establish a new, world, Islamic-sharia-Koranic order. And there is no one we can turn to to ”tell on” them.
Yet, as seen in the case of the recent Stockholm bombing and the multiple attempts to execute mass mayhem in the United States, from the “Underwear Bomber” last Christmas to the Portland “Holiday Bomber” last week, we patiently wait and wait and wait.
We seem to be waiting for another 9/11, or worse . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3070)
Einstein’s now-famous theory of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, is in process of being proven as valid as his equally-famous theory of relativity and the leaders of Western civilization are its most proficient proponents.
America’s and the West’s policy toward Islamic terrorism and terrorists, if indeed it can seriously be considered policy, is fundamentally, and insanely, flawed and reactionary: We wait, they do something, we react. It can be reduced in equivalency to the advice many practical parents give to their sons when they are the victims of school bullies: If he hits you, hit him back or else he will continue to hit you, or worse.
Other parents instruct their kidlets to go tell a teacher or tell an administrator or tell it on some mountain, all of which tactics invariably result in Little Johnny being ostracized, labeled a snitch, being bloodied even more by the bully’s buddies and/or by the bully himself off schoolgrounds in a dark alley.
The chief problem for America and the West with employing either of those approaches is that America and the West aren’t being threatened by some snotnosed kid out to make a schoolyard name for himself or merely acting out some psychological issues. Radical Islamists are certainly out to make a name for themselves and are acting out of a deep-seated and perverted visceral fury, intermixed with a disturbed religious fervor, but their aims go far beyond those of a bully.
Their intent is not to bloody noses but to maim and murder Americans and Western Europeans, to destroy our basic institutions and the societies in which those Americans and Western Europeans live, and to establish a new, world, Islamic-sharia-Koranic order. And there is no one we can turn to to ”tell on” them.
Yet, as seen in the case of the recent Stockholm bombing and the multiple attempts to execute mass mayhem in the United States, from the “Underwear Bomber” last Christmas to the Portland “Holiday Bomber” last week, we patiently wait and wait and wait.
We seem to be waiting for another 9/11, or worse . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3070)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Terrorism 101, Semester Two
Terrorism 101, Semester Two
An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama:
Dear President Obama:
Ok, look Barry, if I may call you by your pre-Barack nickname, I’d like to speak very frankly since this is no time in our nation to be hemming and hawing. Do consider this a follow-up to Semester One, which I’m certain you read.
It dealt with your declaration of war against al Qaeda, Janet Napolitano, your AWOL security people like Leon Panetta and John Leiter. Remember now?
Anyway, I understand you came into office with an agenda and I know you’re woefully inexperienced but I was curious, Are you comfortable in your own skin yet, sitting in the Oval Office? Honestly, more than a year later, I still can’t believe Americans elected you as our president but what’s done is done so let’s try to make the best of it, ok?
I want to pont out that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but imitation when there are no parallels is the gravest form of pretension.
Thus, when you said Thursday, “The [anti-terror] buck stops with me,” a line you also used back in May with regard to the AIG bailout, the clear intent was to imply that you were taking full responsibility for the “systemic failure” that allowed the Christmas Day near-catastrophe.
That’s all very well and good, a tough terror facade, but glomming President Harry S Truman’s desk sign, “The buck stops here” doesn’t accord you any of Truman’s grit, resolve, or sense of patriotism. For all Harry’s flaws, he was a pretty good president.
Barry, I didn’t know Harry but you’re no Harry. There are no parallels with you aside from his being a Democrat.
Words without deeds to back them up are cheaper than cheap, especially with Islamic jihadists who consider mere words as a sign of weakness.
What are you going to do with that buck now that you have it?
Are you even aware that on the same day you were talking about stopping bucks and declaring war on al Qaeda that the Christmas underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being indicted as a common criminal in Detroit?
He’s a very uncommon criminal and Islamic terrorists aren’t very nice people.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1414)
An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama:
Dear President Obama:
Ok, look Barry, if I may call you by your pre-Barack nickname, I’d like to speak very frankly since this is no time in our nation to be hemming and hawing. Do consider this a follow-up to Semester One, which I’m certain you read.
It dealt with your declaration of war against al Qaeda, Janet Napolitano, your AWOL security people like Leon Panetta and John Leiter. Remember now?
Anyway, I understand you came into office with an agenda and I know you’re woefully inexperienced but I was curious, Are you comfortable in your own skin yet, sitting in the Oval Office? Honestly, more than a year later, I still can’t believe Americans elected you as our president but what’s done is done so let’s try to make the best of it, ok?
I want to pont out that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but imitation when there are no parallels is the gravest form of pretension.
Thus, when you said Thursday, “The [anti-terror] buck stops with me,” a line you also used back in May with regard to the AIG bailout, the clear intent was to imply that you were taking full responsibility for the “systemic failure” that allowed the Christmas Day near-catastrophe.
That’s all very well and good, a tough terror facade, but glomming President Harry S Truman’s desk sign, “The buck stops here” doesn’t accord you any of Truman’s grit, resolve, or sense of patriotism. For all Harry’s flaws, he was a pretty good president.
Barry, I didn’t know Harry but you’re no Harry. There are no parallels with you aside from his being a Democrat.
Words without deeds to back them up are cheaper than cheap, especially with Islamic jihadists who consider mere words as a sign of weakness.
What are you going to do with that buck now that you have it?
Are you even aware that on the same day you were talking about stopping bucks and declaring war on al Qaeda that the Christmas underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being indicted as a common criminal in Detroit?
He’s a very uncommon criminal and Islamic terrorists aren’t very nice people.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1414)
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