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...Without arguing that there are some disturbing patterns there, it should be pointed out that some of those on the list are there for doing Remarkably Stupid Things.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
11/29/2014 15:05 Comments ||
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Some sports teams pay big bucks to keep players sitting on the bench rather than allowing them to play on the other 'team'. They take a strategic view of what happens when damn good players are on the field against you.
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Stalin did the same thing before WWII to ensure he had a compliant and politically compatible general officer corps. Lucky for Mother Russia, he missed a few really fine officers.
This is on the verge of a scandal. Our military is becoming a playground for social engineers and politically correct.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
11/29/2014 21:03 Comments ||
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[Breitbart] “So, we either kill these people with a drone, or we take them to a court in New York where they require a lawyer and their Miranda rights and we can't speak with them,” Krauthammer added. “That, I think, is what is overlooked. This is truly hurting us in the long run. Six years without a single prisoner that we can interrogate indefinitely. And as you know, in many of these cases, it takes months to get the information you want.” Krauthammer nails it. The goal is to release the 'political prisoners' not further detain them or add to their numbers. The other unspoken reality is, U.S. soldiers, Marines, and the DoD have no current authority [legal or otherwise] for 'summary execution' of terrorists, so there would eventually be captured enemy personnel to deal with if ground troops were employed in great numbers.
[Ynet] The Paleostinian president is doing everything to avoid signing an agreement with Israel and has contributed greatly to the Israelis' lack of trust in the Paleostinians. So why does the Israeli left remain so loyal to him?
When around the time of Yasser Arafat's death, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... emerged as his designated successor, some in Israel rushed to bestow endless titles on him: Moderate, pragmatic, practical, a man of peace, etc.
Abbas soon became the Israeli left's darling, and even in the centrist and right-wing parties there were those who said that if a Paleostinian leader ever signed an agreement â it would be Abbas.
An entire decade has passed, peace is further than ever, and it seems that in some political circles in Israel, there are those who believe in the man and in his way.
"I donât like hearing his harsh statements against Israel, but this is Abbas and he is second to none" is the classic comment made by his supporters in Israel. In other words, Abbas can accuse us of genocide, insult us with the harshest words, inaugurate squares and streets named after jacket wallahs and murderers, call for an armed struggle against us, and still remain a "man of peace" to some of us.
What makes this 80-year-old leader, who is slowly becoming an "Arafat in a suit" and who continues to be an address for peace despite his support of war, so likeable?
The majority of the Paleostinian public despises Abbas because he is a corrupt leader, not just publicly but also personally. Mohammed Dahlan filed a complaint against him with the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... in The Hague for stealing $1 billion from the Paleostinian Authority coffers. There are serious claims in the Paleostinian Authority about governmental corruption, benefits given to his family members, concessions granted to associates who thrived during his era, and even rape incidents involving senior PA officials, which were silenced by Abbas.
Abbas has dismissed all the speculation that during his talks with former prime minister Ehud Olmert and then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni he allegedly waived the refugees' return to Paleostine. "That will never happen," he reiterated. "Every refugee has the right to return to the house he was deported from," Abbas stressed.
He has also shaken off all the rumors that he allegedly agreed to have Jerusalem divided, leave some of the settlements in the West Bank and accept a compromise on the borders. Even when he was presented with copies of WikiLeaks news leaks, he continued to deny it, claiming that the idea was raised but that he would never agree to it.
Abbas' attitude towards Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is an example of the political zigzag that characterizes him. First, he establishes a unity government with Hamas and calls the hostile terrorist organization "our sister," and months later he spies on it, badmouths it to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and threatens to wage a war against it.
First he unites the "Paleostinian ranks" with Hamas, and immediately afterwards he strengthens his coordination with Israel against the organization and instructs his assistant, General Majed Faraj, to hit it hard.
Abbas is seen by the Israeli public as an opportunist, as a professional survivor and spineless leader. He accuses Israel of genocide while collaborating with the "murderers" in the tightest security cooperation. He attacks the settlements and the settlers, but enjoys the fact that the IDF, which defends them in the West Bank, provides him and the PA with security services at the same time. Without these services, he and the PA echelon would have already fled abroad for fear of Hamas.
More and more, it seems that Abbas has set such a high bar of demands for an agreement in order to prevent any Israeli leader from "being tempted," God forbid, because then he, Abbas, would be forced to sign the worst thing possible ‐ a compromise over the Land of Israel.
In other words, he will divide Paleostine, which in the Paleostinian heritage is an act comparable to serious, unforgivable treason. The Paleostinians' two great leaders, Haj Amin al-Husseini and Yasser Arafat, refused to sign on such a compromise, thereby ruling that any deviation in this case is eternally forbidden.
A survey published in September 2000 showed that 70% of the Israeli public supported former prime minister Ehud Barak's peace plan, which was presented to Arafat and to then-US president Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... at Camp David. This support rate has sharply diminished since then.
It's true that there was a murderous intifada in the meantime and a disengagement that only led to rocket fire on southern Israel. But Abbas has contributed quite a lot to the Israeli public's lack of trust in the Paleostinian public. Does the Israeli left, which remains loyal to Abbas, know something the average Israeli doesn't know?
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