[American Thinker] For centuries exile has been the most popular strategy for kings and dictators to escape hanging, whether it be Charles II, his brother James II, Idi Amin, Ferdinand Marcos or the Shah of Iran. Exile also has been a preferred choice for those seeking political asylum from persecution such as Albert Einstein and Bertolt Brecht fleeing the Nazis, or Salman Rushdie finding safe haven from the Ayatollah's fatwa death sentence.
No US president has ever been exiled. For high crimes and misdemeanors impeachment is our cure. For lesser sins, a second term denied is punishment enough. Until Barack Obama came along, a president imposing one's own exile would have been unthinkable.
Self-imposed -- or voluntary -- exile is a contradiction of course, a contorted pretzel twisting our sensibilities. Exile historically is an act of banishment and shunning; punishment by forcible removal from one's beloved homeland. I suppose there can be a form of self-imposed exile under duress, the fugitive on the run, like Whitey Bulger -- South Boston's notorious mobster on the lam for some fifteen years, unlikely to return to his old neighborhood except in handcuffs or a funeral procession.
Yet self-imposed exile is a safe, even respectable, haven for those escaping high taxes, disagreeable politics, writer's block and boredom. As long as one doesn't renounce his citizenship, of course.
James Joyce profited well enough by a self-imposed relocation from his dear Dublin to Paris and Zurich. George Santayana abandoned tenure as professor of philosophy at Harvard to take up residence in a convent in Rome to be reunited with his Continental Roman Catholic roots.
Other self-imposed exiles are simple acts of running away from duty. In the military, abandoning one's post or desertion is always met with court martial and sometimes death. In urban legend form, it is the Wall Street investment banker weary of the endless commutes from suburban Connecticut, a nervous wreck from making multi-million dollar bets, losing most but winning only a handful more, retreating into the Grand Central Station tunnels under Park Avenue joining the ranks of the homeless, never to return as a captain of industry.
How to reconcile the optics of president Obama on his latest trip to Brazil? Being feted on the tarmac in Rio De Janeiro and later joining the dignitaries reviewing a Brazilian military parade, all while a new war has been started in Libya, our Asian ally lies in ruins, and federal government insolvency threatens our republic. This juxtaposition can only be seen through the lens of a self-imposed exile.
Obama is being chased by his own incompetence, forced to face it, unable to stare it down. Privately he must admit he is over his head and no one -- not in the legislature, in the labor unions, in the deep pockets of George Soros nor the salons of liberal media apologists and sympathetic academics -- can save his doomed presidency.
Obama is in full retreat. Disengaged and decoupled. A pathetic creature, soon to be deserving of mercy rather than scorn, if only his hubris were in lockstep full retreat. Is he guilty of desertion or mere dereliction? Desertion would be a harsh claim, but dereliction not so far fetched.
A president who voluntary withdraws -- or at least sidesteps -- from the duties of the office, is derelict, period. Even his own party faithful anxiously look for any sign of leadership coming from Obama, only to be turned away empty handed, yet again. Bereft of personal responsibility towards his fellow Americans, Obama has neither resigned nor renounced his citizenship. Yet through his apology tours has made us wonder whether renouncing his affinity for America and the leadership imperatives due the office would only be a public formality.
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The details are six years old; the concept is current and relevant.
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He will never accept responsibility for any mistakes. Always blaming someone else. He is the arrogant classroom smart ass. If charged with a crime, his response, "Not guilty."
He just got a cool $30 million to write a book. So with everything a mess he's still trying to figure out what to say and is likely still stuck on chapter 1. And if crap hits the fan here regarding him, do expect him to stay where he is for a while, until his base puts out the fire.
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Exile? More than likely he is taking advantage of a lack of extradition agreements between the U.S. and French Polynesia and scoping out the pool boys.
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There really are an awful lot of islands out there. Some of them might require passports and visas but with enough money you could probably get some credible forgeries. You get a nice yacht with a discreet rogue of a captain and a suitcase full of cash and you could probably disappear for quite some time.
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I am grateful that Mr. Obama was one of our lazier presidents. He did quite enough temporary damage with his phone and his pen; he would have done much more, lasting much longer, had he instead exerted himself to get all those things passed into law.
On the other hand, that $30 million advance will evaporate quickly, given that the family are spending like that will be their regular income. But if he doesn't quickly start delivering real access to power, the way the Clintons did until dear Hillary lost her last election, the donations and speaking invitations will dry up. I don't see that he has any other cards to play, given that poor Michelle openly loathes politics and the people who engage in it, an opinion that seems shared by their daughters.
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We knew that it shouldn't disturb us,
But some were a little bit nervous.
"Today?" shrieked the preacher.
"I'm off to the beach! Er...
I guess this'll be my last service."
Shaw is straight up wrong about this. Plastic bag bans and taxes shouldn't even be permitted by government. Concerned about the environment? Stop using them. Don't get the 800 pound bully involved.
If you’re used to grabbing your purchases at the store by the handles of a plastic shopping bag and you live in Connecticut, get ready for a change. If all goes as planned, by sometime this fall you will probably either be figuring out a different way to cart your groceries home or you’ll be paying a bit more. Taking after the schemes enacted in California and other locations, the state is preparing to save the environment by taxing the use of plastic bags.
I’m not here to defend the premise that plastic grocery bags are a great idea. We haven’t used them in years in our house. We have a set of those cloth bags with handles which you can keep using for a very long time. We make an exception every month or two and ask for paper bags because I use those for packing up the paper recycling, but otherwise it’s all cloth for us.
But what Connecticut is doing is yet another exercise in the government pretending they can modify human behavior through tax policy and it stinks. They know full well that the average family that gets four or five bags of groceries per week is probably going to just pony up the extra quarter on shopping day rather than be bothered with all this nonsense. And Connecticut’s elected officials are pretty much admitting that, saying that it will be a “steady revenue stream.”
Why not stop being hypocrites? If you truly think that plastic bags are an evil which should be removed from civilized realms (and there’s definitely an argument for that idea) then just ban them rather than cashing in on the game. Several states and cities have already done it. The National Conference of State Legislatures provides a list of places where various bag restrictions are either already in place or being considered. California and Hawaii have pretty much banned them entirely, along with several large cities including Chicago and Seattle. Allowing the use of the evil bags to continue flourishing while the government pockets tens of millions of dollars per year (by their own estimates) is simply hypocrisy.
But even if I’m not a fan of plastic bags, is banning them at all really the answer? Even assuming you want the government micromanaging your life and the free market that much, possibly not. This think piece at Wired from last year poses the question of what you’ll be replacing them with after the ban. I prefer plastic bags. They are lightweight, strong and physically take up very little room at home. They have the advantage of allowing shifing bulk in way paper bags can never do.They are dual use items for hauling groceries and as trash bags, as well as general packaging items. The grocery store I use offers paper bags at the manned checkout stands, and plastic bags at the automated checkout, the second of which I use all the time. And when those checkouts are closed, I do have the option of requesting plastic bags.
Those who use and advocate reusable grocery bags had better also be advocating that the things be washed after every use. Studies have demonstrated that reusable bags are a breeding ground for all sorts of undesirable bacteria, and thus are a health risk for the households using them unless chemicals, energy, and water are spent to keep them sanitary. When those costs are added to the cost of manufacturing the things, I suspect the net impact to the environment compared to plastic bags, reused in all sorts of ways, will be the same or considerably worse.
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They enacted something similar (charge you 10 agurot per plastic bag) in Israel a few months ago. So, hardware stores started selling packages of plastic bags, and most people come to super with their own.
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Plastic bags also come in handy as hell well walking the dog. If the pols are that concerned just require markets to have a recycle bin in the store. A lotof stores already do anyway
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Dallas, TX levied 5 cents a bag for a while but the citizens teamed up with the bag manufacturers and started preparing a law suit. The city council quickly rescinded the tax.
Other tax and spend cities in Texas were never challenged like that have since doubled the tax to 10 cents a bag.
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to prevent disease from reusable bags the govt will eventually
- mandate washing them every other week
- mandate devices in the bags that light up if they haven't been washed (this should bring the price of the bag up to $20/per)
- fines up to $50 for using a reusable bag that hasn't been washed on time
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The type of fellow that wipes once and wonders at the efficacy of a tampon tax.
Were I to pass a grocery daily I could throw the day's meals in a backpack (that would frighten some, looking armed tactical survivalist and all.)
As it is, a monthly run for dog food, catfish food, horse food, people food, fuel and other consumables(beer, bullets) pretty much fills my truck bed.
[DAWN] BY seizing the strategically located Sangin district, with a population of less than 100,000, Taliban holy warriors have gained control of more than 50 per cent of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. The town has literally been a major killing field for British, US and Afghan soldiers over the past 16 years of war in Afghanistan.
A vital supply route for security personnel stationed in the scenic provincial capital Lashkargah, Sangin has been the scene of brazen Taliban attacks for the last eight months or so. Straddling a scorched desert and a lush river valley that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... commanders once described as a ’green zone’, Sangin fell to the Taliban as a result of a predawn assault on Thursday.
The ragtag Afghan forces -- fatigued, outgunned and short of ammunition and food -- took to their heels. As TV channels around the world screened images of audacious fighters marauding through the district centre and police headquarters, a patently clueless Ministry of Defence in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... characterised the security forces’ meek surrender of the major urban space as a tactical retreat.
Sangin’s collapse, which the US military has euphemistically called the repositioning of the district centre, represents the culmination of a ferocious offensive that has been deadlier than the battles for any of the country’s other 400 districts. Following the 2013 security transition from NATO to local forces, hundreds of Afghan soldiers and coppers have died defending the district.
After capturing Sangin, where the international fraternity has invested heavily, the Taliban are now better positioned to coordinate their operations in Helmand and Kandahar, the group’s spiritual base. Seen in this context, abandoning Sangin will turn out to be a costly mistake. Although the American-led coalition bombed the area to destroy strategic assets, the fighters were able to seize some of the vehicles, weapons and equipment abandoned by the soldiers.
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The town has literally been a major killing field for British, US and Afghan soldiers over the past 16 years of war in Afghanistan.
We been at this for a long time. WWII began on 12/7/1941 and ended in 1945; just 4 years. Is there a strategy in Afghanistan?
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The US has not won a foreign war it led. As I recall we entered the European theater/et. al. late in the hostilities. Just as Russia was mobilizing and pushing back against the Germans.
I think the state of Japan was crushed by a technological marvel, diminishing resources and an overextended logistics chain, not battle superiority.
As you know fighting a war in someone else's land is logistically costly. Hundreds of billions spent, the level of the National Debt, and we still haven't crushed the enemy. Pretty much because we don't know who he is.
The amazing point I think is that we have managed to continue, albeit abated, as a functioning society even with this remarkable drain of resources.
One of the (many) questions I ask myself is how might those resources have been applied were we not trying to occupy a foreign continent, not trying to feed the world, not trying for total eradication of disease and not trying to educate primitives as an instrument of cultural suppression.
I'm afraid the answer is that we would simply buy more shiny 'Made in ....' discardable toys because the national manufacturing mandate will have been tooled for war machines.
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[Daily Caller] From their plush apartments, over groaning dinner tables, pseudo-intellectuals have the luxury of depicting squalor and sickness as idyllic, primordially peaceful and harmonious. After all, when the affluent relinquish their earthly possessions to return to the simple life, it is always with aid of sophisticated technology and the option to be air-lifted to a hospital if the need arises. Is there any wonder, then, that "the stereotype of colonial history" has been perpetuated by the relatively well-to-do intellectual elite? Theories of exploitation, Marxism for one, originated with Western intellectuals, not with African peasants. It is this clique alone that could afford to pile myth upon myth about a system that had benefited ordinary people.
What is meant by "benefited"? Naturally, the premise here is that development, so long as it’s not coerced, is desirable and material progress good. British colonists in Africa reduced the state of squalor, disease and death associated with lack of development. To the extent that this is condemned, the Rousseauist myth of the noble, happy savage is condoned. Granted, Africa’s poor did not elect to have these conditions, good and bad, foisted on them. However, once introduced to potable water, sanitation, transportation, and primary healthcare, few Africans wish to do without them. Fewer Africans still would wish to return to Native Customary Law once introduced to the idea that their lives were no longer the property of the Supreme Chief to do with as he pleased.
It "is an absurdity to assert that cannibalism, slavery, magical therapy, and killing the aged should be accorded the same ’dignity’ or ’validity’ as old-age security, scientific medicine, and metal artifacts," noted anthropologist George Peter. While old habits die hard, most "people prefer Western technology and would rather be able to feed their children and elderly than kill them," he notes in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. And the West largely eliminated "many of the worst endemic and epidemic diseases in West Africa." Ask Moeletsi Mbeki, the brother of South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki. He has admitted that "the average African is poorer [today] than during the age of colonialism."
Even so--and whether they stay or go--the blame for all the ills of this backward and benighted region falls on Westerners. One dreadfully off-course notion has it that the colonial powers plundered Africa and failed to plow back profits into the place. This manifest absurdity is belied by the major agricultural, mineral, commercial and industrial installations throughout the continent. The infrastructure in Africa was built by the colonial powers. Far from draining wealth from less developed countries," as P. T. Bauer richly documented, in Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion, "British industry helped to create it there." Continues
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Bwah-Hah-Hah! Now look at the China's invation! They turned all them into slaves and cannibals!
They pay less that they can buy food after work
at faking to eat dog in China is what they actually eat in secret is fetuses ans flesh from kidnapped young people in China and now in Africa...work it out carefully and get the surprises!
[American Thinker] Everyone knows that a competent lawyer never asks a question in court to which he doesn’t already know the answer. And likewise, a competent political leader never puts a piece of legislation up for a vote without having a good idea of what the vote will be. But when Paul Ryan released his American Health Care Act he evidently had no idea what its reception would be. Whole sections of his own party were angered, and it was obvious that his bill had no chance of passage without truly major changes.
Why didn’t Ryan know all of that before he published the bill? A skilled leader sounds out the major opinion centers in his party to get a sense of what it will take to get them all on board, so that by the time the bill is published he knows where everyone stands and how they will vote. By going public with his bill before ascertaining the lay of the land, Ryan has created an ugly rift within his party, delayed and endangered the forward movement of the Trump administration, and further alienated a GOP base which has long been exasperated by the ineffectiveness of its congressional leaders. But Paul Ryan’s political incompetence is by now a very old story.
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I keep coming back to Trump's lack of experience working with a legislature. I'm not faulting him here - that was actually one of his 'qualifications' to be president. But I think it's at the core of what happened last week.
Ryan came up with a bill to fix ObamaCare. He told the president that this was step 1 of 3 steps to complete repeal. Trump bought this and had his team get behind Ryan.
Now, everyone but Trump and his team knew that there was never going to be a step 2 or step 3. At the end of the day, that's why so many GOP Reps opposed RyanCare. And Trump just learned a lesson about Congress - they LIE.
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Sorry Iblis but I must disagree. Ryan and the GOPe were the ones who knew there would be no step 2 or 3.
Ryan has created an ugly rift within his party, delayed and endangered the forward movement of the Trump administration
I'd bet that this was the exact goal of Ryan's maneuvering. I think that Trump may have out foxed him by "going along".
One of the things I learned in all my years of consulting is that sometimes you have to let the client fail before you can move forward. I think this is Ryan's failure and the GOPe can't get any credit. Remember they are all part of the Inner Party adversaries that Trump must contend with.
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Agreed, AlanC. Trump is way ahead of all these establishment republicans. They are the same ones that have sabotaged Trump during the election and as president. Now the establishment repubs have blown their chance and failed in ryancare, and the dems own obamacare, their systems will crater. Trump knew this and decided to let them fail. Then when everything craters Trump will step in and set up a deal between dems and repubs.
The problem is that the whole way going about healthcare sucks. The congress does not know how the system works. Ryancare is the same as obamacare. A bunch of politicians setting up rules. Have you read anything? Are there hearings? Has anybody studied healthcare and see how healthcare works so we know what to fix?
This is all a fools game.
Did anybody watch SotH Ryan during Hannity's interview a while before the vote debacle? Listen to all Ryans promises, and watch his body language. Calling someone a weasel is not being respectful to weasels.
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Sorry Iblis if I misunderstood you but this:Trump and his team knew that there was never going to be a step 2 or step 3. made me think that you are putting Trump in league with Ryan and I don't think that's the case.
My problem is getting around my cynicism about who is doing what to whom in DC.....everybody and everything are the answers I come up with.
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My problem is getting around my cynicism about who is doing what to whom in DC.....everybody and everything are the answers I come up with.
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Nothing problematic or abstract here. Intuitive cognition and logical observation driven reasoning should be viewed as a gift.
#13
AlanC, I think you are right, after all it is known as RyanCare and not TrumpCare these days.
And as Scott Adams pointed out this blunder may turn Trump=Nazi to Trump=incompetent which will make it easier to get Democrats on board when necessary.
On Saturday, Ziyed Ben Belgacem pays a visit to Orly Airport in Paris. He grabs a female soldier from behind and grapples for her rifle while holding a pellet gun to her head. He warns the other soldiers to drop their rifles and raise their hands.
He shouts, "I am here to die in the name of Allah ... There will be deaths."
...French Police go on to investigate the motive of the Tunisian Muslim settler. His father insists that he wasn’t a terrorist. The media rushes to blame drugs for his attack. It reports widely on the drugs in his system rather than the Koran found on his body. No one asks if he was on drugs or on Jihad.
...On Wednesday, Khalid Masood, a Muslim convert, rents a car in a town near Birmingham from an Enterprise rent-a-car shop sandwiched between a Staples and a beauty salon offering walk-in eyebrow waxing. Over a fifth of Birmingham is Muslim and by the time the bloodshed was over and Masood was in the hospital, police raided a flat over a restaurant advertising "A Taste of Persia"
...On Thursday, Mohammed, a Tunisian Muslim tries to drive a car through a pedestrian mall on a major shopping street in Antwerp. It was right around the anniversary of the Brussels bombings in which Moroccan Muslim settler terrorists had killed 32 people and wounded 300.
...British authorities claimed that they foiled a dozen terror attacks last year. There are arrests for terror plots in France and Germany. Every week there is either a terror plot or a memorial for the last terror attack before we are told to go on with our million acts of normalcy.
...Somewhere along the way it wasn’t life that became normal, but terror. And the insistence on normalcy just normalizes the terror. A week with three terror attacks across Europe is no longer extraordinary. We have come to expect that there will be men trying to stab and run us over from Paris to Antwerp to London. And we have come to expect another Islamic terror plot targeting Kansas City, Miami, Columbia, New York, San Bernardino, Boston, Tampa, Dallas, Rochester, Springfield and any city.
We don’t know when or where the next attack will come. But we know whom it will come from. Unless we're really smart members of cognitive elite.
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"His father insists that he wasn’t a terrorist." His behavior belied that. "The victims are diverse. The killers are Muslim (and sociopathic)." Seems like that sums it up except for so many on the left denying these simple facts for some lemming-like suicidal reason.
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One of Khalid Masood's landlords was shocked that he had committed jihad because "He wasn't a good Muslim, " with his drug and prostitute binges. But as I understand it, only alcohol is forbidden to a practicing Muslim, not other stimulants or the pleasures of infidel women.
[DAWN] A POSITIVE gesture or statement changes little if not supported with affirmatory, concerted action. The prime minister’s participation in the Hindu festival of Holi reflects his approach towards non-Moslem communities in Pakistain. His statement that the country came into being to stop religious confrontation was widely appreciated.
A week before his Holi speech in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , the prime minister addressed a ceremony at the Jamia Naeemia, Lahore, where he stressed upon religious scholars’ need to develop counter-narratives against the terrorists’ ideology. Apparently, these statements are not contradictory, except that one was delivered in Karachi and the other in Lahore.
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[IsraelTimes] The liquidation of a key planner of West Bank terror attacks was meant to send a signal; now the ball is in Hamas's court.
Israeli forces near the Gazoo Strip have been placed on high alert, fearing retaliation from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group over the liquidation of one of its top military leaders in Gazoo on Friday night.
The alert was ordered Saturday by the IDF’s Southern Command.
Israel has not grabbed credit for the killing of Mazen Faqha, a former prisoner in Israel who oversaw Hamas’s efforts to instigate terror attacks in the West Bank, but Hamas leaders have lined up to blame Israel for the killing throughout Saturday.
Faqha, 38, was killed in an apparently professional hit job when he was shot near his home in the Tel Hawa neighborhood of Gazoo City with a handgun equipped with a silencer.
His father, who lives in the West Bank, told a Hamas TV station that Israeli intelligence officers had warned the family three times that his son’s terrorist activity was going to get him killed. "They said Mazen was carrying out attacks against Israel, and that Israel’s arm is long," he said.
Khalil al-Haya, a deputy to Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas in the Gazoo Strip, promised retaliation.
Yet, for all its rhetoric, Hamas has yet to show any firm evidence of Israeli involvement, a fact that may give the organization the political maneuvering room to avoid a dramatic response that could lead to a full-fledged confrontation.
Faqha is from the northern West Bank town of Tubas, where he was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2002 for helping to plan suicide kabooms during the Second Intifada. He was released in October 2011 during the Shalit deal, after which he was expelled to Gazoo, where he and fellow West Banker Abd el-Rahman Ghanimat founded the "West Bank section" within the Gazoo-based group.
The section was composed of military wing members formerly from the West Bank who were expelled to Gazoo. Their task was to bolster Hamas infrastructures in the West Bank, including by means of terror attacks against Israelis. This included sending both funds and instructions to Hamas cells in Hebron, Tulkarem, Qalqilya and elsewhere in a bid to escalate violence and force new rounds of confrontation between Israel and the Paleostinians in the West Bank. Each area in the West Bank was served by a "regional commander" within the section who sat in Gazoo but was originally from the area in question.
According to Israeli intelligence, Faqha and Ghanimat’s "fingerprints" were on many attempted and successful terror attacks emanating from Hamas cells in the West Bank in recent years, a fact that suggests Israel had a clear interest in his removal.
The message: Nobody is safe
Faqha lived and traveled in Gazoo without bodyguards or other protection, and was assassinated near his beach-side home. If Israel did indeed carry out the liquidation, it may have intended to send a message that Hamas leaders’ apparent belief that they are safe during periods of quiet is incorrect.
It is likely that the entire leadership of the organization is now changing its daily routines, on the assumption that if Faqha could be killed, they are all potential targets. They will have to live surrounded by security, and occasionally changing homes and hideouts ‐ a return to the life that many Hamas leaders from the West Bank were forced to live a decade ago.
This was clearly the message of the killing: that everyone is a potential target.
But that’s doesn’t mean Israel’s alleged responsibility for the killing is obvious or indisputable. The assassins were highly professional, leaving no shred of evidence as to their identities. Indeed, this professionalism ‐ the silencer and the clean disappearance ‐ is the only real evidence pointing to Israeli intelligence agencies. Nothing more.
That lack of clarity means Hamas may decide it can be satisfied in the short term with the sort of threatening declamations issued by the group on Saturday, such as: "No more restraint" or "We won’t permit liquidations to go without a response."
Hamas’s decision on Saturday not to start shelling Israel in response, shows the group likely does not actually want a war with Israel at this time.
None of this is to suggest the group will refrain from responding to the liquidation in due time. Its new Gazoo chief, Yahya Sinwar, is known as a dangerous, unpredictable and uninhibited commander. He may prefer to wait for a moment when Israel will be caught by surprise, and to launch the sorts of operations seen in the past, such as kidnappings or, in a throwback to the previous decade, suicide kabooms.
If Hamas launches such attacks, it will likely also attempt to do so without leaving evidence of its involvement, in order to give Israeli leaders the political space to avoid all-out war while still signaling that continued liquidations will be met with painful retaliation.
As one Hamas official said Saturday, Israel was "trying to force a new model of a clandestine war on Hamas, as it has failed in the open war model." He said Hamas would know how to respond to such tactics.
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Yahya Sinwar, is known as a dangerous, unpredictable and uninhibited commander.
Maybe Sinwar was the guy to gave the order to kill Faqha.
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It's a pity WWI era mines have gone out of fashion. I wouldn't mind seeing the ground in Gaza randomly explode. Simply blame it on Hamas storing munitions underground.
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And with that...global monitoring.
While I suppose there is some interest in the price of chicken futures in Nambia the primary targets are flights to/from the WASPish nations.
(Wait! Can I say that? Isn't it racist and religiously pejorative?)
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The pubs live in a beltway bubble where they reckoned nothing would ever change. Consequently they went about each day, collecting their paychecks, with their thumbs securely planted up their collective arses. Now that change has finally come, they're in denial or participating (along with the dems) in the active resistance.
#2
Repeal of Obamacare should have been a slam dunk. During the past 8 years, Ryan and others said they had a replacement plan ready to go. Doesn't seem they had much of a replacement plan ready to go. We would have been better off with a pre-Obamacare reset. It is hard to give people something even though it's p!ss-poor and then take it away. It was oversold and fraudulent from the beginning.
Trump has been busy making appointments, rolling back much of the accumulated crap during his first couple of months and fighting brush fires set by the Progs. and RINOs. The Senate and House have been AWOL. The House and Senate leadership is sorely wanting and ought to be replaced with someone who can lead.
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This is why no one likes the RINOs. They have one chance in 20 years to make things right. And they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Again.
The entire leadership needs to be fired, shipped to Somalia and the RNC needs to bring in people that will get fucking shit done. Otherwise they Pubes will be a minority party by 2018.
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Washington establishment republicans are delusional. With everything that has happened to them they still think passing the conservative agenda will prevent their re election. When in reality not passing it will guarantee they lose. Just ask Eric Cantor, Jeb Bush.....
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RINOs are just like Dems as far as the graft machine and inner party politics go They don't want to repeal O'care cause that will shut off a major graft valve. They only fight Dems on these issues to realign the hands on the levers NOT the levers or the flow.
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They told us they couldn't do anything without the House. So we gave them the House.
Then they told us they couldn't do anything without the Senate. So we gave them the Senate.
Then they told us they needed the presidency too. So we gave them the presidency.
Turns out they never intended to do anything ever.
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