[IsraelTimes] It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome Israeli students and the only one to allow direct dialing to Israel. Israeli athletes shine on its courts.
Now Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... is on the outs with Israel because of its embrace of another regional pariah: Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
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Qatar has a history of trying to be the alternate power in the Islamic sphere of influence (Turkey and the Sauds being the other two.) On occasion they get smacked down by the Magic Kingdom, as when they backed the MB in Egypt.
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I wondered why Qatar accepted the Taliban Gitmo detainees as well as supporting Hamas. One account states:
Qataris have a different relationship with the Taliban than does the U.S. Afghanistan is not their war. These men and their families are fellow Muslims. And Qatar sees the latest prisoner swap as a humanitarian gesture Source. It may be that simple.
[DAWN] A MAJOR issue being debated in Britannia today concerns the Moslems -- men and women. It is what is termed the radicalisation of their youth.
Concerns were sparked off by the Islamic State (formerly Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) when its Death Eaters beheaded James Foley, an American journalist covering the war in Syria, and circulated a video of the bestial act. Even before this incident grabbed the headlines, media reports had been suggesting that authorities in London believed that as many as 500 Moslem men with British nationality had left the UK to join the IS 'jihad'.
The last straw came when Foley's killer was identified from his speech and accent as British. Writing for The Sunday Times, the foreign secretary summed up the widely felt sentiments: "It is horrifying to think that the perpetrator of this heinous act could have been brought up in Britannia."
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It seems bread and circuses aren't enough when there are automatic weapons available.
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ISIS recruiters often provide visions of dancing fairies, sugar plums, unicorns, wives, and 72 virgins.
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The young are ignorant by nature and easily duped into exciting causes. Of course the same could be said of the fanatical followers of Islam so its a two-fer.
[DAWN] TAKEN as a principled stand, it must have felt good even if it wasn't an earth-shattering victory. Taken as an indication of which way the wind is blowing, it has much deeper implications.
On Monday night, PIA flight PK370, supposed to take off at 7pm, was delayed after boarding.
Though the airline blamed technical issues, and later suspended two employees for "unnecessary delay", passengers were given reason to believe that the aircraft was awaiting the arrival of some VIPs.
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Standing in the way of people going about their business or commerce is a bad attitude toward those paying your chit if it happens too often.
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Though the airline blamed technical issues, and later suspended two employees for "unnecessary delay", passengers were given reason to believe that the aircraft was awaiting the arrival of some VIPs.
Sort of like halting air traffic at LAX while a VIP's plane sat on the ground awaiting a hairdresser barber? For about an hour in May 1993, two of LAX's four runways were shut down. The reason for the closure was the presence of Air Force One, inside of which the President was in the throes of a $200 trim from a glamorati stylist named, fabulously, Christophe.
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LAX wasnt the only time he did that. I was on a puddle jumper from Peoria to St. Louis and we had to do a "go-around" because Air Farce One was in the way. That was in 90 or 91.
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Not certain what would have been worse Rob, leaving Peoria, or arriving in St. Louis.
[DAWN] IT has been more than a month since Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... led his 'independence' march to Islamabad. The evening crowd at D-Chowk is getting thinner. The speeches have become increasingly mundane and their harsh tenor betrays growing frustration. The hopes and promises have turned into desperation.
h/t Gates of Vienna
The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem.
The problem with Islamic State is not that it is brutal. Plenty of regimes are brutal.
Islamic State poses two challenges for the US. First, unlike the Saudis and even the Iranians, IS actively recruits Americans and other Westerners to join its lines.
This is a problem because these Americans and other Westerners have embraced an ideology that is viciously hostile to every aspect of Western civilization.
...The presence of Westerners in IS, indeed, IS's aggressive efforts to recruit Westerners wouldn't pose much of a problem for the US if it were willing to secure its borders and recognize the root of the problem.
But as US President Barack Obama made clear over the summer, and indeed since he first took office six years ago, he opposes any effort to secure the US border with Mexico. If these jihadists can get to Mexico, they will, in all likelihood, have no problem coming to America.
Even if the US were to secure its southern border, it would still be unable to prevent these jihadists from returning to attack. The policy of the US government is to deny the existence of a jihadist threat by, among other thing, denying the existence of the ideology of Islamic jihad.
When President Barack Obama insisted last Wednesday that Islamic State is not Islamic, he told all the Westerners who are now proud mujihadin that they shouldn't worry about coming home. They won't be screened. As far as the US is concerned their Islamic jihad ideology doesn't exist.
Whereas every passenger arriving in the US from Liberia can be screened for Ebola, no one will be screened for exposure to jihadist thought.
And this brings us to the second problem IS poses to the US.
As a rising force in the Middle East, IS threatens US allies and it threatens global trade. To prevent its allies from being overthrown and to prevent shocks to the international economy, at a minimum, the US needs to contain IS. And given the threat the Westerners joining the terror army constitute, and Washington's unwillingness to stop them at the border, in all likelihood, the US needs to destroy IS where it stands.
Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that the US is willing or able to either contain or defeat IS.
As US Maj. Gen. (ret.) Robert Scales wrote over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal, from a military perspective, IS is little different from all the guerrilla forces the US has faced in battle since the Korean War. Scales argues that in all previous such engagements, the outcomes have been discouraging because the US lacks the will to take the battle to the societies that feed them or use its firepower to its full potential out of fear of killing civilians.
Clearly this remains the case today.
Moreover, as Angelo Codevilla explained last month in The Federalist, to truly dry up the swamp feeding IS, it is necessary to take the war to its state sponsors -- first and foremost Turkey and Qatar.
In his words, "The first strike against the IS must be aimed at its sources of material support. Turkey and Qatar are very much part of the global economy... If...the United States decides to kill the IS, it can simply inform Turkey, Qatar, and the world it will have zero economic dealings with these countries and with any country that has any economic dealing with them, unless these countries cease any and all relations with the IS."
Yet, as we saw on the ground this weekend with US Secretary of State John Kerry's failed mission to secure Turkish support for the US campaign against IS, the administration has no intention of taking the war to IS's state sponsors, without which it would be just another jihadi militia jockeying for power in Syria.
And this leaves us with the administration's plan to assemble a coalition of the willing that will provide the foot soldiers for the US air war against Islamic State.
After a week of talks and shuttle diplomacy, aside from Australia, no one has committed forces. Germany, Britain and France have either refused to participate or have yet to make clear what they are willing to do.
The Kurds will not fight for anything but Kurdistan.
The Iraqi Army is a fiction.
The Iraqi Sunnis support IS far more than they trust the Americans.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan will either cheer the US on from a distance, or in the best-case scenario, provide logistical support for its operations.
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Islamic State is a challenging foe. To defeat it, the US must be willing to confront Islamism. And it must be willing to fight to win. In the absence of such determination, it will fight and lose, in the region and at home, with no allies at its side.
Champ has absolutely no intention of 'defeating' ISIL or Islam. His actions against the threat are little more than political theater. He is Mooslim first, his citizenry is simply a thinly veiled cover for action. His fellow shadow gov't handlers and facilitators, people like Brennan, Valjar, Rice, Holder and others share his beliefs and goals. Statement such as "ISIS is not Islam" clearly betray his true intentions.
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In my opinion let them cross the border. Give them welfare. Best weapon to nullify their cause. Talk is cheap. Action requires effort. Export left ideas over there and like a cancer destroy enterprise and hard work efforts. Why fight for anything if you have your pot and drugs. Appears the best way to manage a population. Then of course free abortions. Then free end your life clinics. 50 years old, 40 years old whenever. Free choice and expand planned parenthood. The left has always felt there are too many people in the world. Young adults are committing suicide now in greater numbers than ever it appears to me. Every week here in my area and my area is a small community.
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As Boston demonstrated, they'll be attracted to the usual Big Blue city hand outs and prefer not to venture too far to engage in their mayhem and wanton display of war against the infidel. The Big Blue culture, as shown with Obama, will refuse to acknowledge the problem. Rinse and repeat. What's the down side? Think of it as turbo charging the Darwin effect when entities are unable to adapt to a changing environment. It'll speed up the 'Detroit' effect for these cities.
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In the first instance, the women who leave the West to join IS have no qualms about entering a society in which they have no rights. They are happy covering themselves in black from head to toe. They have no problem casting their lot with a society that prohibits females from leaving their homes without male escorts. They have no problem sharing their husband with other wives
Are these the same women who would be protesting that the government should be providing birth control and who think the conservatives have a "war on women?"
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In most cases I think the women in question are young and haven't really thought it through. I suspect a week or a month later they'd be begging to come back.
We are better off without them. They should be forced to renounce their citizenship in order to leave.
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I suspect a week or a month later they'd be begging to come back.
And how, pray tell, is that to be accomplished in a militarily aggressive totalitarian society? We haven't yet invented Star Wars beaming technology, even if it can be seen on television.
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Congratulations, your application for ISIS membership is approved. You must depart for Syria and in-processing within 24 hours. Readmission to the U.S. is not authorized.
So they can score a touchdown...
A gentle takedown of a letter to Amazon from Authors United.
An excerpt:
We, at Authors United, are better than people working in China. We're better than people who make toasters and televisions.
We're special snowflakes, unique and quirky, and the lonely, intense struggle we endure for the sake of ART is much more difficult than coal mining or waitressing or mechanical engineering or brain surgery or conservationism or rocket science.
If I ever reach this level of self-importance, I want someone to slap the shit out of me.
Seriously. Slap me until I shit all over myself. It would be less embarrassing than agreeing with the above Authors United paragraph.
When all you have to do to humiliate someone is hold up a mirror, it's time to stop making public statements.
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I'm on the lookout for Hatchet products and will avoid their them because of the deceptive way they've tried to play this out in the court of public opinion.
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I'm not well-known or popular, but I make about $20/month from Amazon for my science fiction. I would never be published by the "big houses", or possibly even Baen. Amazon is great for those of us who want to write, and want to see our stuff for sale. "Authors United" can go where it doesn't snow, and I don't mean Hawaii.
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Old Patriot, you need to link to your books. Might get a bite or two.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Acceptance tested for the U.S. team by our 'top people.' I have the actual testing fotos here somewhere..... 
[DAWN] A MAJOR issue being debated in 
