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Africa North
Harvard's Niall Ferguson Slams Harvard's Barack Obama on Egypt on MSNBC
Hard to Believe this guy was just hired by Newsweek.
NO Happy Clappy Democracies: MSNBC'S Mika Shocked Because Pictures From Egypt Seem So Nice While Harvard's Niall Ferguson Schools Her on Muslim Brotherhood & Caliphate
Posted by: Glailet Gloque3969 || 02/17/2011 00:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I recommend all RB'ers watch this. Look at the faces of the MSNBC people. The man makes me proud.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/17/2011 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch. A guy from Harvard slams Obummer who is the darling of Harvard. Wow. He criticized the ONE! He must be racist (snark on). There may be a couple of sane and knowledgeable people in academia.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2011 10:59 Comments || Top||

#3  O Mumpsimus Maximus!
Posted by: Fire and Ice || 02/17/2011 13:42 Comments || Top||

#4  He wrote a piece in the WSJ in 2004 which crystallized or explained what was in the back of my mind. Had a ball whamming the zeropeans over the head w/it.


BAsically, the world needs 1 big footprint to keep the peace, it's either the US, islamofascists, the Chicoms or armed camps.

I told the Zeropeans who hated us and wanted us gone, no wonder you want the other 3, it's all you've ever known thruout your history.

Now that I've seen him in action, even tho he's a leftie, swoon.....................teehee.

Supposedly he's dating Ayaan Hirsi Ali????
Posted by: anonymous2u || 02/17/2011 19:20 Comments || Top||

#5  For anyone interested, here's a non-firewalled link to the op-ed I believe anonymous2u is talking about. I'd forgotten it -- Professor Ferguson does lay out a devastating argument... unlike some of his university's students. This time I was clever enough to bookmark it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2011 21:14 Comments || Top||


The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
This is the long piece from Der Spiegel about Youssef al-Qaradawi that some blogs have been discussing. When lib-tards or the DNI tell you that the Muslim Brotherhood is 'secular', you can start your response by pointing to this article.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Mouth of Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood (without makeup):

Posted by: Woodrow Glinter9469 || 02/17/2011 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  the sheikh insists on equal rights. For example, he says, a woman does not have to ask her husband's permission to blow herself up in an Israeli café.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/17/2011 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile the appeasers in the lame stream media keeping pushing the meme that the MB are sponsors of the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Well, maybe not the Girl Scouts.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2011 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess Obama’s Director of National Intelligence missed Shoebat’s papers on this the Muslim Brotherhood, too.

http://www.therightscoop.com/shoebat-middle-east-is-preparing-to-fight-israel
Posted by: Jack Salami || 02/17/2011 12:34 Comments || Top||


The Real Face of the Muslim Brotherhood
...and the Delusions of Its Supporters
Great opinion piece by Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media. RTWT.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/17/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are two faces? Who would have known?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2011 11:14 Comments || Top||


Economy
How public pensions killed progressive California
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/17/2011 01:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Maybe public pensions killing progressive Kalifornia is a good thing. Maybe this realization will be the beginning of an epiphany followed by sanity. But so long as Berkeley is talking about inviting terrorists into their city, and illegals are invited into sanctuary cities, and Brown is governor and public unions who elected Brown continue free reign, Kalifornians will be suffer and wandering in the public union and bankruptcy wilderness for a long time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2011 11:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
IBD's Cartoon of the Day
Posted by: Spaque Phuter7319 || 02/17/2011 09:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Arab media: Is jihad al-talab still valid?
MEMRI features the debate among Arab (especially Saudi) media over whether offensive jihad is still legitimate.
Posted by: ryuge || 02/17/2011 13:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They also discussed whether slavery is still legit (and pretty much decided in the affirmative). Of course, notwithstanding the discussion, defensive jihad, which includes pretty much any violence in any land that was once muslim ruled, is still mandatory as is enforcement of blasphemy laws, etc.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/17/2011 14:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Navy Exposes a US Navy Weakness
Opinion Piece from Galrahn of Information Dissemination.

There are two ships heading for Syria from Iran. One is the second rate 1500 Ton POS corvette Alrand and the 33,000 Ton supply ship Kharg, which may be a concern for what it could be carrying.

One point of this piece is that by sailing this duo on this route, the Iranian MMs have pushed the cost of crude up 1.8% or $0.67/bbl.

In the piece, Galrahn discuss what to do about them.

RTWT.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/17/2011 03:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not the navy's fault that American People keep electing idiots.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/17/2011 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Galrahn nails it: it's what the Kharg is delivering to Syria for trans-shipment to the Hezbies. As a naval ship Kharg won't be searched by port authorities, nor by Suez authorities. The Alrand is just there as 'escort', though as Galrahn notes, she's a lousy ship for that.

Galrahn thinks our response should be PR: get photos of an Arleigh Burke class destroyer alongside of the Alrand just to illustrate who's got the strong horse and who doesn't.

Well yes, that might help.

I think my response would be a little more active. And a lot more nefarious.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/17/2011 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Mines are easy to place covertly, anonymous and quite capable of destroying a ship. Just sayin...
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar || 02/17/2011 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Submarines will work nicely too, in a pinch.
Posted by: Mike || 02/17/2011 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't see a weakness in the U.S. Navy but a weakness in the present administration.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2011 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Interesting views over at the Muqata blog:

4:46 PM Iran denies it canceled request to cross Suez. Says transit plan is still on.

UPDATE: Iran cancels request for Naval ships to cross Suez.
No explanation given for the cancellation.


The big talk in Israel (besides the incredible 7.8% growth of Israel’s GDP last quarter) are the Iranian warships coming down the Suez Canal and traveling to Syria to spend a year docked in their port.

They’re not really very impressive warships from what I hear (a supply ship and a converted frigate).

But attacking Israel with them is hardly the point.

They’re not even trying to demonstrate a quid pro quo after Israel sent a submarine (allegedly nuclear armed) through the Suez and towards Iranian waters last year.

Perhaps at best they have a secondary mission of getting some arms to the Palestinian (Hamas) terrorists in Gaza.

And I guess one could reasonably worry they’ve got a dirty bomb on board.

But, I think it’s about something else entirely.

A few days ago these same Iranian ships docked in Saudi Arabia. Now they are on their way to Syria (and Lebanon).

This isn’t an Iranian show of Power – how strong their fleet is.

This is an Iranian show of Influence.

This is about how long their tentacles are growing, how influential their country is becoming, and what countries the US might soon be losing.

This “flotilla” is a message to the US that Iran views itself as a waxing global superpower untouchable by waning US influence.

Iran will have nuclear weapons, satellites, ICBMs, naval fleets, and military industries. It doesn’t matter if they are all third rate now (and likely to blow up at any point). Their point is that they are on the rise and the US can’t do anything about that.

In terms of global perceptions, Saudi Arabia is more likely to align now with Iran in the long term – despite the comments on Wikileaks – because Iran’s sphere of influence is growing and replacing America’s wishy-washy, unreliable alliance.

There are other messages in these ships, not all to Israel or the US either. Because that’s what these ships are about, not an attack, just a warning shot over the bow.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/17/2011 11:17 Comments || Top||

#7  It doesn't matter if they are all third rate now (and likely to blow up at any point).

Or even, according to some analysts, vapourware. Because vapour is something a great many people in that part of the world believe in more firmly than hardware and software.

Agreed, Alaska Paul. Muqata raises an important point.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2011 12:27 Comments || Top||

#8  I am really surprised the "Somali Pirates" didn't attack these ships. Happens all the time ;-)
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 02/17/2011 15:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Hope somebody has eyes on other potential Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah supply chains, because this reeks of hey!-look-at-me! diversion tactics.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 02/17/2011 16:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Can't eat sand we need to drill.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 02/17/2011 19:24 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2011-02-17
  Violent protests break out in Libya
Wed 2011-02-16
  Bahrain mourner killed in funeral march clash
Tue 2011-02-15
  Mufti warns of revolution in Saudi Arabia
Mon 2011-02-14
  Iranian protesters rally as Arab unrest spreads
Sun 2011-02-13
  Saeed Al-Shihri, Deputy Leader of AQAP Dead in Yemen
Sat 2011-02-12
  Police in Aden disperse ‘day of rage’ protests
Fri 2011-02-11
  Mubarak resigns
Thu 2011-02-10
  Mubarak still there
Wed 2011-02-09
  Suleiman: Mubarak Forms Panel to Pilot Constitutional Changes
Tue 2011-02-08
  Egypt sees largest demonstrations since start of revolt
Mon 2011-02-07
  Egypt: beginning of discussions between government and Muslim Brotherhood
Sun 2011-02-06
  Mubarak resigns as ruling party head
Sat 2011-02-05
  U.S. envoy to Egypt: Mubarak 'must stay' for now
Fri 2011-02-04
  Egypt PM Apologizes for Tahrir Square Clashes, Vows Probe
Thu 2011-02-03
  Mubarak's snipers flee Cairo square

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