The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama -- which is something that the critics developed themselves -- would be comical, blasphemous, or both. If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama's advantage. After all, what did that Christ dude ever do?
Today, his historic Health Reform is being passed through the American Senate -- a welfare policy breakthrough that several of his predecessors have been unable to manage. Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America's history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.
On the other hand, we have Jesus' miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work. Yeah, yeah, there was also that whole "take away the sins of the world" business that assured salvation to all the world, but that's peanuts compared to an individual health insurance mandate and public ownership of General Motors! And a $787 billion stimulus package! Don't forget the stimulus package!
Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus -- if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today's domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books -- a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.
Without, however, ever attaining the heavens.... Discovered via National Review blogger Jim Geraghty, who snarks:
Come on, you wimp, call him greater than Mohammed.
C'mon; I triple-dog dare you.
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> the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them
So Erm, How does your neighbour paying for your bad health, and you paying for his bad health make things more affordable? Or will it "only" bankrupt the country?
Recent headlines seem lifted directly out of an Ayn Rand novel. President Obama decries the "fat cat bankers on Wall Street". Harry Reid attacks insurance companies for making too much profit. House Democrat leaders call Tea Partiers "Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts". How about this nauseating statement made by Army General George Casey after the Muslim terrorist attack on Ft. Hood?
As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well
Each of these headlines might well have been uttered by an Ayn Rand character. Rand, whose father's pharmacy was confiscated by the Soviets during the communist revolution of 1917, and who came to America in 1926, seems uniquely able to speak to us about the inverted morality of our times. Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. Success is cast as evil and punished while failure is blamed on others and rewarded. Rand's insights into the psychological state of collectivists--those who demand that we sacrifice our individual freedom and happiness for the sake of the state--explain what often seems incomprehensible to thinking people.
An epic demonstration of the inverted morality that Rand described was on display in Copenhagen last week as the world's worst most evil dictators--Mugabe and Chavez--partnered with the world's most visible and misguided progressives--Al Gore , Gordon Brown, Barack Obama--in an orgy of depravity. Sadly, even the Pope lent his moral support to the lunacy, saying, "Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles."
John Galt, the industrialist hero of Rand's 1957 masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged, refers to those in power who stripped men of their minds, wealth and freedom, as mystics. The mystics of spirit were the religious leaders of centuries past who proclaimed that faith is superior to reason. Galt is no fan of these mystics but it is the mystics of muscle--the progressives who force us to submit to their version of the common good--that Galt despises.
And Barack Obama is a mystic of muscle in its purest form, able to corral the worshipping media, the always superficial Hollywood elites, America hating academics, state-sponsored capitalists (e.g., Goldman Sachs), and grant hungry "scientists" & environmentalists hoping to cash in on a trillion dollar loot of the American people called global warming. These are the pillars of deceit Obama used to get elected. This was how he convinced enough of us to give up our minds for the the mystical concept that Rand called the collective. True to form, Barack, master of the mystics of muscle, has used his power mightily to loot from the producers, and hand it to the parasites, crooks and undeserving (read; SEIU, ACORN, UN Climate Fund, General Motors).
John Galt leads a revolt by the productive class and outlines Rand's philosophy in his 60-page radio address. Here, he explains how human beings--alone among life forms--can choose to be mindless:
A living entity that regarded its means of survival as evil, would not survive. A plant that struggled to mangle its roots, a bird that fought to break its wings would not remain for long in the existence they affronted. But the history of man has been a struggle to deny and destroy the mind.
Sad to say, for a movement powered by the mindlessness, there is plenty of fuel to sustain "hope and change":
Who but the mindless can believe that government run health care will reduce costs and improve care while covering more people?
Who but the mindless can believe that this President is now serious about reducing the deficit after shattering spending records during his first year?
Who but the mindless can take seriously the sham "jobs summit" held by a President whose every policy is a lesson in job destruction?
Who but the mindless can believe Obama's lie that "Cash for Clunkers" which cost taxpayers $24,000 per car was successful?
Who but the mindless would not outraged that our government has reneged on its promise pay back the unused TARP fund to taxpayers?
Who but the mindless would not question the morality that the world's finest health care, which has extended and improved human life in unimaginable ways--conceived and produced by countless unsung heroes in the private sector--should magically be transformed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi into a "human right", taken over by the state and rationed out as they please?
The assault on reason by our President and Congress goes on ad infinitum. It is mindlessness that elected "hope and change" and mindlessness that sustains it. Ayn Rand recognized that the greatest struggle on earth is that between the individual and the collective, and to submit to the collective, the individual must lose his ability to think for himself. Howard Roark, hero of The Fountainhead explains;
The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain.
The last thing a mystic of muscle wants is for us to start using our minds to uncover their fraud. Galt gets to the heart of the evil of progressive demand that we all serve the state when he says,
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man--every man--is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
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The purpose of a thing is always itself. That's probably Aristotle. Augustine would agree.
All altruism is just a greater perspective on self interest. Compassion is a combination of the words Cum( Latin) which means WITH and Passion ( which means to bear or suffer..where we get the word "passive").
I personally feel uncomfortable with compassion. I know too much about Human Nature. Like William Money says in the Clint Eastwood film The Unforgiven..."we all have it coming."
You cant afford illusions about yourself and about your enemies. Your enemies are just like you are only they are dead. Somebody wins and somebody loses. The Virtuous are probably not going to make it. Joan of Arc was just there to be used.
The important thing is to pay attention and get there fustest with the mostest. I have always like Jubal Early, who was Lincoln's "bad old man".
God has friends, but its always hard on His friends. Try not to get any of that on your shirt.
And you have to remember that one of Joan of Arcs best friends was Bluebeard. No, really. And another was L'Hire. You dont want to know.
In a tight place you dont need Dudley Doright. Trust me.
#7
Ah, so she's the chica that Churls at Little Green Pusballs gets agitated over approximately once a week for supposedly being some right wing neonazi!
#9
She's a bit out there beyond Michele Malkin but she is obviously on the same side of the "what the heck is going on here" question that most of us here are.
I think she's obviously concerned about the teflon coating the press and the Obama Monarchy are putting on Islam.
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She's right about the headlines sounding like they came out of an Ayn Rand novel. They really do.
Sales of her novels have spiked since Obama got elected, just like gun sales.
The books can be difficult in places because Rand sends her characters on long, tedious rants that would never happen in real life conversations. John Galt's radio speech is particularly tedious and heavy on the Aristotle. People would be turning off their radios.
"A is A", he says.
Well, of course it is but can we just get on with the story?
Rand also has trouble with the concept of God. She believes only in what can be proven and accuses preachers of misleading their flocks with appeals for compassion. Unfortunately, many preachers resemble that remark. The Archbishop of Canterbury comes to mind.
Nonetheless, it is shocking how close Rand gets to the truth behind today's politics. Politicians will go on and on about compassion for the poor when all they really want is to steal your money so they can buy votes with it and make us all dependent on the state.
There are people who either cannot or will not read Atlas Shrugged. It doesn't necessarily mean they are bad...Maybe they just drank the KoolAid. But you need to beware of these people.
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I thank God I was made to read Atlas Shrugged when in college. The book literally changed the way I viewed collectivism and opened up new ideas I'd never given much thought of. Right now many of us are Hank Rearden.
President Obama's year of blunders is ending with the worst failure yet by the president and his team: An Islamist terrorist penetrated the United States and came very close to perpetrating the greatest mass-casualty attack within the U.S. since 9/11.
The president's first year in office has been marked by a string of pratfalls.
President Obama's massive stimulus didn't.
His hasty takeover of GM didn't restore confidence in the brand or faith in the company's executive team or future.
Obamacare has failed to persuade even 40 percent of the American people of its merits and depends upon the enthusiasm of such brilliant lights as Barbara Boxer, Al Franken and Bernie Sanders to pass.
The president's rhetoric about restraining spending has been washed away in a flood of red ink far vaster than all that has gone before it. And despite this profligate hemorrhaging of money the country doesn't have, unemployment is in the double digits and key industries like home building remain moribund.
His repeated appeals to the radical mullahs of Iran have not only failed to initiate any sort of constructive engagement, but a year into his "new diplomacy" the radical Islamists atop the power structure in Tehran are mowing down dissidents in the streets.
And now at least one foreign-born terrorist has breached American security -- despite a specific warning given by the terrorist's father to American officials six months ago -- only weeks after the worst act of a domestic Islamist terror since the war began.
The president is abandoning Iraq, and his dithering on Afghanistan has started a necessary surge but attached an expiration date to it.
Perhaps the close call over the approach to Detroit will wake up the responsible members of the president's party, and perhaps they will ask for a meeting in which they can lay out the obvious truths:
The president should spend more time and effort helping the CIA stop terrorists abroad than pursuing investigations into CIA personnel who have kept us safe in the past.
The president should stop spending so much time and effort to remove terrorists from Gitmo and to arranging their trial in New York and their imprisonment in Illinois and spend much more time arranging for more terrorists to spend more time in Gitmo's secure confines.
The president should spend less time in Copenhagen seeking Olympic games and global warming fame and more time at home demanding more vigilance from his woeful Homeland Security staff.
And the president should spend more time encouraging and consulting with our allies like Great Britain and Israel than pleading with our enemies in Iran and North Korea for breakthroughs that will not come.
2009 is the worst year for a president since 1978, which began with Jimmy Carter standing by paralyzed as the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran and ended as Jimmy Carter stood paralyzed as the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
The tale of this president's and his team's incompetence must have come completely into focus even for the MSM when Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano declared to CNN's Candy Crowley that the attack on Detroit that failed to kill hundreds only because of the incompetence of the terrorist and the courage of a foreign filmmaker demonstrated that "the system worked."
This must strike even the president's network cheerleaders as Orwellian. And chilling.
Obama has proved himself remarkably skilled for the role of celebrity talking head and woefully ill-prepared for the job of leader of the free world and defender of American security. He campaigned as the opposite of George W. Bush and he has delivered, as the attack on Detroit demonstrates.
The country cannot afford two years in a row of such incompetence and close calls. Let us hope that senior statesmen in the president's party summon the courage to demand the changes in staff and policies that halt this accelerating parade of fiascos.
And let's hope they begin with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, where change must come soon, before less incompetent terrorists make their way into the airspace above America's great cities.
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All these ppointers are obvious to anybody with a brain, but sad to say I think that it will take the downing of a bird or another 911 style attack before the idiots in WA even begin to stir, mush less wake up. But we will not tire until all terrorists are rounded up ( i think that is fairly close to what bambi said Monday)
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If there is another 9/11 style attack or an airliner blown out of the sky, they'll spin it into some right wing white supremist infiltration of Al Qaeda as being responsible.
The Obama Monarchy has obviously managed to purge the lessons of 9/11 from the collective conscience of the DOJ and DHS and DoD and the CIA.
I hope we don't have to see a city or a town disappear in a nuclear cloud or thousands die in some chemical or biological attack on a mass transit system before someone somewhere stands up and tells Obama that he's got it all wrong and we have to stop talking and do something.
I think the only persons who can do that probably won't...it would take a Bill Clinton, a Hillary Clinton or a Joe Biden to do it.
Trust me I am not flying ANYWHERE for a while.
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The ONLY times I've flown were as an infant, and again in1966 when I went to Navy Boot Camp in Great Lakes(Near Chicago).
I wouldn't fly today under ANY circumstances unless forced.
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fly? seriously, who wants to put themselves through the cattle calls at the 'security' checkpoints. arrive 2 hours early... pay $5 for a coke... sit in a too small chair pressed tight against a fat smelly stranger with bad breath for half an hour between the time they push you off the gate and you taxi to the runway... then after you land get a nice note in your checked bags that the TSA randomly selected your bag to unfold all the clothes and spill your shampoo on...
no thanks, we will drive, stop when we want, eat real food along the way, and see some places along the way. then when you consider that gas money is cheaper than tickets for the whole family and we don't have to pay extra to check a second bag....
it doesn't take a brain surgeon.
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Apparently the fellows in al Qaeda took as a personal insult Secretary of Homeland Anxiety Janet Napolitano's comment Sunday that their role in the foiled Detroit airliner bombing wasn't clear but would be investigated. Yesterday, al Qaeda's ascendant franchise in the Arabian peninsula saved Secretary Napolitano the trouble of plowing through all the layers of the national-security bureaucracy for an answer.
The terrorist organization put out a pointed statement not only claiming responsibility but also mocking the U.S.'s ability to stop them. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, they said, "dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is."
What this means is that we have to think more broadly about jihad and the potential recruitment of terrorists anywhere in the world, including inside the United States. We and our European allies have to revisit the problem of fiery imams using mosques as recruitment depots for airline suicide bombers. The close call in the airspace over Detroit gives "probable cause" new meaning.
Al Qaeda has sent a message to the Obama Administration: You are in a war. Someone in our government needs to say clearly that they now understand the message.
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And where was Obama? He was surfing in Hawaii and skipping Church.
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
When the Fort Hood killings happened he cautioned us "not to jump to conclusions" about Moslems. And the FBI powdered their butts before they ever got to the scene and said they had it all under control. But we know how good the FBI was on that one, dont we.? They knew about the clown a year ahead of time and gave him a pass. Way to go, Fosdick.
yeah. you sure can depend on your government to protect the Public. Who was that guy who said he had it all under contriol after Reagan got shot? The guy who ran the Concentration Camps in Vietnam when he was a General under Johnson. That guy. What was his name?
lets all stand up and salute when Obama comes into the room.
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....they said, "dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is."
Nearly 10 years following 9/11 our intelligence services and government have learned much, but continue to deny everything. The wonderful faith of Islam must not be tarnished.
"Kill them [infidels, namely Christians and Jews] wherever you may come upon them, and seize them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place."
- Sura 9:5
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And where was Obama? He was surfing in Hawaii and skipping Church.
Now now, we didn't object when Dubya was visiting his ranch in Crawford.
We assume presidents are always in contact and always have the information and access they need to make decisions, and then see those decisions through.
It isn't where Bambi was, it was the lack of understanding, the lack of decision-making, the lack of fortitude, and the lack of personal integrity.
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...PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB! Unless of course it's about Barry winning another Nobel Prize. Then please ring until someone answers.
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Napolitano Says No Evidence Yet Airplane Bomb Plot Part of 'Anything Larger"
Ummm, Ms. Napolitano, in case you missed it while you were trying to figure out how to build a Potemkin Village of security, it's a larger plot called the Radical Violent Muslim War against the infidel and the West. A good start would be to read The Looming Towers by Lawrence Wright. Then you might understand why (since the first WTC bombing in 1993 and leading up to 2009 when there were 28 "Man-Made" successful or attempted attacks), that this is something larger.
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Nearly 10 years following 9/11 our intelligence services and government have learned much, but continue to deny everything. The wonderful faith of Islam must not be tarnished.
Actually, I'm kind of skeptical myself now.
Why is it just when certain middle-eastern countries are getting their knickers in a twist over Shi'a rebels in Yemen, _suddenly_ there are ineffectual terrorist attacks being done supposedly by Al-Qaeda-in-Yemen? This, combined with the confession you quote, all seem just too _convenient_ to me.
You talk about how noone wants to talk about Islam. You know what bugs me?
Noone wants to talk about the Moslem Brotherhood in particular, which seems to play a key role in changing the people in the Middle East from Moslems we can live with to Moslems we can't.
It's a network with a much higher correlation with terrorism than Islam in general, and we let it run mosques in this country as if it's just another religious organization.
Another thing noone talks about, that's gone completely under the radar... Hasan was an advisor to "President" zero's transition team. Imagine if a member of Bush's transition team had shot up an abortion clinic... the dems would have held an impeachment vote by now. Hasan was also up to his neck in connections to various Brotherhood organizations.
Keep in mind that the end result of attacking those guys in Yemen will be to have american troops fighting one batch of Moslems on behalf of other sets of Moslems. You're talking tough now, but are you tough enough to maybe try not to let the country become another pawn to be used by one group of Moslems against another?
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Now now, we didn't object when Dubya was visiting his ranch in Crawford.
As it happens W had an operations center at Crawford and could operate from there almost as easily as at the White House (probably easier without all of the hangers on in DC).
BHO has nothing when he is jet-setting around the world and vacationing on the US taxpayers dime & time.
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He has his Blackberry. And I rather suspect his aides have some other comms. But your point is well taken.
#12
maybe try not to let the country become another pawn to be used by one group of Muslims against another?
I strongly suspect that already has happened/I happening right now.
I just hope we're not duped into backing the wrong side, and I do expect trouble out of the Mideast (Bubbling fermenting) Religious cesspit for decades to come.
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* Year 2012 Benchmark > ISLAMIST IRAN declares it is not only a de facto NUCLEAR STATE, but a NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE [See NORTH KOREA = Kimmie]
* Year 2013 > POTUS BAMMER Second Term, or his POTUS Successor > RADICAL ISLAM MAY ALL BUT OFFCIALLY? DECLARE THE US HAS LOST THE GWOT/WOT due to TECHS TRANSFER-PROLIFER TO VARIOUS ISLAMIST, OTHER WORLD MILITANT-TERR GROUPS.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, 2013 > SURRENDER, OR THET MILTERRS WON'T SEND FLOWERS, SAD CONDOLENCES AFTER THEY KILL US!
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I just hope we're not duped into backing the wrong side, and I do expect trouble out of the Mideast (Bubbling fermenting) Religious cesspit for decades to come.
You can take it to the bank that we have been duped into supporting the wrong side. It has been a religious cesspit since Islam first reared its ugly head. Ultimately I see only one reliable course of action. No need to say it out loud, it'll never happen.
#16
Great. He's got his Crackberry. Is it the same one that was the one he used when he sent out his "private" opinion on Kanye West? Because if it is, he may as well use Facebook and Twitter.
Yep, we are all in the very best of hands with the smartest president evah.
#5
Mutaa is a form of "temporary marriage" only acceptable within Shiite communities.
If I remember correctly, Osama set up "temporary marriages" for his supporters before 9/11. I guess he's only anti-Shia when he can't get his rocks off.
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The party of the first part (the stick-in-me)agrees to marry the party of the second part (the stick-it-in ) for 1 hour under the bridge at the edge of town for a dowry of $150.00. After the divorce, as alimony, a chicken fried steak dinner will be offered along with a movie and a promise to call the next day.
#7
On the Ethics episode in the sitcom "The Office", Meredith agreed to a sexual relationship in return for a better price on raw paper from a supplier, free dinners at the Outback and some coupons. She said the coupons just made her feel better about herself.
one of the rightly guided caliphs banned the temporary marriage in Sunnidom (although people preparing for martyrdom get to evade this and other prohibitions)
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Calling Lysistrata!
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ION GLOBAL TIMES/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THE MYSTERY OF [History's] MISSING MUSLIM FEMALE RULERS. There's approxi 20 Muslim Babes whom ruled, the Good + the Bad + to include victorious Warrior Queens, but yet most of whose names are NOT included in academic or history texts.
On Christmas Day, an Islamist fanatic tried to blow up an airplane whose passengers were mostly Christians. And we helped.
Our government gets no thanks for preventing a tragedy. Only the bomber's ineptitude preserved the lives of nearly 300 innocents.
How did we help Umar Abdulmutallab, a wealthy Muslim university graduate who decided that Allah wanted him to slaughter Christians on their most joyous holiday?
By continuing to lie to ourselves. Although willing -- at last -- to briefly use the word "terror," yesterday President Obama still refused to make a connection between the action, the date and Islam.
Was it just a ticketing accident that led to a bombing attempt on Christmas? Was it all about blackout dates and frequent-flyer miles?
It wasn't. You know it. And I know it. But our government refuses to know it. Despite vast databases crammed with evidence, our leaders -- of both parties -- still refuse to connect Islamist terrorism with Islam.
Our insistence that "Islam's a religion of peace" would have been cold comfort to the family members of those passengers had the bomb detonated as planned.
Abdulmutallab's own father warned our diplomats that his son had been infected by Islamist extremism. Our diplomats did nothing. Why? Because (despite a series of embassy bombings) the State Department dreads linking terrorism to Islam.
Contrast our political correctness with Abdulmutallab's choice of Christmas for his intended massacre. Our troops stand down on Muslim holidays. A captive terrorist merely has to claim that a soldier dog-eared a Koran, and it's courts-martial all around.
We proclaim that the terrorists "don't represent Islam." OK, whom do they represent? The Franciscans? We don't get to decide what's Islam and what isn't. Muslims do. And far too many of them approve of violent jihad.
It gets worse. Instead of focusing on the religious zeal and inspiration of our enemies and how such motivations change the game, our "terrorism experts" agonize over whether such beasts as Abdulmutallab or Maj. Hasan, the Fort Hood assassin for Allah, are really members of al Qaeda or not.
As a Sunday Post editorial pointed out, al Qaeda's far more than a formal organization; it's an idea, a cause. If a terrorist says he's al Qaeda, he is, even if he doesn't have a union card from Jihadi Local 632.
We're dealing with a global Muslim movement, not a Masons' lodge.
And that "global" aspect is especially worrying. Despite limited Special Operations strikes beyond our recognized combat zones, we still don't accept the nature of the threat from jet-set jihadis. Our leaders and our military are obsessed with holding ground in Afghanistan -- even though al Qaeda's growth areas are in Yemen and Africa.
We voluntarily tie ourselves down, while our enemies focus on mobility. Worse, we've convinced ourselves that development aid (the left's all-purpose medicine) is the key to defeating al Qaeda.
That's utter nonsense. Abdulmutallab's a rich kid. He didn't come from a deprived background, bearing the grievances of the slum. He's a graduate of a top English university. And Osama bin Laden's from a super-rich family. How does building a footbridge in Afghanistan deter them?
Most of our home-grown Islamist terrorists hail from middle-class families -- such monsters as Maj. Hasan or the Virginia virgin-chasers under arrest in Pakistan (where jail conditions are a lot worse than at Guantanamo -- can't we just leave 'em there?).
This isn't a revolt of the wretched of the earth. These terrorists are the Muslim-fanatic versions of Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, pampered kids unhappy with the world. Al Qaeda's big guns are re- belling against privilege. There's a lot of Freud in this fundamentalism.
Spoiled brats remade their god in their own vengeful image. And we have to kill them. This one really is a zero-sum game.
We're not just fighting men but a plague of faith. Until Washington accepts that, we'll continue to reap a low return on our investments of blood and treasure.
On Christmas Day, a Muslim fanatic attempted to butcher hundreds of Christians (dead Jews would've been a bonus). Our response? Have airport security analyze the contents of grandma's mini-bottle of shampoo -- we don't want to "discriminate."
With our lies, self-deception and self-flagellation, we're terror's little helpers.
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well at least some people aren't lying to themselves about Islam
I'm inclined to think there are more and more people who have had their eyes open. The vote in Switzerland seems to confirm this although that might be a fluke.
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It's Odd, Environmentalism is the Frustrated Western Rich kids Terrorism-lite.
Maybe there's something about unearned wealth that often ruins kids.
How the prison writings of Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, one of al Qaeda's founders now labeled a turn coat, are doing more to expose the terrorist group's hypocrisy than anyone else.
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Recent headlines seem lifted directly out of an Ayn Rand novel. President Obama decries the "fat cat bankers on Wall Street". Harry Reid attacks insurance companies for making too much profit. House Democrat leaders call Tea Partiers "Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts". How about this nauseating statement made by Army General George Casey after the Muslim terrorist attack on Ft. Hood?
President Obama's year of blunders is ending with the worst failure yet by the president and his team: An Islamist terrorist penetrated the United States and came very close to perpetrating the greatest mass-casualty attack within the U.S. since 9/11. 
Apparently the fellows in al Qaeda took as a personal insult Secretary of Homeland Anxiety Janet Napolitano's comment Sunday that their role in the foiled Detroit airliner bombing wasn't clear but would be investigated. Yesterday, al Qaeda's ascendant franchise in the Arabian peninsula saved Secretary Napolitano the trouble of plowing through all the layers of the national-security bureaucracy for an answer.
On Christmas Day, an Islamist fanatic tried to blow up an airplane whose passengers were mostly Christians. And we helped. 
