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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Going Soft on Terror Posted: 22 May 2009 03:47 PM PDT  This week has been dominated by Obama's attempt to take it easy on Islamic terrorists, clashing with the desire of Congressional Democrats to avoid being implicated as soft on terrorism. The Gitmo defeat was all the more shocking, because as far as the press was concerned Obama was never supposed to lose. Nor was anyone supposed to point out that he had no real plan and that his proposals were completely unfocused and lacking in elementary details. Naturally Obama's response was to deliver a high profile speech, long on the sort of vague rhetoric Hollywood has been featuring for a while now in movies and TV shows about terrorism, that amounts to a call for letting the same old criminal justice system handle it. Of course Obama has only two crisis modes A.) Give a speech that's full of high minded rhetoric and has no practical proposals to offer. B.) Go on an international trip. It's particularly embarrassing when former Vice President Cheney's numbers are actually going up in response to his challenges to Obama's terrorism policies. This after the left had spent 8 years caricaturing Cheney as a monster. But Cheney is the only high profile Republican politician actually challenging Obama. Most of the heavy lifting until has been done by voices in the blogsphere and talk radio. The media has meanwhile been giving a lot of airtime to liberal Republicans to come out and endorse Obama's policies. Giving Cheney airtime was meant to backfire on the Republican party, instead it backfired on the media and their Savior in Chief. Obama has to know that he can't win over most Americans with a debate over Gitmo. Going soft on terrorism appeals to only a limited demographic, even within the Democratic party. And Cheney will hopefully point the way for GOP Presidential hopefuls to begin speaking out a more loudly. Because Obama is weak on terrorism. And that weakness can be successfully exploited. The average American expects results from the White House, but this is not a results oriented administration... at least not results that will benefit Americans. Obama has stated, "Seeking to defuse one of Republican's most potent arguments, the president added: "Let me begin by disposing of one argument as plainly as I can: we are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security, nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people." But of course Obama began with a lie. In fact released terrorists from Gitmo routinely return to practicing terrorism. An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are engaged in terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials. The Pentagon promised in January that the latest report would be released soon, but Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said this week that the findings were still “under review.” Two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the report was being held up by Defense Department employees fearful of upsetting the White House, at a time when even Congressional Democrats have begun to show misgivings over Mr. Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo. Naturally. But what it all comes down to, is that releasing terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, means releasing dangerous terrorists into the wild,
So when Obama claims, "we are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security", he's lying through his shiny teeth and he knows it. Releasing terrorists means endangering our national security. Meanwhile two Democratic Congressmen, McGovern and Delahunt, with well known terrorist sympathies, are calling for Gitmo folks to come over here and join us. Two lawmakers of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party appealed Thursday to let Uighurs locked up at Guantanamo Bay move to the United States, saying they were victims of injustice. US authorities four years ago cleared 17 imprisoned Uighurs -- members of a largely Muslim group in northwestern China who the State Department says face worsening persecution by Beijing. But they are stuck at Guantanamo Bay due to fears that Beijing would torture them if they return. The United States has asked Germany, home to a large Uighur community, to take them in. "We cannot expect the world to miraculously resolve this problem of our own making," Congressman Jim McGovern said. "It is not enough, quite frankly, to ask that they be placed in Germany or in some other European country. I believe that we have an obligation to resettle at least some of the Uighurs here in the United States." He and other lawmakers were addressing a world assembly of Uighurs, including dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer, who were meeting at the US Capitol in a bid to showcase their international support. "Despite all of our words and our resolutions, we have let you down and we have put America's judicial system and our moral standing in the world at risk," said Bill Delahunt, like McGovern a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. "The Uighur people are not enemies of America. In fact, I know you admire our fundamental ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he said.... Naturally. Maybe they can run for President too. Why not? Meanwhile Netanyahu is revealing some of Obama's demands. One of them demanded that the UN flag fly over the Kotel, or the Western Wall, which is the holiest site in Judaism. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem Thursday night that the Israeli flag will continue to fly over the Western Wall (Kotel).
It's a good beginning for Netanyahu in defying Obama. In the blogsphere roundup, NeoCon Express looks at the consequences of Obama's election and the impact on Israel's ability to maintain its air force The Obama administration has imposed obstacles on Israeli efforts to procure U.S.-origin fighter-jets. Over the last few months, the administration has rejected a series of Israeli requests regarding modifications of the F-35. They included Israeli electronic warfare systems and acquisition of U.S. software codes that would allow Israel to repair the aircraft's central computer. The U.S. refusal meant that the Israel Air Force would be forced to send the F-35 to the United States for any repairs, a process that could take months. The sources said the State Department has been delaying Israeli requests for pre-export licenses required for an examination of the new generation F-15. The sources said the administration has not approved the new F-15 for the Foreign Military sales program.
Debbie Schlussel looks at Obama's demands for segregating Jews
speech by the widow of Andrei Sakharov, which serves as a reminder of what real human rights activism means. …They say people are coming together -- but in reality, they are growing apart. And that isn’t because an economic depression suddenly burst forth, and swine flu to boot. [It] began on September 11, 2001. At first, anger and horror was provoked by the terrorists who knocked down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and by their accomplices in London, Madrid and other cities, and by the shahids, suicide bombers who blew themselves up at public spaces like discotheques and wedding parties, whose families were rewarded $25,000 each by Saddam Hussein. Later, Bush was blamed for everything, and as always, the Jews -- that is, Israel… So it is about Israel and the Jews that I will speak... At one time, the Nobel Peace Prize was the highest moral award of our civilization. But after December 1994, when Yasser Arafat became one of the three new laureates, its ethical value was undermined. I haven’t always greeted each selection of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting with joy, but that one shocked
But of course the organized human rights activists who draw six figure salaries for waging lawfare on behalf of detained Al Queda terrorists, have no interest in what she has to say. Gates of Vienna has a look at Kosovo and the succeeding Islamic invasion of Europe from the renowned Fjordman
And the invasion has only begun. Everything happening in Europe now is only the beachhead. Israel provides a good show of what the next phase will look like, something we're seeing only glimpses of in France now. Avid Editor looks at coming terrorist attacks, particularly those aimed at Jewish centers Jihad Watch parses Obama's terrorism speech Lemon Lime Moon has a limerick on Islamic terrorism to close off the weekend
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