15 Replies to “President Obama, is that you? [Darleen Click]”

1. sdferr says:

   March 14, 2015 at 10:59 am

   Hanin Ghaddar: Resisting the Iranian Occupation

   *** A deal that gives Iran such power will result in the following:

   First, the perception of the US in the region is changing. The majority of Sunnis now see the US as taking sides in a sectarian fight; an Iranian ally. Obama, in this sense, is perceived as interventionist.

   Secondly, democracies like Lebanon, or potential democracies in the region, will slowly deteriorate because Iran will not acknowledge state institutions or tolerate freedom of speech. This has been confirmed many times in Lebanon and in Iran itself.

   Third, liberal and civil groups or individuals will lose legitimacy in the region and civil society will crumble amidst sectarian bloodshed.

   Is this what the US really wants the region to look like? If the nuclear deal is really worth so much blood, death and madness, then all the values we thought we shared with the US are now inexplicable.

   See, the question now is not whether there will be a deal to stop Iran’s nuclear program. The problem is more fundamental: values are being shattered and people are being betrayed. ***

2. Darleen says:

   March 14, 2015 at 11:51 am

   values are being shattered

   Obama did promise fundamental transformation …

3. sdferr says:

   March 14, 2015 at 12:07 pm

   ‘struth

   Which means that understanding what is afoot is extremely difficult to gauge. I’ve yet to see a satisfying explanation, though I’ve looked at many attempts at such.

   In opposite world, perhaps it’s best to simply hypothesize every opposite and to see where that leads?

   For instance, if in the old order it was Iran that should have been brought under economic sanctions by the other nations of the world in an effort to hamper that economy and financial power, maybe in the new-ordered opposite world it is the economy of the United States that should be brought under economic sanctions should this country ever renege on the current “deal” in process with Iran? Seems like that’s the aim now, doesn’t it?

4. geoffb says:

   March 14, 2015 at 12:28 pm

   Junior partners must obey the seniors and remain useful to them.

   The Left is now the messenger boy of Islamofacism. They know their place.

   In the early 1990s, cadres of the Philippine Communist New People’s Army went to Mindanao to establish a “tactical alliance” with Muslim separatists. They brought their Maoist Red Books and some light machineguns, thinking to overawe the Islamic yokels with worldly wisdom obtained at the University of the Philippines and a few hoary tips from Soviet training manuals. Instead they found a hard core of thousands who had trained in Afghanistan and the Balkans, who scoffed at the rusty Communist machineguns and whose petrodollars made the paltry Euroleft donations seem like chump change. It was a moment of revelation.

   […]

   The pecking order had been established and the coordination structured accordingly. In practice the relation between militants, even in the European and American Left, is governed by threat and intimidation. It is unnoticeable to the outer fringes of the Movement but grows increasingly more severe as one approaches the “committed” core. Among sympathizers in the media, entertainment and academic industries, obedience is largely enforced by social pressure or economic sanction. Closer in the pretenses are dropped and operational rules prevail. At the Central Committee level, as David Horowitz knows, decisions are enforced under penalty of death. Mercy is shown, within the Marxist IRA, by whether your kneecap is blown out from the front or the back. The arrival of the Islamists in the West, like a new gang arriving in town, has changed the dynamic considerably. … The moribund Left knows who is boss and is selling the only thing they have remaining: access to media and cultural institutions, which suits the Islamofascists just fine. A division of labor has been established in which the Left provides the paralyzing injection on Western society leaving the jihadis a clear field within which to operate.

   To move up to senior status, to reach the top, requires public ruthlessness in the acquisition and use of power over the powerless and stealth in maneuvering for the downfall of those above.

5. sdferr says:

   March 14, 2015 at 12:37 pm

   Reckon the PRC has gotten that message? Can’t see any evidence of it from here, that’s for sure.

6. geoffb says:

   March 14, 2015 at 1:01 pm

   Forget it, sdferr. It’s Chinatown.

   The PRC is having their own internal problems which are slowly showing through the bamboo curtain and Russia too seems on the brink of some internal change for good or ill. Ruthlessness is strong but brittle.

7. sdferr says:

   March 14, 2015 at 1:08 pm

   Yeah, let’s imagine China under the dominion of Allah, not to say the Supreme Leader of the IRoI. Hey, why don’t they stop laughing?

8. sdferr says:

   March 14, 2015 at 1:25 pm

   Or . . .

   Q: Why are there so many useful cat’s paws in China?

   A: Because in China they eat the rest of the critter.

9. geoffb says:

   March 14, 2015 at 2:23 pm

   Logan, Logan, who’s got the Logan.

10. dicentra says:

    March 14, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    Anyone else notice that Arabic is as harsh-sounding as German?

    I often have a visceral reaction to German because of its association with Nazis. I’m starting to get the same reaction to Arabic.

    Is there a correlation between guttural phonemes and the will to world domination?

    Startin’ to look like it.

11. dicentra says:

    March 14, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    Is this what the US really wants the region to look like?

    This is what Obama and the disciples of Edward Said want. The rest of us don’t get a vote.

12. palaeomerus says:

    March 14, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Japanese Russian and Mandarin all sound nice and sweet but they had their share of deeply psycho behavior.

13. John Bradley says:

    March 15, 2015 at 2:56 am

    OT: a mere week or two after being discovered by Insty, delightful Twitter satirist @GodfreyElfwick appears to have been gulaged or deleted altogether.

    Lesson: We can’t have nice things. And mockery of the the Left that makes them look stupid and/or insane will not be tolerated.

14. sdferr says:

    March 18, 2015 at 9:13 am

    Seems to me that something monumental happened in Israel last night, signifying once again that a free people can and will estimate their own condition in the world, face the facts and act accordingly to govern themselves. Perhaps I miss the correct evaluation though, since there is a great deal about the circumstances of the Israelis I do not know. Still, what I think their election signifies holds for men more or less everywhere free men still choose to be free.

15. RI Red says:

    March 18, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Ach Du Lieber, dicentra, meine Schatze! Deutsch is eine schoene Fremdsprache!

    Just because it required spittle to say doesn’t mean it wasn’t tenderly submitted. :)

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