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The Rich Fantasy World of the Iraq War Hawks
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Friday, December 16, 2011 11:37 AM
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I wish I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial and the heights of delusion manifested in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan's latest declarations on Iraq, published this week in The Washington Post as "opinion."
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About the Muslim Brotherhood ... in Libya
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:37 PM
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Just wondering if any of those Libya Hawks (here are a few) caught Robert Baer on Fox last night. The way the former CIA operative tells it, the Muslim Brotherhood is the "strongest group in Libya" and "transcends all the tribes." Baer also mentioned... |
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Meanwhile, Back in Libya ...
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Thursday, September 05, 2013 4:34 AM
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... the Independent reports:
Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.
Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to... |
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About Chuck Hagel and US Foreign Policy
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Friday, February 01, 2013 7:51 AM
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About Chuck Hagel.
Watching yesterday's morning session of his Senate confirmation hearings on C-SPAN made me nothing if not uneasy. There are, I have to confess, aspects of Hagel's foreign policy that intersect with my own beliefs: those that stem from his apparently sincere drive not to see US troops wasted in foreign interventions that have nothing to do with American interests. I am alarmed, however, by his apparently visceral and unveiled attitudes toward Jews and Israel, which dovetail with the Arabist worldview.
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More Libya Madness
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:53 AM
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Uncle Sam Wants Him: Libya Shield spokesman Hafez al-Aquri and the grand old al Qaeda flag
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What Will Libya Do About "Rogue" Brigade's Act of War?
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:40 AM
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Ansur al Sharia gunboat parade for sharia in Benghazi, June 2012
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The late Ambassador Christopher Stevens was the US point man with the "rebels" in Benghazi -- the jihadists of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and other "flickers" of al Qaeda in Libya. Multiple reports are now attributing the attack on Benghazi consulate attack that killed the US ambassador, one staffer and, I have also read, two Marines to a group called Ansar al-Sharia, a "brigade" identified with al Qaeda as well.
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The View from the Tower
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Monday, December 12, 2011 5:28 AM
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If I were a psychiatrist I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial or the heights of delusion that manifest themselves in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan's latest declarations on Iraq published in the Washington Post as "opinion." "Fantasy" is... |
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Libya: George Washington Slept Here
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:15 AM
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If a tree falls in a forest -- no, if a bunch of al Qaeda and Hezbollah "flickers" seize power of the ninth largest oil state with NATO and US support -- will anyone take notice?
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Making the World Safe for Jihad and Sharia: Libya
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:41 AM
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The Daily Mail today reports:
Libya's interim leader has said Sharia law will be used as the basis for new legislation as the country removes all traces of the Gaddafi regime.
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Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Triumph of "Bulgarian Nurses Affair" Cabal
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Friday, August 26, 2011 5:38 AM
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the man who twice upheld death sentences in the Bulgarian nurses show trial and is poised to lead post-Qaddafi Libya. But don't worry: The State Department says he's a refomer.
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While making a correction in my column regarding Libyan "rebel" front man Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the former Qaddafi justice minister who now heads Libya's government-in-waiting, the National Transitional Council (NTC), I realized that US and NATO support for this man and the NTC and the "rebels" is actually worse than I previously thought, which was already pretty bad.
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The Truth about Libyan "Rebels"
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Diana West
Friday, August 26, 2011 4:20 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Here are three things Americans need to know about the Libyan "rebels" the U.S. government isn't telling us.
One: The inspiration of the Libyan war is as much anti-Western as it is anti-Gadhafi.
The "Day of Rage" that kick-started the Libyan war on Feb. 17 marked the fifth anniversary of violent protests in Benghazi, which included an assault on the Italian consulate during which at least 11 were killed. The 2006 mayhem, as John Rosenthal has reported, during which consulate staff was evacuated after 1,000 to several thousand men tried to storm and burn the building, may be linked to the Italian TV appearance two days earlier of Italian minister Roberto Calderoli. It was then that Calderoli, in defiance of worldwide Islamic rioting against cartoons of Muhammad in a tiny Danish newspaper, revealed he was wearing an undershirt decorated with such a cartoon. In remarks widely reported in Arab media, Calderoli explained that "the gesture was a matter of a 'battle for freedom.'" The minister said: "When they (the cartoon rioters) recognize our rights, I'll take off the shirt."
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Libya: The Spirit of 2006
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Monday, August 22, 2011 7:59 AM
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Italian minister Roberto Calderoli shows off a Mohammed cartoon on a T-shirt on Italian TV in 2006. In response, thousands took to... |
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Obama on Libya
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:28 AM
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When parsing Barack Obama, it's essential to see his hard Left ideological incubation as the prism through with to view his actions. In this way, "dithering" or "ineptitude" do not measure up as explanations for his failings to serve American interests, even... |
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Among the Puppetmasters
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Tuesday, June 02, 2020 5:26 AM
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A tweet from @uyghur_groyper alerted me to the eye-catching document above. It is described by @JianRen12 as "Chinese Communist... |
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Must-Reading for Fence-Sitters
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Diana West
Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:45 AM
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We can all breathe a sigh of relief: Bill Kristol has launched his "gut" hunch on the Election outcome and it's Hillary. That's a pretty good augur for Trump's ultimate success.
The polls for Trump are promising, too. And three... |
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When Lawmakers Forget the American Interest
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Friday, September 19, 2014 5:48 AM
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"Nessie" or Syrian "moderates": Which will we find first?
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I'm trying to look on the bright side of what passed for debate over another doomed effort to secure U.S. interests by embarking on the fruitless pursuit, cultivation and empowerment of Islamic "moderates," this time in Syria. We would get better results sending an expeditionary force after the Loch Ness sea monster. No matter. In deliberations resembling a stampede, we heard: The ISIL is coming, the ISIL is coming! Quick, leave our own borders undefended and save Saudi Arabia!
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Watch Turkey in Crimea
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:16 AM
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If you thought that in Ukraine we finally had a global crisis sans Islam, think again. My first clue was hearing "Allah Akbars" on a Youtube of some anti-Russia protestors (not in news media). Then, a Ukrainian e-pal from Kiev wrote in, noting, "The Kirimli (Tatars) can ask for help Turks and other Muslim peoples. With Hisb-ut-Tahrir or Wahhabites. It could be a new `hot point.' "
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Amnesty by Lawlessness
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Diana West
Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:05 AM
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House Speaker John Boehner made headlines on February 6 for tabling immigration "overhaul" -- one week after indicating it was at the top of this session's agenda.
But don't think anyone has put the hatchets away. Measures hacking away at the US border, US citizenship, and US law itself continue across the land even as Congress increasingly becomes the 535-figured-headed white elephant on the Hill. More American Betrayal, and at breakneck speed.
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Mandela in the Mirror
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Diana West
Friday, December 20, 2013 5:17 AM
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Feeling soaked after the gushers of drenching hagiography that crashed over the world on the death of the Nelson Mandela, I have been trying to reconcile what I know with what we are supposed to believe.
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"Credibility": Not Something Americans Should Die For
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Diana West
Friday, September 06, 2013 1:19 AM
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I would like to pause for a moment as the United States weighs going to war to make the world safe for President Obama’s “credibility” to note that the Department of Defense announced the deaths of four American soldiers... |
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Benghazi Question No. 7: Ask the Turks
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Diana West
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:08 AM
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Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), bless him, isn't letting go of Benghazi and seeks a select committee to investigate the many secrets of Benghazi that remain unknown to the American people.
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Tell Me Again Why US Used Jihadists to Guard Benghazi?
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Diana West
Friday, May 10, 2013 3:35 AM
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“I want to ask a couple of questions about the February 17 Martyrs Brigade,” said Rep. Blake Farenthold.
The Texas Republican was addressing the three State Department “whistleblowers” who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The three witnesses were Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant secretary of state for counterterrorism; Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya; and Eric Nordstrom, former regional security officer in Libya.
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Living in McCainWorld
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013 5:49 AM
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The Washington Free Beacon reports (h/t John Rosenthal):
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) called the idea that the U.S. could not arm the right rebels in Syria to fight Bashir al-Assad “damned foolishness” in an interview with Charlie Rose Tuesday.
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John Kerry, Syria and that Old Feeling
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:35 AM
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I read this report and got that old feeling.
No, not that one -- I got that old, Libya-Redux feeling that the air was going out of the room. That's what happens whenever I see Uncle Sam stepping in to assist, support or enable the same forces... |
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Uncle Sam and the Saudi Crescent
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Monday, April 01, 2013 2:57 PM
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"World Must Unite Against US-Saudi-Israeli Proxy War in Syria" is the headline over a piece at Infowars by Tony Cartalucci, a reporter whose work on Uncle Sam's entanglement in jihad I've read with interest before. The piece makes... |
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Update: Hillary, Benghazi & Huma
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Monday, April 01, 2013 3:15 AM
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Readers of Aaron Klein's latest piecing together of the Benghazi-Syria arms puzzle will take special notice of the role that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to have played in pushing the policy to arm the jihad front fighting Assad.
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Washington Media: Nobody Home
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Diana West
Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:21 PM
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Found myself in a group conversation that included one of the more instantly recognizable media figures -- someone who personifies the phrase "mainstream media." Since this isn't something that happens every day, why... |
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Little Orphan Benghazi
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Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:57 AM
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Despite media coverage of the Panetta-Dempsey Benghazi hearing best described as extra-terrestrial -- as in, what planet are these reporters on? -- several new pieces of information are now part of the record. They are not,... |
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Sixty MInutes of Agit-Puff
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Diana West
Monday, January 28, 2013 6:41 AM
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From Sunday's 60 Minutes joint-interview of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
Steve Krofts: When we come back, the president and Secretary Clinton discuss the disaster in Benghazi and the state of her health.
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Hillary's Hearings
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Friday, January 25, 2013 5:20 AM
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Rounding out Hillary-week at this blog, this week's syndicated column:
One day, I hope, Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi hearings will stand as testament to the smoke-and-mirrors dangerousness of U.S. foreign policy, circa 2013 – both as executed by the... |
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"Violent Extremism" Out, "Global Jihad" In?
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:55 AM
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Black flags of AQ over post-Qaddafi Benghazi, compiled by Libya 360
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The unexpected news of SecState Clinton's appearances on the Hill yesterday is the "spreading jihadist threat." The news is not that it's spreading, or that it's a threat, but rather that Hillary Clinton invoked the term "jihadist." Repeatedly. In both the Senate hearing and in the House hearing after lunch, during which, presumably, Obama administration speech commissars could have emergency-texted her that the terminology of O-choice remains "violent extremism." But no. Clinton talked "global jihad" all day, even if she did echo the same old Bush-Obama-disaster-policy that believes strengthening/stabilizing the new "regimes" of the Arab Spring is the way to combat it. Never mind that the jihadists and the regimes share a common goal: Islamically correct (sharia) totalitarianism.
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Al Jazeera as Voice of Qatar (as Voice of Muslim Brotherhood)
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Saturday, January 05, 2013 9:11 AM
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Before we heard that Al Gore's Current TV had rejected Glenn Beck's The Blaze TV as a buyer for, as Beck put it, "legacy" reasons and selected Al Jazeera as its white knight instead, Fjordman passed along this December 25 Deutche Welle interview with Aktham Suliman, Al Jazeera's former Berlin correspondent. Suliman argues that Al Jazeera's coverage is a policy instrument of its owners the Qataris, who, as he puts it, "tend toward the Muslim Brotherhood." Saudi-investor-funded Al Arabiya TV, on the other hand, is more Salafist. Big difference? Hah -- not when it comes to extending sharia. "Generally speaking, the Arab media landscape is very uniform," Suliman adds.
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The Most Admired Woman in the World
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Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:36 PM
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Americans, Gallup tells us, admire Hillary Clinton more than any other woman in the world – again. This latest accolade marks the 17th time Gallup has found Clinton to be the Most Admired Woman (MAW?) since she became... |
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Benghazi White-Out
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Diana West
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:55 AM
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The "independent" Benghazi Report has concluded the White House remained in the dark.
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The Benghazi Report is out and it's official: President Obama, SecState Hillary Clinton, CIA Director Petraeus all had nothing to do with the US government response to the attack on the US mission in Benghazi. Indeed, the names Obama, Clinton, Petraeus, Panetta, Rice do not appear anywhere in its 39 pages. DoD -- Panetta? -- however, is singled out for having deployed unarmed drones that, for example, "provided visual surveillance during the evacuation."
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Benghazi: The Turkish Timeline
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Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:30 PM
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Recently, I asked the Turkish Consul General in Benghazi, Ali Akin, what he could tell me about the night of September 11, 2012. Ali Akin, according to the State Department timeline of events that night, was the last person to meet with the late... |
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About the Bradley Manning Pre-Trial
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Monday, December 10, 2012 7:10 AM
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There's something wrong with a government "secrets" case when millions of people have access to those same "secrets."
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The pre-trial hearing of PFC Bradley Manning is underway at Ft. Meade, MD -- though you'd hardly know it given overall media inattention. Manning, of course, is being tried for allegedly releasing some 250,000 diplomatic cables, as well as a huge cache of documents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the leak site Wikileak.
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Susan Rice, Distraction: The Real Benghazi Questions
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Friday, November 30, 2012 5:22 AM
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It is neither “racist” nor “sexist” to question U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s role in the Benghazi scandal. It is, however, almost entirely beside the point.
Rice wasn’t making life-and-death decisions on Sept. 11, 2012, when the U.S. compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi came under attack; President Obama was. Rice, therefore, is unable to answer the all-important question about what order President Obama issued upon hearing that U.S. diplomats in Benghazi were under fire. She can’t look America in the eye and answer whether the U.S. military was ordered not to rescue Americans fighting for their lives.
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King on Petraeus
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Below is a CNN transcript of Rep. Peter King's appearance before the press after David Petraeus appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on November 16. King is clearly struggling with what he has heard from Petraeus: a version of Petraeus' September... |
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Why Did Petraeus Lie Again?
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Saturday, November 17, 2012 9:18 AM
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As CIA Director, David Petraeus testified before the House Intel Committee in a closed hearing on Benghazi on September 14.
(Mistake #1: These hearings should have been open.)
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Petraeus of Benghazi
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Saturday, November 03, 2012 6:01 AM
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First, the WSJ, now the NYT: CIA Director David Petraeus is feeling a little heat from the spotlight regarding Benghazi. It's an extremely soft-focus spot, however, one that obscures the most important question regarding Petraeus' role in Obama... |
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Pickering's Red Flags
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Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:49 PM
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As we arrive at Election Day, some of the most crucial questions left unanswered about Benghazi are, in fact, the simplest. They are not “fog of war” questions. They are not questions rendered unanswerable by “conflicting... |
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Benghazi Cable: Al Qaeda Is Here
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Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:04 AM
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Greta Susteren interviewed Cathering Herridge on Fox last night about a smoking cable:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Disturbing new information about Benghazi and the Obama administration. Fox News obtained a classified cable sent in August... |
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The Jihad and Christopher Stevens, Pt. 3
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Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:28 PM
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In the last installment, I examined cables written by Christopher Stevens in 2008 (and available courtesy Wikileaks) that seem to capture a significant trend in his thinking, and, perhaps the thinking of others in the US government, which may have... |
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Eighth Question: "Jay, There Are Some Emails That Have Emerged..."
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:13 AM
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White House Press Gaggle, October 24, 2012
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Yesterday, Reuters, Fox, CNN, CBS and other media reported that on 9/11/12 emails went to top Obama administration officials alerting them that the Benghazi consulate was under terrorist attack. The first arrived at 4:05 pm ET on 9/11/12 -- 10:05 pm Benghazi time, about 25 minutes into the attack. At 6:07 pm ET, another email reported that Ansar Al-Sharia had claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Running Interference for Petraeus?
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:42 AM
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As the Benghazi storyline clears to a point where CIA Director Petraeus' personal testimony is absolutely required to establish how the White House came to perpetuate a lie for at least two weeks -- namely, that a "spontaneous" but, we now know, non-existent... |
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The Jihad and Christopher Stevens, Pt. 2
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Diana West
Friday, October 19, 2012 9:05 AM
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Part 1 is here.
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To attempt to understand Christopher Stevens' long-standing interest in ben Qumu, the al Qaeda terrorist suspected of leading the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 in which Stevens and three other Americans were... |
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Did Hillary Go Noble on Us?
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Diana West
Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:24 PM
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This week's syndicated column:
Honestly, did the buck really stop with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Benghazi-gate, or did the buck just stop?
Here’s what Clinton said: “I take responsibility. I’m in charge of the State Department’s... |
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Did the Buck Stop at Hillary or Did the Buck Just Stop?
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:48 AM
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First, late last night in Peru, SecState Hillary Clinton phones it in that she has "taken responsibility" for the Benghazi -- almost literally, what with a CNN correspondent doing a post-modern "Hello, sweetheart, get me rewrite" routine on the line into... |
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Where Is Samantha Power?
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Saturday, October 13, 2012 4:13 AM
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Libya's "humanitarian vulcans" Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power (Thrice the brinded cat had mew'd...)
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Benghazi's Real Scandal? Uncle Sam Joined the Jihad
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 4:20 PM
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This week's syndicated column:
Imagine, pre-9/11/12, that you were responsible for arranging the defense of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Would you have considered American interests and personnel best protected by bringing in a local security... |
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Dear Mitt, Imagine Uncle Sam Were a Bain Client
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Monday, October 08, 2012 6:19 AM
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Dear Mitt,
I know you're a busy man. But this foreign policy needs some more time and thought on your part, and before your next debate with Obama.
It's not that O's a foreign policy genius; he's not. It's not that his foreign policy is good;... |
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Benghazigate, Day 18
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Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:01 AM
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The headlines sound promising: The entire Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republicans and Democrats, has asked the State Department to explain what went wrong before, during and after the 9/11/12 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, during which the... |
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Trading the First Amendment for Sharia
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Diana West
Friday, September 21, 2012 3:19 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
What’s wrong with the following Associated Press headline? “Charlie Hebdo cartoon spurs French gov’t to order embassies, schools to close.”
Cartoons of Muhammad in the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo didn’t send France into lockdown. Their publication this week was a simple exercise in free speech on Islam, which Muslims in France and everywhere else in the world oppose as a violation of Islamic law (Shariah). It is Islamic rage over the fact that Islamic law is not dominant everywhere, all the time – Muslims’ signal weapon against a timid West – that drove French authorities to take security precautions, not the publication of cartoons.
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Who Is Ansur al Sharia?
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Diana West
Friday, September 14, 2012 3:58 AM
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Ansur al Sharia (Guardians of Sharia) is believed to have been involved in the military assault on the US consulate in Benghazi on 9/11 that killed four Americans including Ambassador Christtopher Steven. The Iranian government Press TV video shows... |
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Three Men and a Couch
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Diana West
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:56 AM
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From a joint statement by Sens. Graham, Lieberman and McCain on the burning of the US consulate in Benghazi and murders of the US ambassador and three staffers.
“Yesterday's attack is a tragic and terrible reminder that – despite the hopes of... |
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Huma Abedin and Form 86
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Diana West
Friday, August 03, 2012 6:20 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the handful of House Republicans, led by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who sent letters in June to inspectors general at five government departments, asking them to investigate evidence... |
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SOS: Save Our Adults
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Diana West
Saturday, July 21, 2012 4:40 AM
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There is one operative word in Andy McCarthy's illuminating examination of some of the facts obscured by the weird and racuous apotheosis of Huma Abedin currently enlivening the hysterical demonization of Rep. Michele Bachmann by the media and John McCain, a grotesque and shameful display triggered by a question -- one question -- Bachmann and four other House Republicans have raised about Abedin's close family connections to the rapacious Islamic supremacist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
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McCain Weighs In (Uh-Oh)
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Diana West
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:42 AM
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John McCain went to the floor of the Senate today to vouch for Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's senior aide, whose reported familial connections to Muslim Brotherhood groups is included among an array of security concerns regarding potential MB influence... |
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US-Turkey-Chaired Counterterrorism Forum Dumps Israel
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Diana West
Friday, July 13, 2012 8:11 AM
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Hillary and Erdogan, together, in Istambul: Today, the CT Forum; tomorrow, the umma!
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This week's column:
The Washington Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from a U.S.-sponsored organization called the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, U.S. undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, delivered a speech titled "Victims of Terrorism," but, in her roll call of victims, she didn't mention Israel. The conference at which she spoke was described as a "high-level conference on the victims of terrorism," but Israel wasn't a participant.
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Dissing Israel: The Ultimate in Dhimmitude
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Diana West
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:38 AM
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The Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from the new Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, US Under Secretary of State, delivered a speech titled "Victims of Terrorism"... |
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The Continuum ... Continues
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Diana West
Tuesday, March 06, 2012 6:05 AM
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Associate Attorney General Tony West: "I truly believe John ["American Taliban" Walker Lindh] will have a lot to offer after his incarceration." How about a spot on Tony-West-sponsored "Al Qaeda Bar" at Justice?
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Clipping the Syria Hawks' Wings
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Diana West
Tuesday, March 06, 2012 3:18 AM
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In the interest of adding two cents on Syria, I quote the admirable Andy McCarthy, who, thankfully, has done the heavy lifting to arrive at the all-important bottom line concerning whether the United States should become involved (NO). Having established... |
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Goodbye, 2011
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Diana West
Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:13 AM
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Taking stock at year's end, I chose to throw a spotlight onto the "unsolved mystery of 2011" -- what really happened in Smolensk, Russia in April 2010, when the sitting government of Poland and a central swath of its intelligentsia was lost in a stunning... |
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Qaddafi's Death Leaves Me Cold: Why?
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Diana West
Friday, October 21, 2011 2:07 AM
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Timing is everything. Qaddafi was not killed in retaliation for his attacks on American servicemen in Berlin in 1986, or the downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1989. He was not killed for his central role in the USSR's terror networks going back to the... |
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Meanwhile, Back in Antwerp ...
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Diana West
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:59 AM
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News from Vlaams Belang -- and, if Western-style liberty is your bag, it isn't good. A sharia court now presides in beautiful Antwerp. Of course, NATO and the US have enthusiastically supported the ascension of sharia in Libya, so will this news... |
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Looking Back on the Crystal Ball
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Diana West
Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:06 AM
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During a semi-bi-annual clean-up of my study, I came across an undated scrap of Washington Post on which Brookings' Robert Kagan briefly but thoroughly excoriated George Will for advocating US withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan. It apparently dates... |
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Our Man in Tripoli
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Diana West
Friday, September 09, 2011 4:35 AM
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John Rosenthal provides a cheat sheet on Al Qaeda in Libya -- US-supported Al Qaeda in Libya -- at Hudson New York. It is shocking evidence of how far off course we have drifted since September 11, 2001.
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Arab August
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Diana West
Monday, August 22, 2011 4:58 AM
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With non-Constitutionally-US-supported anti-Qadaffi forces taking Tripoli today, it looks as if -- to be as delicate... |
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Don't Look Now: The Iraq of "Surge" Dreams Is Over
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Diana West
Friday, June 24, 2011 3:17 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
We have watched, rapt, as Barack Obama deliberated over exactly how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. The White House mission, as I see it, was to present the illusion of winding down an unpopular war without... |
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Signs of Life on the Hill
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:20 PM
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TEN CONGRESSMEN led by Reps. Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) filed suit today against "Defendant Barack Obama" in federal court charging that the war in Libya is unconstitutional, in violation of the War Powers Act, and calling... |
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Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do
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Diana West
Friday, May 06, 2011 2:58 AM
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Pakistani "ally" driving US stealth helicopter secrets to China?
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Stirrings of life on Capitol Hill: Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, has introduced a bill to stop distribution of $3 billion in aid that Congress... |
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Palin's on a New Course
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Diana West
Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:26 AM
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Sarah Palin has changed foreign policy course. She has traded in the neoconservative bent she entered national politics with, which envisions an apparently unlimited global role for a nation-building United States, for an outlook emphasizing national... |
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Uncle Sucker Caters Jihad
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Diana West
Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:37 AM
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I don't know which is more outrageous: the State Department memo claiming that the Libyan "rebels" -- sorry, their "political arm" -- has "embraced the Geneva Conventions" (death grip?), or that Uncle Sucker (you) will be catering their halal meals (via... |
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Looking on the Bright Side
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Diana West
Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:40 AM
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The good thing about the war in Libya costing us "billions a week," according to certified CPA and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), is that it makes the $50 million "donation" the United States has mde to the Afghan-Taliban "reconciliation" talks look like... |
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Son of "Flickers"
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Diana West
Friday, April 01, 2011 8:03 AM
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Up the rebels?
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This week, the commander of NATO, U.S. Adm. James Stavridis,... |
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The US-Iranian Axis?
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Diana West
Thursday, March 31, 2011 5:31 AM
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There is a new divide by which we define ourselves: Those who suck in the acrid smell of jihad in the Middle East, pronounce their hallucinations "Arab Spring," crave more ... and those who don't. Among those of us who "just say no" to this nowhere trip, it should be noted, are those who take their sharia seriously, and see its extension as the lingering and insidious side effect, the one that take us down when the vapors are no more.
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Hezbollah Snakeoil: Will the Obama Administration Buy It?
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:18 AM
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The US ambassador to the UN and the commander of NATO can fight over "flickers" of al Qaeda and Hezbollah among the Libyan rebels, but it's clearly indisputable that enemy Hezbollah leader Nasrallah (along with al Qaeda's Abu Yahya al-Libi and MB's Qaradawi as noted here) is firmly in their camp. Which means "our" camp. This is clear from an hour-plus address the Iranian puppet and terror-master gave earlier this month in Beirut.
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My Friend "Flickers"
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Diana West
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:25 PM
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Today, NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis told the US Senate something some of us have been noticing from afar ever since this weirdo-bizarre R2P "humanitarian" assault in Libya on American national interest began:
"We have seen flickers in the... |
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R2P: Promoting a New World Order
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:23 AM
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R2P: Your New World Orderlies
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Aaron Klein is another one of the rare writers who key into Obama's hard Left vibe (and he wrote a great book about it, too), eschewing explanations of "inexperience" or "ineptitude" to parse Obama. Having... |
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Uncle Sucker, World's Rent-a-Cop
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Diana West
Friday, March 25, 2011 1:27 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
I'll admit, there is an argument – a thin, riddled, web of an argument – that it was U.S. interests that drove military interventions gone wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't buy the argument: As it morphed into a nation-building fantasy, it became disastrously, tragically and recklessly mistaken. But I can see at least that tarnished glimmer of national interest flash in the sludge before sinking from sight.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Versus the State of Denial
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Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:08 PM
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This week's syndicated column is about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (above), who goes to trial for "hate speech" -- i.e., speaking out against Islamization -- on November 23 in Vienna. Her website, including defense fund information, is here.
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Four-Star Heaven
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:58 AM
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Catchy cover story by Mehdi Hasan in the British weekly the New Statesman.
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Andrew Bostom: "Qaddafi, Wilders and the Jihad against Switzerland"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:29 AM
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When Qaddafi's Libya is "satisfied" something is wrong.
Andrew Bostom has published an essential and timely essay at Pajama Media throwing the light of the ages, historically and Islamically speaking, on Qaddafi's declaration of jihad on Switzerland for its act of self-determination to ban construction of the tool and symbol of political Islam, the minaret. And yes, as the title of this post promises, he also sets the recent electoral successes of Geert Wilders into the context of European pushback against such outbursts of Islamic aggression and continuing demographic colonization.
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IslamOnline@DC
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:32 PM
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Photo: At least he's good lookin'
The ever-vigilant Andrew Bostom writes in with the news from MEMRI:
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When Are We Gonna Drill??
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Diana West
Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:57 PM
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Look at them: On the left is Abdalla Salem El-Badri, the OPEC secretary general, or pirate-in-chief. On the right is Iran's thug-in-chief Mahmoud... |
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Obama's Farrakhan Problem
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Diana West
Friday, February 29, 2008 9:49 AM
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Here is a preview of this week's column. Contrary to the conventional take on the Obama-Farrakhan Debate Moment, Sen. Obama did not reject Farrakhan's support. See for yourself below.
OBAMA'S TRUTHINESS ABOUT FARRAKHAN
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Nukes for Islam
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Diana West
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:36 AM
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Turns out it isn't just offers of marriage Nicolas Sarkozy throws around. If you are an Arab Islamic country, preferably with pots of oil, he is very likely to offer to share nuclear technology with you--for those moments when the well runs dry, as it were.... |
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