Power Mad Democrats

President Obama fired the head of General Motors-this is extraordinary. Unprecedented actions continue with Barney Frank pushing the innocuous-sounding Pay for Performance Bill of 2009 through his committee. This bill will allow the government to set salaries for those employees of companies that accept or have accepted bailout money (government aid). Not merely a handful of executives would be subject to government limits on pay but virtually any worker. The lesson companies must take from this is do not accept government aid. If you dance with the devil, he always names the tune. Even if companies decline assistance or even are in sound financial health, these power-mad Democrats may extend their reach and dictate their salaries as well. Obama glides smoothly down the slope of restricting liberty with his party cheering each socialist overreach and his mass media amen choir expediting rather than investigating which used to be the job of journalists. Any critic of the new Marxism is turned into an object of derision and nothing stands in the way of an unalterable decline.

One Million Bonds

Ian Fleming, an author of some repute, created a character with a license to kill. In Lahore, Pakistan, a terror group acting under its religion-or its distortion of its own religion, murdered a number of innocent coreligionists. This has become common in the practice of Jihad from Pakistan to New York City. Under color of faith or the guise of martyrdom, these nihilists and atavists are destroying any possibility of peace. If even one in a million Muslims shares this perverse vision of what Allah wants, this tiny minority still has the determination and power through self-sacrifice and mass murder to force the West into extreme measures which will inevitably harm innocent Muslims and further stoke the fire of a new type of world war by radicalizing even more Muslims who will feel targeted and join the Jihadi cause. Even if only one percent of Muslims share the evil tenets of al Qaeda or the warped belief in a twelfth Mahdi that is more than a million people who think their faith gives them a license to kill.

Ignore the Rhetoric

I watched the anointed one on the Bob Schieffer show. I was probably one of the few who found the Sunday show on CBS (Communist Broadcasting System, Central-planning Bureau of Stalinism, Congratulation on Becoming Socialists-insert own line here) since almost nobody watches. Obama has a remarkable facility to tailor a palatable message-why he sounds like Reagan when he wants to, but underlying (and I emphasize lying) Obama's words are his true sentiments which he revealed to Joe the plumber in an unguarded moment. On the war front, "BO" sounds a bellicose as Patton to Schieffer, but his real intentions were revealed when the administration said it was seeking "moderate Taliban", an oxymoron if there ever was one, to dialogue with-Barack Hussein Obama finds America responsible for everything she has suffered and even blames us for Mexico's drug war. Obama disdains the military even more than Bill Clinton did. It is a shame that all of Obama's questioners are his handmaidens committed to perpetuating the manufactured presidency.

Rushing Toward Destruction

In addition to dismantling free market capitalism and revoking our foundational ideal, Obama is determined to retreat to defeat in Iraq and give back blood-bought gains and make an anemic effort in Afghanistan. When half a million or more (I have heard 750,000 from one defense expert) combat and support troops would be needed on the ground to secure victory, the "unserious one" is sending seventeen thousand and four thousand military advisers. Obama will talk a good game-he always does, but he will not commit sufficient resources to win the counter-insurgency. By not sealing victory, he is guaranteeing perpetual fighting until he or his successor, if that successor is of a like mind, withdraws in defeat. Isn't it nice that Obama pretends the justice of this cause as if he needs to justify Bush's original intent which everyone but insane leftists and Jihadists themselves recognized all along? It is a shame that so many nations proclaimed unity with the US after September 11, 2001 but so few did anything to match their rhetoric. Only a lack of will could have cost civilization this war-which is exactly what the US and our European allies are displaying.

Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Evil has existed since man's memory runneth not to the contrary. So, too, has naivete. Those who consider themselves moral, decent people (or leaders) have often sought an accommodation with evil. They include the pre-World War II appeasers and the appeasers of this generation. They are attempting to coerce Israel, the front line for democracy and Western values, to make compromises with the modern face of evil, a genocidal, nihilistic brand of Islam characterized by the obligation of Jihad. Netanyahu is not a barrier on the road to peace. Criticism of Islam is not by its nature inflammatory-those Muslims who seek reform of their own faith are by their actions-critics. To fall in line with those who urge limits on speech to protect this or any other faith advances totalitarianism. Any suppression of speech to spare feelings is an affront to universal human liberty. Silencing those who don't tow the party line and embrace political correctness will go a long way to losing the war which isn't after all against Islam or even terror but is the struggle to advance freedom and as Natan Sharansky has stated it, democratic values-as democracies virtually never make war on each other.

Sudan- Intrigue Abounds

The Jerusalem Post carried a story broken by CBS in the US that Israeli planes had destroyed a weapons convoy bound for Gaza as it crossed Sudan. Would it not be wonderful if some nation was willing to stand against the arbitrary power of the Sudanese regime, so willingly used against the innocents of Darfur and formerly against Christians and animists in other parts of the country? Whether it was Israel or the US that staged the alleged attack-hurrah-someone is standing against mass murder and the export of terror. Maybe if more nations acted in this manner against evil, terror could actually be vanquished.

Obstacle to Peace

The last question Obama answered last night reveals quite a bit about his perspective on the Middle East-and should be alarming to those who support Israel. Instead of disputing the premise of the question from an AFP reporter, Obama went along with the idea that Netanyahu and Lieberman might present barriers to peace. Obama could easily have deflected the question by saying "both sides" or "those who harbor terror", but instead, Obama said he would be "persistent".  "BO" accepts that Israel is the stumbling block to peace. Israel has always wanted an enduring peace and has made and is willing to make enormous sacrifices to obtain it. The Palestinians who are not the only enemy Israel has to deal with, by in large, do not want peace, but favor the removal or subjugation of Jews in the Holy Land. Never forget that the Palestinian Liberation Organization was formed to battle and overturn Israel in 1964-three(3) years before Israel came into possession of what most of the world terms "occupied territory" which more appropriately should be called "disputed territory". The West Bank is not the objective of the Palestinian struggle-the true aim of the Jihad against Israel is genocide, expulsion, forced conversion, turning Jews into dhimmi or into corpses. Israel, no matter the leadership, advances the prospect of peace. If the Arabs disarmed, there would be peace. If Israel disarmed, annihilation of the Jews would ensue. Peace will come only with a reformation of Islam when Muslims abandon the idea of conversion by the sword. Obama does not and will never recognize this glaring fact.