The Battered Wife

Hillary Clinton was sent out to spout the party line that Obama has concocted as US foreign policy on ABC's Sunday morning laughathon. How much of Hillary's positioning is heart-felt remains an open question. Everyone is aware of our Secretary of State's marital problems with Bill where she gave as good as she got, a thrown lamp for an infidelity, allegedly. But the suffering Ms. Clinton endured goes much deeper. She may not be President today due to another adulterer, not her serial philanderer of a husband, but former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. Had Edwards not split some of HRC's vote away, she would have secured the nomination and been in the Oval Office today. Obama and Edwards made a Kennedy-Dodd sandwich out of her. Whether Hillary would be as strident against Israel is in doubt if she were not acting as the apostate Muslim Obama's subordinate. She would certainly have been driving down a similar road as Obama as was demonstrated years ago with her sweet embrace of Suha Arafat after the arch-terrorist's "wife" had just accused Jews of deliberate genocide of Palestinian children with poison gas, but perhaps she would have been traveling more slowly, rather than careening off a cliff and forcing Israel either out of existence or if Israel manages to stave off liquidation at the hands of Iran and/or the horde of Muslim Jihadists encompassing Hizballah, Hamas, al Qaeda, and their state terror backers, into an even worse and unjustified international pariah status. Obama and his proxy have crafted a strategy to comfort US enemies such as Iran and confront our ally Israel. Cynthia Tucker appeared on the panel on the same ABC program to damn Jews with the faint praise of the Jewish dual loyalty canard. She said that Jewish Senators and Congressmen had lined up in support of the President's policy to pressure Israel. What would be expected of any politician of the same party but to back his leader? Only Eric Cantor, the sole Jew left on the Republican side should Franken's manipulation unseat Coleman, be expected to oppose any policy set by our radical leftist leader. Any commentator who articulates a position as Tucker did, could be deemed an anti-Semite. For Jews in political office, as for other faiths, nation always comes first, except in America's Democratic party, of course, where all too often, party is the highest loyalty.

No Greater Love

My father is not a man taken with sentiment. He has survived his four siblings. One of those, his only brother Martin was in the field artillery of the Virginia National Guard before it was activated into the Army of the US. Martin was lucky as it happened because he rotated out of the Guard and joined the US Navy as a corpsman where he was stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital throughout World War II. If Martin had stayed in the National Guard, there is a high probability that he would have died on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day. The activated Virginia National Guard was the first to hit the beach at Normandy and sustained massive casualties, serving almost as cannon fodder for the Nazis to exhaust themselves on, before the US First Infantry Division, the Big Red One of the regular US Army cleared the beach. There were, of course, the Rangers, Reagan's eternal "boys of Pointe du Hoc" missioned with an impossible task. There were other landings, Americans gaining Utah without rivers of blood, Gold, Sword, and Juno with allied forces from blitz-battered Britain, Free French, occupied Poland (later so cruelly betrayed), and the Canadians avenging Dieppe, the rehearsal commando raid for D-Day two years before that left so many Canucks dead or captured, with the deepest first day penetration. There were also French resistance fighters risking all to assist with the liberation, and there were the pathfinders, paratroopers, and glider borne troops and their pilots. My father had volunteered as a glider pilot, been one of only four (4) out of hundreds to pass the glider corps academic test, only to find himself declared 4-F for a health concern. It is Lord's grace that I was ever born, as the glider pilots died in droves. Instead, my father served in the Civil Air Patrol, witnessing U-boat attacks off the Atlantic coast. Once in an antique mall, my father found a book, the honor roll of Virginia's World War II dead-not all of them from D-Day including his next door neighbor, a dentist's son with matinee idol looks who became a Navy pilot only to fall in the Pacific Campaign, Buddy Waddell. He read the ranks from Allegheny County, the little town of Covington, the home of his youth, and there among the musty tomes, I saw a tough man weep.

To the Wolves

Obama is an appeaser of the first magnitude and is ready to sacrifice Israel in spite of his tremendous level of Jewish support. Obama sees the Palestinians as beleaguered and oppressed kindred spirits in the struggle against an imperial, expansionist, colonial outpost without regard to the larger context of Israel's precarious survival, not merely against constant Palestinian terror, initiated not in 1967 when Israel acquired the so-called territories but even before the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron was massacred by their Arab neighbors. Pograms against Jews in the Holy Land originated well before this outrage. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, with its charter calling for Israel's destruction, which raised terror against innocents to a high art and was the precursor organization to groups like al Qaeda, was founded in 1964, three (3) years before Israel even came into possession of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. In any event, the Palestinian issue is not the heart of the matter. The basis of the conflict is Pan-Arab and Muslim rejectionism of the concept of a Jewish state. These nations, which dwarf Israel and which could easily have absorbed Palestinian refugees in 1948 as Israel did with the roughly equivalent number of Jews expelled from Arab and Muslim countries but have instead kept the Palestinians as stateless pawns to inflame hostility toward Jews, have been in a state of war with Israel since her creation. Only Egypt and Jordan have given up overt hostilities, but the peace that exists today between Israel and these neighbors is anything but warm with both Jordan and Egypt routinely denouncing Israel and Egypt largely turning a blind eye to massive weapons smuggling into Gaza. The Palestinians are cynically used by other Muslim leaders to divert attention from their own corruption and mismanagement, but do you really think leaders in places like Iran and Syria with little concern for the welfare of their own citizens, care so much for the alleged plight of the Palestinians (whose own suicide bombers caused Israel to impose the restrictions which complicate Palestinian day to day life)? Does Israel's claimed repression fuel the fire of Jihad in Kashmir? Does the tiny Jewish state cause starvation in Darfur? Obama's speech simply played into the hands of radicals who agree that if the Holocaust occurred at all that it is comparable to what Israel forces the Palestinians to endure and that Israel's very existence is artificial in the region rather than an organic and Biblically proven feature of the area with a continuous Jewish presence since the days of David even if it was made smaller by exile and forced diaspora. The Jews were granted that land by the Lord and no just American leader would ever try to separate the Jews from their one minuscule piece of land in a sea of Arab and now Persian Muslims who feel Koranically-commanded to kill them.

This Is Palestine

Palestinians were already granted control of their destiny in an area evacuated by Israel-that is the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians used that freedom to wage a civil war between the irredentist Palestinian Authority which is led by Mahmoud Abbas (who has the nom de guerre abu Mazen-every peace loving constituency should be governed by a leader with a "name for war") and the genocidal Hamas terrorist group which by far enjoyed the popular support of the Palestinian man on the street. In the event, Hamas won resoundingly first in the polls and then in the battle on the streets, murdering Palestinian Authority representatives and sending the survivors fleeing to the relative safety of Israel. What emerged in Gaza after the Hamas victory was a rocket-lobbing, hostage-taking nightmare for Israel. Abbas, the alternative to Hamas is himself a Holocaust denier, who spent years helping Arafat orchestrate his campaign of terror, aimed at eradicating the Jewish state. His intention is not peace, but the gradual elimination of the Jewish state, the primary difference between him and Hamas being, he is willing to present the pretense of a peaceful face to the West while destroying Israel while Hamas does not want to wait through any preliminaries. Neither Hamas nor the Abbas government is willing to accept even the existence of a Jewish state much less reach any lasting accommodation with Israel. Israel is being turned by Obama into the scapegoat for the hostility between Muslims and the rest of the world. The Israelis certainly sparked the Muslim problem in the Philippines, in Chechnya, in China, didn't they? The violence between Muslims and infidels couldn't possibly be because of something intrinsically bellicose and belligerent in the Koran, such as an admonition not to take as a friend a Christian or Jew or an exhortation to convert with the sword? The Muslim world will not make peace with the US until it is doing their dirty work by dismantling Israel piece by piece or destroying the Jewish state outright on their behalf, but that won't be enough for die hard Jihadists who will not rest until America turns her churches into mosques. No peace will ensue between the US and Islam until moderate Muslims, like those who in the recent past ruled Turkey, sweep the fanatics from the mosques, no matter what befalls Israel and the West. Israel prays for peace: unfortunately, there is no Muslim arbiter with real popular power among the Palestinians for the Jews to make peace with as even the West's peacemaker of the day, Abbas, wishes the eventual liquidation of the Jewish state.

Obama Visits Masters

Obama is paying a call on the "overlords of OPEC" to receive further instructions on the sellout of Israel and if he is a Manchurian Candidate as I suspect, the betrayal of America as well. Perhaps we should rechristen him (how inappropriate for an apostate Muslim), as "the man from Mecca" since Obama seems to be representing the interests of the Wahhab instead of the protecting the precepts of our Constitution. We have a leader in the US who revels in apologizing for our own nation, the country that has liberated more people than all other nations combined, the country that protected the Muslims of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Saddam's aggression and reversed his expansionism, the nation that rushed to stop Serbs shedding Muslim blood in Bosnia and Kosovo. Obama was weaned on "blame America first" as Jeane Kirkpatrick so aptly put the leftist madness of ignoring all our goodness and magnifying our flaws and Faulkner's "original sin" that we like almost every other nation held slaves until the national bloodletting of the Civil War expiated that sin in the eyes of many, but not in Obama's view which still casts us through the jaundiced prism of race-baiting, gender difference, and race hatred even generations after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. America never was and will never be a Utopia, a workers' paradise as Obama is trying to reshape us, or any other kind of flawless entity. Every polity by the flawed nature of the men who form it, will have its cracks but the Republic we established is by far the greatest ever conceived by the minds of men. The Muslims who have displayed empathy for our so-called victims amongst their coreligionists should be apologizing to Obama that it took thousands of US dead to free Afghanistan from the misogynistic madness of the Taliban and liberate Iraq from Saddam-one of the world's epic autocrats with Stalin, Hitler, and Pal Pot. We have absolutely nothing to apologize to Muslims for, some of whom including many in the Palestinian territories handed out candy and danced in celebration after the September 11, 2001 treachery visited on my country. Mr. Obama, since you seem to love Islam so much, please renounce your claimed Christian faith, your office, your US citizenship, and just stay over there. That would prove your commitment to the faith of of your father(s) and save us from the destruction you are wreaking on a country you rule but evidently despise in the incarnation in which you rose to power and seem mortified to have to represent with our history of nothing but warts (to borrow from Cromwell). Allah Akbar and God bless America, Generalissimo Obama.

Where's the Improvement

The last President Bush was mocked for considering his a divinely inspired mission, and for the certainty in his actions and the rightness of his cause that his faith brought him. Obama has just overseen the bankruptcy of two of the no longer Big Three, with only Ford remaining an independent entity. Unemployment continues to rise and if a Republican held the office, the media would say joblessness was skyrocketing. Foreclosures continue apace and home values plummet. Yet, the dinosaur media root for the President. The liberal elite rally around Obama and broach no Obama criticism. In normal circumstances, Obama would rightly be called a insouciant and dangerous leader (whether he is a domestic danger suspending rights or simply allowing foreign menace to go unchallenged). Obama is lauded for any positive, most of which happened in spite of Obamaism, not because of it. The stock market reverses some of its losses, and Obama is a genius and savior-many stocks were oversold and good values, the President did not revive the markets. Obama is a shameless opportunist who is capitalizing on a pliant media that bends to his whim, and the stupidity and arrogant ignorance of many of his supporters.

Good Riddance Tiller

An abortionist, who made a fortune preying on the most innocent, was killed as his presence soiled a church (no congregation that would tolerate an active, open mass murderer in its ranks should be called a church) on Sunday. He had terminated hundreds if not thousands of pregnancies. He is now facing the righteous wrath of the Lord with an eternity of damnation. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The media remarked on the baby killer's large family, ironic considering how many births never happened and how many children were never able to raise families of their own because of Tiller's actions. Some may suggest that perhaps, if the families of the murder mill owners felt as imperiled as the murderers themselves, there would be less abortion, but a civilized approach of changing hearts and minds is the course that the moral compass dictates.