Who could of seen this coming eh? Surely not Obama:

Egyptian election results present ‘nightmare scenario’

Naw, the only thing Obama saw coming was the huge political benefits in portraying himself as the man who backs the little people as they fight oppression.

One little flaw in that thinking. He was backing those who wanted to ensure fanatical Islam ruled once more.

Egypt looks set for weeks of tension and uncertainty after the first round of its landmark presidential election produced a runoff between the candidate backed by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and a former general who is seen as a hangover from the regime of the deposed Hosni Mubarak.

In what many described as a “nightmare scenario” that will mean a polarised and possibly violent second round, Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party polled around 26% in the two-day first round. Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime minister, came second with 23% when 90% of the votes had been counted.

Amr Moussa, the former head of the Arab League, who tried to capture the centre ground, was knocked out. Late on Friday there was only a slight chance that the final picture would change when votes for Cairo and Giza were in.

Turnout was said to be around 40% of the 51m-strong electorate. Official results are yet to be published but a combination of exit polls, centrally collected data and reporting by the candidates appeared to confirm a dramatic runoff that many supporters of the revolution consider a catastrophic outcome. “It feels as if the revolution never took place,” lamented a despondent George Ishaq, a founder of the leftwing Kifaya Party.

“The Brotherhood are despotic and fanatical and Shafiq is the choice of Mubarak. It is a very bad result. The revolution is not part of this contest”

Shocking! I mean Hillary assured us that Islamic Democracy would cause western values to spring forth…and here we are. The Muslim Brotherhood or a Mubarak General.

Obama wants US taxpayers to cough it up for the Arab Spring:

The White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.

In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years — $1.3 billion — despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.

The proposals are part of Obama’s budget request for fiscal year 2013, which begins October 1. His requests need the approval of Congress, where some lawmakers want to cut overseas spending to address U.S. budget shortfalls and are particularly angry at Egypt.

Obama proposed $51.6 billion in funding for the U.S. State Department and foreign aid overall, when $8.2 billion in assistance to war zones is included. The “core budget” for the category would increase by 1.6 percent, officials said.

Most of the economic aid for the Arab Spring countries — $770 million — would go to establish a new “Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund,” the president said in his budget plan.

And what would that be nurturing? This is what they have in mind:

In a recent sermon, the General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Badi’, set out his vision for his movement and for Egypt in the post-revolutionary era. Citing Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Bana, he stated that the movement has two goals. The immediate goal is to prepare the hearts and minds of its members, which involves “purifying the soul, amending behavior, and preparing the spirit, the mind and the body for a long struggle.” The second, long-term, goal is to affect “a total reform of all domains of life,” which will eventually result in establishment of an Islamic state governed according to Koranic law – first in Egypt and eventually in the entire world.

Badi’ stressed that this long-term goal can only be achieved by gradual stages: by “reforming the individual, then restructuring the family, then building society and the government, then [establishing] the rightly guided Caliphate, and [finally achieving] mastership of the world.” He also emphasized that this must be achieved through cooperation among all the forces and sectors in Egypt, and without any coercion: “All these purposes and goals… must be realized… through unity of ranks [not division], by persuasion, not coercion, and by love, not by force.” Badi’ warned against the “attempts to split up the united ranks [of the nation] and drive a wedge between young and old, men and women, Muslims and Christians, and [different religious] schools and groups,” saying that the Egyptian nation will need all of its human resources in order to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Finally, he advised his followers not to follow their emotions but to manipulate the circumstances rationally and realistically: “Do not fight the ways of the world because they are overpowering. [Instead], try to overcome them, use them, change their course, and pit some of them against others.”

Obama wants us to pay for that! And what has Obama gotten us thus far? Nothing but bad news.

Remember the bad old days of George W. Bush, when cowboy foreign policy turned the world against America?

Remember how the dulcet tones and apology tours of Mr. Hope & Change would remake the globe in our favor?

Ah, never mind. The parade of horribles is on the march, and some former allies are leading the way.

Egypt, where President Obama tossed Hosni Mubarak under the bus, is rapidly becoming an Islamist state. The arrest and pending trials of 19 Americans working for nongovernmental agencies puts an exclamation point on how far Egypt has moved away from our orbit.

The Palestinians, blowing off the warning that our aid dollars cannot be used to support a government that includes Hamas, are moving toward a unity government—one that includes Hamas.

Three years of begging with the thugs running Syria got us a slaughter of civilians we are powerless to stop.

Libya, where we helped overthrow Qaddafi, is splintering, with the militias we supported starting to fight one another for power.

Nothing has changed in Iran, except the mullahs are three years closer to a nuclear bomb.

Russia has accepted our “reset” concessions and responded by sticking its thumb in our eye from Iran to Syria.

Meanwhile, how many new allies have we made in the past three years? None.

What a shock. This President will send troops into Uganda, drop bombs into Libya, back fanatical Muslims in Egypt, but when it comes to Iran….and our top secret technology, he’s a bit timid:

With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President Obama was presented with three separate options for retrieving or destroying the drone. The president ultimately decided not to proceed with any of the plans because it could have been seen as an act of war.

…One official told Fox News on Thursday that the incident is a huge loss and makes the top-secret helicopter tail lost during the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan “look like a pittance.” The official said there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese, in addition to using it themselves.

What a pansy.

And then he brags about bin-Laden but allows the Muslim Brotherhood to come ever so closer to their dreamed about sixth Caliphate.

The destruction he has done to this country, and it’s future security is breathtaking to behold.

“I want to say that democracy is a bad idea. We should not feel ashamed to say it. It is a bad, backwards, and retarded idea…Even the freedoms, what are they? Among the freedoms inherent in the democratic system are freedom for women, freedom of ownership, freedom of homosexuality, personal freedom, freedom of conscience and expression, freedom to disbelieve in the Creator of Heaven and Earth. There’s mixing (of men and women), usury–all of this is in democracy, which is why I condemn it.” -Shaykh Sa‘id ’Abd-al-’Azim, leader of Egypt’s militant salafi movement

Watch the video here.

Word comes that Barack Obama has engaged the United States into a fourth war- in Yemen. Once again this is done without the advice or consent of Congress. This diminutive property on the Arabian Peninsula is clearly an imminent threat to the United States. As the costs for Barack’s Libyan adventure spiral to who knows where Obama finds another swamp in which to mire the United States. The guy who was dead set against the war in Iraq has now initiated two of his own wars. The guy who said “Change in the region will not and cannot be imposed by the United States or any foreign power” has toppled one government in the Middle East and is waging war on two more.

It started in Tunisia. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was forced out following a revolt. What is to follow is at best uncertain, but there are clues. Islamic Fundamentalists burned down three brothels in Tunis.

Under Ali, Tunisia was fairly Westernized:

About 98 percent of the population of 10 million is Muslim, but Tunisia’s liberal social policies and Western lifestyle shatter stereotypes of the Arab world. Abortion is legal, polygamy is banned and women commonly wear bikinis on the country’s Mediterranean beaches. Wine is openly sold in supermarkets and imbibed at bars across the country.

Any changes will be the bellwether for the future. Elections are expected in July or August and at least one Islamic candidate is anticipated. Four months after the revolt, economic conditions are deteriorating and certain groups thrive in such a milieu. Ennahdha, a religious political movement outlawed under Ali, is reorganizing. Ennahdha is allied with another similar group- the Muslim Brotherhood.

Perhaps seeing himself as the George Washington of the Arab Spring, Obama kicked out Hosni Mubarak out of Cairo to make room for democracy but dark clouds are appearing over the region.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis have formed a coalition to bring about an Islamic state in Egypt.

Salafists are generally described as Muslims who consider the period of early Islam and the “Salaf” (forefathers), or first generations of Muslims, as exemplary role models. The term “Salafi Jihadists” refers to those Salafis who support a violent, jihadist ideology.

The Muslim Brotherhood, frequently described as “fundamentalist”, has been banned in Egypt since 1948. Until recently.

The Muslim Brotherhood, once illegal in Egypt, has been legalized and recognized as a political party under the name “Freedom and Justice Party.”

It is argued that this merger has placed Egypt’s Christians in great peril.

Since the pro-democratic happenings in Tahrir Square in January, Egypt’s Christian minority has been consistently persecuted by uncorked crazies. Churches have been set alight and some areas of the country have grown so parlous that Christians are holed up in their homes, afraid to attend Mass even on Palm Sunday. The assurances of Abd Al-Azim, a leader of Gama’a in Alexandria, will have failed to persuade them to do otherwise: “If the Christians want safety they should submit to the rule of God and be confident that the Islamic sharia will protect them.”

Just this week, 190 people were detained overnight in Cairo after 12 people were killed and over 180 hurt in the working-class neighbourhood of Imbaba, where two Coptic churches and people’s homes were firebombed. The reason? A Salafi-hatched rumour that a Christian woman had converted to Islam in order to marry a Muslim man and was being held against her will in the Saint Mena Church (one of the two burnt). This came after another Christian, Camilia Shehata, had gone on television to deny a similar allegation about her proscribed conversion to Islam.

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The hand writing is on the wall.

One down, several more to go.

After disposing of Mubarak, Obama put the cross hairs on Moammar Gaddafi. First, Obama demanded that Gaddafi leave Libya. When Gaddafi refused to knuckle under, Barack Obama, who ignored the “Arab Spring” in Iran, found something or other in Libya so compelling that he initiated a “kinetic military operation” which was to take “days, not weeks.” The War Powers Act has expired and Barack Obama has once again let us know he does not need to operate within the confines of the law or the Constitution. Obama now speaks of our participation in these wars as “NATO” to confuse liberals so they won’t think the US is involved. For the very same reason, Obama uses the term “kinetic military action” instead of “war.” Obama’s KMA has overtly targeted Gaddafi for death. Instead, it has resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of civilians and members of Gaddafi’s family, including a son and three grandchildren.

Next in the queue is Yemen. The US “condemned bloody political violence in Yemen” and demanded that Yemen’s President Saleh leave his country. Saleh dug his heels in and before you could say Fatoot Saleh was injured in a bombing, allegedly at the hands of an “outlaw gang.” By pure coincidence the US has stepped up its covert (kinetic?) military operations in Yemen, allegedly targeting the Al Qaida militants who are going to fill the void in the country that Obama is working hard to create.

Obama’s foreign policy for the Middle East is clear and it is straight out of the Windy City. He asks you to leave and if you don’t, you get a visit from the drone fairy.

Obama can possibly force all of these leaders from power but without direct intervention, he opens the door for the most motivated of opportunists- the Islamists that these leaders kept suppressed for a long time. Bad as they were or are, the leaders whose elimination Barack Obama is overseeing were allies in the war on terror.

There is unrest in Algeria now as well that has been ongoing for nearly twenty years. The roots of that unrest are not different from the rest of the region- Fundamentalist Islam. Algeria is also an ally in the war on terror.

Most curiously, corruption and human rights abuse- the very reasons given for the revolts in these countries- is not enough to thwart a meeting between Barack Obama and President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon:

The White House is rolling out the red carpet today for President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, whose penniless West African regime is notorious for its human rights abuses and widespread corruption (hat tip: this eye-opening report by ABC News). In yet another display of extraordinarily bad judgment, the Obama administration is extending the hand of friendship to another prominent tyrant, just two days after Washington sided with Hugo Chavez and various Latin American despots against Britain in a declaration over the Falkland Islands by the Organisation of American States (OAS).

Gabon is not an ally in the war on terror. To coin a term- WTF?

Which is pretty much what Nile Gardiner asks:

Is this really the kind of “partner” the White House wants to cultivate? The decision by President Obama to host one of Africa’s worst despots is a sad reflection on the current US administration, whose dictator-friendly foreign policy, from Tehran to Khartoum to Libreville, is an embarrassment for the leader of the free world.

Barack Obama is setting the stage for a Fundamentalist Islamic Spring. The unrest is too well timed. The uprisings are too similar to one another. It is not what it appears to be at the surface.

Wounded Aboard The USS Liberty After Being Attacked By Israel

It is painful to say, but so many of us don’t understand the difference between ‘Intelligence’ and ‘Mis-Information’. This article will illustrate several factors that escape our consciousness of thought; unfortunately, most of us are victims of mis-information. I served in counterterrorism and counterintelligence for 27 years. Most people think because they have served in the military or in the government they actually have a true grasp of what is actually happening; nothing could be further from the truth!

Sadly, most of us will go to the grave, without ever really knowing the truth. Every government of the world is involved in intelligence and mis-information. Here is a simplified version of who is responsible for what:

Intelligence

1. Private Contractors
2. Intelligence agencies
3. Military personnel
4. Private Individuals

Mis-Information

1. Mis-Informed Politicians
2. News Media
3. Military Personnel
4. Foreign Governments and Diplomats
5. General Public
6. Religious Institutions
7. Terrorist Groups
8. Law Enforcement Agencies
9. Government Agencies
10. International Agencies (United Nations, etc.)

Within the United States Government, the majority of people who actually have a grasp of what and why things are actually happening are appointed, contracted, and are government employees. Elected officials are often the least informed. If a Senator or a Commanding Officer makes a statement concerning official policy, the reality is they often don’t have a clue.

Presently, because of our president’s favoritism toward the Palestinians at the expense of Israeli security, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been positioned in the forefront. I worked in intelligence and counterintelligence for both countries, with apologies to no one, but if you will analyze these next few paragraphs, you may begin to question what you think you know and get a glimpse of what really happened or is happening. You need an open mind and the ability to admit misconceptions.

We shall start at the beginning of Israel, 1947-48. I will provide background and commentary on the key players of that era: you will be free to draw your own conclusions after reading the article.

Britain and the United States needed a base of operations for naval, air, and ground forces in the Middle East for strategic and economic reasons. The United States State Department was instrumental in proposing and lobbying for the proposed Jewish State of Israel before the newly formed United Nations.

The United States and Great Britain were supplying armaments and supplies to the Arab states: while Britain tried to prevent the importation of armaments to Israel.

Britain and the United States wrote an agreement to help the new born Jewish State become established and another agreement that would divide it after failing to defend itself against numerically superior Arab militias. The United States would take the Northern area and Britain would have the Southern section. Thus the U.S. and Britain were not overly concerned with defensible borders or a large land mass for Israel, the area was sufficient for their strategic and economic plans; they didn’t expect Israel to last over a couple of weeks.

The Arab nations also felt Israel would fall within a week or less. The Arab leaders felt they would be able to tap into the economies for vast sums of money from the U.S. and G.B..

To some of you, this may be upsetting; since, you were probably taught differently, but I will point out some verifying factors.

The Georgetown University Center for studies of peace in the Middle East…..Who paid for it?

Who heads the educational system for all of our State department officials?

With every group that is sponsored by our government on studies of the Middle East who teaches and heads up those divisions?

How many translators does the United States military have enlisted who were trained to speak Arabic?

And why are we depending on Iraqis to serve as translators in Iraq?

Does our Military undergo any type of training as to the customs and mentality of the Arabic speaking people? Very little to none! I could write a book in explanation of why all of this is the way it is; however, this is not my objective.

The USS Liberty incident.

The public information available and the naiveté of the amateur historian is laughable and the willingness of the public to believe what they read or have been told defies logic.

Following the USS Liberty incident, Israeli intelligence asked the United States if they wanted the pilot radio logs and the intercepted radio transmissions that were intercepted and recorded to be made public to help clarify the issue.

The reaction by the U.S. was to sweep everything under the carpet.

It is reasonable to ask why.

Perhaps, there was intelligence being transmitted to the Egyptians. Israel was indeed in a desperate struggle for survival and had no alternative but to stop the source of that intelligence to the Egyptians.

Now, we must ask, when in the history of the U.S. was an attack on an American Military vessel swept under the rug?

Why would the U.S. government take such an action?

When in the history of the United States did diplomatic relations become stronger after an attack on a military vessel?

We have only two allies who have paid back their debts to the U.S., Israel and Taiwan; yet, they have been repeatedly stabbed in the back through the diplomatic process by Liberal administrations.

Israel, has two great enemies, the Zionist and the Liberal; they have been Israel’s greatest enemies from the beginning.

To survive this system of Intelligence and Mis-Intelligence, it is imperative to start over with new people who have vision and objectives. It is written ” the people who have no vision will perish!”

Shimon Perez and Obama are from the same philosophical family; they see history as an empty slate to be manipulated for political advantage. They want to remain in power, even if it tears the very core of their countries apart and destroys the foundations of those countries.

Our politicians have no vision and we will perish as a nation if we cannot produce a complete change of government and establish a government that serves the people and not a political agenda: ” the people that have no vision will perish”.

The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

Never try to estimate the heat in a raging fire until you have actually been caught in one and never under estimate the ability of you enemy as long as he is still alive!

Captain John W. Wells USN

Liberals and Communists can only be trusted when they have no office and even then, from no less than 3 feet away!

J.V. Hoffman

Epilogue: The attack on the USS Liberty has been obfuscated by our government, that is obvious. If some of you are dissatisfied with the facts in this post, feel free to dispute them with more precise facts, but as Chill has cautioned us, don’t rely on emotion, that is a fool’s technique. Verify your facts and present them in an organized and precise debate. I am merely the messenger, who can present this episode with fewer errors; other than that, this tragedy has bothered me for a long time and I just want the truth. Right now, this is the most plausible scenario I have heard, but I am open to reason and logic. Emotional attacks, heavy breathing, drooling, and name calling; the methods we see on Liberal blogs is demeaning and wont be tolerated.

Ready on the right, ready on the left, commence firing!

Some Of The Damage Sustained By The USS Liberty

It’s another day, and yet another Obama speech. The campaign season has kicked off, and a POTUS, laboring under the ineffectiveness of his own economic policies, and a sketchy history of foreign policy calls, is planning on mustering his full orative skills to redefine history and paint a rosy face on what many call the “Arab spring”.

As is central to just about every POTUS in recent history, Israeli-Palestine lies in the forefront. But despite Netanyahu’s willingness to resume talks just months after Obama’s inaugural, 2009 brought not even a blip of success. That same year proved Obama’s hope that Iran would be receptive also fell flat on it’s face. Come fall of 2010…. Netanyahu and Abbas show up at the WH. Despite Obama warnings that, paraphrased (and with apologies to Seals & Croft), “we may never pass this way again”, the negotiations yield nothing. Come campaign season, and this POTUS at least needs to look like an effort has been made… especially after all the posturing about those “democratic uprisings”.

The reality is that the words and events are merely a sideshow, and the peace process is more unlikely to go any where than at any time in our recent past. What both nations envision as a “two-state” solution are worlds apart. Steven Walk at the Foreign Policy Magazine seems to believe this is because Obama refuses to put pressure on Israel, and only focuses on twisting Abbas’ arm. This seems a naive observation, considering this admin’s constant cold shoulder to the US’s greatest ally in the Middle East, and their policy that demands Israel cease all settlement activity.

But if Obama happened to be perusing the Foreign Policy article, it seems that he might have been listening and intends to further play hardball with Israel in his comments later today. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Obama intends to tell Israel to withdraw to pre 1967 boundaries, and renegotiate new territorial adjustments with the Palestinian National Authority.

On the other hand, the NY Times says Obama is undecided on his position for Israel.

Officials said Mr. Obama was weighing whether to formally endorse Israel’s pre-1967 borders as the starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state — a move that would be less a policy shift than a signal by the United States that it expected Israel to make concessions in pursuit of an agreement.

But several officials said the president did not plan to present an American blueprint for breaking the stalemate between the Israelis and Palestinians. In the absence of that, experts said, there is little he can do to draw the two sides closer, especially since the Arab upheaval has deepened the rift between them.

Mr. Obama has been grappling for a more coherent response to the violent crackdowns in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen and may use the opportunity to increase the pressure on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said stiffer sanctions against the Assad government could be imposed in the coming days.

Right….. like Israeli withdrawal is going to happen. Maybe Obama was happily ensconced in junior IL Senator dreams in 2000, but Bebe is astutely aware that the Israel offer to redefine borders went no where in the Camp David talks between 2000 Arafat and Israel PM Barak. New day, new leaders, same attitudes.

In fact, as the NYT’s notes above, this pipedream for peace is even more unlikely with each ME chaotic uprising. One by one, the nations surrounding Israel are undergoing change. And as a Spiegel article today notes, that supposed move to democracy is not only not happening, but is either stalled, or in the process of a failed revolution.

Revolutions Can Fail

It becomes even more difficult when many ordinary citizens turn against the revolution, as has been the case in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as Yemen and Oman. As it turns out, it isn’t just the elites most closely associated with autocratic leaders who fear for their benefits, privileges and positions. These fears are also shared by the thousands upon thousands involved in the bloated apparatus of political parties and governments. And the lower their position and income, the more desperately they sometimes cling to the traditional system, particularly because ordinary public servants were not able to line their pockets and open Swiss bank accounts.

The Arab revolution has come to a standstill, and all signs point to a restoration of the status quo. The new Arab world has reached a point at which many revolutionaries are worn out and those who are still in power refuse to give up control. Influenced by the images of celebration from Tunis, Benghazi and Cairo, many apparently forgot that revolutions could also fail.

What succeeded in Central and Eastern Europe 20 years ago is not necessarily destined to repeat itself in the Middle East. The Tunisians and Egyptians have undoubtedly made history, but the regimes in the countries to which their revolutionary virus has spread now have no intention of allowing their governments to implode.

The first act in the revolutionary drama in the Arab world ended when Libyan Colonel Gadhafi refused to go into exile, like Tunisia’s former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, or to retire, like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, instead ordering his thugs to shoot at his own people. Gadhafi’s stubbornness has emboldened many autocrats. If the Libyan dictator had followed in former Tunisian President Ben Ali’s footsteps and stepped down, there would be no tanks in the streets or people being herded into football stadiums in Syria.

Even Egypt’s revolutionary hero, Mohamed ElBaradei, notes that the nation’s situation is going from bad to worse.

The situation in Cairo is currently changing “from bad to even worse,” warns the Egyptian Nobel laureate and possible presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei. “I’m more concerned about the Salafists than the Muslim Brotherhood.” It was Salafists, members of a fundamentalist movement that invokes what it calls the original Islam, who assassinated former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. They dream of the Middle Ages, demand the reintroduction of a special tax for non-Muslims not assessed since the 7th century, and prayed — in a mosque next to the Coptic cathedral in Cairo — for the soul of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after he was killed.

Islamists were also present during the large demonstrations on Tahrir Square at the beginning of the year. At the time, the protestors, who relied heavily on Facebook to spread their message, managed to maintain the secular character of their revolution. But it remains to be seen how secular the Arab Republic of Egypt will be after the parliamentary elections scheduled for September. The Turkish Islamists had decades to prepare for democratic processes. Their Egyptian counterparts have seven months.

Considering that the Muslim Brotherhood announced their election coalition with those same Salafists at the beginning of this month, elBaradei may be a bit short sighted in is complacence about the MB.

Syria has proven to be yet another of Obama’s serious misjudgments. Instead of the “pragmatist and potential reformer who could buck Iranian influence and help broker an eventual Arab peace deal with Israel” Obama believed Assad to be, it’s likely it will just be some harsh lip service and empty threats for the Syrian leader. Considering that the US raced to NATO, and decided to engage in military intervention with Gaddafi – who has not come anywhere close to the “crackdown” Assad has used on his people – this is going to be a hard disconnect of uneven policy to explain away…. save to the deaf, dumb and blind.

Much as Obama would love to ignore that part of the world, he is going to have to figure out a way to spin failed uprisings against many who were US quasi allies in intelligence, and inaction on those who are overt enemies. While he’ll be happy to use the UBL death as an “exit plan” for Afghanistan, we’re now entrenched in a war with Gaddafi, making threats against Assad, busy invading Pakistan’s sovereignty, and making sure we don’t meet eye to eye with Iran. Nor does it help that the most recent Pew polls show his approval rating has plummeted in both Pakistan and Egypt.

So what’s Obama’s answer to straighten this mess out? Send John “Mr. Ketchup” Kerry to Pakistan and threaten to withhold funds while he tosses money to Egypt and Tunisa instead. That would be, of course, the same Egypt where the MB and Salafists are busy planning their election coalition in a state that’s still under military rule, and kicked out the guy who kept peace with Israel. And Tunisia? That would be the country where Gaddafi shipped his wife and kid for safe keeping. In the unlikely event that Gaddafi did fail to hold power, is there any doubt he would follow? And would we then be funding another country supposedly harboring a despot?

Does this get any more confusing? Chaos may be a great description for the fragility of the Middle East countries at this moment, but it’s also a fitting description for this WH’s foreign policy. Friends get the cold shoulder, invaded, or allied leaders are pressured to back down. Mean while enemies either get cash, military assistance, or a blind eye.

To spin this inconsistent and chaotic policy into any kind of accomplishment is going to take arachnoid qualities of gargantuan proportions. And only the most naive of political prey will be fool enough to stumble into such a woven web of embellishment.

I have known a few really good hunters; although, I don’t include myself among that august group. I am incredibly lucky and that alone has saved my bacon on numerous occasions; actually, being incredibly lucky, sums up my bear hunting skills. Otherwise, I would have passed over that great divide several times. Usually, you a need a lot of luck when you make an incredible mistake; I have made many and I am still here among the living. Typically, it involves a mistake in judgement or breaking one of the simple rules of common sense.

One of the primary rules of common sense is to keep your rifle close to you; this is just common sense, pure and simple, like keeping your lover close to you when you go to the big city. I know, there are people who travel in bear country without rifles and survive for years, but when there is a mistake made, the debt to be paid is always expensive need, like a mistake made when playing with hand grenades, it is a big mistake.

My friend Knarley Manners was driving on the road between Chetwynd and Hudson’s Hope near Mobely Lake when he noticed a bicycle on the road with no rider. Make no mistake, Knarley is a fast thinker and he figured there was trouble. He jumped out of the truck with his rifle in time to see a Grizzly dragging a bicyclist, wearing racing Speedos, kicking and screaming as he was being dragged into the bush. Knarley ran forward towards the bear to get a good shot, so as to avoid killing the bicyclist with a poorly aimed shot and killed the bear with a 30-06 round through the brain pan. Knarley was rather disgusted with the man for wearing such tight revealing underwear without any other clothing, but he threw him in the truck without touching him too closely and even threw his bicycle in the back. You can’t blame Knarley for being disgusted; he had never seen bicycle racing outfits before. In telling the story over the last 40 years or so, Knarley still concentrates on the revealing nature of a man riding a bicycle in tight underwear, rather than the killing of the bear. It was a summer bear and a good thing or Knarley would have made him wait until he had skinned the bear before he’d drive him to the Chetwynd hospital.

After a few hundred stitches and a little rest and relaxation the bicyclist was back on the road, wearing his fancy underwear, searching for new adventures. I would call that a close call in the world of survival. If we depend on a Knarley being there to bail us out when we get in trouble, while wearing our underwear in public, we will probably be disappointed more times than not. I did save Knarley’s life once and he has resented that favor he’s owed me for nearly 50 years now. The one time I would have really appreciated his legendary rifle, he was nowhere around and like the bicyclist it nearly cost me my life, but at least I was dressed properly. Knarley would have appreciated that, if it had gone the wrong way.

It was August 15 th, opening day of moose season and I couldn’t even find moose droppings. By mid-afternoon it had warmed up to the point that shooting a moose could have been a curse rather than a blessing with blow flies and the worry over spoiled meat making the hunt a disaster. I had my backpack with my fly rod and there were fish rising in the river. I fished along a gravel bank for a quarter of a mile or so and caught two nice Grayling for lunch. I gutted them right away and put them in a canvas pouch sling crossed over one shoulder. I just dipped them in the river once in a while to keep them fresh and cool, and kept fishing. There was a rock ledge that jutted out for 30 feet into the river, there was three or four inches of fast water running over it and a coating of moss made it very slippery, but it would give me a wide rang of casting opportunities. I leaned my trust 8mm Mauser against a tree and walked out on the slippery moss with my moccasins, being careful not to slip on the big submerged rock. I could now try to cache that monster fish that seemed to always elude me. He had to be lurking out there in some cold dark hole, just waiting to take a chance on my fly.

I fished for twenty minutes or so and wandered about 30 feet on the submerged ledge. The water was now about ten inches deep and the heat of the day made it seem even colder. It was getting harder to keep from slipping, but I paid homage to the fishing gods and kept trying to entice the grandaddy of them all. Suddenly, bang, I had a good strike and he was hooked solid. He came up out of the water and walked on his tail for eight inches or so. It was a Dolly and a big one. He fought so hard my moose hide moccasins lost traction and down I went. I held onto the rod, but now I was sitting on the slippery rock and the rushing water pushed me on over into the deep water on the down stream side. I was now in cold deep water up to my elbows and fighting to keep from being swept downstream. I turned to try and climb back on the ledge when I noticed a two year old Grizzly walking out on the ledge to join the party.

Good bye Dolly Varden and fly rod, the situation was deteriorating quickly and the fishing was over for the day. He was walking slowly and ever so much closer. My rifle was on the other side of him leaning against a tree and my Buck knife was safely concealed in a pouch on my belt. I could draw my knife, but seriously, if you are reduced to fighting a Grizzly with a knife, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye, because you are going to need some big time luck to stay alive more than a few minutes; even a two year old, weighing a mere 400 pounds or so, is a formidable opponent. I knew I couldn’t out swim him, that would be a joke even for an olympic swimmer. I had one chance, I took the fish sling off my shoulder and took one fish out of the pouch and threw it downstream toward the bank. It landed in the water and he didn’t even seem to notice it. I quickly smashed the remaining fish with my elbow against the ledge to release more scent and grabbed a rock from the ledge about twice the size of my fist and put in the pouch. I swung it around my head like young David facing Goliath and prayed that he would notice the pouch flying through that air and that the pouch would go in the right direction.

Instead of slinging the contents, I let go of the whole sling and it landed about 20 feet down river on the bank. The bear saw the canvas covered fish and followed it with his gaze, he figured it was fairly interesting and turned to check it out before having me for dinner as the main course.

Of all bears, the two year old and the geriatric bear are the most dangerous. The two year old is kicked away from its sow during its two year old year and realizes, albeit belatedly, how important those lessons on finding food were. The geriatric bear is having a hard time securing food also. Its claws are often cracked, broken, worn out and infected as well as its teeth; the infirmities of ages also plague the bear and arthritis slows it down so that it can no longer run down game. Under these conditions of starvation, either bear is likely to lose its innate feelings of shyness towards humans and realize these humans are fairly pathetic in the physical abilities department; especially, if they don’t have that curious weapon, the rifle. While the bear was ripping my canvas fish stringer to shred to get at the tasty morsel, I fought the current, making my way to shore and slipped out of the water, so agonizingly close to the bear.

The bear only gave me cautious glances as he started eating the canvas sack to fully enjoy the fish flavor. I backed up to my rifle to keep my eyes on the bear and hopefully not let him know that I was intimidated. I picked it up with a sense of relief and checked to be sure there was a round in the chamber. I continued backing into the forest and kept my eyes on the bear. He was only a two year old summer bear, his hide was virtually valueless on the fur market and not worth skinning, so I really didn’t want to kill him and waste a bear and a bullet if it wasn’t necessary. Once I was in the forest, I would take thirty long and fast walk strides, counting them and being sure each one landed softly and quietly; again, I didn’t want the bear to hear me running away and think I was afraid. He could follow my scent or hear me, so every thirty strides I would slowly turn doing a 360 to be sure I wasn’t being followed. I stayed clear of thick brush to keep the bear from setting up an ambush.

The more distance I put between the bear and me, the better I began to feel.

I almost made a fatal mistake, but like the bicyclist, I survived by pure luck.

If you remember the title, you may be wondering why you read a story that was supposedly about bear hunting and no one has done any bear hunting: the point is, the bears were hunting and humans unwittingly became the object of the hunt. In today’s world, especially when dealing with warlike countries, who for all purposes are as unpredictable and even more dangerous than the two year old and geriatric Grizzlies. Their only predictable qualities are that they are probably starving and looking for a sign of weakness to make an easy kill.

In the commission of our current foreign policy, we have turned our back and ignored the actions of several of our most dangerous enemies and even offered the gift of improved diplomatic relations and tacit approval of their cruel methods directed toward their own people by ignoring the abuse. Our enemies see confusion, irresolution, misdirection, and disingenuousness of our foreign policy. We are prejudiced against Democracies and praise totalitarian governments pointing out their accomplishments and plans for the future. We have basically deserted Israel and cry over the policies and sacrifices that have led to a constitutional Iraq: while praising the roads and rail systems of China. We apologize to the most tyrannical regimes in the Middle East, Iran and Syria, while they export terror to Iraq, strive to develop nuclear weapons, kill and torture their own citizen demonstrators. Yet, we promote their ruthless dictators as reformers and apologize to them for past infractions while promising not to interfere with their internal affairs. While these tyrannical anti-American dictators become emboldened by our impotent foreign policy, we turn on pro-American dictators who have merely threatened radical reactions to demonstrations. We excuse the cold blooded murder in Iran and Syria by repeating an innocuous word so favored by the Left that it excuses mayhem with a blanket dispensation, thus the bloody dictators learn to call themselves “Revolutionaries”; immediately, transgressions are justified in the fight for revolution and the dismembering of Capitalist influences and power.

Our military adventure in the small thinly populated country of Libya has added to the confusion and escalated the killing and mayhem. We have demonstrated what happens to a country that abandons its nuclear ambitions and how easy it is for a country of seven million to hamstring the military might of America. We are desperate in our efforts to justify our military expenditure and to claim some type of success in Libya, so our president has increased the level of his war game by employing his favorite killing technique, that of using drones to hunt and kill one man. A strategy that has failed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the most famous man hunt of all time.

Domestically, our president’s policies belie his Nobel Prize winning skills; especially, when he interrupts the nation’s business because a close Black friend is justifiably arrested by a White policeman and ignores a savage attack on a White transgendered girl by two Black girls in a McDonalds close to his home, an attack that left the White girl in a seizure, an attack that a Black crew of workers laughed at, filmed, refused to stop, and warned the attackers about the approach of police officers. The nation waits to see if the president and his lackey, Eric Holder will prosecute the girls for a Hate crime or whether that designation is only applied when Blacks are attacked.

Yes, our president confuses our allies; while instilling confidence among our enemies, by a policy of immunity from retribution for execution of acts against the US and our former allies. He has also left the American people bewildered by his irrational international and domestic policies and actions.

There is an old joke in bear hunting camps that has probably been repeated for thousands of years, “Sometimes, you eat the bear: sometimes the bear eats you.” Obviously, the joke is funny because the bear only eats you one time and that is the end. Thus, it is important to remember, the old lesson that mistakes around bears are extremely costly. We are making a multitude of mistakes in our ongoing bear hunts and each mistake is a step on the inevitable path to destruction and perdition; every American realizes, we can rely on blind luck for only so long, before the hungry bear takes a big bite out of our arse.

In 1979 Afghanistan was in the middle of a civil war when it was invaded by the Soviet Union. The Russians found a most formidable adversary in the Mujahideen. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan referred to the Mujahideen as “freedom fighters” and both Presidents covertly supplied the Mujahideen with arms and aid in effort to help them defeat the Red Menace. The Russians were unable to conquer the Afghans and finally withdrew in 1989. Most of us applauded the defeat of the Russians. During the war, the best of the Afghan fighters- the Taliban- gained control of the country and instituted strict Islam in the wake of the war. One of the Mujahideen-Taliban was named Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden got around to thanking the US for its efforts in liberating Afghanistan in September of 2001.

A great many people in this country seemed pleased to see Hosni Mubarak step down from power recently in Egypt. Barack Obama said “Egypt Will Never Be the Same.”

Quite possibly.

Pew conducted a poll in the Middle East in 2010 and came away with some intriguing findings. Although 59% of Egyptians claimed to prefer democracy, 22% said a non-democratic form of government could be preferable with 16% not really caring either way. Nearly all polled said Islam played a role in government with about half saying that Islam played a large role. Islam’s role in politics was seen as positive by an 85%-2% margin among Muslims and by similar margins in Indonesia, Nigeria, Jordan and Pakistan. The role of Islam in politics in Turkey is growing.

The preferred method of punishment for crimes is telling:

About eight-in-ten Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan (82% each) endorse the stoning of people who commit adultery; 70% of Muslims in Jordan and 56% of Nigerian Muslims share this view. Muslims in Pakistan and Egypt are also the most supportive of whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery; 82% in Pakistan and 77% in Egypt favor making this type of punishment the law in their countries, as do 65% of Muslims in Nigeria and 58% in Jordan.

Following the “democratic” revolution in Egypt, a vote shows a disturbing trend. From Matt Bradley in the WSJ:

Egyptians’ embrace of a set of proposed constitutional amendments in this weekend’s referendum is the clearest sign yet that leadership of the country’s revolution may be passing from youthful activists to Islamist religious leaders, according to analysts.

…The results from Saturday’s referendum signal a shift in Egypt’s continuing revolution: The protest leaders, once celebrated as heroes and martyrs, are no longer the leading voice in Egypt’s transition to democracy.

In their place are popular religious leaders, whose strong backing of the amendments held sway. These leaders see approval of the amendments as an avenue to political power and a means of preserving the country’s Islamic identity. With their influence in what appeared to be Egypt’s first free and fair election, these political playmakers show how they are positioned to help define Egypt’s democratic future.

Iran experienced a revolution in 1979. A ruler was thrown out and replaced with a repressive Islamic rule. There does seem to be a pattern to all these events.

A Yemeni recently described the protesters in his country:

Some protesters dream of an Islamic caliphate, while the socialists believe they can achieve social justice. Others hope this revolution is the beginning of an Arab unity.

The question is- will we see a new Egypt or the next Afghanistan? Among those who see a struggle between Islamic fundamentalists and modernizers, 59% percent favor the fundamentalists. I am concerned that democracy will survive only long enough for the installation of Islamic fundamentalism and then it’s lights out. And the precedents are in favor of that outcome.

At RCP, David Warren writes:

As the days pass, and the intervention in Libya grows longer, my alarm also grows. The West digs itself into a position that is contrary to western interests, and can only advance the interests of our worst enemies in the Middle East. If I were to characterize the effect of the intervention – the actual as opposed to the stated effect – it would be, “Making the world safe for Islamism.”

Now we are trying to bomb Muammar Gaddafi out of Libya and replace him with- what? Warren opines:

But it is Gadhafi’s enemies that disturb me more. As Niall Ferguson points out, when the allied intervention was announced, it was proclaimed from the minarets of Benghazi. And the cry throughout the city was not “God bless America,” but rather, “Allahu Akhbar!”

The devil you know might be better than the devil you don’t know.

Conditions in Africa are intolerable; disease, famine, war, corruption, genocide, and crime have all contributed to make Africa a Hell hole, but now, Africans, particularly Libyans, have devised a scheme to deal with their despair. They have started an exodus of biblical proportions from Africa to Europe.

There are a few problems with the plan, however; Europe’s economies are not healthy enough to absorb a large influx of unskilled and predominately illiterate masses. The Europeans are also not sure they want to allow their cultures to be diluted and possibly absorbed by the cultures of Africa.

This is an interesting situation; historically, Europeans have been pointing their collective fingers at America because of its racial problems and poverty that has racial demographics.

No one can blame an African for wanting to take his family to a better place with chances for a better life or maybe even just to survive another season, but at what cost to the host country. At this time Libyans are desperately seeking asylum from Gadahfi’s murderous henchmen, who will be torturing and killing all those who demonstrated or fought against the present regime and some they don’t like. They will surely try to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood in the process. Thus the Muslim Exodus from Libya is underway.

The question comes to mind: why don’t these Muslims seek asylum in other Muslim countries? The answer is multi-dimensional, but the main reason is, there is only poverty and despair for them in those other Muslim countries: in Europe, there is some semblance of hope for the future. We should also realize the other Arab countries in the Middle East don’t want them. Poverty and unemployment is well represented in these countries, they don’t need more, especially malcontents who have the temerity to foment revolt in their home country. Their only alternative, head to Europe, Europeans have worn the tired cliches of Socialist compassion on their sleeves for decades; although, they are realizing the hands that have reached out to the forlorn Muslim is bitten for its effort and is often unappreciative of acts of compassion. The Muslim has little or no interest in joining the European cultures of their host countries.

European nations are beginning to rethink this:

As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.

“They cannot be allowed on the shore,” Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. “Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land.”

The island, a speck in the Mediterranean Sea closer to Tunisia than Sicily, is experiencing first-hand an immigration surge poised to spread to the rest of Europe and drive a deeper wedge in a north-south divide already tested by the sovereign- debt crisis.

“It’s evident that Italy has been abandoned by Europe,” Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in Brussels on March 10 after a meeting with his European Union counterparts. “We can’t be the policeman of Europe.”

The month-long civil war in Libya between Muammar Qaddafi’s regime and rebel forces in the oil-rich east has left 6,000 people dead, driven crude prices to a 2 1/2-year high and unleashed what Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, the country’s most popular politician, called a “biblical exodus.”

North of Rome, a backlash has already begun as Italy warns its neighbors that 70 percent of Africans washing up on its shores are headed to France and Germany to seek work.

Chantal Brunel, a lawyer for France’s President Sarkozy’s, Union for a Popular Movement, proposed a solution “put them back on their boats”. She has since apologized for these remarks, but her comments reflect the overall feelings of governments to keep these refugees away from their country’s borders.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor was candid in her assessment: “We are ready to help in economic terms, but I don’t see the future in having us expand legal immigration”. (March 15)

There have been more than 9,000 hopeful Tunisian immigrants descend on Lampedusa, an island of 6,000 inhabitants 70 miles from Tunisia, twice the number for 2010, according to the Italian Interior Ministry.

This last December, Gadhafi told European leaders that they should prepare to “become Black because millions want to come to Europe”.

In a reparation deal with Italy wort $5 billion, Gadhafi agreed to tighten border controls in 2008. The number of Libyans landing illegally dropped from 37,000 in 2008 to just 3,000 in 2010. Malta’s influx of illegal aliens dropped from 2,775 in 2008 to 47 in 2010.

Europeans have seen that it is cheaper to pay the bribe than add increasing numbers to their social welfare costs.

From the middle of February, nearly 225,000 have left Libya; 115,000 to Tunisia, 102,000 to Egypt, 2,000 to Niger, and 5500 to Algeria according to the United Nations Commission for Refugees, (March 10)

Malta, 220 miles from Tripoli is an entry point for European Socialism and a life of splendor on welfare, but these refugees are kept in detention centers for as long as 18 months. Over half of Malta’s 2.5 million-euro military budget is required to feed and house these African refugees.

Since the unrest began in Libya on February 15, Malta has received 26,000 Africans and repatriated them back to their countries of origin.

For the Europeans the future may be grim with the almost unstoppable mass human migrations originating from Africa and the Middle East due in large part to the poverty and authoritarian governments throughout the areas. Their cultures may indeed be engulfed as war and poverty intensifies and becomes even more endemic to these regions. Thus Europe should brace itself for the savagery and barbarism of the Third World to assert itself within its borders; just as we have allowed ourselves to become immune and accepting of a tolerable amount of crime and violence from our own illegal alien population.

President Obama is surely contemplating importing some of Africa’s misery before the 2012 elections; especially, now that americans of becoming ever more skeptical of our president and his abilities to lead. Absorbing a few million new voters into key states could be seen as a great humanitarian gesture and a keen political move.

If we adopt a similar program for African refugees as we have in place for illegal aliens from Mexico, we can forever change the politics of America and Democrats will be in power until the country collapses, in the not so distant future.