“Stop!” ==== In the spring of 2013 Barack Obama delivered the defining speech of his presidency on the subject of terrorism. Its premise was wrong, as was its thesis, as were its predictions and recommendations. We are now paying the price for this cascade of folly. “Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants,” the president... Read more
Archive for the ‘Radical Islam’ Category
Is Anyone Awake?
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, ISIS, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationWhat am I missing? ============ WSJ 4/11/2016 By James P. Cain Two Saturdays ago, just outside Maastricht, the Netherlands, I visited the 65 acre American Cemetery in Margraten. A sea of marble white crosses and Stars of David is arrayed in a gentle arc marking the final resting place of 8,301 American soldiers who fell nearby while ensuring the liberty and security of a... Read more
A Taliban Easter
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, Terrorism, The LeftAnd your President cannot call this what it truly is. ====== 3/28/2016 There aren’t many Christians left in Pakistan, but that’s still too many for the Taliban. A splinter group of the Pakistani faction of the Islamist terror group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Christians celebrating in a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday. At least 65 people, mostly women... Read more
How We Might Defeat Radical Jihadism – Noonan
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ISIS, Noonan, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, The LeftA great read. ===== 3/26/2016 These things are obvious after the Brussels bombings: In striking at the political heart of Europe, home of the European Union, the ISIS jihadists were delivering a message: They will not be stopped. What we are seeing now is not radical jihadist Islam versus the West but, increasingly, radical jihadist Islam versus the world. They are on the move... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
Origins and Strategy of the Islamic State
December 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Radical IslamI pass this along from Mauldin Economics John Mauldin does some pretty good stuff. = = = = = By George Friedman Al-Qaida struck the United States on September 11, 2001 in order to pave the way for the caliphate, a multinational Islamic state governed by a caliph. From Osama Bin Laden’s point of view, the Christian world—as he thought of Euro-American civilization—had... Read more
