Built Like A Brick ... Fortress

We're all hoping for a peaceful resolution to the Venezuela crisis, especially to the demands made by dictator Maduro for all US personnel to abandon their embassy.

The US Embassy in Caracas was built decades ago as a fortress to withstand terror attacks.  

The five-story, 100,000-square-foot structure sits atop a hill — and a massive American flag flown outside is visible throughout much of the capital. 

The granite-clad building with at least one level underground was “designed and constructed to withstand terrorist attack,” according to LERA Structural Engineers.

I'm thinking reinforced poured concrete walls, polycarbonate bulletproof windows, safe rooms and a detachment of Marines. After the Benghazi debacle, I doubt that POTUS will allow another mob to storm a US embassy, legation, consulate or asparagus garden.

Why do Marines guard our embassies? The Foreign Service Act of 1946 (replaced by 10 U.S.C. §5983 in 2008) authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide this service. Marines fall directly under executive command, no need to authorize their actions via an act of Congress. Therefore "First To Fight" is one of their slogans.

President Trump Stumps The UN

Say what you will, President Trump shock rocked the world in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. And he did it without a teleprompter.

Contrary to his mealy-mouthed predecessors, the President called a spade an entrenchment tool and let the world know that he will defend America's interests and that the free ride is over. The UN must clean up its act. Trump also singled out three nations whose activities are of special concern to America.

First, North Korea:

"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

This is not new. For most of his term in office, President Trump has been warning North Korea's Insane Boy Clown For Life that he is walking on a razor's edge. What is new is that the UN's General Assembly was treated to the harsh clanging of an American President who has brass ones.

Second on Trump's "List of Nations I Want To Bitch Slap" was Iran:

"The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos." 

America owes Iran a severe ass kicking. The terrorists who run the remains of the Persian Empire have been killing Americans for decades without a single cruise missile to remind them that Uncle Sam's beard is not a trapeze. I still remember 241 Marines murdered in their barracks and the US embassy in Beirut destroyed under Reagan's watch.

There's been a shit ton of interest accruing just for these two incidents much less the chaos and death the Iranian government have abetted since then. It's way past time for the US to collect on this debt.

Third, our once friendly neighbor to the south, Venezuela:

"The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure."

Boom chica wow wow. That left a mark on Lenin's ass in Hell. The people of Venezuela are suffering terribly and there is only one reason why their distress is so great…their government. Thank you, Lord Jesus for delivering us from Hillary Chavez.  

More here.

Of course the libs are foaming at the mouth and chasing their tails after listening to the President's UN speech, as expected. What I find really disturbing is Chief of Staff John Kelly's reaction while his boss was delivering the message.

 

Kelly needs to go. If this idiot cannot keep a poker face while his President is addressing the world he should get a paper route to supplement his Army pension. 

Get rid of Kelly Mr. President.

Evil Cowardly Loser!

Phoning It In

As Brussels burns, a third-world dictator, deep in his portable Presidential bunker, somewhere in Argentina, pretends he still matters.

Yeah, THIS Won't Be Used in any Jihadi Training Videos...

Backstory: US Sailors Finally Returned by Iran after Parading Them on State TV.

Barack Pretty Sure These Fine, Religious Young People Were Overpowered by Their Own Evil Guns

Guns "Still on the Loose."  Must Be Stopped "Before They Kill Again."

This poor guy was completely innocent.  A "tragedy," of course.

A Field Of Empty Chairs

A day can turn in an instant.  At 9:02 AM twenty years ago today, two men along with John Doe No.2 conspired to terrorize a nation.  It was the deadliest attack on U.S. soil until the horror of the 9/11 attacks.

Where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood in Oklahoma City there is a reflection pond, a museum and an expansive lawn with 168 sculpted bronze chairs commemorating each of the victims of the bombing.  As you look out over the field there are two sizes of chairs:  the larger chairs are dedicated to the adults who perished that day and the smaller ones for the nineteen children.

In 2001, Timothy McVeigh was executed in a federal penitentiary for setting off the bomb. McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, was also convicted and is serving a life sentence.

The picture above is but one of the iconic images from that day.  The Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken by AP photographer Charles H. Porter shows Oklahoma City Fire Captain Chris Fields carrying the lifeless body of one-year-old Baylee Almon.  Baylee celebrated her first birthday the day before the bombing.  She would have been 21 yesterday.

There was another photographer, Lester LaRue, standing just three feet away from Porter who snapped yet another photograph that centered on innocence lost that day.  The now famous photo shows Sgt. John Avera carrying little Baylee out of the rubble and into the arms of Captain Fields.

All memorials face the impermanence of original memories. From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, a day will come when no one alive will have known first-hand any of the people whose engraved names they read.

How can one look upon such photographs and not be somehow changed.  They evoke such emotion that I cannot find the words to express my sorrow.  When will man’s inhumanity to man end?

Twenty years after the Oklahoma City bombing, words overlooking the memorial plaza speak of reverence for the past, but also of a mission that reaches beyond memory:

“We come here to remember those who were killed,

those who survived and those changed forever. 

May all who leave here know the impact of violence.  

May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.”

SEE ALSO:  As You Sow, So Shall Ye Reap…Reflections on the Oklahoma City Bombing and What Prompted It

John, If Things Are So Peachy, Why The Long Face?

I never tire to resurrecting that question when it comes to John Forbes Kerry.  Ketchup Boy, who testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, said:

“And frankly—and last thing, this is counterintuitive but it’s true: Our citizens, our world today is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally— less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century. And so even the concept of state war has changed in many people’s minds, and we’re seeing now more asymmetrical kinds of struggles.”

Utter stupidity has no limits. 

“The Islamic State awaits the army of ‘Rome,’ whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse,’ wrote Graeme Wood at The Atlantic.

FBI Director James Comey has said his bureau is investigating possible ISIS supporters in all 50 states.

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, starkly testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled.

Here’s the pull quote from The Washington Times:

“If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group’s access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries,” he said. “Since the conflict began in 2011, more than 20,000 foreign fighters—at least 3,400 of whom are Westerners—have gone to Syria from more than 90 countries.”

Cartoonists Mourn The Death Of Their Innocent Colleagues At Charlie Hebdo

Cartoonists across the world have flooded the Internet with powerful drawings in defiance of the armed gunmen who attempted to silence the satirical French newspaper.  Here are a few of the ones I felt were most poignant.

Best response to #Islamic terrorists who attacked #CharlieHebdo, is to republish their cartoons over & over again pic.twitter.com/6Xg7WvcTk9”
— Steven Schoenfeld (@SASchoenfeld) January 7, 2015

Let Islam In And Suffer The Consequences

Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna received a note from a French contact today following the massacre in Paris involving masked assassins Islamist terrorists who stormed the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo with AK-47s shouting “Allahu Akbar!” and “the Prophet has been avenged.”

“This was entirely predictable. Our governments are fully responsible for this mess. We pay for the lies with blood, once again. I hope this will be an eye-opener here.” 

“This satirical newspaper is a kind of institution in France. Everyone knows it. This blow will devastate the left—Charlie Hebdo is mainly left-wing. Some of those killed were very famous writers and cartoonists.” 

“The newspaper is actually destroyed; they killed the editing team entirely.” 

“It was a very professional attack. No doubt about the fact those guys were trained, equipped like true jihadists.” 

“Let Islam in and enjoy the consequences…”

France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, some five million or 7.5% of the population, compared with Germany's four million and Great Britain’s three million.  Muslim populations are growing exponentially forcing those governments to confront the growing discontent over out-of-control immigration.

In Germany, there is a movement known as PEGIDA, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, which has drawn the consternation of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In January 2013, according to Gatestone Institute, Muslim gangs were filmed loitering on the streets of London demanding passersby conform to Islamic Sharia Law.  They call themselves the Muslim London Patrol.  They were seen abusing non-Muslim pedestrians shouting “this is a Muslim area.”

"We are the Muslim Patrol. We are in north London; we are in south London, in east London and west London. We command good and forbid evil. Islam is here in London. [Prime Minister] David Cameron, Mr. Police Officer, whether you like it or not, we will command good and forbid evil. You will never get us. You can go to hell! This is not a Christian country. To hell with Christianity. Isa [Jesus] was a messenger of Allah. Muslim Patrol will never die. Allah is great! Allah is great! We are coming!"

The killings at Charlie Hebdo are a horrifying reminder to all of us in the West that for young radicalized men, their fundamentalist interpretation of their religion matters enough to kill those who offend it.

Wednesday evening thousands gathered across France in candlelight vigils bearing placards that read “Je Suis Charlie” and holding aloft pens to remind onlookers that the “pen is mightier than the sword.”

It is time for journalists worldwide to stop being cowed by demented sub-humans and bowed by the filthy heresy of Islam.

And no candidate for president of the United States should ever say we need to show “respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view.”

A terrible day for all cartoonists. #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/Ksbl89WLsE
— Magnus Shaw (@TheMagnusShaw) January 7, 2015

Hit Job: Liberal Sanctimony On EIT

Islamic terrorists are fighting an End Time battle and for these animals “victory” means destroying every cross and killing every Jew and infidel in hideous, repulsive ways.

NBC’s Brian Williams asked former CIA Director Michael Hayden “How are we better than our enemies morally in light of what we all read about today?”

We have witnessed mass executions of Sunni tribesmen, the beheading of little children, the beheadings of ISIS captives like James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Hervé Gourdel, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, crucifixions, stonings and hangings.

Terrorism’s fundamental purpose is to control through fear.

Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein, released a highly partisan hit job on Tuesday, December 9th on “enhanced interrogation techniques.”  Her manifest grudge against the CIA for spying on her and other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee while it was preparing its damning report on the detention and interrogation program is embodied in what can only be described as a hit job.

The report was to be released in August of this year.  Why wasn’t it?  Can you say mid-terms? 

Secretary of State John Kerry called Feinstein to discuss the broader implications of the timing of publicly releasing a declassified summary of her committee's report "because a lot is going on in the world”, and he wanted to make sure that foreign policy implications “including our ongoing efforts against ISIL and the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world” were being appropriately factored into the timing.

Feinstein’s malicious spite will ignite an even greater jihad against America.

Bob Kerrey, former governor of Nebraska and U.S. senator, wrote an opinion piece at USA Today, “I also do not have to wait to know we are fighting a war that is different than any in our country's past. The enemy does not have an easy to identify and analyze military. In the war against global jihadism, human intelligence and interrogation have become more important, and I worry that the partisan nature of this report could make this kind of collection more difficult.”

“I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it.”

Feinstein wants you and me to feel guilty or muster compassion for a pack of savages who embody pure evil.  I don’t think so.  Whether waterboarded, held in stress positions, stripped naked, rectally fed and rehydrated or sleep deprived the manner in which the CIA extracted human intelligence doesn’t even approach the nightmares the detainees visited upon us on September 11th, 2001.

Daniel Greenfield notes, “Islamic peace does not come from diversity, from accepting the existence of other nations, religions and peoples, but from unity through Islam and eliminating as many differences as possible. If Islam is the source of peace, then all that which is ‘not Islam’ is the cause of war.”

“Kill the Jews.  Kill the Christians.  Then there will be peace.”

“The Islamic idea of peace is not based on a recognition of the humanity of one’s fellow man, but on a rejection of their humanity.”

“The West sees peace as living side by side with Muslims. Muslims see peace as the end of the West.”

We would do well to remember that.

UPDATE:  Thank you Stogie, of Saber Point, for linking to this post.

A Muslim Monster In Our Midst

Photo credit:  Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger  {I superimposed Tevlin’s photograph onto the image)

“My mission is vengeance. For the lives, millions of lives are lost every day.  Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day…All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.”

These are the words of Ali Muhammad Brown, an armed jihadist serial killer who ran loose across our country.

In an article written for The New York Post, Michelle Malkin wrote, “The 29-year-old career thug admitted to killing Leroy Henderson in Seattle in April; Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young in Seattle on June 1; and college student Brendan Tevlin, 19, in Essex County, NJ, on June 25. Tevlin was gunned down in his family Jeep on his way home from a friend’s house.”

Heard about this horror? Probably not.  That changes today.

All four victims were gunned down in remote areas late at night from the same 9mm handgun.  While he was on the run, he disguised himself in a Muslim keffiyeh. He carried a notebook with jihadist scribblings and advice on evading detection.

Brown is a convicted sex offender according to The Seattle Times and served federal prison time for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a plot to defraud several banks.  In that case, between January 2002 and November 2004, Brown and three other men defrauded U.S. Bank, Bank of America, Key Bank, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo and Boeing Employees Credit Union by depositing counterfeit and fake checks, then withdrawing funds before the checks were returned, according to charging documents filed in U.S. District Court.  Authorities determined Brown was supporting terrorism in Somalia.

Brown was part of a ring of men in South Seattle that were arrested by FBI terrorism agents in 2004 and under suspicion of funding terror groups. The feds convicted Brown and some of the other men on bank fraud charges.

New York radio personality Todd Pettengill is calling for increased attention to the June murder of a 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin, calling it evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.”

The host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show”, discussed the death of Brendan Tevlin for more than eight minutes Wednesday morning, asking why the case has not received more attention despite the alleged murderer’s admissions that he killed Tevlin as an act of vengeance for U.S. military actions in the Middle East.

“It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people,” he said.

Pettengill criticized The World’s Most Dangerous Community and Attorney General Eric Holder for not referencing the case in recent addresses and downplaying the level of threat radical Islamists currently living in America could pose.

“What I’m suggesting should happen,” said Pettengill, “is that this should be talked about and written about, and the American people should know.”

Let’s make this story go viral.

UPDATE:  Katie Coyne at Rightly Wired first broke this story.  I encourage everyone to go and read her article.
UPDATE II:  I am indebted to  I'm 41 and Conservative Blogs Central for linking to this important story.  I hope my readers will help to spread the word about this menace.  We must be clear-eyed about the very real threat of Islamic radicals in our midst.

The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer: Arguing With Myself

Picture it:  The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer dropped in on the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia on his way to attend a NATO summit in Wales on Thursday where he met with the leaders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

TWMDCO joined Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves for a joint press conference where he offered reassurance and military might promising to thwart Russia’s “dark tactics” and territorial ambitions should they spread from Ukraine to its NATO allies to the north.

In the Q&A session that followed their remarks, ABC’s Ann Compton asked:

“Thank you very much, Mr. President. Now that you say a second American has been slain, what is your response?  Will airstrikes continue inside Iraq? Might they expand into Syria?  Will you have a full strategy now on ISIS which will satisfy those like Prime Minister Cameron, who call it an imminent threat to all the interests?  And will it satisfy some of your supporters like Senator Feinstein who fears that on this you may have been too cautious? Thank you.”

At first, the president offered what seemed to be an unambiguous goal.  “The bottom line is this:  Our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy ISIL so it is no longer a threat.”

Compton asked the president to clarify whether the United States now wants ISIS destroyed.  The president went off script significantly backtracking with this: “Our objective is to make sure they aren’t an ongoing threat to the region.  We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its military capability to the point where it is a manageable problem.” 

This golf-obsessed president has proven with excruciating embarrassment that he is ill-equipped to contend with an ever-growing litany of international crises.

No commentary I have adequately describes his ineptitude. So I leave you with an excerpt from a letter to the president written by the parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2011:

“As Commander-in-Chief, your actions—or lack thereof—Mr. President, cost lives. As you bumble about in your golf cart, slapping on a happy face and fist-pounding your buddies, your cowardly lack of leadership has left a gaping hole—not only in America’s security—but the security of the entire globe. Your message has come across loud and clear, sir:  You are not up to this job. You know it. We know it. The world knows it.” 

“Please vacate the people’s house and allow a man or woman of courage and substance to seize the reins of this out-of-control thug-fest and regain the balance we, America, have provided throughout our great history.” 

“Thanks to your ‘leadership’ from whatever multi-million dollar vacation you happen to be on at any given moment, the world is in chaos. What’s been gained, you’ve lost. What’s been lost, you’ve decimated. You’ve demolished our ability to hold the trust of allies. You’ve made a mockery of the title ‘President’.  And you’ve betrayed the nation for which my son and over 1.3 million others have sacrificed their very lives.”

On @CNN, WH Deputy NSA Tony Blinken says "it will probably go beyond this Administration to get to the point of defeat" of ISIL.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 3, 2014

Obama: "We're managing ISIS to the gates of hell, where they don JV jerseys & do social media" #MixedMessage http://t.co/xNcVkWMczi #sarcasm
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 4, 2014

The Ass, The Cart And The Horse

The stunning weakness, lack of direction and aimless leadership of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer was on full display during Thursday’s White House Press Conference.

“I don't want to put the cart before the horse,” TWMDCO said, referring to the ever-escalating problem of whether to attack ISIS inside Syria's borders.  “We don't have a strategy yet.  We need to make sure we've got clear plans, and we're developing them.  At that point I will consult with Congress and make sure their voices are heard.”

The horrifying specter of a short knife, James Foley kneeling in the desert sand in a Guantanamo jumpsuit, a black-clad executioner with a British accent in the heart of the Middle East are symbols of power, sophistication, and retribution.  It says to us, “We [ISIS] mean business. Are you in America capable of taking us on?”

Syria and Iraq are plunged in chaos. Not far behind are Libya and Yemen—maybe they are awaiting their own versions of the Islamic State.  What the Foley beheading video communicated to the world was the fact that these people are literally capable of anything.

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest was taken to task by Fox News White House Correspondent Ed Henry.  Watch as Earnest steps on his dick repeatedly as he tried to walk back TWMDCO’s no plan, no strategy, no effin’ idea what to do about the filthy heresy of Islam.

UPDATE:  I want to thank The Pirate’s Cove for linking to this post.

Recoiling In Horror

The burning news of the day, besides the racial animus and anarchy gripping Ferguson, is the 5-minute snuff video of the beheading of freelance Global Post journalist James Wright Foley.  The video made a short appearance on YouTube™ before being scrubbed, but the video can still be viewed at Live Leak.  I will echo the warning that accompanies the video:  Missing journalist James Foley reportedly beheaded by ISIL might contain content that is not suitable for all ages.

A spokesman for YouTube™ said the company had "clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users".

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that social media users including the US Muslim Public Affairs Council are begging people not to share the graphic images.  They argue that sharing these images would only “help the terrorists deliver their propaganda.” Doing so might, just might, make people extremely angry.

I vehemently disagree with that sentiment and here is why.  This is a teachable moment for Americans who have a media that emasculates the English language using only “permissible” words to sanitize the emergence of a caliphate that closely resembles the Third Reich.  They have slaughtered, buried alive, crucified and beheaded Shiites, Kurds, Christians and anyone else it can find by the untold thousands.

Daniel Greenfield warns, “We can see the larger problem flying Jihadist flags in London and New Jersey. We can see it trooping through Australian and Canadian airports to join ISIS. We can see it in the eyes of the Sunni Arabs murdering their Yazidi neighbors. ISIS is an expression of the murderous hate within Islam. We are not only at war with an acronym, but with the dark hatred in the hearts of men, some of whom are in Iraq and Pakistan. And some of whom live next door.”  [Emphasis mine]

The release of the video came a day after IS militants threatened to attack US targets in another video where they warned "we will drown all of you in blood".

“A Message to America” is meant to evoke revulsion, to taunt and intimidate.

Arlette Saenz and Jonathan Karl of ABC News report that The White House had been aware of the threat to kill Foley prior to the video’s release but The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer partied on at an engagement party for MSNBC host Alex Wagner.

Today the president, in a bland, meaningless ritualism spoke at a new conference saying, “the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL” He continued, “Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion.”

“They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.”

Contrast those remarks to those of President Bush when a video was released in February 2002 by a Pakistani group that beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl: 

Laura and I, and the American people, are deeply saddened to learn about the loss of Daniel Pearl's life.  And we're really sad for his wife and his parents, and his friends and colleagues, who have been clinging to hope for weeks that he be found alive.  We are especially sad for his unborn child, who will now know his father only through the memory of others.

All Americans are sad and angry to learn of the murder.  All around the world, American journalists and humanitarian aid workers and diplomats and others do important work in places that are sometimes dangerous.  Those who would threaten Americans, those who would engage in criminal, barbaric acts, need to know that these crimes only hurt their cause and only deepen the resolve of the United States of America to rid to world of these agents of terror.  May God bless Daniel Pearl.

De Mortuis Nihil Nisi Bonum

Will the savage death of Foley open the eyes of liberal apologists? 

According to Daniel Greenfield and Bare Naked Islam, “Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist rebels against the Syrian government. He often voiced his disdain for Mitt Romney.  He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda, a parallax view if you will, that was obvious from his Twitter feed.”  No other reporters, it would appear, bothered to read through his timeline.  Mr. Greenfield included many of those tweets in his post and here are two that demonstrate his political leanings:

Dear #Syrians don't believe that Romney will help you acquire surface to air missiles. He's just saying that to prove Obama's "weak".
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) October 8, 2012

@HalaJaber is killing it today #arabspring
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) September 16, 2012

good analysis on what a more liberal Senate could mean http://t.co/2nKykG4c
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) November 7, 2012

Romney's got a hangman's row of potential advisors... http://t.co/X8KCSdSY
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) October 27, 2012

UPDATE:  According to the White House travel pool, The World's Most Dangerous Community Organizer arrived at Vineyard Golf Club at 1:05 p.m., following his statement on the Foley beheading. 

John Kerry, Hamas, Qatar, Iran And Treachery

I spent most of a rainy Sunday morning watching the talking heads on the Sunday political talk shows and sat in amazement at the veiled anti-Semitism on parade.  I was especially appalled at the heavy-handed manner in which CNN’s Candy Crowley kept nudging the conversation in the direction of blaming Israel for the bitter war between the Israelis and the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas.  A bitter war, I might add, that Israel sought earnestly to avoid.

Mike Rogers (R-MI), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee appeared on Meet The Press and Face The Nation.  It was the Face The Nation interview that yielded the most telling evidence of just how complicit the mainstream media has been by choosing, yes choosing, to portray Israel as some horrible aggressor.

The point at which this became evident was when the host, Bob Schieffer asked, as though inexplicably shocked, “But I thought the Qataris were our allies here?”

Here’s the transcript:

"That's what's so frustrating with the administration," he said "All of this works together. You can't just pick and choose one particular region; it has to work in concert. So when you free up $2.8 billion for Iran, when they're already cash strapped because of sanctions, that means they can continue to do bad activities in the Gaza Strip, including we believe at least missile components."

He said that Qatar, which acts as a U.S. ally on other issues, are also funneling money to Hamas, as are some sources inside of Saudi Arabia. And, Rogers added, the militant group also takes legitimate foreign aid dollars coming into the region to put toward building tunnels into Israel that the Israeli government is working to destroy.

"Think about how obscene that is, the hundreds of millions of dollars they've had over a decade. Twenty percent of the people in Gaza Strip aren't connected to a water source. Ninety percent of all the water there doesn't meet international standards. But they've got, I think the Israelis disclosed, 35 tunnels. So they're diverting legitimate money. And you have Iran that is aligned into this particular interest in a way that's very, very dangerous," he said.

In an earlier interview on "Face the Nation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army had discovered a "vast underground terror kingdom" meant to give Hamas a way to carry out attacks in Israel. He promised Israel would not stop trying to destroy the tunnels, although he did not specify whether there would be an expansion of the current ground invasion.

But Rogers warned that the combination of Iranian and Qatari support for Hamas and for certain factions in Syria is "intertwined in a way that makes it a very dangerous stew indeed."

SCHIEFFER: Mr. Chairman, let's just go back to Israel for a minute. Hamas continues to fire these rockets.  They have poured all this concrete, as you heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk about.  Where are they getting this stuff? 

SCHIEFFER: But I thought the Qataris were our allies here? 

ROGERS: Well, this is what makes this region so interesting. 

So, you have Iran and the Qataris are supporting Hamas, and certainly factions thereof. They're also supporting places in Syria. So, that is why this is so intertwined in a way that makes it a very dangerous stew, indeed. 

It is one common thing that the Shias and the Sunnis do not like, and that is a Jewish Israel state. That is confirmed. And I think they have found an outlet to try to do this. And it's spreading to other areas, Bob. This is what is the other problem. There is the unseen war in this particular event, and that is the new cyber front. 

There are not only what you see coming from Hamas, attacks on Israel, but now we have nation states engaged in the region in cyber-conflict that could cause this to escalate in a way that is very, very dangerous for stability. 

SCHIEFFER: How much do you think they have? How much money do you think has been poured into these tunnels? It's literally millions of dollars which, as I understand it, came in there to build schools and things of that nature. 

ROGERS: Well, again, I think they diverted some of the legitimate money. Clearly, that happened. Instead of building wells or water infrastructure, they diverted that money to build these tunnels. 

And I think that they are getting money again from Iran, who has been a maligned force in that whole entire region. Think about it. They are putting Hezbollah in the fight in Syria and supplying Hamas in the Gaza Strip with weapons. That is the difficult part here. 

And what is concerning about that is just about 10 days ago or so, the United States agreed to allow Iran to have another $2.8 billion released just for them to continue nuclear negotiations. And that is what is so frustrating with the administration now. 

All of this works together. You can't just pick and choose one particular region. It has to work in concert. When you free up $2.8 billion for Iran, when they are already cash-strapped because of sanctions that means they can continue to do bad activities in the Gaza Strip, including missile—we believe, at least missile components. What they have—we understand, according to public reports, they have even offered to help hide those missile systems, and their work in Syria with supporting the Assad regime. 

It's not working in concert that is helping us cause this confusion around the Middle East. 

SCHIEFFER: Well, Congressman, I want to tell you, you have explained and made this thing even more dire than I understood it at the beginning of this broadcast.

More dire.

Avi Issacharoff reported the content of John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal writing, “Israel and the US are meant to be allies; the US is meant to be committed to the protection of Israel in this most ruthless of neighborhoods; together, the US and Israel are meant to be trying to marginalize the murderous Islamic extremism that threatens the free world. Yet here was the top US diplomat appearing to accommodate a vicious terrorist organization bent on Israel’s destruction, with a formula that would leave Hamas better equipped to achieve that goal.”

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Whether through ineptitude, malice, or both, Kerry’s intervention was not a case of America’s top diplomat coming to our region to help ensure, through astute negotiation, the protection of a key ally. This was a betrayal.

Read his entire piece here.

Apparently John Kerry thinks the Israeli media is state-controlled, like it is in Washington http://t.co/273hruD82w
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 28, 2014