Hey, kids, it’s time for another episode of Fun with the Obamas! Watch the antics as a gang of hardcore Leftist ideologues get the chance to apply their crazy theories in the real world — and then scramble for cover as the roof caves in on them! In tonight’s episode, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson repeats the party line that The Chief used to such great effect during his 2012 presidential reelection run — that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Johnson may have felt it necessary to affirm this after none other than James “Clueless” Clapper, the Director of National “Intelligence” who famously said a few years ago that the Muslim Brotherhood was “largely secular,” went off the reservation and affirmed the grim reality, that al Qaeda is growing, advancing, and more confident than ever — thanks largely to the pro-Islamic supremacist policies that the lovable gang of Leftists in the White House has indefatigably pursued for over five years now.
When even a man as spectacularly out of touch as Clueless Clapper can no longer affirm the party line, reality is getting just a bit too close to breaking through the Administration’s fog of deceit and fantasy-based policymaking. But Johnson is trying to keep the smoke as thick as ever. Zany, madcap, and loony as ever, this show is wildly beloved by the bread-and-circuses masses, and has three more years to run.
“Is al Qaeda on the ‘Path to Defeat?’ Clapper, ‘No’; DHS Chief, ‘Yes,’” by Penny Starr for CNS News, February 12 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
(CNSNews.com) – In less than one week, top officials in the Obama administration have contradicted one another about the threat al Qaeda poses to the United States today.
On Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson spoke at the Woodrow Wilson Center is Washington, D.C., where he credited President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama for putting the terrorist group “on the path to defeat.”
“Through our government’s counterterrorism efforts in both the Bush and Obama administrations, we have put al Qaeda’s core leadership on the path to defeat,” Johnson said.
On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, “No,” when asked by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing if al Qaeda was “on the path to defeat.”
“No, it is morphing and franchising itself, not only here, but in other areas of the world,” Clapper said.
Johnson noted that al Qaeda has “evolved,” adding that the federal government must keep the threat at bay.
“But the threat has evolved,” Johnson said. “Since about 2009, we saw the rise of al Qaeda affiliates, such as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has made repeated efforts to export terrorism to our homeland.
“Our government, working with others, must continually deny these affiliates a safe haven, a place to hide, train and from which to launch terrorist attacks,” he added.
At the Senate hearing, Inhofe said, “I keep hearing these things that different people in the administration is talking about al Qaeda is on the run, on the path to defeat.
“If you look at this chart up here, it depicts that al Qaeda and its allies have a presence and are now operating, and to me it’s just the opposite of that,” Inhofe added.
“Yes or no each one of you, is al Qaeda on the run and on the path to defeat?” Inhofe asked, referring to the second witness, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“No, it is morphing and franchising itself, not only here but in other areas of the world,” Clapper said.
dumbledoresarmy says
Clapper…mugged by reality?
I do not think that the paralysing despair that one sometimes sees expressed in comments threads here at jihadwatch is entirely warranted. I think that at the core of the Western world and the universal civilisation (Naipaul’s line) that it has produced there is still a surprisingly widespread capacity for asking questions and for seeking and recognising Truth: The Thing Which Is. One could see that in what happened after Eric Allen Bell, although unable to ‘hear’ Robert Spencer or those protesting against the Murfreesboro mosque, initially, got a dose of reality in a chance conversation with a Coptic Christian taxi driver.
Here is a Hugh Fitzgerald piece that is, I think, relevant.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/51923
“..little by little, reality is breaking in, making a breach in the wall.” The ‘wall’ being made up of ignorance, naivety, denial, etc.
mortimer says
No defeat without deprogramming. Western intelligence agencies need to pull out the roots. Jihad is a fast-growing weed.
The roots are called Koran, Sira, hadiths. Debunk them and the weeds will stop growing.
Salah says
“Is al Qaeda on the path to defeat?”
Instead of going after al Qaeda we should be going after the head of the snake itself: Islam.
Is Islam on the path to defeat?
A Muslim scholar’s answer:
“This Christianization movement is too big to be dealt with, even by all arab countries combined…we are living a tragedy, sir. By Allah, we are living a tragedy!”
Sheikh Ahmad al Qataani on al Jazeera TV
Partial translation and original arabic transcripts here:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
Defcon 4 says
Is islam a religion of peace?
Zero regime: yes!
Anyone of the najjis kaffir unfortunate enough to live in an islamic state: no!
Inchoate says
Let’s admit that we the unwashed public have to pick up what crumbs of “authoritative” information where we may….where/when they drop at random..are they, in fact “authoritative”? …how can we possibly know?….all the while remembering that everyone is not as smart as they think they are or try to display. Or, as dumb.
I doubt that Clapper is “clueless”. We just cannot know why he says the things he does….is he “on agenda”, is he “leaking” selectively, is this classic “disinformation”?
Those behind the closed doors and really, really privy to what’s going on simply cannot be expected to say anything at all unless it adheres to their agenda.
We outsiders are the hungry ones grasping at crumbs. No more, no less. Ain’t it futile?
So, look for trends, as in a self evident foreign policy which is, apparently, really, really effed-up. Individuals like Kerry and Clapper are public faces, Hillary the epitome of a public face; and Obama obviously is the classic example of an affirmative actioned program gone very, very badly wrong.
Let’s learn from these startling lessons…these alarming trends.
The alarming thing is that the majority of voters out there are the ones who’re clueless, all they want is more benefits. The Republicans’ dilemma is that they don’t want to alienate this new lowest common denominator changing demographic in our America.
All other nations have their own individual variations and separate problems.
Mohammad says
In other words Idiocracy. We replaced Old Glory with a big Brawndo Logo. Or another term for this Idiocracy we live under is
*_Ineptocracy_****(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least
capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded
with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing numberof producers*
Jim says
Look at history for the last 1400 years regarding this evil ideology. Set back but they keep coming back and don’t stop just like our socialist progressives here have done until they accomplish their agendas. Clapper lost his credibility lying to Congress last year. I don’t trust him no matter what Gates says about him in “Duty.”