The mainstream media gets more absurd by the day. When did Donald Trump become President? The policies he is advocating are not now being implemented, so there is no conceivable way that the Brussels jihad massacre can be blamed upon them, or taken as any indication that they would not be effective (which is not necessarily to say that they would be). After all, there is actually another fellow who is President of the United States right now; if the Brussels jihad massacre is a rebuke to anyone’s foreign policy, it is his and his alone. But the Washington Post, like the rest of the mainstream media, will never have the slightest negative word to say about the current occupant of the Oval Office, no matter how much he downplays the jihad threat and enables jihadis.
“The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Trump’s foreign policy,” Washington Post editorial, March 22, 2016:
THE TERRORIST assault on Brussels Tuesday, just four days after the arrest of an architect of last year’s attacks in Paris, underlined the resilience and continued menace of the Islamic State — to Europe, to the United States and to vital Western interests. It also revealed a crucial divide among U.S. presidential candidates about what this country must do to protect itself.
One one side are those who support the internationalist response of President Obama, who said the United States “will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium,” and who asserted that “we must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism.” That view was broadly shared by Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Republican John Kasich.
Against them is the radical isolationism of Donald Trump, from whom the Brussels bloodshed prompted another call to “close up our borders,” and who on Monday questioned the value of U.S. support for NATO allies such as Belgium. Though GOP rival Ted Cruz rejected Mr. Trump’s position on NATO, his answer to Brussels was similar: He, too, stressed “secur[ing] the southern border” and curtailing refugee flows, along with patrols of “Muslim neighborhoods.”
More than at any time since 1940, America’s commitment to its European allies is at issue in a presidential campaign. The tragic events of Brussels illuminate the folly of Mr. Trump’s position. The Islamic State has targeted all Western democracies, along with Israel and the Sunni states of the Middle East; it regards Belgians and Americans equally as enemies. Destroying the group — as Mr. Trump says is necessary — cannot be done without fighting its tendrils wherever they appear — in Europe as well as the Middle East, in Africa and in cyberspace. However much they are reinforced, borders will provide no protection to Americans if the jihadists are not defeated elsewhere.
Mr. Trump protests that NATO “is costing us a fortune” and that the United States is no longer a rich country. Never mind that the nation is far richer than it was when the alliance was set up in 1949, or that the national debt as well as spending on defense are lower as a portion of the economy. To defeat the Islamic State without NATO’s help would impose huge costs on Americans. Britain, France and Germany, among others, contribute materially to the war against the terrorist entity in Iraq and Syria, not to mention NATO member Turkey.
Intelligence sharing among the allies is critical to disrupting plots in the United States as well as elsewhere. Mr. Trump told us he saw no advantage to U.S. foreign bases; yet without those provided by Turkey, the air campaign in Iraq and Syria would be far less effective….
It’s effective?

mccode says
Never mind that the nation is far richer than it was when the alliance was set up in 1949, or that the national debt as well as spending on defense are lower as a portion of the economy.
What planet does the WP live on?
mortimer says
The WP ‘slant’ on Trump is his supposed isolationism. I doubt Trump is an isolationist at all, though large numbers of Americans are. Trump’s probably trying to advance a negotiating ‘position’ regarding NATO, rather than stating his views about its ultimate value.
The point WP missed is that Mollenbeek is an example of FAILED IMMIGRATION POLICY based on a FAILED UNDERSTANDING OF JIHADISM.
Mollenbeek is an example of MEDINIZATION of a Western city. Once jihad establishes itself in a city, the Muslim enclave criminalizes the entire community and makes them complicit in crimes of jihad. When that happens, no one can escape from the jihad OCTOPUS’s tentacles.
WP is ignoring that the problem is JIHADISM and how Western elites are importing jihadism due to their FAILED and ERRONEOUS UNDERSTANDING of ISLAMIC GRIEVANCE!
The ‘grievance’ of Islam is that dirty kafirs think Mohammed is a false prophet, and Allah demands that Muslims kill the ‘deniers’ (kafirs).
Western elites are totally unacquainted with the KAFIR DOCTRINE and JIHAD DOCTRINE, and yet, present themselves unashamedly as experts on Islam.
Cultural Marxism totally fails to explain JIHADISM.
Peter Charles says
EXACTLY, and when a self declared enemy who wants to die in combat, a reading of the Art of War leads to the logical conclusion, they should have their death wish fulfilled. Fact is Mohammad was not a prophet, but a murderer , torturer, rapist, armed robber, kidnapper, slaver, extortionist, plagiarist and had other unsavory traits. Paradise is not what there islamic terrorists will gen upon their deaths.
Pathfinder0100 says
By Golly, Pete–I DO think that you know him..So well said!!!
maghan says
Why “Cultural Marxism”? Those WAPO liberal types have never read a chapter of Marx, so what do they know except silly platitudes.
Mark Swan says
Reckless Behavior…Washington Post…Preposterous Lunatics.
quotha raven says
to Mark Swan – Further to yrs: To call the Brussels attacks “a rebuke” is itself an atrocity. Serious shame on the WP.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Mark Swan says
Hi quotha raven Cheers
mortimer says
The Washington Post has lost its collective mind. The editor who did this headline and story should be fired and never work again in journalism.
Is Hillary running Washington Post?
Mr. Lucky says
Mccode: Don’t you know who owns the Washington Post?
jihad3tracker says
Uh —- that would be zillionaire Jeff Bezos, correct ???? How much do I win ?
And, of course, with more spare change lost behind his sofa cushions than all of us here combined will earn in our lifetimes, Bezos can afford to be THE COMPLETELY PERFECT MULTICULTURAL PRIVILEGE-GUILT ASSHOLE.
Chuck Wagon says
This is why the paper is called the “Washington [COMPost].”
Pathfinder0100 says
ROFLMAO :>) You got it Chuck!!
Thomas Lewis says
No Amazon.com owner leads the philosophy behind the POST! As he owns it. But I do agree that he has lost his mind, regardless of the fact that he is a retailer at heart who needs to please everyone and NO ONE at the same time.
Mr. Lucky says
The Elite hate Trump, because he will destroy the game being played with open borders, jobs shipped overseas, and the destruction of the middle class. The Elite have now rallied around Cruz, the Great Deceiver. Today Jeb Bush enthusiastically endorsed Cruz and he “welcomed the endorsement.” Cruz was always a Bush man, and many of you folks have been played once again by the Elites. Of course, if you are an evangelical, a snake handler or a mormon, you are used to such deception.
Western Canadian says
Obvious who you have a hate on for, and a hard on for.
Champ says
Mr. Lucky wrote:
Of course, if you are an evangelical, a snake handler or a mormon, you are used to such deception.
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So not only does Mr. Lucky HATE Ted Cruz, but he also hates Christians, too. Yeah, haters like him gotta hate …
Mr. Lucky says
Try not to be stupid. Saying that Evangelicals are easily fooled does not equate to hate. The only idiots that call people haters are forking liberals, or evangelicals like you.
Champ says
Notice how Mr. Lucky further proves my point in his above response to me. Yep, haters like him gotta hate …
Keep ’em coming!
Champ says
Mr. Lucky wrote:
“The Elite hate Trump” …
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Odd how Mr. Lucky recognizes “hate” towards Trump from the Elite, yet he *fails* to see hatred within himself toward Christians.
And then Mr. Lucky reveals his glaring *double standard* by stating this:
“The only idiots that call people haters are forking liberals, or evangelicals like you.”
Oh really. Didn’t Mr. Lucky just state that “The Elite hate Trump”? So isn’t Mr. Lucky calling the Elite “haters”? Things that make you go, hmm …
Wow–glaring double standard is an understatement.
mortimer says
WP is absurd and preposterous! BELGIAN IMMIGRATION POLICIES led to the creation of the MOLLENBEEK JIHAD COMMUNITY, rather Donald Trump whom no Muslim in Mollenbeek had heard of.
Donald Trump recently asked ‘Where is all the hate coming from?’ It is coming from Islam’s core doctrine of Islamic apartheid called ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’.
‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ … Islamic apartheid…is fully developed in Mollenbeek.
“Medinization” is the process of civilizational jihad, in which a new Muslim enclave is used by jihadists to create a jihadist community to attack and Islamize the surrounding region.
Mollenbeek is a ‘New Medina’. The Medinization process makes everyone in the community complicit in terror and criminality.
Western elites need to learn about the Medinization process.
Keys says
Thank you again, mortimer. I keep learning.
Sarc on/: Idea for a social experiment for European leaders to observe based on your comments about Medinization. All Muslims will be removed from Mollenbeek and Brussels, and sent to Antwerp. No Muslims allowed to return, even for a visit.
Scientific criteria will be set up to measure social unrest and will be recorded for two years. Will Brussels be better off with or without the Muslims? Wow, I dunno ! European and world leaders would be on the edge of their seats about the results, but will they even get it then? Sarc/off
No.
Mike says
What???
I’d say that Trump’s foreign policy is a rebuke to the horror in Brussels!
To be blunt about it, I suspect that if a couple of the suspects that they did have access to had been “waterboarded or worse”, this attack wouldn’t have happened.
Fessitude says
I doubt that mere waterboarding of suspects is going to prevent future attacks (for one thing we don’t know who all the suspects are and where they are). Removing by relocating the population that produces these suspects is the best way. But by all means, lets avoid the best way and try to do all the second-best ways…
Angemon says
Where do you suggest to “remove by relocating” an American Native convert to islam that can trace all his family members to the Pre-Columbian era? You know ISIS is advising his infiltrators to not say they’re muslims, not go to mosques, not carry the quran, not grow a beard, drink alcohol, etc., right? How do you suggest the identification of people professing a faith that literally, not figuratively, allows them to deny their faith if they’re being persecuted? What, is the government supposed to track every breathing moment of every single person in the US, even when they go abroad?
Fessitude says
“The policies he [Trump] is advocating are not now being implemented, so there is no conceivable way that the Brussels jihad massacre can be blamed upon them, or taken as any indication that they would not be effective (which is not necessarily to say that they would be).”
“(which is not necessarily to say that they would be).”
Was that phrase really so absolutely necessary?
Robert Spencer says
Yes
linnte says
The ACTIONS of a person can never be blamed on the WORDS of another. This is one of the unsaid principals in the First Amendment. It’s why, as adults, we have a responsibility to ACT on ACTions and not words, and not let words incite us to action. Unless of course it is a proven threat. Didn’t yo mamma teach you, “stick and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”?
Angemon says
It’s beyond that. They’re standing on the bodies of the people killed in Brussels with the express purpose of advancing their agenda. It’s nothing short of disrespectful, and the appropriate response should be a barrage of posts in social media telling the WaPo, a former newspaper, how offensive and triggering that editorial is.
Cy Berme says
If you want to see an example of someone really standing on the bodies of the people killed in Brussels with the purpose of advancing their agenda, look at this video. You can see a Muslim woman on life tv, walking on top of the candles and flowers left in a memorial with the sole porpoise of removing the Israeli flag (that had been previously covered with another one but is not on the video) and tearing it before she buried it under that flag. The most amazin thing is that no one of the dozens of people looking at her did nothing to stop her or even said anything.
http://youtu.be/jeAwq3SKiOA
gravenimage says
And this vicious Muslimah replaced the Israeli flag with the Jihad “Palestinian” flag.
Wellington says
An accurate headline should read, would read, “The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Islam’s 1400 year terror policy.”
Michael C says
do you mean “result of Islam’s 1400year terror policy.”
Wellington says
Yep, yours is better, Michael C. What should really be rebuked is Islam, all of it.
Renata BoinZ says
I am from Europe and I do hope Trump wins. Washington Post editors and readers are running around like PC headless chickens. Soon they will start blaming themselves. Meanwhile the “far” (as they call it) right is rising, which, is a good thing because the way the situation is going, we cannot take this anymore. I far for my kids’ future and my culture, heritage and indigenous people of Europe. The FAR right is what Europe desperately needs at the moment. The lefties and liberals such as readers of this rag newspaper WP- had their chance and destroyed us all.
Norman says
Dear Renata: Yes! The “far right” is exactly what is needed in this day and age to counter the Marxist-Leftist narrative that dominates Europe and North America. The head of the German TV broadcaster ZDF has revealed (conveniently, after his recent resignation) not only that the Merkel regime in Berlin was directing his (supposedly independent) station regarding what stories about the migrants they could report on, but also what news “angles” were permissible.
He stated that in Germany what was considered mainstream ten years ago is now considered part of the “extreme far Right” today, such has been the shift toward the Left in (Germany) and Europe. And that just in ten years.
nacaxo says
It’s a typo on the part of the Washington Post. It’s well known that the computers at the WP have a problem where if you type “O” they type “T”; if you type “b” they type “r” ; if you type “ama” they type “ump”. Therefore the corrected title is probably: “The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Obama’s foreign policy”.
Shmooviyet says
Their own unique brand of spell-corrector.
The media come across as examples of rotten parenting: when a child (or pet victim group) acts up, find something or someone else to explain away the ‘bratty’ behavior. The precious one realizes he can get away with anything, as Mama’s always there to defend him.
nacazo says
The computers at the WP have a problem: when you type “O” they write “T”; when you type “b” they write “r”; when you type “ama” they write “ump”. Therefore, the correct title may be: “The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Obama’s foreign policy”.
Sile Reddin says
I would have thought that the slaughter of these innocent people endorsed Trump’s policy!
miriamrove says
Amen! M
Westman says
What an article. Liberal desperation is running rampant.
Anyone who thinks, knows the POTUS has limited power and is more of a mouse riding an elephant. Congress has the real power IFF they can reach agreement; able to override a POTUS Veto at will. And now that liberals are ensconced in the permanent bureaucracies of government, most would remain even if the Donald was elected. It’s not their job that worries them.
So, why are the liberals and their media so frightened of Trump? Is there something unfair about asking European NATO countries to provide Europe’s own defense within NATO? Their prosperity has been partly due to the US carrying the real load of NATO. It’s time for Europe to man-up.
What frightens liberals? Maybe paying a fair cost for their freedom? Taking time out from the mental/consumer/celebrity orgies to serve their country? Afraid they can’t keep using the poor for “volunteer” cannon fodder if the Donald resists Islam or Russia? “Keep the party going” should be liberal mantra.
They are afraid the party, to which they are somehow entitled, will stop.
Len Vaness says
Let us suppose that WP’s approach was to be followed…Bring in poorly or unvetted migrants, and they will be so grateful that they will willingly integrate. Have they never heard of Dane Geld, or the Munich Accords? Appeasement does NOT work!
Richard Paulsen says
It´s just now that our mainstream politicians and media started to say something about terrorism. Like they use to when there is a terror attack.
Soon we will be reminded of Breivik and told we should not criticize others and that we are not better ourselves and not say anything about terrorism and things will go back to normal. Like so many times before.
That is, we will be told Russia is the threat, that there is neither any massinvasion, nor any islamization, any threat from islamic groups, islam or muslims and that we must not discuss any numbers of so called refugees and who they are and everything will be like normal. That is till next attack.
All we can do is to rely on the decicions of our politicians, our media and our police.
Sincerely hope the authorities have got everything needed from politicians to stop any future terroristattack and that media tells us the truth and nothing but the truth and that there will be no more terrorist attacks in our lifetime.
Westman says
Uhh..that last paragraph…uhhhhh. I think I’m getting sick..
Richard Paulsen says
Irony of course.
Westman says
Oh, I got it, Richard. I just doublethought it and realized our “leaders” would continue with more of the same.
Jaladhi says
This confirms again what we all know that these liberal news papers, WP, NYT, and the like are full of total idiots, morons, stupids, braindeads, numbskulls, and on and on. Let them come out with their delusional theories that nobody but themselves pay any attention!
The more they write the more they show their stupidity!!
Hope says
Another disgusting piece of trash from the WP. Vomitrocious.
jewdog says
No, as much as I dislike Trump, his call to suspend Muslim immigration is entirely logical in terms of preventing terrorism. After all, if there are no Muslims, there will be no terrorism! Duh!
SpiritOf1683 says
One thing is pretty clear. In the West, political correctness has become so permeated in the fabric of our society, that we’ve become more afraid of being seen as bigots and racists than what we seem to be of being killed and maimed by these medieval savages. If Churchill were alive today, he’d weep as he reminisced about how we were made of sterner stuff back in the 1940s.
jewdog says
All terrorism is an expression of hatred; they are hate crimes, but have you ever once heard of anyone calling terrorists racists? No, it’s the victims of terrorists who are the racists.
gravenimage says
Washington Post: “The horror in Brussels is a rebuke to Trump’s foreign policy”
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Repulsively cynical.
Firstly–as noted–Donald Trump, like any other candidate, *has no foreign policy*–just a foreign policy platform that has not been implemented, and won’t be unless and until he is elected.
Secondly, this article conflates two very different issues of–whether the US continues in NATO or takes a more isolationist stance; and Trump’s calls for securing the southern border, vetting and reducing Muslim immigration, and securing and patrolling Muslim neighborhoods.
Given how both the Brussels and the Paris attacks came out of the entrenched Muslim No Go Zones of Brussels, where much of the population supports Jihad, hides and harbors Jihadists, and refuses to cooperate with the police, this last seems especially salient.
And of course, we would not have these problems in the first place were it not for the burgeoning Muslim influx into the West.
By the way, Ted Cruz has now confirmed that he supports this policy of monitoring Muslim neighborhoods as does Trump. Some signs of sanity on the Republican side.
Wellington says
I just within the last hour got done listening, gravenimage, to Fox News, where Charles Krauthammer, who is ordinarily very sensible on issues, denigrated Cruz’s call for monitoring Muslim neighborhoods in America because, you see, per Krauthammer, America assimilates Muslims and makes them into patriotic Americans for the most part while Europe fails in any kind of assimilation effort.
OMG, where to begin, no? But then Krauthammer a few years ago on Fox News called Geert Wilders a bigot, all the while erroneously and foolishly trying to make a distinction between “Islamism” and “Islam.”
I bring this up about Krauthammer because if someone as smart and certainly not leftist on sundry issues as he is can continue to make foolish remarks about anything Islamic, it just demonstrates how far America has yet to travel before it fully comprehends that Islam, all of it, is despicable and easily the most successful spiritual fascism of all time——-and thus once and for all has to be very publicly described as such by people like Krauthammer. Not there yet, now are we? Krauthammer could serve as Exhibit #1 here of this “deficiency.”
gravenimage says
Wellington wrote:
I just within the last hour got done listening, gravenimage, to Fox News, where Charles Krauthammer, who is ordinarily very sensible on issues, denigrated Cruz’s call for monitoring Muslim neighborhoods in America because, you see, per Krauthammer, America assimilates Muslims and makes them into patriotic Americans for the most part while Europe fails in any kind of assimilation effort…
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I’ve heard this sort of idiocy before, Wellington, and not just from Krauthammer.
The idea is that only Europe has these problems, and not the US–because the US integrates Muslims and offers opportunities them opportunities, while “bigoted” Europe does not.
Several problems with this: firstly, the idea that Europe, which offers absurdly generous welfare packages and shares most of our values vis-a-vis equality is somehow oppressive to Muslims is ridiculous.
Muslims there have *far* more opportunity in Europe than they do back in Dar-al-Islam.
It also does not explain why it is only Muslims responding to this (supposed) inequality. After all, you don’t find eastern Europeans or Caribbeans or sub-Saharan Africans or east Asians or any other non-Muslim immigrants to Europe waging violent Jihad there.
The main difference between Europe and the US is simply one of numbers–France is approaching 10% Muslims, and in the US it is well under 1%. The city of Brussels is a whopping *25%* Muslim.
And even given this small number of Muslims in the US, it ignores the number of Jihad terror attacks we have nonetheless suffered here–we have hardly been immune, from the horror of 9/11 to the Ft. Hood massacre to the Boston Marathon Bombing, we have been victimized by Muslims over and over again.
Ultimately, all this is is whistling past the graveyard–an idea of American exceptionalism that in this case is entirely silly–that we do not have to worry about Jihad terror because we are better than Europe.
Though it is probably not entirely intended, this blaming of the victims is actually quite disgusting. It is also, of course, completely mistaken.
Wellington says
All true, gravenimage, what you asserted.
Going on and on about America’s capacity to assimilate and its exceptionalism means nothing if one, such as Krauthammer, remains oblivious of the fact that Islam is rotten to the core and has doctrines in its theological blueprint which are inimical to the many basic rights and guarantees found in the American Constitution.
Krauthammer is clueless of the fact that Islam is not at all interested in assimilation (or American exceptionalism) but rather has all its efforts directed towards submission of those who disagree with the Islamic take on human existence. I expect fools like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to miss the big picture about Islam but when someone like Charles Krauthammer does too it does not bode well for the preservation of liberty.
BTW, the very day that Krauthammer on Fox News called Wilders a bigot and made the extra-stupid phantom distinction between “Islamism” and “Islam,” Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle’s chief of staff and a prominent Republican in his own right, who was on with Krauthammer that day, seconded him in condemnation of Wilders. I remember that day very well because it made me realize yet again how perilous the preservation of liberty really is——-and sadly, it seems, Krauthammer has learned nothing since that day. Nothing.
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling attacks on the stalwart Geert Wilders by people who should know better. Very disheartening.
Mark Swan says
A false sense of security can not help.
linnte says
“The folly of Trump’s position”. It seems to me, Trump is recognising the importance of BORDERS and protecting HIS PEOPLE, not the whole damn world! This is something the WP is completely ignoring and the EU in its ridiculous attempt to have open borders is suffering from. I can monitor my whole back yard, but not everyone else’s!
Mark Swan says
Absolutely
Westman says
WP – ” Never mind that the nation is far richer than it was when the alliance was set up in 1949, or that the national debt as well as spending on defense are lower as a portion of the economy.”
Hey WP dummies, we were in debt in 1949 because we had just been in a devastating WWII that even sent all the silver in the US Mint to the Manhatten Project. We were broke but that level of spending had stopped.
Again, WP Dummies, the world was then, 1949, our customer to buy our products and rebuilt their industries because the war did not destroy our industries. You dunces look down at your Asian computers, sitting in your foreign underwear, making notes on your foreign iphone, after driving to work in your foreign car, for a newspaper owned by one of the biggest sellers of foreign goods, Jeff Bezos, Amazon magnate, and you think this is like 1949?? Wake up, dummies.
We cannot sell our way out of today’s national debt with another country’s products.
Such stupidity, to think we are on the positive footing of 1949, can only be a sign of delusion masking panic; it certainly is no sign of intelligence or professional journalism.
Mark Swan says
Trying to fight ISIS in their home may seem the best way…yet this may
Fragment them and drive them into guerilla groups that would take on
new life of its own…considering all the Sunni members that make up the
Heart of ISIS…an attack on them there by U.S. force will only galvanize
Sunni support…and don’t forget the Shiite who also hate the U.S.
Let ISIS work to Our Advantage…if We want them gone…let the be absorbed.
No let’s try to be more creative than this…No U.S. help what so ever…
That’s right…We Must Pack-Up And Leave Now.
We Can Tie-Up The Major Supporters Of Jihad…In Their Own Playground.
LET SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN FIGHT IT OUT…LET THEM SORT IT OUT.
LET THEM BEAR ALL THE COST…LET THEM KNOW IF YOU PLAY YOU PAY.
If They Want Any Military Hardware…Advisers…Trainers…Intelligence support…
What Ever…They Pay For It Up-Front And Not At-Cost…Watch that Oil money go.
Saudi Arabia Has Been Conducting Exercises With An Estimated 300,000 Surrounding
Allies.
Iran Has Its Military…Iraq’s Shiite…Yemen’s Shiite…Hezbollah…and Other scattered Shiite.
Iraq Has It’s Sunni / (ISIS).
This All Combines…It Is The Heart Of The Middle East Problem…Let Them Grow-Up
And Fix Their World…It will keep them busy for quite some time…put them in debt.
And Yes Leaving NATO is indeed a possibility as long as they have Turkey and many
other vacillating countries in it The U. S. has always done the Lion’s Share of NATO…
And gotten very little in exchange…let the Europeans Pay for their own Security.
Our Nation is in critical condition…literally…We Must Focus Right Now On Economy…
This Is The Greatest National Security Problem…If Not Addressed Forget The Rest.
We must not Continue to allow our enemies to own our debt…the dollar can be ruined.
We could Build up our Military Industrial base by selling all the world’s warmongers
Just what they want…we could strengthen our military with their money.
Yes there are so many ways we can go…but we better get going someway now.
JMB says
And from Australia, our mildly left-leaning nominally conservative Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is blaming the terror attacks on Europe’s failure to integrate it’s minorities. It seems the blame must be put on anyone or anything except the Muslim religion.
gravenimage says
Yes–this blaming the victims is disgusting. Considering how much Europe has given to welcoming Muslims, it is also entirely ridiculous.
And Australia–just like the US–has hardly been exempt from JIhad terror attacks, in any case. More whistling past the graveyard….
Atheist kaffur says
Actually it is quite the opposite. The spin here is that Trump wants to build a wall and leave NATO and Therefore he is an isolationist. It like British humour it’s so idiotic that it’s funny.
Bezelel says
With Turkey’s performance as a NATO member, attacking Kurds,buy oil from isis, supporting the palistinians against Israel, yada yada and the suicidal immigration policies of the EU, I can see where NATO can get even more expensive. We are not dealing with the same planet anymore. That’s how it looks from here, without security briefings and a Pentagon to advise me.
Walter Sieruk says
Those vicious and murderous jihad terrors attacks occurred in Brussels is because of many Islamic “reasons” Some of which are that such violent and deadly jihad-minded people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the Muslim clerics, such as the imams and in some countries as Afghanistan and Iran also the mullahs. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 55:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme Such heinous jihad ISIS suicide /homicide bombings yesterday in Brussels raises the question is as to why are the jihadist bombers are , so very, delusional that they actually want to become human bombs ? brainwash are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations” Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Mathew 22:29, 30. In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipe-dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
Champ says
Hear, hear, Walter–yes, Jesus Christ has it right! …and there is no *sex heaven* as mohammedans suppose.
Keys says
Champ, I don’t know about the no “sex heaven” for Christians.
If there is a resurrection of the body, I’m guessing there will be vaginas and penis (what is the plural of penis – penii ?). Unless they’re all like 1960s children’s dolls. Hunh? ?
Champ says
Question: “Will there be sex in heaven?”
Answer: In Matthew 22, the Sadducees, in an attempt to discredit Jesus, came to Him with a question regarding marriage and the resurrection. Jesus answered them with these words: “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (verse 30). Jesus teaches here that marriage is a relationship to be enjoyed in this life, but it will not carry forward into the next life. While we do not lose our identity in heaven (Luke 16:23), we will not hold the same relationships that we do on earth. Our existence will be quite different from what we are used to here. The fact that there is no marriage in heaven implies at least two other things: 1) There will be no procreation in heaven; the number of the redeemed is set, and, with no death, there will be no need to propagate the race. 2) There will be no sexual intercourse in heaven. The appetites and desires of this world will give way to higher and infinitely more gratifying delights in the world to come.
More here:
http://www.gotquestions.org/sex-heaven.html
Keys says
Thanks, Champ. Like your response. Jesus addressed it.
You might get a kick out of this perspective. I think you’ll like his thoughts and style.
http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/sex-in-heaven.htm
All the best !
somehistory says
If one looks at the definition of *rebuke*…which is to criticize or express disapproval…then it could fit…except that as a contender, a person doesn’t have a government *policy.*
moslims disapprove and criticize anyone and everyone who criticizes them or even just tells the truth about their evil cult from satan.
moslims frequently show their disapproval by violence and terrorism.
moslims are not satisfied with just declaring their disapproval with words, or by ignoring the person with whom they disagree. moslims never let anything just *go by.* These devout adherents of islam are rabid for showing just how much they disapprove of those who refuse to embrace their death cult’s unlawful behaviors.
abad says
Once again, EVERYTHING under the sun is being blamed for the Brussels attack EXCEPT for the actual perpetrators themselves.
There is NO such thing as personal accountability in Islam. it is always someone else’s fault.
The Brussels attackers CHOSE to attack. NO ONE ELSE made them do it.
Westman says
Here, let me say it, the Brussels bombers were human trash, a wasted conception, a stain on humanity; the world would have been better if they were never born. Not PC, but true. How much of their motive was Islam is unknown, but it was enough for them to kill others besides themselves. The full responsibility is shared by both they and Islam.
Champ says
Anymore I come directly to Jihad Watch to get the skinny on anything related to jihad, etc; since most of what the MSM delivers is pc slop. In fact, it’s become impossible to hear (or read) what the MSM has to say without rolling my eyes and ending up frustrated, even angry.
Ashley says
Perhaps the editorial team at The Washington Post should gather around the conference room and give some serious consideration to re-posting this fine opinion piece…ON PAGE ONE…TOMORROW!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-disturbing-pattern-of-playing-down-islamic-terror/2015/07/20/1181bcbc-2ee3-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Mark Swan says
Thank You Ashley…that is interesting…I just read it.
Karen says
Yes, a great article!! I had no idea that Marc Thiessen wrote for the Washington Post. He is a superb writer, so I’ll check out the Post more frequently. Thanks for posting this.
Peggy says
I wonder how many people will fall for this crap.
Anyone with a bit of a brain should just stop reading WP.
Karen says
The Brussels terror attack is a rebuke to Trump? Well, no, actually it’s making him look like a genius.
dumbledoresarmy says
I have recently read through *all* the many thousands of comments – most of them by persons with unique monikers and writing styles – over at two Daily Mail articles relating to the Brussels jihadi mass murders.
And many, many of those comments boiled down to 1/ Americans stating that they had decided to vote for Trump and 2/ non-Americans agreeing that this seemed to be a reasonable course of action. Based on what Trump has demonstrably, so far, said in public about Islam, and specifically, his call to put a brake on Muslim immigration into the USA.
Karen says
Trump articulated a simple plan – a temporary pause in Muslim immigration, until we can process immigrants safely. Trump says “let’s be smart about who we let in”, while Obama, in affect, says we must accept the risk of the unvetted, and even a few terrorists here and there, and that resistance is un-American. Reasonable people may disagree on Trump’s proposal, but reasonable people can also see through the smears being directed against him, and the reasons why.
Dr Balavendrian says
when France was bombed and Bali,was President Trump policy,
its dirty Democratic policy.
Trump was educating this European idiots and USA ,you idiots sleeping with devil.
please dont bark at the wrong tree idiots ,
Dacritic says
When women are raped, Islam blames the victims for dressing or behaving “indecently”. When Muslims vandalise and burn down Christian churches, Islam blames the victims for “offending the sensitivities of Muslims”. Islam, and it seems now those standing on its side like WaPo, have a habit of turning the crime from the criminal to the victim.
I suppose that is how Satan works.
Dean says
I get Trump this time. The dependence of NATO on American financial and personnel support has long been a sore point with many American nationalist and strategic planners. We have literally been their notional defense while they focus their money on social programs and now they are not even reliable allies against Russia or the Islamic threat. Trump is staking out a starting negotiating position to make them carry a bigger load particularly with the recent Isis attacks. He is a hybrid nationalist that is always America first and caring for others later but I disagree that he is an isolationist. I was opposed to the invasion of Iraq simply because I didn’t think it was good for us and was of the same opinion regarding Viet Nam. However, I am a nationalist that has reminded others in these Jihad and Iran commentaries that we can guarantee that Iran doesn’t go Nuclear because we are Nuclear. He is planning ahead and putting the NATO allies on notice that when he is president they will have to carry more of their own load. GOOD! Cruz using the Belgium carnage to try to score political points on this issue is shameful and every claim of toughness from the Dems is fake.
Baucent says
It’s a little ironic when left wing commentators complain about “Isolationism”. In the 1970’s they would have been all for the US withdrawal from NATO. But the problem with NATO is it is a body setup to counter the Soviet Union and the Eastern Europe states. It is not at all certain it is a useful organization to combat Islamic terrorism particularly as Turkey is a member state. Remember how long the Turks held back those airfields? So Trump may have a point. Let’s have everything on the table. Maybe NATO’s day is done, it’s hopelessly bound up in European politics anyway.
Matthieu Baudin says
“The mainstream media gets more absurd by the day…”
Yes, exceedingly lazy minded, forever reading from other peoples scripts.
Lloyd Miller says
The Western Elite, under Rockefeller dictat, works for World Government which, necessarily, must include a prominent, or even dominant, role for Islam. In pursuit of this New One World Order, Islam must be allowed to invade each ex-nation as a first step in achieving the planned World Tyranny. The post WWII period proved that Western Civilization is incompatible with World Government. Amalgamation with Islam, it has been decided by our Rockefeller-Saudi overlords, is the answer!
Sergio says
Why do they want to tighten security at the southern border? Jihad fighters will most likely come from Canada, which abets Jihad and is the place of residence of a lot of Muslim fighters.
quotha raven says
To Sergio – And of course MANY come in on legitimate visas of various natures, student, tourist, etc. These are generously provided by our State Department to tens of thousands of potential terrorists, all completely and utterly unvetted in any way, as recently admitted by govt spokesmen….I can’t remember who. But he stated that we have no reliable records to check what is claimed against any properly kept records from the country of origin.
Then there’s our president’s commitment to inviting as many moslims as possible into the USA. Good luck with the borders.
I anticipate that the word “borders” will soon become politically incorrect and banned from use in general discussions of foreign policy, terrorism and national security.
“Sovereignty” is another word that is at risk of disappearing, like the condition it denotes.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Mark Swan says
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~ Will Rogers
Cheers
Pussonbed says
“The horror in Brussels” – 270 injured, 31 dead – is (yet more) proof that Trump’s proposed policies against Mohammedanism are commonsensical, prudent, and fair-minded. Politicians who have the good of their compatriots at heart do not leave their countries wide open to treason, murder, rape, torture, sedition, subversion and corruption. Mohammedanism is incompatible with democracy and with international law.
Florida Jim says
Trump’s policy was “let Putin do it” Putin cannot be trusted and still America is the only country to do it. Special Ops, American leadership behind a committed Mideast crew Kurd’s etc or America must do it alone or stay out of any more Mid-east/muslim nonsense. Muslim goal is to take over the world nation by nation . Just as ISIS has grown from nothing to a 12 nation takeover under Obama and Hillary America must act in 2017 and complete the job and LEAVE.Obama will only dither and claim success after he leavers office just as FDR and LBJ did, a known democratic trick to revise history in their favor and do it with thousands of teachers lying to students too dumb to check like Watter’s World fools, your kids.
David says
As I see this issue, the threat from our Satan worshipping muslim neighbors is every bit as unholy and dangerous as the NAZI’s were in the 1930’s and 40’s.
And, like then, the only way to bring them under some sort of control, will be to force the issue! As was done, out of need, back then.
It is a very sad failing of humankind, that the need for strong action, to save even our own necks, is slow in coming. Many, even NOW after incidents far to numerous to count, many still believe that we can “win over muslim hearts and minds” simply by throwing love, flowers or money at this problem, instead of bombs or bullets.
I’m sorry but, that’s NOT the kind of world we are living in. Without firm action, right now, this evil cancer will only spread and get much worse. If we don’t act, just imagine the world we will leave to our children and grandchildren.
sham says
PUBLIC PEOPLE(MUSLIM/NON MUSLIM) BLOOD & PROPERTIES, WERE HONORS AND PROTECTED/SACRED LIKE MECCA:
4: 148. Allah does not like that the evil should be uttered in public except by him who has been wronged. And Allah is Ever All Hearer, All Knower.
17: 70. And indeed We have honoured the Children of Adam, and We have carried them on land and sea, and have provided them with At-Taiyibât (lawful good things), and have preferred them above many of those whom We have created with a marked preference.
Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 3 :: Hadith 67,105
Narrated Abu Bakra:
The Prophet said. No doubt your blood, property, the sub-narrator Muhammad thought that Abu Bakra had also mentioned and your honor (chastity), are sacred to one another as is the sanctity of this day of yours in this month of yours. It is incumbent on those who are present to inform those who are absent.” (Muhammad the Subnarrator used to say, “Allah’s Apostle told the truth.”) The Prophet repeated twice: “No doubt! Haven’t I conveyed Allah’s message to you.
PROTECTION OF NON MUSLIM ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MUSLIM:
9: 6. And if anyone of the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) seeks your protection then grant him protection, so that he may hear the Word of Allah (the Qur’ân), and then escort him to where he can be secure, that is because they are men who know not.
7. How can there be a covenant with Allah and with His Messenger for the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) except those with whom you made a covenant near Al-Masjid-al-Harâm (at Makah)? So long, as they are true to you, stand you true to them. Verily, Allah loves Al-Muttaqûn
Dawud :: Book 19 : Hadith 2955
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:
A son of Adi ibn Adi al-Kindi said that Umar ibn AbdulAziz wrote (to his governors): If anyone asks about the places where spoils (fay’) should be spent, that should be done in accordance with the decision made by Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him). The believers considered him to be just, according to the saying of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): Allah has placed truth upon Umar’s tongue and heart. He fixed stipends for Muslims, and provided protection for the people of other religions by levying jizyah (poll-tax) on them, deducting no fifth from it, nor taking it as booty.
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 287
Narrated ‘Amr bin Maimun:
Umar (after he was stabbed), instructed (his would-be-successor) saying, “I urge him (i.e. the new Caliph) to take care of those non-Muslims who are under the protection of Allah and His Apostle in that he should observe the convention agreed upon with them, and fight on their behalf (to secure their safety) and he should not over-tax them beyond their capability
Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 49
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr:
The Prophet said, “Whoever killed a Mu’ahid (a person who is granted the pledge of protection by the Muslims) shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise though its fragrance can be smelt at a distance of forty years (of traveling).”
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 53 :: Hadith 404
25: 63. And the slaves of the Most Beneficent (Allah) are those who walk on the earth in humility and sedateness, and when the foolish address them (with bad words) they reply back with mild words of gentleness.
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6219
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6215
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A’mash with the same chain of transmitters (and the words are):” Don’t sever relations of kinship, don’t bear enmity against one another, don’t bear aversion against one another and don’t feel envy against the other and live as fellow-brothers as Allah has commanded you.
Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6214 ,6216
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Avoid suspicion[doubt, guessing], for suspicion is the gravest lie in talk and do not be inquisitive about one another and do not spy upon one another and do not feel envy with the other, and nurse no malice, and nurse no aversion and hostility against one another. And be fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.
Angemon says
sham posted:
“PUBLIC PEOPLE(MUSLIM/NON MUSLIM) BLOOD & PROPERTIES, WERE HONORS AND PROTECTED/SACRED LIKE MECCA:”
Here is the letter muhammad, the illiterate prophet wrote to the heads of state of nearby nations:
Translation: convert to islam or pay a little “life insurance” if you don’t want something bad coming your way.
gravenimage says
Repulsive spammer sham wrote:
4: 148. Allah does not like that the evil should be uttered in public except by him who has been wronged. And Allah is Ever All Hearer, All Knower.
…………………………
In other words, Infidels cannot say anything negative about Islam, unless they have been directly harmed by it. And they can’t say anything negative then, either, because they are ‘filthy Kuffar’.
More:
9: 6. And if anyone of the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) seeks your protection then grant him protection, so that he may hear the Word of Allah (the Qur’ân), and then escort him to where he can be secure, that is because they are men who know not.
…………………………
This is only for those in the process of *converting to Islam*.
Qur’an 9:6 is, of course, immediately preceded by the infamous “Sura of the Sword”:
“And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush…”
More:
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:
A son of Adi ibn Adi al-Kindi said that Umar ibn AbdulAziz wrote (to his governors): If anyone asks about the places where spoils (fay’) should be spent, that should be done in accordance with the decision made by Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him). The believers considered him to be just, according to the saying of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): Allah has placed truth upon Umar’s tongue and heart. He fixed stipends for Muslims, and provided protection for the people of other religions by levying jizyah (poll-tax) on them, deducting no fifth from it, nor taking it as booty.
…………………………
Here sham is admitting far more than he intended to, no doubt–that Muslims may rob non-Muslims with impunity–hence those spoils–and can impose the crushing Jizya on any Infidels who fall into the power.
Mark Swan says
sham…kiss my foot…my dog says kiss something I couldn’t make it all out…
she mumbles when she’s gowling.
Michelle says
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sidney penny says
It’s effective?
Pertinent question Robert Spencer
Dean says
This blaming and excusing this attack for campaign rhetoric from someone they disapprove is right out of the progressive playbook. Their proposed solution for bad things happening in the world is holding hands to wish it away. Furthermore, anything that is said about the savage members of one their chosen oppressed groups is the cause for the savages’ uncontrollable rage and reaction, and thereby justifying and excusing their violence. It is aided by a friendly media that carries it as serious criticism and who is to judge who is right attitude. At least it works unifying the choir against a common enemy and please notice that Trump’s Rep opposition jumps on the same bandwagon instead of consistently denouncing such tactics. No wonder Trump’s negatives in polling are so high, but can be overcome in the general when he and others focus on the Hillary house of horrors.
Kasey says
U.S. intervention in many cases has been a disaster for that nation and the World. Vietnam, Iraq, and Syria to name a few. Trump knows this but many Americans don’t want to admit it. Esp. the military industrial establishment. The UNO must change to do what it was designed to do!
gravenimage says
The Islamophilic UN is not going to protect us from Jihad.