Reality keeps intruding on the Left’s fantasies, but Leftists don’t care.
“Americans Killed in ISIS-Claimed Syria Attack Weeks After House Terrorism Panel Abolished,” by Mark Tapscott, Epoch Times, January 16, 2019:
The deadly suicide attack that killed four Americans, including two U.S. service members, in Syria on Jan. 16, comes about two weeks after new House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) abolished a key subcommittee on terrorism. The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Engel’s first official act as chairman on Jan. 3, when Democrats officially regained the House majority, was replacing the terrorism subcommittee with one focused on investigating President Donald Trump.
Engel justified the move because “there wasn’t a great clamor” to continue the terrorism panel, formerly known officially as the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Proliferation, and Trade. It was one of the panel’s busiest subcommittees under Engel’s predecessor, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.).
“We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this,” Engel told The New Yorker….
Robert Spencer, the founder of Jihad Watch, an advocacy group that documents Islamic terrorism, told The Epoch Times he doubts Engel will change course on the abolished subcommittee as a result of the U.S. bloodshed in Syria.
“No jihad terror attacks, or even a proliferation of jihad terror attacks, will convince Eliot Engel and his ilk that jihad terror is a problem that must be addressed,” Spencer said.
The foreign affairs chairman, like other Democratic leaders, Spencer said, “is focused mono-maniacally on destroying Trump. Every other issue must take a back seat to that.”…
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Swedish Public Broadcaster Censors Word “Islam” From Monologue About Why Saudi Girl Left Islam”
https://www.newswars.com/swedish-public-broadcaster-censors-word-islam-from-monologue-about-why-saudi-girl-left-islam/
gravenimage says
Grotesque, Flavius.
christianblood says
If the US had pulled them out a little quicker, these fatalities would not have happened. If they hadn’t have invaded Afghanistan, 2,700 US soldiers would still be alive. If they had not invaded Vietnam, 58,000 American soldiers would still be alive. If they hadn’t have invaded Iraq, 4,424 US soldiers would still be alive. If they hadn’t invaded Korea, 33,651 American soldiers would still alive. Close to 100.000 dead, over 400.000 wounded, 10 Trillions dollars spent! WHEN are they going to learn!!??
Wellington says
Gee, christianblood, has America ever done anything right?
Just taking one of your “points,” i.e., your contention that America “invaded” Korea, are you not even remotely aware that but for Truman going into Korea in 1950 after Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea (technically it was a UN joint effort but 90% of the troops who fought the North Korean invaders were American), what is now South Korea and a very prosperous and free nation would be one gigantic prison camp as is North Korea? Take America out of this “equation,” and South Korea would not be free and prosperous and you miss this completely as you miss so much because your blind antipathy to America has addled your brain.
I am so sick of your hate America all the time screeds here at JW. Oh, once again, I support your right to reveal your ignorance and hatred of America, but I am so very sick of you and I wanted you to know this. And I especially want you to know this: The tens of thousands of American military personnel who gave their lives so South Korea could be free of Communism and with a chance eventually of being free and prosperous are exceedingly dishonored by you. Might as well piss on all of their graves, christianblood, so sickening is your comment about America “invading” Korea.
You’re disgusting, christianblood. I mean really, really disgusting. Damn ignorant too.
LytchZam says
My mom, a US Marine during WWII, once told me that she hated Truman with a “deep purple hate.” I was too young to understand what question to ask, and no longer can. But I think it was because he fired McArthur who wanted to “finish the job” – as did Patton, in Europe.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington. christianblood has castigated America for defending people against Fascism and Communism before.
He would much rather that South Koreans suffered like their kinsmen in the north under one of the worst Communist regimes in history, rather than being free due to the US.
Wellington says
LytchZam: I certainly think MacArthur was a great commander and a great man (“American Caesar” by William Manchester testifies to this and is a magnificent biography of this extraordinary American) but MacArthur, like almost all great human beings, had great faults, in his case one of them being a proclivity towards histrionics, and when he publicly challenged the authority of the Commander-in-Chief, the POTUS, Truman had no option but to fire him and it is important to comprehend that other high officials in the American government like Marshall, Acheson, Harriman and Bradley completely supported President Truman in this regard.
Oh, I understand your mother’s point about MacArthur and I guess we’ll never know if he had been able to bomb north of the Yalu River if this would have resulted in total victory or WWIII (Truman’s chief concern), but his firing was necessary in any case if civilian control of the American military was to remain in tact. One of the greater achievements of America is that it has always kept civilian control over the military from its outset as an independent nation (no little thanks for this due to George Washington who set the precedent with his own discipline, vision and humility). MacArthur challenged this and so he had to go.
As for Patton, a great commander according to many (but not to everyone to say the least), but he too was impolitic and said things publicly that disallowed him from retaining command. Yes, it is another interesting question to be asked had he been allowed to take on the Russians after the defeat of the Germans, but this was a decision for the American government to make, not an American military commander.
Thank you for your comment.
christianblood says
Wellington
North Korea is an independent country. South Korea is a U$ colony!
Big difference! Better to be independent and poor than being a rich colony!
BTW, U$ has invaded and bombed more countries and killed millions of civilians than any other nation on Earth and you seem to be very PROUD of that Wellington, aren’t you? See the fact sheet below:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Bombing_campaigns_since_1945
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Wellington
North Korea is an independent country. South Korea is a U$ colony!
Big difference! Better to be independent and poor than being a rich colony!
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North Korea is only poor because it is a Communist hell hole–there is no reason it should not be as prosperous as South Korea.
And note: christianblood has sneered at freedom before, and here he shows just how deeply he despises it, preferring the brutal oppression and persecution of North Korea’s brutal dictatorship to South Korea’s free society.
He also proves once again that his pose as a defender of Christians is a sham–Christians are savagely persecuted in North Korea, sent to prison camps, and often murdered, whereas they are free to worship in South Korea, and Christianity is growing there.
https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/north-korea/
christianblood says
gravenimage
North Korea is poor but independent. South is rich but a colony!
I would rather be very poor but independent! Our values are different!
Brian hoff says
Mc Arthur didnot listern when the president ask him not to place too many troop on the china korea border. China thought the USSR to president that they will consider large number of troops near they border than act of war. Mc Arthur said he could defeat china with one hand behind his back. When Mao hear what Mc Arther said china will treach him a lession. The next day 500 000 chinese cross the river into north korea driveing the UN force into retreat. Then Mc Arther cry for help from other america general they ingore him Mc Arther have than God complex. Then he gave than new grathering that he will use nuclear weapon on china. Stalin sent than telegram to the america president saying it america use nuclear weapon on china the USSR will enter the war on china side with they own nuclear weapons.
Wellington says
Christianblood: America has had to get involved in much of the world militarily because most of the world is not free, democratic, governed by an enlightened legal system and beholden to a proper moral code. America has had to fight the tyranny of other states because of heinous belief systems like Communism and Islam. America doesn’t militarily go after truly free nations. If all nations were free, a beautiful thought I would argue, there would be no need for America to intervene militarily in any nation.
Democracies have an overwhelming tendency to work out their differences without resort to arms. In fact, no two truly democratic states have gone to war with one another over the past century or more (I do not consider the Second Reich of Germany to have been a truly free polity). The American military is the single greatest guarantor of freedom in all the world and, as Mark Steyn, a Canadian, has said, a world without America would be a world that would be subject to the tyrants of the earth.
I predict you will not grasp any of what I have written here. Anyone who lauds North Korea as an independent nation and refers to South Korea as an American colony has a moral compass so broken that they are probably beyond all hope. Like you.
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
North Korea is poor but independent. South is rich but a colony!
I would rather be very poor but independent! Our values are different!
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Yes–our values *are* different. I hate to see the persecution of Christians–christianblood is not only fine with it, he considers this to represent “independence”. *Ugh*.
And the claim that South Korea is not an independent nation because we are protecting them from invasion by the north is, of course, absurd.
gravenimage says
More proof–if any were needed–that “Brian hoff (“DefenderofIslam”) hates America and much prefers totalitarianism.
He has said before that when Muslims reach large enough numbers in the US that they will impose brutal Shari’ah law on us.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
christianblood says
Wellington posted
(… America has had to get involved in much of the world militarily because most of the world is not free, democratic, governed by an enlightened legal system and beholden to a proper moral code…)
THIS IS CRAZY!
SO AMERICA SHOULD INVADE OTHER NATIONS, SLAUGHTER MILLIONS OF ITS PEOPLE AND BRING ABOUT “DEMOCRACY” BY FORCE?
HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM WHAT ISIS IS DOING? THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!
gravenimage says
Now protecting people from tyranny is the same as genocide and slavery under Shari’ah law? Good God…
Brian hoff says
Wellington you are fake new like trump say. First I said it america become than 70 % plus nuslim nation the muslim in america can turn america into Islamic law nation legality. Stalin out bluff Truman durning the Korean war. The USSR was very weak military power compare to america and NATO the USSR have only 12 nuclear bomb. We have no spy inside the USSR no spy satiles in space. Our CIA have to get inteligence about the USSR the old fashine way by our women spy and dipmat sleep and have sex with soviet spy and diplomatic worker to get infro. Stalin fed then false infro about USSR military and nuclear might. Our CIA estimate the USSR have between 150 to 200 nuclear weapons. America have no real nation wide system to dect russian bombers and no nationwide air defence system of fighter aircraft under one command sytem like today. President Ike start to built our air defence up. Plus our CIA said the USSR have no modern day jet fighter in 1949. Then the soviet Mig 15 jet fighter show up in North Korean sky in some case better than our fighter jet.
gravenimage says
The appalling “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
Wellington you are fake new like trump say.
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No, President Trump never said that Wellington was “fake new”–nor, of course, can “Brian hoff” point to anything that Wellington has said that is not true.
More:
First I said it america become than 70 % plus nuslim nation the muslim in america can turn america into Islamic law nation legality.
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Yes–the appalling “DefenderofIslam” has said before that he intends to impose savage Shari’ah law on us.
And no–this would not be “legality” at any point to destroy the Constitution and its protections–its just that if Muslims ever made up “than 70 % nuslim” then there would not be enough surviving Americans to stop them.
Not that “Brian hoff” has never said why he wants to see the Constitution replaced by Muslims marrying small children and stoning rape victims to death in the streets. Damn barbarian.
More:
Stalin out bluff Truman durning the Korean war…We have no spy inside the USSR no spy satiles in space. Our CIA have to get inteligence about the USSR the old fashine way by our women spy and dipmat sleep and have sex with soviet spy and diplomatic worker to get infro. Stalin fed then false infro about USSR military and nuclear might. Our CIA estimate the USSR have between 150 to 200 nuclear weapons. America have no real nation wide system to dect russian bombers and no nationwide air defence system of fighter aircraft under one command sytem like today. President Ike start to built our air defence up. Plus our CIA said the USSR have no modern day jet fighter in 1949. Then the soviet Mig 15 jet fighter show up in North Korean sky in some case better than our fighter jet.
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Where to start? No, the US did not gather most of its intelligence through spies sleeping with Soviet agents. Where does the semi-literate “Brian hoff’ get his information? Cheap paperback spy thrillers?
“Brian hoff”–just like christianblood–seems very positive about the horrors of Communism in Korea. But then, for someone who wants to see Shari’ah law imposed in the West, a love of totalitarianism should not surprise…
Wellington says
Just imagine, gravenimage, if Brian hoff and chirstianblood and their kind were in charge of the world. Wait, I fear we’re moving in that direction quick like.
Wellington says
What is so damn sad and troubling is that ever increasingly the Democratic Party is out of touch with reality. I thought this decades ago (e.g., a multitude of Democrats back in the late 1980’s were far more positive about Gorbachev than about Reagan—they had “Gorbasims” with great regularity) but it just keeps getting worse and worse. Right now, it’s at “worst” to date. Anyone doubting me here, just look at rubes like Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, O’Rourke and Omar who are billed as shining new lights among a multitude of confused Democratic voters (excuse the redundancy).
Ain’t lookin’ good, made all the worse by the wussiness of so many Republicans. Mitt Romney comes to mind here. Thank God Trump is President but he’s not enough. One party has lost its collective mind and the other major party has way too many clueless, even gutless, people in it.
The American Republic is in a great deal of trouble. One knows this or should know it. One should also know that much of the world, examples being China, Russia, the Islamic sphere of mankind and Latin America, relishes this.
mortimer says
Agree with Robert Spencer: “Reality keeps intruding on the Left’s fantasies, but Leftists don’t care.”
Libtards don’t care until JIHAD-TERRORISM happens to them and often the COGNITIVE DISSONNANCE of being ATTACKED BY MUSLIMS causes them to begin searching for answers.
Some LIBTARDS who have been “JIHADED” have actually written books about their ORDEALS, but their LEFTARDED (former friends) refuse to read them.
Indiana Tom says
Libtards don’t care until JIHAD-TERRORISM happens to them and often the COGNITIVE DISSONNANCE of being ATTACKED BY MUSLIMS causes them to begin searching for answers.
Not even then, they will insist the Jihadis need a jobs program.
Indiana Tom says
I forgot that they will insist the Jihadi needs mental health care.
gravenimage says
Americans killed in Syria attack claimed by the Islamic State weeks after House terrorism panel abolished
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They need more time to “investigate” the president:
“Democrats to replace House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism with subcommittee investigating Trump”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/democrats-to-replace-house-foreign-affairs-subcommittee-on-terrorism-with-subcommittee-investigating-trump
eduardo odraude says
Video from the Apostate Prophet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmxl-tVCmtg
FYI says
The Apostate Prophet on YT is awesome;he gets a lot of abuse from muslims for telling the Truth.
Nobody likes the Truth..especially concerning islam’s supremacist ideology that denigrates and attacks all other religions.
The Apostate Prophet is to be highly recommended and..supported.
gravenimage says
He is a very brave man.
el Cid 2. says
Wellington, Mortimer, and Eduardo – way to go my friends.
gravenimage says
+1
Vicky King says
This is as serious as a heart attack. Our government is directly and indirectly killing Americans. Defending the lives of Americans is it’s mandated reason for being. It has failed and must be dismantled per the constitution, or by any means necessary. The Republic must be reinstated and guarded at all costs.
Else we can no longer call ourselves Americans, or sovereign.
Lorenscaho says
It could be that the House made a mistake closing down the committee on terrorism, but can’t we advocate for the retention of this committee without attacking the left. All that does is divide Americans even more than we are already divided. We need to unite as Americans. That’s the only way anything can be accomplished.
gravenimage says
Wait–you can’t say that failing to study Jihad is a bad thing–that this divides Americans? What a sad admission–why should any American be pro-Jihad?
Walter Sieruk says
In Syria that jihadist of ISIS just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.
Walter Sieruk says
Those American’s ,while in Syria, who were killed by that ISIS jihadist his delusional and murderous suicide /homicide Islamic terror attack is a sure reminder that in this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.” The deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, 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.” Matthew 22:29,30. A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
762x51FMJ says
Nancy Pelosi celebrated the shutdown, by vacationing in Hawaii, then went to the Caribbean to see “Hamilton”, $22 million in security, now wanted to go on an Afghanistn tour, to talk with the Taliban to devise a way to extinguish the president and his family…
200 million worth of military security, aircraft carriers and a massive presence.. So Nancy can assure the Taliban she will have Trump taken out one way or another.
Nancy Pelosi also says that she cannot assure Trumps security in the US Capitol building
A building flooded with existing security apparatus that has handled SOTU adresses for the last 100 years..