My latest in PJ Media:
Other presidents throughout American history have endured harsh criticism from the press. None of them, however, have faced anything like the relentless, organized hit job that is the establishment media’s coverage of President Trump, featuring not just criticism, but distortion, half-truths and outright lies, all designed to make the American people not just vote against him, but disrespect, despise, and even hate him. In pursuit of this goal, consistency goes out the window, and fairness is but a dim memory. Trump is excoriated for anything and everything he does, even when any remotely fair-minded person would see it as positive. NBC News showed this anew on Tuesday in a “Hot Take” it published about the Israel-Morocco peace agreement.
NBC’s “military writer” Sébastien Roblin tells us solemnly that “the U.S. ruptured decades of foreign policy in North Africa to forge the agreement, setting the stage for violence that could destabilize the region.”
Given conditions all across North Africa, with Libya still in the state of chaos and ruin that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton brought upon it, Egypt oppressing its Christians (as always), and Algeria and Morocco both upholding Sharia blasphemy laws that outrage the freedom of conscience, it seems strange to lament the passing of the status quo ante, but Roblin makes his agenda clear when he writes that “as is so often the case with Trump, his characterization bears little relationship with reality.”
This and more in his article makes it obvious that the “military writer” is not engaged in actual foreign policy analysis, but is just out to tar Trump in any way he can. For it is absolutely true that the Israel-Morocco peace agreement and U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara may indeed turn out to have ill effects, but NBC News readers, not known for being the sharpest knives in the drawer, may not realize that such speculation can be carried out in virtually any context, but during the Obama years, seldom (if ever) was.
For example, if Sébastien Roblin had been so inclined, he could have written about how the “Arab Spring” uprisings that the Obama administration supported so enthusiastically were really just Muslim Brotherhood initiatives designed to impose Sharia in various North African states, but back when that “Spring” was in full flower, NBC News and all its establishment colleagues were busy popping open the champagne and hailing the far-sightedness of their Nobel laureate president.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Infidel says
Nobody cared one bit about Sahrawadi, until President Trump recognized it as a part of Morocco, which it de-facto is. If they want to, let them take the next flight to Algeria and join Polisario
jirtu says
It would be useful to know a bit about Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara.
Infidel says
It was a Spanish colony from 1958-1976, but Morocco claimed it as well, and invaded it in 1975. When the Spanish left, the independence party the Polisario found themselves fighting Morocco, who claimed that territory as theirs. The US has become the first country to recognize Morocco’s claim on that territory in return for the recognition of Israel
Roger Woodhouse says
The anti Trump rhetoric is being ramped up even more as we speak here in the UK.Its all to plant in the minds of the British that ‘perhps its a good thing to see the back of Trump’After 4 years of relentless anti Trump propaganda and ridicule the mindless Brits who soak up whatever the MSM feeds them will be expressing great satisfaction that ‘they were right afterall’!I pray that they will be very disappointed!
Brando says
Trump is a fan of SUN TZU and his ART OF WAR. Sun Tzu never existed,according to Chinese scholars, but the book is brilliant.
YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT
In a 2012 tweet Trump cited Sun Tzu:
“Let your PLANS be DARK and IMPENETRABLE
as NIGHT, and
when you move, fall like a THUNDERBOLT.”
( according to the website AMERICAN THINKER)
(article DEC 29, 2020)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/is_nothing_happening_or_is_trump_is_channeling_sun_tzu.html
OTHER FAMOUS SAYING OF SUN TZU:
“All WAR is based on DECPETION”
The article also says:
INFO 1
“I’m impatient, as I expect most American Thinker readers are as well. We have been promised a
coming storm that will be BIBLICAL,
or a KRAKEN released on Deep State conspirators.
Despite Attorney General Barr acknowledging SPYGATE as “one of the greatest travesties in American history,” there has not yet been a reckoning.”
INFO 2
“Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and strategist, author of a treatise on military strategy known as “The Art of War.” Trump is a fan, as this book which
made HIS SHORT LIST of “BEST leadership books.” ”
INFO 3
If Trump has a master plan, it’s safe to assume that few outside his SMALL INNER CIRCLE know anything about it.
An example would be Secretary of Defense CHRIS MILLER speaking to Vice President MIKE PENCE, thanking him for “his steady hand and leadership” during
“some of the MOST COMPLEX MILITARY OPERATIONS this country’s EVER conducted.”
INFO 4
“Why haven’t we heard of such operations?
Or were they “dark and impenetrable as night”?
And executed, like “a thunderbolt”?
This is not faint praise. Pence is NOT a MILITARY guy, but MILLER certainly is, a FORMER SPECIAL FORCES operator and commander. Miller was CLOSE TO TEARS acknowledging Pence’s assistance and leadership. Something is happening.”
INFO 5
“Trump is a MASTER OF CHAOS, with strategic media leaks and disinformation.
Is VP PENCE a white hat or a black hat?
The SecDef says Pence is a white hat.
Attorney Lin Wood says Pence is a black hat.”
INFO 6
” What about the rest of Trump’s INNER circle – Mark Meadows and Pat Cipollone – friends or foes?
PATRICK BYRNE calls them serpents.
Trump hired them and keeps them on.
Deception and confusion. CLASSIC Sun Tzu.”
INFO 7
“Trump tweets in ONE DIRECTION
and signs executive orders in ANOTHER DIRECTION.
He complains about the GOP Senate while hundreds of conservative judges are confirmed by the same senate. He creates chaos then uses the opportunity to advance his agenda. ”
And the article says even more.
James Lincoln says
Brando,
Interestingly, the first time I heard about “Sun-Tzu” was from a 1987 movie called “Wall Street”.
Bud Fox:
“Sun-Tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.”
Brando says
Hello, I first heard about Sun Tzu in a documentary where they mention he became KNOWN in the WEST
because of the film “Wall Street” where the antihero quotes him all the time.
OTHER SAYINGS OF SUN TZU
“ATTACK what is WEAK”
“KNOW your ENEMY and KNOW YOURSELF”
DOCUMENTARY ON SUN TZU:
https://youtu.be/V0m1Zwi4q-o
gravenimage says
For NBC News, War Is Peace, and Trump’s Historic Peace Deals Are War
……………..
Utter madness. How is peace with Israel “war”?
Brando says
They are just applying GOEBBELS(Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda) saying that:
1.LIE,lie,lie,something remains.
2.If you repeat a lie CONSTANTLY in time it becomes TRUTH
3.The BIGGER and More Outrages the Lie the easier people will believe it(after constant repetition).
somehistory says
https://www.investigativeproject.org/8681/european-union-seeks-stricter-measures-against
European Union Seeks Stricter Measures Against Islamism
by Hany Ghoraba
Special to IPT News
December 29, 2020
“European officials want to create the authority to monitor online content and force providers to remove radical Islamist content from internet sites. The proposal is among the most significant coming out of a summit held Dec. 9-11 that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The summit focused on the wave of Islamist terrorism striking Europe.
The rapid response to internet-based radicalization was among the first measures introduced by the European Council for security.”
There is more to the article.