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This new webinar features Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Robert discusses: Endless Wars Beginning Again, confronting the question: Is the Biden Administration planning to commit the U.S. military on a large scale in Syria?
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gravenimage says
Robert Spencer Video: Endless Wars Beginning Again
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We can’t civilize the Muslim world.
mortimer says
ISIS is killing Americans in COLORADO. Muslims think they are civilized, so do vampires. Also like the vampires, Muslims cannot see themselves in the mirror of history or current events. Vampires also avoid sunlight, partly so their crimes are less detectable.
When Muslims see Islam dragged into the bright light of examination, they often cease to be Muslims as many did when they realized that ISIS was one of the most Islamic societies in history. This young jihadist from Syria LOVED ISIS.
ISIS Is in the US and it cannot be by accident that Biden’s presidency is the moment for the Colorado jihadist’s attack. ISIS sees Biden as a weak target.
Glyn Davies says
Have a look at an F.B.I map of suspected Islamic training camps situated in the U.S.A
Rob Porter says
Glyn, So why is the wondrous FBI not going in to close down the camps. What a wonderful opportunity it would be to kill a lot of Muslims who plotting to kill Americans.
Infidel says
Great discussion about a topic that has received little attention, aside from Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard
1:00 The topic of endless wars didn’t exactly start w/ Trump: in that crowded field, it was the top priority of Rand Paul, and it was in response to that that Lindsay Graham entered the race. If one noticed the debates, it was often Trump and Rand vs the rest of the field, although Ben Carson too threw his lot behind the opposition to the war, and Ted Cruz suggested limiting the scope of the war to just defeating the enemy, but not including nation-building. Once Trump won the nomination, there was the unusual scenario of the Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton being endorsed by the neocons and dozens of generals, while the Republican candidate Trump at a debate in Charleston made a statement about George W Bush lying that for one day at least, made him a favorite of Code Pink. Which does beg the question: where is Code Pink, and why aren’t they demanding that we bring all our troops in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq home?
9:00 Getting good governance to the rest of the world was the foundation of globalism, and an embodiment of what Rudyard Kipling once called the ‘White man’s burden’. Wilson was so much in love w/ it that he ignored the Spanish Flu that was the other major event ravaging the world. Had Wilson been the president last year instead of Trump, we’d probably have seen millions die, as opposed to merely being infected
Also, the ‘cultural affinity w/ Britain’ – it wasn’t until President Theodore Roosevelt that Britain and the US actually developed an affinity for each other. The US certainly wasn’t on Britain’s side during the Napoleonic wars
13:00 The biggest mistake about toppling Saddam Hussein was that it empowered Iran, and gave birth to the concept of a shi’a crescent starting in Teheran and going through Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut. Previously, Iran was held at bay due to a powerful Saddam: once that fell and was replaced by a ‘democratic’ i.e. shi’a regime, it was like handing over Iraq to Iran on a silver platter
15:00 Having Noah Feldman – a Jew – write the constitution of a muslim country like Iraq: yeah, that was gonna go down well in that country!
16:00 The Taliban was toppled in December 2001, when Kandahar fell. That was the right time for the US to pull out, unless we were going to war against Pakistan, the real country hiding Osama! Yeah, finding Osama was always an objective, but we were never gonna find him in Afghanistan
17:30 The US has troops in 150 countries (out of a total of 190). But few in the US itself, where they would have been useful, particularly last year. There is no good reason why we still have troops in Europe. If containing Russia is so important, arming countries like Poland, Ukraine, Latvia et al to the teeth is a better idea than including them in a NATO and promising, for instance, that if Russian troops move into Latvia, that would provoke a war w/ US. On what basis?
22:30 What RS said about Saddam protecting Christians is even more true about Assad, since the Alawites, w/ certain customs like beatifying the Virgin Mary, having ceremonies that include wine and so on, are certainly more compatible w/ Christians than the Sunnis in next door Iraq, who were happy to join ISIS in persecuting them
24:45 Hilarious – when Anni Cyrus asked ‘Where is Mozambique?’ Yeah, most of the countries where we have troops are countries we couldn’t find on a map. That question was surreal in the context ?????? Actually, some parts of North Mozambique was once a part of the Swahili sultanate, which is probably the basis of ISIS claim, since once islamic, always islamic is the underlying mission statement of islam
In that context, one of the projects that the US military was doing was working w/ the Ethiopian navy. Except that Ethiopia has been a landlocked country since 1993, when Eritrea seceded from it. I wonder what projects the US is doing w/ the navies of Mongolia, Chad, Bolivia, Nepal, Laos and Paraguay?
35:00 I don’t see why RS took such pains to ‘disavow’ any support to the idea of Iran and Iraq fighting a war w/ each other. As Hugh noted many times on this site in the 00s, the best way to counter the jihad was to have internecine conflicts within muslim countries. Whether it’s Hamas vs Fatah in the Palestinian territories, Iran vs Iraq, the civil war in Syria, which has totally destroyed that country’s one time superpower status in the region (remember how in 1983, the Israelis avoided attacking Damascus due to a Soviet threat, leaving the Syrians free to indefinitely occupy Lebanon) and so on
40:00 Very astute observation – that during the Cold War, the UN was a tool of the Communist bloc, and now, it’s a tool of the islamic bloc. During the Cold War, the communists had a handful of countries in Eastern Europe and some scattered in the world – Cuba, North Korea, South Yemen (remember that country?), Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique (something more for you, Anni ?), and along w/ the ‘Non-Aligned Movement’, which was a bunch of socialist kleptocracies like India, it gave the Soviets a major dominance. Whereas today, the 50-country OIC is the biggest bloc w/ more than 25% of UN members
42:30 On China, I typically look to Gordon Chang as my go to guy, just like I do for RS for islam. Under Trump, there was a process underway towards confronting China, and the Quad alliance was exactly what Trump expected NATO to be but which it never was. While Biden did have video conferences w/ Quad leaders, I don’t expect it to go far during the next 4 years. Taiwan’s best hope for the time being is getting supported by Australia, India and Japan, the other 3 members of the Quad
44:00 On the question of troops in Germany, the more basic question is – why are we still in NATO? On what basis would we go to war w/ Russia (under Article 5) if Latvia is attacked? We could, even outside NATO, arm the Ukrainians as much as they need if we think that the Russians shouldn’t own the Donbass
44:30 I disagree w/ RS here: Russia is increasingly a protégé of China. Best example: when China had their tiff w/ India, Russia stayed neutral, and in fact, has also started selling military hardware to Pakistan. For the first time in history, India and Russia have been diverging, and China’s the main reason. If Russia was an adversary of China, they’d be on very good terms w/ the Quad
In fact, I still think that if a future US GOP administration could win over Russia, then we wouldn’t have to worry about either China nor Turkey, since Russia borders both of them and would be valuable in overseeing their activities
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for your very astute analysis, Infidel.
john smith says
Totally agree James, excellent analysis.
Infidel says
Thank you, James & John
Prince Eugene says
The success of the Marshal Plan and the rebuilding of Germany and Japan began a pattern that has led to whole series of nasty misadventures all around the world. The method of rebuilding countries and governments attacked and wrecked by the United States outside the boundaries of the Constitution smacks of globalist intentions. Actually winning these undeclared wars doesn’t seem to matter in the least and probably was not the intent. Bravo! Well said Mr. Spencer.
gravenimage says
Wait–you think that the US defeating the Fascists was their “wrecking” other countries? Does that mean you would have preferred Hitler winning?
Phil Copson says
Prince Eugene was referring to what he believes “the success of the Marshall Plan ” led to afterwards, not to WW2 and the Marshall Plan itself, ie – stunning success followed by overreach with different intentions behind it.
At least, that’s my reading of it….
gravenimage says
The Marshall Plan was a great success. Trying to civilize a Muslim country, not so much.
The parallel would be trying to civilize Germany and Japan if they were still part of the Axis.
Infidel says
Graven, no, he seems to be saying what RS said – that the Marshall Plan seemed to have become a template for how the US managed countries after wars, regardless of whether they were formally declared or not. What is globalist is trying to rebuild those countries in our own image, and being more concerned about the well being of other people instead of us Americans
gravenimage says
The Marshall Plan is not the problem–it just does not apply in every case.
Infidel says
That’s the point that both RS and Prince Eugene were making: that after its success in Europe, it became a template for everywhere. When, as you note, it does not apply in every case
gravenimage says
Agree, Infidel.
Phil Copson says
Fascinating that at 13.0 Robert attributes the responsibility for 9/11 to Saudi Arabia and Iran. I personally had Pakistan down as “The Third Man” in this plot.
I posted years back that Bush daren’t go to war with Saudi Arabia or Iran, so he came to an agreement with America’s enemies that he would instead fight a “Potemkin War” against Iraq to satisfy his political need to be seen to respond to the carnage of the 9/11 attacks.
As secular states, taking out Hussein’s Iraq and Gaddafi’s Libya fitted the bill nicely – the religious ME states wouldn’t object to them being overthrown, and Western elites could carry on enriching themselves by doing deals with the very people who intend to overthrow their countries.
The invasion of Iraq was not a response, but a surrender.
China and the Muslim Brotherhood didn’t get this enmeshed in the West without a vast number of Western politicians, civil servants, industrialists, tech monopolies, academics, and media having been suborned.
tgusa says
America has gone from isolationist to minding everyone else’s business. When you are constantly sticking your nose in other peoples business you generally become hated by both sides. This also leads to the neglect of our own problems right here at home. Taxes on personal income opens the door for massive military spending and endless interventions.
gravenimage says
Islam hated America from the beginning. Muslims pirated American ships before we were an independent nation.
Islam hates us not because of any specific policy of ours, but because we are ‘filthy Infidels’.
tgusa says
“Islam hates us” yes, I know. That still doesn’t change the fact that sticking your nose in other peoples business you generally become hated by both sides (no matter who or what they are).
gravenimage says
Many of these conflicts are pointless for us to become involved in, no doubt. But I think ridding the Mediterranean sea of Jihadist pirates and defeating Fascism were good things. You may, of course, disagree.
Norman Gardner says
It was a good idea and necessary.
Walter Sieruk says
During this interview with Robert Spencer he did speak about the Islamic “Republic ” of Iran. Which did have in its despicable and sinister hand those murderous and destructive jihad al Qaeda Islamic terror attacks which occurred on September 11, 2001.
Therefore it should be made clear that after the extermination of Osama bin Laden by the Heroic Navy SEAL’s the son of the Muslim terrorist chief fled to Iran ,according to FOX News, the point being the Shite Iran welcomed and gave safe housing to him ins spite of bin Laden’s son being and Sunni Muslim and al Qaeda a Sunni Islamic terror organization . Even through in history and in current time Sunni Muslim and Shite Muslim hate each other . This safe housing given to Bin Laden‘s son was not out of love and kindness for him. He was given safety in Iran because both Iran and al Qaeda hate the United States even more than the hate each other.
Therefore , all this leads to the subject of Iran and September 11, 2001 jihad murderous affront against both humankind and America the following might be interesting to some people. A type of thinking of many from Middle East is the sayings that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This type of Middle Eastern “philosophy” may explain, to a degree, how Muslims of two different branches of Islam which are hostile to each other can work together against what they perceive as a “common enemy.”
In this case the mullahs and other in power in Shi ‘ite Iran can work with the jihadists of al Qaeda against which they see as “The Great Satan” By that term they mean the United States of America. As the Muslim author, Rohan Gunaratna , explained in his book INSIDE AL QAEDA . For on page 198 it reveals that among different Islamic terror organizations that “Ideological tolerance and intergroup cohesion as a means confronting a common enemy.” So another author, Robert Spencer, in his book which is entitled THE COMPLETE INFIDEL’S GUIDE TO IRAN supply’s information about this topic. It has been keyboarded that this book reveals “Iran’s long –standing support of terrorists- including shocking evidence that Iran helped plain the 9/11 attack.”