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I’m Conservative and I See NO Value to Stay in Afghanistan
John R. Houk
© May 17, 2013
Danny Jeffrey wrote an essay complete with a pictorial entitled “The Cave Dwellings of Afghanistan”. The theme is that Afghanis are primitive people that survived centuries of invasions because of their mountainous terrain that has developed cave dwelling system for periods of defense and reclaiming their land after wearied invaders either left or were assimilated into the tribal situations. Thus Afghanis are not now nor will be amenable to Western ways.
I concur with Danny but there were legitimate reasons for America to invade Afghanistan. Now those reasons have been answered and it is time to leave.
The reason for invading Afghanistan is because the then ruler – the One-Eyed Mullah Omar – provided protection to Usama bin Laden as the head of al Qaeda sent Islamic terrorists to the USA that became responsible for around 3000 deaths on American soil. We chased UBL for about a decade until we found him and killed him out in Pakistan.
Being Americans we have attempted to build an infrastructure in Afghanistan that includes democratic principles. Frankly I was all for that agenda; however time has proven that Islam and Western democratic principles are incompatible.
So what’s left? In my thinking it would be to get Mullah Omar who protected UBL. The thing is the One-Eyed Mullah is only alive by reputation. He has not made any verifiable appearances since he fled the collapse of his Taliban regime as the American led forces commenced their invasion:
“…there have been no verifiable communications on paper, by phone, or in audio or video recordings from the so-called Leader of the Faithful, since he disappeared into the Kandahar mountains on the back of a motorcycle in November 2001 as his regime collapsed.” (Taliban Forces Desperate to Hear from Their Absent Leader, Mullah Omar; By Ron Moreau; The Daily Beast; 5/1/13 4:45 AM EDT)
If Mullah Omar is alive he is hiding so deep that the Islamic Terrorists that swear allegiance to him don’t even know if he is running the Taliban terrorist show.
So here’s my thinking: UBL is dead, the Afghan Muslim people are less than pleased with any contribution to Afghanistan and Mullah Omar isn’t running the Taliban operationally.
It is time to leave Afghanistan to its own devices with a warning of future devastation if any Afghan government supports Islamic terrorism on the American homeland. Incidentally devastation does not mean another invasion; it means some kind tactical military action up to and including a small nuke strike to make a point about the long arm of American military might.
JRH 5/17/13
One Man Rule will END the Constitution
Romulus Augustus Last Emperor of Western Roman Empire
John R. Houk
© May 12, 2013
Danny correctly observes the uncanny parallels between the Roman Empire and the United States of America. The only criticism I have and it is a bit silly is that the Roman Republic made Rome an empire. Rome’s decline began when the republican form of government was replaced by the rule of law of one man that utilized republic’s infrastructure to enforce the rule of one man. Rome exchanged the rule of law for the rule of man. When Octavius secured Roman government under his “enlightened” leaders he became Emperor. Octavius of the Republic was no more for he transformed into Augustus and essentially took his Uncle Julius’ family name as “Caesar” instead of the obvious “Emperor”.
Augustus’ Roman Empire was strong and succeeded hundreds of years after his death. Rome’s decline was the deficiency of one man rule of succeeding emperors that led quite immoral lives. Even though the Western half of the Roman Empire ended circa 475 AD according to famed historian Edward Gibbons, Western Roman already nearly non-existent by the time the last Emperor was defeated and deposed.
My point about the decline of Rome is if the USA has a parallel a one man rule will probably take place. Just as Augustus was perceived to be the savior from the chaos of Rome Republic rivals for power, then a similar parallel would occur in the USA.
Is America to the point that politically powerful people will divide the sympathies of Americans to the point that the U.S. Constitution is irrelevant? It could happen that factions tear Constitutional rule of law to pieces because of the feeling of desperation.
America’s only hope is for a consensus of voters become strong enough to elect Constitutional Originalists into Office and Constitutional Originalists are selected for the Federal Judiciary especially the Supreme Court.
Otherwise … Factions of the political spectrum will war for power with the winner taking all rendering the Constitution as a glorious document in the history of humankind.
Well those are my thoughts on Danny Jeffrey’s essay “The Decline and Fall of America”.
JRH 5/12/13
U.S. National Interests and the Syrian Civil War
John R. Houk
© April 28, 2013
Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime is using chemical weapons to stop the momentum of the Syrian rebels from dethroning the Assad regime. Now I realize perhaps a half to even more than a half of the Rebels are radical Muslims perhaps making them no worse than Assad’s secular-socialized government dominated by Syria’s Alawite-Shia (See Here, Here and Here) minority. Nonetheless, chemical weapons are supposed to be illegal by international convention. I am guessing the U.N. Security Council could empower military sanctions against Assad’s regime.
Now I know many Conservatives – Danny Jeffrey comes to mind – are against the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P apparently has a few criticisms such as providing an excuse to invade to accomplish the National Interests of perhaps an agreed coalition bloc of nations. And perhaps R2P could embroil the USA in a war that is conducted beyond the pale of the U.S. Constitution.
I believe removing Assad is as much in the National Interests of the USA as there is a R2P military reason to save civilian lives. Now Danny Jeffrey’s concern is that R2P strategy is an Obama mask to discreetly aid invading Arab or Muslim armies to take down the Leftist perceived threat to world peace in the Jewish State of Israel. With Obama at the helm of the U.S. government I can see Danny’s view of a reprehensible motive behind the Obama R2P agenda. President Barack Hussein Obama is NO friend of Israel. Obama has gone beyond satisfying political correctness by saying Palestinians deserve a sovereign nation to forcing the issue including robbing Israel of half its capital city of Jerusalem and giving that to Jew-Hating Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.
Why is it in America’s National Interest to remove Bashar al-Assad? Anything that throws a monkey wrench into the radical Islamic agenda of America’s enemy Iran is good for America and perhaps signals those Twelver maniacs that American muscle might actually spank Iran for making good on their threats to drive Israeli Jews into the sea.
The fine line at issue is what will the U.S. government do after aiding Syrian rebels to give the Assad regime a boot? It would be crazy to get rid of Assad and allow a radical Muslim government to form to be the Sunni mirror image of Iran’s Shi’ite Twelver radical Muslim government.
The information I have managed to cull about the nature of the Syrian Rebels is that the Islamist militias – especially Jabhat al Nusra – are gaining infrastructure control of the rebel held land in Syria. Even though the secular or more moderate Muslim rebels figured prominently early in the Syrian Rebellion against Assad, it appears the radical Muslims by virtue of infrastructure possession would evolve into the controlling faction of any future Syrian government absent of Assad. This would not be good for American National Interests. A Sunni Islamist theocratic nation will be as much of an enemy of the USA and Israel as Iran is. Indeed I suspect Iran would make friendly overtures to a Sunni Islamist regime even though Iran represents Shia Islam. Just for perspective you should know that Sunnis are about 90% of Islam while Shias are roughly 10% of Islam. Radical Muslim Sunni Clerics have labeled Shias a heretic religion thus making the Shias as much of an infidel as Jews and Christians. Perhaps even more worth of death than Jews and Christians because a Shi’ite existence could be perceived as an insult to Allah and Mohammed. Among radical Muslims, in particular insulting Mo and Allah, is a good reason for the execution of the death penalty.
So here are the horns of a dilemma the U.S. government faces. Help the Syrian Rebels defeat Assad quite probably bring into power a Jew-Hating and American-Hating Islamist government OR do nothing while Assad uses chemical weapons of mass destruction to reverse the defeat he has been experiencing utilizing conventional weapons against the Rebels. Undoubtedly an Assad victory to remain in power would result in a wholesale genocide of Sunni Rebels and the civilian Sunni population that supported the Rebels. An Assad victory would also mean acquiring hubris perhaps leading the dictator to make rash moves against American interests and Israel, feeling an illusion of being undefeatable.
In the realm of the lesser of two evils, it still seems to me Assad’s demise will in at least the short term be better for the National Interests of the USA even if the long term outcome of Assad’s removal may not be helpful. The best way to bring down Assad with the least amount of American blood is to provide arms to the Syrian Rebels. It may be a futile hope but weaponry should be distributed to the more secular minded Sunnis who desire an elected government rather than a theo-political Sharia religious government in which the religious elite call the shots.
It will be up to the U.S. government – cough the Obama Administration – to actively influence a relationship that is not inimical to American National Interests. That probably is a tough order for I sense even a secular government based on Islamic elections will still be a Jew-Hating anti-Israel government. Which brings us back to Danny Jeffrey’s thoughts that President Barack Hussein Obama will part of an agenda to use R2P to join Arab and Muslim government to end the existence of Israel.
I was brought to this line of thinking from reading a Caroline Glick article entitled, “Time to confront Obama”. Glick wants to confront Obama’s motives behind the decisions he has made relating to Islamic terrorism, his treatment of Israel, wondering the value the word of BHO in relation to the Chemical WMD attack perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad against his own citizens and so on.
As my thoughts began to evolve it became apparent I was following a different train of thinking than Ms Glick. Nonetheless, you should read her article which is anti-Obama and pro-Israel. I like that way of thinking.
JRH 4/28/13
Bush – Self-deceived or Deceiver
John R. Houk
© April 5, 2013
Danny Jeffrey has posted “Middle East Problems … Only Beginning”. This is an awesome article about the Foreign Policy failures that afflicted three Presidential Administrations: Bush 1, Bush 2 and Obama.
I concur with Danny’s observations except perhaps with one small disagreement. Danny is critical of the Bush 2 agenda to implement democratic-republic forms of government in the Middle East with the belief that doing so would create better potential allies if voting citizens could make choices via elections to promote Human Rights and a better atmosphere for an economic-political situation to thrive benefitting the prosperity of the voters.
At the time I was 100% behind the Bush 2 Agenda to bring a democratic-republic form of government to the Middle East. Bush’s reasoning that nations that had experienced 25 to 50 years of oppression under Marxist/Leninist Communism began a freer life with Liberty’s benefits after the fall of the former Soviet Union.
The problem of nation-carving that Bush 2 (and to my chagrin) ran into was theo-political Islam. A monolithic religion patterned after the conquest paradigm manufactured by Islam’s prophet Mohammed. Unlike other religions Islam’s eventual holy writings lay out the principles that combine religion, politics and martial evangelism. Islam’s religion, politics and martial evangelism are all integrated on a unified basis as a platform to govern the lives of Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The non-Muslims allowed to live had to approve living an oppressed life as second class human beings surrendering any right of religious freedom and political freedom to the superiority of Islamic tenets. Any violation of those tenets by non-Muslims was and is regarded as an insult or an affronter to Islam and Mohammed.
For hundreds of years Islam was the minority religion in the Middle East, North Africa, conquered portions of Europe and India. Where Islam remained in control you can figure out why people began to convert to Islam making the indigenous religions the minority.
With a thousand years of Islamic Supremacist theo-political ideology ingrained into the conquered nations and tribes of people, it is fairly clear the reason why Bush 2’s democracy planting has not worked or when it did work the people chose Islamic Supremacism via the cultural implementation Sharia Law as the basis as the rule of law. Sharia and democratic-republic political structure are diametrically opposed to each other.
Bush 2’s error was not backtracking on this realization concerning Sharia and democracy. Rather President George W. Bush began either self-deception or overt deception to Americans by choosing to tell us that Islam is a religion of peace. Of course those tagged as Moderate Muslims affirmed Bush’s pronouncement of another peaceful Judeo-Christian-like religion as in Islam was and/or is true. This assertion of peace is propagandized to non-Muslims even though Islamic holy writings indeed advocate violence against non-Muslims and against Muslims that broke Sharia or apostatized.
Like Danny I was also under the sway of former Secretary of State Condi Rice’s Foreign Policy intellectualism. It has become apparent that Rice is akin more to Establishment Republicans and RINOs than to the principles of the Conservative base of the GOP. Let’s face it. The only reason the Republican Party exists as a political entity is because Conservative voters are the power base. The Establishment GOP and the RINOs have united to call the shots within the Republican Party via control of the purse strings. These elitists of the GOP pander to Conservatives to remain a political force in the USA. Condi Rice is a part of those elitists in the GOP.
Otherwise I am in complete agreement with Danny Jeffrey’s “Middle East Problems … Only Beginning”.
JRH 4/5/13
Islam is Peaceful Like a Rabid Dog
John R. Houk
© December 11, 2012
I began reading a post at Freedom Rings 1776 by Danny Jeffrey. As I was reading the post I had the intention of g+1-ing the post. However, the essay is so good that it has reawakened in me the context that Islam, as a religion is the vilest on earth.
Danny writes about the idiocy of Liberals accepting violence inherent among Muslims as an aberration rather than common. The Quran, Hadith and Sira are commands and recorded history for Muslims to follow. Acts of violence are promoted and in many cases commanded against those breaking Sharia Law or against a person that is a non-Muslim (infidel, kafir, dhimmi or whatever).
In fairness there is a lot of morality and peace promoted among Muslims in the Quran, Hadith and Sira as well; however “morality and peace” is for good Allah-submitted Muslims that are to reverence with honor Allah’s Prophet Mohammed (The Islam most Muslims practiced though contrary to their holy writings). There is little to zero tolerance for breaking reverence to Mohammed and openly insulting Allah.
Islam is a martial religion. Jesus commands His believers to go into all the world and share the Good News of Salvation and Deliverance from the chains of this wicked world. Islam’s Allah wants his adherents to go into all the world with an army and offer acceptance to the submission of Allah peacefully. If there is a refusal to submit to Allah, the army will make the attempt to conquer the people. In the process of the conquest Allah tells Mohammed it is acceptable to pillage, rape, and where appropriate turn the conquered into slaves and where it is more expedient to kill the unbelieving conquered people.
This is how Islam was spread in its early days under Mohammed and his succeeding Caliphs. The spread of Islam was a bloody mess and especially on the Indian Sub-continent. The Hindus and Buddhists of India were considered polytheists and as such worse infidel than the People of the Book; i.e. Jews and Christians. Mohammed stole just enough stories from the Bible (the Book) and twisted them for Arab superiority with the hope of peacefully converting Jews and Christians to Islam.
Mohammed was not a Jew there was no way Jews would accept divine Prophethood from Mohammed. Not to mention the insult of changing the Word of God that the Promises of God came through Abraham and Isaac to Abraham and Ishmael considered the progenitor of Arabs.
The Christian distrust of Mohammed was based in part on the Jewish rejection. We Christians can add that Mohammed rejected Jesus Christ as the Son of God that died on the Cross.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the[a] Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.[b] 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. (1 John 2: 18-22 NKJV)
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4: 1-3 NKJV)
Once Mohammed figured out that persuasion was not going to convert Jews and Christians he mysteriously heard from Allah to offer three choices to the People of the Book: Convert willingly, Keep their religion but as a sub-class human that must submit to the rules of Allah OR Die.
As I said earlier Hindus and Buddhists did not fare so well with the ‘choice option’. Initially Hindus and Buddhists were offered convert, brutal slavery or die. After millions upon millions of India’s population were slaughtered someone came upon the bright idea of, ‘Wait a minute, if we exterminate all these polytheists we will not have people to do the labor needed to make the conquest thing operate well.’ Only then were Hindus and Buddhists (and whatever minor religion that developed on smaller scale) offered sub-human dhimmitude.
Danny Jeffrey makes reference to India’s tragedy in facing Muslims throughout history in a twenty minute video. Here is that video:
VIDEO: Islamic conquest of India. Bloodiest in the history of World (Full)
Danny effectively attacks the PC crowd that looks the other way about Islam. The information which I just wrote about is nothing compared to the WAKE-UP provided by Danny Jeffrey. Read Danny’s essay entitled “HONOR KILLINGS, RAPE GANGS, MUTILATIONS, AND THE RISE OF A DEATH CULT…ISLAM” and please realize that even a peace loving Islam that lives by only the peaceful portions of the Quran will adhere to the violence. Why? Muslims believe the Quran is infallible and that Mohammed was the perfect man.
Here are some quotes that you will read in Danny’s essay:
Muslim dismembers wife in front of six children, throws head from …creepingsharia.wordpress.com/…/muslim-dismembers-wife-in-…
Jun 6, 2012 – Muslim dismembers wife in front of six children, throws head from rooftop … their six children before throwing her dismembered head from roof …
Husband ‘butchers wife in front of their six children before throwing …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Husband-butchers-wife-children-thro…Share
Jun 4, 2012 – A man is under arrest in Germany after killing his wife in front of his six young children and cutting her into pieces. Orhan Sircasi then ran on to …
Excerpt from Daily Mail UK:
“The 32-year-old killer of Turkish origin fought off police as they tried to seize him early this morning by lunging at them with the knife and swinging the head like a club.”
Picture the sheer horror of such a situation. This savage had just chopped his wife into pieces in front of his children, then with a knife in one hand and her head in the other he heads for the roof top. Then using his wife’s head as a club he attacks the police who are trying to take him into custody. I cannot help but feel sorry for those officers. It is only natural for any sane human being to recoil from a severed head and they had to arrest him. Let us go one horror further. He threw her head to the ground below. Imagine yourself walking past there and having it land in front of you, or worse still hitting you on the way to the ground. If you don’t think that man was a savage then you are reading the wrong essay, for I can call him no less.
They have a fondness for beheading their victims. This is one that I recall hearing about on Fox News right after it happened.
New York Television Executive Gets 25 Years for Beheading Wife …
http://www.foxnews.com/…/new-york-television-executive-faces-sen…Share
Mar 9, 2011 – A judge on Wednesday gave a Pakistani former television executive the harshest punishment he could for beheading his estranged wife: 25 …
Now this is one that I have a hard time with because political correctness has become so entrenched in our society that the police do their very best not to find Muslims guilty of one of these honor killings. No one repeatedly beats their own head against a coffee table until they are dead.
Florida: Muslim woman’s death accidental or an ‘honor’ killing …
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May 21, 2011 – Muslim Woman’s Death Ruled “Accident” From the Florida Family …killed herself by repeatedly beating her head against a coffee table and the …
Anytime that an innocent person is murdered it is a tragedy. When that innocent victim happens to be child it is far worse. Complicating that issue, this child was slowly beaten to death over a period of months, for not memorizing the Qur’an.
Mother beat son to death for failing to learn the Koran by heart … http://www.telegraph.co.uk › News › UK News › Crime
2 days ago – A mother who beat her son to death for failing to learn the Koran by heart murdered him and burned his body to hide the evidence, a jury has …
While the problem is growing ever worse here, the U.S. by no means has a monopoly on honor killings. Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia … anywhere you find Muslims you find honor killings as part of their fundamental belief.
Sweden: Terrified Muslim women hide from “honor killing” relatives ...
creepingsharia.wordpress.com/…/sweden-terrified-muslim-wo…May 10, 2012 –
I have always loved a good challenge. It makes life more interesting, but after what I have learned of Islam, were I challenged to find something good about the belief, I would forego the effort. Islam has NO redeeming qualities. It was founded by a bloodthirsty pedophile, and those who follow the teachings of the Qur’an are victims every bit as much as those who fall under the harsh sword of that wretched belief.
Embracing Female Genital Mutilation
frontpagemag.com/…q…/embracing-female-genital-mutilation/May 10, 2010 – It’s not awesome . . . but comparing it to more severe forms of female circumcision troubles me. . . . . And it’s not like Western culture is so free of ...
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Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain :: Gatestone Institute
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/…/muslim-child-rape-gangs-britain
May 21, 2012 – Nine Muslim men belonging to a child-rape gang in northwestern England have … Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for European Politics at the …Fjordman: Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway ...
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Feb 20, 2005 – There have, for example, been a number of gang-rapes of Swedish women by Muslim immigrants. But Swedes must be careful what they say …
UK: Police didn’t investigate Muslim rape and prostitution gang for …
http://www.jihadwatch.org/…/uk-police-didnt-investigate-muslim-ra…;
May 9, 2012 – UK: Police didn’t investigate Muslim rape and prostitution gang for fear of being called racist. This isn’t a racial issue at all, in fact. It is an issue ...
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Saudi Offers “Castrated African Slave” for Sale on Facebook
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1 day ago – I have a [male] slave I bought from an African country and arranged for his visa and stay till I got him to Saudi [Arabia]. His description: 1 – Black ...
JRH 12/11/12
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Be sure to read all of Danny’s essay.
