Also at Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up...", and "Reaganite Republican, "
More at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Desertion," and Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies."
CARTOON CREDIT: Marian Kamensky.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
Also at Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up...", and "Reaganite Republican, "
More at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Desertion," and Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies."
CARTOON CREDIT: Marian Kamensky.
Also at Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up...", and "Reaganite Republican, "
More at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Desertion," and Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies."
CARTOON CREDIT: Marian Kamensky.
#ISIS Jihadists Prepare for Khalifah in #Iraq
Checking the #ISIS pages on Twitter, there's lots of talk of jihadist forces quickly encroaching on Baghdad, but it's mostly in Arabic, so I can't confirm.
That said, numerous ISIS accounts are boasting of the coming Khalifah (caliphate).
Inshallah.
That said, numerous ISIS accounts are boasting of the coming Khalifah (caliphate).
Inshallah.
"@AbuAishah_: Bi'ithnillāh! pic.twitter.com/Gnkv6QDJGI"
— #PrayforISIS (@Haneeeeeeefaa) June 15, 2014
Caan't wait. Oh I cant WAIT. ^_^ :")) pic.twitter.com/GbWH61UjSB
— #PrayforISIS (@Haneeeeeeefaa) June 15, 2014
The munafiqeen refuse to awknowledge the possibility of Khilafa in Iraq while the kuffar mention it as the greatest threat arising.
— Ghazi (@ghazishami) June 15, 2014
Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'The Next 9/11' Now Being Planted by #Iraq Chaos
I caught this interview earlier.
I don't love Sen. Grahamnesty, but as he says at the clip, he's been to Iraq more times than he can count.
I don't love Sen. Grahamnesty, but as he says at the clip, he's been to Iraq more times than he can count.
VIDEO: Mitt Romney Eerily Predicted Epic # Iraq Collapse in '07
This is fantastic!
Via Independent Journal Review, "In 2007, Romney Predicted Current Events In Iraq So Accurately He Must Have Had A Time Machine."
Via Independent Journal Review, "In 2007, Romney Predicted Current Events In Iraq So Accurately He Must Have Had A Time Machine."
Oh My! Leftist Wonk Rosa Brooks Shreds Obama's Foreign Policy in One Tweet!
Via Theo Spark:
Brooks is very far to the left. Indeed, seems to me O's foreign policy would be right in her wheelhouse. Chalk it up to one more political opportunist abandoning this administration faster than you can say "Election 2016."
US respnse 2 Syria,Russia,Iraq:
1)Huh?
2)We're watching this closely
3)With concern.
4)Hey, stop-
5)We won't tolerate that!
6)Mmm. Whatever.
— Rosa Brooks (@brooks_rosa) June 13, 2014Brooks is very far to the left. Indeed, seems to me O's foreign policy would be right in her wheelhouse. Chalk it up to one more political opportunist abandoning this administration faster than you can say "Election 2016."
Leftists 'Re-Litigate' the #Iraq War
I noted the other day how MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski wanted "to go back and 're-litigate' the origins of the war in 2003."
I suppose it's a standard of our time, but everything nowadays --- and I mean everything --- is evaluated through the harsh lens of political polarization.
Today's exhibit: David Atkins' piece attacking the evil "neocons" at the Washington Monthly, "The brutal neoconservative legacy in Iraq."
The funny thing about this: I don't disagree with a lot of the criticism. It's just too obviously bothersome to note that President Bush had bipartisan support for approving 2002's Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution, including a majority of the Democrats (58 percent) in the Senate, and especially Hillary Clinton. (And recall President Bill Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998, authorizing regime change in Baghdad as a continuation of U.S. policy since the 1991 Persian Gulf War).
So, yeah, a lot went wrong with the war, but the deployment had the support of the American people, as well as top political leaders across the spectrum. The attacks on the war since 2003 have been the most treasonous political about-face in modern times, if not in American history. The true face of the Democrat Party was revealed for all to see at that time, and the country ultimately elected Barack Obama to the White House on a hard left antiwar platform. And how's that working out? The fruits of the antiwar movement are now seen today from the release of Bowe Bergdahl to the coming collapse of Baghdad. That's the Democrat Party legacy. And that's what's going to be remembered when people ask "Who lost Iraq"?
Hat Tip: BooMan Tribune and Memeorandum.
I suppose it's a standard of our time, but everything nowadays --- and I mean everything --- is evaluated through the harsh lens of political polarization.
Today's exhibit: David Atkins' piece attacking the evil "neocons" at the Washington Monthly, "The brutal neoconservative legacy in Iraq."
The funny thing about this: I don't disagree with a lot of the criticism. It's just too obviously bothersome to note that President Bush had bipartisan support for approving 2002's Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution, including a majority of the Democrats (58 percent) in the Senate, and especially Hillary Clinton. (And recall President Bill Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998, authorizing regime change in Baghdad as a continuation of U.S. policy since the 1991 Persian Gulf War).
So, yeah, a lot went wrong with the war, but the deployment had the support of the American people, as well as top political leaders across the spectrum. The attacks on the war since 2003 have been the most treasonous political about-face in modern times, if not in American history. The true face of the Democrat Party was revealed for all to see at that time, and the country ultimately elected Barack Obama to the White House on a hard left antiwar platform. And how's that working out? The fruits of the antiwar movement are now seen today from the release of Bowe Bergdahl to the coming collapse of Baghdad. That's the Democrat Party legacy. And that's what's going to be remembered when people ask "Who lost Iraq"?
Hat Tip: BooMan Tribune and Memeorandum.
VIDEO: MI-35 Helicopter Gunship Fires on #ISIS Jihadists in Iraq
Via SilverIsTheNew:
Plus, at London's Daily Mail, "How Isis have rampaged towards the capital: A blow by blow account of how Islamist militants outnumbered 20-to-1 by the army cut through huge swathes of Iraq."
Check back for updates throughout the day.
Footage released by Iraq’s defense ministry on Saturday showed a helicopter gunship targeting what Iraq says are Sunni militant targets in northern Iraq. The Mi-35 helicopter gunship fired missiles at several buildings and a vehicle in the provinces of Nineveh and Salaheddin.More at RT.
Plus, at London's Daily Mail, "How Isis have rampaged towards the capital: A blow by blow account of how Islamist militants outnumbered 20-to-1 by the army cut through huge swathes of Iraq."
Check back for updates throughout the day.
#Angels Rally to Beat #Braves 11-6 in 13 Innings
One heckuva game.
At LAT, "It's a lucky 13th for the Angels against Atlanta."
Just read it all at the link.
Mike DiGiovanna on Twitter was going crazy himself, to say nothing of my friend lamblock!
At LAT, "It's a lucky 13th for the Angels against Atlanta."
Just read it all at the link.
Mike DiGiovanna on Twitter was going crazy himself, to say nothing of my friend lamblock!
Albert Pujols leads of 10th with 2B off Kimbrel, Hamilton follows with RBI 1B to give #Angels 6-5 lead. Crazy, wacky stuff.
— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) June 15, 2014
Here's something I didn't expect to hear: "C.J. Wilson pinch-hitting for the Angels." It's true, in the top of the 13th.
— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) June 15, 2014
#Angels load bases with no outs in 13th. Calhoun RBI 1B, Trout 2-run 2B, now 9-6 over #Braves. No more tweets. Gotta write.
— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) June 15, 2014
I'm going to be blind drunk in the corner signing Irish drinking songs if we don't win soon LOL @AmPowerBlog
— Bossy & Proud of It (@lamblock) June 15, 2014Judge Jeanine Pirro: 'You Need to Be Worried...'
Week in and week out, Judge Jeanine broadcasts the most devastating attacks on this cowardly presidential regime. But believe it when she says even she's scared this time. The disintegration of Iraq threatens Americans. The war will come to the homeland. It's only a matter of time. This to our Nobel Prize winning president, who declared that the U.S. was leaving behind a "stable, peaceful Iraq."
Hardly.
Hardly.
For the U.S., a Disappointing World
From Walter Russell Mead, at WSJ (via Blazing Cat Fur), "The chaos in Iraq is just the latest evidence that history doesn't follow America's optimistic script":
It has not been a good year for the liberal world order. Not since the end of the Cold War have so many crises erupted in so many places: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's relentless push in the East and South China seas, and the surge in jihadist violence and terror from Boko Haram in Nigeria to the religious war that now engulfs Syria and Iraq. This is not what Americans thought the world would look like in the third decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall.Continue reading.
As we struggle to understand why the post-Cold War world has been such an unpleasant place, it is tempting to turn foreign policy into a political football. There are plenty of Democrats who think that everything would have been fine if President George W. Bush hadn't blundered into the Iraq war. There is also no shortage of Republicans who think that everything would have worked out fine if only Barack Obama hadn't made it to the White House.
While it is true that both presidents got some important things wrong, it is what unites them rather than what divides them that is the root cause of our troubles. Both Messrs. Bush and Obama, like many of their fellow citizens, radically underestimate the dangers and difficulties in the path of historical progress...
#Iraq Military May Not Be Capable of Counteroffensive
From Jessica Lewis, at the Wall Street Journal, "The Terrorist Army Marching on Baghdad":
Recall I posted Jessica Lewis yesterday, "#Iraq Analysis — The Battle for Baghdad: Scenarios."
The extremists are encircling Baghdad and likely planning an offensive. But ISIS may move again to strike Samarra, 70 miles to the north and close to the ISIS front line. If these Islamists, who are Sunnis, seize Samarra's al-Askari mosque—a revered Shiite monument—the country will be thrown into another sectarian civil war. That has long been ISIS's aim. In a civil war, ISIS thinks it can emerge as the stronger military power. Then the group would have a state, would be fully armed and ready to expand westward, into Syria's northern cities beyond ISIS-held Raqqa.Continue reading.
The Shiite-dominated Iraqi troops would likely fight to protect Samarra and Baghdad. But the Iraqi military is not at full strength, and its forces are not combat-ready. Desertion, low morale and maintenance deficiencies are rampant. Over the past year, ISIS has thoroughly intimidated Iraqi troops in the north. Three of the four northern army divisions are defunct. The remainder are gathering now in Samarra and Taji, regrouping under other formations for the protection of Samarra and Baghdad.
Another problem: Many of Iraq's deployable units are already reinforcing Anbar province in the west against ISIS. According to 2013 estimates, the Iraqi army contains 14 maneuver divisions, roughly 200,000 soldiers in addition to 40,000 federal police and 300,000 local police. Four of the army's divisions are assigned to northern areas of Iraq that have just fallen out of state control. If Iraqi security forces try to retake the north, ISIS would be joined by Baathist elements loyal to the memory of Saddam Hussein and additional insurgent groups in trying to repel them. The Iraqi military simply may not have the capacity to launch a sufficient counteroffensive...
Recall I posted Jessica Lewis yesterday, "#Iraq Analysis — The Battle for Baghdad: Scenarios."
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Iraqi PM Orders Troops to Make Stand in #Samarra; U.S. Sends Aircraft Carrier
The report from earlier today, at CNN.
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush should be in the Northern Persian Gulf about now.
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush should be in the Northern Persian Gulf about now.
#ISIS Posts Sunni Police Chief Beheading in #WorldCup Tweet — WARNING GRAPHIC
At the New York Post, "‘This is our ball’: Iraqi jihadis cut off head for World Cup tweet."
Twitter shut down the @ANSAR_DWLA_IRAQ feed, but here's the original photo:
Twitter shut down the @ANSAR_DWLA_IRAQ feed, but here's the original photo:
#Iraq Analysis — The Battle for Baghdad: Scenarios
From Jessica Lewis, at the Institute for the Study of War:
Continue reading.
BaghdadThat's at taste.
ISIS will seek to target the seat of Iraq’s government in the Green Zone. This may be a symbolic target rather than an operational target. Strategically, ISIS does not need to overrun the Green Zone. They only need to demonstrate the ability to maneuver ground forces into the city center, past the best that the ISF can muster, and touch the flagpole. If ISIS is able to assault the Green Zone with a ground attack force, they will realize the full defeat of the Iraqi Security Forces. The command and control of Shi’a militias, police forces, and Iraqi civilians in the wake of such an attack would overwhelm the Baghdad Operations Command. The core functions of the Iraqi state would break down. Baghdad would become a ward of the Iranian government to protect the Khadimiya shrine, and Baghdad would become a buffer zone for low-level attacks across an Iranian-ISIS demarcation line...
Continue reading.
VIDEO: Angelina Jolie — We Should Have Done More in #Syria
"It's really quite horrifying as a humanitarian ... we are lacking in leadership in the world, in general."
Yeah, well, you wouldn't want to wander too off the Hollywood-leftist reservation, heh.
Watch: "Actress Angelina Jolie: We Should Have Done More in Syria."
Yeah, well, you wouldn't want to wander too off the Hollywood-leftist reservation, heh.
Watch: "Actress Angelina Jolie: We Should Have Done More in Syria."
Neil Cavuto Interview with Mark Levin on #Iraq Disintegration
The great thing about Mark Levin is he always indicates that he's not a military or defense expert, "But when I see caravans of barbarians who're decapitating people who supported us, going down street after street after street, and our bombers and our jet-fighters just sit there getting rusty, that bothers me a lot."
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