Are Christians humans, too?
by Ken Blackwell:
President Obama, on those rare occasions when he defends his Libya policy at all, focuses on Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s threats of “no mercy” to the rebels in his strife-torn North African satrapy. It’s a “humanitarian” imperative. America, the president says, has a moral duty to intervene when millions are threatened with extermination.
In the Sudan, some 5 million Africans have died for decades at the hands of the Islamist government in Khartoum. So brutal has been the rule of Omar al-Bashir that when the majority of Christians and followers of traditional African religions in South Sudan recently had the chance to vote on separation, most regions registered near unanimous votes to break away.
Yet there have been no calls from the Obama administration, or previous administrations, for the United States to intervene militarily in the Sudan.
Which leads us to ask: Are Christians humans, too? How is it that when U.S. administrations have been willing to spend blood and treasure for endangered peoples in the post-Communist era, it has been the case that we will intervene when Muslims are threatened, not when it is Christians who are being slaughtered?
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Woman claiming rape and torture dragged away by Libyan officials
by The Right Scoop:
**UPDATED: MORE VIDEO**
This is a very upsetting report by Sky News of a woman who came to their hotel in much distress to tell them she had been raped and tortured by Libyan officials. She didn’t get that far before Libyan officials pulled a gun on Sky News, dragged the lady away kicking and screaming and put a bag over her head and took her away. Monsters!
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Bolton to GOP: Foreign Policy Is Key
By JONATHAN WEISMAN:
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, a foreign-policy iconoclast, will take his most tangible step toward a presidential run on Saturday when he attends a Republican presidential cattle call here.
He will bring a striking message: Republicans can’t count on a poor economy or soaring national debt to thwart President Barack Obama’s re-election. They have to focus on foreign policy.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Bolton said that by next year, the economy will have turned around enough to make Americans optimistic about the future. A year-long budget debate in Congress will have eased voter concerns about the federal deficit—especially if a budget deal is struck to dent the projected U.S. debt, as Mr. Bolton thinks is likely.
The result, he argued, is that Republican Party standard-bearers are taking the party down a dead end by keeping a relentless focus on deficits and jobs.
Instead, Mr. Bolton said, the party needs a leader to reverse what he called Mr. Obama’s “post-American” presidency, which in his view has marginalized U.S. global leadership and hampered progress on energy independence, international trade and Middle East peace.
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Economic danger signs mounting
Steve McCann:
While much of the world’s attention is focused on Libya and the ongoing Washington follies staring Barack Obama, the global markets are the midst of their own struggle with reality.
It has long been a truism that the stock markets are a bellwether as to the future of the domestic or international economy and are thus highly sensitive to factors that have financial implications either negative or positive. However that adage has been stood on its head thanks to unprecedented and highly dangerous monetary policy pursued primarily by the Federal Reserve but also by various central bankers throughout the world.
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Why are Canadian Conservatives covering for Obama in Libya?
Judi McLeod:
It could easily be argued that Canada is the most pro-UN country among all Western nations.
Canadian Maurice Strong, senior advisor to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had more UN titles than any other person living or dead, until his name was connected to the United Nations Oil For food Scandal in 2005, was kingpin for the sweeping major reforms under Annan, and of most UN initiatives seeking a One World Government.
Canadian Louise Arbour was from 2004 to 2008 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rawanda.
Canadian Louise Frechette was until 2005 UN Deputy Secretary-General for eight years.
The United States of America has troops. Canada has “Peace Keepers”.
Former Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while he was President of the UN General Assembly in 1957, proposed the concept of UN Peacekeeping Forces.
Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council George Ignatieff, is the father of current day Canadian Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
In fact, pull out a file from almost any UN portfolio, and you will find Canadian names with big titles.
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Geert Wilders in Rome: Defending the West from Cultural Relativism and Jihad
Andrew G. Bostom:
Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address yesterday evening (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy.
As is his wont, Wilders presentation moved far beyond the timorous platitudes about the most obvious (and dangerous) failures of cultural relativism belatedly echoed by Western European leaders Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, and David Cameron. Wilders demands that the West acknowledge the jihad-both cultural and military-being waged against it openly and incessantly by institutional Islam, Muslim nations, and the global umma. The Ducth Parlaimentarian concludes his eloquent and informative speech by insisting that four concrete measures must be taken immediately, quoting Ronald Reagan, so we can “…act today to preserve tomorrow.”
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Notion of Intifada allows Palestinians to justify violence while using victimhood card
Asaf Romirowsky:
The Arabic term Intifada connotes awakening or uprising and was first used during the 1987 uprising against Israel. It is also used in the Palestinian narrative in the sense of “to shake up or wake up” the world and Israel to all the wrong that was done to the Palestinians as a result of the Israeli “occupation.”
Practically, this idea, that any means including violence may be used in the face of “occupation” has given Palestinians the carte blanche to do whatever they want whenever they want with no consequences for their actions.
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West being suckered by Arab League
By Salim Mansur:
The Libyan mission Operation Odyssey Dawn, under UN authority, is a dog’s breakfast and nothing good is going to come out of it.
The conniving elite of the Arab League has snookered an ever-ready coalition of western powers to do its bidding. And the western powers (Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada dutifully in tow), with their sights protectively fixed on oil-rich desert patches of the Middle East and North Africa, needed little urging to respond.
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Glenn interviews Fogel family mayor
Glenn Beck:
Glenn interviewed the mayor of Itamar, the town where Palestinian militants murdered the innocent Jewish Fogel family. Glenn has been talking about this story on TV and radio for over a week, and today he interviewed the mayor of the town on radio.
Why Anti-Israel Incitement and Terrorism from the PA, PLO, and Fatah Continues
by Moshe Dann:
Calling for Mahmoud Abbas — president of the PA, chairman of the PLO, and head of Fatah — to condemn the terrorist attack in Itamar and to end incitement is meaningless.
Fatah, the main party in the PLO, is committed to violence. The Sixth Fatah Conference (2009) affirmed all forms of resistance, including armed struggle. Resistance to Israeli “occupation,” as Palestinians see it, is not only legitimate but honored.
Although there is no evidence that the PA, PLO, and Fatah are actively involved in terrorist activities, they support anti-Israel incitement and “popular resistance.” Local gangs and “sleeper cells” acting on their own and even loosely affiliated with Fatah/al Aksa Brigades carry out terrorist attacks, but — unlike their role under Yassir Arafat — are not officially sanctioned by the PA.
While international funding to Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizations may not be used directly to fund terrorism by donor law, these funds are used in the war of words against Israel with devastating success.
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What Are Republicans Thinking?!?
by Dan Mitchell:
I posted yesterday at International Liberty about the stunning political incompetence of Republican Senators, who reportedly are willing to give Obama an increase in the debt limit in exchange for a vote (yes, just a vote) on a balanced budget amendment.
As I explained, there is no way they can get the necessary two-thirds support to approve an amendment, so why trade a meaningless and symbolic vote on a BBA for meaningful and real approval of more borrowing authority for Obama? My analogy yesterday was that this was like trading a all-star baseball player for a utility infielder in the minor leagues.
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The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN:
Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which boast relatively sturdy institutions, civil society associations and middle classes, as well as being age-old clusters of civilization where states of one form or another have existed since antiquity. Darker terrain awaits us elsewhere in the region, where states will substantially weaken once the carapace of tyranny crumbles. The crucial tests lie ahead, beyond the distraction of Libya.
The United States may be a democracy, but it is also a status quo power, whose position in the world depends on the world staying as it is. In the Middle East, the status quo is unsustainable because populations are no longer afraid of their rulers. Every country is now in play. Even in Syria, with its grisly security services, widespread demonstrations have been reported and protesters killed. There will be no way to appease the region’s rival sects, ethnicities and other interest groups except through some form of democratic representation, but anarchic quasi-democracy will satisfy no one. Other groups will emerge, and they may be distinctly illiberal.
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