Video: Andrew C. McCarthy med flere

Den første video er den mest interessante fra konferencen 28. februar 2012. Forelæsningen næstnederst er er også meget seværdig:

Mightier Pen 2012: The Growing Censorship of Free Speech

The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the Gun: Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and featured participants of this panel were: Sam Nunberg (Middle East Forum-The Legal Project), Brooke Goldstein (The Lawfare Project, author of “Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech”) and Andrew McCarthy (National Review). Moderated by the Center for Security Policy’s Fred Grandy.

Den næste handler om undertrykkelse af ytringsfrihed i Venezuela, Kina, Rusland og andre steder:

Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression

The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the GunL Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and the featured participants in this panel were Claudia Rossett (Foundation of Defense of Democracies Investigative Reporting Project), and Vilma Petrash (News Producer AmericaTeVe – WJAN – Channel 41, host of “Temas de Mujer” in Venezuela). The panel was moderated by Frank Gaffney.

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Andy McCarthy: Saluting Ray Kelly & the NYPD’s Defense of New York

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy joins the Center for Security Policy in saluting NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly at the 2012 Mightier Pen Award in New York City. Commissioner Kelly has kept New York City safe from jihadist terror attacks for decades, beginning with his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (the perpetrators of which McCarthy later prosecuted).

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“The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”

Andrew C. McCarthy October 7, 2011 “The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”

Fra The American Family Association den 7. marts 2012 – vært Crane Durham:

Andrew C. McCarthy on the True Helpfulness of Obamas Apology

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It’s a Pity Somebody Has to Win

We have no national interest in overthrowing Assad.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 3, 2012

Asked about the Iran-Iraq war that stretched for eight ghastly years after breaking out in 1980, Henry Kissinger is said to have quipped, “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”

The pity is that we have lost that exquisite wisdom  concerning our national interest, despite a two-decade road to hell paved by good intentions — at least compassionate intentions — from Kosovo to Kandahar. If that isn’t clear enough from the latest killings of American soldiers stuck like sitting ducks between the Afghan Taliban and other Afghan Islamists, all doubt is removed by Elliott Abrams, the longtime Republican foreign-policy solon who served as a top National Security Council official during the heady days of the Bush “Freedom Agenda.” “Can there be a group anywhere in the world today more disappointed in United States foreign policy than those fighting the Syrian regime?” Abrams, a distinguished public servant whom I admire, asked this week in a post on the Corner.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

Let Syria Be

We should stop enmeshing ourselves ever deeper in the Muslim morass.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 10, 2012

‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”

That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issued guidance on the “Proper Handling and Disposal of Islamic Religious Materials — Service Members/Civilian Training.” Here’s how it works: Mainstream Muslims throughout the Middle East believe, based on the Koran and other “Islamic Religious Materials,” that if an infidel force invades a Muslim territory, its members must be killed until the force has been driven out. They further believe that if non-Muslims commit some act — even an inadvertent one — that Muslims perceive as insulting to Islam, a campaign of murder and mayhem is justified.

Our response? We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

Egypt Releases Seven Americans . . . but Is There a Catch?

By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 29, 2012

The AP reports that Egypt’s transitional military government has lifted a travel ban against seven of the 16 Americans currently being tried for their work with organizations that allegedly took illegal foreign contributions — work that incited protests against the military rulers, the government alleges. The report takes this development (which includes the release of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s son) as a signal that the crisis is being resolved. The 16 Americans are among 43 “civil society activists” being tried. Though the trial started Sunday, it was promptly adjourned for two months (until April 26). In the meantime, the American defendants have not been required to attend the trial and, more significantly, the three judges resigned from the case, citing “uneasiness.” The country’s top prosecutor is said to have lifted the travel ban at the recommendation of the case’s investigating magistrate.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

But I Thought CAIR Was Just a Civil Rights Group?

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 13, 2012

Well, no, the Council for American-Islamic Relations is an Islamic supremacist group spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the mission of the Brotherhood is to implement sharia. Hence its motto for the last 90 years or so: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar!“

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else

It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 18, 2012

Their crime? These Muslims have the temerity to suggest that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian who died in 1908, was the promised Mahdi — the redeemer of Islam — and not one of the false prophets about whom Mohammed had warned. They compound their offense with condemnations of violent jihad, maintaining that man’s inhumanity to man is ultimately conquered by love and kindness. So, of course, the Ahmadi Muslims have to die.

They are killed in Muslim Pakistan. They are killed in Muslim Bangladesh. They are killed in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country and, putatively, its most moderate. It was there, in a village in West Java last year, that hundreds of Muslims wielding machetes, sharpened sticks, and stones set upon on an Ahmadi home, brutally murdering three men and maiming several others. True to form, Islamic clerics raced to the fore to rationalize the savagery as being provoked by Ahmadi heresy. The ringleaders were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment, with the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs — and equating Ahmadi preaching, which is banned, with flag-burning.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

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Video: Mark Steyn & Ezra Levant – igen

Steyn er tilbage på The Source. Kun få timer gammel:

Ezra Levant & Mark Steyn: Section 13 & Obama

Mark Steyn joins Ezra Levant to discuss Conservative MP Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill calling for the repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) which deals with hate speech.

In the second segment they discuss Obama’s love for tyrants.

Video: Roger F. Noriega, Michael Rubin & Chris Sabatini

Om Iran, der infiltrerer overalt i Latinamerika. Her er der fokus på Venezuela. Fra 10. november 2011:

Trouble in Our Own Backyard? Iran’s Activities in Latin America

The recent alleged conspiracy by Iran’s Qods Force to commit a terrorist attack in the heart of Washington, D.C., appears to shatter the conventional wisdom that Tehran and its dangerous proxies would never risk such a provocation on U.S. soil. It has also called attention to recruiting, training, fund-raising and planning efforts by Hezbollah and other Iranian operatives in Latin America, abetted by anti-U.S. regimes in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Cuba. Some U.S. officials have sought to minimize these claims.  Are they simply being cautious; are they downplaying Iran’s culpability to preserve the engagement option; or are they uninformed? Please join us as we host a panel of experts to review documentary evidence of Iran’s increasing influence in the Americas.

Video: Allen B. West hos The Wednesday Morning Club

En ret formel tale her. Flot. Og ret amerikansk. Om USAs militær, islamisk terror, politisk korrekthed, Fukuyama, Huntington, Iran, Irak, kurderne, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rusland, Kina, Egypten, Tyrkiet, Israel og meget mere. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her i FrontPageMagazine. Fra 21. oktober 2011:

Congressman Allen West

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Video: Iran, Venezuela, USA, terror, muslimer og mere

Her er de fine analyser fra AEI i centrum. Blandt andet denne, som Veritas Universalis bloggede for et par dage siden:

• Video: Iran er overalt i Sydamerika

Fra CBN News  – Erick Stakelbeck:

Stakelbeck on Terror: Hezbollah in Your Backyard

19 October, 2011 – On this week’s edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, CBN News sits down with two leading experts on Latin America to discuss the frightening inroads the terrorist militia Hezbollah and its Iranian master are making in the Western hemisphere.

Watch as former George W. Bush administration officials Roger Noriega and Jose Cardenas discuss Hezbollah’s alliance with Venezuela, its new terror base in Cuba, its work with Mexican drug smugglers along America’s southern border, and more.

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Iranian regime plays chess, we play checkers

October 19, 2011 | By Kenneth Timmerman

We are so unprepared to defeat Iran’s clerical rulers and their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) hand-maidens. Every time we think we’ve caught them red-handed, as with the latest terror plot in Washington, D.C., they invent a new way to wriggle out of it.

Their latest gambit, which I’ve been expecting from the get-go, is to offer up the IRGC intermediary in the plot, claiming he was an infiltrator from the MEK, the Marxist Islamist group that was once part of the Khomeinist regime, but had a falling out with them over power-sharing 30 years ago.

Mere HER i The Daily Caller.

Iran’s Global Strategic Goal is Rationally MAD

Walid Phares – October 19th 2011

My first book, The Iranian Islamic Revolution, published way back in 1986, dealt with the historicity of the 1979 Khomeinist Revolution in Iran. In it, I exposed the Khomeinist regime’s long-term ambitions and revisionist account of events that led to the Shah’s overthrow and Ayatollah Khomeini’s ascent to power in the alleged Islamic “Republic” of Iran. From my observatory in Beirut where Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) were growing into a force to be reckoned with in the region and beyond, I absorbed and digested the thinking and logic of Tehran’s strategists. Boiled down, that strategy involved sending as many mixed signals in as many directions as possible so as to confuse opposing forces and make them tentative. This would allow the Khomeinists to pursue their global ambitions with minimal opposition.

Mere HER hos The Cutting Edge. History News Network  her.

Video: Iran er overalt i Sydamerika

Der hører en video til den første artikel. Folkene hos AEI har fattet en hel del af, hvad der foregår:

Amb. Roger Noriega: The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America

Hezbollah is expanding their network to our hemisphere and recently planned an attack in the heart of our nation’s capital. The terrorist organization is getting much closer to U.S. soil and this is a great threat to our nation that must be recognized and addressed.

The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America

By Roger F. Noriega, José R. Cárdenas | October 2011

Over the last several years Hezbollah and its patrons in Iran have greatly expanded their operations in Latin America to the detriment of inter-American security and US strategic interests. Today, Hezbollah is using the Western Hemisphere as a staging ground, fundraising center, and operational base to wage asymmetric warfare against the United States. Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and other anti-American governments in the region have facilitated this expansion by rolling out the welcome mats for Hezbollah and Iran. US policymakers must increase their attention to this problem, expand their assets in the region, and develop a comprehensive strategy to combat this threat in a sustained and meaningful way.

Key points in this Outlook:

• To ward off its international isolation and undermine US influence in the region, Iran, with its Hezbollah proxy in tow, has made a major diplomatic and economic push into the Western Hemisphere.
• Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and other radical anti-American populists have made common cause with Iran and Hezbollah in waging asymmetric warfare against the United States.
  Hezbollah’s criminality in the region has multiplied as it
• has established deeper relations with transnational criminal organizations.
• Evidence indicates Hezbollah is sharing its terrorist experiences and techniques with Mexican drug cartels along the US border.

Mere HER hos AEI. Americas Forum her.

Quds and Zetas

By Thomas Donnelly | October 12, 2011

The revelation that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and its Quds Force had plotted to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States–by blowing him up as he dined at a Washington restaurant–is a stark reminder of the nature of the Tehran regime and its ambitions. But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the story is that Iran’s thugs are developing a strategic partnership with Mexico’s most violent thugs: Los Zetas may only be the second-largest drug cartel in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s rankings, but they’re probably the most lethal. The gang is said to have formed around a platoon’s worth of deserters from Mexico’s special operations forces, and became the elite troops of another Mexican drug organization, the Gulf Cartel. The leader of that cartel got himself arrested, and the Zetas moved out on their own.

Mere HER hos AEI. The Weekly Standard her. Vi snupper lige en til for at skære det ud i pap:

Quds Force in Our Own Backyard

W. Thomas Smith – October 14, 2011

[Following is part of a briefing delivered yesterday, adapted for Family Security Matters]

As new information about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the U.S. continues to surface, keep in mind many of the seemingly unrelated particulars many counterterrorism analysts and experts have pointed to for years – and politicians have far too-often dismissed as unimportant fear-mongering – regarding the Iranian-Hizballah threat in the Western Hemisphere, particularly as regards the threat of the Iranian Quds Force (tasked with directing this latest plot) and Hizballah terrorists operating in central and South America.

Politics aside, let’s examine the facts and connect a few of the dots.

FIRST, what is the Quds Force?

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. World Defence Review her.

Andre kilder: Pajamas Media,

Det islamo-nazistiske Iran er ekstremt farligt

Man skammer sig snart over at være vesterlænding. Hvorfor i himlens navn snorksover alle relevante beslutingstagere i vores del af verden? Artiklerne herunder tegner et billede af en trusselssituation, der virkelig er alvorlig. Hvornår skal det fordømte styre sættes på plads?

• Iranerne har tænkt sig at sende krigsskibe ind i amerikansk farvand. Landet har i forvejen en militærbase i Venezuela.
• Iranerne har lige afholdt en større konference til ære for og med deltagelse af ledere fra Taliban. “Islamisk opvågning” hed den. Hele 700 imamer og muslimske ledere fra hele verden deltog. Man drøftede åbenbart strategi for Afghanistan efter krigen. Som om Afghanistan ikke var islamisk nok i forvejen.
• Iranerne har lige afholdt endnu en større konference, hvis formål ret beset var nedlæggelse af Israel og oprettelse af en palæstinensisk stat kun for palæstinensere. Israelerne – jøderne – skal  fordrives fra Mellemøsten. Der var muslimske deltagere fra mere end 100 lande.
• Iranerne har oprettet Hizbollah-celler overalt i Europa og USA i følge dem selv.

Artikler:

Iranian Navy Plans to Send Ships Near U.S. Waters

By Justin Fishel | September 27, 2011

The Iranian navy plans to move naval vessels out of the Persian Gulf and into the Atlantic Ocean, “near maritime borders of the United States,” the Tehran Times reported Tuesday.

According to the English-language paper based in Tehran, the announcement came from a top Iranian naval officer on Tuesday.

“As the global arrogance (forces of imperialism) have a (military) presence near our sea borders, we also plan to have a strong presence near the U.S. sea borders with the help of the soldiers who are loyal to the vali-e faqih (supreme jurisprudent),” said Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, as quoted and paraphrased by the Tehran Times.

Mere HER hos Fox News. The Daily Mail har en artikel noget lignende her.

Iran’s hosting of Taliban reflects desire for greater role

By Ernesto Londoño – September 29

Iran quietly hosted a delegation of Taliban members in Tehran this month in a powerful and unusual signal of its ambition to shape the trajectory of the Afghanistan conflict as U.S. troops begin to withdraw.

Iranian officials had apparently hoped to facilitate a meeting between the delegation and Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and leader of the country’s reconciliation efforts, who was attending the same conference in Tehran, his associates said. Although that did not happen, the presence of the Taliban members suggests Iran has cultivated deeper ties with the insurgent group than was previously known and is stepping up efforts to influence its eastern neighbor as the U.S. role recedes.

Mere HER hos Iran Focus. Kan også læses her i The Washington Post.

Iran Leads the Charge Against a ‘Two-State Solution’

By Patrick Goodenough – October 3, 2011

A “two-state solution” has become the focal point of international efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but Iran is leading a counter campaign, galvanizing support from lawmakers around the world for the view that “all of Palestine” belongs to the “Palestinians.”

Iran hosted a conference at the weekend bringing together senior parliamentarians from several dozen countries in support of the event’s motto, “Palestine – a land only for Palestinians.”

Mere HER hos CNS News. Og endnu en artikel om konferencen:

Iran’s Well-Attended “International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada”

by Khaled Abu Toameh – October 4, 2011

Members of the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly should take into consideration the high probability that Iran and its proxies might one day take control over the future Palestinian state — unless the international community wakes up and starts taking more seriously the threats coming from Tehran.

One week after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application for membership of a Palestinian state in the UN, Iran’s leaders hosted a five-day conference in Tehran to call for the “liberation of all of Palestine” through an armed struggle.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Iranian Jihadists at the Gate

Video shows regime’s intent.

Reza Kahlili – September 30, 2011

America!! It’s time to wake up: There’s an Iranian missile base in Venezuela; The Iranian Navy is starting a mission in the Atlantic Ocean and into the Gulf of Mexico; Iranian missiles are being armed with nuclear warheads; Iran now has enough enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs; and Iran has hundreds of terrorist cells in the U.S. and in Europe.

For decades I have tirelessly tried to warn the West about the ideology and agenda of the radicals ruling Iran. I have urged the West to help the people of Iran with their aspirations for freedom and democracy. I have tried to help the West understand the determination of these radicals in their quest to bring about death, destruction and disaster to the world.

Mere HER i Family Security Matters. Kan også læses her hos The Right Planet.

Will Iran Bomb the Jewish Devil?

Giulio Meotti – October 04, 2011

In 2007, French President Jacques Chirac suggested that an Iranian nuclear weapon wouldn’t have an offensive use. “Where will it drop it, this bomb?”, Chirac mused. “On Israel?”.

Iran has mastered the fuel enrichment stage of its nuclear program and has proven its ability to enrich uranium to as high as 20 percent.

Assessments are that if it so decides, it would take Iran just a few months for it to enrich a sufficient quantity of uranium to over the 90% that would be required for one nuclear device.

Mere HER hos Arutz Sheva.

U.S. Walks Out as Ahmadinejad Speaks

By AP / Edith M. Lederer – Sept. 22, 2011

American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a sweeping attack on the United States and major West European nations, calling them “arrogant powers” ruled by greed and eager for military adventurism.

Mere HER i Time Magazine.

AEI har en artikel af Will Fulton som er en gennemgang af iransk infiltration af adskillige muslimske lande:

• After the Arab Spring: Iran’s Foreign Relations in the Middle East

Se også fotoserie af de iranske myndigheders brutalitet her hos Time Magazine.

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Iranerne infiltrerer Latinamerika

Iransk kulturimperialisme er velkendt for folk, der også frekventerer andet end den etablerede halalpresse. Men derefter begynder det vist også at knibe. I Københavns borgerrepræsentation læser de i hvert fald ikke Hudson New York. De røde lefler for islamisme:

Iran’s “Invasion” of Latin America

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 21, 2011

The Arab uprisings are changing the geopolitical map. When old allies might become new enemies, a country like Iran has a lot to lose. Teheran is now concerned about becoming even more isolated — and for good reasons.

Qatar, for one, which used to be aligned with Iran, has switched sides. The small Emirate that owns the powerful satellite television channel Al-Jazeera now prefers to side with the rebels, and is supporting the uprising in Syria — another move away from Iran. If the Syrian uprising topples the regime, Damascus will probably not continue good relations with Teheran, a choice that will also have political repercussions in Lebanon.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Kriminelle Hizbollah

Follow the money:

Hezbollah: Party of Fraud

How Hezbollah Uses Crime to Finance Its Operations

Matthew Levitt  – July 27, 2011

In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah. The creation of the new government has made Hezbollah the most dominant political force in Lebanon just six years after the “Cedar Revolution,” which placed the group on the defensive and forced its Syrian patrons to leave the country. With control of the Lebanese government, a vast social-service network, an army of soldiers and operatives, and an arsenal of more than 40,000 rockets, Hezbollah has arguably never been more powerful.

Mere HER i Foreign Affairs. Mere om kriminelle Hizbollah:

Nuclear Cooperation between Argentina and Iran?

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 27, 2011

With the help of Venezuela, there is reason to believe that Argentina is cooperating with Iran on its the nuclear issue in a deal that involves Argentina’s willingness to drop the accusations against Iran for the 1994 bombing in return for business.

In a confidential letter that was sent by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ros-Lehtinen sought to establish “status of any possible economic projects Argentina may be engaged in with Venezuela that may involve Iran.” Ros-Lehtinen also sought to establish “the extent of any nuclear cooperation that may be at play between Argentina, Venezuela and Iran.” The letter was co-signed by Florida’s Republican Congressmen Connie Mack and David Rivera. “We are writing to express our concerns about information that our offices have received about potential efforts by Iran of nuclear cooperation with Argentina, using Venezuela as its intermediary,” the three legislators wrote.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

USA infiltereres af islamister

Hezbollah in Mexico

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 15, 2011

In June, a computer hacker group, Luiz Security, commonly abbreviated as LuizSec, targeted the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS). LuizSec has claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks; this time, however, the 440 megabytes AZDPS documents displayed a bulletin mentioning the presence of Hezbollah militants operating in smuggling corridors on the U.S. border with Mexico.

The document, from the Tucson Police Department, is dated September 20, 2010. At the time, just few months earlier, the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Seyassah published an article saying that operatives of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were employing Mexican nationals to set up a network in Latin America to target Israeli and Western interests. According to the newspaper, the Hezbollah group’s alleged leader, Ali “Jameel” Nasr, a 30-year-old Mexican national of Lebanese descent, was arrested in the Mexican city of Tijuana in July 2010. The Kuwaiti daily also mentioned that for a period before his arrest, Nasr was under surveillance by Mexican authorities. He was also reported to be travelling frequently to Lebanon to receive instructions from Hezbollah, and making trips around Latin America, including a two-month stay in Venezuela in 2008.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Opdatering 21. juli 2011 – samme forfatter:

The Holiday Island of Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, Hosts Hezbollah Militants

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 21, 2011

The holiday island of Isla de Margarita, situated in the Caribbean Sea, has one of the most beautiful beaches of Venezuela and breathtaking scenery. It is here, on the island of exquisite hotels and a glamorous nightlife, that the US military’s Southern Command has reported the presence of Hezbollah’s support and logistics cells — one of the most important centers of “terrorist gathering” and “money laundering activities” for Hezbollah.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Video: Walid Phares & Erick Stakelbeck om Hizbollah

Hizbollah har styrket sin magt betydeligt de seneste måneder. Libanon er stort set tabt og Israel er  mere truet end nogensinde før. Man kan læse en lille artikel om dette program hos CBN her. Fra 28. juni 2011:

Phares on CBN’s Stakelbeck on Terror: Overview and analysis of Hizballah

Middle East and Jihadi Terrorism expert and professor Dr. Walid Phares provides a comprehensive and historic overview of the creation, structure, motive and international activity of the Jihadi army Hizballah. Hizballah is Iran’s proxy and arm inside of Lebanon and has infiltrated the Lebanese government, furthering its (and Iran’s) ability to strategically surround Israel.

Video: Allen B. West for President?

Uploadet på YouTube den 27. juni 2011 - som altid en meget flot tale:

Allen West: First Principles for National Security

Allen West spoke at a Center for Security Policy event in New York City on the national security threats America faces, specifically in the Middle East.

Andre kilder: Big Peace,

Video: Allen B. West hos Heritage Foundation

Fra 31. maj 2011 – om hvordan man bekæmper islamiske fjender:

The 21st Century Battlefield

Over the past 20 years, administrations of both political parties have under-funded the military. Today, as the economy stalls and the government appears to be unable to control spending in other areas, defense spending is under attack again. Two decades of underinvestment and a decade of military conflict have left the U.S. military too small and inadequately equipped to answer the nation’s call today, much less tomorrow. The Heritage Foundation is highlighting the need for increased defense spending during its third annual Protect America Month. Leading conservatives and defense experts are showcasing national security issues and why we must commit to protecting America in an increasingly dangerous world. Join us as Representative Allen West examines the battlefield of the 21st Century in the closing address of this year’s Protect America Month programs.

Desuden denne artikel:

China’s Port in Pakistan?

China’s dream of Indian Ocean ports — the so-called string of pearls — is heightening geopolitical tensions in a rough neighborhood.

By Robert D. Kaplan | May 27, 2011

Pakistani officials have announced that the Chinese look favorably on taking over the operation of the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar close to the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, and perhaps building a naval base for the Pakistanis there as well. The Chinese have apparently contradicted these claims, indicating that they have made no such decisions on these matters.

The fact that Pakistan should want deeper Chinese involvement with this strategically located port, even as the Chinese are hesitant to do just that, should surprise no one. Gwadar is where dreams clash with reality.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Opdatering – Det har lige været “Memorial Day” i USA. Allen B. Wests tale:

OBS – Skru ned, – lyden er meget høj:

Video: Congressman Allen West (R) Memorial Day Observance

Video: Niall Fergusons nye serie fra Channel 4

Denne store, flotte serie om Den Vestlige Civilisation blev sendt på Channel 4 i marts og april i år. I følge Niall Ferguson kan Vestens succes især tilskrives: konkurrence, forskning, demokrati, lægevidenskab, forbrugerisme, protestantisme:

Civilization: Is the West History – Pt1. (Competition)

“The first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: ‘All Under Heaven’. England on the eve of the Wars of the Roses would have seemed quite primitive by contrast.

Yet the lead that China had established in technology was not to be translated into sustained economic growth. In China a monolithic empire stifled colonial expansion and economic innovation. In Europe political division bred competition.

The question for our own time is whether or not we have lost that competitive edge to a rapidly ascending Asia”

1. Competition: a decentralisation of political and economic life, which created the launch pad for both nation states and capitalism.

Caroline Glick med hug til den israelske venstrefløj

Our World: The Left’s loser message

By Caroline B. Glick – January 3, 2011

Whereas it once promised peace and prosperity, the Israeli Left now operates in a closed universe in which reality has no place and opposing views are systematically ignored.

The Israeli Left was once an optimistic place. But that is no longer the case. It once promised peace and happiness. But that is no longer the case.

Today the Left is marked by equal doses of doom and gloom, irrationality and delusion. It operates in a closed universe in which reality has no place and opposing views are systematically ignored.

The Left’s defeatism was brought home to me last Thursday during the Ariel University Center of Samaria’s conference on Law and Mass Media. There I participated in a panel entitled, “Is the idea of a ‘two state solution’ feasible or doomed to failure?”

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post, Big Peace her eller Caroline Glicks blog her.

Caroline B. Glick om Sydamerika og Israel

De vestlige lande er for dårlige til at opbygge og vedligeholde alliancer:

Column One: Why Latin America turned

By Caroline B. Glick

Given the US policy trajectory, it is again obvious that the only one Israel can rely on to defend its interests is Israel.

Israelis can be excused for wondering why Brazil and Argentina unexpectedly announced they recognize an independent Palestinian state with its capital city in Israel’s capital city. Israelis can be forgiven for being taken by surprise by their move and by the prospect that Uruguay, and perhaps Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and El Salvador, will be following in their footsteps because the Israeli media have failed to report on developing trends in Latin America.

And this is not surprising. The media fail to report on almost all the developing trends impacting the world. For instance, when the Turkish government sent Hamas supporters to challenge the IDF’s maritime blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza coastline, the media were surprised that Israel’s ally Turkey had suddenly become Hamas’s ally and Israel’s enemy.

Mere HER i Jerusalem Post. Kan ogsålæses hos Town Hall her eller hos Caroline Glick her.

Michael Ledeen om USA og Iran

Michael Ledeen følger trofast situationen i Iran:

The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral

November 17, 2010 – by Michael Ledeen

I sometimes wonder where some of our smartest people get their ideas.  Take Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for example.  Discussing the possibility of military action against Iranian nuclear weapons facilities, he said: “And if it’s a military solution, as far as I’m concerned, it will bring together a divided nation, it will make them absolutely committed to attaining nuclear weapons and they will just go deeper and more covert.”

I don’t get it.  Is there some sort of evidence? What could it possibly be, aside from the sort I get from my Ouija board?  So I try to imagine one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime. Perhaps he’s got a relative in prison; he probably knows people who have lost a family member or two to the regime’s killers and torturers.  He dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves: widely considered to be terrorists, barbarians, and savages. And then one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don’t think so.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters.

Demokratiets dage er talte?

Is the age of democracy over?

By Francis Fukuyama – February 10, 2010

Twenty years ago, Francis Fukuyama forecast the final triumph of liberal democracy and the ‘end of history’. As pro-democracy movements falter from Ukraine to China, he revisits his thesis — and asks if history has a few more surprises to spring

It looked like a revolution in reverse. The announced victory of Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday’s Ukrainian presidential election undid that country’s Orange Revolution of 2004 by returning to power the very man whom tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters came out to defeat. And this is only the latest in a series of apparent setbacks for democracy in recent years. Over the last decade we have seen the collapse or discrediting of not just the ‘Orange’ movement, but many of the other so-called ‘rainbow revolutions’ across eastern Europe: the ‘Rose’ revolution in Georgia, the ‘Cedar’ revolution in Lebanon. Then there’s Vladimir Putin’s transformation of Russia into an ‘electoral authoritarian’ state, the undermining of democratic institutions by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and the rise of China as a successful authoritarian moderniser.

 Mere i The Spectator HER.

Iran, Islam and the Rule of Law

Islamic political movements have been one form of revolt against arbitrary government.

By Francis Fukuyama

When Columbia University President Lee Bollinger introduced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his school in September 2007, he denounced him as a “petty tyrant.”

Ahmadinejad is many bad things, including a Holocaust denier and a strong proponent of a nuclear Iran. But as recent events have underlined, Iran is not quite a tyranny, petty or grand, and the office Ahmadinejad occupies does not give him final say in Iranian affairs. That role is more truly occupied by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, head of the Council of Guardians and Iran’s supreme leader.

A real tyranny would never permit elections in the first place—North Korea never does—nor would it allow demonstrations contesting the election results to spiral out of control. Yet Iran is no liberal democracy. So what kind of beast is it? And in what ways should we want its regime to evolve?

Political scientists categorize the Islamic Republic of Iran as an “electoral authoritarian” regime of a new sort. They put it in the same basket as Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela or Vladimir Putin’s Russia. By this view, Iran is fundamentally an authoritarian regime run by a small circle of clerics and military officials who use elections to legitimate themselves.

Læs resten HER i the Wall Street Journal.