War In The Crimea: The Reason Why

The headlines say: ‘Russians Invade the Ukraine.’ What it doesn’t tell you is the reason why.

KOSOVO, KOSOVO, KOSOVO

Recognition of the Albanian Kosovars' Independence proclamation by the US, UK, France, and Germany, was catastrophic foreign policy (17 February 2008). It was the worst foreign policy decision since Munich.

Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott wrote this in their book, The Appeasers, "They sought to ignore the lessons of the past ... and were prepared to sacrifice common sense for the sake of their desire." This desire by Western capitals to recognize and validate 
'crimes against humanity' that never took place has and will engender grave consequences around the world.

U.N. Resolution 1244 negotiated to end the war, guaranteed Serbian interests and sovereignty in Kosovo. Yet, in February 2008, Western powers, including George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Gordon Brown, David Miliband, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Clintons (unofficially), supported the Albanian Kosovars' declaration of Independence from Serbia -- a clear violation of international law, a UN Resolution, and the principle of national sovereignty forged out of the horror of World War II.

Kosovo is the gift to Vladimir Putin that keeps on giving.

First Georgia (2008), and now the Crimea and the Ukraine (2014).

Current US foreign policy in a nutshell:

1. Barack Obama tells Vladimir Putin "there will be costs" if Russia invades Ukraine. What does Mr. Putin do with full support of the Russian parliament? He invades the Ukraine.
2. Barack Obama tells Assad in Syria not to cross that line. Chemical weapons are used in Syria (by someone), and what does Mr. Obama do? He makes more feckless speeches.
3. Barack Obama tells Iran to stop enriching uranium grade material. What does Iran do -- continues enriching. Mr. Obama then lifts sanctions (that were working) on Iran.
4. In Venezuela, there are riots in the streets, people stand in line for hours for a loaf of bread, and the authoritarian socialist government of the want-to-be dictator Nicolas Maduro, murders them in the streets. And Barack Obama does and says nothing.
5. Muslims through out the Middle East, Africa, and Asia murder Christians, just because they are Christians. What say you Mr. Obama? The man says nothing. In fact, the man supports the Muslim Brotherhood, who is responsible for many atrocities.

Please don’t misunderstand. Barack Obama did show the world where he stands. He put forward a plan to reduce the U.S. Military to its lowest level since before WWII. He announced he would remove all U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. Next, given his penchant for perpetual foreign policy failures, he’ll send John Kerry back to the Middle East to beat up on our allies in Israel and Egypt.

It’s always wonderful, to throw back in someone’s face the words they used to insult you. So Barack Hussein Obama, remember what Malcolm X and your pastor Rev. Wright said: “ the chickens have come home to roost.”

Now it’s Vladimir Putin’s turn to crow: Kosovo has come home to roost, yet again, and not for the last time.

When Doves Cry: This Is The Nature Of Our World

This is the nature of our World. 

The strong devour the weak. 

It has always been that way.

Goodness is not proclaimed it is achieved. 

Anything worthwhile is achieved and not given. 

This Pope is a naïve man. 

People like him, with their "good intentions," do more harm to humanity than good. 

What’s that you say – love and understanding is all we need.

What’s that you say – give peace a chance.

Tell me then – who protected the 1.5 million Armenians from the Turks?

Tell me then – who protected the 11 million killed by Hitler's Germany?

Tell me then – who protected the 3 million Russians in Stalin's gulags?

Tell me then – who protected the 27 million from Mao’s China?

Tell me then – who protected the 1.8 million from Pol Pot’s Cambodia?

Tell me then – who protected the 750,000 Tutsis of Rwanda?

Tell me then – who will protect the 8 million Israelis from Islam?

Tell me then – who is protecting you today from the Crescent horde?

The answer is not blowin' in the wind. 

The answer is you. 

What happens when you surrender to the good intentions of others?

You die

You die

You die

Not with a bang but a whimper.

L.S. Schneiderman

Gone Away: A Lamentation

Dedicated in memoriam to Mr. Dino
My best friend 

There was a time the Eagle flew.

There was a time man had hope.

There was a time of optimism and possibilities.

There was a time the world understood:

Right from Wrong

Good from Evil

Freedom from Thralldom

Deference for all Religions 

And, there was a time in our Founder’s wisdom that all men were created equal. All equal under the law.

Today is not that time.

Today we are govern by men and women who lie.

They lie about everything:

Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi
The killing of Osama bin Laden
Support for Islamic Terrorism
Alleged that Ft. Hood was workplace violence
Covertly selling guns to Mexican Drug Cartels
Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi
Withholding evidence and lying to Congress
IRS selective prejudice against American Conservatives
NSA surveillance in violation of the Constitution
Obama Care
Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi

Greatness is not proclaimed it is achieved.

Camille laments that men are not men. Indoctrination of political correctness in our educational systems by progressives has attempted to neuter western man.

What’s that you say – love and understanding is all we need.

Tell me then – who will protect you from the Crescent horde?

Accountability and responsibility are dead.
Farce and incompetence are rewarded.
Obscenity is applauded.
Excuses, straw men, and Aunt Sally are the preferred methods of discourse of today’s progressive political class.

How much longer do you think this rotten house of cards will stand?

Has it gone too far?
Has it gone away?

L. S. Schneiderman

Inveterate Interventionism Is Bad Foreign Policy

It must be difficult to do an analysis of a policy issue when your ideology ties both hands behind your back, to say nothing of your brain.

Bret Stephens’s, “Iraq Tips Towards the Abyss,” in The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2013, Opinion, is one such case. Mr. Stephens meticulously records the carnage in Iraq for the past two months, and clearly notes the absence of the international community’s concern. But then, he substitutes ideology, i.e. inveterate interventionism, for reason.

One of the great failing of the Bush Administration, and specifically its National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and later still the Obama Administration and its Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was that they did not recognize the divisions within Iraq. And, therefore, did not have an intelligent plan of what to do in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was removed.

The inability to fashion a sensible accord between Iraq’s three sectarian groups, resulted in immediate and ongoing violence. The more sensible strategy for Iraq would have been to partition the country into three entities: Kurdish (Mosul); Sunni (Baghdad); and Shi’a (Basra).

First, there is no compelling historic justification for modern day Iraq. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference and subsequent San Remo Conference in April 1920 laid the groundwork for an Iraqi nation. Prior to 1919, modern day Iraq did not exist. There was no Iraqi nationalism and no Iraqi identity. There was what the British called “Mesopotamia” - referring to the Ottoman Empire’s provinces of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra.

Second, it is understood that the reconfiguration of Iraq will cause consternation to some. However, the entire Middle East has skin in the game, and none more so than Turkey and Iran. A Kurdistan nation will not be the death of Turkey. It will however be a stable force in an unstable region. An accommodation to the Kurds would work toward balancing and even mitigating Iran’s position in Iraq, especially under Nouri al–Maliki, the Shi’a Prime Minister

Third, Mr. Stephens’s view that Mr. al-Maliki is a stabilizing force in Iraq is just wrong. Recall Mr. al Maliki’s first acts when American forces left Iraq. He attempted to arrest the Sunni leadership for trumped up capital charges. Mr. al-Maliki is an Iranian Shi’a puppet. Reducing Shi’a dominance to southern Iraq will correspondingly reduce Iran’s influence in the region.

Fourth, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is not the dominating force portrayed in Mr. Stephen’s piece. Iraq’s Sunni and former Baathists are more than happy to let al Qaeda suicide bombers blow up Shi’a and themselves. When sectarian violence turns to civil war, it will be Sunni Baathists that exert control and govern in central Iraq, not al Qaeda.

Iraq is an artificial State. To believe that Kurds, Sunni, and Shi’a can live peacefully together contradicts realty. Just as Bosnia became a failed state when Muslims, Serbs, and Croatians were provided with the means to choose the conditions under which they wished to live, which you will recall resulted in War (1992 – 1995).

A solution to Iraqi violence is to construct a new compact. That new compact will be the partition of Iraq into three distinct States. 

The failure in Iraq was not military defeat, but diplomatic malpractice.

It's Simple Logic: Obama Supports Terrorism

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic terrorist organization.

Barack Hussein Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood.

Therefore, Barack Hussein Obama supports Islamic terrorism.

Q.E.D.

Patrick Cordell

It has been on one other occasion that another voice could be heard or read on this blog. However, when something extraordinarily important is said by another, it must be released.

Patrick Cordell is an English writer and political commentator, whose website http://www.patcondell.net/, should be required viewing for anyone whom wants to understand the incredible intolerance of Islam.

Seymour Hersh: Please Be Careful

Published Eurasia Review

September 30, 2013

Seymour Hersh is not a right wing, tea party, gun toting, peckerwood!

Seymour Myron Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author. Mr. Hersh, it would seem is "outing" the most incompetent, naive, amateurish president in American history, for the liar he is, in his new -- yet to be published -- book. And while he is at it, Hersh unmasks the American Mainstream Media for their cowardliness, treachery, and the pathological stupidity by which they now conduct themselves. Quoting Mr. Hersh:

 "The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple." 

Mr. Hersh is going to expose the killing of Osama bin Laden. According to Mr. Hersh, everything we have been told is a lie. This is important, and yet you won’t hear or read about it on the nightly news or local media outlets. Lisa O’Carroll of The Guardian reported:

“The Obama administration lies systematically, he (Mr. Hersh) claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.”

Mr. Hersh would be well advised to take care. In Africa, they throw people out of airplanes. In America, they get into fatal car accidents. 

This reminds me of David Halberstam's book, War In A Time Of Peace, published in 2001.  His book was one of the first attempts to speak the truth about American foreign policy in the Clinton era. Needless to say, it was not a flattering picture. 

Clinton's foreign policy was a farce, much like Obama’s today. The Clintons completely got it wrong: by changing the Somalia mission from feeding starving Somalis to nation building; by not intervening in Rwanda, the worst genocide since the Holocaust; by not taking a leading role to stop the Bosnia War; by conducting a virtual war in Kosovo, predicated on lies; and by supporting a buffoon, Boris Yeltsin, who politically and economically humiliated Russia.

The liberal establishment hated the book. David Halberstram was shunned by the left who had previously lionized him for his book on Vietnam (The Best and The Brightest). David Halberstram was killed in a "car accident" in Menlo Park, California, on April 23, 2007. Indeed, was it an accident?

Remember, the Clintons like to tell us that Hillary was co-President for those eight years of Bill’s administration. Hence, any criticism of the Clinton administration’s conduct of foreign policy also falls on Hillary Clinton. How often do you think the mainstream media is going to remind the American people of these events in the 2016 election?

Thinking about the Clinton Administration, here’s a short story. One of the most wonderful occasions of my life was to see my oldest daughter graduate from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (1997). But it was also one of the worst. I was forced to listen to the Clinton’s Russian expert, the naïve and foolish Strobe Talbot, the man most responsible for bring Vladimir Putin to power, give the Commencement Address. Who says liberals condemn torture? 

Be careful out there Mr. Hersh.

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.