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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
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SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, spoke to the Iranian-American Community of Arizona on 13 February 2015. Here is the speech:
Scott Johnson at Power Line played it up with strong approval. My comments, with edits here, follow:
OK, he is speaking to the Iranian-American Community of Arizona, so he wants to make his points for that audience. Understood, he is a politician doing a stem-winder, aka demagoguery.
Yet, his statement and full-speech premise that Iran is the world’s largest funder/supporter of terrorism — aka Islamist supremacy — is a well-known falsehood. (And terrorism is a dissembling description of what is afoot.)
Famiglia Saud is the world’s largest funder/supporter of Islamist supremacy (aka terrorism). And only twice does Rudy mention Saud, once seemingly by mistake in part 1 and once on the minor (strategically speaking) matter of women not driving in that country in part 2.
Nor does he mention the Muslim Brotherhood (and here), an anti-Saud but Saud/Wahhabi-inspired Islamist supremacy puritanical movement — and an ally of Iran and Turkey! — that progressively penetrated the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush administrations and finally got their own stalking horse into the White House in the current administration.
The English of which is, Rudy is irrelevant and worse. And he is doing Americans of Iranian descent — probably most of them Baha’i and therefore prefer to be called Persians, at least in private — no favors and much intellectual, moral and spiritual confusion if not outright personal damage.
Rudy was a fine mayor and is a successful entrepreneur motivational speaker and organizer. His grasp of world politics is not only deficient, it is defective. Thus, he loses presidential primaries. He does not get it.
GWB’s mistake was doing a single (Iraq) instead of a double (Iraq and Saud) envelopment, and then on to Iran, who by then would have folded like a spent cock. GWB was penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood (and here), who steered him against Arab nationalists/secularists (Saddam) but not against Muslim supremacists/puritanicals (Saud and Iran). USA has not been in USA-sovereign-centric hands since Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover or even earlier. Woodrow Wilson set the nation on the road to in-sovereignty and servitude.
Update 1: Under title Re-Examining Imperialism, So-Called, on 27 October 2014, I wrote:
George W. Bush is a fine man, a good man. He has been all along and remains so. Several mistakes were made on his watch in re what his team called GWOT:
1- The nation was not put on war footing on 12SEP01.
2- The enemy — Caliphism, a pretension of religion that supersedes nation states — was not identified.
3- The war against Iraq, which was just because Saddam was behind both attacks on the WTC — besides being a shit-head of the first water — was not conceived to drive towards occupation and rehabilitation of Iraq. General Shinseki was right: 600K US troops were needed to restore Iraq to the community of nations.
4- COIN and CT were not started immediately upon the fall of Baghdad and Tikrit.
5- Sadr and most other imams — and their lieutenants and mosques — were not neutralized within a week of the fall of Baghdad.
6- Koran/Sharia was allowed into the center of the new Iraqi constitution.
7- The Caliphist CAIR — and its military affiliate Hamas — was taken into the Executive Branch as senior advisor in every silo thereof. There it remains, fortified since 2009 by the Caliphist-supporting Globalist criminal organization. CAIR (aka Muslim Brotherhood, and here) today IS the Government of the USA.
8- The lie that there were no WMDs, usable WMDs or WMD programs in Iraq was allowed to stand.
9- The CIA’s treachery and the NYT’s treason were allowed to stand.
10- Media were treated as useable communicators when in fact they were — and remain — enemies of the USA. Media are Globalists, to include FNC.
Update 2: Rudy said he wants a fight. He has one, with luck he will not back off it.
Update 3: The Fraud uses the Muslim gang sign.
Update 5: After the aforementioned event, Rudy said The Fraud has no love for the USA. Then he did not rescind or dissemble that assessment. He expanded it. In this way, Rudy turned The Fraud with the shaft in His Anti-Americanism and ensured thereby His defeat and that of his whole fucking family (Globalists, or elites, as some call them). And Rudy and The Fraud belong to the same hypocrisy! Glenn Reynolds comments piquantly. Kurt Schlichter tweets. Thomas Lifson comments. Richard Fernandez comments. Rich Lowry comments.
Update 6: America’s “Islamic Fabric”?
Update 7: Putin’s Syria Play Means West Must Rethink Everything
Update 7: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update 8: An interesting comment string arose at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds referenced Mark Cunningham on the subject of what The Fraud should say about Islam. I commented as follows, making an important observation regarding the effect of religion on affairs:
Were I to take Cunningham’s essay as serious thought — and I think it is not — I would say his face is too close to the canvas, he has seen a couple of swirls of paint and yelled, “Eureka!” Were he serious, he would pull back to ponder the whole canvas or at least more of it than has caught his fancy. His enthusiasm would, shall we say, moderate.
Serious, productive thought cannot come from other than a monastic. Men and women bearing the daily burdens and cares of life, such as Cunningham, simply cannot and will not create intellectual and moral forms that benefit anyone lastingly. They are too busy, and justly so, one hopes. Such men and women can use such forms once they are created, but create them they can not and will not. Those stepped way back from the canvas — monastics — do that. The truth is the whole.
Update 9: Richard Fernandez intelligently discusses the forces comprising Iran and Saud related to Netanyahu’s address to a Joint Session of the US Congress in March 2015.
Update 10: Richard Fernandez, again on this matter: Payback.
Update 11: Onward Christian Soldiers!
Update 12: Former Obama Intel Chief: Administration’s Iran Policy Is Willful Ignorance
Update 13: Senator Tom Cotton on Iran.
Related: PL has two mentions in Tom’s Wikipedia bio. And he’s a knuckle-dragger. The Times letter may have caused his move from line to staff and then out. Something got him out early after a fast rise in the line, consignment to staff and a short time in reserves. I’d say the Times letter signaled political aspirations and counter-signaled mil career, another reason for an early out for a rising OBC line officer.
PL featured the Times letter, as I recall. It would be a rare serving officer, especially a junior, who would address the Times without command prior-approval and expect a mil career afterwards. Maybe the Harvard Man Syndrome punched through to dominance for that incident. The military is not a democracy.
Update 14: John Hinderaker of Power Line on the deal with Iran.
Update 15: Paul A. Rahe: Political theater and coordinated disinformation are the order of the day.
Update 16: GEN (R) Petraeus: The Islamic State Is Not Our Biggest Problem In Iraq
Update 17: Scott Johnson: John Kerry’s Absolute Idiocy
Update 18: The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad, and related: Qatar.
Update 19: Goodnight Vienna.
Update 20: Michael J. Totten really does not get Iran, but this of his is worthy of the exercise of criticizing and useful for historical content none-the-less.
Update 21: Jim DeMint on the deadly deal with Iran.
Update 22: Charles Hill On The Iran Deal
Update 23: The Fraud’s Scheme To Pass The Iran Nuke Deal
Update 24: Michael Ledeen: How To Defeat The Grand Bargain With Iran
Update 25: Is there a socialist/fascist government that has ceased to exist and been replaced with humane government of some sort without the application, from external source(s), of diplomatic, financial and/or military warfare? Fascist propaganda has made Americans allergic to just the thought of war … all the better for fascists to rule them. Perhaps it’s time to treat that thought as the pathogen it is.
Update 26: Sultan Knish: No More Mr. Nice Conservative
Update 27: Spengler: To Defeat Iran Deal, Republicans Must Admit To Mistakes In Iraq
Update 28: Alan M. Dershowitz: Mr. [Fascist], Your Iran Deal Will Fall Apart and [The Fascist] Is An Abject Failure – By His Own Standards
Related items here, here, here and here.
Update 29: Sohrab Ahmari: The 36-Year Project To Whitewash Iran
Update 30: Saud meets karma
Update 31: Ayatollahs beat their chests on outwitting USA and Israel
Update 32: Iran Silly Games
Update 33: A side-point on this post: is it really true that Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, aka global Islamic hegemony by every means available? This statement is repeated again and again, seemingly everywhere, by everyone. Is it true? I do not know, but I suspect it is not true, and have no way to validate my suspicion.
I suspect al Saud is the world’s largest state sponsor of global Islamic hegemony (Caliphism), at least if large is taken to indicate monies spent and time-in-grade.
For example, who pays for the Islamic Centers, Islamic propaganda/information circulars/curricula and Islamic Studies Departments at … how many primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities around the globe? Who pays for the Islamic “prison ministries” in virtually every country not officially Islamic? Who pays for the madrassas in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere? Who is trying to bankrupt some countries while funding others as well as supposedly non-state actors?
Who fills the world’s media with continuous cascades of sanctimonious double-talk to justify global Islamic hegemony?
If my suspicion regarding the world’s largest sponsor of “terrorism” is correct, then a one-eyed laser-focus on Iran as the primary enemy of the USA in the ME flouts Von Clausewitz’ first rule of war, does it not?
Finally — and of this I am certain: in the ME, it is deeply and widely held as fundamental truth that the State of Israel birthed ISIS — which in the ME is deeply and widely hated by the generality — to cripple Arab freedom, independence and self-determination.
Update 34: Ronald Reagan At 100: The Great Communicator
Update 35: Daniel Greenfield: Traitor Senators Took Money From Iran Lobby, Back Iran Nukes
Update 36: Iran Already Has Nuclear Weapons
Update 37: Spengler on Turkey
Update 38: Why The Collapse Of Saud Is Inevitable
Exhibit 39: Michael Doran on The Fraud’s strategy in re the Middle East:
You Should Really Read Michael Doran On [The Fraud] And Russia
[The Fraud’s] Secret Iran Strategy
Update 40: Charles Kenny: Saudi Arabia Is Underwriting Terrorism. Let’s Start Making It Pay. See also here.
Update 41: Jack Cashill on punishment by Neo-Puritans
Update 42: The Muslim Brotherhood In America: A Course In 10 Parts
Update 43: Washington Compost: Turkey’s Predicament
Update 44: NATO will NOT take Turkey’s part in a fight by her with Russia (!!!)
Update 45: A concise history of al Saud
Update 46: Wahhabi/Salafi Saud is the engine of dis-quiet and dis-ease.
Update 47: The Saudi-Iranian Eruption
Update 48: Richard Fernandez: “There are no borders anymore.” It would be the ultimate historical irony if the president who vowed to uphold “a rules-based international order” should accidentally preside over the liquidation of that very same order.”
Update 49: Spengler: Saudi Arabia Stews In Policy Hell
Update 50: The Saudis Strike Back At Everyone
Update 51: Counter-Terrorism: What Keeps Islamic Terrorism Going
Update 52: Counter-Terrorism: The Source Of Islamic Terrorist Justification
Update 53: How US Covered Up Saudi Role In 9/11, more here
Update 54: I was asked recently which more threatens US national security, Iran or Saudi Arabia. I said, “Saudi Arabia.” I pointed to historical, theological and size differences to support the statement. My interlocutor was unconvinced. Then today the interlocutor called to say they had an epiphany: Saudi subversion is stronger than Iranian attack, I said, “That’s it.”
Update 55: The $2 Trillion Project To Get Saudi Arabia Off Oil
Update 56: [The Fraud’s] Secret Iran Strategy
Update 57: Counter-Terrorism: The Unwanted Cure
Update 58: There’s also turning al Saud out of house and home and restoring the Hashemites to Mecca and Medina. Not so hard to do. Then, make the Ayatollahs an offer they can’t refuse. That would settle things down. And not even difficult.
Update 59: US Cuts Military Advisors to Saudi-Led Coalition In Yemen
Update 61: Not Just The Saudis: Iran’s Huge Role In 9/11 Also Covered Up
Update 62: The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism And Global Jihad
Update 63: Rejection Of Moslem Brotherhood By Popular Consent
Update 64: John Bolton: How To Get Out Of The Iran Nuclear Deal
Update 65: Myron Magnet: Saudi Arabia’s Earthshaking Coup
Update 66: It would be possible and fairly easy to refute Trita Parsi on his own thesis that ME is about strategic matters rather than ideological ones. He wants to insinuate that the mullah’s strategic interests are misunderstood, benign, and do not conflict with USA’s (… Iran’s continued difficulties in translating its strength to regional acceptance … is a gorgeous dissembling).
Had USA a grand national strategic goal matched to her actual interests in the ME, Parsi’s thesis could be taken apart point-by-point.
But USA has no grand national strategic goal matched to her actual interests anywhere in MENA. The nearest such is POTUS Trump’s aversion to endless wars around the planet. But that is not a grand national strategic goal, much less one that comprehensively reflects actual USA interests.
The last strategic statement POTUS Trump’s administration produced was Mattis/Tillerson/USA foreign policy establishment (aka massed morons) boilerplate dating to the 1940s. Worse than worthless. With friends like the USA foreign policy establishment, who needs enemies?
The needed work actually has been done, however, even circulated, just not discussed.
Update 67: Bob McManus: After the Pensacola jihad, can we finally break with the Saudis?
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
