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Previously Suppressed Details of Paris Attack Emerge
A good government shouldn't seek to hide the nature of an enemy from its citizens.
The Progressively Bloody Price of Obama/Clinton Appeasement
An Islamic terrorist in a truck added 85 victims to the growing list of murdered Western civilians. The Obama/Biden/Clinton silence is deafening.
Abdication: Obama Cedes Leadership to Russia and France
For months now, ISIS has sold oil on the international market through Turkey, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is furious with petroleum prices plunging along with Russia's economy. Consider that context as we consider the following.
Winners, Losers and Leaders
President Obama's reaction to the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris has been strange — and disturbing. Instead of rallying the country and calling for the United States to lead the fight to wipe out the Islamic State, what did he do first? He took pot shots at Republicans for their reluctance to open our borders to thousands of Syrian refugees. He even said some Republicans were helping ISIS recruit new fighters by suggesting that the United States should give preference to Christian refugees over Muslims. We're stuck with Obama and his failed leadership for another 13 months.
After Paris, Empty Symbolism
The instant online symbol of global support for Paris after last week's attacks was a roughly rendered peace symbol with an Eiffel Tower in the middle of it. The French designer Jean Jullien sketched it as soon as he heard the news of the atrocity. He called it "Peace for Paris," and it immediately became a sensation on social media. Its success is a sign of the times. We have become experts at treacly online mourning. We take grotesque atrocities and launder them into trite symbols and slogans that are usually self-congratulatory and, of course, wholly ineffectual. The 19th-century author William Dean Howells once said, "Yes, what the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending." On social media, the happy ending is the widely shared and tweeted image or hashtag.
After Paris, Obama's Abandonment of Leadership
On Nov. 12, President Barack Obama said of ISIS: "What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them." On Nov. 13, ISIS-connected terrorists left 129 people dead and 352 wounded in Paris. ISIS naturally dominated Obama's Monday press conference at the G20 summit in Turkey. Yet although the president used the words "leader" and "leadership" fourteen times, the concept was, ironically, absent from his remarks. Speaking with as much passion as an instructional video on waste reclamation, he doubled down on his legacy of inaction, infighting and incompetence.
Obama's Pathological Blindness
It's hard to believe we twice elected a president who refuses to defend the United States. I think people who used to dismiss our criticism of President Obama as extreme are now realizing just how naive they were. On the morning before the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, Obama was bragging that ISIS is contained. Are you kidding me? Even before the attacks everyone knew ISIS was on the march and couldn't possibly be contained. What have you done to contain them, by the way? And why are we even talking about "containment" instead of wholesale destruction of a known enemy? What is Obama's strategy?
Read more Obama on ISIL: 'We've Contained Them'
Hours after Obama's boast, France suffered a horrific jihadi attack.
French Forecaster Punished by the Government Over Climate Views
Wouldn't want to ruin COP21, now would we?
Americans Headed for Paris Save the Day
Three men stop a terrorist attack on French train.