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Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values

The Skidaway Island Republican Club will be presenting a True Perspectives seminar on 
"Immigration" September 23, at 4:45 PM in the newly renovated Ballroom of the Plantation Club. This will be our first live Skype presentation and will enable us to expand our speakers for future events.

Our guest speaker is MICHAEL CUTLER who is a frequent guest on CNN, CSPAN, and FOX. He is a national immigration expert and former Senior Agent of the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). He has provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission and over a dozen Congressional hearings both in the Senate and the House.

He will discuss the impact of immigration on the criminal justice system, combating illegal immigration, securing our national borders and restoring integrity to our immigration system.

This is a very timely issue that our nation is facing and Mr. Cutler is able to provide a clear insight to the dangers our nation faces with our current direction.

Mr. Cutler believes “immigration is the most serious issue confronting the United States today-bar none. America’s borders and immigration laws exist to two primary purposes- protect innocent lives and protect the jobs of American workers.”

Sustaining members are free, regular members are $5.00 per person, and non -members are $10.00 per person. Light refreshments will be served, plus a member’s bar will be available.

Please make your reservations by calling Russ Peterson at 598-9845 or russp16@aol.com as soon as possible.

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Simon on obliterating ISIS! (See 1 below.)

Romney on Obama and ISIS! (See 1a below.)

Advice from a retired general regarding ISIS.  (See 1b below.)
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More dishonest reporting and propaganda.  (See 2 below.)

and then this beats my infi-deli restaurant idea in Gaza!
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1) My ISIS Strategy
By Roger L. Simon

I noticed with dismay — though almost no surprise — that Barack Obama does not yet have a “strategy” of how to deal with the notorious terror organization ISIS, alternatively known as ISIL or IS.

He is, no doubt, studying the matter, and receiving the best of advice from the likes of Valerie Jarrett and John Brennan, but, since folks are being beheaded and raped and so forth, and IS is well on its way to establishing a caliphate, converting young Americans and Europeans and preparing global jihad while cooking up weapons of mass destruction and infiltrating our Southern border, etc., in the interest of speeding things along, I would like to offer my help with an ISIS strategy.

Yes, I do have a strategy, even though I suspect the president may reject it because, alas, I am an Islamophobe.  More precisely, I am an Islamodespicio because I despise Islam far more than I fear it. (It’s the only religion on Earth I feel that way about.)  I despise a religion that, other than Comrade Putin, is the source of virtually all the large scale violence in the world and has been for decades. I also despise it for its treatment of women, homosexuals, children (putting machine guns in their hands at the age of seven and teaching them to kill non-believers), for its complete intolerance of other religions and secular systems and for the consistent dishonesty with which it  treats the rest of the human race. 

 I despise it in its Shiite and Sunni forms (even though they despise each other), as well as its murderous subsidiaries like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, al Nusra and on and on.

So I don’t have much question about what to do about ISIS.  Obliterate it.  Put as few of our people in harm’s way as possible to accomplish that, but if it’s necessary to do so, it’s necessary.

1a) Romney: Obama's 'Mistakes' Allowed ISIS to Grow

By Sandy Fitzgerald

President Barack Obama's mistakes enabled the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and created the immigration crisis at the country's southern border, his 2012 opponent, Mitt Romney, said Sunday in a roundtable radio discussion hosted by John Catsimatidis. 

"Mistakes were made and now we have ISIS," Romney told Catsimatidis on "The Cats Round Table" on New York City station WNYM-AM.

Romney argued that ISIS would not be gaining power if the United States has followed his plan back in 2012 for dealing with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"If you go back a few years when Syria fell into revolution and tumult, when rebels were pushing against Assad, I laid out what I thought was a prudent course for us to see stability in Syria," he said. "Had we followed that course, there's a good chance you would not see an ISIS today."

He said his plan would have done more to back revolutionaries in Syria while ensuring Assad's own tribe, the Alawites, that their future was secure even without him in power.

"These kind of actions would have stabilized Syria, at least I believe so, and would have prevented the growth of a group like ISIS," Romney said. 

He also accused Obama of failing to heed American intelligence about ISIS, saying that the president was told a year ago that the jihadists planned to invade an Iraqi city.

"We saw ISIS roll into Iraq and, instead of attacking them immediately and knocking them in their convoy when they would have been easy to knock down, relatively easy to knock down, the president again watched," said Romney. "And now we're in a position where ISIS has run throughout major portions of Iraq. There have been horrific human rights abuses, tragedies."

In addition, Romney took Obama to task for his immigration policies.

"The president should have enforced our immigration laws from the very beginning," the former Massachusetts governor said. "His announcement of a form of amnesty only encouraged people to continue to flood over the border. The right answer to the immigration crisis would be to secure the border and enact a series of immigration policy reforms instead.

The government "can stop illegal immigration and also make the legal process more transparent and have one that meets the needs of America," said Romney.

Romney, who lost to Obama in 2012, insists he isn't running for office again, despite Catsimatidis calling him "President Romney" in the show. 

An Iowa poll last week suggested Romney would be the party's odds-on favorite if he threw his hat in the ring for 2016.

Romney also addressed two domestic issues: the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri., and Burger King's decision to purchase the Tim Horton's restaurant chain so it can establish offices in Canada as part of a tax inversion plan.

While he refrained from taking sides in the Ferguson case, he said more information is needed before a judgment is reached about Officer Darren Wilson, who shot an unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking the protests.

But Romney did defend Burger King's decision about moving its operations.

"If American companies are trying to get out of America, then something is wrong in America," he said. "If companies don't want to be here, then companies aren't gonna form here, either. They're gonna go elsewhere to start."

1b) Retired US Brigadier General Ernie Audino believes that more comprehensive US military action is needed in order to eliminate the ISIS threat. “A few airstrikes don’t win wars,” he stated. He believes that an independent

 Kurdistan is the best buffer against the spread of radical Islam in the region.

Retired US Brigadier General Ernie Audino in Iraqi Kurdistan Photo Credit: Faridon Abbas

Retired US Brigadier General Ernie Audino, who received his master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies at the National War College and studied Kurdish history in depth under Ambassador Peter Galbraith, used to live with the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan: “We lived with them and operated with them on the battlefield.  They treated us like real brothers.  It remains a fact that no American has ever been killed by enemy hand in any Kurdish-controlled area.”

“Today, Kurdistan is the most peaceful, most democratic and most prosperous region in Iraq,” he stressed. “It’s certainly not perfect, but there are very likely more businesses, schools, soccer fields, art galleries, modern housing developments and independent news organizations in the Kurdish region than there are in any other region of Iraq. I watched the Kurds strive to make today better than yesterday and tomorrow better than today. They have clearly dusted themselves off and risen from the ashes.”

According to Brigadier General Audino, the Kurds very much respect Israelis: “It seems as if many Kurds feel a sense of a common adversity shared with the Israelis. This is not the first time this enemy has threatened the Kurds and it won’t be the last, and the Kurds well-recognize a similar threat facing the Israelis. Consequently, I believe my Kurdish friends expect a certain amount of deliberate and appropriate coordination with Israeli interests can be useful to both the Kurds and the Israelis. Perhaps Saadi, the Poet of Shiraz, a favorite of the Kurds, described it best when he wrote, ‘Joint interests make for the best of friends.’”

“So, what are some of the important interests shared by Americans, Israelis and Kurds,” the Brigadier General asked rhetorically. “The most obvious and immediate one is the imperative to defend against the threat of radical jihadists, but there are others. For example, all three groups stand to gain great geostrategic benefit from the development of more, not less, democratic, moderate and freedom-loving allies in the Middle East. A strong Kurdistan provides precisely that type of additional ally. Also, all three have a real interest in the engagement of Iran from a position of strength, not weakness. A strong Kurdistan serves as a counter to the growing influence of Iran over Iraq.”

Unfortunately, Audino stressed that the Kurds presently do not possess the modern warfare tools in order to defend their region effectively on their own without international assistance against the ISIS threat: “The total Peshmerga force is approximately 200,000 fighters. Given the 1000 km border with Daash/ISIS/IS, the average Peshmerga presence along the border is no more than 200 Peshmerga per kilometer. That is not much. So, the Peshmerga are doing what any thinking army would do; they are concentrating their combat power in their critical areas and maintaining an economy of force everywhere else.”

“Still, and let’s be honest, completing the destruction of ISIS and breaking its will to fight will not happen by the conduct of defensive operations alone,” the Brigadier General emphasized. “No, this level of destruction will require the conduct of well-coordinated, well-equipped and well-supplied offensive operations. To do so, the Peshmerga must have the ability to initiate combat in depth against Daash/ISIS/IS. Unfortunately, and by design, the USA and Baghdad did not equip the Peshmerga for such offensive operations.”

Retired US Brigadier General Ernie Audino with a Kurdish child Photo Credit: Faridon Abbas

The Brigadier General is greatly disappointed with Obama’s policy towards both Iraq and Syria: “To me it is an uncertain policy, and uncertainty in a leader never inspires confidence. Consequently, none of us should be at all surprised when allies of the US are left wondering whether Mr. Obama has the will and the spine to do what is necessary to protect their joint interests.”

“The current Administration in DC needs to understand the purpose of real war is to break the enemy's will to fight,” he emphasized. “That requires and has always required killing people and breaking things. A few airstrikes do not win wars. They might be able to set conditions on the ground, but those conditions must be exploited and controlled by overwhelming combat power on the ground. This is not me speaking...it is history speaking.”

“The situation in Syria has the added dimension of the Assad Regime, which many Syrian Kurds believe stimulated the growth of ISIS within its borders in order to shift Western attention from the regime towards the grisly threat of ISIS," the Brigadier General noted. “True or not, ISIS was able to gain combat power and capability inside Syria while Western nations generally avoided the hard decision to commit decisive action to counter this growth. The result – ISIS grew to the point where it was able to project power beyond the borders of Syria and into Iraq.”

“Although we are a quite late to react to the Syrian situation, I am happy Mr. Obama is now reportedly contemplating the advice of his senior military leadership to extend US air strikes into Syria to destroy ISIS base areas and sanctuaries," Brigadier General Audino stated. “To be effective these strikes must be coordinated with well-equipped and well-supplied Kurdish action on the ground able to exploit any conditions set from the air. Given the obvious need to avoid our unintentionally equipping the wrong elements on the ground, moderate, Western-leaning organizations such as the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria and the Kurdish National Congress can readily help us focus our support on only properly vetted oppositions groups sharing important values with Western interests.”

Nevertheless, the Brigadier General believes that the Kurds have no incentive to support the national unity government in Iraq supported by the Obama administration: “Why should the Kurds support a unity government in Baghdad? What is the purpose? If the answer is, as I frequently hear, to enable an effective opposition to ISIS, I submit a unity government in Baghdad arguably existed prior to the recent ISIS advance into Iraq, and we can all see how effective that was. What is the new condition that suggests another unity government will perform differently in the future? I just don’t see it.”

Retired US Brigadier General Ernie Audino with former US President George Bush Photo Credit: Faridon Abbas

He views the establishment of an independent Kurdistan in Iraq and perhaps parts of Syria as the best way to halt the spread of radical Islam, both from ISIS and from Iran: “Imagine how sorry we all would be if the Peshmerga had not quickly stepped forward to block decisive penetration by ISIS into the Kurdish region. This recent situation, by the way, is not even close to the first time the Kurds have opposed armed Islamist groups. As early as 1963 the Muslim Brotherhood began stimulating the growth of such groups inside Iraq, including within the Kurdish areas, and by 1991 or so, the Peshmerga began engaging in combat against the armed wings of a small number of radical Islamist groups operating along the Kurdish border with Iran. Combat continued until 2003 when Peshmerga augmented with the support of US Special Forces completed the eradication of Ansar al Islam and the budding radical Islamist insurgency it was trying to promote.”

“This should be recognized as a rare example of modern military action defeating a contemporary Islamist insurgency,” the Brigadier General noted. “The important difference here, however, is the military action served only as the catalyst to set the conditions on the ground, and it was the ongoing vigilance of the wider Kurdish population that made those new conditions enduring. Frankly, Kurdish society denies the Islamist fish a sea in which to swim, so to speak.”

“As for the future, an independent, sovereign Kurdistan is the only fundamentally different course of action in discussion that has the demonstrated potential to effectively oppose ISIS over time,” he emphasized. “It is reasonably foreseeable that strong, Kurdish independence shows the most promise of accomplishing on a larger scale what a strong Kurdish region is doing today on a relatively smaller scale. All other courses of action repeat the same, tired conditions in place since the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.”

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2) I'm confused —  Who are the real Palestinians? 

 

ISRAELI LEADERS:

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Born 21 October 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel (formerly Mandate of Palestine)  

EHUD BARAK, Born 12 February 1942 in Mishmar HaSharon , British Mandate of Palestine

ARIEL SHARON, Born 26 February 1928 in Kfar Malal , British Mandate of Palestine

EHUD OLMERT, Born 30 September 1945 in Binyamina-Giv ' at Ada , British Mandate of Palestine

ITZHAK RABIN, Born 1 March 1922 in Jerusalem , British Mandate of Palestine 

ITZHAK NAVON, Israeli President in 1977-1982. Born 9 April 1921 in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine.

EZER WEIZMAN, Israeli President in 1993-2000. Born 15 June 1924 in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine

ARAB “PALESTINIAN” LEADERS :

YASSER ARAFAT, Born 24 August 1929 in Cairo, Egypt

SAEB EREKAT, Born April 28, 1955, in Jordan. He has Jordanian citizenship.

FAISAL ABDEL QADER AL-HUSSEINI, Born in1948 in Bagdad, Iraq.

SARI NUSSEIBEH, Born in 1949 in Damascus, Syria .

MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR, Born in 1945, in Cairo, Egypt.

 Israeli leaders, who were born in Palestine, are called/considered “Settlers" or  more accurately, "Occupiers.”   While Palestinian Arab leaders who were born in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Tunisia are called “Native Palestinians”???!!! [THAT makes perfect sense?!

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