Go Sit In A Corner, Suck Your Thumb And Fiddle With Your Navel.

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America's Southern Border remains open 24/7 and does not even close for Federal Holidays.

When illegal immigrants flood Texas there is no crisis but when these same people arrive in "The Rotten Apple" and our nation's Capital it  becomes a crisis. Mayor's of these major cities quickly become NIMBY's and turn down an invitation to see for themselves.

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Sinema caved.

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The Japanese have a distinct culture because they are unwilling to flood their nation with immigrants and dilute their culture. Japan has fewer lawyers/capita than America, less crime than America and their trains run on time.

I would not trade capitalism  for socialism or communism. I can fix capitalism but socialism and communism are beyond repair and/or correction.  They are flawed and do not work, as long as man wants his freedom.

However, America's capitalist system is not currently working as it should and we need the government to get off the backs of the productive, throw away crippling rules and regulations, as Trump was doing, and allow this effective economic system to breathe as intended. American capitalism needs fixing not disbanding.   

If, I owned a Rolls Royce that leaked oil and needed other repairs I would fix it rather than trade it in for a rusted jalopy whose motor did not work , brakes were worn and the electrical system was mis-wired,etc..

Our solution starts with electing true public servants  running our institutions for the benefit of the people, for the nation and not for their narrow self interests or those seeking power and personal wealth.  

That means a lot of black mayors being unelected,  A lot of corrupt AG's and Police Chiefs along with the above and an entire fumigation of Congress on the left side and even some spraying on the right side. We need to elect a lot of entrepreneurs and business men like Trump with experience who are not captive politicians and Georgetown elites.

Because of Trump's personality, we stupidly, in a fit of  peevish immaturity, threw the baby out with the water, and elected  a baby who wets his pants while sucking on an ice cream cone.

Are we better off? Yes, if you are intellectually deranged and care not a fig for our nation nor the wolves knocking at our door. What we once had is mostly gone and/or hanging by a thread and beyond mending unless we are committed and strong. I see little evidence of either.

Am I biased? Sure I am.  Have I been mostly right? Yes, I have. Do you feed a bully to get him to change his habits where you can trust him? Of course, if you are stupid. Do you rid a city of police and trust criminals? Again , yes if you are stupid or can hire your own force.

Do you educate your children to hate their country and expect them to fight to protect it when attacked? Sure if you believe in the tooth fairy.  Do you do all the stupid things progressive dreamers have done  in the name of being socially conscious, politically correct and become surprised when everything collapses, as it has? Yes, yes and yes if you are one of them morons  so ideologic you believe you are Icarus and can soar without a parachute.  Furthermore, if you still resist reality and can't breathe unless you have the NYT's to read while moving your bowels  then you need to go sit in a corner, suck on your thumb and fiddle with your navel.

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Bolting from the fight for civilisation

Al Zawahiri's assassination shows it's groundhog day for America again and again

By Melanie Phillips

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, both the Biden administration  and the European Union are out to lunch.

Senior Iranian, US and European officials arrived in Vienna for talks this week to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, after the European Union presented Iran with a new draft text. 

What this means is that the EU has proposed yet more concessions to Iran. This follows the dismal pattern of Iranian aggression followed by concessions followed by increased aggression.

US president Joe Biden’s obsession with restoring the 2015 deal is astonishing in itself. Whatever its final terms, such an agreement will repeat the original guarantee of an Iranian nuclear bomb sanitised merely by some kind of delay. 

But the degree to which the Biden team has grovelled to Iran to get it to sign up has been astounding.  Repeated Iranian aggression against US allies in the region — and even against American facilities — has produced merely further American concessions.  The US even repeatedly lifted sanctions to coax Iran to co-operate. 

In March, the talks broke down over Iran's demand that America de-list the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, a demand so unacceptable that not even the Biden administration could agree. 

Since then, the regime has stepped up its aggression yet further.  In May, the IRGC and the Iranian Navy launched a helicopter raid to seize two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

Last month, Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz said Iran was methodically basing itself in the Red Sea, with war ships patrolling the southern region and posing a “direct threat to international trade, energy supply, and the global economy”. 

One week previously, it had conducted yet another test of a satellite launcher demonstrating its capability “to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles that may reach as far as the centre of Europe”.  

In May, Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent reached 42 kilograms, which puts it within touching distance of breaking out to produce a nuclear bomb.  It also disabled cameras installed by the International Atomic Energy Authority, whose chief, Rafael Grossi, said that that it still hadn’t provided satisfactory answers over the presence of uranium at several facilities. Well, there’s a surprise.

And now it has threatened to nuke New York. Last week, the IRGC issued  a statement on its Telegram channel that threatened to develop nuclear warheads and “pulverise” New York. “Iran can immediately return to Emad project and build an atomic bomb if Natanz facilities are attacked,” it said. The Emad is a long-range missile. 

Yet just a few days later, US officials were heading to Vienna as observers to the renewed negotiations with the regime that had delivered this blood-curdling threat against America.

Similarly pathological magical thinking has been on dismal display in Afghanistan.

Last August, Biden withdrew American forces from there in a precipitate and disorderly scuttle. 

He was warned that this would enable the return of al Qaeda whom the Taleban would shelter and support just as they had before 9/11. In response, Biden insisted that America had got rid of al Qaeda from that country. “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point, with al Qaeda gone?” he asked.

Now we have the answer. This week, al Qaeda’s leader and long-time strategist Ayman al Zawahiri was assassinated on the balcony of his safe house in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where he was hit by Hellfire missiles fired by from a US drone.

This was a great achievement by the CIA and whatever other shadowy actors were involved in tracking down al Zawahiri and killing him.

But by doing so, Biden exposed the terrible consequences of his action in abandoning Afghanistan.

For al Zawahiri was killed in a house owned by the acting minister of the interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful Taliban official whose Haqqani network played a key role in the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Al Zawahiri’s hiding place, showing his cosy relationship with a top Taleban official, signified that once again al Qaeda is entrenched in Afghanistan.

To this shattering revelation, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken riposted that by hosting and sheltering Zawahiri, the Taliban had “grossly” violated the 2020 Doha Agreement. 

This stipulated that the US withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan was conditional on the Taliban’s undertaking “not to co-operate with groups or individuals threatening the security of the United States and its allies”, to “prevent them from recruiting, training, and fundraising” and not to “ host them”. 

Blinken’s comment displayed an asinine and all-too revealing naivety. For this agreement was always worthless — as is any agreement made with manipulative, lying, cheating warlords, whether in Kabul or Tehran.

As the former British army commander in Afghanistan Richard Kemp wrote for Gatestone last October, the Taleban and al Qaeda were joined at the hip, with both Osama bin Laden and al Zawahiri having sworn unbreakable allegiance to the Taleban’s leaders.

America’s withdrawal, he wrote, would mean al Qaeda and other jihadists would now flow into Afghanistan to train, organise, establish global connections, plan attacks and receive direction and funding.

According to Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project and former co-ordinator of the United Nations Security Council’s ISIL, al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team, al Zawahiri is most likely to be succeeded by a potentially even bolder operative, Saif al Adel, who is currently being harboured by Iran and can easily move to Afghanistan.

The United States has now returned to the point at which it all started: the axis between the Taleban and al Qaeda that led to 9/11 and put US troops into Afghanistan in the first place. 

Yet the Americans still don’t see it. Batting away concerns that al Qaeda was now back in Afghanistan, the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby insisted that the terrorist group’s leaders would now “think again” about hiding out in Kabul.

So for the Biden administration, it’s groundhog day over and over again. They appear to be incapable of learning from experience.

In fact, this is the third US administration that has projected to itself and the world the fantasy of having made Afghanistan safe. Peace talks with the Taleban were started in secret by former president Barack Obama, a process that  led to the Doha agreement signed by former president Donald Trump and whose timetable for withdrawal was accelerated so disastrously by Joe Biden.

Despite Trump’s serious error over Afghanistan, when in 2018 he pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and resumed sanctions he was the first US president to stand up robustly to the Iranian regime since it came to power in 1979. 

From the start, as the world’s principal terrorist state Iran has not just perpetrated the murder of countless western civilians but has also repeatedly attacked US interests and killed American and other coalition soldiers in Iraq. 

Yet successive American presidents, along with British and European leaders, have chosen never to respond with condign robustness to this war being waged against them.

Aggressive tyrants are deterred only by the credible threat of force. Whether western leaders have been right-wing isolationists, left-wing kumbaya dupes or, as with Obama, driven by a desire to even up the global score against the “oppressive” west, they have displayed deep reluctance to put their military forces in harm’s way. They have thus effectively presented the west’s throat to be cut.

As a result of this cowardice, myopia and even malice, the west is now in even greater peril from resurgent jihadists. And against the genocidal fanatics of Iran, Israel is girding itself — with the grimmest of determination — once again to stand alone. 

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