Told Ya - It's Hillary

Well, well well.  The democrat global clown show - known to most as the Impeachment - has been successful.  Two hundred thirty-two rabid house democrats, feverish with TDS, voted to impeach the forty-fifth president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.  Two democrat house members voted Nay, one voted present, and not a single Republican voted Yay.  So according to the constitution, the matter is now to be handed over to the Senate, who will try the case and acquit or convict.  The smart money has it that there's exactly zero chance of a conviction in the Senate.  So, the clown master, Herr Nancy Pelosi, will stall sending the so-called Articles of Impeachment to the Senate.  After all, she knows it will not go in her and the democrats' favor, but she's done all the damage she can do to Trump at this point.  And that was the goal all along:  drape the shame of impeachment onto Trump's legacy.  But history is written by the winners, so we'll patiently wait for that final assessment.

Meanwhile, the long knives have come out for Uncle Joe.  The indisputable fact is that the guy is as  corrupt as the day is long.  Further, he and his son are politically toxic from all that Ukrainian hryvnya finding its way into the Bidens' collective pockets.  That's going to be hard to overcome in the candidate debates, especially against Trump.  Also, Biden's not healthy, doctors are saying; and he's not got both oars in the water.  Others are telling us dementia is catching up to Uncle Joe.  So turning their backs - again - on their own past-vice-president, the DNC seems to have another darling in mind for their nominee.

And who might that be?  Someone who has been more and more vocal and more visible of late.  Who has had some hard words for the president as she tours the fawning media circuits.  Who dat, you say?  Well, here's a hint:  at 72 years old, she just got another face lift, some Botox injections, and looks like a brand new . . .  yikes! . . . I don't know what you'd call that!

And there are other clues, too.  The Kenyan - bless his heart - has come out and publicly opined that women indisputably make better leaders than do men.  Well, he would know, I guess.  He tried to castrate and pussify the entire nation during his eight year reign of domestic abuse.  And came mighty close, too.  But now we have adult males back in charge and things are getting better all the time.  That's why Hillary and her crime network want to re-enter the arena of public office, and continue their campaign of corruption and destruction.

So it seems very much as if she's setting the stage to come into the 2020 presidential fray - back by popular demand as she so arrogantly describes it - to save the DNC and America with her brand of tyranny.  And who will be her running mate?  Rumors range from Mike Robinson (aka Michelle) to John Kerry.  I wouldn't bet against the Kenyan himself trying for a lame comeback as her Veep.  Constitutionally that's unlikely, but the Kenyan has the vile and corrupt Eric Holder as his wing man, never forget, so the rule of law matters little here.  All these folks are pathetic human and political failures who have been undermining American interests for their entire lives.  Yet they lie in waiting, hoping for another chance at fulfilling their fantasies of crippling America before Attorney General Barr flushes them down the drain.  So there's that.

But watch out for Hillary 2020. She's got a brand new Franken-face, and she's destined to become the first female president, even if that slaps the face of the oh-so-woke LBGT-WFT sexually cofused anger mob.  But history has shown that ego and hubris know no bounds, and our gal Hil is out to prove it yet again.  

Meanwhile Trump will carry the election in a landslide in both the popular vote and in the electoral college.  Bring popcorn.

Americans Save the World. Again.

Let them bitch.  Let them complain, whine, denigrate and lie about us.  Let them blame us for anything and everything.  Let them wallow in the primordial sludge that passes for intellect that they've created for themselves.  I don't care.  The globalist Marxist left is taking it in the shorts all over the world.  They're right about one thing, however.  It's the Americans that are to blame.  And we're damn proud of it.

It's the Americans' manifest destiny to rid the world of evil, no matter where it rears its ugly hydra head.  We recognized that destiny in 1776 when we formed the first self government in the history of mankind.  One that is of, by and for the people, just as God intended.  And for two and a half centuries, in Somalia, France, Indo-China, Japan, Meso-America, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, we've been busy doing just that:  Freeing the world from tyranny.

I don't use the term America because it's not America, per se, that is the world's savior; it's the American people themselves.  In America we still have tyranny:  Hillary Clinton and her crime syndicate, the despicable Muslim bastard Kenyan, the Soros crime family, and a host of other un-elected criminals, communists, tyrants, democrats and scoundrels of all colors and stripes.  

The American

But it is the American - that strong, silent, steely-eyed individual who makes the country run - he's the one who influences and inspires the other citizens of the world, and who has shown them the way to throwing off their own despots and tyrants.  And it's being done without our military invading every disgusting shithole country in the world.  Don't give me the Monroe Doctrine argument; this transcends it.  Karl Von Clausewitz noted a century ago that war is politics by other means.  As the twenty-first century matures, let's see how the Americans, by throwing off their own deep state tyranny, has set a precedent for others to follow.

The American

In Hong Kong, protestors have taken the election of Donald Trump as a metaphor for their own struggle for freedom.  If the Americans can do it, so can we, is their prevailing attitude.  In 1997, after Britain granted independence to Hong Kong, Communist China considered the handover as simply a return to mainland China and its totalitarian rule.  But the Heung Gong Yahn as they call themselves, or Hong Konger in English, want no part of the People's Republic of China.  They've been a separate and distinct political region of the mainland for decades, and have gotten used to independent near-sovereignty.  After tasting freedom, they won't go gently back into that good night without a fight.  And it's the average everyday American who is their inspiration.

And speaking of British Crown Colonies, it seems our cousins across the pond have had quite enough, thank you, of that nation's insane leftward lurch into globalism.  It was mistake to join the European Union in the first place, and all the Brits got out of that was a depressed economy, rising crime, Islam, and the embarrassment of a once-proud empire receding into a third world country.  Thanks Mayor Kahn, and all the globalist jokers who have a power choke hold on Parliament.  But this week, Boris Johnson's conservative Tories pulled off a landslide victory over the left wing Labor Party's Jeremy Corbyn.  Now BoJo is the new Prime Minister, residing at 10 Downing Street.  And how did the Tories manage a win over Labor reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979?  By appealing to the common working man, the blue collar blokes, the very stronghold of longtime Labor voters.  Just like Trump did here stateside.  Britons, Scots, Welsh, and Irish all had had enough of their leaders palling around with terrorists, dictators and tyrants.  And they want out of the disastrous European Union, with its unfair currency, open borders, antisemitism and love affair with Islam.

What's remarkable in these stories is the sea change in political perception.  People all over the world are weary - and wary - of their tyrannical governments regardless of the severity of that tyranny.  Only in America are the people themselves the masters of their own destiny, and while over the last century that freedom has been slowly eroded, the American is now awaking to that fact and has taken it to the voting booth.  And people around the world are taking notes.  It can happen there, too, they are saying, and they know it and they want it.  

But so does the globalist left notice. They won't take defeat lying down.  Here in the States, for example, we've seen the coup rattle on for over three years.  The left vowed to impeach Trump immediately after the presidential election results were confirmed back in November 2016.  Not because of anything Trump had done or not done, but simply because they lost the election.  Hillary was supposed to win; she not only rigged the democrat primary to assure her place, but she also set in motion a coup d'etat in the unlikely event she lost.  That was Peter Strozk's infamous "insurance policy."  But she lost anyway and the left has been throwing childish tantrums ever since.

So look for more angst and violence from the left.  They won't accede their power; it must be wrest from their cold dead hands.

And that is one job that is perfect for the American.

Why They Are Still A Threat

Here I was making nice about the Arab mindset in my last post, but I cautioned that they, being mostly Muslim, are a threat to the United States.  This is one reason why, Mr. Said, Occidentals look down on Muslims.  It's not because they are Arabs per se, it's because they are Islamists.  And Islam is not compatible with any civilization.

The news is still breaking, but a gunman killed several people in an attack on Pearl Harbor naval base a few days ago, and yesterday yet another gunman killed several people in Pensacola Naval Air station.

The sailor at Pearl Harbor was Gabriel Romero, 22, who was assigned to stand guard on the fast attack submarine USS Columbia.  He shot three civilian contractors with his service rifle, killing two, then shot himself with his service pistol.  Details are still emerging regarding his motives.

The Saudi Arabian terrorist at Pensacola was Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a  second lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force. He opened fire in a aviation classroom building at the Naval Air Station, killing three people. Eleven people were shot all together, including two sheriff’s deputies who were the first to respond, one of whom killed the shooter, according to Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan. One of the deputies was shot in the arm and the other in the knee, and both were expected to recover. 

The ever-so-tolerant United States brand of political correctness must end.  Recognize the Islamist for what he is, whether he's an Arab or Hispanic or whatever.  He's a terrorist, and whether Edward Said thinks so or not, he is to be ostracized, neutralized and eliminated.  

With extreme prejudice. 

Orientialism? Sorry, Mr. Said. You're Wrong

Every year about this time I write about the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, mostly in an effort to remember our history in order to fully understand our present, and ultimately, our future.  At that time the Japan was an empire seeking expansion, and their ambitions were stopped in that pursuit just four years later.  After the war, they got the power, wealth and recognition they were seeking.  But that success came with a heavy price, and required a radical change in the way the Japanese mindset looked at the world.   For the Japanese, and the rest of the Asian world, it worked out for the better.

Another attack on US soil sixty years later has had a completely different outcome and effect.  The enemy in the 11 September 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon was radical Islam. Unlike the Japanese adventurism that only sought control of the entire Pacific, Islam has been at war with the West for fourteen hundred years and still seeks global domination.  And in the Islamic mind, the "West" is white, European, Christian, and non-Muslim. An interesting sidebar here is the choice of the date of the 9/11 attack:  it both was sixty years after the Japanese attacked America on her home soil, and it was the exact date of the defeat of the Ottoman empire at the hands of a coalition of Christian Europeans at Vienna in 1683.

Yet in spite of well over a thousand years of conflict with - and by that I mean attacks upon - the West, Islam tries in vain to redefine itself.  Enter one Edward Said, a self described Palestinian American who sought to reverse the notion that young men from the Arab and Levantine (a rough geographical area including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine) ruling classes should attend British colonial colleges, in order to become the Anglicized post-colonial administrators who would rule their countries after British decolonization.  Since the publication of his seminal work, Orientalism in 1978, wherein he cites these prejudices, much academic discourse has begun to use the term "Orientalism" to refer to a presumed general patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies. In Said's analysis, the West views these societies as static and undeveloped—thereby fabricating a view of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced. Implicit in this fabrication, Said said, is the idea that Western society is developed, rational, flexible, and superior, while the Middle East is not.

Well, okay.  He might be right about that.  Some societies pale in comparison to others. That's a fact that in today's climate of non-judgementalism, one cannot profess less one be labeled as "racist".  Would this be called Occidentalism?  Interesting.  Said, I believe, struggles with his own self-depreciating perception that the West looks down upon the Arabs - especially Muslim Arabs - as being inferior to the West in both thought and deed.  But who doesn't sometimes question one's own belief systems?  But that self awareness aside, the problem is that Said's musings have gained traction in the most unlikely - and most dangerous  - places: the United States military.

Many readers of these pages know that a tradition at my house is to invite foreign military officers who are assigned to the Global War on Terror and stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at my home.  I've had the pleasure of meeting South Korean, Bosnian, Japanese, French and Belgian officers across my dining room table, and have had many in depth conversations with them about this topic, the GWOT, and America's role in that conflict.  This year, however, I hosted a Muslim officer from a North African nation and his family. I want to make it perfectly clear that this officer is a gentleman, and I genuinely like him as a man and as an Arab.  But with the three days of back-and-forth regarding this Islamic dietary requirements, I experienced first hand the misplaced superiority that Muslims have regarding the kafir.  My lovely wife, in order to be the gracious hostess she is, actually made two Thanksgiving dinners - one halal and one traditional.  It was a success, and the evening was full of intellectual engagement and the evening was enjoyed by all.

That cultural annoyance aside, my guest, as part of his officer graduation assignments, had written a paper that essentially echoed Said's Orientalism.  In fact he cites Said numerous times.  He and I discussed this, and we left agreeing to disagree.  But how is this dangerous?  Because this man, along with other Muslim officers whose tour of duty includes advising US strategies in the Middle East, is convinced that the West, as whole, regards the Middle East, its people and cultures as inferior.  That the Muslim world is a victim of Occidental colonization and oppression, and that the West now must make amends.  Odd.  My personal experiences would indicate otherwise.  Worse, the US military brass, always bending over backward to be politically correct, are actually absorbing this nonsense, and are applying it as military policy.  Consider the Vietnam-era policy of "wining hearts and minds" on an order of magnitude, and you'll grasp the impact that Orientalism will continue to have on US foreign policy.  This means that our military is now being advised that the "power" of the "privileged" West needs to be taken down a notch to reach a parity with Islam, which has declared war upon us, and calls for our destruction.

Yet it is they, the Islamists, who consider themselves superior to the West.  And they don't realize that nothing occurs in a vacuum: They use explosives to kill as many people as possible indiscriminately; we use surgical strikes to limit collateral damage.  Yep, we use our technology to limit the KIAs on both sides.  They don't.  But they play the victim card when it becomes apparent they can't match us technologically.  

So as Islam continues its jihad - that's a holy war - on the West, they keep losing.  And the more they lose, the more they play the victim card.  In the political correct world of the upper echelon of military brass, that victim card seems to trump reason and logic, not to mention situational awareness. But down here at the civilian level - and at the grunt level as well, I'm told - the idea of Islamic victimhood is  pure and utter nonsense.  And it is very dangerous.  We already have seen the impact of Islamic cultural jihad in America:  in congress, in schools, and in media and entertainment. And it hasn't been pretty.

So Mr. Said, you're wrong.  We in the West don't consider you Islamists as inferior necessarily. But we do consider you a threat.