A while
back, my friend John Guandolo, a marine combat veteran and former FBI
counterterrorism agent, had an important idea.
The
Obama administration had recently purged the instructional materials used to
train our government’s national security agents – law-enforcement, intelligence
and military – about the threat posed by Muslim jihadists. Under the new
training, the threat would no longer be recognizable…..Instead, it is “violent
extremism,” disconnected from any identifiable belief system – and, the
administration cannot emphasize enough, having absolutely nothing to do with
Islam … something a young agent better understand if he or she harbors any hope
of being promoted up the ranks.
Of
course, our enemies have no hesitation about announcing their intention to
conquer America and the West, or about their conviction that seeking this
conquest is an Islamic obligation imposed by very clear scripture. What’s more,
this interpretation of scripture – Islamic supremacism – is the dynamic,
preponderant Islam of the Middle East. True, only a small percentage of Muslims
make the final, logical leap into terrorist aggression; but a majority of
Middle Eastern Muslims – a substantial majority in
several Islamic countries – construe Islam to require imposition of the
repressive sharia societal system and all it entails. That means
institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims; rampant
anti-Semitism; hostility to individual liberty; disdain for Western culture;
cruel punishments; and endorsement of violence against perceived enemies under
the guise of advancing Islam’s dominions…...Follow
the link in the title to read more….
The Nineties taught us it’s not guilt that matters; it’s
political will.
Well
whaddya know: The topic of impeachment reared its head at a House Judiciary
Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Jonathan
Strong’s report
here at NRO noted the wincing consternation of GOP-leadership aides at
utterances of the “i-word” during the testimony of prominent legal experts. For
the Republican establishment, it seems, history begins and ends in the 1990s:
No matter how times
have perilously changed, any talk of shutdowns or impeachment is bad, bad,
bad. Yes, the Obama “uber-presidency,” as left-of-center law professor Jonathan
Turley called it, has enveloped the nation in what he conceded is “the most
serious constitutional crisis . . . of my lifetime,” but GOP strategists would
just as soon have us chattering about immigration “reform” and bravely
balancing the federal budget by, oh, around 2040……Not only is impeachment the
intended constitutional remedy for systematic presidential lawlessness; it is,
practically speaking, the only remedy.
It is
beyond cavil that the president is willfully undermining the constitutional
system that he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. He presumes to rewrite,
and dramatically alter, the laws he vowed to execute faithfully — not once in a
blue moon but as a deliberate scheme of governance…..Follow the link in the title to read more…..
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