WASHINGTON — Sitting beside President Obama this spring, the president of Russia gushed that “these were perhaps the best three years of relations between Russia and the United States over the last decade.” Two and a half months later, those halcyon days of friendship look like a distant memory.
Gone is Dmitri A. Medvedev, the optimistic president who collaborated [now there's a choice word from the Times...see video below] with Mr. Obama and celebrated their partnership in March. In his place is Vladimir V. Putin, the grim former K.G.B. colonel whose return to the Kremlin has ushered in a frostier relationship freighted by an impasse over Syria and complicated by fractious domestic politics in both countries.
The back-and-forth this week over Russian support for Syria’s government as it tries to crush an uprising underscored the limits of Mr. Obama’s ability to “reset” ties with Moscow. He signed an arms control treaty with Mr. Medvedev...Oh yez, Obama must have thought he was really cool back in March, telling Medvedev sotto voce to give a message to Putin: "I can finish off disarming America after I get re-elected... Be cool, trust me, I'll get you what you want!".
Give us a break. Obama and Hillary, (lets not forget that idiot McCain), have been using the Soros-funded, and Robert-(Hamashole-godson of Arafat)-Malley-led "International Crisis Group" to destabilize the entire region since 2008.
It's like 5 idiot children THINKING they are playing a board game while Putin and the muslims are ACTUALLY PLAYING THEM IN A PUPPET SHOW.
Obviously dopehead / "choomer" Obama hasn't read any history of "revolutions" past the 1960's. Islam has been playing this game for 1300+ years and Russia almost for a millennia.
THERE IS NO "RESET".
While the NY Times and their useful idiot readers are all crying that we aren't helping to make the world a better planet for multi-sexual, rainbow-colored, cupcake-pooping unicorns, Russia and Islam (and China) are simply in it to gain as much territorial control and dominance over resources as they can (as they and most world powers have been doing FOR MILLENNIA...)
It's simply a matter of more of their dead bodies vs less of ours, and if our 'leaders" don't see that, they shouldn't be playing.
Remember in November.
Woroud Sawalha knows she won't win a medal at the London Olympics. She isn't likely to get beyond the first round of the 800 meters.
But for the 20-year-old and her three teammates, just competing under the Palestinian flag is a source of pride.
The appearance itself is controversial: the U.N. does not recognize a Palestinian state but athletes have been allowed to compete under a Palestinian flag by the International Olympic Committee and soccer's ruling body FIFA since 1996 and 1998 respectively.Could it be the Olympic organizers are afraid the jihadis will blow them up if they aren't allowed in? Bad enough they won't even honor the 11 Jewish Olympic athletes murdered 40 years ago by Ms. Sawalha's kinsmen in Munich:
...the International Olympic Committee decided again to avoid making a choice that is as politically fraught as it is morally right: [they have refused] To honor the Israeli victims of the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago in the opening ceremonies in London...
...After the 1972 terrorist attack, the Olympics were suspended for a day, and a memorial service was held. The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff, but 10 Arab countries objected and the IOC cowed to their demands and raised the flags.
(Note: this was originally titled "Idiot Leftists "Shocked" Muslim Brotherhood on Verge of Taking Egypt."
We have changed the subject to "Journalists" to reflect a similar level of naivete on the subject in The Telegraph, ostensibly a Tory paper in Britain.
Their headlined article "Muslim Brotherhood heading for surprise victory in first round of Egyptian election" certainly shows The Telegraph to be as uninformed as veteran PBS Leftcaster Charley Rose, who we use as our whipping-boy du jour below).
Fashi’s picture is very recent – yet the passport was issued, according to the snapshot, on 17 November 2003. Fashi’s biographical details tell us that he was 24 when he was hanged. If that is the case, he would have been 15-years-old – a teenager, with a much more boyish face with less facial hair than the picture shows.
For obvious reasons then, the year of birth of the passport holder is concealed as well.
Fashi might have been executed after all. But the attempt to turn him into a Mossad agent and gun-for-hire rests clearly on an orchestrated attempt by the regime to scapegoat someone who is innocent.But now, reminiscent of the infamous Pajama Patrol rebuke of Dan Rather, one of the commenters at the bottom of the article points out that the Iranian-released photo is actually a Wikipedia example photo, with Fashi's head photoshopped in.
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| On left, the photo of the "passport" of alleged Israeli spy Fashi. On right, the Wiki example of an actual Israeli passport page.
Looking closely at the full pictures side-by-side, you can clearly see that the passport issue and expiration dates, city of residence, etc are all the same.
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Earlier this week Obama administration officials were caught red-handed adding policy facts about their boss into almost every single official presidential biography (since Calvin Coolidge) listed on the White House website. As a result, the Karl Rove-backed Super PAC American Crossroads released a web ad Friday hammering the administration for using such contemptible tactics to promote their economic and legislative agenda. While officials claim the subtle maneuver was “common practice” and “innocuous,” the Super PAC is using the occasion to mock President Obama and shed light on his failed record.The last time we read about political "leaders" re-writing history in such a blatant manner, wasn't it Stalin and Mao?
"...Anyone who believes that Iran is not yet actively pursuing a nuclear-weapons program and merely developing the capabilities is committing an act of willful delusion."Welcome to reality, Mr. Cordesman. Oh wait, you still need to blame Israel:
"It also illustrates the need for incentives strong enough to motivate Iran to give up its nuclear efforts in spite of its broader strategic and military needs."Can anyone guess what the only non-military incentive for Iran might be?
"In the case of preventive strikes, it means recognizing that even a major first round of strikes is unlikely to have a lasting effect and might well push Iran into a far larger nuclear effort unless Iran realizes that any such effort would result in follow-on attacks."
"Not only is this an outrageous violation of one denomination's religious freedom, but it's quite frightening to those of us of other religious denominations," said Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University.
If everybody knows that Iran poses an imminent existential threat to the world, why is no one stopping them?
What would a nuclear armed Iran mean for America, Israel, and the world?
Should Israel wait for the possibility that the international community will come to our defense or should we take our fate into our own hands and take action now?
