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No surprises here, just the expected announcements: Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet. CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before ...
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, State Department
Here’s a good post by Robert Spencer on the assault on free speech being led by Islamic front groups, delusional leftist government organizations, and the New York Times: Jihad Watch: New York Times isn’t sure that free speech is such a good idea. Previously at LGF: NY Times: Unlike Other, ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Jihad, Islam, Political Correctness, Militant Islam, State Department
What does it take to get the New York Times to publish an op-ed agreeing with the Bush administration? A disturbingly misguided effort to fight a real world problem with fantasy measures and empty words, of course. What Do You Call a Terror(Jihad)ist? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. While the ...
LGF, New York Times, Media Bias, Jihad, Islam, Political Correctness, Militant Islam, State Department
Here’s one of those stories that might make you think you’re having a waking nightmare: State Department’s Jihadist Exchange Program. State Department diplomats are taking full advantage of their new rules prohibiting the use of “jihad,” “jihadist,” and “mujahedeen” to describe Islamic extremists and terrorists, which they apparently have ...
LGF, State Department, Jihad, Lexicon, Political Correctness, DHS, IIIT, International Institute of Islamic Thought
Here’s a good piece by Joseph Myers at American Thinker, on the misguided, fantasy-minded speech code imposed by the State Department and Department of Homeland Security: Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror. Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new ...
LGF, State Department, Jihad, Lexicon, Political Correctness, DHS
What more is there to say at this point except, “Aarrgghhh?” Jihad Watch: New State Department lexicon forbids use of the words ‘jihad’ or ‘jihadist’. A reliable source has informed me that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the ...
LGF, State Department, Jihad, Lexicon, Political Correctness
What could possibly go wrong with this? US to Double Visas for Saudi Students. Al-JOUF, 10 April 2008 — US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis. “Currently there are 15,000 Saudi students in the US,” ...
At their “blog,” the United States State Department is seriously asking the question: Should the U.S. engage Hamas as part of its efforts to bring about peace between the Israelis and Palestinians? Yes, that’s our State Department. The same State Department that lists Hamas as a terrorist organization, and penalizes ...
State Department official Manuel Miranda has harshly criticized the bureaucrats at the US Embassy in Baghdad for undermining the coalition’s efforts in Iraq, through sheer incompetence and inertia; Bill Gertz has more: Bureaucrats in Iraq. “After a year at the embassy, it is my general assessment that the State ...
LGF, Iraq, State Department, Embassy, Foreign Service, Bureaucracy
Frank Gaffney is right on the mark with this piece on Condoleezza Rice’s bizarre push to give a stillborn state to the people who least deserve it in the entire world: Staticidal Zealotry. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is behaving like a zealot. In her ever-more-rash pursuit of a ...
LGF, Palestinians, Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, Statehood, State Department, Condoleezza Rice
It’s no longer a surprise, since we’ve been posting about the US government’s outreach to the global jihad group Muslim Brotherhood (the Ikhwan), but this new report is even more disturbing since it’s clear that high-level decisions have been made that directly contravene previous policy: U.S. engages Muslim Brotherhood despite ...
LGF, Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwan, Subversion, State Department
YID With LID blows the lid off an outrageous State Department program that explicitly excluded Israeli Jews from a business training program for Middle East residents. And when the Foggy Bottom drone-in-charge tried to sanitize the Word document advertising the program, he/she forgot to turn off the “Track Changes” feature. ...
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes will be a speaker this weekend at an event in Dallas sponsored by Mohamed Elibiary. Rod Dreher asks, “If she knew, would she care?” But I do wonder why Hughes is getting mixed up with Elibiary and his organization. Elibiary was one ...
In “private” conversations, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak dared to speak frankly about reality, instead of indulging in loopy pie-in-the-sky fantasies about a quick peace deal with Palestinians—and promptly received a diplomatic slap from the State Department. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Friday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud ...
LGF, Israel, Arabs, Rice, State Department, Ehud Barak, Peace Deal, Land for Peace
Oh yeah. This will work. US wants to train Fatah in West Bank. US State Department officials, looking to shift US Security Coordinator Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton’s work with Palestinian forces to the West Bank, have begun holding discussions with Congressional staff on how to restructure an $86 million funding program ...
LGF, Palestinians, Fatah, PLO, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Terrorism, Funding, State Department
Former UN ambassador John Bolton’s assessment of the Bush administration’s Iran policy: naïve, dangerous, clinging to empty notions of diplomacy. Indeed. “The current approach of the Europeans and the Americans is not just doomed to failure, but dangerous,” he said. “Dealing with [the Iranians] just gives them what they want, ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, US, State Department, Appeasement
The US is inching slowly but surely towards relaxing the boycott against the Hamas government, in a diplomatic version of waterboarding for those of us who believe we should not be appeasing these genocidal monsters one little bit. And the State Department must take us all for complete idiots if ...
LGF, Palestinians, Fatah, Hamas, Terrorism, Funding, State Department
At a time when anti-American sentiment is at record highs, both Democrat and Republican senators are pushing a bill to make it easier to enter the US: Anti-terrorism bill to relax foreigners entry into US. WASHINGTON - The Senate’s anti-terrorism bill would relax visa requirements for foreign travelers coming to ...
At this point, you have to wonder what the Palestinians could possibly do to get people like Condoleezza Rice to stop this delusional talk about a Palestinian state: Rice urges Mideast peace talks. Yes, I understand that Rice is the Secretary of State, and State’s job is to try to ...
Palestinians, Fatah, Hamas, Terrorism, Statehood, Condoleezza Rice, State Department
The State Department has declassified a document that finally admits Yasser Arafat personally ordered the killings of Cleo Noel, the American ambassador to the Sudan, his deputy George Moore, and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid during a 1973 terrorist takeover of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum. (Hat tip: Daniel Freedman.) ...
With everything that’s known about the extremist roots of CAIR and ISNA and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim American Society, why is the US government still participating in sideshows like this? US Govt and American Muslims Engage to Define Islamophobia. There’s a reason why this article gets such a lot of ...
Saudi Arabia, Radical Islam, Islam, CAIR, MAS, ISNA, State Department, Islamophobia
The State Department is finally taking action in the case of official Alberto Fernandez, who called the United States “arrogant” and “stupid” in an interview with Al Jazeera TV, and also said the US was “trying intentionally to encourage hell in the Arab world.” They’re giving Fernandez an award. (Hat ...
State Department official Alberto Fernandez apologized Sunday for saying on Al Jazeera TV that the US had been “stupid” and “arrogant.” But at The Corner, James Robbins found another Al Jazeera interview with Fernandez from September 6 that may be even worse: I think that there are factors providing negative ...
Tonight State Department official Alberto Fernandez apologized for his outrageous statements to Al Jazeera television—but the damage is done: Envoy Sorry for Iraq ‘Stupidity’ Comment. (Hat tip: Ethel.) WASHINGTON Oct 22, 2006 (AP)— A senior U.S. diplomat apologized Sunday night for saying U.S. policy in Iraq displayed “arrogance” and “stupidity.” A day after ...
In which universe is this considered acceptable diplomatic language? Envoy: U.S. showed ‘arrogance’ in Iraq. And on JihadTV, to boot. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown “arrogance” and “stupidity” in Iraq but was now ready to talk with any group except Al-Qaida in ...