Sipsey Street Irregulars: "From Ukraine, through Afghanistan and Iraq all the way to the East China Sea, the world's dictatorships and terror groups smell weakness in Washington. They have adjusted their posture accordingly."

Friday, June 13, 2014

"From Ukraine, through Afghanistan and Iraq all the way to the East China Sea, the world's dictatorships and terror groups smell weakness in Washington. They have adjusted their posture accordingly."

Welcome to Obama's world. "Above all else, leadership is about being there, having your hand firmly on the rudder and letting everyone know what you stand for and what you won't stand for. Sound like Barack Obama? Nope/"

I don't have a lot of time for analysis this morning since I'm dead beat from yesterday's lightning trip to Mississippi and back again on family business, and have to get on a plane to Massachusetts soon (and have to write a speech before I do) but I'd like to make a prediction on Iraq. The current crop of medieval death cult worshipers moving on Baghdad will be defeated, in the end, crushed in the vise of an Iranian intervention (which we will assist with air power if we do anything -- isn't that a jarring prospect?) and the Kurds falling on their rear. The Kurds are already securing Kirkuk and other traditionally Kurdish areas, moving in and picking up abandoned bases and weapons left behind by the hapless, hopeless Shiites of the Al Maliki government army (who are reported to be wearing civilian clothes beneath their uniforms even on the streets of the capitol now). The Kurds will make use of this opportunity to secure their independence and they will likely succeed, since they understand the threat posed to them by a new Caliphate. (Of course, with the Caliphate forces defeated, the Iranians will turn on them, but that is another future chapter of the Woodrow Wilson-inspired modern tragedy of the Kurds). If the Israelis don't assist the Kurds in this they will fritter away a huge opportunity. This also has, strangely, made possible a tactical alliance between the Kurds and their traditional enemies the Turks and the third part of the nutcracker could well be a Turkish intervention, with the assistance of the Kurds, to free their embassy people in Mosul.

Ironically, if the new Caliphate forces are defeated, it will largely be due to the most despised and military resource starved Kurds (deliberately by the US) who will pull Obama's hairless chestnuts out of the fire.

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Anonymous said...: Dont forget that the Turks hate the Kurds and would love to set up their own version of the Caliphate under the former Ottoman rule. For as much as I would love to see Barry fall on his face again for the sake of "I told you so's", I would much rather see a free and autonomous Kurdistan. Sure hope they make it.; June 13, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Dinesh Desouza in his film, 2016 Obama's America, foretold much of what we are witnessing.

Sadly, few Americans would take heed.
I expect that the economy will tank before he leave office and that will precipitate utter chaos, perhaps an attempt at martial law and then, a "savoir' will rise from the rubble to assert he will 'make the trains run on time".

History repeats.; June 13, 2014 at 11:46 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, June 13, 2014

"From Ukraine, through Afghanistan and Iraq all the way to the East China Sea, the world's dictatorships and terror groups smell weakness in Washington. They have adjusted their posture accordingly."

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