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Everyone should have seen this plot twist coming.
Right now, liberals want me to release classified photos, conservatives deny that torture is illegal, and people that I work with may be involved in both. Home grown terrorists tried to blow up two synagogues and three U.S. soldiers were killed alongside 63 Iraqis.
My name is Barack Obama, and today is the longest day of my life. The following takes place between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on the day of my national security speech—events are in real time...
10:04:39
As the FBI hauls in a clique accused of plotting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx, this could turn out to be the day that the Nation of Islam, generally regarded as more militant and anti-Jewish, turns the public relations tables on Sunni orthodox black Muslims:
Final Calls and bean pies?—hell yes. Bomb plots and stinger missiles?—not so much.
Showtime had this whole caper called back in 2005 when they portrayed Darwyn Al-Sayeed (Michael Ealy)—a black Muslim FBI agent infiltrating an American terror cell—a sort of Spook Who Sat By The Door of the masjid.
If the allegations prove true, a few Joes from upstate New York will have singlehandedly put law abiding Muslim Americans on the spot, turned back the clock on black-Jewish rapprochement, and revived every Barack “Hussein” Obama conspiracy theory there is.
10:12:27
Can’t visualize James Madison counterprogramming a leaflet from Aaron “I Shot Ya!” Burr? Maybe not. But if Dick “I also shot ya” Cheney goes nationwide, so must Obama.
Addressing the media at the National Archives Thursday, Obama pre-rebutted Cheney by clarifying his positions on torture (“so-called enhanced interrogation techniques...undermine the rule of law”), closing Guantánamo (“our goal is to construct a legitimate framework for Guantánamo detainees—not to avoid one”), and underscoring that these issues accrued under his predecessors: “We are cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess.”
10:48:46
Down the road at the American Enterprise Institute, Cheney restated his case on torture: that “every method used was in full compliance with the Constitution, statutes, and treaty obligations.” Then he rebuffed “charges of ‘hubris.’”
He took Obama to task for announcing the closing of Guantánamo with “no plan,” although Guantánamo pretty much exists because Cheney’s own administration had “no plan” to legally deal with terror suspects that they’d rounded up.
And Cheney derided Obama for using “euphemisms,” to talk about the war on terror while referring to illegal torture as “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Supreme Court, Part 17, Thursday, May 21, 10:51:06 AM
Uh, wrong show...
10:51:08
The left sees an Obama betrayal—that foregoing prosecutions and release of torture photos reflects a desire to “hide the evidence”—even though the president, while eschewing prosecution, acknowledges that evidence exists of illegal acts that took place, and clearly affirmed an anti-torture policy going forward.
If this were really an episode of 24, and the president was Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland)—liberal bloggers would be the bureaucrats of “CTU.” In 2008, they blithely opted to read then-candidate Obama as a dovish parliamentarian with a silky jump shot. But “As careful getting out as we were careless getting in” wasn’t just a feel-good line about Iraq—turns out, it was a mission statement.
10:54:19
And the left’s parochialism is matched by the right’s condescension—interpreting Obama’s terror policy as a once-naïve president “growing in office” once confronted with the realities of governing, though there’s never been anything other than conservative campaign rhetoric to suggest he would have done anything other than what he’s doing.
Rather, Obama’s program—according to the account of Harvard Law’s Jack Goldsmith, who writes an exhaustive review for The New Republic—is “a prudent attempt to legitimate and thus strengthen the extraordinary powers that the president must exercise in the long war against Islamist terrorists.” In short, by any legal means necessary...
10:58:30
Paradoxically, Obama’s middle course in the war on terror is akin to George H. W. Bush’s once ridiculed and now respected circumspect prosecution of the Gulf War.
But the foiled New York terror plot brings the Cheney strategy into relief. Banking on an attack on American soil sometime, somewhere that will bring his narrative to life, all he has to do is plant a seed in the public mind, then harvest a bloody “I told you so” later on.
At least Cheney stands for something. The Congressional Democrats who caved to Cheney on Iraq just gave Obama the middle finger on Guantánamo’s decommissioning.
If this were a kung fu flick, Obama’s decision to hang in with George W.’s neglected war in Afghanistan, his robust Middle East diplomacy, and his “mend, don’t end” terror policy might be called something like “Curse of the Half-Clenched Beige Fist.”
Now let’s hope he doesn’t run out of time.
10:59:56...10:59:57...10:59:58...10:59:59...
David Swerdlick is a regular contributor to The Root.
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Actually Mr. Connor, the only funny one around here is you. Why? Because you didn't know that Kellogg, Brown and Root ( KBR ), up until April 5, 2007, was a subsidiary of Halliburton. And what does KBR do? Right! They build oil refineries, oil wells, oil pipelines. Well, what do you know. As I said, you're the funny one, not me.
As to my knowledge of history being "a bit stinky", yours discharges a rather pungent and malodorous air as well. I will reiterate and remain standing on my statement that Muslim women enjoyed more rights under the Sharia than they do under a Sharia that has been tainted by common law that was brought to the Muslim world by European neocolonialism. Here is my source:
http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sharia#english_common_law
( Please scroll down to "Women's Rights".
As I said, Common Law reduced a Muslim woman to a non-entity, an object with no legal standing apart from her husband. And a mere object is easier to abuse than a human being. I will keep standing on my comment until you, or someone else, can show me something to the contrary that has been gathered in accordance with research principles that have been established by the scholarly and academic community. Want some more? Here it goes.
As Islam spread into areas that were once Roman, the Sharia became influenced by Roman-Byzantine legal ideas. As a result, two lines of thought developed: 1) The only source, outside of the Koran, for the interpretation of the Sharia was the teachings of Muhammad. 2) Outside of the Koran, Islamic legal scholars were free to use their own reasoning to interpret the Sharia. And as I've said, those Islamic scholars can be swayed by outside influences such as Common Law.
Source:
http://standinguptojihad.com/content/view/41/33
The European law that was brought to the Muslim world by European neocolonialism was based on Roman law. Example: A Roman wife had to agree with her husband or risk being physically abused. The only legal recourse she had was to appeal to her family and/or her husband's family. Other than that, her husband was free to swing away.
Source:
Shelton, Jo-Ann. AS THE ROMANS DID: A SOURCEBOOK IN ROMAN SOCIAL HISTORY.
Oxford University Press. 1988. New York, New York.
As I've said, with that kind of mentality being brought to the Islamic world, it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody with a discerning mind how and why the Sharia became weak as a defender of Muslim women's rights.
My drawers are still fresh, but thanks for thinking about me! Your knowledge of history however, is a bit stinky. Muslim women were liberated until the British and French warped Islam toward mysogyny? Hilarious! The next thing you'll be telling me that Muhammad's youngest wife Aisha wasn't a pre-teen when the marriage was consummated.
The SC basically ruled that the wretches at Gitmo had the right to a trial/tribunal, not the 8th Amendment rights you and I possess. We were well within the bounds of the law when we poured water on their faces until they yelled - (accent) "Brookleen Breedge mai friend!".
This Halliburton stuff...you must listen to The Power radio. Let me explain the company to you in the form of a standardized test question: Microsoft is to software as Halliburton is to _________? Answer - oil & natural gas field management. Conspiracy theories about Halliburton in Iraq are like conspiracy theories about Hostess cakes always being eye level in the baked goods aisle...it just doesn't add up!
I don't know what's more funny - the things that you are writing, or the fact that you actually believe the things that you are writing.
Well my friend, it's been real
Peace
Mr. Connor, I understand you perfectly. So please don't drop your load in your underwear over that. I just don't happen to agree with you as much as you don't agree with me.
As far as " homicidal nuts captured on the battlefield " goes, your SCOTUS, last June, determined that they are entitled to legal rights. That matter is now out of your hands ( and mine ) so don't drop your load in your underwear over that one too. Now from here on out, things start to get interesting. Here's what I mean.
It's funny that you bring up the Sharia and a " Muslim, slappin' around wifey..." The Sharia is a compilation of 3 basic sources: the Koran, the teachings of Muhammad, and the rulings of Islamic scholars. Under the Sharia, Muslim women had various rights; her property couldn't be seized without due process, for example. But let me return to the last element comprising the Sharia, " the rulings of Islamic scholars".
It is unfortunate that the rulings of Islamic scholars can be tainted and influenced by outside sources. Let me elaborate... before you drop your load in your underwear.
Roughly beginning during the late 19th century and ending in the early 20th, we have the age of Neocolonialism; it was a time when the European powers attempted to colonize various regions of the world. When they came to the Islamic world, they immediately began the imposition of western common and civil law on the peoples they encountered. And as we all know, under western Judeo/Christian common and civil law, a woman has no rights independent of those of her husband. In effect, that makes her another piece of her husband's property. Now, back to those Islamic scholars. Their rulings on the Sharia now became infected with the western idea that a woman is only an object, she has no self worth, she has no dignity and therefore is easy to abuse.
As far as America being " nicer and more understanding", I don't see how that would harm anybody except those who are making big-time money off of these wars. Mr. Connor, can you say Halliburton? Say it again... Halliburton. Now say it with me... Halliburton.
No problem man, it's a blog not a senior thesis.
Thug my friend, leave your Great Philosophers course out of this and focus like a laser beam... The fact that a certain technique was not necessary (or utilized) in one instance, does not render it useless in all cases. Sis never had to be punished to do her homework - I often did for Dad to get the same result from me - understand now? By the by, the recent homicidal nuts in NYC were American citizens caught by the FBI. KSM and Abu Z were foreign homicidal nuts captured on the battlefield and not deserving of all of the rights and privileges that they would replace with Sharia if given the chance.
What other nonsense did you pop off about...Oh yeah - That child-like liberal belief (shared by the POTUS) that if America were only nicer and more understanding....The Joey Jihads would stop detonating themselves in pizza parlours filled with teenagers and embrace American respect for life and liberty (scene - birds chirp, a barefoot toddler runs through a meadow...) Alas, the military, clandestine (memo to Obama) services, and all other Americans unashamed of their exceptional place in the world must deal with the world as it is. Fret not - the grown-ups will keep you guys safe, so you can go on playing pretend...Cookies and milk anybody?
P.S. - To a Muslim, slappin' around wifey is O.K. as long as you don't draw blood. Sure you want to inject Islamic moral sensibilities into American policy decisions?
Oops. Only one typo this time; I'm getting better. LOL. It's President Obama, not " Persident Obama". Sorry 'bout that.