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December 02, 2008

he Rabbi and the Terrorists

By Dennis Prager

Full article Dennis Prager RCP

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It was obvious to observers around the world that one of the designated targets of the Pakistani Islamist terrorists was the Mumbai Chabad House, the one Jewish center in Mumbai. The 10 Islamic terrorists who came from Pakistan to India chose their targets with great care.

If one assumes that the terrorists' primary goals were to destabilize India, weaken growing Indian-Pakistani cooperation in fighting terrorism, and greatly increase Indian-Pakistani tension, hopefully to the point of military war between the two countries, every one of the targets made strategic sense. Slaughtering as many people as possible in India's major economic center, including as many foreign tourists as possible at Mumbai's finest hotels, also made sense.

But one target seemed to make little sense. In fact, until the attack was over people were uncertain whether the terrorists' attack on the Jewish center known as the Chabad House was part of the original plan or chosen spontaneously. Only when the lone terrorist who was captured told his interrogators that the Chabad House was planned a year earlier was it indisputable that killing the Rabbi, his wife, their children and any other Jews present was part of the plan.

By Mona Charen

Friday, December 7, 2007

Mona Charen writes for JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

This article appeared in Townhall.com

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I still remember where I was when I heard that the student who committed the Virginia Tech massacre had released a press packet including a video, a manifesto and photos of himself holding various weapons.

I was just leaving a TV studio (having spoken about something else).

Bursting with anger, I asked one of the producers if I could use his computer and posted on the web an urgent plea to NBC News (the organization that had first received the packet): "Don't publish it!"

They did, of course. And so did every other news outlet.

The killer's picture, his disordered thoughts and his resentments were aired for days and weeks.

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Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people on Monday at Virginia Tech University after opening fire on students and staff in an apparently premeditated massacre on Monday morning, leaving the sprawling rural campus reeling with grief and shock.

The same dangerous pattern has been repeated again and again. The disturbed man who took hostages at Sen. Clinton's headquarters in New Hampshire told loved ones to "watch the news tonight."

The shooter who terrorized an Omaha shopping mall by mowing down total strangers has achieved his goal (and I will not add to the problem by publishing his name).

He left a suicide note in which he predicted "at least now I'll be famous." His picture is featured in every newspaper and is flashed on television hourly. His miseries are being dissected and analyzed.

An unhappy and rejected young man is finally getting, posthumously, the attention he clearly sought but could not secure in life. And other disturbed people are watching and taking note.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Too close to kooky

By Mona Charen

Mona Charen writes for JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

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Referring To Candidate Ron Paul

1. Ron Paul is inconsistent. Though he calls himself a man of principle and is apparently admired as such by his ardent fans, his principles seem somewhat elastic.

He rails against the Bush administration for its supposed assault on civil liberties, yet when he was asked at one of the debates whether Scooter Libby deserved a pardon, he said no.

"He doesn't deserve one because he was instrumental in leading the Congress and the people to support a war that we didn't need to be in."

Notice that he didn't say it was because Libby was guilty of committing a crime.

No, because Libby argued for a policy with which Paul disagreed, he deserved to serve time in prison. Ron Paul, the libertarian, who presumably values liberty above all, is willing to deprive someone else of his because of a policy disagreement?

Let's recap. Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons against China. It was the Eisenhower administration that had a hand in toppling Iran's Mohammad Mossedegh (an intervention that Paul has elsewhere cited as causing the U.S. grief 25 years later when the Islamists took power).

Eisenhower also intervened in Guatemala, Cuba (planning for the Bay of Pigs began during his tenure) and Lebanon.

Junior Scholastic: PC Indoctrination for the Middle School SetBy Mona Charen

Here are some excerpts from Mona Charen's article.

He [Mona's son] was to read an article about Iran in Junior Scholastic magazine and answer questions about it.

The piece begins by introducing Mohammad Reza Moqaddam, a 15-year-old resident of Qom, who "speaks quietly and respectfully" and prays five times a day.

The article (written by Roxana Saberi, a reporter for National Public Radio) explains that Iran has been "at odds" with America since the revolution of 1979, which forced out the "U.S.-backed Shah" and brought to power a government "based on strict Islamic principles."

But she doesn't mention that Ayatollah Khomeini and his mobs denounced the United States as the "great Satan" and chanted "Death to America."

She also doesn't mention The hostage crisis, in which armed militants, possibly including the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, held 52 American diplomats for 444 days, goes unmentioned until a glancing reference at the end of the article under Iranian history.

The article continues to paint a picture of the peacefulness and fairness of Iran and suddenly suggest the War in Iraq has made Iran appear less peaceful than it would otherwise be.

This brainwashing is a true danger to America

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To Mona Charen

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Early on, Ms. Charen describes “Prominent liberals who served in the Clinton administration….such as Madeline Albright, Sidney Blumenthal, and Strobe Talbot…all of whom turned a blind eye to the Soviet “Evil Empire” but now want to be counted as cold warriors.”

“Media Figures who clucked with praise for Communists and smirked with snide disdain for America…including Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric”.

You will be shocked at statement after statement putting Communism up and America down.

Below, find many such statements from USEFUL IDIOTS.

See how early on, there was the disappointment on the Left when Communism fell.

Robert Heilbroner a liberal academic whose economics book was required reading on many college campuses lamented that: “the collapse of the Soviet system, hailed as a victory for human freedom, was also a defeat for human aspirations.”

Can you iimagine, suggesting that aspirations under Communism, were talked of in such lofty terms, by someone teaching in a university in America?

Frances Fitzgerald, author of WAY OUT THERE IN THE BLUE and FIRE IN THE LAKE gave the liberal view: “I don’t know any American Soviet scholar who believes that the United States ended the cold war".

Strobe Talbot Deputy Secretary of State under Bill Clinton made the following statement before joining the Clintion team.

"A new consensus is emerging that the Soviet threat is not what it used to be. The real point, however, is that it never was. The doves in the great debate of the last forty years were right all along."

Could anyone have been more wrong? This was actually our Deputy Secretary of State. Part of the Clinton-Gore team.

Isn't it scary to think of Al Gore, had he been elected, as our leader since 9-11?

Then there's the sick reality that liberals shifted, after Communism collapsed and tried to take credit for the cold war victory.

Clinton during his 1997 State of the Union Address: "One of the greatest sources of our strength during the Cold War was a bipartisan foreign policy".

Soon after President Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" in his now famous speech, Henry Steele Commager a well known liberal intellectual said: "the worst presidential speech in history, and I've read them all. No other presidential speech has so flagrantly allied the government with religion. It was a gross appeal to religious prejudice."

Strobe Talbot, that great hawk, a second quote "When a chief of state talks that way he roils Soviet insecurites."

Today the Left has used the tough battle we face in Iraq for partisan political advantage.

Never offering any specifics as to how to win the larger war on terror or improve the situation in Iraq, the left seems incapable of backing American ideals, and realizing that there is no country like America.

Recently the Democratic Party has turned its back on a man they backed for Vice-President in 2000, Senator Joe Lieberman.

Then as now, outright loyalty to America seems like something the Left is just not capable of.

Today it might be leaders from al-Queda or Hezbollah, maybe Ahmadinejad himself who smiles and winks and thanks Allah forUseful Idiots.

Stay tuned for many more examples of Useful Idiots.