Obama losing war support Americans are losing confidence in the ability to win in Afghanistan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—With the deadliest month in Afghanistan on record, more Americans are expressing concern the United States and its allies cannot win the war. USA Today reports:

“Support for Obama's management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001.”

Its no wonder the administration is losing support for the war with tiring allies, a corrupt Afghan leader and government, decreasing support from natives, and pressure from foreign agitators. The slide in approval of Obama’s handling of the war coincides with his domestic approval as recorded in the USA Today/Gallup poll:

“Only 41% of those surveyed Tuesday through Sunday approved of the way Obama is handling his job, his lowest rating in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll since he took office in January 2009. In Gallup's separate daily tracking poll, his approval was at 45% Monday.”

Pressure is mounting from the left of the president’s party to exit the war and focus on domestic issues— conceding defeat regardless of its consequences.

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Afghanistan records deadliest month Civilian deaths on the rise as the conflict drags on

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP)—A minibus full of civilians struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, and Afghan officials said six of those on board were killed.

Also Sunday, the last troops from the 1,600-member military contingent began to leave the country, marking an end to the Netherlands' four-year mission in the central province of Uruzgan. They will be replaced by American, Australian, Slovak and Singaporean forces.

German Army Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, a NATO spokesman, told reporters Sunday in Kabul that the Dutch pullout did not show a weakening of the international coalition.

"The overall force posture of (NATO) and of the Afghan security forces is increasing," Gen. Blotz said. However, the increase in NATO troops comes primarily from a surge of U.S. forces, who recently have taken over control of key areas in Helmand and Kandahar from British and Canadian forces.

Sunday's blast in Kandahar hit a bus in the Maiwand district outside Kandahar city, according to provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayubi.

A NATO patrol arrived soon after the explosion and treated the wounded at the scene, the coalition command said.

U.S. and NATO forces are stepping up operations against the Taliban in Kandahar and nearby Helmand province. July was the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly 9-year war, with 66 troops killed. Overall NATO deaths were highest in June, with 103 troops killed.

A NATO service member died Sunday after an insurgent attack in south, the coalition said in a statement. It did not provide further details.

The escalation in military operations also threatens more civilian casualties, potentially undermining support for the U.S.-led mission among Afghans as well as the public in troop-contributing nations.

At least 270 civilians were killed in the fighting in July, and nearly 600 wounded, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said.

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White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber The administration shows deference to convicted terrorist

WASHINGTON, DC—Documents obtained by The Australian purportedly show proof the Obama Administration backed the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi; preferring him not to suffer in a Libyan prison.  

The piece reads in part:

“Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were ‘surprised, disappointed and angry’ to learn of Megrahi's release.”

You might recall the reason given for the release of the terrorist that killed 270 people in 1988 was he only had weeks, perhaps days to live before cancer would take his life—nearly a year ago. It has since been learned the prognosis was heavily biased toward the murderous thug, but hey, why shouldn’t he enjoy the last of his golden years. It’s not if he’s an unwanted fetus.

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White House: Al Qaeda is racist and intolerant Apparently, a terrorist organization is only despicable when it discriminates

WASHINGTON, DC—The White House is condemning the terrorist acts committed in the recent Unganda bombings as acts of racism because blacks are unfairly treated by the hate groups. No, this isn’t a satirical piece copied from The Onion and we wish is was.

According to one White House official the reasoning that led the administration to this shocking conclusion was the inequality of blacks to Arabs:

"Additionally, U.S. intelligence has indicated that al Qaeda leadership specifically targets and recruits black Africans to become suicide bombers because they believe that poor economic and social conditions make them more susceptible to recruitment than Arabs. Al Qaeda recruits have said that al Qaeda is racist against black members from West Africa because they are only used in lower level operations."

We fully expect sensitivity experts and affirmative action advocates to be dispatched to the Middle East and West Africa to right this insidious wrong. Never mind the fact that these groups are massacring innocent civilians and butchering young children, the real problem is the racial discrimination practiced by the likes of Al Qaeda and company:

"Al Qaeda is a racist organization that treats black Africans like cannon fodder and does not value human life."

It can only be assumed the administration could not derive the fact that Al Qaeda is intolerant of any group or person that does not embrace radical Islam absent treating minorities differently in their own ranks.

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Does NASA now stand for the National Arab Schmoozing Administration? The administration uses NASA for a far out mission

WASHINGTON, DC—If you’ve missed the latest far-out agenda item coming out of the Obama administration, you’re in for a dozy. The new NASA Director has been given the charge of using the space agency for “Muslim outreach”—apparently, reaching the moon is so yesterday, that we are now daring to go where no space program has gone boldly before—not to Mars, but to the Middle East.

New NASA Director Charles Bolden in an interview with Al Jazeera:

"When I became the NASA administrator—or before I became the NASA administrator—[Obama] charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering."

That mission statement brought swift criticism from NASA’s former director, Michael Griffin:

"NASA represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity."

Funny Mr. Griffin holds a now antiquated view of the space administration actually going about the business of space exploration—apparently he doesn’t appreciate such mundane tasks the State Department is supposed to engage in. It makes you wonder what could possibly be next.

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Congressman to townhall, “The borders are quite secure.” Pete Stark scoffs, mocks, and lies about the US’s border security

FREEMONT, CA— "Who are you going to kill today?" Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) openly mocked a town-hall attendee who identified himself as part of the Minute Men project. The infamously outspoken democrat in the past has said President Bush sent troops into an illegal war, “to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement.”

Among other sarcastic remarks, when asked about the influx of illegals coming over the border, Stark replied, "If you knew anything about our borders, you would know that's not the case. Our borders are quite secure, thank you."

"I would send about, about 25,000 troops for one thing and build a wall down so vehicles could not pass," the Minuteman said.

"How high and long would it be?" Stark asked.

"As high and as long as it takes," the Minuteman said, eliciting applause.

"But I've got to know how high the wall is and I'll sell a whole lot of ladders for people who want to come," Stark replied in defiance.

Mr. Stark is no doubt in what he believes to be a safe district, but the border issue—in poll after poll—cuts across ideological and party lines. Stark has been in congress since 1973 and proves the usefulness for term limits.

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Obama’s win for losing strategy? What the president might be trying to accomplish

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—Accepting General Stanley McChrystal's resignation was the right thing for the president to do, technically speaking. But looking past his tepid comment (the explosive comments came from the general's aides) and putting the mission before the man may have been a mistake of historical proportions—as McChrystal was had-picked for his expertise—this is not to say Petraeus isn't up to the challenge, but if he must abide by the same politically correct ROE's, including a hard withdrawal date, failure could be imminent. 

Petraeus is certainly competent and his successful Iraq surge strategy amidst a deteriorating situation on the ground coupled with being told by a senate panel they weren't prepared to believe a single word of his report shows his fortitude as well as stern dedication. Yet with current conditions, including a civilian command with a misguided strategy and an enemy embolden redeployment date could undermine the good general's military mission. 

But there is another consideration here, a larger question about the hard withdrawal date and its consequences—it is possible Mr. Obama is committing to it simply to sabotage the mission and marginalize the military? Think of it this way, if we pull out and utter chaos erupts like in Vietnam, would Obama’s predecessor if he isn’t reelected in 2012 really redeploy troops to an already failed conflict theater? Besides, Obama has perfect scapegoats, the notoriously crooked Hamid Karzai and George Bush, who took us into war in the first place against a country the left says didn’t have anything to do with 9/11.

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Obama’s ratings fall in Muslim countries Since his 2009 Cairo speech, the president’s policy approvals are down

   

MIDDLE EAST—Candidate Barack Obama promised to restore America’s standing in the world, and newly elected President Obama went on a world apology trip straight away but less than 18 months into his administration; the Muslim world is losing faith in the Appeaser-in-Chief.

According to a Pew survey, the Global Attitudes Project, Mr. Obama is more popular overseas than he is in the country in which he holds office, that is, by countries that embrace socialism and aren’t Muslim. Pakistani’s opinion of Mr. Obama have dropped five points since his 2009 Cairo speech from 13 percent to 8 percent, only 33 percent of Egyptians, 26 percent of Jordanians and 23 percent of Turks approve of America’s foreign policy direction under Obama.

If one recalls, the president stated in an address, “There has times when America has shown arrogance in the world” and he pledged to make inroads with hostile nations, particularly in the Middle East by shutting down the recruitment tool known as Guantanamo Bay, yanks the troops out of Iraq, and wrap up the war in Afghanistan. Yet GITMO remains open to this day and well into the foreseeable future, troops are to remain in Iraq for months and years to come, and he actually committed more troops to Afghanistan in a surge.

As the rest of the world is beginning to figure out what at least half the country knew over 18 months ago, Obama isn’t the one they’ve been waiting for. 

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Israel given air space over Saudi Arabia to attack Iran In the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA—According to a US defense source in the Middle East, “The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way. They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”

The Israelis would target four chief nuclear sites: Natanz and Qom, which house uranium enrichment facilities, Isfahan’s gas storage development, and Arak’s heavy water reactor which all lie up to 2,250 kilometers or 1,400 miles away. The open skies above Saudi Arabia would significantly shorten the distance, perhaps enough to spare the Israeli jets an in-flight refueling.

Saudi Arabia, a fair-weather friend of the United States maintains an unstable relationship with Iran’s theocracy and share Israel’s position that a nuclear capable Iran would mean a rouge state with the most powerful of weapons could launch unprovoked or pre-emptive attacks to further destabilize the region or to embark on an imperial march.

Tensions between Iran and Israel are ever present in the area and neighboring countries fear the worst if Israel is attacked—because they believe it is them that could be next.

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The American left, anti-Semitic or just useful idiots? Once again the American left sympathizes with terrorist backed organizations

GAZA STRIP—“This was no love boat; it was a hate boat,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said about the so-called aid flotilla that was border by Israeli Defense Forces for suspected weapons smuggling. We’d prefer this publication not get involved with the political minutiae that has plagued Israel since it became a sovereign nation in May of 1948. Islamists despise Jews, this we know, the two religions have long been conflicted and there isn’t a week that goes by that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn’t call for Israel’s destruction—yet Israel has never called for the destruction of Iran.

What is curious to us is the knee-jerk reaction liberal Americans and even Europeans have to any show of force by the tiny nation state. Particularly here in the United States, protests against Israel form like clockwork every time Israel defends itself. When asked why they oppose Israel’s reaction the most common reason is a mélange of talking points that consists of Israel possessing tanks, air and sea warships, and nuclear weapons while the poor, defenseless Palestinians have only rocks and small arms. But despite their military handicap, enemies of Israel manage to detonate bombs in markets on a regular basis.

It seems the American left are more in favor of Israel being disassembled by belligerents which would translate into anti Semitism. But they do not seem to hate the Jewish people and so, an anti Semitic label can’t be conferred. So there is only one label left for the American left and that is they are useful idiots and the terrorists know it—that’s why the armed flotilla set float. 

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Administration advisor says Jihad is a “legitimate tenant of Islam” Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor proclaims the United States is not at war with terrorism

WASINGTON, DC—John Brennan, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security said in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies…

“…The president’s strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is not terror because terror is a state of mind and, as Americans; we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or [sic] one’s community.

And there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children. Indeed, characterizing our adversaries this way would actually be counterproductive. It would play into the false perception that they are religious leaders defending a holy cause when in fact, they are nothing more than murderers, including the murder of thousands upon thousands of Muslims.” 

Clearly, there is a substantial disconnect between the American people and the administration on a number of issues: health care reform, immigration, and fiscal policy. But these issues do not have constituents that strap explosives to their children or themselves and run into a crowded market place or drive an SUV packed with explosives into Times Square. We wish to give Mr. Brennan a small bit of advice, if it walks like a duck—well, you know.

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Grim milestone reached in Afghanistan US troop deaths reach 1,000 since the war began in 2001

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—The United States incurred 1,000 US troop deaths when a suicide car bomber rammed into a NATO convey. Commander of U.S. and NATO forces, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said about the Afghan war, “nobody is winning” in a Newshour interview on PBS.

In a nutshell, the war is in a stalemate, as the Taliban has been regaining ground since the end of 2008 and counterinsurgency groups have risen with it. More perturbing is Hamid Karzai’s corruption and until just recently, no pressure has been brought to bear by the administration—that has begun to change since the two failed terror bombings in the US—and of course, its poppy production continues.

Afghanistan is a sorted affair, there is no real functioning government, only a post-warlord ruled geography with an uneducated, unskilled, and poverty stricken population that is subject to the whims of the Taliban seesaw—a population that does not seek to be liberated because history has taught them nothing else.

And therein lays the fundamental problem as General McChrystal sees it, “Our success is very dependent upon the [Afghan] people believing in the future. What they have to believe is that the government we are working towards is better than what an alternative would be."

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Where oh where has our little Pakistani Taliban gone? We’ve haven’t seen Faisal Shahzad since his arrest, but the administration has changed its public stance

NYC, NY—Oh where can Faisal Shahzad be? In a Wall Street Journal OpEd, authors Dana Perino and Bill Burck ask that same question. Conspicuous by its absences are any court appearances by the Pakistani Taliban.

On May 9^th, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "We need to give serious consideration to at least modifying the public safety exception [to Miranda]" and grant law enforcement officials "necessary flexibility". Is this an admission that Mirandizing the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in less than an hour was a mistake?

It well may be, but the fact that Mr. Shahzad has not been in a courthouse seems to indicate that his cooperation is leading to more arrests and possibly to disrupting other terror plots. Moreover, it appears the administration's new vigor for terror prosecution means what they’ve come to learn cannot be ignored and therefore, quick and decisive action must be taken.

There have already been a number of detainments and arrests in relation to Shahzad’s attempted Times Square bombing, not to mention a realigned military commitment to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps the divorce of campaign rhetoric has finally come to fruition in an administration that thought words and appeasement would be enough to fight terrorism.

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Terrorism in a post-terrorism administration meets Faisal Shahzad The War on Terror by any other name continues

NYC, NY—Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani born naturalized American citizen attempted to bomb NYC’s Times Square on May 3, 2010 using an SUV packed with explosives. The 30 year-old had returned from a trip to Pakistan in February.

The administration is lauding itself for the capture of Mr. Shahzad, but it wasn’t law enforcement or military personnel that made him; a Times Square vendor, Duane Jackson did that when he noticed the driverless Nissan Pathfinder idling.

The motives (according to multiple news copy) of the suspect are still “unknown” but perhaps we here at KP can give them a clue: terrorism.

Regardless of Shahzad’s “motives” his intent was terrorism—pure and simple. The interesting dichotomy is the campaign promises of President Obama to restore America’s standing in the world and to approach international affairs differently from his predecessor. Yet despite the many apologies and hand-wringing the president has done, the US remains a target (see the Christmas Day bomber and the Fort Hood massacre).

Which only goes to prove one simple fact, America is Judeo-Christian nation as endorsed by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and any number of writings by the Founding Fathers. Radical Islam is diametrically opposed to Judaism and Christianity—it does not have a problem with Shintoism or Buddhism or any number of religions—so as long as we remain a Judeo-Christian nation, radical Islamist will hate us.

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The US at war on its southern border While Arizona’s new immigration law sparks debate, the war has been raging for years

PHOENIX, AZ—Rancher Robert Krentz was murdered on his own property March 27^th, his untimely death perhaps the catalyst for a public frothing at the federal government’s porous border issue; Mr. Krentz is not the only American casualty in a war that has been largely ceded.

Border states are the most affected by illegal’s consumption of emergency care and social assistance programs. Many hospitals have scuttled in the wake of rendering unpaid services and public assistance monies have been siphoned off directly away from US citizens.

For those familiar with KP’s format, this section typically addresses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan along with foreign affairs, but this piece is not about foreign affairs or the US relation with Mexico, it is about fighting a war against illegal immigration. And make no mistake about it, illegal immigration has become a war—a war the US (regardless of its White House occupant) simply does not want to fight for fear of alienating Hispanic voting blocks.

But the problem of illegal immigration has reached critical mass, with too few border patrol and heavily armed drug cartels, too little fence and too many flagrant mule operations, the time for action has come.

Arizona’s new law should be an abject lesson in the despair border states have long faced without adequate fencing and without adequate enforcement of Article IV of the US Constitution.

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GITMO is just ok AG Holder is running into roadblocks on his way to close GITMO

WASHINGTON, DC—Attorney General Eric Holder is having a difficult time in closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention facility in Cuba. Congress has not yet appropriated the money necessary to relocate and house the enemy combatants currently held at GITMO.

But AG Holder is not only facing budgetary problems now and arguably into the future, he’ll also be facing legal opposition—and not just from elected officials. President Obama’s dedication to closing GITMO isn't exactly shared by its resident terrorists—that’s right, GITMO detainees wanting to stay in Guantanamo Bay.

Why, you may ask?

At GITMO, the detainees are given access to religious materials, allowed to exercise, all of the things allowed under the Geneva Convention. But if transferred to a supermax prison in the United States, the detainees would be subject to supermax rules and that means lock-down for twenty-three hours a day.

In a January Newsweek blog, an attorney representing some of the captured enemy combatants says they’ll sue to keep from being transferred to a supermax facility.  

And this is just another example of the folly of making a circular political campaign promise square with reality; there never has been a real reason to transfer the detainees and NIMBYs of all stripes certainly don’t want them in their back yards. It would be the ultimate knee-slapper to see Mr. Obama’s administration to go toe-to-toe with the likes of the ACLU.

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With friends like these in Kabul, who needs enemies? Karzai is showing the international community his true colors

Kabul, Afghanistan—Hamid Karzai’s comments that he’ll join the Taliban were clearly designed to garner attention, any attention, and to distract from the sham elections his country just held. No one is really buying the I’ll just take my toys home temper-tantrum the Afghani president is spewing but it does point the elephant in Kabul—an administration that is double-dealing and playing both ends against the middle.

Afghanistan’s leaders are the most corrupt among the world over and attempts to even remotely disguise it are being cast aside. Figuring he’s got nothing to lose, Karzai doesn’t have many friends at this point, so why not go for broke?

The Afghan invasion was to root-out the Taliban and wayward Al Qaeda members but has since turned into a conflict without a clear goal and practically no exit strategy. This is not the fault of the US military or any of its allies; it is the dubious product of a citizenry and corrupt government that has no interest in a peaceful future.

President Obama, Congress, and military commanders have a challenge perhaps two-fold more difficult then those that were faced in 1974; we wish them all the best and hope for a victorious resolution.

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