Reprint from www.familysecuritymatters.org:

Harvard- and Oxford-educated Benazir Bhutto, who twice served Pakistan as its Prime Minister, was assassinated yesterday by Taliban and al Qaeda supporters in a spectacularly violent act in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. This act threw the country into a spasm of violence on the eve of national elections planned for January 8th. The agony of Pakistan splattered across the small screen was palpable, as was the transformation of Bhutto into a martyr for democracy in the world’s media. That was reflected in comments from leaders in the US, France, India, Russia and even Iran.

The lurking danger in Pakistan is that the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was also the subject of a failed assassination attempt, has some skeletons in his closet. He tried to befriend bin Laden as a means of co-opting Al Qaeda. Further, he is allied with Islamist elements in the Pakistani government intelligence service, the ISI, which might facilitate a Taliban-like takeover. It was the late Ms. Bhutto who in recent correspondence accused the ISI of trying to assassinate her.

The prospect of a Taliban-like takeover is daunting. Pakistan is acknowledged to have 60 nuclear heads, developed by the infamous Dr. A.Q. Khan, presently under house arrest. He also facilitated transfer of key nuclear technology to Iran from Pakistan. The fear is that the only bastion of opposition to the Islamists may collapse the largely secular Army of Pakistan. Without that bastion, the country might become another Islamic Republic akin to that in Shia-dominated Iran.

We saw the same scenario play out in Lebanon in 1975 when the volatile situation ended with the breaking of the Lebanese army into half, along sectarian lines. The Muslims took their military equipment and bases and formed their own army, calling it the Lebanese Arabic Army. That plunged Lebanon into a 15 year civil war giving terrorist organizations and supporters around the world a base of operations to launch terrorist attacks throughout the world.

The danger here is the possibility of this happening in Pakistan where you have the foreign element of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters who came from around the Islamic world to fight for the cause. The difference here is that Pakistan has nukes and those nukes, if fallen into the wrong hands, would prove to be a disaster threatening the civilized world and Western style democracies across the globe.

Bhutto’s death should also be a warning to the Western world to make sure more attention is paid to those allies of Western democracies who are running for leadership in the Islamic world and have a strong following. After all, if our goal is to establish more moderate Islamic countries, we must insure the safety and security of those running for government positions who vow to fight and defeat the same terrorists we are trying to defeat.

Benazir Bhutto is the epitome of the role model we want in the Islamic world: a woman with a high level education from the West who could inspire thousands of women and men in the Islamic world to educate and help women’s causes. Today, according to the UN report on human development in the 21st century, two thirds of women in the Muslim world cannot read nor write. Benazir Bhutto was the perfect example of an honorable Muslim woman, also. She was a proud Muslim who practiced her faith publicly but believed strongly in the separation between religion and government, a very rare stand in the Islamic world.

We must insure that Musharraf is supported in his strong grip over the radicals in Pakistan. We also must send a very strong signal to the majority moderates in Pakistan that the United States wants to work with them to insure safety and stability in the country. In 1979, former President Carter and his NSC staff began dialogues with Khomeini as a means of bringing “democracy” to an Iran under the yoke of the late Shah who sat on the Peacock Throne. Instead, all that did was bring about the Islamic Republic of Iran and confrontation between Shia extremists, the US and its ally Israel through proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and, ironically the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is the last thing we want happening in Pakistan.

Despite our desire to bring democracy into the Islamic World, it hasn’t worked. The sectarian violence we have seen in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt is ironically emboldened by Western concepts of democracy. In the Muslim world they don’t need it. They have the community of believers, the ummah and the mandate of strict Shar-ia Islamic law to establish a worldwide Caliphate with a strong Emir. The Jihad doctrine is incompatible with Western democracy. In Pakistan, if the US government makes the mistake of pushing the ideal of democracy over security, the untoward consequence could be the rise of an Islamic Republic under the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Even the late Benazir Bhutto, the only woman elected a political leader in a Muslim country, would have found that prospect untenable.

At this time in our war against radical Islam throughout the world we must take extreme caution to minimize mistakes. The world has become one global community where news events in one nation affect the world economy and stock markets. As soon as the news of Bhutto hit the airwaves the stock markets around the world started to fall. The price of oil and gold soared in world markets as the dollar took a dive. The fear of nuclear bombs falling in the wrong hands as well as the instability in such a volatile part of the world sent shivers across the world’s media.

Our only comfort when it comes to the nukes is the special $100 million US grant program to Pakistan to protect the nukes since 911. We can only hope that our plans A, B and C are in place to handle any sudden unexpected turn of events.

Should the upcoming national election occur in Pakistan on January 8th, then perhaps President Bush and Secretary Rice might applaud Pakistani political and human rights efforts. After all, the Pakistani military has taken serious casualties in the battles against Taliban forces in its Northwest Frontier provinces and in the Valley of Swat.

The late Benazir Bhutto may be an instant martyr to her people and a fallen fighter for democracy in the region. The realities are that she was killed in a Taliban/Al Qaeda attack. The other reality was that she was ejected as Prime Minister, during her second term in 1996, on corruption charges. She chose to remain in exile until her fateful return at the urging of the US government. Whatever transpires, our priority should be a pragmatic one to support the largely secular Military in Pakistan as a bulwark against the sudden rise of an Islamic Republic that could unnerve the region, especially the neighboring Republic of India.

Multiculturalism seemingly knows no bounds here in the land of the free. Here we have Kwanzaa, which was the creation of Ron Karenga, aka, Ron Everett, who was born on a chicken farm in Maryland and wound up becoming chairman of black studies at Cal State Long Beach. Oh, did I mention that Mr. Everett also had a rap sheet on him for felonies for torturing two women? Oh, sorry, I forgot about that inconvenient tooth. It must have been my ACLU card poking me in the ass through my wallet that distracted me. Mr. Everett is also a proponent of Malcolm X and has advocated black nationalism and of course our national pet project these days, good old fashioned, lovable radical Islam.

I really needn’t go on about Kwanzaa other than to say this is not a holiday. But of course if you waltz your ass into any post office you are beset with offerings of Kwanzaa stamps as an alternative to the usual holiday philatelic items for sale. What a crock to infer that this is a real holiday of any substantial historical significance other than the overthrow of the U.S. government while replacing it with Afro-centric, misogynist b.s.Soon gay people will have their special holiday. What will they call it? Maybe it should be I’m Not in Kwanzas Anymore, or Hanucock, or perhaps Chri-s&m-my-ass. Why is it that the ones who are begging for acceptance also try to differentiate themselves? Isn’t this hypocrisy? Why doesn’t anybody say anything? Oh, I’m sorry. That is not politically correct. You can’t say anything about the blacks, the gays, etc. They’re totally off limits even though the Democratic party would have them believe that because of their continued oppression they deserve special treatment.

Doesn’t it perpetuate victimhood by singling people out and carving a brand spanking new little niche for them to occupy? Why not recognize that history is full of blacks and gays all the way back through biblical times? Isn’t anybody happy with this, or do they need to go find new ways to project themselves onto America’s seemingly ever-evolving search for singularity?

The problem with Kwanzaa isn’t that black people ascribe to it or that the particular black person who founded it is a complete lunatic. The problem with Kwanzaa is that it is clearly and plainly not a holiday. It has no historical roots in civilization whatsoever, and moreover what makes it all the more ridiculous is that its founder is a moron who did nothing spectacular in his life other than violate the law.

Only in America could nonsense be elevated to the status befitting a postage stamp, where of all places the cradle of liberty and justice is also home to the inane and misguided.-TDN

It seems that nobody wants to say it, but I will. We are at war. The lives of free people are in jeopardy. The new face of fascism has surfaced for all to plainly see, and their nuclear desires are clear. Make no mistake about it, Iraq and Afghanistan were mere preludes to what the real objective of the war on terror is about. And this, ladies and gentlemen is something I will say with absolutely no hesitation at all. The core of the war on terror is Iran.

No Democratic candidate will say these words and few Republican candidates will either. The only thing holding the United States back from having a meaningful election in 2008 is by simply stating the obvious: Iran has declared war on us. They have supplied weapons in Iraq that were used to kill and wound our soldiers there. Iran has played a significant role in destabilizing Iraq and distracting the United States from our goal. The goal is clear as a bell, because Iran has been and still is the main source of weapons used to kill Americans in Iraq and Israelis in Lebanon and in Israel itself. Now the question is, do Americans sitting in their homes and offices right here at home want to become the next victims? I say hell no.

The only way to draw an end to the war on terror is by dealing with Iran by force. It is a fact that islamic militants who control Lebanon today are also operating a network of phony passports and visas in South America and Central America. These are used to allow terrorists from the Middle East to enter the U.S. from the Mexican border. America is under attack from a sophisticated network of international criminals whose goal it is to dismantle the United States by making a mockery of our government and our way of life.

For the life of me I cannot understand why it is that people will simply sit back and allow this to happen right under their very noses. What compels people to accept the jibberish of the Democrats as being anything remotely akin to the truth about the war on terror? Why don’t those who support George Bush speak louder and more succinctly and clear when it comes to the amazing courage it took to invade two countries whose borders are shared with the enemy of freedom and liberty, Iran? When is it going to be time for two candidates from both the Left and the Right to step up and agree on one thing alone, which is that regardless of their differing opinions on the economy and healthcare one thing will remain constant: Iran has got to be dealt with once and for all?

It will be unfortunate for sure to wake up one day and turn on the news to find out that foreigners of middle eastern descent entered the country illegally from Mexico using fake passports, and managed to assemble a nuclear bomb that was detonated in an American city. Then what? Who will be turn to at that point in time when we will be reeling from a nuclear attack? Or how would we react after Israel had been hit with a nuke? Which candidate is pondering these things and talking about these publicly in real terms? Sadly very few are, and the ones who do are marginalized by the media.

I say, to hell with the mainstream media and their game of profits for peace. I think there ought to be laws that prohibit corporations who are owned by foreigners from owning U.S. media companies. The only way to take back America from its drunkenness from inhaling too much kumbaya b.s. is by educating them. Put Brigitte Gabriel on the air and let her tell how it felt growing up as a Christian girl in Lebanon when the muslims invaded that country and turned it into an islamic fundamentalist state instead of the free and open society that it used to be. Why has the media abrogated its responsibility to tell the truth about how the Clintonistas destroyed the intelligence community during their ‘glorious’ rule of the last decade of the 1900’s. Capping off America’s great accomplishments in the world during the 1900’s and being known in the world as the great bastion of freedom in liberty came marauding hordes of islmofascists to our shores because they could get away with it so easily.

America has been made a fool of by the Left by insinuating that if you happen to be a woman or if you are gay then the only people who can be sensitive to your needs are Democrats. Their shoddy logic infers that somehow being a victim is a full-time occupation that needs government to take your hand and be nice and sweet to you. Meanwhile your very life is being threatened by people who still believe in stoning women and hanging gays for no other reason than because they practiced sexual freedom. I say, the ones who will be most protective of the rights of gays and women are the ones who will fight islamofascism relentlessly to the death until each and every one of the followers of this sick and pathetic hateful ideology are wiped off the face of the map.

Until the time that a candidate for the office of President of the United States of America has the unmitigated gall and nerve, decency and the courage and cojones to say these things then consider my vote out of the question for you.

-TDN

Here we go again. Another pathetic attempt to appease the liberal left. Democrats want to trade away taxes on people living in “Blue States” (who vote for them) in return for a tax on investment fund managers. Okay, so what’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it.

First of all, investment fund managers live in Blue States, where there is not only a state income tax (i.e., New York and California) but also where people make a lot of money. And so, if you take away the AMT on people making $100,000 or more and who pay a lot in state income taxes and place the burden on the investment fund managers (who also happen to live in Blue States), then what do you think investment fund managers are going to do? They’re going to outsource themselves to Iowa where the rest of the financial industry fled to take advantage of high limits on what credit cards can charge for interest.

This is precisely what is wrong with the Democrats. They promise people everything and then take away from others at the same time. But of course they call this fairness, and meanwhile what happens is that New Yorkers and Californians suffer because the financial industry that makes these places what they are gets hacked apart bit and bit and carted away.

Democrats have a problem with capitalism, and they have a problem with the military. Meanwhile in Russia, Putin is allowed to hand pick his choice for a successor and it still says it is a democracy. We are faced with the same face of totalitariansim in Russia that always existed, except Medvedev wasn’t picked by Putin for his skill but rather for his loyalty to the great nationalized oil and gas company, Gazprom.

The world is forming oil and gas feifdoms in Venezuela, Iran, and Russia. The world is squaring off and daring the United States to follow suit. Instead we literally stick to our guns, which of course infuriates and confuses the liberal left because to the left only right makes might. In the real world, however, might is useless if one only uses might in cases where you are not right. This is the revolutionary left, which is the left that sees the military as a force to keep our own people aware of it. The left refuses to see the military as a force to keep our enemies fearing us.

America should never be allowed to be subjected to a lack of resolve. This is precisely what the left is about. Democrats have elevated irresolute behavior to an art form. Democrats are running for president based on one theme: Bush is wrong for invading Iraq. Yet, all around us are potential foes who are shoring up their oil fiefdoms. Thank God our military understands the global power struggle. Perhaps this is why in the face of Iran’s threats of nuclear war, the chairman of the joint chiefs visited Israel recently. At least the Israelis can be counted on to understand the threats. To them this isn’t fantasy, this is reality, and the threat to their very existence is ultimately at stake.

But of course, the Democrats will just duck and dive from their miserable approach to Iraq and ultimately Iran, and instead they will turn to taking from the rich in America and giving to the rich wannabes. How sad is that.

George W. Bush is the kind of president who is so goddam right that it makes everyday people sick to their stomachs. In a world in which the only thing that seems to matter in the news is how celebrities’ personal lives are faring, nobody seems to give a rotten shit about how the world’s balance of power is shifting under our very feet. That is, nobody except George W. Bush.The man stood his ground with respect to Iraq, he is standing his ground vis-a-vis Iran, and frankly it is my humble opinion that the intelligence community is royally fucking our president by taking him to task each and every time he gets out in front of the press and tells them the god’s honest truth about weapons of mass destruction.The fact of the matter folks is that Saddam Hussein’s sons were heirs to their father’s bizarre regime bent on destroying anyone who might get in their way of obtaining absolute power. And along with this came some very unsavory bedfellows such as al Qaeda, which their father would have frowned upon.Iran is self-evident. The Iranian regime is the quintessential reincarnation of Nazi Germany replete with nuclear technology. And although practically everyone in the universe understands this (=the Israelis), our U.S. intelligence community is hell bent on taking what amounts to solid intelligence and using it for political gains.It used to be that only the U.S. media was tilted squarely to the left. Now the media has a friend in the intelligence community. God only knows how much critically sensitive information is being leaked to our adversaries. I say to Bush, if you want to redeem yourself and go down in history as the big swinging dick that fucked global terrorism then you need to recruit brand new members of our intelligence services. These people have obviously turned on their country and our president and therefore our troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s time to clean house.As for the rest of America, just keep on partying and making fun of how Bush pronounces nucular. The bottom line is that you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, yet although he mangles the English language Bush gets it.-TDN