Chris Matthews and the Blame-America-First crowd are pretty sure that “Jihad” is OUR fault…

Chris Matthews has finally taken that last step off the edge of sanity. 

With more spittle flying from his yap than you’d expect to see at a Skoal convention, Chris Matthews has the perverse ability to speak as if he thinks he’s making sense, yet the words that he (quite literally) spits out are devoid of any rational thought. 

Watch the following clip and see what I mean.

All that jihad that we see everywhere? According to Chrissy, somehow that’s OUR fault??

France is faced with the MOST BAFFLING CASE of ALL TIME!

Maybe if the French were to bring Inspector Clouseau out of retirement, perhaps HE could find the rationale for this bewildering, incomprehensible, seemingly motiveless crime.

From the Washington Post, via the Associated Press; April 23.

***(Italics and capitalization are mine, to help shed light on this “mystery”…):

PARIS — An escapee from a psychiatric institution slashed a rabbi and his son with a box-cutter on Tuesday, prompting witnesses to tackle and subdue the attacker after a chase through a Paris synagogue, officials said.

What’s Past Is Prologue

An excellent post courtesy of blogger ‘Utah’ over at THE RIO NORTE LINE

The Rio Norte Line

Almost three years ago, I wrote this:

I’ve just returned from an extended business trip to the United Kingdom, a little over 10 years since my first visit. During my travels, several observations were made that are relevant to our country and our next election. Where we stand on the edge overlooking the jagged chalk cliffs of multiculturalism, nanny statist ideals and socialism, our relatives have already stepped over. From the Fabian Socialists, the Unionists and the Communists of the pre and post-WWII era to Maggie Thatcher, Britain has wrestled with how a fading parliamentary empire can confront the political and social changes that modernity poses.

We are facing similar choices in America today.

I saw a significantly different society from only a decade ago. London has always been an international city, but a large segment has become Islamisized, with burkas as prevalent as mini-skirts, Farsi and Arabic as…

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There is Simply NO bargaining with Madmen

I took Sunday off from reading the media reports about the current Middle East crisis. After watching this Administration completely punt on any sort of credible response, and then just continue with business as usual, my gag-response needed a day to recover.

Nothing has changed in the last 24 hours, of course. Lost in the media’s obsessive attempt to somehow pin this on Mitt Romney (which completely boggles the mind), is what this actually purports for our nation worldwide. To say that we appear weak and ineffectual is hopelessly optimistic. This is an epic foreign policy disaster.

CHRISTINE M. FLOWERS wrote a column today for Philadelphia Daily News, and it is superior to most other write-ups I’ve seen. A couple of her best points:

“The fact that this happened in a country that was famously “liberated” by American airpower last year was lost on no one. The fact that the embassy in Cairo was attacked on the same day by raging Islamists was also troubling. And the fact that these deaths and this assault on U.S. sovereignty occurred on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 was a chilling reminder of those who cheered the incineration of 3,000 Americans.

There is simply no bargaining with madmen. Muslim extremists are not a small and geographically limited group of sociopaths. They are a legion, and have sprung up in as many corners of the world as there is discontent, anger and resentment against the West. The political scientists can try to paint these criminals as the victims of poverty and the regressive policies of their leaders, but the truth is that their anger derives not from material discontent but from hatred of the “other.”

Before anyone accuses me of bigotry against Islam, I want to say this. There is great beauty in any religion that advocates tolerance, moral coherence, peaceful intercourse and a love for God and the god in each human being. But among all the world’s great religions, only Islam is susceptible to the dangerous and, as we have seen, murderous type of distortion and manipulation that results in the deaths of ambassadors, soldiers and civilians on their way to an uneventful day of work.

That’s at least the case in this enlightened age; the Crusades happened centuries ago.

We do ourselves no favor as a nation to ignore this simple fact. And although I hesitate to criticize this president for the deaths of his personnel at the State Department, I would point out that the administration’s initial response to the attacks in Cairo were not only inappropriate, they were deplorable in their obsequious tone and character.

THIS is the point exactly. Our insistence on trying to paint all of Islam as a ‘Religion of Peace’ is stultifying, counterproductive and incredibly dangerous. I’d say it’s like putting lipstick on a pig, but of course the radical Islamists would likely be offended by my “pig” comparison, so I wouldn’t dream of saying such a thing. Wouldn’t want to give the poor dears yet another reason to flip out, after all.

Strength in a superpower’s foreign policy is a necessity. The ability to squash an enemy is useless if everyone knows that you won’t actually do it. This is played out every day on playgrounds whenever a big, strong yet mild-mannered kid is serially unwilling to hit back: he quickly becomes a target, despite his obvious physical advantage.

The brilliant Mark Steyn touched on this in a column over a year ago:

After the battle of Omdurman, Hilaire Belloc offered a pithy summation of technological advantage:

“Whatever happens 
We have got 
The Maxim gun 
And they have not.”

But suppose they know you’ll never use the Maxim gun? At a certain level, credible deterrence depends on a credible enemy. The Soviet Union disintegrated, but the surviving superpower’s instinct to de-escalate intensified: In Kirkuk as in Kandahar, every Lilliputian warlord quickly grasped that you could provoke the infidel Gulliver with relative impunity. 

Until we make clear that we are less interested in trying to become everyone’s BFF, and more interested in maintaining a fair yet strong presence in the world, it appears obvious that such attacks can only worsen.

We can point to and blame Freedom of Speech, or a filmmaker’s video, or “cultural misunderstanding”, or whatever the Leftist elites are pushing that particular day, from now until the next Caliphate is declared, and it won’t change a thing, other than to encourage the very barbarians who hate us and wish us dead.

Our freedom and security are at risk, and we ignore this risk at our peril. We require leadership which projects strength, not empty bluster coupled with fawning and groveling. In a column which appeared in The Spectator on December 1st 2001, Mark Steyn yet again said it better than anyone else has, before or since:

“All I ask is an end to the deeply unedifying spectacle of western politicians jumping through increasingly obnoxious tolerance hoops.

…One-sided outreach is demeaning. It suggests we have something to feel guilty about.

We don’t.“

Islam: “They can’t keep taking offense at EVERYTHING”

The quote in this post’s title were the last words spoken by Mark Steyn in the interview below, …back in September of 2007.

This has been coming for a while, folks.

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This week’s disgraceful events in the Middle East, and the even more disgraceful coverage by our Eunuch Media, made me pick up one of my favorite books of the last decade, ‘America Alone‘.

I’m sure many of you have either read it, or have at least heard about it and have MEANT to read it. Regardless if you fall into either of those two camps, or if you are in camp #3 (never read it &/or never heard of it), I’m asking you to do yourself a favor: please read it now.

Seriously.

Right now.

His book (penned in 2006) is almost eerily prescient, and all the while Steyn is waaaay funnier than that Nostradamus guy. And make no mistake, being funny is what makes you read the whole thing, because the subject matter is depressing. It warns us of the threats of radical Islam, as well as its enabler, multiculturalism.

The combination is dire.

If you want to have your eyes opened to the reality that slapped us in the face (again) this week, this is the book to read. Where else are you going to get a world-class briefing on one of the most imminent dangers of the 21st century, and still average at least one good belly laugh per page? No where else, I assure you.

In addition to the 1st clip at the top, I’m also including a 2nd one below, this time with Steyn discussing multiculturalism. In the 2nd one he’s working without a script in front of a live audience, where he truly excels.

But after you watch the videos, don’t forget to grab/buy/rent ‘America Alone‘. Not reading it now would qualify as being willfully ignorant, and that is something we no longer have the luxury to be.