Graham, Lieberman and McCain turn me off with their liberalism. They always issue press releases together and in my opinion are invariably wrong. How could it be otherwise, they support humanitarian intervention. They did it in Serbia and Libya and are now advocating it in Syria. McCain didn’t try to lay a glove on Obama in the last election. He was too genteel for that or perhaps shared his view too much. Ted Belman
by: Diana West
From a joint statement by Sens. Graham, Lieberman and McCain on the burning of the US consulate in Benghazi and murders of the US ambassador and three staffers.
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“Yesterday’s attack is a tragic and terrible reminder that – despite the hopes of the Arab Spring – the forces of violent extremism in the Middle East are far from defeated, and that the revolutions inspired by millions of people who dream of freedom and democracy can still be hijacked by small groups of violent extremists who are eager to kill to advance their evil ideology.”
The main “hope” on the part of Tweedles Dum, Dum and Dee is that there in fact exist “millions of people” who dream of freedom — not “huriyya” — and democracy — notsharia — in the Middle East.
Alas, there is no evidence of the senators’ dream-millions of Muslims with a deep and abiding connection to the values and principles the senators espouse. That’s because such Judeo-Christian-derived values and principles are at odds with the Islamic culture that has, quite naturally, set the perspectives and formed the core of the societies across this region. (Except, of course, for the Jewish state of Israel.) The senators could examine 14 centuries of violent jihad that brutally converted northern Africa, large sections of Europe and the Near East into Islamic servitude to understand why the basis of such values and principles disappeared. They could, more conveniently. simply review recent Pew polling that reveals the results of the centuries of relentless Islamization: large majorities in Islamic countries actually like Islamic law (“strict sharia”) and hope for the return of the caliphate. But the Three Amigos prefer to dream on.
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“Despite this horrific attack, we cannot give in to the temptation to believe that our support for the democratic aspirations of people in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere in the broader Middle East is naive or mistaken.
We cannot resign ourselves to the false belief that the Arab Spring is doomedto be defined not by the desire for democracy and freedom that has inspired millions of people to peaceful action, but by the dark fanaticism of terrorists.”
Notice it’s all about them. Evidence of their error in supporting al Qaeda-Muslim-Brother-generic-jihad revolutions across the Arab world is penetrating the collective dome, but they are trying to resist with all of their might. What we are looking at is textbook, Psych 101 denial.
The pivot:
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“To follow this misguided path” — [following evidence is “misguided”!] –“would not only be a victory for the extremists and their associates, but a betrayal of everything for which Chris Stevens and his colleagues stood and gave their lives.”
I.e., if we face facts, the terrorists win.
In short, it would be a betrayal of our own best ideals as Americans and our own enduring interest in using our great influence to support the overwhelming majority of people in the Middle East who want to be free from the kinds of murderers and terrorists who killed our people yesterday in Benghazi.”
Translation: The facts aren’t fitting our ideology, folks, so the facts must go. But fear not. Our ideology remains unscathed.
The three may be perhaps tired of fighting.
McCain, Lieberman and Graham are like the Three Stooges in their ineptitude and stupidity. But at least we got laughs out of theThree Stooges. The current version is neither funny nor should be taken seriously.The original Three Stooges are missed. These new ones won’t be missed.
My system has a mind of its own. I can’t begin to understand it.
Ted Belman, What is the meaning of “Ben Ze’ev says”;
“Your comment is awaiting moderation”. (What is there in my comment that requires the weighty ponderosity of “moderation”??)
Followed by my full comment (complete with typos). Is this a computer glitch?
Somethiing that has been clear to me from the very beginning, asI’ve been a long-time student and observer of Arab behaviour, is that it ALWAYS ends up the same way, and that is the way it is intended to go.
It was immediately clear that “the hopes of the Arab Spring” (what a stupid desctiption) were actually the hoes of thr Western dummy countries, who were hoping for peace and moderation from the Moslems, an impossible result to achieve.
The Three Stooges have known all this from the beginning, but, like Einstein’s idiot, keep expressing the same sentiments, expecting a different result. Their self-consoling half-admission -“naive and mistaken”- sufficiently shows this.
Unfortunately this craven refusal to see and face up to facts, permeates Western political thinking today. I never thought I’d ever wish to see another 18th-19th century British Empire, but that’s what the world needs today. I’d even be satisfied with a Ben Gurion……. just for long enough to make the important decisions, I mean.
When, in the long “relationship” between the West and the Arabs has it ever really happened?
Incredible that McCain, who reassembles an aged Charlie Chaplin, almost became President.
Is there an American politician not an a Muslim payroll?
@ dweller:
Thanks. The what I meant was “genteel”.
I don’t think there’s anything ‘gentle’ about McCain, Ted.
It’s true that he never unloaded on Obama in 2008.
But I seriously doubt that that was about ‘gentleness.’
During the runup to the ’08 election, I made the following observation about Sen. McCain in a letter:
Nothing’s changed my mind about him since then.
And this recent Arab-Spring stuff about how “we cannot give in to the temptation to believe [what common sense fairly screams]” is just more of the same for the Senator.
I don’t think it’s gentleness.
I think it’s (suppressed) rage.
About those other two turkeys I couldn’t hazard a guess. Never really gave either of them much thought till now.
In short, all three are
1) on a muslim payroll in addition to their lofty salaries, generous pensions, medical coverage and perks ( both financial and sexual)
2) have large numbers of muslims as constituents and saying this will ensure their lofty positions
3) receive kickbacks from arms manufacturers whose wares eventually go to these James Dean rebels
4) enjoy couscous at their favorite Arab restaurant and do not want to feel uncomfortable when they enter the premises OR
5) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Robert Spencer:
” Christopher Stevens was brutally tortured and murdered has now become the quintessential symbol of what U.S. foreign policy is doing vis-a-vis the global jihad, and what will be the outcome for the U.S.
” If our nation continues indefinitely down this road, the entire country will eventually suffer the fate of Christopher Stevens.. “.
America and the West: with the exception of Canadian Pm Harper, your leaders see us all as fags!.
A faggot is an ” archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks, used to fuel a fire”.
Our elites see us as fire wood as they make their exit plans.
McCain makes me ashamed to support Republicans. I believe that Romney is no better and will morph into a typical bland politician.
But do not worry. When our currencies fall to zero in the next 5 years, this system of fawning “charismatic” career politicians will come to an end.