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23Feb/100

Is the Administration Awakening to Terrorism?

Gee, could it be because of the exposure that they've created for themselves?

This is the only recent example that I can recall of an administration figure commenting on terrorism without insinuating that the real danger lies with right-wing extremists/Tea Party people:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the threat of “homegrown” terrorism increased during the past year and more U.S. citizens or legal residents are “becoming radicalized to the point of violence.”

Napolitano, speaking yesterday during a panel discussion at a meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, said the U.S. doesn’t have a co-ordinated plan for stopping the spread of militancy.

“We really don’t have a very good handle on how you prevent someone from becoming a violent extremist,” she said. Napolitano recommended studying efforts in foreign countries and states such as Minnesota to expand contacts with Muslim and immigrant communities.

That was yesterday. So it comes as no surprise, really, when Weasel Zippers posts this:

Federal authorities have arrested a Virginia man for allegedly helping hundreds of Somalis, possibly including ones with terrorist ties, enter the United States illegally.

Anthony Joseph Tracy, 35, was arrested earlier this month, after admitting to U.S. authorities that he helped about 272 citizens of war-torn Somalia come to the United States illegally, according to documents filed in federal court.

Tracy allegedly set up a business in Kenya, Noor Services Limited, that procured fraudulent Cuban travel visas for Somalis, who would then travel from Kenya to Cuba and, ultimately, to the United States, according to court documents.

Cubans are accorded special immigration status in the US, and black Cubans are particularly repressed, even by Cuban standards, although one wonders how it was possible for so many Somalis to pass US immigration without being quizzed in Spanish. It also seems impossible that there would not have been collusion among Cuban authorities regarding the passage to the United States. And all of this was made possible by the Obama administration's extending an open hand to the Castro regime.

Fausta notes Mary O'Grady's piece on the Iran-Nicaragua-Venezuela axis. Ecuador ought also to be thrown into the mix, which includes the rising tensions over the discovery of oil within the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands. Naturally, South American states are siding with Argentina's claims, but not only out of a sense of Latin pride. Because of the reserves available in South America, oil producing states have been tempted to join OPEC, even if their membership in the cartel is informal (Venezuela's is formal). This is one of the reasons that it was essential for American security that Honduras should insist on its constitutional sovereignty despite the Obama administration's bullying them to fall in line with the socialist-populist strong man states best exemplified by Chavez' rule.

Our foreign policy has been asinine.

John Yoo, recently cleared by investigators to the fury of asshole Senator Patrick Leahy, has this to say:

Barack Obama may not realize it, but I may have just helped save his presidency. How? By winning a drawn-out fight to protect his powers as commander in chief to wage war and keep Americans safe.

He sure didn't make it easy. When Mr. Obama took office a year ago, receiving help from one of the lawyers involved in the development of George W. Bush's counterterrorism policies was the furthest thing from his mind. Having won a great electoral victory, the new president promised a quick about-face. He rejected "as false the choice between our safety and our ideals" and moved to restore the law-enforcement system as the first line of defense against a hardened enemy devoted to killing Americans.

But read the whole thing. And the other moron Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders, is likewise apoplectic at Inhofe's suggestion that there be a wholesale investigation into the concerted fraud that is the manufactured "Anthropogenic Global Warming consensus" industry, and the EPA's extraordinary and extraconstitutional power grab. To my idiotarian Senators, I'd like to say that I'll do whatever I can to get you replaced.