No 694 “EN MI OPINIóN” Junio 21, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño Editor
“En mi opinión” En el día de ayer este blog fue atacado por
fuerzas ‘desconocidas’ que casi destruyeron toda la estructura de computadoras del
periódico. NO NOS VAN A CALLAR, VAMOS A SEGUIR HACIENDO EL PERIODICO Y DANDO
NUESTRA OPINION PARA TODOS LOS QUE QUIERAN LEER. LA MEJOR RECETA PARA CALLARME
ES METERME UN BALAZO EN LA CABEZA, DE OTRA FORMA SEGUIRE DICIENDO NUESTRA
VERDAD.
Lázaro R González Miño
IMPEACH him NOW!
I demand to the congress impeach obama immediately. If
the congress does not do immediately it’s guilty of complicity.
“En mi opinión” Lázaro R
González Miño
Nobody is above the law. Especially Barack Obama.
As President, Obama
ought to PROTECT the Constitution. That's the President's #1 responsibility.
Instead, Obama not only re-writes the law, he
blatantly ignores the law.
When Obama traded five senior Taliban officials
(members of Mullah Omar's inner circle), he did so unilaterally. He didn't
consult key leadership in Congress. The only individuals he consulted with,
were the terrorists.
Impeachable offense
A former member of Congress, Allen West, has
sent a request to Speaker John Boehner, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to
draft articles of impeachment. West argues Obama signed into law only months
ago the National Defense Authorization Act, which makes it a crime against the
nation to offer or provide any material support to terror groups.
Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano
explained it best when he said, "We have a federal statute which makes it
a felony to provide material assistance to any terrorist organization. It could
be money, maps, professional services, any asset whatsoever, including human
assets."
Should we be
surprised?
As a former Constitutional professor, you'd
think Obama would know better. Our founding fathers wisely decided that
Congress should make laws while the judicial branch should interpret our laws.
The President's job is to enforce our laws. But not Obama.
Obama the law-breaker
Our President displays a pattern of ignoring the
law. Over and over, he acts like a monarch and not a President.
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Obama is creating his own laws by giving
the IRS an unauthorized expansion
of
power.
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Obama has unconstitutionally granted
largely unreported de facto amnesty to millions.
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Obama recklessly endangers the public by
illegally releasing from prison
criminal illegal aliens.
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Obama's role in Benghazi re arguably
impeachable activities in and of
themselves.
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Obama's illicit edicts on gun control
illegally collect fraudulent gun data.
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How we proceed with impeachment...
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Usted: ¿Que Tipo De Exiliado Cubano
ES?
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Dios
Nos Dio A Todos "El Libre Albedrio"... Permitiendo Que Cada Uno Sea Responsable De Sus
Acciones...
EXILIADOS
CUBANOAMERICANOS QUE PROMUEVEN EL CASTRISMO
Por el Dr. Raúl Reyes Roque
No vamos a
invertir espacio en comentar acerca de los mercaderes que vinieron
tempranamente al exilio, tras haberle sido incautadas sus propiedades en
Cuba y que hoy aspiran nuevamente a volver a negociar y sacar provecho de sus
relaciones con los tentadores tiranos de la Isla. Esos constituyen una minoría
onerosa que todos los cubanos honestos repudian.
Tampoco vamos a
gastar tinta en señalar a los cientos y cientos de “mulas” que trafican con el
dolor cubano y mantienen un incesante trasiego mercantil con la pobre
patria: tiendas establecidas en E.U. para enviar divisas a Cuba,
fomentar viajes en convoy a la miserable nación y propiciar que pedófilos,
lascivos y desviados sexuales se aprovechen de la promiscuidad e inmoralidades
de la actual Cuba.
Nos vamos a
dedicar a estudiar al exiliado promedio, la gran mayoría, la cual a través de
más de medio siglo ha ido desmoronándose en su honor patriótico, cediendo ante
el medio que le rodea y alejándose cada vez más de su responsabilidad como
cubano. Con los años ha ido naturalizándose a un país ajeno, sufriendo
humillaciones y traiciones de las naciones extranjeras y otorgando concesiones
de una forma totalmente contraria a la de nuestros mambises.
Por ahorrarse
unos centavos en el galón de gasoilina accede a comprar gasolina comunista
benefician-do a los bandidos venezolanos en el poder y también a los déspotas
castristas. El peso de la publicidad y los medios le han ido aplastando
en sus esperanzas y en sus metas apropiadas de quien ama a su tierra
natal. A cada injuria, a cada persecución, responde bajando su cabeza y
sumergiéndose en el silencio.
Los medios, la radio,
el periódico y la televisión le han ido moldeando y justificando su inercia.
Estaciones de radio que se autollaman “cubanas” promueven a los artistas de la
dictadura isleña y a los procastristas extranjeros. Recompensan con elogios a
cantantes como Bola de Nieve, el cuarteto d’Aida, Rosita Fornés, Esther Borja,
Elena Burke, Celina y Reutilio y decenas más de cómplices del castrismo,
recitan poemas de Nicolás Guillén, homenajean a Alejo Carpentier y tocan
la música deartistas extranjeros que visitaron la isla de los Castro o aspiran
a hacerlo, como los Cinco Latinos, Lolita, Plácido Domingo, Juanes, Victoria de
los Angeles, Serrat, Antología de la Zarzuela, Tito Guizar, Wilfrido
Vargas y muchos latinoamericanos.
Una estación de
Miami dedicó horas a elogiar como si fuera el mejor cantante de las Américas al
venezolano Alfredo Sadel, constante adulón del Comandante, que iba casi
anualmente a cantar en el Festival de Varadero y que grabó discos en
Cuba, uno de ellos honrando a Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Leo Brower
y Formell, intérpretes que hacen suspirar a los “hombres nuevos” de la
revolución que han llegado recientemente, a los cuales se puede identificar
solamente con preguntarles cuál es el nombre del caballo de Elpidio
Valdés. Si responden “Palmiche” ya se puede saber que desde niños y
aún actualmente, han estado bajo lavado cerebral permanente.
Multitud de
exiliados cubanoamericanos siguen bailando con la Orquesta Aragón, los Van Van
y los salseros de la Fania que visitaron Cuba, leen a Sartre y a García
Márquez, les encanta Michel Legrand, ven las películas de docenas de
pro-castristas de Hollywood: Robert de Niro, Nicholson, Gregory Peck,
Belafonte, etc. , admiran a Maradona y a deportistas fabricados en Cuba.
Esos exiliados
que creen que ser cubanos es comer arroz con frijoles y lechón, se ríen con los
amanera-mientos de Carbonell y creen que son grandes patriotas por hacer
chistes groseros y saludar banderas ajenas, han sido el residuo de lo que
fuera en una época un empeño legítimo en liberar a Cuba.
Es también
vergonzoso el analizar a organizaciones revolucionarias que se conforman con
reunirse a almorzar una vez al año a escuchar falsos discursos prometedores.
No es de cubanos
el ir a bañarse a las playas sin tener un recuerdo para las víctimas del
remolcador “13 de Marzo” ni el burlarse de las viudas, las madres y los
huérfanos de tan horribles crímenes.
Las ferias de
arte están llenas de cuadros y obras de cómplices de la dictadura y que se
venden en Miami. Todos alegan que “no se puede negar los talentos” pero
olvidan que Martí decía que hasta el arte tiene que ir al fuego cuando se trata
de la libertad del pueblo cubano.
El colmo de la promoción del
castrismo lo tuvo hace una semana una estación de televisión, que por cierto es
una estación pública, que bajo los auspicios de un cubano-americano presentó
documentales hechos en Cuba para promover a músicos de la isla para vender los
DVDs y CDs a $90.
Sé que estas
realidades son muy tristes pero el cubano honesto y legítimo tiene que
despertar a su soledad en la lucha y crearse una disciplina inflexible,
la única forma de respeto a nuestros héroes y mártires caídos, a los
miles de fusilados y ahogados en el Estrecho de la Florida, a los millones de
meses de encarcelamiento y tortura y a la sangre derramada, que no puede ser
lavada con trivialidades ni cobardía y menos aún con la conducta egoísta que
nos circunda en nuestros tiempos.
Washington confirma que Obama envió
un mensaje a Raúl Castro a través de Mujica
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WND EXCLUSIVE
SURPRISE! VA EXECS THINK THEY'RE
DOING GOOD JOB
Congress told
officials review own work, give bonuses of $2.8 million
Published: 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON – A senior U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs official told a bipartisan congressional panel Friday that the
VA’s senior executives often conduct their own performance reviews with little
or no oversight – a circumstance that likely resulted in a bonus payout
totaling $2.8 million in 2012.
The VA’s Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Gina
Farrisee, told Congress that from FY 2010 to FY 2013, not one of the 470
members of the Senior Executive Service, or SES, whose pay typically ranges
between $121,749 and $181,500, received a less than fully satisfactory or
successful rating.
As WND reported in late May, The VA’s
highly controversial bonus system came under fire by agency critics who say the
incentive money motivates some employees, especially managers, to misrepresent
achievements in order to meet performance goals.
However, in early June two VA senior
executives were among 100 nominated from various government agencies to receive
the 2013 Presidential Distinguished and Meritorious Rank awards, which makes
them eligible for a bonus equal to 20 percent of their salary if one of them
were to win the award.
During Friday’s hearing, Rep. Jeff
Miller, R-Fla., cited several glaring examples of alleged misconduct on the
part of VA senior executives. Miller and other committee members said the VA on
Friday finally relinquished long-awaited information regarding the removal of
six SES employees.
Gross negligence for financial gain?
As WND has reported, last February,
Sharon Helman, the former director of the VA medical center in Phoenix received
an $8,500 end-of-year performance bonus. After relentless probing by the
Veterans Affairs committee members, the VA said she received the award as a
result of a “clerical error.”
The Phoenix location was cited by the
first whistleblower as a location where veterans were put on secret wait lists
for appointments that were so long multiple eligible care recipients died
waiting for appointments.
Miller said in his testimony that the
error regarding Helman’s bonus is unlikely because “past documentation from VA
has stated that all performance reviews and awards are ultimately reviewed and
signed by the secretary.”
The former director of the VA regional
office in Waco also received a total of $53,000 in bonuses. Miller said that
under the director’s management, the Waco office’s average disability claims
processing time “multiplied to inexcusable levels.”
Miller cited another example where in a
May 2013 congressional hearing, VA construction chief Glenn Haggstrom struggled
to explain why he collected almost $55,000 in performance bonuses “despite
overseeing failed construction plans that cost our government nearly $1.5
billion in cost overruns.”
Washington jockeys for solution
The bureaucratic shuffle continues in
Washington as lawmakers scramble to find a viable solution to long wait times
and lost paperwork.
Acting U.S. Secretary of Veterans
Affairs Sloan Gibson told members of the media Wednesday that even though he
still is not 100 percent confident that all wait times listed on VA computers
are accurate, “I have vastly greater confidence” in the list than he did in the
past, when manipulation of patient times was widespread across the VA system.
House and Senate Veterans Affairs
delegation, led by Miller and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., approved separate
resolutions last Wednesday that appointed 28 lawmakers – 14 from each chamber –
to serve on a conference committee and work on a compromise so veterans have
better access to medical care.
Lucrative contract awards while vets
linger
At the same time, the agency allocated
millions for computer equipment and management training while veterans fell
further into a bureaucratic death list oblivion.
In 2011, 14 defense contractors won a
$12 billion VA information technology contract with the goal of reducing the
backlog of benefit claims, improving the continuity of care for veterans,
ensuring physicians have the most accurate medical history of a patient, and significantly
improving patient safety.
And WND uncovered a Defense Department
news document that showcases Obama’s plan for a “total transformation” of VA healthcare
through his Integrated Electronic Health Record, or IEHR, which “will create a
single, jointly created common health record for all DoD and VA medical
facilities that, when completed, will be the nation’s single largest health
record system.”
There was no mention of the cost to
taxpayers for such an endeavor.
“I’m asking the Department of Defense
and the Department of Veterans Affairs to work together to define and build a
seamless system of integration with a simple goal. When a member of the armed
forces separates from the military, he or she will no longer have to walk
paperwork from a DoD duty station to a local VA health center; their electronic
records will transition along with them and remain with them forever,” he said
in 2009.
DoD and VA officials in the document
lauded the results of their program, saying that because of their efforts, the
DoD and the VA “share digital treatment information on 1.1 million service
members and veterans,” including:
·
23
million more laboratory results, for a total of 92.8 million results shared
·
3.6
million more radiology reports, for a total of 15 million shared, and
·
24
million more pharmacy records, for a total of 95.7 million shared.
Information sharing of this magnitude
was intended to slash wait times in half and give veterans direct access to
their records so they can bring them to a facility of their choice. But that is
not what happened. Instead, the Obama administration courted the biggest
players in the defense contracting industry, offering them a chance at
record-sized contracts, and subsequently profits.
Instead of receiving much-needed medical
tests, and direct access to life-saving care – veterans ended up on those
much-documented extended wait lists.
Farrisee, who assumed her position of
chief human resources czar last September, told the congressional panel Friday
that she believes “there is room for change in the VA,” but part of that change
“will come with more training of our senior executives and understanding our
critical elements that are put in the performance plans in establishing very
real goals and the metrics we have talked about.”
Farrisee, a veteran herself, said that
performance reviews were conducted entirely on paper until recently and that a
senior executive’s performance is measured against the strategic and
organizational goals of the VA, though she did not say what those goals are.
Miller fired back and said that he is
sure it is not to allow veterans to die while awaiting care and other panel
members questioned Farrisee’s sincerity.
But she did not give the committee any
specifics about senior executive training except to say that they will be able
to see their performance metrics in advance and they will, “do a lot more
training with our senior executives on what the critical elements mean.”
Right after Obama began his first term,
then-Deputy Secretary Scott Gould testified before the House Veterans Affairs
Oversight and Investigations Committee on his strategy to implement a
Performance Management Accountability System, or PMAS, “to enhance the
competencies of the VA’s Senior Executive Service.”
The result was a multi-million dollar
contract awarded in 2010 to a Northern Virginia firm that specializes in
teaching program management to mid- to senior-level government employees and
executives.
Documents WND uncovered stated that “the
VA’s PMAS and Office of Management and Budget’s information technology
dashboard provide useful sources of metrics for measuring progress…which meets
Kirkpatrick Level 2 evaluation through the self-assessment component of action
plans.”
During congressional testimony Farrisee
struggled to explain the methodology VA uses for determining the dollar amount
of bonuses except to say that it was based on “a percentage…and performance
metrics.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/surprise-va-execs-think-theyre-doing-good-job/#1L4I6WlO7WHeh7kA.99
CNS NEW: Cruz: 'We Need President to Say...in No Uncertain
Terms Send Meriam Home’
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Meriam
Ibrahim, sentenced to death in Sudan for apostasy, is married to Daniel Wani, a
Christian who holds American citizenship. They have a son and a second child is
due to be born shortly. (Photo: Gabriel Wani/Facebook)
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told attendees
at a Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) event on Thursday that Americans
and President Barack Obama should speak out on behalf of Meriam Ibriham, a
Christian mother jailed in Sudan with her two young children who has been
sentenced to death because of her faith. “We need to speak out with one
uniform, powerful, clarion voice for freedom, and we need the president of the
United States to say in no uncertain terms, ‘Send Meriam home,’” Cruz said on
the opening day of FFC’s Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C
Support Amnesty? Wait Until You
Learn What Happens To Mexican Gangbangers On U.S. Soil
“We know they are all over the
U.S.”
The recent rise in unaccompanied minors illegally crossing
America’s southern border in recent weeks has led to serious criticism of
existing immigration laws and lax border security. While the influx is seen by
many as a symbol of a broken system, however, a large number of Americans still
believe officials should allow these children to stay in this country and
reunite with family members already here.
A recent revelation by authorities might just change
some minds.
According to an investigation by Action 4 News in Harlingen, Texas, underage gang members are being
released without supervision into American neighborhoods near the border and
beyond. San Juan Police Chief Juan Gonzalez explained that such a policy could
have tragic consequences in our society.
“They are not your average person that wants to better
their lives,” he said.
The majority of these thugs are easily identifiable,
according to the National Border Patrol Council.
Spokesperson Chris Cabrera explained “they are usually
pretty predominant with their tattoos,” noting they typically display “a lot of
face tattoos.”
Nevertheless, when gangsters under the age of 17 – and
without a U.S. criminal history – are detained by border guards, they are
subsequently sent on their way, free to terrorize American neighborhoods.
Gonzalez said the only thing local law enforcement is
able to do to protect citizens is attempt to document and track these violent
gang recruits.
“We know that the MS-13 [gang] has a lot of factions
here in the U.S.,” he confirmed. “We know they are all over the U.S.”
Their numbers are only increasing, the report found,
as gang leaders in Mexico recognize they can send their youngest members across
the border with a virtual guarantee that they will be integrated into our
society.
Cabrera is not pleased with the situation either,
sharing his belief that “the only way to put a stop to this is to depart them,
send them back home.”
Concerns about increased violence associated with
America’s current open borders policy are only compounded by reports that illegals are bringing with them diseases that
were all but eradicated in America.
AMENPER:
Estudio de Mercadeo
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Quizás cuando
usted recibe un E Mail anunciando un potente producto como estimulante sexual
para la impotencia, su primer reacción haya sido ¿Cómo se enteraron?
Pero lo que sucede que ccon
el estado actual de la
economía, tener un mercado bien definido es más importante que nunca. Nadie
puede concentrarse en todo el mundo. Las pequeñas empresas pueden competir
efectivamente con las grandes compañías apuntando a un nicho de mercado.
Muchas empresas dicen que la búsqueda de
personas "interesados en mis servicios" es el primer punto
del inicio de la venta de sus productos.
Su vida íntima está bajo vigilancia de los mercadeos cibernéticos y
los que emplean el tele marketing para llegar a las personas como usted que
pueden necesitar su productos
Apuntando a un mercado específico no significa que hay que excluir a
las personas que no encajan en sus criterios de compra.. Por el contrario,
marketing de destino le permite concentrar su comercialización dólares y
mensaje de la marca en un mercado específico como usted, y que es lo más
probable que usted comparta con otros allegados de otra demográfica que
necesiten el producto.
Esto es una manera mucho más asequible, eficiente y eficaz de
llegar a potenciales clientes y generar negocios. Si usted es impotente
posiblemente lo haya confesado a un amigo, y sin lugar a duda su esposa seguramente
lo habrá notado. Si el producto que usted recibe le resuelve el
problema usted lo comentará con su amigo, y su esposa llena de alegría los
compartirá con todas sus amigas. Muchas personas como usted se
beneficiarán del producto.
Cómo
definen su mercado objetivo: y como eligen la Demografía específica al objetivo
Ellos tienen que descubrir como en su caso quien tiene una necesidad
de su producto o servicio, pero también quien tiene la mayor probabilidad de
comprarlo, por el nivel de ingresos o la motivación del esperado resultado.
El primer factor es la edad, en el caso de la impotencia, aunque puede
producirse a cualquier edad sin lugar a dudas ocurre más en las personas de
edad avanzada.
Después sin lugar a dudas es el Género, la impotencia no ataca a las
mujeres, que padecen de otra afección llamada frigidez. El producto
para la impotencia no sirve para la frigidez así que el objetivo es el hombre.:
Lo próximo es el nivel de ingresos. Los productos para la
impotencia tienen un precio alto, debido a que es un producto de oportunidad
porque el usuario potencial, no quiere hablar ni discutir precios. Para esto
hace falta una demográfica de personas de un nivel alto de ingresos.
El estado civil o familiar es importante pero no se trata de un objetivo demográfico de hombres casados. Cuando el hombre comienza a sentir los síntomas de la impotencia, presenta un estado psico-traumático y es un buen objetivo ya sea casado, solterón o viudo.
El Origen étnico es también importante. El machote latino no puede aceptar a impotencia y es un objetivo preciado en este mercado.
El estado civil o familiar es importante pero no se trata de un objetivo demográfico de hombres casados. Cuando el hombre comienza a sentir los síntomas de la impotencia, presenta un estado psico-traumático y es un buen objetivo ya sea casado, solterón o viudo.
El Origen étnico es también importante. El machote latino no puede aceptar a impotencia y es un objetivo preciado en este mercado.
Cuando usted reciba un E Mail o una agradable
llamada en su teléfono, proponiéndole la venta de un producto para la
impotencia, no debe de ignorarlo. Considere la cantidad de
investigación que tuvieron que recopilar sobre su persona y los miles de
dólares empleado por esa compañía para hacer su vida y la de su pareja más
placentera. Recuerde los Estados Unidos tienen la
ingeniosidad comercial más prolífera del mundo. Todos los inventos se producen
aquí y después el mundo los imitan. Los primeros condones en colores se
inventaron para que los difrutaran los jóvenes. Ahora han inventado los
condones con varilla para que los disfruten los mayores, no desperdicie la
ingeniosidad americana.
OBAMA ENJOYS A ROUND OF GOLF WHILE IRAQ DISINTEGRATES
WASHINGTON
— While al-Qaida renegade armies were seizing Iraqi territory over the weekend
and closing in on Baghdad, President Obama was jetting into Palm Springs,
California, for 18 holes of golf.
The
blood-soaked terrorist rampage across Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) was drawing close enough to the Iraqi capital to force the
administration to begin withdrawing some of our U.S. Embassy staff there.
While
Obama was lining up his shot on the green, our country was in a full-blown
foreign policy crisis, one of many that confront his failed presidency.
Russian
tanks, ordered by Vladimir Putin, were rolling into eastern Ukraine, further
threatening that shaky democratic nation, while pro-Russian separatists were
shooting down a Ukraine military transport, killing all 49 soldiers onboard.
At
the same time, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who never paid a price for using
poison gas on his own people, continues to bomb civilian populations with
impunity as the administration looks the other way.
Meanwhile,
Obama was in Rancho Mirage playing a round of golf Saturday at Sunnylands, the
well-manicured former estate of media tycoon Walter Annenberg.
Then
on Sunday, he was on the links again at the vast estate owned by
multibillionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle.
Earlier
in the weekend, he had some party business to attend to, appearing at a
political fundraiser in Laguna Beach. Fundraising comes first when polls show
that the Democrats may lose control of the Senate this fall.
White
House officials said the president was being kept fully apprised of events
abroad, while his national security advisers were struggling to come up with a
plan on how to respond to the fierce offensive in Iraq.
But
by the weekend, two things were clear: There was deep division in the White
House over how to deal with the crisis, and Obama was taking his sweet time,
hoping the situation would resolve itself without any intervention on his part.
In a
justifiably war-weary America, few of us want to send troops back into Iraq,
though many want the U.S. to offer Iraq’s government some assistance to help it
repulse the terrorist onslaught.
Yet
by Sunday, citing “ongoing instability and violence in certain areas,” the
message from the administration was that it will strengthen security at its embassy
in Iraq, while pulling out some of its personnel.
A
separate Pentagon statement, which must have elicited cheers from the ISIS high
command, said only “a small number” of military personnel were being sent to
beef up security at the compound.
Where
does it say in the war manual that we should tell the enemy how much security
we will add to defend a U.S. embassy?
ISIS
terrorists were on the brink of attacking the capital, with the sole aim of
toppling its government. That raised concerns here and in Baghdad that they
could penetrate the fortress-like Green Zone and kill U.S. personnel, as
al-Qaida terrorists did in Benghazi, Libya.
These
are murderous, cutthroat terrorists who take no prisoners and who have left a
wide swath of slaughtered bodies across Iraq in recent weeks.
Gruesome
photos on Twitter last week showed a line of bound civilian men lying face down
in a ditch, their hands tied behind their back, being shot by masked killers.
ISIS tweeted that 1,700 Iraqi men have been executed over the course of their
war, though that claim hasn’t been verified.
It
wasn’t too long ago that Obama was campaigning for re-election, naively telling
us that al-Qaida terrorists were “on the run” and their command structure had
been “decimated.”
But
now we know that never happened. Al-Qaida has split and morphed into different
armies across the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, more powerful and
deadlier than ever.
We
struck back after 9/11 in the only way we could have, but since 2009, this
administration has mounted a policy of retreat and retrenchment, even to the
point of dropping the term “war on terror.”
“U.S.
foreign policy is failing,” writes economist Peter Morici. “Russia is pushing
into the Ukraine and threatening Eastern Europe, China is bullying Japan … in
the East and South China seas, and terrorist groups can be displaced in one
place only to multiply and create more lethal threats in others.”
So
much so that “U.S. counterterrorism officials worry about what one calls a
‘potential competitive dynamic’ in which different factions, including (ISIS) …
seek to bolster their credibility by attacking the United States,” national
security analyst David Ignatius writes in a recent blog.
We
are not going to send ground troops back into Iraq under any foreseeable
circumstances. But as the world’s most powerful nation, we cannot turn a blind
eye to a deadlier brand of terrorism that may be close to seizing Iraq’s oil
fields, putting wealth and power into their hands to conduct another assault on
our homeland.
Defeating
the terrorist threat will take moral leadership, presidential credibility and
cunning foreign policy skills, none of which Obama possesses.
This
is reflected in his latest job approval polls, which have sunk to 41 percent,
with a disapproval rating of 53 percent, according to a recent Gallup Poll.
But
now we learn that Obama’s favorability rating, or what is considered his
likability, has dropped to an all-time low, according to three polls by CNN,
Bloomberg and Gallup.
Bloomberg
news service, for example, found that just 44 percent of Americans express
positive attitudes about the president.
“This
marks the first time in a CNN poll that a majority of Americans have an
unfavorable view of Obama,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
In a
little more than four months, voters go to the polls to elect a new Congress,
but for many Americans, it will be a vote against Obama.
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