Obama's Plan for Relationship with the Islamic World

While Mr. Obama's speeches and trip to the Middle East were warmly received and his "reach" to the Islamic world was positive it does not eliminate any threats to the United States.

Shortly after 9/11, Mr. George Bush sent representatives to all Muslim countries with the message"terrorism is not just America's problem--it is your problem" Moreover, Bush's emissaries bluntly told Arab leaders that "they should do something about it". The message got through. Libya banned certain groups and even opened a dialog with the USA. Libya even shipped scores of containers to the USA regarding Libya's nuclear research and relationships with Pakistan, China and North Korea. CIA analysts are still reviewing these materials in Oak Ridge , Tennessee. Egypt, Saudi Arabia (where 17 of the 9/11 hijackers came from), Indonesia, Malaysia, Yemen and others all got the message. They started cracking down on radical and terrorists in their country. The Bush Administration started to squeeze Sudan and Somalia and other African nations harboring terrorists. We have not been attacked since 9/1 and the CIA and military as well as the FBI and NSA have intercepted several planned attacks and stopped these attacks!

Bush was tough on terrorists and that's what needs to be done.

What Mr. Obama may not realize is that there are many new no-named terrorist groups working very hard to obtain nuclear weapons, biological weapons and chemical weapons.These groups operate out of Latin America-Venezuela is the major base as well as the triangle near Paraguay.

The Bush Administration caused many of the terrorists to go on the run and drove them out of many countries. CIA is managing and training many Arab foreign intelligence services and monitoring terrorist groups in a number of countries.

Its ludicrous for Obama and his leftist administration to talk about Guantanamo, Abu Grave and interrogations when terrorist are activiley seeking weapons of mass destruction and trying to deploy them in an American city.

The journalist Seymour Hersh has also accused the Bush Administration of orchestrating assassinations of terrorists in Africa.Hersh claims CIA officers and militray arrangeded accidents of terrorists and aslo used the host countries military to assassinate terrorists. Many suspected terrorists have had a variety of "accidents" including drownings, auto accidents, electrocutions and "suicides". What Hersh does not mention is that CIA has lost more men and women killed since 2001 to today compared to the years 1948 to 2001.

Some of Obams' plans to reach out and understand the Islamic world are positive but he should never forget that Mr Bin Laden has inspired thousands of Muslims to jihad and hate America and Israel.Moreover, the root cause of terrorism is not America it is the culture of Islam that treats women as livestock,brutalizes young children in the madras schools and denies the younf Muslims opportunities for education. Millions of young Muslim boys read the Koran from mroning to night with littl;e exposure to mathematics, history, romansce, vacations, education, and freedom.Lets see some movement on the part of Islamic countries Mr. Obama before you bend over backwards for the Islamic world.

North Korea's Brinkmanship

North Korea...How to Deal with a Difficult Adversary!

North Korea's recent detonation of a nuclear device has again threatened peace in Asia.Even Mrs . Hillary Clinton and her "soft power" approach recently stated " no one can possibly figure out how to deal with North Korea." North Korea believes if it threatens, bullies and scares the West and Korea and Japan, that the United States will be forced back to the negotiating table and re-start diplomatic talks.
But one only has to look at the North Koreans since the end of World War II.
The North Koreans backed by Russia declared a communist state shortly after World War II. They started a police state with a one family dictatorship. The Soviets,as documents now demonstrate, pushed North Korea into a covert action that led to the Korean War. The United States responded and several years later and almost 56,000 d US military deaths defeated the North Koreans and forced a stalemate. Since then both Korea and Japan have prospered while North Korea has spent billions on arms, nuclear technology and a multi-million person military. All while their people starve and have no freedom. Since the end of the Korean War every President has tried to engage the North Koreans. More recently, during the Clinton Administration the USA have supplied the North Koreans millions in dollars, food and oil. When George Bush became President he cancelled all of Clinton's largess as the North Koreans never gave in on anything-they funded terrorism, massive drug trafficking and exported nuclear technology to Iran, Pakistan, Libya and Syria. After 6 years of diplomatic negotiations, President Bush thought we had reached a deal with the North Koreans. The North Koreans agreed to eliminate their nuclear program. The US honored its agreement and removed North Korea from the terrorist list of nations; the USA also started shipping food and oil to North Korea' starving millions. Then out of nowhere North Korea reneged on all agreements demanded more oil fuel, money and food and started belligerent rhetoric against South Korea. It test-fired a new missile and detonated a nuclear weapon underground.
What is the ultimate goal of North Korea? Their goal is to continue to extort the United States Korea and Japan. The North Koreans want a continuing flow of oil, food and money-without really downsizing their nuclear weapons programs. North Korea believes it will win as the USA Japan and Korea do not want either a strong nuclear North Korea or a war.
It seems Mr. Obama, even with his soft power approachto clench- fisted communists will neither give in to North Korea or put up with the North Korean brinkmanship. America's new policy will probably be to ignore North Korea and continue to isolate them in the West. Both Russia and China are no help. They are afraid to criticize North Korea or to impose harsh sanctions. They are diplomatically useless.They are not friends of the United States or peace.
Whats the likely future scenario? Either the North Koreans will eventually"give in" and have a regime change from within or the North Koreans will attack South Korea.
For sure they will continue to develop nuclear weapons and new long range missiles that threaten both Japan and the United States.

The only course for Mr. Obama to take as this stage is to :

1. Ignore the North Koreans threats and continue economic sanctions.
2. Build up additional naval forces in the area and
3. Pressure Russia and China to control the raging mad dog they created in North Korea.

The North Koreans out of desperation could attack South Korea. The North Koreans have an aging and very ill leader,the population continues to starve and the fuel crisis is at an all time high. In North Korea we are dealing with a unreasonable, non-compromising communist leadership ,ignorant of the West and feeling abandoned by Russia and China except Russia and China's weak support against sanctions.
The danger for the West is that North Korea's missile development is improving and its obvious they have nuclear warheads or are close to having the ability to create in a short period of time a number of nuclear weapons.
A war now could further damage the world's economy,destroy China's prosperity and manufacturing exports to the West, damage the US economy as well as completly undermine the economy and national security of America's allies South Korea and Japan.

The CIA Flap and Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House has accused the CIA of misleading her-in fact, lying to Congress and the intelligence oversight process. Then Ms. Pelosi flip-flopped and said the CIA has only mislead the Congress during the Bush years. If you review her actual statements, she said " the CIA misleads us all the time."
The Republicans are using this to embarrass her and the administration.In actual fact, most Democrats don't like the CIA. Just ask Senators Leahy, Kennedy, Dodd, Kerry, and a host of others that loathe the CIA.
The CIA was always regarded as "the bad boys" of government, a term coined backed in the 1950's . During the Church hearings in the 1970's certain abuses were leveled at the CIA regarding assassinations, dirty tricks and not informing Congress of its activities. Since Frank Church and Otis Pike held hearings tremendous oversight has been put on the CIA. I wrote about it in my history of the CIA. Today theremany committees, the President's Oversight Board, PFIAB, internal controls and Senate and House staffers that monitor almost all CIA activities including covert action.Both the House and Senate have committees that must approve each clandestine activity. So do the host of lawyers inside the CIA. In addition private watchdog groups have been set up and they constantly litigate againt the CIA as well as deluge the government with Freedom of Information requests. Thats why in fact most of the CIA has been defanged and is often ineffective.Today the CIA has to fight two battles-one against terrorism and one against our own governmnet leaders. To be sure Ms Pelosi is nothing but a leftist spawn, but worse she's stupid!. She damages the effectiveness of intelligence as well as embarrasses the nation by calling the CIA liars. The CIA staffers document every meeting and also probably tapes the meetings. It is Ms. Pelosi that is the liar.

More national security gaffes by the Obama Administration

NATO

Ivo Daalder has been appointed Ambassador to NATO Headquarters at Brussels, Belgium. Daalder, a Professor who was born in Holland and a national security advisor during the Clinton years has plans to REMOVE all US nuclear weapons from Europe. How dumb can we get!. This policy is supported by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State, Mrs Clinton. This policy will undermine and destroy NATO and give the Russians the major nuclear weapons advantage.Other countries like France support the US giving up our nuclear weapons. Its another way to undermine NATO and the US influence in Europe.Both Russia and France want the US out of Europe.

China

After a long awaited decision on Obama's policy towards China, the Obama Administration announced that it does not really see China as a threat!. However the new Chairman of the Joints Chief strongly disagrees.China has plans to build a blue water navy and wants to push the US out of the Pacific. It seems the Obama Administration along with its ridiculous "soft diplomatic policy" on Iran and Cuba has also projected its soft policy to China.Obama will most likely back off of supporting Taiwan and will not protect China's expansion into the shipping lanes or building a Blue Water Navy to rival the USA.

Iran and Cuba

Both have slapped the USA hand that was offered by Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama must be a glutton for punishment as he plans to push ahead to give in to both Iran and Cuba on a number of fronts. Israel-Obama recently told the Israeli leadership that they must make peace with the Palestinians before we can settle issues with Iran. I always thought it was the other way around---get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions and this could lead the way to peace between the Palestinians and Israelis.I think Mr Obama must have attended the Karl Marx School for Diplomacy!

Soft Power to the Obama Administration means appeasement to our adversaries and abandonment of our values and friends.

Here with a brief summary of the Obama's Administration's diplomatic strategies, methods and goals

Iran: Lift the economic sanctions against Iran (which by the way are working against Iran; Iran's economy is in a mess and they pump less oil than any other oil producing nation; sanction do work.)

Unfreeze Iran's assets- billions in US and European Banks. This may give Iran more money to aid Hamas and Hezbollah and fund Syria's moves against the Lebanese government.

Supply Iran with much needed oil technology-Iran is desperate for geological equipment, measuring devices, exploration, equipment etc.

This is Obama's strategy: Iran will unlikely ever give up what they call "peaceful nuclear energy". The Obama Administration will claim they have verifiable intelligence to monitor Iran's nuclear plans; rather unrealistic with Obamas' plans to undermine the clandestine service of the CIA.Obama believes or his advisors believes that this will pave the way to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. To squeeze the Israelis Obama has refused to turn over aircraft codes and recent bunker buster bombs.As part of a new Mideast peace deal,the Palestinians will be given an open checkbook to build their country i.e., new buildings, government facilities etc.The world will then have to accept a nuclear Iran-with "peaceful energy facilities that could be turned into producing nuclear warheads."How we monitor that Ill never know. Moreover, the USA's future mandate would probably also be to reduce our counterintelligence against Hezbollah, Iran's proxy.

Such an agreement will "make" Iran the regional power in the whole area-something Russia would like, Israel would not like and the USA would unfortunately accept. Over a period of years, Iran would spread its Shia arc from Iraq to Central Asia and the rest of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Egypt might gravitate toward Iran with an overthrow of the fragile Egyptian government. The dominoes would start to fall and radical fundamentalist Islam would replace many secular Arab governments.

The Obama’s Administrations Attempt to Destroy Plausible Deniability

Plausible deniability refers to the denial of blame in the chain of command where higher authorities blame the lower operatives. In the case that illegal or unpopular activities become public, high ranking officials can deny any knowledge of the activities. This concept usually applies to intelligence officers or those involved in the national security community. In espionage and intelligence activities deniability usually refers to when a senior government official avoids a blow back by secretly arranging for a third party to operate against an enemy target, or in the collection of sensitive information or carrying out a covert action.

It also applies to acts that leave little evidence such as water boarding or in recent cases torture. Plausible deniability is a cornerstone of intelligence operations. It also applies to most activities of the Central Intelligence Agency-it gives the US government secret authority and protection of the family jewels so to speak. This way the US government can advance foreign policy goals, conduct espionage and protect our agents and assets overseas. To a certain extent it applies to the FBI and US State Department. It is key to a successful intelligence organization in a democracy.

President Obama and his Cabinet members seem intent on destroying this concept. Over the last two weeks Obama has flip flopped on whether to prosecute senior Bush officials=2 0or lower CIA operatives accused of torture or approving torture.

The problem is that Donald Rumsfeld when Secretary of Defense never was involved in this. He came out against water-boarding. Condoleezza Rice obtained permission from the Justice Department after months of studying the situation with scores of lawyers in both the State Department and the Justice Department working on the issue. Members of Congress, including Democrats sitting on the Intelligence community committees approved the idea of water-boarding and other interrogation techniques. Former V-P, Dick Cheney was correct when he said it prevented attacks against the USA. I know of five major attacks that were foiled due to both soft interrogation tactics as well as hard tactics.

Obama’s new Attorney General, Eric Holder stated” we will prosecute anyone that broke the law”. A few days before he said he would not! This is all part of a plan to marginalize the intelligence community. Some should advise Mr. Obama that the Justice Department approved all these methods as well as State Department lawyers and members of Congress. Obama has allies in his quest to destroy the CIA. Senators Kennedy, Dodd, Kerry, Reid, Leahy, Boxer and Feinstein have long hated the CIA. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton in eight years in their white house days never even visited CIA headquarters. They loathed the CIA as well as federal law enforcement and the military. They can be partly excused-the Clinton's were anti-war demonstrators and hippies from the 1970’s. Obama and his cabal are socialists who will try and use national security findings and approvals from the Bush years to undermine basic concepts such as covert action, espionage, counterintelligence and plausible deniability.

Obama’s whole team is not sinister, just inexperienced or stupid.
The Director of Homeland Security has called for awareness of right wing extremists-probably because her polices and Obama’s are creating more and more Americans to fear Obama’s socialist tendencies and incompetent approaches to national security.

Napolitano on April 22, 2009 also stated that most terrorists come from Canada. Thus offending a great ally and neighbor. None of the 9/11 terrorists came in from Canada nor the other 6 terrorists that we have recently prosecuted.

Obama’s other gaffes make our adversaries energized so that they can take advantage of what they see as weakness i.e. Fidel Castro this week slapped Obama’s hand away on Obama’s friendly gestures to Cuba. Iran is laughing at us as Obama gave away all his negotiating strategies on Iran. Iran has recently announced “ they are the regional power in the area”. The blow back here is that it looks like Obama has given in completely to Iran and also abandoned Israel. Iran issued a statement they plan to issue their own proposals to the West. These will be the following: They don’t care what Obama says ---they will develop peaceful nuclear energy and thus split Europe from the United States on the issue. In addition Iran will secretly develop nuclear warheads whether the US likes it or not. This will make the US lose face and increase Iran’s position in the entire region. It will strengthen Syria and Hezbollah and force Obama to go ahead and give in on things he said he would agree to: dropping the economic sanctions against Iran, unfreezing Iranian assets and even supplying the Iranians with US oil technology. Meanwhile Obama will abandon Israel and strengthen terrorism. Anti-Semites are already coming forward to denigrate Israel and hope that this little democratic country is destroyed.
One of the worst gaffes this week came from Mrs. Clinton who exaggerated the threat of the Taliban in Pakistan . She said the Taliban could take over Pakistan and is threatening the world and the USA. Someone should tell her that our ally, India, would never accept a fundamentalist Islamic Pakistan. Someone should also tell Mrs. Clinton that the CIA controls the 45 nuclear weapons in the Pakistani arsenal. Strange as Mrs. Clinton called for Mr. Mushariff’s resignation--after he did more to help the US against Pakistani and Afghan fundamentalists. Mushariff permitted CIA to control Pakistan’s nukes and also to operate with American military in Pakistan.

Our adversaries like Russia and China as well as Venezuela are waiting to take advantage of the Obama Administration. Russia is offering us bases in Russia for Obama’s=2 0expanded war in Afghanistan. “Come in”, the spider said to the fly“. Russia recently bribed the officials in Uzbekistan ans Kyrgyzstan to kick the US out of bases in their two countries so Russia would control US bases and supplies--actually hoping Afghanistan turns into another Vietnam for America. It’s payback by Russia against the USA for America‘s help to defeat The Soviets in Afghanistan. The Russians also received from Mr. Obama that the USA will not deploy a missile defense program in Eastern Europe-we certainly don’t want to offend the Russians! Mr. Obama doesn’t get it!

Mr. Obama should have politely rejected a book by Mr. Hugo Chavez at the recent summit in Trinidad. The book denigrates and libels America’s relationship in Latin America.
If this is “soft power” I’m ashamed of our new national security community.
Obama, Eric Holder, Mrs. Clinton and Janet Napolitano don’t have a clue.
They are not sinister--- just inexperienced and completely incompetent on national security issues.

Finally, rumors are that Mr. Obama will be a one term President and turn over the reigns to Hillary Clinton. This way “the cult of Obama” can continue with Barrack and Michelle traveling the world and being the darlings of the United Nations, people of color and the Arab League.

National Security

Obama has made recent statements to the affect that Venezuela is no threat-he is wrong. I'm afraid we elected a very bad person-I don't like saying this but he's a guy that slipped through the system and he has his own Rasputin-David Axelrod--- whose mother was a communist and father a leftist labor leader. They wrote for the communist party newspaper, The Daily Worker.Obama will appease Iran Cuba and Venezuela. He's a devoted leftist. He has a socialist agenda-I believe he and his wife hate America.Hes going to take us down. Many people are starting to see the real Obama-a leftist anti-American.He wants gun control.He wants to downsize the military.He wants to let Iran have nuclear weapons.He wants to appease the United Nations.He wants to put us into debt even more.He will marginalize the Republican Party(they also are to blame)He has reduced the effectiveness of the Patriot Act.He will draw us into a Vietnam style war in Afghanistan.He will abandon Israel who we have moral, democratic and security goals with.He wants to give up sovereignty issues with Mexico.He will tolerate nothing from conservatives and accuse the conservatives of being right wing extremists-this will give our security services mandates to investigate and prosecute through the US Atty's office.He has groveled to the Mexicans on the drug war, he has already made a deal with Iran(they are laughing at us) Iran has already announced they are the regional power.Obama is also pushing "Change" which means a Socialist agenda for America and will push us into isolationism.David Axelrod is behind all this and is informing our internal policy makers we will back off of security arrangements with other countries because of the economy.There is a great protest starting among our military and intelligence leaders. They are shocked at Obams's relationships in the national security community-leftists, socialists and anti-Americans.This in itself is not good for our democracy.It has also become obvious Obama is inexperienced and letting the philosophy of appeasement take over our policy making establishment.