Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth (24 page)

Gadhafi had given up being an enemy of the United States, and for all his faults, was able to keep political order and restrain the chaos that is now engulfing Libya. Yet, after Gadhafi’s death at the hands of a mob, Hillary Clinton joked, “We came, we saw, he died,”
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no doubt to the shrill laughter of her friends in high places.

In fact, if Gadhafi was still in power, four Americans who lost their lives in the Benghazi attack might well be alive today. It’s my conviction that their blood is on this administration’s hands. The administration’s handling of the Benghazi massacre has had devastating implications for America’s foreign policy and our ability to be the world’s leader in the fight against terrorism and for freedom. As one commentator put it, “The longer the Obama presidency continues, the more America’s status as a superpower ebbs away.”
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Is it so far-fetched to believe that the administration knew that Libya was a tinderbox of insurgency and terrorism and that Gadhafi’s removal was the spark that would set it ablaze?

On a related note, why does the administration keep supporting Palestine?

While he was meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, Kerry announced that the United States was sending Palestine an additional $75 million in aid. The announcement came only hours after an Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist as the soldier was riding on a bus in the city of Afula, Israel.
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Meanwhile, in the midst of the political, military, and economic chaos brought about by the lack of U.S. leadership in the Middle East, the president told the United Nations General Assembly that the world is more stable today than it was five years ago.

Do you know how many wars are going on in the world today? More than sixty. And there are more than five hundred different armies and militias and separatist groups that are conducting these armed engagements.
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That’s the administration’s idea of “stable.”

Pick just about any country in the Middle East, and you’ll see that America has looked the other way or outright supported the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the increase in terrorist activity that goes hand in hand with it.

Sunni rebels stage terror attacks because the Obama administration couldn’t be bothered to develop a status of forces agreement with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki that would have kept U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Baghdad is the scene of terrorist attacks and bombings almost every day, and the level of violence has been growing steadily since the current U.S. administration turned its attention away from Iraq. More than eight thousand Iraqis were killed in 2013 alone as the level of insurgency, supported by Iran, skyrocketed.
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In the early summer of 2014, the terrorist group ISIS, which
some call more violent that al Qaeda, staged an offensive that saw them overrun several Iraqi cities and move aggressively toward Baghdad.
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Do you remember when the president announced that the United States would not install the missile defense system that we had promised to Poland? When he did that, he not only left our Eastern European ally without a way to stop potential Iranian missile attacks, he sent a message of weakness to Russia as well.

Now he’s done it again. Israel, working with the U.S. company Raytheon, has developed a missile defense system called David’s Sling, and our former Middle East ally had contracted to sell the system to Poland. That was until we stepped in and vetoed the sale of David’s Sling to Poland.
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The reason?

One U.S. official said this: “The decision was based on a very simple factor—Israel was a major player in the deal.”

It was a $13 billion deal.

Once again, we prevented our allies from stopping the spread of Islamist and communist aggression.

Our reputation in the Middle East shrinks, and the rest of the world takes notice.

The same thing is happening in the Far East.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thumbed his nose at the president when he restarted his nuclear reactors and moved ahead with his country’s development of nuclear weapons.

China, through state-run media outlets including China Central TV and the
People’s Daily
, has publicly announced its plans to use its submarine fleet to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. They went as far as releasing a map that shows how much damage the attack will bring to the western
United States.
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By early 2014, reports released by Chinese state media indicated that they were preparing to use force to seize the island of Zhongye, one of the Senkaku Islands whose ownership is disputed by the Philippines and China.
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Because of this, and because of America’s weak foreign policy, Japan is now contemplating transferring its weaponry to other Asian countries in order to work with them as allies against China’s growing militancy. In a meeting with representatives of the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan addressed the question of China’s “unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force.”
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To give you a sense of how much the balance of power in the world has shifted away from the United States, when the United Nations Security Council—the United States, China, France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia—began to participate in negotiations with Iran, which country do you think actually stood up and spoke out against the pending Geneva agreement? It wasn’t the United States. The normally meek and unassertive French negotiators assured Israel that they would stand firm against an Iran deal.
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Adding to the mess of U.S. foreign policy is the spreading scandal at the National Security Agency. German chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of Europe’s most economically powerful nation, vented her anger at the administration for turning the U.S. spy agency against America’s allies. This was in response to the revelation that the NSA had been tapping Merkel’s private phone conversations for years, even before she became chancellor.
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It doesn’t stop there.

The day before talks were scheduled to begin in Geneva in mid-February 2014, Iran declared once again, “The Zionist
regime is an illegitimate and bastard regime.” At the same time, Pakistan was said to have nuclear weapons ready to deliver to Saudi Arabia so that it could defend itself against a possible Iranian nuclear attack.
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With the foreign policy of the United States in shambles, our traditional enemies, from Iran to China to Russia to North Korea, are emboldened. To them we appear weak, uncertain, and unable to decide whether we support our traditional allies, including Israel and the European Union nations, or not.

Even the Pentagon is concerned.

Chinese military technology advances are proceeding at an alarming rate. It recently tested an ultra-high-speed missile that will enable it to send nuclear warheads to targets around the world at hypersonic speeds. The technology amounts to what one U.S. official describes as a “jet-powered, atmospheric cruise missile” which can reach speeds of nearly 8,000 miles per hour.

Although we’re still far and away the number one military power on the planet, China has its eyes on our perch, and with the advances it’s making in military technology, we may not hold that position for much longer.
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Sir Hew Strachan, a senior security advisor from Great Britain, said this about the United States’ foreign policy: “Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world.”
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We know that Saudi Arabia has been supporting Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons and that the Saudis have already ordered nuclear missiles from Pakistan. Pakistan is prepared to deliver those weapons to the Saudis at a moment’s notice. The Saudis have found it necessary to develop a new source for protecting their borders from invasion, because the United States has effectively deserted Saudi Arabia as we
move toward what appears to be a U.S.-Iranian alliance against Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.

Our negotiations with Iran—our secretly lifting sanctions against our avowed terrorist enemy—represent the clearest indication of how far we’ve moved from being an ally of Israel, and yet the Jewish community in the United States is silent today.

In fact, with the United States seeming to desert Israel, the Jewish state is left with only one choice: to exercise its military strength against Iran. Such an attack—which, because of the U.S.’s secret negotiations with Iran, would have to be done on its own—would make Israel look like a warmonger. It would make the Israelis outcasts among the nations of the world.

Israel had the chance to attack Iran and stop that country’s development of nuclear weapons years ago, but it failed to exercise that option. I believe that the reason Israel did not attack Iran was that they feared they would insult and offend their American ally.

Look what that loyalty got them.

In my view, that American ally has turned its back on Israel and formed an alliance with the most dangerous terrorist nation in the world.

While the administration effectively neutered an Israeli military response to Iran, it is entirely possible that U.S. foreign policy has set the stage for a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran. If that happens, Saudi Arabia—formerly protected by its alliance with the United States—may well have to respond alone to an Iranian military attack. If that scenario occurs, Saudi Arabia will surely lose. It would likely lose because Iran would not hesitate to use its nukes against the Saudis. It is also possible that with the Saudis’ possessing
nuclear weapons, the Middle East could be the staging ground for a broader nuclear war.

Couple the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite factions with the dramatic increase in radical Islamist violence against the West and the United States’s ongoing withdrawal from the region, and you have the ingredients for a cataclysmic event. With a future that includes a nuclear-armed Iran, that event could be biblical in scope.

If there is anything to the old adage that information is power, and I think there is, then the NSA is already the most powerful entity known to man. Its mission is to simply achieve and maintain control over the private information of every citizen and every business and governmental organization in the world.

The question is: Despite the fact that we’re capturing so much information, much of it about the activities and communications of Americans, are we actually decreasing the chances of terrorist attacks against America?

In early 2014, California senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that 54 terrorist “events” had been “interrupted” by the NSA, including 13 on American soil, 25 in Europe, 11 in Asia, and five in Africa.

Even then-NSA director general Keith Alexander couldn’t let that lie stand. He corrected Feinstein, admitting that at most one terrorist plot had been thwarted.

Do you know the details of the “terrorist event” that the NSA had intervened on? It involved a cab driver in San Diego
who sent $8,500 to a group in Somalia that had been identified as a terrorist group.
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The NSA is defining
terrorism
downward in order to justify its existence as an illegal data-grabbing behemoth.

As information is said to be power, power is said to be intoxicating. Barack Obama campaigned initially on “transparency in government.” Now he oversees and defends an illegal entity that gathers Americans’ private information and has a budget three times the size of the CIA’s. Let me tell you again how big the NSA is. It can intercept and capture communications that contain as many words as there are in the Library of Congress. It does that incomprehensible feat every six hours. The agency’s Fort Meade headquarters consists of a campus that covers five thousand acres, and its electrical bill is over $70 million a year.
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That’s the transparency that the president promised.

To put the administration’s priorities in perspective, while it was collecting and stockpiling our most personal information, it didn’t spot a convicted terrorist who attended a meeting in the Cannon Office Building on Capitol Hill—even though he was still under house arrest.

It happened on December 5, 2013.

A group called the Egypt Freedom Foundation held a conference protesting the ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Ahmed Bedier, the group’s president, had long been associated with the Council on American-Islamist Relations (CAIR), another group that has gained a foothold with the current administration.

Here is what several prominent U.S. public figures have to say about CAIR:

Sen. Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes
it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.” Sen. Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.”
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And this infiltration of Capitol Hill pales in comparison with what’s going on in the White House itself.

In 2004, the FBI uncovered the intentions of Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States to infiltrate our government and undermine it “from within” in a document seized during a raid on the home of a suspected terrorist.
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Ten years later, as many as six suspected Islamist sympathizers are advising this administration on foreign policy.

One of these advisors is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council who attends meetings in the White House despite the fact that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and has tweeted that he considers “the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution.”
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