Category: Foreign Affairs
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 25, 2011 in Arrogance, Bamboozling, Current Affairs, Democrats, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Hoodwinking, Media Bias, Medicare, PM Gordon Brown, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Satire, United Kingdom | 152 Comments
That is the headline of this entertaining, and accurate, assessment of Obama’s Ireland visit by James Delingpole, “O’Bama? Ph, Puh-lease!“. Many of us saw his visit there as overblown, but only someone in the UK could pull this off: Ah Bejaysus and Begorrah! Oi’ll be swearin’ boi the auld shrine to the Vorgin with the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 24, 2011 in Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Gender Bias, Human Rights, Misogyny, President Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, State Department | 70 Comments
You are never going to believe this. A woman in Saudi Arabia had the AUDACITY to get behind the wheel of a car. The nerve of her! Who does she think she is, wanting to drive herself. Good grief, what IS the world coming to, I ask you?! Ahem. I wish I could tell you [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 20, 2011 in AfPak Border, Asia, Censorship, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pakistan | 49 Comments
It was embarrassing enough for the people of Pakistan to find out that Osama bin Laden was living in their midst for years. Even more shameful was the realization that their politicians are incapable of questioning the security apparatus of the country. The masses rallied and protested and faced hardships for months to kick General [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 19, 2011 in Benjamin Netanyahu, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Israel, Middle East, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, Women and Children | 70 Comments
Update below the fold. President Obama made quite the speech today on the Middle East, including Israel, our ally, right before Prime Minister Netanyahu visits. And oh, what an, um, interesting speech it was. If you have the time, inclination, and intestinal fortitude to watch Obama deliver it, and I warn you, he does go [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 18, 2011 in 9/11, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Asia, Defense, DoD, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Media, Print, Muslim, Pakistan, Pentagon, State Department, Taliban, Terrorism | 25 Comments
One of the most familiar story lines in the beloved comic strip “Peanuts” involved malicious prankster Lucy holding a football and encouraging poor Charlie Brown to kick it. At the last moment, Lucy would pull the football away. Year after year after year, Lucy played Charlie Brown for a sucker. The football remained unkicked. So [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 9, 2011 in Al Qaeda, CIA, Chicago politics, Commander in Chief, Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Federal Agencies, Cabinets and Departments, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Governance, Hoodwinking, Muslims & Arabs, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Pandering, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Richard Daley, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett | 115 Comments
“The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 7, 2011 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Muslims & Arabs, National Security, Pakistan, Terrorism | 173 Comments
That would be Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, to name just two. Yep, Hamas has “condemned” the killing: While many Middle East leaders welcomed America’s military action, the mixed reaction across the region cast a shadow over both the “Arab Spring” and the future of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. [...] The Hamas prime [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 2, 2011 in 9/11, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Commander in Chief, Crime, Current Affairs, Defense, DoD, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, George Bush, Guantanamo, Homeland Security, India, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Media, Blogs, Media, Print, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, NATO, National Security, Pakistan, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Southwest Asia, State Department, Terrorism, World News | 83 Comments
Bin Ladin is dead. Again. In the last ten years he has been reported “killed” at least four times. The only difference this time was that the President of the United States announced the death of the number one terrorist in the world. Above all, this time he was killed not in Tora Bora, not [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 2, 2011 in 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bush administration, CIA, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, DoD, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Muslim, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 132 Comments
Update below the fold. I had another post all ready to go this morning of Lara Logan’s interview on “60 Minutes,” but that can keep until tomorrow. Today, the big news, as President Obama announced late last night, Osama bin Laden has been killed. The reports have been a bit conflicting on just how he [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 9, 2011 in Foreign Affairs, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Middle East, Misogyny, Muslims & Arabs, Women | 54 Comments
* Bumped Up * Again? So it would seem. This time, it is in Palestine by Hamas Security officers. But I bet you haven’t heard a word about it, have you? Had it not been for Phyllis Chesler, I wouldn’t have known, either. In Chesler’s excellent post, “Arab Spring: Male-on-Female Atrocities In Gaza Disappeared By [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 5, 2011 in Afghanistan, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Crime, Current Affairs, Death Threats, Florida, Foreign Affairs, Islam, Jihadists, Muslim | 265 Comments
* Bumped Up * Update below the fold. I could barely believe my eyes when I saw this headline, “Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill UN Staff.” This is not a joke. If it were, it would be a sick one, but the reality is much, much worse. Indeed, a mob of over 20,000 [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 31, 2011 in Abuse, California, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Egypt, Forced Prostitution, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Iran, Linda Anselmi, Misogyny, Pakistan, Sexism, Texas, Women and Children, Women's History Month | 40 Comments
I freely admit, I did not see this one coming. My friend and fellow NQ writer, Linda Anselmi, shared the following article with me, most appropos for bringing to an end Women’s History Month. And that would be this Bloomberg article, Saudi Women Inspired by Fall of Mubarak Step Up Equality Demand. Wow, right? Honestly, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 31, 2011 in Al Qaeda, Arrogance, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Governance, Jihadists, Middle East, Muslims & Arabs, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department | 77 Comments
* Bumped Up * Did you guess the Muslim Brotherhood? If so, you would have been right. Yes, CNN had this report, Energized Muslim Brotherhood in Libya Eyes A Prize. Oh, great. Well that’s just jake. And this is no joke. It is far, far from funny. It has been a plan long in the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 18, 2011 in Arrogance, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Gender Bias, Japan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Women | 243 Comments
I suppose that can be taken a number of different ways considering all that is going on in the world with Japan fighting desperately to deal with after-effects of the massive earthquake(s) and tsunami there*, Libya bombing its own people, gasoline prices skyrocketing which makes food prices skyrocket, and on and on… But for the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 22, 2011 in Abuse, Anti-Semitism, Crime, Current Affairs, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Israel, Misogyny, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 75 Comments
More and more information is coming out about the treatment women reporters in Egypt have been enduring for some time now. The horrendous attack on Lara Logan seems to have opened the floodgates for other women journalists to acknowledge with what they have been dealing for years now. That many of them felt they had [...]