Thursday, August 29, 2013
What does it say about the POTUS, when our closet ally who's shared foxholes for over 100 years with us is rejected and told ~> Son, you're on your own?
To Britain's citizens: America applauds your decision, it's all good. To David Cameron, America will rejoice when Britain's citizens send your a$$ packing.
Nick Dranias holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair for Constitutional Government and is Director of the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute. On August 22, 2013, he testified at a Congressional Field Hearing on IRS and EPA abuse. Dick Durbin, Assistant Majority Leader in the US Senate, sent an intrusive and abusive letter to Goldwater Institute, and the IRS has obstructed, via delay, Dranius' efforts at Compact for America.
Under any normal circumstance Barracuda Brigade's reaction would be, "Lets Roll." However, America has a Muslim Brotherhood member as POTUS.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief said a US military attack on Syria would lead to the “imminent destruction” of Israel and would prove a “second Vietnam” for America, according to an Iranian news agency.
Shiite Muslim Iran, an arch-enemy of Israel, is supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad against mainly Sunni Muslim rebels trying to oust him in a two-and-a-half-year-old revolt.
Iran has blamed the rebels for a suspected chemical weapons on August 21 that killed hundreds of civilians. Opposition activists blame Assad’s forces, Washington has agreed and President Barack Obama made the case for a limited military strike against Syria in response to the chemical attack.
Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in an interview late on Wednesday with the Tasnim news agency that a U.S. strike on Syria would not help Israel.
“An attack on Syria will mean the imminent destruction of Israel,” Jafari said, according to Tasnim.
More: Ynet
Sources told NOW that Hezbollah has not yet taken a conclusive decision on the nature and scope of the party’s retaliation.
Hezbollah has declared a state of alert among its cadres and started deploying troops to southern Lebanon amid mounting expectations of an imminent US-led strike on Syria, party sources told NOW.
The Shiite party’s leadership is holding local, regional and international talks to follow up on the nature and results of such a strike, the sources said, adding the party is also taking into consideration all options regarding the manner of dealing with the potential attack.
The US and its top Western allies in recent days vowed to take action against the Bashar al-Assad regime after accusing it of being behind the chemical attack outside Damascus last Wednesday that reportedly left hundreds dead.
Although President Barack Obama said in an interview with PBS Wednesday he had not yet approved an attack on Syria, reports indicate the US and its Western allies are deploying military assets to the Mediterranean in preparation for a potential strike.
Despite the growing reports of an imminent military operation, sources told NOW that Hezbollah has not yet taken a conclusive decision on the nature and scope of the party’s retaliation.
The party's leadership is keeping all options open in following-up and coordinating with its allies in Iran, Syria and Russia, the sources added.
However, they claimed a Western strike on Syria would not harm Hezbollah’s status in Lebanon because the Shiite party is strong in Lebanon and has extensive popular and political capacities.
Anyone betting in Lebanon on weakening the party due to the strike on Syria would be mistaken and delusional, they added.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah’s caretaker Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan said that his party was monitoring the situation in Syria and would respond with “the necessary action at the appropriate time.”
“Hezbollah is following up with the issue and observing and will take the necessary action at the appropriate time,” Hajj Hassan told Al-Mayadeen television.
Hezbollah’s top ally, Iran, has issued in the past week a series of implicit threats and warnings over a potential strike against Syria, with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning any “US intervention will be a disaster for the region.”
“The region is like a gunpowder depot. [Its] future cannot be predicted,” he added in an address Wednesday.
Hezbollah has thrown its weight behind the embattled Assad and sent its militants to Syria to fight on the side of the regime against rebels. The leader of the Shiite party publicly linked his group’s fate to that of the regime in a speech in May and vowed that Hezbollah would emerge victorious in the fighting in Syria.
This article is a translation of the original Arabic.
Okay, now imagine living in Israel today, and trying to sleep there tonight. Barracuda Brigade is praying literally 24x7 for Israel's safety. We know with God on their side and Bibi leading them, they couldn't be better positioned to face this threat, but.
Threats from the north, south, east, west, from nearby and from afar. That’s the gist of an alarming map graphic that the Israeli Embassy in the U.S. posted this week.
“Some may say the map is alarmist,” the embassy said in a community post on BuzzFeed. “Undeniably, the map is our geopolitical reality, and we will be vigilant in protecting our people and our borders.”
“Threats Facing Israel, Explained In One (Sort Of Terrifying) Map,” reads the headline.
Text on the map describes the myriad of threats: terror organization Hezbollah’s arsenal of 70,000 rockets in Lebanon which Israel says can hit all parts of Israel; Syria, where President Bashar Assad’s army possesses chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and where global radical Islamists are now also amassing; Gaza, where Hamas possesses 10,000 rockets; the West Bank where radical forces oppose Palestinian Authority rule; and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt which has become a lawless magnet for Al Qaeda-linked groups.
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