The King Barry Open,( Another Day In The Life Of Our Putt-Putt President)

Sometimes a round of golf is just a round of golf. And sometimes it reveals the ­essence of a man. President Obama’s decision to hit the links and yuk it up with pals immediately after speaking about the beheading of James ­Foley was no ordinary mistake. Nor was it a simple gaffe. The decision continues to cause an uproar because, like an X-ray, there is no escaping the image. It shows there is no there there. With even his media praetorian guard appalled, the golf outing is sparking a wider understanding that Obama is hollow, empty of the routine qualities Americans expect from their president. Simple decency and respect for Foley’s horrified parents should have been enough to sober him. If that didn’t do it, the realization that the Islamic State had declared war on America in the most gruesome fashion imaginable should have sounded a call of duty in his head. Instead, Obama continued with his vacation and was photographed looking as if he didn’t have a care in the world. Suddenly, that megawatt smile that often charmed voters wasn’t so charming. It was vacuous. He looked like an empty-headed frat boy, numb to the world. Maybe that’s not just an appearance. Maybe it’s the truth. Maybe that’s all there is. It is a bitter idea to consider. To say he is a failed president, even unfit, but the reality is...it's the truth! Bill Clinton told Americans, “I feel your pain.” What if Obama doesn’t give a whit what Americans feel? As commander in chief, Obama swore to defend the nation. Yet the rise of the demonic cult calling itself Islamic State has barely stirred him. The group he once ridiculed as being like the al Qaeda junior varsity has achieved what Osama bin Laden never did: It controls a huge swath of territory in Syria and Iraq. It is so bloodthirsty that some jihadist groups shun its brand of barbarism as too indiscriminate. Most important, it makes threats against America, saying, “We will drown all of you in blood.” It vows to raise its black flag over the White House and threatened ­Chicago and other cities. All of this, especially the beheading of Foley and the threat to kill another American journalist it holds, are aimed at stopping even modest US support for the Iraqi army. Yet the president, after giving a perfunctory speech about the horror of it all, shrugged his shoulders. Later, his attorney general said a criminal investigation had been opened, as if the beheading was just a crime. It is hard to fathom what Obama is doing or thinking. No explanation comes close to being satisfactory. With fellow Democrats faulting him, and with threats to America multiplying, it is impossible to excuse his conduct on the grounds of ignorance. If he only knows what the public sees, that would be more than enough to develop a strategy. Indeed, it’s possible his military advisers are going public with terrifying claims about the terrorist group because they, too, are alarmed by his passivity. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, normally low-key, said of the Islamic State: “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen. So we must prepare for everything.” Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called it “an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated.” His use of the word “defeated” was in contrast to Obama, who talked only of “containing” the ­Islamic State when he approved limited airstrikes. There was, of course, another response from the president last week. After the storm started over the golf outing, White House officials confirmed there had been a secret raid to free Foley and ­others in July, but it failed. The release of such classified information ignited a second round of fury, with not a few critics accusing the president of playing politics. Nonsense. He doesn’t care about politics. The raid was ­revealed to protect the only thing he does care about: himself.

My Take On the Conflict In Israel ( Braveheart of the Middle East)

Everyone has their own views and opinions in regards to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, specifically Israel and Palestine. Most people that I talk to think that we should not be involved whatsoever, and that Israelis and Hamas (Palestinian Sunni Islamic organization, with an associated military wing.Since 2007, it has governed the Gaza Strip), should fight it out on their own. They believe that it is none of our business and that we should stop trying to be world police. Now while I agree that our government does, from time to time get involved when they shouldn't, this is one fight that we have to be in. Israel represents freedom in that region, and the bottom line and the truth of the matter regardless of what the left wing media tells you, they want to live in peace with the Palestinians. They believe that they have a right to be a country there, and unlike the Palestinians, they have no problem sharing the land. In fact Israel is a bi-lingual country with over 20% of the population being Muslim. That does not include the Gaza strip or the West Bank where there is a minority Jewish population. On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948. Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states. The roots of the conflict can be traced to the late 19th century, with the rise of national movements, including Zionism and Arab nationalism. Though the Jewish aspiration to return to Zion had been part of Jewish religious thought for more than a millennium, the Jewish population of Europe and to some degree Middle East began to more actively discuss immigration back to the Land of Israel, and the re-establishment of the Jewish Nation, only during the 1859 to 1880s, largely as a solution to the widespread persecution of Jews due to antisemitism in Russia and Europe. As a result, the Zionist movement, the modern movement for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people, was established as a political movement in 1897. Ever since then, Muslim factions have done everything they can to drive the Jews out. Fact is they would rather see their own people dead before they share the land. (which is evident with the way Hamas hides behind the Palestinian civilians). If we do nothing to help these two nations to live in peace, and the crazy raghead terrorist who want to kill all that do not live as they do, get a hold of the nukes that Israel currently hold...well then that's all folks! I believe that to stand with Israel is to stand for freedom!