VP Biden Tells Us What We Don't Want To Know

Biden or as we refer to him, the "uncensored mouth", continues to give us insight into the thinking (or lack thereof) that occurs in the White House. To think that they do not see the dangers of radical Islam or the issues raised by the Arab Spring is scary!  How can an Administration be so out of touch with reality? Are they naive? Or is it paranoid to think that it might be part of a long term plan to weaken the United States?

Our personal opinion is that they cannot be so naive or out of touch so that leaves us with only one answer. They have been planning this and it is part of what our future looks like.  We know that sounds paranoid but what else can you think? 

Here are some of the issues that concern us:

   1.  Why would we leave Iraq without success?

   2.  Why do we encourage the Arab Spring when we read that its leaders are anti-US?

   3.  Why do we criticize and demean our only ally in the Middle East--Israel?

   4.  Why do we not take actions to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons?

   5.  Why do we mistreat Pakistan and then wonder why they do not cooperate with us?

   6.  Why do we not recognize radical Islam as a threat to world peace?

These are only a few of the conflicts with reality that we see in the Obama Administration. It is becoming very clear that there is intentional!

What are your opinion?

Read the following piece by Barry Rubin for more insight.

Conservative Tom

Biden Makes It Seem As If You Can Only Be an Enemy of U.S. Interests If You Attack the World Trade Center

Barry Rubin - Rubin Reports,  December 20th, 2011

Vice President Joe Biden has given a very revealing interview with Newsweek. In it, he confirms my consistent analysis that the administration defines the U.S. problem with revolutionary Islamism as only involving al-Qaeda. It cannot be stressed enough why this policy is so extraordinarily dangerous.

Why? The irony is that while the Obama administration refuses to use the expression “War on Terrorism,” this is precisely how they have defined the entire U.S. strategy, although one might also call it the “War on the Perpetrators of September 11.” What is missing here is any dealing with major strategic issues.

It is true that September 11 and other massive terrorist attacks are of huge significance. But there’s a whole world out there. Revolutionary Islamists are taking over the Middle East, moving toward the rule over tens of millions of people, getting nuclear weapons, carrying out subversion and terrorism against U.S. allies, and inciting hatred of the United States and a passionate desire to hurt it.

Among the countries where anti-American Islamists are in power — however they conceal their views and goals — are the following: Egypt, Gaza Strip, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey. Syria is their ally and so, to a certain extent, is Qatar. Pakistan often covertly supports such forces as well. The list of those supporting this stance is far longer than those on the other side.

The Obama administration has consistently underestimated the growth and spread of Islamism. No, let me go further: It basically claims that the phenomenon doesn’t exist at all. Worse still, like someone faced with fire who pours gasoline on everything in its path, the Obama administration is doing things that worsen the situation by backing radical Islamists and systematically failing to support their intended victims.

To be fair to Biden, however, it is understandable that he must downplay the Taliban threat in this case because he is justifying the coming U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet what he says is far more revealing in a damaging way than the superficial criticism — Biden says Taliban is not our enemy — misses.

Regarding al-Qaeda, Obama said that the American goal in Afghanistan is “to fundamentally alter their capacity to do damage to American allies and vital U.S. interests….” Yet what about the other, far larger, more powerful, and more dangerous groups that are doing that?

The interviewer, the very capable Leslie Gelb (a liberal Democrat foreign policy establishment guy who nonetheless sounds very unconvinced by Biden), asks: “…Depending upon who comes to power in Afghanistan in the future, they [al-Qaeda] can come back.” And Biden responds, “I would argue they are not able to come back. I would argue that there has been serious damage done to their infrastructure in a way that the coherence of this thing called al-Qaeda and their ability to metastasize has been severely damaged.”

This is naïve to say the least. Al-Qaeda is functioning very seriously in Yemen, Somalia, and other places. You don’t kill a terrorist organization that has always been profoundly decentralized by killing a few leaders. But, again, what about new versions of al-Qaeda?

The main criticism of Biden has quoted him as saying that the Taliban is not an enemy of the United States, but that’s a misinterpretation of his words. What he actually says is something far more stupid in policy terms. The Taliban, he explains, “is not our enemy” unless it is in power. To quote him precisely:

“If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.” So the Afghan government should “be strong enough that they can negotiate with and not be overthrown by the Taliban. And at the same time try to get the Taliban to move in the direction to see to it that they, through reconciliation, commit not to be engaged with al-Qaeda or any other organization that they would harbor to do damage to us and our allies….”

So he argues that, worst case, the Taliban can be kept from returning to power and, best case, they can be moderated. Of course, he underestimates the Taliban, even though he hints that it enjoys Pakistan’s support, and overestimates the Afghan government. And, of course, since he has no concept of the Taliban’s revolutionary Islamist ideology (God told us to do it), he simply cannot comprehend that this is not an ideologically flexible group.

This, of course, also applies to the administration’s entire Middle East policy. Ironically, the Arab equivalents of the Taliban are getting into power, often with U.S. help or even approval, everywhere. But the Obama administration believes that they will “move in the direction…through reconciliation” not to oppose U.S. interests and allies.

It should be needless to say — but it is highly necessary to say it constantly — that this is not based on any evidence whatsoever.

The Taliban created a safe haven for terrorists because it hates America and all non-Islamist governments. If, for instance, al-Qaeda were to be totally destroyed but the Taliban cameMoreover, al-Qaeda leaders have taken refuge in Iran and are operating from there. We know this because U.S. intelligence people have leaked detailed information to the mass media.

Guess what? That safe haven scenario is precisely the situation developing in the anarchical Sinai right now. In the past, Hizballah also provided safe haven to terrorists operating against the United States and has done so itself. In Egypt, even if you were to excuse the Muslim Brotherhood as “moderate,” groups that obviously preach anti-American terrorism are getting 20 to 30 percent of the vote. And if you actually read speeches by Muslim Brotherhood leaders being candid in Arabic, they sound like al-Qaeda.

Here is Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad al-Badi in October 2010: The United States is immoral, doomed to collapse, and “experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading towards its demise.” Thus, Muslims “crucially need to understand that the improvement and change that the [Muslim] nation seeks can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just as the enemies pursue life.”

With friends (and moderates?) like these who needs Osama bin Laden?