Forward to the Past

THE ILLEGITIMATE C.C.P. puppet-in-chief occupying the White House, Joe Biden, is unable to think, but he does have reflexes, even if they may be slower than ever. 

Biden’s latest anti-Trump reflex concerns Somalia. On Monday, by use of a unilateral order, he redeployed hundreds of troops to the nation in the Horn of Africa, ostensibly to counter Islamic extremists in the rebel group al-Shabab. This was is complete contravention of what the Trump administration had done to try to end forever wars.

The 45th President Donald Trump eventually withdrew our 700 remaining forces from Somalia in mid-January of 2021, after American troops had been risking their lives for nearly two decades, since 1992. Two years in, there had been a temporary withdrawal in 1994, after the humiliating “Black Hawk Down” incident where Somalia militiamen shot down two U.S. helicopters, killing 18 of our servicemen. A brief history is here. Somalia has never been off the American radar screen for long. By 2007, the U.S. military was supporting the Federal Government of Somalia in counterterrorism measures in the ongoing and seemingly never-ending War on Terror after 9/11. The Obama regime increased American presence there and Trump continued it until 2021. (A little more history here.) Now, it appears, the Biden regime is Obama 2.0 and Obama is apparently Biden’s immediate handler.

Al-Shabab is the largest, wealthiest affiliate of al-Qaeda, the extremist Islamic organization whose name means “the youth” and which is highly radicalized. (I always suspected Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was al-Shabab, but cannot prove it.) Pentagon press secretary John Kirby claims Americans will not be directly engaged in combat missions, but of course, that leaves a lot of operations to be embroiled in. Americans will definitely be training Somali forces, for example, and it sounds as though they will be targeting about a dozen suspected leaders of al-Shabab.

The move came after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requested it “to reestablish a persistent U.S. military presence in Somalia to enable a more effective fight against al-Shabab, which has increased in strength and poses a heightened threat,” according to a Washington Times anonymous source. It also comes after a protracted election in Somalia where Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won a presidential election. (He had been president between 2012 and 2017.) Forward to the past…

We Came. We Saw. Albright All Dead.

March 26, 2022

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT was the first woman to be appointed as Secretary of State in 1997 under then-President Bill Clinton. She served as ambassador to the U.N. previously. In 2012, then-President Obama awarded her the Medal of Freedom. She died, age 84, from cancer on Wednesday.

The Clintons loved her, so that should tell you something about this Prague native. Among other things, she encouraged NATO to be the world’s policemen in Kosovo after the fall of the U.S.S.R. in 1999. It established a precedent for later wars of aggression, such as Bush’s invasion of Iraq, and yes, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

She was also instrumental in enforcing harsh sanctions against Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein through the 1990s that starved Iraqi civilians of food and killed them from lack of medicines. When asked by the CBS TV news-magazine “60 Minutes” in 1996 whether the Iraqi sanctions after the 1991 Gulf war were worth it, she replied they were, despite resultant deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children, a figure Albright did not bother to dispute. (Eventually it was estimated up to 1.5 million Iraqis had died as a result of the sanctions, probably rising to the scale of a genocide.) Osama bin Laden later said the cruel sanctions were one of the primary reasons for al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Albright thought then, as the imposter in the White House, Joe Biden, does today, that sanctions would force the nation to capitulate and cause the population to overthrow their leader. It didn’t work any better back then than it does today, but Biden was probably too busy then beating up Corn Pop outside the gym to notice. Time will tell if the analogy stops there, or if, like the pretext of WMDs being used to rationalize the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the pretext of chemical or bio-weapons will justify a possible U.S. invasion of Russia for regime change. (There were no WMDs and hopefully there will be no chem- or bio-weapons, but one cannot trust reporting on it as a contemporaneous matter given recent history of ‘mistakes.’)

Before we venerate a woman such as Albright, perhaps we should think about how we might feel if another country, say, Russia, just for giggles, did to us what Albright did to them. Would they call us what our own call Putin: a worse-than-Hitler soulless war-criminal killer madman? The MSM is not clear on this.