President Obama to Request UN Permission to Fight Terrorism

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaking in reference to the hopes for a unanimous approval by the Security Council on measures that nations will be granted to take to fight the return of terrorists from foreign conflicts which threaten their nations was quoted referring to the Islamist State terrorists stating, that foreign fighters like those in Iraq and Syria participate in “brutal atrocities” becoming radicalized and their returning to their home country they were “posing threats of the most profound kind to their fellow citizens.” Her statements came during discussions of a United Nations Security Council Resolution being sought by the United States under the direction of President Obama which would set up and organize individual nations to coordinate and cooperate in addressing the threats posed by these returning fighters and an avenue to curb the flow of their citizens to war zones. Ambassador Power stressed the point that should the Security Council pass a resolution setting up an avenue and organizes the steps for nations then “a huge amount of hard work” will be required by the countries to curb the flow of fighters, tackling their financing and counter violent extremism. She also noted that there exist Russians, Germans, Canadians and French fighting with the terrorists in these foreign war zones that could potentially return to their native countries and pose extreme threats to their homelands. Estimates place around fifty Americans presently fighting in Syria and Iraq which President Obama is seeking to have methodologies put in place by the United Nations Security Council permitting the United States to join with other nations in addressing these threats and possibly preventing the problem from growing even more serious.

 

So, let us see if we have this correct. The President of the United States is turning to the United Nations to request that they set up the guidelines and approve the actions that nations are to be allowed to take in order to protect their citizens from the dangers that returning jihadists might pose emanating from their becoming exposed to extremist doctrines and activities which might have radicalized them making them more prone to committing violent acts against their native countrymen once they return from fighting with terrorists. President hopes that the United Nations Security Council will provide him with the tools and recommend actions which would permit the United States to prevent future Americans from going to support and fight with the Jihadi terrorist groups, particularly those in Syria and Iraq as well as other hot spots across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as empowering nations in taking actions addressing and mitigating the threats caused by those already fighting with these terrorist groups worldwide. President Obama cannot actually think that he needs the blessings and permission of the United Nations to take measures which would protect the United States from these dangerous jihadists returning from terrorist trainings and fighting in foreign wars. President Obama has to realize that there are already laws which the United States has at its disposal in order to fight this problem and that the permission and blessings of the United Nations are completely irrelevant to this situation. Perhaps President Obama is looking for guidance and actual steps which the United Nations has laid out and approved so that if any efforts taken by President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and whatever other cabinet secretaries or department heads are included in these United Nations approved actions will be able to fall back on the excuse that the United Nations had defined and limited their actions should their actions fail to prevent every possible terrorist act which one of these returning jihadists might perform or terrorist actions they might plan and execute. Perhaps this is some grand stratagem simply to provide the President and the entire Administration with plausible deniability while placing the blame for any and all failures squarely on the fact that the United Nations prescribed the steps which were acceptable to the world and placing these limitations on the Administration in fighting any and all potentialities resulting from returning jihadists.

 

Making all of this nonsense of going to the United Nations Security Council to formalize those steps permissible and for furthering cooperation between nations in fighting jihadist terrorism was in the same source of news as an article on the steps taken, completely without any consultations with the United Nations or coordination with other nations around the world to receive approvals from any outside entities by the King of Saudi Arabia. It was reported that back in February the King of Saudi Arabia decreed jail sentences of up to twenty years for simply belonging to “terrorist groups” and fighting abroad as an additional step to deter Islamist Saudis from becoming jihadists. The article further reported that Saudi Arabia, acting on these simple steps put forth unilaterally by the King of Saudi Arabia they across the board blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as well as two Syrian jihadist groups designating them to be terrorist organizations and further insisting that all Saudi Arabian citizens fighting abroad must return home within fifteen days or face imprisonment. These were not the end of actions taken by the Saudi Arabian government as they even banned the sale of all books authored by two authors thought to be sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood. Finally, in June the Saudi Arabian justice system tried and sentenced thirty-three Islamist terrorists to prison sentences for as much as thirty years. Add to this, the Saudi Arabians took all of these steps completely independent and without the approval of the United Nations, neither the General Assembly nor the more prestigious Security Council. Imagine that!

 

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Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Fall Upends Obama Middle East Aims

It has been reported by the <a href=http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/03/29/obama-promoted-egypt-iran-turkey-alliance-in-tense-israel-meeting/>World Tribune</a> website the absolutely shocking and controversial content of President Obama rendition of the future for the Middle East which the United States as their policy goals for his second term in the White House. The Israelis did not respond in any manner and allowed President Obama to enthusiastically reveal every detail of his vision for solving all the problems in the Middle East simply by building an alliance under a triumvirate of shared absolute power by Shiite Iran teamed with Sunni Egypt and Turkey. It was in the pursuit of this end that President Obama pressured to the point of threatening Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu into apologizing and committing to a complete capitulation to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara terror incident when a Turkish backed flotilla attempted to run the Gaza blockade. When the prearranged ambush was sprung on the IDF soldiers, who boarded the ship armed with paintball guns loaded with pepper spray balls, beating them with metal rods, large knives and other bludgeoning weapons (some reports included gunshots coming from the ship’s attackers before the IDF soldiers responded) as well as taking one soldier below decks and throwing two other IDF soldiers overboard, the IDF soldiers resorted to live fire, as they feared for their lives, killing nine of their attackers. This exchange was the cause of Turkish President Erdogan breaking off relations with Israel and demanding a formal apology and paid retribution for the families of the slain attackers aboard the Mavi Marmara. It was said that the Israelis were in a state of shock but heeded their instruction not to question or comment on anything presented by the American leader.

The plan which has President Obama so enthusiastically engaged calls for the strengthening of Iran, Turkey and Egypt, the Egyptian strengthening has begun with the shipment of F-16 fighter jets to be delivered during this year, and having these three strengthened Muslim nation cooperate and through such cooperation form a single Muslim federation. President Obama claims that such an arrangement would relieve any troubles that might have developed due to the Iranian drive to attain nuclear weapons. President Obama informed the Israeli leaders that once his plan was executed that with Iran now allied with Turkey and Egypt the threat of a nuclear arms race between the various Muslim and Arab nations would no longer be a threat so nobody would need fear a nuclear armed Iran in this scenario. I am sure that this calmed the Israelis being informed that allying Iran with Egypt and Turkey would remove any threat of Iran nuclear weapons being used against the other Arab and Muslim nations and that there would be no adverse results to a nuclear armed Iran as long as the three nations were responsible to each other. President Obama apparently believes that Iran would refrain from attacking Israel with nuclear weapons because Turkey and Egypt would object and prevent such actions. Yes, sure they wouldn’t.

Another nation that is most conspicuous by their absence from President Obama’s new Middle East scheme is Saudi Arabia. The implication was that Saudi Arabia along with Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar and the rest of the nations of the Arabian Peninsula would be under Iranian control making the land to be renamed the Persian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The betrayal of Saudi Arabia and all of the other member nations of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) as a sacrifice given for the honoring of Iran and to reward them for joining President Obama and his plan super Caliphate where the Iranian Shiites along with the Turkish Sunnis and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Sunnis all lie down together in harmony and bliss for the good of the Muslim World with President Obama as the great facilitator. This is where the little upheaval in Egypt becomes far more than an inconvenience as for President Obama to make his plan work must have the Islamists in control of each of his three chosen nations, and the Muslim Brotherhood just lost Egypt. Of course this dream Islamist coalition shoves aside the centuries of Sunni-Shiite hatreds in the immediate timeframe in order to unite the adversaries into an irresistible unified force for Islam and return to the glorious Caliphate such as was the Ottoman Empire at its height. What President Obama has caught on to as the solution to all the world’s ills, especially the Muslim World, is the simple walking back the results of World War I, the repealing step-by-step the entirety of the Treaty of Versailles and the Mandate System as they pertain to the world of Islam. No more separate Arab and Muslim nations or any other arbitrary lines and chosen potentates which were put in place just to serve the colonialist European powers, those decrepit and corrupt enslavers of all who were different than they. This is President Obama’s vision, the end of the ill effects of colonialism on the Muslim World and by ridding the Muslim World of this European imposed crippling systems and divisions, the Muslim World will be returned to its golden age.

There are a few major items which might cause this stratagem to fail and fail in a splendid and admirable fashion, a failure unequalled in all of human history, rivaling the Tower of Babel and other epic failures. The most glaring is that the Shiites and Sunnis only know one method for burying the hatchet, and that is to bury it as deeply as possible in the other’s skull which tends to settle any argument. Another problem for President Obama is to get Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to agree to share power and make compromises even with the Muslim Brotherhood approved leader of Egypt, assuming that President Obama can manage to reinstate the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt, no easy task all things considered, let alone the Shiite Grand Ayatollah in Iran. Further problems might arise as I seriously doubt that Saudi Arabia (especially the Royal Family and the Wahhabis), Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman or Bahrain would be enthusiastic about being handed to Iran no matter what the reasons. Looking at just the countries which have experienced governmental changes as a result of the Arab Spring one will be witness to a collection of train wrecks where the whole idea was for elected governments to be in place and improvements in every aspect of society with the most advancement coming financially and in personal rights and freedoms. Instead we see a state of affairs better described as having entered an Arab Winter with Libya, Yemen and Syria still experiencing internecine violence as the different factions and tribes struggle for preeminence and control where those interests vary including tribal groups, al-Qaeda and Hezballah fighters, the Muslim Brotherhood forces, State Militaries, and Mujahedeen fighters from throughout the Muslim World and the four corners of the Earth. And last but not least, little Israel would definitely fight to the last soul against any attempts to remove the Jews from their homeland as they have just started to get it together and hit high gear towards rebuilding their society and gathering in their lost children from every corner of the globe.

President Obama may be enthusiastic and all excited, one might even say all atwitter, over the concept of redrawing the Middle East and the rest of the Arab and Muslim Worlds to suit some grant strategy to reconstruct and usher in a second Golden Age of Islam. The idea that the borders between countries, even those borders as artificial as those drawn mostly by the French and the British, can be erased with a few words and there would not be any resistance to turning everything everybody has known in their lives upside-down is foolish and not something worthy of the man who is the leader of the United States. There should be somebody within the Administration to advise the President that his plan is simply not possible. But then we need to remember who the real people are who make up President Obama’s inner circle of advisers. Recognizing that we are counting on Secretary of State John Kerry, Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, among others, to give sagely, well thought out, wise and experienced advice to President Obama reveals the crux of the deficiencies surrounding the President. The problem is that each of these high Administration officials have little if any experience in foreign affairs and other than John Kerry and Chuck Hagel the rest of these Presidential Advisors have spent the better part of their lives as agitators for social justice and social transformation and would be more at home designing government mandated single payer healthcare regulations than advising on anything to do with international affairs. And the fact that one has to resort to Chuck Hagel and John Kerry for astute, intricate and nuanced advice should be sufficient to send shiver down one’s spine and a cold chill throughout one’s body filling them with a strong sense of anxiety and trepidation. I can assure you it does so for me.

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