Pamela Geller has a terrific piece in today's American Thinker, "Is This Any Way To Fight A War?" In it, she points out the irony as an actual threat that was playing out in New York City last week just as Barack Obama was at the United Nations talking about a threat, all right -- but not the same one.
Barack Hussein Obama was finally talking tough.
The President said this past week in New York City, before the General Assembly of the United Nations, that "we understand the gravity" of the threat. "We are determined to act. And we will meet our responsibility to future generations." He said that a failure to address the threat could lead to an "irreversible catastrophe." Time, he said, is "running out," but "we can reverse" the problem. "If things go business-as-usual, we will not live, we will die," he said. "Our country will not exist." He told us that it wouldn't be easy, but "I am here today to say that difficulty is no excuse for complacency. Unease is no excuse for inaction."
And there was action, though not the kind Obama was calling for. As he spoke, bomb-sniffing dogs were out in force in New York City. The city was in what historians will refer to as a low-grade state of war readiness, defensive and apologetic.
Ray Kelly, the New York City Police Commissioner, was giving a press conference on the current situation. A cell of Islamic jihadis targeting New York City were planning to attack the transit system, as well as sports stadiums and the sites used for Fashion Week. Self-storage lockers in Queens were being searched for bomb-making materials.
According to Fox News, "Federal counterterrorism officials warned local police to patrol stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes for suspicious activity after the arrest of a Colorado man suspected of a far-reaching terror plot." The threat reached far beyond New York City: "The FBI and Department of Homeland Security also issued joint alerts to police around the country to watch storage centers and public transportation systems for any unusual behavior."
Muslim terrorist Zazi was planning to kill on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. He and his fellow jihadis bought chemicals in beauty-supply stores to make bombs like the ones that killed hundreds in London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004. Twenty-four others were allegedly involved in the plot. A New York imam -- one who worked as an informant for the FBI -- tipped off Zazi that police were asking about him. Got that? The imam demonstrated where his loyalty lied: shariah (Islamic law), not American rule of law. His allegiance was to jihad and the murder of infidels.
The city went into serious lockdown mode. While Ray Kelly was advising nervous New Yorkers about a possible Islamic attack, Barack Obama was speechifying at the UN but not talking about that very real threat at all. While the bomb-sniffing dogs and frantic actions by New York Police showed what the real threat was, Obama had a very different mortal threat to the nation in mind. He wasn't talking about the "irreversible catastrophe" that would come to New York City and the entire nation if these Muslim terrorists succeeded in their attack plots. He had nothing at all to say about the prospect of thousands of people being murdered by Islamic jihadists at a baseball or football game.
No, in the upside-down world of Barack Obama's America, Dear Leader was in New York City talking about what he thought was the greatest threat to Americans and to future generations. Not Islamic terror attack, not nuclear holocaust from Iran, but global warming. "We understand the gravity of the climate threat," Obama said. It was about the climate threat that he said, "we are determined to act" and that we would "meet our responsibility to future generations." Not jihad. Not the inevitable nuclear holocaust. Not about what brought New York City to lockdown. Not about what brought New York City to its present state of controlled chaos. Global warming.
Man-made climate change is a giant fraud. Only correlation studies and computer model projections form the basis for any claim that man is altering the climate in any significant way. And such studies and projections have notorious track records for accuracy. Earth and solar activities are the root causes of any climate change, not carbon dioxide or other emissions. CO2 levels were ten times what they are now when the earth went through an horrific ice age during the Paleozoic Era some 400 million years ago. It was warmer in the year 1009 A.D. than it is now in 2009 A.D. No SUVs or factories existed back then.
So, it is very fitting that America's clueless Chief Executive (I offer as Article 1 for proof that dismal, inaccurate, kick-America first Cairo speech of his back in June) would be worried about a non-existent threat while a real one is growing substantially. Right now what passes for leadership in the free world rivals, if not surpasses, the situation in the 1930s when Chamberlain and Daladier types were seemingly omnipresent in Western democracies and Winston Churchill was dismissed as a war-mongering, has-been politician. Most of mankind, it seems, never learns and no one today seems more determined to learn nothing from history than our 44th President.
Absolutely nailed on, Wellington.
It's one huge tree-hugging BS-fest. Yes, we can conserve and not burn through our natural resources but please don't misrepresent things to pad your wallet.
Yeah, I'm talking to you, Al Gore.
The solar sunspot cycle plays a much bigger role in weather than CO2 does. Take a look at the Maunder Minimum and its correlation with the Little Ice Age.
We are currently experiencing a long-term absence of sun spots. We have had a relatively cool summer, and may be in for a colder than average winter.
I think some are missing Robert's point. It is not whether global warming is man-made or not, it is the fact that our President chooses to make global warming his "issue" while ignoring the terrorist business going on in the US at the same time. Why did he not address the arrests? Why did he not use the opportunity to address global terrorism? Which is the more important IMMEDIATE issue?
No, I do not think our President is clueless, I think he is following his own agenda, and fighting terrorism and Islam are not on it. I think that is intentional, and even understandable given his moral and political teachers. Guys like Rev. Wright, spewing hatred against America and Jews and all Caucasians for 20 years, not to mention Farrakhan (leader of the Nation of Islam) Ayers, and on and on.
I think it is a mistake to underestimate the man. It is our challenge to make sure that the truth about Islam gets out despite the best efforts of the MSM and our leadership to prevent it.
Let us not make this about global warming, that is playing into the hands of those who want to distract Americans from the terrorist plots going on right now. Stay focused.
Robert, I know this is probably not the right place to post this, and feel free to delete it, but I would like to address an important question. One poster said that the "problem is communicating with each other" or something close to that.
I would like very much to organize an action committee to investigate the best way to get the word out, and I am happy to share my email with other like minded members of this blog.
What would be the best way to accomplish that? You may feel free to distribute my email to those you know are serious about this issue, so that we can come together and initiate an action committee, and to try get more people to your site for an education.
Please understand that this is NOT intended to replace your site, only to supplement it's mission. I think the site is a powerful and wonderful way to get people to think, but those who do not understand the problem are precisely those we need to reach, not those who do know what is going on.
You may feel free to email me to discuss this if you think it is a good idea. I would be honored to hear from you.
Larry Moskowitz
Nope, have to disagree with you. I think Obama is indeed clueless. Just because he's fighting his own agenda doesn't mean he's not in the fog. The guy's on the wrong side of history, and in so many ways, and if that ain't being clueless, what the hell is?
BHO is a creature of the cloud-cuckoo land of the American Left, so it's not surprising that he finds the fantasy threat of global warming to be greater than the very real threat of the global warring of Islam against non-Islam.
But it is perhaps surprising that the Left hasn't picked up on the Islamic danger. It has all the requisites for increased state intervention and regulation, and spending. For the Left, it would mean more government surveillance and interference, more government supervision of education (i.e. indoctrination), and more "security" measures. And, of course, more government employees to carry all this out, and more taxation to pay for it all. All good, solid, left-wing stuff.
Global Warming. A big phony issue. Anything to distract from the real, intolerable threat from the Global Jihad.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
God may just want Greenland- Green again. Who are we to say otherwise?
At the rate Obama is going, it may be the only safe place left to go.
If I didn't know better, I'd think it was raining.
It puzzles me that so many of those who grasp the essential nature of Islam and realize there is not a problem to be solved but situation to be ameliorated, become quite credulous "skeptics" when it comes to global warming. This is particularly surprising given that the best way to weaken the Camp of Islam is to deprive it of the Money Weapon, and the best way to do that is to tax, heavily, the use of gasoline and oil. If such taxes are opposed, especially by those who think global warming is some kind of immense hoax -- though for what reason this immense hoax would be perpetrated by tens of thousands of scientists working in the relevant fields (when, as everyone knows, at universities the highest proportion of faculty members who might be called "conservatives" are to be found in the sciences), then the Camp of Islam may prevail. So even if I were not convinced of the danger of global warming, I would mute my opposition if I were deeply concerned with Islam, in order to win political support from those who might otherwise oppose attempts to diminish the use of oil, not to achieve that nonsensical will-o'-the-wisp "energy independence" but rather, to diminish Arab and Muslim oil revenues.
There is, or there ought to be, an alliance between those most concerned with Islam and those most concerned with global warming, and there ought to be a much greater overlap between the two subsets. I won't draw a Venn Diagram, or even a Diggory-Venn diagram (just to prove my hardiness), but for god's sake....
Here's the New York Times, from August 8 of this year:
"Nearly two months into one of the mildest summers on record, the temperature in New York City’s Central Park reached 90 degrees on Monday afternoon.
Until this year, officials believe, the city had not gone through June and July without reaching 90 degrees in at least a century. It was the city’s sixth coolest July on record.
In any case, the 90-degree mark was fleeting.
Within minutes the thermometer had dipped back to 89..."
This, after one of the coolest summers on record in the city where Obama gave his speech. Madness. Our leaders are fiddling while Rome burns.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/at-last-90-degrees-in-central-park/
The truth is the truth and must be fought for, whether it be the fraud of Islam or that of man-made climate change (the finest example to date of how even science has been politicized and corrupted). And taxing oil and gasoline will only hurt the little guy and in no major way put a dent in Islamic supremacist designs to the extent that petroleum reserves from Islamic lands further it. Best here would be to dig for more oil where we know there are large reserves, such as in North Dakota and Colorado, but silly environmental concerns (and I consider myself an environmentalist but a sensbile one) prevent this. New gasoline refineries and a movement to nuclear energy would be additional boons to getting away from Middle Eastern oil.