But lest we think that it will just be doldrums and distractions, consider the plans post-America's enemies have for us.
North Korea is ramping up the bellicosity:
And ISIS says we ain't seen nothin' yet:North Korea released a propaganda video on Saturday that depicts a nuclear strike on Washington, along with a warning to “American imperialists” not to provoke the North.
The four-minute video clip, titled “Last Chance,” uses computer animation to show what looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile flying through the earth’s atmosphere before slamming into Washington, near what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial. A nuclear explosion follows.
“If the American imperialists provoke us a bit, we will not hesitate to slap them with a pre-emptive nuclear strike,” read the Korean subtitles in the video, which was uploaded to the YouTube channel of D.P.R.K. Today, a North Korean website. “The United States must choose! It’s up to you whether the nation called the United States exists on this planet or not.”
Could be that all this will blow over and we can have a summer full of waves and tangos.The deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels last week and in Paris last November are dress rehearsals for a coming “big” attack inside the United States, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.
Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Klein doubles as Breitbart’ssenior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.Ansari is a well-known Gazan Salafist jihadist allied with Islamic State ideology. During the interview with Klein, Ansari seemed to be speaking as an actual IS member, repeatedly using the pronoun “we” when referring to IS and even seemingly making declarations on behalf of IS.IS has been reluctant to officially declare its presence in Gaza for fear of a Hamas clampdown, but the group is known to be active in the coastal enclave and Ansari is a suspected IS leader. IS-aligned militants have taken responsibility for recent rocket fire from Gaza aimed at Israel.Klein asked Ansari whether IS maintains cells inside the U.S. and if the terrorist group is “planning anything in America.”Ansari responded:Aaron, the battle with America is a very long one, a very tough one, a very hard one. America has a black record with the mujahedeen, and this black record will not be purified but with blood, and lots of blood. Only blood will cleanse what America did to the mujahedeen. And I can confirm that our leadership made it very clear that what happened in Paris, what happened in Brussels was only a small rehearsal before the big thing that will happen in America.This is the commitment; this is the engagement of our leadership to the mujahedeen. I cannot give details and the truth is that I don’t know the small details – how many agents we have and where we have them. This depends on our leaders, the Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the general military commander, Abu Omar al-Shishani. They will decide when and where to strike in the United States.But I can tell you that when we are in touch with our different components, with the leaders of the Islamic State. They confirm, they make it very sure and very clear that it is only a question of time when there will be a strike in America. And as I said before, what you saw in Paris, what you saw in Brussels will be only a small rehearsal in comparison with what will happen in the United States.
Then again . . .
Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver “preventive nuclear strikes” could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country, suggesting that even Pyongyang’s few remaining friends are growing concerned about its increasingly confrontational stance.
ReplyDeleteThe Russian foreign ministry statement, which follows a North Korean threat to “annihilate” the US and South Korea, also criticises Washington and Seoul for launching the largest joint military drills yet to be held on the peninsula.
North Korea threatens to reduce US and South Korea to 'flames and ash'
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“We consider it to be absolutely impermissible to make public statements containing threats to deliver some ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against opponents,” the Russian foreign ministry said in response to North Korea’s threats.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/russia-warns-north-korea-nuclear-strike
What shall we do this summer? Cower in fear? That'll encourage them, won't it?
ReplyDeleteI am certain this summer will be full of Trump's middle finger politics. But you might like that, if it comes from Cruz--the thinking man's Trump, I dunno.
ReplyDeleteAnd so we have a situation where Russia appoints itself the keeper of the world-stage order, warning not only North Korea but saying to post-America and SK "and you two knuckleheads, knock it off with the drills." Real nice.
ReplyDeleteRussia, Iran and the Assad regime are also behind ISIS losing territory in Syria. Post-America's not even in the picture
ReplyDeleteThe President of the US' schedule is not set by terrorists nor should ours be.
ReplyDeleteHis damn well better be. We are at war.
ReplyDelete"The damage from terrorism is primarily emotional. To the extent this terrorist attack succeeds has very little do with the attack itself. It’s all about our reaction. We must refuse to be terrorized. Imagine if the bombs were found and moved at the last second, and no one died, but everyone was just as scared. The terrorists would have succeeded anyway. If you are scared, they win. If you refuse to be scared, they lose, no matter how much carnage they commit." --Bruce Schneier, security expert and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive."
ReplyDeleteGood that Russia has skin in the game, I think. As for Norkor's threat, well, did it or did it not come in the wake of joint maneuvers by their mortal enemy and us? And, you should be proud our Commander in Chief's navy is freaking them out, shouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteWhy has North Korea ever been permitted to exist?
ReplyDeleteHindsight is always 20/0 Peace has endured now for 50 years. Ike did not believe in the concept of limited warfare. After Ike made peace in Korea, not one American serviceman was KIA during the remainder of his presidency. No other American president since can make that claim.
ReplyDeleteAnd, do you still take their bullcrap threats seriously? If they dropped the big one on us, head for the hills because you won't want to watch what happens to them. And the nuclear fall-out will of course unprecedented and bad bad bad bad for the beasts and the children whom it is said God blesses. They're sort of like Israel, awash in a sea of enemies, except for China and maybe Russia, as you say. Oh, that fly in the ointment. Should we start subjecting our children to air raid drills?
Ya think Ike might have prayed about it before he made his decision? He ran as a hawk, then flew over the terrain and concluded it would only become a blood bath for American boys he'd seen enough of die horrible deaths. Guess he did not want that blood on his hands. Go figure, he presided over the bloodiest horrid war in history and he withdrew from Korea. I suppose a President Patton would have slapped us all to attention. At least he preserved South Korea which outperforms NorKor in all economic categories yet to this day. I have no clue why Norkor has not noticed. But I don't fear those lying crazies. I pity them.