Obama Cleanses Terrorism Glossary
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 14th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Obama Cleanses Terrorism Glossary
Rowan Scarborough, Human Events
President Obama and his cast of aides will lash out at Republicans, the Tea Party, banks, oil companies and Arizona. But when it comes to radical Islam, Obama-ites treat it with kid gloves or ignore it altogether.Recent speeches show that—rather than identifying the enemy for what it is, bands of Islamic extremists who use their religion to justify murder—the administration searches for the root cause of terrorism, a "why do they hate us?" obsession which serves only to paralyze a global war to defeat terrorist killers.Islamic extremists use mosques to…
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U.S. Rebuilds Plant, Taliban Reap Windfall
Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the Taliban insurgency.Yet, one of the biggest beneficiaries of this American-taxpayer-financed project are the Taliban themselves.Since U.S.-funded repairs of a turbine at the Kajaki plant doubled its capacity in October, nearly half of the total electrical output has flowed to districts in Helmand province where the Taliban administer…