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“It’s a bloodbath at the State Department,” the New York Post hyperventilated last Friday: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.” In Donald Trump’s America, so much has happened so quickly to set the nation on a course decisively different from the one it was on during the regime of his disastrous socialist internationalist predecessor that this particular bit of good news was largely overlooked. But if a housecleaning at the State Department isn’t a cause for celebration, nothing is.
“Many of those let go were on the building’s seventh floor — top-floor bigs,” the Post tells us, and adds that this is “a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.”
Pop the champagne!
And not only that, but “this week’s round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month. Four top officials were cleared out of the building at the end of January.”
Break out the hats and hooters!
We can only hope that with the departure of these failed State Department officials, their failed policies will be swept out along with them. Chief among these is the almost universally held idea that poverty causes terrorism. The United States has wasted uncounted (literally, because a great deal of it was in untraceable bags full of cash) billions of dollars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, and other countries in the wrongheaded assumption that Muslims turn to jihad because they lack economic opportunities and education. American officials built schools and hospitals, thinking that they were winning over the hearts and minds of the locals.
Fifteen years, thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars later, no significant number of hearts and minds have been won. This is partly because the premise is wrong. The New York Times reported in March that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty was a key factor in the making of a terrorist. Mr. Krueger’s analysis of economic figures, polls, and data on suicide bombers and hate groups found no link between economic distress and terrorism.”
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CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.’ One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, ‘Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.’”
Yet the analysis that poverty causes terrorism has been applied and reapplied and reapplied again. The swamp is in dire need of draining, and in other ways as well. From 2011 on, it was official Obama administration policy to deny any connection between Islam and terrorism. This came as a result of an October 19, 2011 letter from Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism, and later served in the Obama administration as head of the CIA. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA; and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups demanded that the task force “purge all federal government training materials of biased materials”; “implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training”; and more—to ensure that all that law enforcement officials would learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn.
Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were removed from coounterterror training. Today, even with Trump as President, this entrenched policy of the U.S. government remains, and ensures that all too many jihadists simply cannot be identified as risks, since the officials are bound as a matter of policy to ignore what in saner times would be taken as warning signs. Trump and Tillerson must reverse this. Trump has spoken often about the threat from “radical Islamic terrorism”; he must follow through and remove the prohibitions on allowing agents to study and understand the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat.
The swamp needs draining indeed. The “bloodbath” at the State Department is a good sign that the U.S. is on its way back on dry land.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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They need to fire every obama appointee and vigorously vet everyone else.
RIGHT ON!!! :o)
Trump needs to systematically rake through every department, agency and branch of government and purge these liberal scumbags..starting with every pro-sharia muslim and anti-American apologist! Some of whom need to be imprisoned for treason!
Agree ! Everyone supporting muslims/islam jihadi immigration are funded by soros/saudi/OIC /Iranian intermediaries/Lobbyists http://tinyurl.com/njzxzed or just plain ignorant dangerous nuts.
Media, RINO’s, Dems including Obama, Hillary were on payroll of saudis/OIC in supporting Anti Assad rebels http://tinyurl.com/gqqwznm
Left/Liberal Loony Politicians can’t save the country and dumb voters who vote for them deserve it.
A fine tooth comb should be the policy to weed out the traitors.
“Pro-sharia muslim”, gee aren’t they all? Either in whole or in part? Or is it just an accident that all muslum states, every, last, f’ing one of them enforces islamic blasphemy and heresy laws?
That is a lot of work for one person to do. He needs a trusted close contact so he can keep his head around some of the things that don’t involve firing folks. Oh, they need to go, but President Trump has his hands full without trying to weed the all out. I just hope he has the help he needs. So glad to hear the “your fired”.
mztore, you’re SO RIGHT that President Trump has too many and complicated things to clean and drain and everything else while people keep piling up MORE things for him to do. I hope we are all understanding enough as to allow him to do his job without throwing more work on his shoulders.
Instead it would be mighty helpful for him to receive postcards from all of us telling him we thank him for the work he’s doing for us Americans and we are with him ALL THE WAY! :o)
He has another burden that no president should ever have: TREASON FROM HUSEIN O. AND HIS GANGSTERS PUTTING ALL KINDS OF OBSTACLES IN HIS WAY AND OBSTRUCTING HIS WORK FROM ALL SIDES AND ALL KINDS, so please let’s not add to his burden. He doesn’t deserve this. He deserves a lot of praise and support. Am I right? 😉
Right. and, I for one have sent a card (since I’m not smart enough to know another ‘quick’ way) to try and help let him know there are a lot of us who can’t come to events that are behind him 100 %.
THUMBS UP TO YOU! I bought a few stamped cards at the Post office and send them from time to time. :o)
Decided that the next one should go to the First Lady. She is a beautiful and intelligent lady.
Everything we can obstruct from your precious orange manchild is another victory. Happily, the way things are going, we need only delay you idiots for two years, max. ?
Many of them should
His cabinet picks are on that, except Zinke. His confirmation vote keeps getting delayed.
Liberals have no corner on scumbags. Watch the republicans do the hate dance as this pizzagate fiasco really gets rolling.
How about everyone at homeland security named mohammed? Or every obola hire? All senior managers were vetted to support islam
The penalty for treason, though, is the death penalty, not imprisonment.
Good article. Cleaning house like that would seem to be first priority.
islam must be identified as a hostile military threat to the United States, it has clearly and openly boasted about overthrowing the American government to install a shari’a dictatorship. Any person actively promoting treason or engaging in treasonous activities must be imprisoned or deported, quickly and publicly.
There are many Muslims, as far back as GW Bush, who were appointed to high places in the US government. These have no more allegiance to the United States than the Man in he Moon. Allah is their god. Mohammed is their false prophet. Rout them out.
Absolutely, one of the many problems with islam it that it does not allow for anything but islam. No freedom for anyone under islam, only death.
So says the Koran!
From the looks of the way things have gone, our government no longer has treason on the books. Otherwise there would be a lot of people being taken care of that way. Wish it was still in favor.
It sure would straighten out a few things in a hurry.
Here’s hoping this will come with the change Trump is bringin’ about!!
rex will be like george schultz, a pragmatic accomplished executive who built useful things worldwide but who was always an american first. this mission statement alone makes every employee at the state department ripe for dismissal. hallelujah
Excuse my ignorance but who is George Schultz? Thanx.
reagan’s first sec of state, who used to run bechtel corp, a guy much like rex, and who had to clean up the mess of the jimmy carter state dept
Thanks very much.
He should have cleared house right from the beginning; he waited too long and allowed them to try and subvert his administration.
He still hasn’t got his cabinet filled yet. How can he do it all?
That’s right! Please people stop putting more pressure on President Trump’s shoulders. He already is doing everythng he promised AND also under the pressure and burden of husein o. and his gangsters… Please see my post explaining above somewhere here.
So you can find it
quickly, the first line is: “mztore, you’re SO RIGHT that President”
Thank you. :o)
See my post explaining, right above somewhere here. So you can find it quickly, the first line is: “mztore, you’re SO RIGHT that President”
Thank you. :o)
I’ll wager some of those “sacks of cash” made it to rat obama and his closest anti-American friends.
Great move by Trump, they took out one of ours (Flynn), so he took out dozens of theirs, like the mafia-we should call him “The Don” now. He sent a clear message, but I don’t think all the moles are gone-they’re sitting quietly waiting for the next opportunity to damage his presidency. He should purge all muslims and any pro-Obama leftists remaining.
And I fully agree with Pam, the entire bureacracy must change from being pro-Islamic to anti-Islamic. As we see in Europe it appears WW3 against Islam is beginning so western governments must mobilize for war. If Iran gets nukes or if other states decide to “join the jihad” then all the more reason for the West to get clued up on Islam and be ready to defeat this century’s Nazism.
EXCELLENTLY SAID John! If a WWIII is what it takes to most deeply drain the swamp, then a WWIII should begin RIGHT NOW!
I’d rather have a war where we go to kill or get killed and finish this unending cat & mouse things with those islamofascists as we had during and before husein o.’s kingdom!
Hear, hear!!!
John Brennan is a Muslim so he will DO as instructed by fellow MUSLIMS.
Agreed, since he is married to one as well.
Go get ’em Sir! show them the back door in a hurry!
Lots of work to be done.
We are INFESTED with MUSLIMS n GOV. thanks to Obama.
Notice the date 2009!
Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans
Denver Post Wire Report
POSTED: 03/27/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT85 COMMENTS
UPDATED: 03/27/2009 12:58:19 AM MDT
CHICAGO — In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation’s most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.
The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names.
“It was mostly under the radar,” Williams said. “We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn’t know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community.”
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12006596
Naturally Kaegan, an Obama appointed United States Supreme Court Justice spent the MAJORITY of her time organizing and hosting symposiums to try and make our Constitution “Sharia Law” compliant. No kidding. You might still find it on the web. Google her name with Harvard and Sharia Law and see what may still pop up! I suspect Muslims are somewhat confident that we are Sharia Law compliant since we have Freedom of Religion. They probably lump the two together. The truth is our legal system is NOT Sharia Law compliant.
All of the Obamoles and Slackercrats need to be shown the gate.
A powerful tool for the new administration would be a rehabilitated House UnAmerican Activities Committee. A high priority for such a revitalized committee should be comprehensive hearings on Islam so that it cn finally be demonstrated to the civilized world that Islam has been lying to the world for 1400 years and that it is in fact a Blood/Death Cult and not the “religion of peace” that it claims to be through its collective taquia [lying to the infidel] spouting mouths.
Mr. Trump needs to ask the “Oath Keepers” to get voter registration roles and hiring/appointment lists. They could see who was hired/appointed under rat obama and who is a democrat anti-American and “escort’ them out.
All of Bam Bam’s peeps – but many of the Bushies’ and Clintonistas’ too.
I like the idea of tasking groups such as Oath Keepers with the rooting out of the Obamoles, Clintonistas, Bushbunglers, and Slackercrats.
With Oath Keepers being a self vetting group of committed Citizen – Patriots they are in a pivotal position to base these efforts on.
How America could have caught the Obama disease is hard to fathom? In only 8 years the disease has infiltrated to the very depths of the Democrats and liberals who are too stupid to see what has happened and now suicide is almost ‘acceptable’. Liberalism and Islam share a lot of the same philosophies. For Islam It is the take over of America and for liberals it is the hand over of America. Different reason with the same result – barbarism is the way for these idiots. For many Democrats it will be a short wake up call as they jolt to a halt on a short rope.
They didn’t get the disease from Obama … Bam Bam was just a symptom. Lietards have been running Washington for decades – long before my time even. They made Bam Bam their standard bearer because they thought his regime would be the end of us – and it very nearly was – but we were saved by the Trump in the last round.
We’re not “saved” yet, so don’t relax!
It is going to take at least two generations, perhaps more to start the motion back from the precipice.
And a couple of generations monitoring our society to ensure that (a.) we don’t allow ourselves to fall back into “old habits”, (e.g., believing in our ability to create, find, or force utopia here on Earth, and looking for, working towards, bending society to find it…); (b.) we do not allow the “stealth takeover” of society’s underpinnings by Statist (of any flavor)… some of said “underpinnings” being the education of our descendants, the Federal, State, and Local governments, the various congregaters and presenters of news, and political parties.
And, btw, both ick-slam and the various “One World”-ers (…whether they call themselves “citizens of the world”, U.N.-boosters, or something else…) are just as much “Statists” as are Fabians, Progressives, any type of communist or socialist.
You’re right – but two generations will be just a start…
For non US readers please explain what RINO means
Republican In Name Only.
Thanks very much. Keep safe
Yes indeed….and the Canadian version CINO is ‘Conservative in Name Only.’…….
Added info: A republican who pretends to be a republican but is really a democrat in disguise.
Like McCain, Cornyn, Murchowski, Graham, McConnel, Aleksander, Cochran, Collins, Corker, and Johnson. yes, start w/these ten and send a message to the rest.
We all use labels on Com Boxes … but objectively, I know gay, Democrats who are more conservative, pro-West, and pro-American than the RINO’s from the Bi-Leftist coasts. … Because I live in a pocket of Texas where Americans still believe in the country and the west. (both figuratively and literally – we have a lot of old soldiers here fought for this nation and saved the West’s butt more than once, and we have a lot of farmers and cowboys too).
Maybe the long overdue cleansing of the commies and lefties that have riddled State since the ’30s will come to pass.
By the way, I know a lady who might gain a plum bit of preferment out of this and future purges.
Those Statists have “riddled State”, prior to the 1930’s… the rot goes back to that ratfink Woodrow, (The Wooden Head) Wilson!
Let’s give credit where credit is due: if Wilson (and his pal Dewey) hadn’t sown the seeds of Progressivism and denegrating the Founding Compact*, we wouldn’t be reaping the currenr bitter harvest!
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*: the “Founding Compact”, in my mind, is the entire collection of documents that were part of our Founding.
It includes not just the Constitution, but also its “preamble”, the Declaration of Independence and both the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers, among other documents, such as the Virginia Compact.
Wilson, btw, held both The Constitution and The Declaration of Independence in disgust and contempt.
President Wilson spent much of his time, (…when not having his secret police jail people for disagreeing w/him…) expounding on ‘the Wonders of this new, modern, efficient thing happening in Europe: communism!’ and writing his books on how to create an educational system that would produce “The New Citizen”, the “New Citizen”, being of course, a malleable drone.
That is, an individual well-trained at his job, docile to authority, too dim to question his “betters” but accepting of every premise those betters chose to “gift” him with— unquestioningly making those pronouncements part of themselves— regardless of their internal inconsistency or their inconsistency w/objective Reality.
Sound familiar?
Yes. The United States adopted the Wilson/Dewey educational system, which was hailed as “The model education system to help our citizens progress into the future!”
– Gordon
Yes, Wilson and Dewey were charter members of the “rot”. Don’t miss the face of TR cheering them on as well. These were the true deplorables.
Leave it to the inimitable Robert Spencer to lay out what dreadful harm the Ogime has done to our nation’s security plans and personnel! The fact that there was a moratorium, as it were, on linking Islam and Terrorism is the height of folly, deceit and, indeed, treason! We can’t start “re-educating” our entire military corps and intelligence agency personnel soon enough about the very REAL dangers of Islamic Jihad and Shariah Law! No time for anything but “getting down to the Nation’s business” in the realm of security – and clearing out ALL BHO appointees ASAP!!
All I want to see of Obhammud holdovers is what I saw of him and his family leaving the WH, a**holes and elbows. Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
Unfortunately, Drew, he remained in Washington purposely as a shadow presidency from which filthy cave he orders and does all the interference with our President Trump’s work!!!
I believe in Trump more and more with each passing day. He is cleaning house. He is getting rid of the trash that was infecting America with liberal socialist ideals. I thank God every day that Trump was inaugurated president of these United States. I support him 100%. I will show this support even in the face of over whelming odds. I won’t give up nor will I give in. I believe Trump will turn this country around and keep it for US. I do not want to give our country away to Muslims or anybody else. Those who come here MUST assimilate into OUR culture and abide by our rules. They must love America and our way of life. Except us, or get the hell out. Don’t try to change us. We do not want to change what we are or who we are.
The new department heads will clear out the problem people in all the government offices or Trump will replace the department heads. that’s the way it works.
BRENNAN IS A MUSLIM, CONVERTED SOME TIME AGO. THIS UNTOUCHABLE SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT IS ON THE 7TH FLOOR NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL
People worldwide need de-Islamizing de-indoctrination.
To do that we need to replace the pro-Islamic actors who censor & deceive in Wikipedia, Facebook, media, TV, schools, academia, Police & courts worldwide & we need political action: free Africans enslaved in Islamic tyrannies from Saudi Arabia, to UAE, new north-Sudan to Mauritania.
Free the Biafra-leader & more.
People that don’t condemn Islam expose themselves as being incapable of justice.
Islam’s founder made it Islamic religion to kill non-Muslims.
Ban Islam. Save sanity & lives.
Trump proves on a daily basis he is for real and will drain the swamp. It is only the first month without his total cabinet and still he has done more for America than any president of the modern era. Be patient and the Islamic infiltrators will be no more!
Profiteer George Soros remains the king of the swamp. He foments and funds sedition – Soros belongs in prison with his good friends crooked Hillary, her “daughter of choice” Huma Abedin, and last but not least liar-in-chief Obama who continues to run a shadow government determined to delegitimize destabilize and topple Donald Trump’s government.
We must contact our Congresspeople and get them to evict the anti-American commie rat, soros.
Hi Linda you are right, but President Trump already is doing everything he promised AND is also under the pressure
and burden of husein o. and his gangsters… Please see my post
explaining, above somewhere.
So you can find it quickly, the first line is:
“mztore, you’re SO RIGHT that President”
Thank you. :o)
Thank you God. Amen.
It’s a good sign, but the tentacles of our domestic enemies run deep.
This is good news. Get rid of these anti-American, top level bureaucrats in the State Department. They have NOT
served us American’s well.
I have been reading reports and news from around the globe and there are many clear signs that there’s a lot of
“Islam-creep” going on. Saudi Arabia quietly funds the building of Mosque’s all over the world. and the Islam
they practice is the most conservative Islam, Wahhabism, and it is totally opposite of Christianity.
It is almost like “guerrilla warfare” where they slowly and quietly infiltrate your communities until they are ready
to strike.
With the overt infiltration of muslims in Europe and this quiet Saudi Arabian mosque-building everywhere in the
world, we must pay attention to what is going on.
Fire them all! If there are some good apples in that barrel then they need to stand up and be counted, otherwise they are traitors.
Trump should hire me, I will be happy to fire everyone and deport some.
The Arabists at State should have been purged long ago. Maybe Mr. Tillerson will carry this out.
From 911 to America Today by Dr. William Grady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhhTyY3stE
It’s long overdue. Too bad that’s some of those state employees were probably just following their leaders. However many probably could have blown whistles that were only adding to the problem. These types of functionary positions demand more than just being a loyal employee, they demand doing right by your country. I think they should spend some of that state money and start investigating the state of the funding of leftist media.
Stay vocal people…. our support makes a difference!