Post-American Presidency (48 page)

48
. Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung, “Iran Tests Missiles On Eve Of Talks,”
Washington Post,
September 28, 2009.

49
. George Jahn, “U.S., Iran meet directly at nuclear talks in Geneva,” Associated Press, October 1, 2009.

50
. “Iranian cleric hails ‘great victory’ in Geneva,” PressTV, October 9, 2009,
http://www.presstv.ir/sections.aspx
?section=351020101
.

51
. John Bolton, “Iran’s Big Victory in Geneva,”
Wall Street Journal,
October 5, 2009.

52
. “Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on Obama and the Politics of ‘Appeasement,’” FOXNews.com, May 20, 2008.

53
. Anne Barker, “US warns Israel not to attack Iran,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 15, 2009.

54
. Hana Levi Julian, “Israel Warns IDF Ready to Roll Against Iran,” Israel National News, November 5, 2009.

55
. Myra Noveck, “Israeli Navy Captures Arms Shipment,”
New York Times,
November 4, 2009.

56
. Tim Mak, “Bolton: Israel Must Bomb Iran,” FrumForum, October 23, 2009,
http://www.frumforum.com/bolton-
israel-must-bomb-iran
.

57
. Julian, “Israel Warns IDF Ready to Roll Against Iran.”

58
. John Bolton, interview with Pamela Geller, July 30, 2009.

59
. Anne Bayefsky, “Obama’s U.N. Double Talk,”
National Review
’s The Corner, September 25, 2009.

60
. John Bolton, interview with Pamela Geller, July 30, 2009.

61
. Bolton, “Iran Clenches Its Fist.”

62
. “Remarks by President Barack Obama, Hradcany Square, Prague, Czech Republic,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 5, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-By-President-Barack-Obama
-In-Prague-As-Delivered
.

63
. “Obama: Iran May Have Right To Nuke Energy,” Associated Press, June 2, 2009.

64
. Julian Borger, “Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design—secret report,”
Guardian,
November 5, 2009.

65
. Thomas Sowell, “Disaster in the Making: Obama’s Repeated Demonstrations of His Amateurism and Immaturity,”
National Review,
July 29, 2009.

SIX: A POST-AMERICAN PRESIDENT WAGES WAR

1
. Peter Spiegel and Yochi Dreazen, “Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000,”
Wall Street Journal,
October 9, 2009.

2
. Amanda Carpenter, “U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Talked with Obama Only Once,”
Washington Times,
September 28, 2009.

3
. Edwin Mora, “116 U.S. Troops Died in Afghanistan While Obama Pondered Reinforcement,” CNSNews.com, December 1, 2009.

4
. Barack Obama, “Obama’s Address on the War in Afghanistan,”
New York Times,
December 1, 2009.

5
. “Obama’s call on moderate Taliban useless: analysts,” Reuters, March 9, 2009.

6
. Ulrich Speck, “Biden Cites Mounting Problems In Afghanistan, But Says War ‘Far From Lost,’” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, October 3, 2009.

7
. Robert Spencer, “Where’s the Moderate Taliban?”
Human Events,
March 18, 2009.

8
. Javed Aziz Khan, “Education for girls prime victim of Swat turmoil,” News International, February 10, 2009,
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily
_detail.asp?id=161693
.

9
. Eric Zimmerman, “Rumsfeld questions Obama’s claim on troops,” The Hill, December 2, 2009,
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-
briefing-room/news/70221-rumsfeld
-questions-obamas-claim-on-troops
.

10
. “Obama’s Address on the War in Afghanistan.”

11
. “Obama: ‘Peace requires responsibility,’” CNN, December 10, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/10
/obama.transcript/index.html
.

12
. Robert Costa, “Bolton: Obama’s ‘Pedestrian, Turgid, and Uninspired’ Address,”
National Review,
December 10, 2009.

13
. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Alinsky Does Afghanistan,”
National Review,
December 4, 2009.

14
. Anne E. Kornblut, Scott Wilson, and Karen DeYoung, “Obama Pressed for Faster Surge,”
Washington Post,
December 6, 2009.

15
. Max Boot, “Three Quarters of the Way There,”
Commentary,
December 1, 2009,
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/
blogs/index.php/boot/184491
.

16
. Melanie Phillips, “McChrystal Undermined,”
Spectator,
December 2, 2009,
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips
/5593271/mcchrystal-undermined.html
.

17
. Ayn Rand,
Answers
(New York: New American Library, 2005), p. 92.

18
. Ibid., p. 87.

SEVEN: OBAMA AND ISLAMIC POLITICS

1
. “Osama calls for long war against ‘infidels,’” Reuters, June 4, 2009.

2
. “‘We’ve been through tougher times,’” interview with Barack Obama,
USA Today
, January 16, 2009.

3
. Barack Obama, “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 21, 2009.

4
. “Obama Al-Arabiya Interview: Full Text,” Huffington Post, January 26, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/
01/26/obama-al-arabiya-intervie
_n_161127.html
.

5
. “Obama offers Iran ‘the promise of a new beginning,’” CNN, March 20, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/
03/20/obama.iran.video/index.html
.

6
. Barack Obama, Remarks By The President On A New Beginning,” WhiteHouse.gov, June 4, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-
University-6-04-09
.

7
. Michael Muskal, “Obama calls for new relationship with Iran on anniversay [
sic
] of embassy takeover,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 4, 2009,
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld
/world/la-naw-obama-iran5-2009nov05
,0,4668198.story
.

8
. “Obama’s Address on the War in Afghanistan,”
New York Times,
December 1, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02
/world/asia/02prexy.text.html
.

9
. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Alinsky Does Afghanistan,”
National Review,
December 4, 2009.

10
. Sarah Baxter, “Obama Reaches Out to Muslims,”
Sunday Times
, January 18, 2009.

11
. Robert Spencer, “Obama’s Special Insight,”
Human Events
, August 6, 2008.

12
. Baxter, “Obama Reaches Out to Muslims.”

13
. “Egyptian grand shaykh: Islamic law sees suicide-bombers as martyrs,” Independent Media Review Analysis, November 3, 2003,
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=18722
.

14
. Robert Satloff, “Just Like Us! Really? Gallup says only 7 percent of the world’s Muslims are political radicals. Yet 36 percent think the 9/11 attacks were in some way justified,”
Weekly Standard,
May 12, 2008.

15
. Bat Ye’or, Symposium, “Criticism and Conciliation,”
National Review,
June 4, 2009.

16
. Mark Steyn, “What Signal Does Barbie’s Burka Send?”
Maclean’s,
December 10, 2009.

17
. Maria Rosa Menocal,
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
(New York: Little, Brown, 2002), pp. 72–73.

18
. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s State Department Submits to Islam,”
American Thinker,
August 18, 2009.

19
. Burt Prelutsky, “The Straight Poop On Radical Islam,” Big Hollywood, August 13, 2009,
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky
/2009/08/13/the-straight-poop
-on-radical-islam/
.

20
. “Obama Issues Special Hajj Message to World’s Muslims,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 25, 2009.

21
. “History,” U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project,
http://www.usmuslimengagement.org/
index.php?option=com_content&task
=view&id=14&Itemid=43
.

22
. Frank Gaffney, Jr., “Shariah’s Brotherhood,” Center for Security Policy, March 16, 2009,

23
. Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085,
U.S. vs. HLF,
et al, p. 7 (21).

24
.
Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
, report of the Leadership Group on U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, second printing, February 2009, p. 5.

25
.
The Doha Compact: New Directions: America and the Muslim World
, the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Saban Center at Brookings, October 2008, p. 4.

26
.
Changing Course: A New Directions for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
, p. 6.

27
. Ibid., p. 5.

28
. Ibid., p. 6.

29
. Ibid., p. 61.

30
.
The Doha Compact: New Directions: America and the Muslim World
, p. 16.

31
. Marc Ambinder, “‘Brotherhood’ Invited To Obama Speech By U.S.,”
The Atlantic,
June 3, 2009.

32
.
Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
, p. 77.

33
.
The Doha Compact: New Directions: America and the Muslim World
, p. 16.

34
. “Obama: ‘Peace requires responsibility,’” CNN, December 10, 2009.

35
.
The Doha Compact: New Directions: America and the Muslim World,
p. 5.

36
. Ibid.

EIGHT: AN ISLAMO-CHRISTIAN NATION

1
. “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 20, 2009.

2
. “Obama Al-Arabiya Interview: Full Text,” Huffington Post, January 26, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/26/
obama-al-arabiya-intervie_n_161127.html
.

3
. “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address.”

4
. Jesse Lee, “Crossroads in Turkey,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 6, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
09/04/06/Crossroads-in-Turkey
.

5
. Bat Ye’or, email to Pamela Geller, December 11, 2009.

6
.
http://www.1001inventions.com/
.

7
. “Interview of the President by Laura Haim, Canal Plus,” WhiteHouse.gov, June 2, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Transcript-of-the-Interview-
of-the-President-by-Laura-Haim
-Canal-Plus-6-1-09/
.

8
. Arthur Delaney, “Obama: U.S. ‘Not A Christian Nation Or A Jewish Nation Or A Muslim Nation’ (VIDEO),” Huffington Post, April 6, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/06/obama
-us-not-a-christian_n_183772.html
.

9
. Johanna Neuman, “Obama Ends Bush-Era National Prayer Day Service at White House,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 7, 2009.

10
. Mark Silva, “Obama’s Seder: This Year at White House,”
Chicago Tribune,
April 8, 2009.

11
. “Obama Passover Seder UPDATE: Photo, Guest List, Menu,” Associated Press, April 10, 2009.

12
. Ben Meyerson, “Obama Hosts a Seder: Who Was Invited?”
Los Angeles Times,
April 10, 2009.

13
. Mark Silva, “Obama’s Ramadan Dinner: Big Crowd,”
Chicago Tribune,
September 1, 2009.

14
. Ibid.

15
. “2009 US Presidential Passover Greeting,” available at
http://www.holidays.net/passover/
presnote2009.htm
.

16
. Robert Satloff, “Just Like Us! Really? Gallup says only 7 percent of the world’s Muslims are political radicals. Yet 36 percent think the 9/11 attacks were in some way justified,”
Weekly Standard,
May 12, 2008.

17
. Pamela Geller, “State Department at Work: On 911, ‘Islam, What a Billion Muslims Really Think’:) Movie Screening and Iftar Dinner for State Department Employees,” AtlasShrugs.com, September 21, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/09/state-department-at
-work-on-911-islam-what-a-billion
-muslims-really-think-movie- screening-and
-iftar-dinner-for-state.html
.

18
. Hilary Leila Krieger, “White House Hanukka party guest list to be cut in half,”
Jerusalem Post,
November 19, 2009.

19
. Rachel L. Swarns, “Washington Fuss Over White House Hanukkah Party,”
New York Times,
December 10, 2009.

20
. Alan Caruba, “Obama’s War On America,” Canada Free Press, November 11, 2009,
http://canadafreepress.com/
index.php/article/16763
.

21
. “Los Angeles police plan to map Muslims,” Associated Press, November 9, 2007.

22
. “Muslims Welcome Removal of LAPD’s Mapping Program,” Muslim Public Affairs Council, November 16, 2007,
http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=563
.

23
. “Justice Department Files Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Essex County, New Jersey,” United States Department of Justice, June 8, 2009,
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/
June/09-crt-559.html
.

24
. Barack Obama, Remarks By The President On A New Beginning, WhiteHouse.gov, June 4, 2009.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo
-University-6-04-09/
.

25
. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Material Support on the Ropes? Will a key anti-terror tool fall victim to Obama’s Muslim outreach?”
National Review,
June 9, 2009.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Pamela Geller, “Muslim Terror Attack,” AtlasShrugs.com, November 5, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/11/seven-shot-dead-at
-us-army-base.html
.

28
. Jon Ward and Eli Lake, “White House: ‘War on Terrorism’ is Over,”
Washington Times,
August 6, 2009.

29
. “Chicagoan charged with aiding deadly Mumbai terror attack,” Chicago Breaking News Center, December 7, 2009,
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/12/
chicagoan-charged-with-aiding
-deadly-mumbai-terror-attack.html
.

30
. Mike Levine, “Americans Arrested in Pakistan; FBI Probing,” FOXNews.com, December 9, 2009.

31
. Michael S. Schmidt and Michael D. Regan, “Binghamton Student Says He Warned Officials,”
New York Times,
December 6, 2009.

32
. “U.S. terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base,” Reuters, September 24, 2009.

33
. Dina Temple-Raston, “Officials: NYC Plot Operational, Not Just Aspirational,” National Public Radio, September 28, 2009.

34
. Jason Trahan, Todd J. Gillman, and Scott Goldstein, “Dallas Bomb Plot Sus-pect Told Landlord He was Moving Out,”
Dallas Morning News,
September 26, 2009.

35
. “Man accused of plotting to bomb Springfield courthouse,” Chicago Breaking News, September 24, 2009,
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/09/
man-accused-of-plotting-to-bomb
-springfield-courthouse.html
.

36
. Paul Egan, “Detroit Mosque Leader Killed in FBI Raids,”
Detroit News,
October 28, 2009.

37
. Laura Crimaldi and Laurel J. Sweet, “Beltway Sniper Alleged Inspiration for Terror Suspect,”
Boston Herald,
October 21, 2009.

38
. James Corum, “Obama’s National Defence Review ignores Iran and Islam in favour of… climate change!”,
Telegraph
, February 12, 2010.

39
. Pamela Geller, “‘Diversity Visas’ and ‘Religious Visas’: Importing Jihad,” AtlasShrugs.com, April 10, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
2009/04/diversity-visas-and-
religious-visas-.html
.

NINE: DESTROYING THE PRESTIGE OF AMERICA

1
. Barack Obama, “Obama’s Address on the War in Afghanistan,”
New York Times,
December 1, 2009.

2
. Samer al-Atrush, “Arab countries fail on human rights—report,” Agence France-Presse, December 9, 2009.

3
. “Obama to release interrogation photos,” United Press International, April 23, 2009.

4
. “Senators Call on Obama to Resolve Dispute With Pelosi Over ‘Torture Photos,’” FOXNews.com, June 11, 2009.

5
. Carrie Johnson, “Prosecutor to Probe CIA Interrogations: Attorney General Parts with White House in Approving Preliminary Investigation,
Washington Post,
August 25, 2009.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Eli Lake, “7 Ex-CIA Chiefs Oppose Detainee Probe,”
Washington Times,
September 18, 2009.

8
. Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, “Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe,”
Newsweek,
January 29, 2010.

9
. Pamela Geller, “Why Didn’t President Hussein Release
All
of the CIA Memos?” AtlasShrugs.com, April 21, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/04/why-didnt-president-hussein
-release-all-the-cia-memos.html
.

10
. John R. Bolton, “Obama’s Prosecutions by Proxy,”
Washington Post,
May 6, 2009.

11
. Rowan Scarborough, “Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist,” Fox News, November 25, 2009.

12
. Pamela Geller, “Justice for America’s Hero: After Action Report In Support of Michael Behenna,” AtlasShrugs.com, December 6, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/12/justice-for-americas-hro
-after-action-report-in-support-of-
michael-behenna.html?cid=
6a00d8341c60bf53ef0120a71df106970b
.

13
. Daniel Schwammenthal, “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes,’”
Wall Street Journal,
November 26, 2009.

14
. U.S. Supreme Court,
Ex Parte Quirin,
317 U.S. 1 (1942), available at
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/
getcase.pl?court=US&vol=317&invol=1
.

15
. Andrew C. McCarthy, “How Obama is Courting Danger: Civilian Trials Set Back the War on Terror,”
Daily News
(New York), November 22, 2009.

16
. Marc A. Thiessen, “The CIA’s Questioning Worked,”
Washington Post,
April 21, 2009.

17
. Mimi Hall and Ken Dilanian, “Guantanamo Plan Takes More Shots,”
USA Today,
May 22, 2009.

18
. “Obama’s News Conference at the G-20,”
New York Times,
September 25, 2009.

19
. Kenneth R. Bazinet, Wil Cruz, and Samuel Goldsmith, “Trial for 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Won’t Happen in New York City, Says Official,”
Daily News
(New York), January 29, 2010.

20
. Jim Kouri, “Terrorist trials may still be held in Manhattan, says President,” Law Enforcement Examiner, February 8, 2010,
http://www.examiner.com/x-2684
-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2010m2d8-
Terrorist-trials-may-still-be-
held-in-Manhattan-says-President
.

21
. Ryan Lizza, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama,”
New Yorker,
July 21, 2008.

TEN: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD

1
. Ayn Rand,
Ayn Rand Answers—The Best of Her Q & A,
ed. Robert Mayhew (New York: NAL Books, 2005), p. 20.

2
. Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, “‘Un-American’ Attacks Can’t Derail Health Care Debate,”
USA Today,
August 10, 2009.

3
. Barack Obama, speech in McLean, Virginia, August 7, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
jifjRVLVjzA&eurl=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.breitbart.tv%2Fobama-dont
-want-the-folks-who-
created-the-mess-to-do-a-lot-of-
talking%2F&feature=player_embedded
.

4
. Michael Barone, “Obama vs. Free Speech,” RealClearPolitics, October 11, 2008.

5
. “Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement,” Office of Governor Matt Blunt, September 27, 2008.

6
. Bob Herbert, “A Threat We Can’t Ignore,”
New York Times,
June 19, 2009; Frank Rich, “The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers,”
New York Times,
June 13, 2009; Paul Krugman, “The Big Hate,”
New York Times,
June 11, 2009; Tobin Harshaw, “Weekend Opinionator: Is Racist Hate Republican or Democratic?”
New York Times,
June 12, 2009.

7
. Steven Mikulan, “New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster,”
LA Weekly,
August 3, 2009.

8
. “Mystery Obama/Joker Poster Appears in L.A.,”
Bedlam Magazine,
August 3, 2009.