For the first time in roughly seven decades of the annual defense authorization process, every Senate Democrat present voted to block even beginning debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, according to Senate Republican leaders.
The procedural vote failed 50 to 46 because 60 votes were needed to advance the bill.
American troops are operating in the middle of a dangerous conflict with Iran. Commercial ships are under attack.
Missile and interceptor stockpiles are under pressure.
The military needs clear policy, steady support, and confidence that Congress is behind the men and women carrying out the mission.
Instead, Chuck Schumer and every Senate Democrat present voted to block debate on the annual defense bill.
Not defeat the final bill after amendments. Not demand a vote on a specific change.
They voted against allowing the Senate to begin debating it.
Schumer says Democrats are protesting an unauthorized war without a clear strategy or exit plan.
But the NDAA is where senators are supposed to debate strategy, demand oversight, offer amendments, shape military policy, authorize troop compensation, and address readiness.
Blocking debate does not strengthen congressional oversight, it prevents the Senate from doing its job.
This looks less like principled opposition and more like an attempt to use America’s military as leverage against President Trump.
Rather than root for Team America while our troops confront an Iranian regime that attacks ships, threatens allies, and destabilizes energy markets, Democrats appear determined to handicap the administration politically, even when that means weakening the message sent to Tehran.
Whatever their stated intent, the practical effect is to give Iran a propaganda victory.
The regime can now watch one entire American political party refuse to advance the legislation that sets defense policy while American forces are engaged.
Did Senate Democrats cross the line by blocking debate on the defense bill during an active conflict?
The Whack-a-Mullah game is getting to be quite hilarious.
They are obviously operating out of fear of the justly deserved retribution that is coming their way. The Kurds and the Persian people will be freed from evil Ayatollahs.
The Alcoran of Mahomet told you allah is a deceiver. Now Ali Khamenei knows he should have trusted the Holy Bible. The Quran tried to tell you to trust it. You chose not to.
You probably won’t see this on your news channels but Israel recently found an underground Hezbollox airbase/ drone building factory/ launch site, built under a village in southern Lebanon.
After capturing the tunnel, soldiers found around 50 UAVs with warheads of around 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of explosives each.
All ready to be fired into Israel, just a few kilometres from the border.
The tunnels go under the village of Madjal Zoun.
They run under houses and a mosque.
The subterranean facility, guarded by massive steel blast doors, was built in the past decade with direct Iranian assistance, including planning and funding, according to Israeli military sources.
Inside the tunnel, which was wide enough for a standard vehicle to drive through, Hezbollox had assembled Iranian-made drones using parts smuggled into Lebanon, presumably under the noses of the UNFIL personnel.
The drones can typically fly 200 to 500 kilometers (125 to 310 miles), enough to reach all of Israel, according to IDF officials. Military analyst Fabian Hinz identified the UAVs as an Iranian drone design, known as the Qasef in the service of the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
In addition to the UAVs, the troops found around eight tons of explosive material in the underground site’s rooms
Make no mistake, Iran stands behind Hezbollox in Lebanon.
They have no interest in peace.
Israel must be allowed to defend itself and our northern border from these threats.
No other country would tolerate this.
Iran is demanding Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon but make no commitment to stop using their proxies to attack us.
They criticise Israeli aggression and threaten to walk away from the deal with the US. This is a genius move, designed to build a wedge between Israel the US and to further trash Israel’s reputation around the world.
In reality they will use any excuse they can to sink the deal and make it look as though it’s all Israel’s fault.
We cannot be held to ransom for a deal we had no part in.
Lebanon needs to be freed from Hezbollox and Iran’s evil intentions.
Israel and Lebanon must find a way to live in peace together without them.
We need to make sure there is an end-game strategy and our soldiers are not left vulnerable to attacks they cannot defend against because of an externally imposed “ceasefire” that is nothing of the sort.
We need a real and lasting diplomatic solution between the Lebanese government and Israel.
We need our leaders to have a vision for a better, more peaceful future, not more, never-ending violence and war.
Those are diplomatic talks the world should be backing. These could really make a difference.
These are talks the Israeli government ought to commit to but probably won’t because perpetual war has become an end in itself and as long as it continues certain political groups can keep their supporters happy. It’s not an acceptable state of affairs but it is the reality we are living now.
But sure, go ahead and hate on Israel.
We know much of the world will anyway.
But look, really look at those UAVs and explosives and tell me – what would you do if these were on your border pointed at your home?
In fact, Islam is an unrepentant politico-expansionist movement clothed in the trappings of religion and bent on universal conquest by whatever means it can mobilize: deception (taqiyya), social and cultural infiltration, or bloody violence, as its millennial history and authoritative scriptures have proven. (See Koran 13:41, which is meant literally despite the attempt of apologists to launder its purport: “Do they not see that We are advancing in the land, diminishing it by its borders on all sides?”)
There are several ways in which Islam differs from all other major religions. For
It sanctions militant proselytization, mandating forcible imposition on other peoples by coercion, threat and overt violence (Koran 8:39, 9:29, etc.), a practice unique among religions today.
It punishes apostasy with death (Koran 4:89; Hadith, Bukhari 9.84.57), also a practice unique among religions today.
It countenances no separation between church and state, that is, it cannot render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. The scope of its ambition is khilafil, that is, the establishment of a Caliphate requiring that a state—ultimately a universal state—be ruled by Islamic law. As Muslim scholar Jaafar Sheikh Idris explains, “Secularism cannot be a solution for countries with a Muslim majority or even a sizeable minority, for it requires people to replace their God-given beliefs with an entirely different set of man-made beliefs. Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because it requires us to abandon Allah’s decree for that of man.”
The “religion” itself takes precedence he transcendent values it should strive to attain: the flourishing of the individual soul, the love of God’s Creation, the grace and miracle of life, the conversation with the Divine, freedom of conscience and the inviolability of personal choice in determining one’s redemption. Instead, it elevates conformity to a set of stringent rules, down to the smallest detail, as a prerequisite to salvation, whose effect is primarily to perpetuate the faith itself at the expense of the individual votary. Admittedly, this is a literalist practice common to most restrictive and comparatively minor orthodoxies, but regarding the massive following enjoyed by Islam and its susceptibility to violence and the subjugation of other faiths and peoples to its hegemony, we are remarking a radically greater economy of scale and the havoc it can wreak.
The propensity to violence is not an aberration but an intrinsic element of the Islamic corpus. As Lee Cary has written, Islamic terrorists are “legacy, Koranic literalists” who use terror “to enforce a dogma that defines behavioral practices that comply with the Koran and [defines] the regulations of daily life.” The much-bruited notion that there is such a thing as “Islamism,” a form of extremism that has nothing to do with Islam proper, or is a perversion thereof, is a pure canard, another in a series of timorous progressivist memes bleaching the blood out of the Islamic ideological jalabiyya. Islam, not “Islamism,” promises paradise for martyrs and jihadis killed in battle (Koran 3: 157), thus palliating and even inciting feral attitudes and fanatical actions—a patently non-spiritual way of earning beatitude.
As Howard Kainz points out in an illuminating essay, “Islam and the Decalogue,” Islam reverses the Golden Rule, which is central to Judaism,
, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism (Koran 48:29, 2:191, 3:28, etc.). For this reason, Kainz concludes, “Islam may best be understood,” not as a religion, but “as a world-wide cult.”
The standard rebuttal that all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression misses the essential point. All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression—and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a universal creedal or Divine imperative. Such is not the case with Islam, a communion that since its inception in the 7th century has seldom strayed from its sanguinary path of carnage and subdual. Its incendiary prescriptions and commands, as many scholars have noted, are open-ended and contain no “sunset clause.” They are perpetual and mandatory, feeding what essayist Bill Kassel calls “religious-themed barbarism”!
I will always be on the side of Western Civilization and the moral values it holds dear. We are all individuals deserving of freedom I will never accept oppressive ideologies like Islam nor Islamic regimes. I will never bow. No amount of gaslighting will ever change this for me But it is ok for Iran […]
We must help liberate the Iranian people, and we can do it. We can do it without our troops on the ground. Without a forever war. We can do it. Train them. Arm them. Support them. And we will never have to worry about nuclear arms from the Iranian regime ever again. Not only that, but the Middle East will also change for the better in ways that we cannot even imagine. The regime must be destroyed. The time is now.
Jews existed thousands of years before the cult of Islam ever existed. Christ lived over 600 years before the cult of Islam too. Muhammed plagiarized the Bible, made himself a demonic spinoff and then beheaded anyone who wouldn’t buy his version instead. He was a homicidal, pedophile rapist psychopath. He formed the most inbred, low IQ, and illiterate region of the world under his brainwashing and threat of death, taxes or ostracization from doing business to control the region by brute force.
Why on Earth would we surrender all of our beautiful countries to the most vile group of people to ever exist? How are white nations inviting them in when it’s so easy to find out the facts- they rape, torture, genitally mutilate, and enslave all their women and little girls. They blow up little boys in minefields. They cut off heads and hands. How are so many public figures and leaders agreeing to this?
The Persian people long to be freed from Shiite Muslim shackles.
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