Where, oh where, is James Clapper?

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Tamarlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar came to the United States when they were boys, refugees from Russia. This country took their family in, gave them asylum, educated them, offered them every opportunity, and, according to the Boston Herald, provided them with taxpayer-funded welfare benefits. Of course we did. Here’s how The Herald reported it:

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Immediately after the bombings of the London subway system in July 2005, British law enforcement authorities suspected a second bombing wave was coming. They suspected right. When they moved in to the area where the second wave suspects were thought to be hiding, the terrorists came running out with their hands up. They shouted, “We have rights! We have rights!”

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All during shootout number two with Boston bombing suspect number two on Friday night, I was hoping he would not be taken alive.  But the worst case scenario prevailed, and now that he has been captured the liberal coddling will begin.

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New Secretary of State John Kerry told a German audience that in America, “you have the right to be stupid, if you want to be.”

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With big defense cuts looming, this “boom” is for you, Mr. President.

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While Secretary of State-designate John Kerry’s nomination hearing last week was pretty much a lovefest (it was before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs), this week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Chuck Hagel for Defense should be anything but.

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Once again the Arab/Islamists prove themselves hypocrites of the first order – or people blind to even the most outrageous irony or avid students of the Joseph Goebbels school of propaganda.

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The Islamists in Egypt are evidently going full bore after the country’s Christians, and perhaps using the same blood libel-style ploy as has been used for millennium to such stunning effect against the Jews.

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After Team Obama’s horrid handling of the terrible tragedy in Benghazi, does anyone out there really cling to the left’s quickly unraveling yarn that this administration has a strong record on foreign policy and national security?

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It’s a new year, but like toilet paper stuck to a shoe, the old one is being dragged into it all over the world, particularly in the certifiably insane Muslim world.

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So after two full years, how’s that Arab Spring “thing” working for you? Not feeling like it’s going our way? Feel free to join the ever-expanding club that embraces that overwhelmingly disappointing notion.

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It may be time for whatever tiny Jewish community remains in Turkey, to flee that place.

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Things are deteriorating for the Jews of Europe almost as fast as they are in the Middle East.

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Lost in the hubbub over Who Knew What When (then changed it) about the Sept. 11 terror attack on our Benghazi consulate is one huge question: When do the terrorists pay for what they did?

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Here’s a novel notion: Considering what’s at stake in Syria for US interests, how about Team Obama leading for once from the front, rather than from “behind”?

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From KPBS in San Diego, a report whose narrator’s happy, girly voice makes the story all the more horrifying.

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It turns out that someone at the State Department knew all along that Croatia never answered for its Nazi past and shouldn’t just sail into the EU un-scrutinized and unreformed. Unfortunately, it’s a bit late. This former Under Secretary of State, Stuart Eizenstat, might have spoken up when Croatia was put on the fast-track in the mid-2000s, or even as late as last year, when the final stage of accession began; Croatia will be an EU member by mid next year.

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Maybe it’s an intentional attempt to break the reform movement, or maybe it’s just evidence of an instinctual male fear of losing societal supremacy, but in either case, women are being targeted in ugly assaults in Cairo, Associated Press reports. Too blatant even to be ironic, A.P, reported that “a mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday,” with the attackers overwhelming the group’s male guardians “and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.”

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I didn’t even hear about this at the time, but apparently in 2010 an Albanian in England beheaded a Brit. The update is that he was sentenced last week:

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If you still think the Arab Spring in Egypt is a pro-Democracy movement, here’s a little something to chew on from the Associated Press.

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So, to recap this week’s Middle East news, the Syrian government is closing in on 6,000 civilian casualties for which it’s blaming Israel and the U.S., and Iran’s top religious grand Pooh-Bah, or whatever he is, is calling for the extermination of Israel in particular and Jews in general.

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Even as his government back home was sentencing to death an American citizen it outrageously claims is a spy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embarked on a five-day visit to four of Latin America’s most anti-American regimes: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Cuba.

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The foreign policy and national security strategy of only one of the four remaining Republican candidates is adequate against this tenuous scenario. Ron Paul’s agenda for the Middle East will guarantee a nuclear Iran, turn North Africa over to the Islamists, and ignore the next wave of jihadists who have trained their sites on the US Homeland. Congressman Paul may be a staunch advocate for citizens’ Constitutional rights, but in my modest view, his vision for US Foreign Policy may force Americans into a national security predicament as bad as or worse than that of a second Obama administration.

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Pity the NYC Police Department.  Entrusted with safeguarding the welfare of almost 9 million people daily as the first guard of defense against terrorism, their only hope is to be smarter than the enemy and intercept him before he strikes again.  After the horror of 9/11, and after all the other Muslim generated terrorist acts in the U.S. and abroad, this is a very tall order and one which our police department, under the command of Commissioner Kelly, deserves great praise for having accomplished.  Undoubtedly they have gotten assistance from the FBI, the Dept of Homeland Security and from various community watchdogs but since we have not had a repeat of 9/11 since then, we should all be eminently grateful for the success of their training and the bravery of New York City’s police corps.

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Just days after the American colors were “cased” in Iraq, a wave of al Qaeda-style bombings struck Baghdad, killing dozens. The attacks also cast doubt on President Obama’s claim that, with our GIs coming home after nine years, Iraq is now “sovereign, stable and self-reliant.”

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The news of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il’s death is akin to a beautifully wrapped holiday present: It’s full of promise, but might turn out to be a huge disappointment.

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Tonight Newt Gingrich spoke some truth about the middle east that very few people–even including Jews–have had the courage to say or write in recent decades.

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When the young Tunisian burned himself in protest against authoritarian oppression and lack of economic justice, triggering massive demonstrations in this small North African country, commentators hesitated to coin the movement as an Arab Spring. It took months, and events exploding in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria before the West coined the upheavals ”Arab Spring.” And as the movement was developing throughout the region the West was also unsure as to which direction these revolutions are going to go.

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