My latest in PJ Media:
President Trump is withdrawing most American troops from Somalia, and establishment Republican Senator Roy Blunt is livid, declaring that “in Somalia…and Iraq and Afghanistan…none of those places are nearly as secure if we leave as they are if we’re there.” Somali Senator Ayub Ismail Yusuf agrees: “U.S. troops have made a huge contribution and had great impact on the training and operational effectiveness of Somali soldiers.” The jihad terror group al-Shabaab is still quite active; those soldiers must be not all that effective, and U.S. troops are not going to wipe out the jihadis. Trump is right: American troops have no business being in Somalia.
In his State of the Union address on February 5, 2019, Trump stated: “As a candidate for President, I pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars.”
Indeed. After all these years, twenty-six years after the Black Hawk incident, most Americans would be surprised to learn we even have troops in Somalia. Al-Shabaab arose and committed multiple jihad massacres during that period. In Somalia as in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, the U.S. has sacrificed the lives of heroic service members and squandered untold amounts of money in the fond hope that it could create stable, Western-style republics that would respect the human rights of all their citizens.
But this is going to take time, according to the foreign policy establishment, and so we must remain in Somalia, Afghanistan, and who knows where else. As one of these massively failed “experts” observed, Afghanistan “is not going to become Switzerland overnight,” and it is likely he would say the same thing about Somalia.
Great. So we know now after twenty-six years that it isn’t going to happen overnight, but how long is it going to take? Five more years in Somalia? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? Should we make Somalia the 51st state, with Ilhan Omar as its governor?
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Wellington says
Just demonstrates again that Trump has been ahead of the curve and even many Republicans (never mind Democrats—they are hopeless) don’t grasp the essence of Trump’s foreign policy respecting the Islamic world, i.e., the Islamic world is deficient, they’re on their own, but we will work with some of them against yet other dysfunctional Islamic nations, but no more useless blood shed by Americans with no victory in sight for a portion of the world, the Islamic portion, that is a sorry-ass excuse overall respecting what mankind is capable of at its best. Sadly, all of what I wrote above will completely go over the head of the ever clueless Biden.
I dread a Biden Presidency. Anyone of sense and knowledge should, which, unfortunately, would leave out a very large percentage of mankind, including the overeducated rubes running the UN and the EU, never mind Deep State vermin of the likes of Brennan, Clapper, McCabe, Strzok, Page and Comey.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
juleonly says
Tulsi Gabbard supports Trumps pull out. I guess she knows what she is talking about.
E T says
I still have hope that the Soros planned, Biden presidency will not happen. I dread that this would be allowed to happen. God help us all worldwide if the Marxists are allowed to bring down President Trump, pure evil will prevail.
Donald John Trump won this election in a landslide.
gravenimage says
Somali Senator Tags Biden in Appeal for U.S. Troops to Stay in the Country
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Ayub Ismail Yusuf wants more American blood and treasure for his hopeless, violent hell hole of a country.
Here’s his Tweet:
The decision by @POTUS to remove the US security forces from #Somalia is untimely. The fight against global terrorism is still ongoing and we must still win this battle for peace and security to prevail. We must not give up on our successes
@US2SOMALIA
@JoeBiden
@RepAdamSmith
https://twitter.com/AyubIsmailYusuf/status/1335066223005085699
What “successes” might those be? Somalia is itself a terrorist state.
But Biden will likely prove a ready ear for this kind of tripe.
Rob Porter says
Gravenimage, rather hire a few hundred South African mercenaries. They are far more effective than American and other troops, and ruthless to boot. When in 2016 just a few hundred were hired by Nigeria to deal with the Muslim group, Boko Haram, in just 3 1/2 months they did to Boko Haram what the entire Nigerian army had failed to achieve in six years. Best of all, they took no prisoners, just herded survivors on the run into ‘kill blocks’ where waiting mercenaries wiped them out. Of course after the mercenaries left Nigeria Boko Haram eventually returned – with the acquiescence of a new Muslim president – who Obama helped get there! So again Christians are being murdered – and of this gutless West Says nothing.
Americans and Kurds took ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria prisoner – after this scum had brutally murdered, raped, made sex slaves and mass murdered old women. My disgust knew no bounds. The South Africans would have killed them, not allow then to return to countries of origin – like Canada! Send those mercenaries into Somalia and the problem will be solved – with all the jihadi Islamic filth dead, rotting where they fall and remains devoured by wild animals.
eduardo odraude says
Was Mozart Islamophobic?
At around 1:17 starts the musical part of this video of a performance of a section of Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, but the dialog in the first minute of the video is interesting too in the context of Jihad Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isJkFTTcxS8
Christopher Watson says
Why, oh why have we stayed in these countries of the middle eat and Africa? We have spent billions and billions of dollars and what have we achieved? Very little. Some natives have improved their farming methods; some have a little more water but there is still as much violence ad religious warfare. Even after the British and the Russians failed in Afghanistan the Americans tried and are still there, dying and failing. You can’t win against these terrorists by using ‘civilised’ methods; you have to fight dirty. These countries must be abandoned and no ‘refugees’ should be allowed to enter the west. They are an expensive drain on the west and bring us nothing.
gravenimage says
Yes–these Muslims cannot be civilized.
Eleanor says
You are so correct – USA only has to look at native South Africans killing many white farmers, to realise that it really is hopeless case, and that famine in South Africa is not far away. I really wish that the 5-I countries would take in many of these distressed white people of South Africa. But their Leftie Governments don’t want to know.
Rob Porter says
The “natives” are getting away with murdering white South African farmers and their families because the garbage racists African National Congress government, police and military support the murders, taking over of white-owned farms and theft that it calls ‘expropriation without compensation’. It is straight theft, but the utterly cowardly West doesn’t care, so says nothing about this. No wonder they are so gutless at handling the black racists and criminals of BLM!
Meanwhile South Africa used to export grain, but with so many white-owned farmers gone, their farms stolen by a communist government or left abandoned, the country now has to import grain. Unemployment is through the roof. Like other governments all over Africa, not least Zimbabwe, this is useless, corrupt, incompetent black Africa all over again.
For ten years, 1977 through 1987, through newspapers I bluntly spoke out against apartheid and now wonder why I bothered.
truthout says
Very simply put it is a massive secretive money laundering machine .The leaders could care less about any of us .As long as we pay taxes and they can raid the treasury that is all that matters .Wait the best part is coming .The money will dry up then they will show their complete hand .What you really think that the vaccine is to save us ?Just the opposite .Its the ultimate secretive show .No longer do they have to frame up people with false drug charges to get them into the system .Too slow for them .They will kill us all and raid what we have left .Its what the crying cowards in our system involved with the jihadis up to their neck do .The killer vaccine with Biden at the helm means out ultimate destruction .See the real truth we are on our own in all respects and have always been .When our own military goes after the sons and daughters of those who served with honor and wanted to sent them to Gitmo[code name paradise]for failing to be Muslim and refusing to submit to the false authority it should have told you all something .Instead of tryin unsuccessfully to brand them crazy you should have listened The Nazi Muslim connection it very strong .Its been hidden and now its seeds are sown in such a way they will win unless you start listening .
PS It was their Muslim parasitologist that brought you the peculiar frame up.The calling card was the snails and slugs.They were hoping for rat lungworm in their victims.
gravenimage says
The idea that vaccines are intended to kill people is quite mistaken. The scourges of polio and smallpox are things of the past due to vaccines.
Rob Porter says
Christopher, The Russians failed in Afghanistan, not because of the brilliance of Afghan fighters, but because of what the U.S. did through Senator Charlie Wilson who supplied the mujahadeen with training, stinger surface to air missiles and other modern weapons.
Eleanor says
It appears to me that the USA are “damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.”
Ugly Sid says
“…I did not know until this day, that it was Barzini all along.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t we one week away from the decision to coronate Joseph Quiz Ling Biden as Ruler of the US of Manchuko?
We are on track to do our petitioning of the government upon camp toilet paper as stationary with a fountain pen, exactly as described by Solchenezen.
gravenimage says
Solzhenitsyn?
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Send in all the “antifa”/”black lives matter”/Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, the four horse-faces of the Apocalypse – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and co-starring – Joe Biden, ans Hunter Biden, with their army of strippers, and crack-dealers, which approve of the fight. We’ll see how long their “hawkish” attitude lasts.
Giacomo Latta says
”none of those places are nearly as secure if we leave”
The US, on the other hand, will become more secure as there won’t be any ”translate once for us and you’re in” programme. Nor will there be one aiming at getting the unvetted ”gentle people of Somalia” out to a safer place elsewhere, except maybe Sweden and Germany.
SJ says
LOL! I think most people (unlike you) don’t realize how many Afghani & Iraqi translators were brought into the country as permanent residents. In fact, the number of mechanics, etc are even more than that! The total is around a million.
OLD GUY says
Somali is a country with a lot of troubles. I have a personnel interaction with the migrants from Somali they destroyed a neighborhood that was typical middle class America when the local churches brought them in. The crime rate went through the roof, property values went way down, business closed and it became the most dangerous area of the city. These people don’t know how to live in a free society and have little or know appreciation for the help and opportunity that they have been given. Diversity can be a big mistake when you allow the wrong people into your neighborhood or country. It’s a tuff choice to make, do you help others and at what cost to your society. The problem is that often the bleeding hearts that promote diversity don’t live anywhere near these people after they bring them in, so they don’t have to deal with the day to day crime and problems.
GreekEmpress says
OLD GUY,
Is that Lewiston, ME by any chance?
Or Minneapolis?
OLD GUY says
Nope, Tucson AZ.
gravenimage says
I hadn’t even heard that Tucson had a problem with Somali invaders until just now.
Here’s a story from a little over a year ago:
“2 Tucson men are accused of trying to join Islamic State”
Two Tucson men, both refugees from Somalia, have been arrested on suspicion of trying to join the Islamic State and fight for the terror group or launch an attack on U.S. soil…
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/2-tucson-men-are-accused-of-trying-to-join-islamic-state/article_c8d5ef98-b254-11e9-8008-1f5db0e7bcca.html
SJ says
London faced similar issues.
gravenimage says
Very drepressing, OLD GUY–and this is happening all over.
SJ says
Indeed. They’re just following their book.
SJ says
Make Ilhan the Somalian ambassador. She can stay right at home with her beloved Somalis.