Obama/Romney: Neither Up To The Task Re:Islam's Caliphate Plans!

George Kennan.

Sixty-five years ago this July, Foreign Affairs published an explosive article by diplomat George Kennan, under the pseudonym Mr. X, which isolated and defined “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.” It became the centerpiece of our response to Soviet expansionism and the foundation of our Cold War policy, and made “containment” a household word and a foreign policy strategy for decades afterward.
Due to the “innate antagonism” between socialism and capitalism, the USSR perceived itself to be at perpetual war with the West, with no possibility for peaceful coexistence. And they were extremely patient and practical in the pursuit of that goal.
Direct conflict was never considered a desirable avenue for the propagation of the Soviet cause; instead, the Soviets were always on the move to fill “every nook and cranny available to it in the basin of world power.” Their foreign policy, Kennan wrote, “is a fluid stream which moves constantly, wherever it is permitted to move, toward a given goal.” George Kennan's policy conclusion was that the main element of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies… designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force at every point where they show signs of encroaching upon he interests of a peaceful and stable world. The United States adopted that policy, and the USSR collapsed twenty years ago.

Now...replace the Soviet threat of the past with the contemporary one of Islamic fundamentalism. Check off the similarities: 
(a) Islam  - a totalitarian ideology at perpetual war with Western capitalism? Check. 
(b) Muslims patient and prepared to fight the long war? Check. 
(c) Impervious to the logic of reason, but vulnerable to force? Check. 
(d) Islam always on the move to fill every nook and cranny available to it? Check. 

Of course there are differences, but the big picture is strikingly similar. To paraphrase Kennan, our conflict with Islamic fundamentalism is probably the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced or will ever have to face. So where is our Mr. X in government today who will craft a similar policy document to address the threat of Islamic expansionism? 

Barak Obama: Mr Not A Clue... Dangerous For The USA
and  Western Democracies.

How would that even be possible, considering that the current President of the USA is so publicly worshipful of Islam and so supportive of such hardcore Muslim bodies as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Muslim Brotherhood. How would it be possible, considering that the Obama administration has scrubbed its official language clean of any unflattering reference whatsoever to Islam and will brook no criticism of it? 
Indeed, our own Secretary of State is working with the 57-member OIC to adopt restrictions on free speech that will criminalize the defamation of Islam!
Today’s closest approximation to Mr. X’s policy paper is the work of Frank Gaffney and the Washington D.C.-based Center for Security Policy, who in 2010 published Shariah: The Threat to America, a highly acclaimed report on the dangerous reality of political Islam. More recently he and his team unveiled a free, ten-part, online “video briefing” entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: A Video Course,” designed to educate American citizens about “a threat most Americans are unaware even exists within our country, let alone the peril it represents.”

Mitt Romney: Mr Sort Of A Clue...
but still maybe a liability.

If Mitt Romney ascends to the White House this coming January, will his administration be open to Gaffney’s advocacy, much less adopt it as policy? In the past Romney has expressed strong opposition to jihadists, but then claimed that “jihad is an entirely different entity” from Islam, and is “in no way” a part of Islam. It’s difficult to tell just how seriously he comprehends the danger and how forcefully he intends to confront it. (C) Mark Tapson.
Oh this is just great! So...what the Western democracies will have to rely on if they are not to be engulfed by the Plague of Islam, is a good old fashioned war triggered by fear, loathing and rivalry?Then the first sudden death  game better be between the Islamofascist Nutters of Iran and the Wahhabi Wankers; aka the Saudi/Gulf States.
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