The War on Terror Has Cost $5,900,000,000,000 and Still Isn’t Being Fought Properly

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According to Brown University’s Cost of War Project, the war on terror has cost approximately $5.9 trillion since September 11, 2001, including $2 trillion for operations in various foreign countries and $924 billion for security at home. And what do we have to show for it?

Not much. The jihadis haven’t struck again in America on the scale they did on 9/11, but they have struck, in Boston, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, Little Rock, San Bernardino, New York City, and elsewhere. The jihad threat is still very much with us.

Indicative of why these trillions have largely been wasted is the fact that the people who are prosecuting this war keep predicting that it will end in a few years. General Petraeus said in 2010 that it could take another ten years to defeat the Afghan “insurgency.” Do you think the Taliban is likely to be disbanded and Afghanistan to be a stable, functioning republic in 2020? Did he really think that? Unfortunately, he probably did, because to think otherwise would have been “Islamophobic.”

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Likewise in Britain. In 2007, the UK security chief, Admiral Lord Alan West, said it could take 30 years to defeat terrorism in the United Kingdom. Do you think that in 2037, Britain will be peaceful and free of jihad terrorists?

The very idea is preposterous, and it is preposterous for the same reason that we have spent so much money and have accomplished so little.

West said more in that 2007 interview:

I now realize that we are talking about a generation — and by that I would say 30 years. That doesn’t mean necessarily that we are going to stay at a severe level of threat for all those years. But to be able to say one has absolutely changed the mind-set and thought of people IS going to take a generation.

West nailed the answer there — but no one seemed to notice.

Because nothing, nothing whatsoever, is being done in Britain or anywhere else to change “the mind-set and thought of people.”

The entirety of Western intelligentsia, the totality of our political and media elites, steadfastly refuses to acknowledge exactly what the “mindset and thought” of the terrorists really is, and where it comes from. Because of that refusal, policies that don’t deal with the actual problem keep being applied and re-applied — at the cost of thousands of American lives, billions of American dollars — and we have nothing to show for this expenditure besides a sharp and continuing loss of American power and prestige.

The jihadis who struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001 have made such immense advances since then not because they are strong, or clever, or capable, but because we are weak, short-sighted, and resolute. Resolute not in fighting them, but in maintaining our denial about who they are and what they want.

The denial is so complete that we have taken numerous steps to actually enable them to achieve their goals: the billions that Barack Obama gifted to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the welcoming of the massive Muslim migrant influx into Europe are just two of the most recent examples.

After Fort Hood, and Boston, and Garland, and Chattanooga, and San Bernardino, and Orlando, and Paris, and Brussels, and Nice, and so very many others, this myopia is ludicrous to the point of being grotesque.

And it is the key reason why this war drags on: millions unthinkingly accept the dogma that to speak honestly and accurately about the jihadis’ motives and goals is to descend into “racism” and “bigotry,” and to endanger innocent Muslims.

Over seventeen years after jihadis murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, it is still almost unheard-of for there to be an honest discussion of jihadi motives and goals in the mainstream.

The Leftist political and media elites are dug in: wholeheartedly committed to denial, willful ignorance, and policies that are self-defeating to the point of suicidal. In light of that, the wonder is not that this war has lasted so long, but that we have held out so long.

Unless Trump prevails and this denial is decisively rejected and discarded, much darker days are coming.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

” … and to endanger innocent Muslims.” That is Mistake Number One. For ANY human being to believe that such a thing as an “innocent moslem” exists. A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. They are ALL the same, the vilest of ALL creatures.

tom
tom
5 years ago

Islam has earned all the scorn and derision heaped upon it, and then some. It deserves ZERO respect. Islam is evil and inhuman.

CumExApostolatus
CumExApostolatus
5 years ago
Reply to  tom

Here are some Torah ‘gems’ for you. I’m sure ‘they’ didn’t really mean it. Enjoy.

‘The Gentiles shall come to your light, And their kings to the brightness of your ascension…
You shall drink their milk and draw milk from the breasts of their kings…

Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers…

You shall be named the priests of the Lord and the Gentiles shall call you the servants of God as you eat their riches, while they boast of your greatness and surrender unto you all their gold and incense…
The children of those who afflicted you shall come bowing down to you,
And all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet,
The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, And their kings shall minister to you, as your gates remain open, day and night, So that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, while their kings are led in humble procession before you, For the nation which will not bow down and serve you shall perish, it shall be utterly destroyed…
–Book of Isaiah

‘When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall save nothing alive that breathes…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy. You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…’
–Book of Deuteronomy

‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly…’
–Leviticus 25:44-46

“I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive them out of your way, little by little until you have increased enough to take possession of their land…’ –Exodus 23

tom
tom
5 years ago

I think a village somewhere must be missing an idiot. Kindly stick your phony baloney equivocations up your kazoo….with all due respect. Call me when Jews are flying planes into buildings and blowing up pop concerts. Nothing in the Old-Testament portion of the Bible mitigates the utterly inhuman totalitarian ideology proscribed by Islam. NOTHING.

CumExApostolatus
CumExApostolatus
5 years ago
Reply to  tom

9^1^1 2^0^0^1, Odigo calling. Avoid w t c today.
D a n L e w i n didn’t receive that call.

tom
tom
5 years ago

Again…to call you an idiot wouldn’t be fair to idiots. Your brainless head is so far up your ass the jaws of life couldn’t get it out. LInkum!

Hector Stull
Hector Stull
5 years ago

Political correctness is stupid, deadly and very expensive.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Hector Stull

Agree. Even Liberal loon Clooney the Loony had to admit Trump was
Correct and he was wrong http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/cloony-admits-trump-was-right/

LOL !
Some friends of jihadis below. Recognise them ?
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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Thank God we don’t have to hear McShame’s resistance to Trump.
Instead we have creepy Mittens as his replacement.

ssparks19
ssparks19
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

this guy was bad news.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Instead they go out of their way to import and welcome more Muslim terrorists!
They give them free housing, education, healthcare, social benefits, and unlimited raping of the population with some acid attacks and other crimes. I wonder, just how much has more security costs have gone up since Muslim terrorists have arrived. How about those “watch lists”? Eye roll.

“Unless Trump prevails and this denial is decisively rejected and discarded,
much darker days are coming.”

THAT IS A FACT. There is no choice but to back him.
You may not be in agreement with all he does but he is our last shot.
Voters let him down in the midterm. Look at what the DEMS are doing in Congress. We can only hope the Senate holds the line. Imagine having a DEM President like Beto. We need him for 8 years and get as much done as possible. I wish he’d dump Pence and get someone else as a VP. Pence is worthless and if he’d run as President, he’d lose.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

The cheapest way to abolish the Muhammadist threat is ideologically & militarily by abolishing it’s censorship & by using armed drones.
Trump said of Pamela Geller “Why is she insulting everybody? Wrong leader.
He also promotes Twitter which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia. Hamas-Cair for example censors Facebook worldwide.
Trump allegedly has a golf-course in Saudi Arabia.
He sells weapons to Saudi Arabia where Africans are enslaved, atheists tortured & killed & girls clitodirectomized & raped & to new Muhammadist Nigeria where Non-muhammadists get killed by government-backed Muhammadists.
He also donates to Muhammadist organisations like Pakistan or Fatah.
Things to know:
• Unjust Muhammad burned people for not praying, crucified critics, commanded the lifelong torture of clitodirectomy, forced theism on anyone, raped, tortured, declared war on atheists, Jews & all other Non-muhammadists & ‘kissed’ penises of boys & sucked boys’ tongues & lips.
• Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
• Hitler viewed the unjust Muhammadism as ultimate Nazi religion that as he told his architect & minister of war Albert Speer matches the German temperament better & many Nazi criminals openly converted to the unjust Muhammadism after the war & worked for the Egyptian Muhammadist tyranny under Nasser or in Syria.
– We need a global government that protects the ethical values of truth, justice, love, American English, friendliness, ecology, human rights, global imperialism, freedom from religion & to atheism, healthy food (see DrAxe.com), cultivation of ecological best quality basics, support for self-realisation & the outlawing of incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law & war globally.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

“According to Brown University’s Cost of War Project, the war on terror has cost approximately $5.9 trillion since September 11, 2001, including $2 trillion for operations in various foreign countries and
$924 billion for security at home. And what do we have to show for it?”

Nothing!
Why are we spending more on FOREIGN countries with our tax dollars?
We build WALLS for other countries and now we do this too?

Towncar07
Towncar07
5 years ago

Until such time as all of ISLAM can be seen and understood that it is an invented “religion” founded by an insane madman with a god-complex that suffered blinding headaches and drank poison to kill the pain and have illusory conversations with the Archangel Gabriel…will “Allah” the “Prophet” Elijah Muhammad, the Qur’an and Shariah Law be seen as the work of delusion and illusion fostered by Satan, and must be totally extinguished from the earth. To allow Islam to continue will only mean another World War that will not be nuclear, but rather intensely personal and to the death. Turn the tide against these barbarians…”Death to Islam.”

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

The phrase “innocent muslims” makes about as much moral sense as to write about innocent nazis.

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
5 years ago

If the US wants to win the war on terror, there is a simple way to win. When a terrorist is caught, execute him on the spot. Then find his famine and and execute them, women and children included. It would not take long for the terrorists to quit attacking us.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

We have millions of muslimz in this country. The attacks are not going to stop here in the good ole’ USA, unfortunately. Especially when Trump hosts a ramadan dinner in the White House, and his sweet, beautiful, (sarc/off) “best wishes” to all of them, are posted right on the White House webpage:

Presidential Message on Ramadan
Issued on: May 15, 2018

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-ramadan/

and he’s capped the amount of “them”, to come into this country, for 2019, to be 30,000! (ask for link)

Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo
5 years ago

OUTLAW ISLAM LIKE IS DONE IN JAPAN ALLOW NO PUBLIC DISPLAY OF ISLAM AND EVERYTIME AN AMERICAN IS KILLED BY AN ISLAMIC COWARD DEPORT 10,000 Muslims back to one of their hellhole countries! We BETTER GET SERIOUS FAST BECAUSE THIS PROBLEM AINT GOING AWAY. OH BY THE WAY JAPAN HAS NEVER EXPERIENCED AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK!

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

do you remember that japan themself is empire/state level terrorist during WW2 ??

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago

True, but it wasn’t Islamic terror. Japan’s major religions were Shinto and Buddhism. No doubt they copied terror as any fascist regime would.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

Your pitiful, pathetic argument by red herring won’t work here Indonesian muslum knuckle dragger.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

That is the only way to go!

China doesn’t allow Islam either. They have internment camps for Muslims.

China says interning Muslims brings them into ‘modern’ world
By YANAN WANG
October 16, 2018

About 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been arbitrarily detained in mass internment camps in China’s far west Xinjiang region, according to estimates by a U.N. panel. Former detainees say they were forced to disavow their Islamic beliefs in the camps, while children of detainees are being placed in dozens of orphanages across the region.

The report by the official Xinhua News Agency indicated that key to the party’s vision in Xinjiang is the assimilation of the indigenous Central Asian ethnic minorities into Han Chinese society — and in turn, a “modern” lifestyle.

https://apnews.com/ce4c3e49f24d4223b831b3f4c19eb2cf

ssparks19
ssparks19
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

this is sort of how the Muslims destroyed Christianity in the Middle East. Take the children away and when the older ones die, the religion dies.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  ssparks19

The Turkish muslum bastards had the Janissary progrom by which they took one son from every kafir family and made them killers for allah the barbarian.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I can’t believe how a lot of countries are in an uproar about that! And I feel it won’t be long, before muslims, who are NOT in “camps” in China, rise up, and have some payback.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

Oh but they will, in time:

From 2 Mosques To 200: Growth Of Islam In Japan

https://www.muslimink.com/news/growth-of-islam-japan/

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

You can’t declare war on an ideology without declaring war on the people who practice it. Nazism wasn’t defeated through debate but through force of arms and millions of dead Germans.

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago

agree … no need to have debate ..dialogue .. arguments …etc …

just use Stalin’s style … kill them all …

show them our judeoPORNistian love and compassions ..

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

Stalin’s style muslum chumpanzee?
What did your fellow muslum vermin do in:
1. E. Timor in the 1970’s
2. Bangladesh in the 1970’s
3. Sudan in the late 20th early 21st centuries
4. Armenia/Assyria/Turkey in the early 20th century
5. Nigeria, right now
Go drown your muslum sorrows in a bucket of camel urine.

scott kuehl
scott kuehl
5 years ago

Declaring war on Islam and Muslims is not exigent or practical. The solution is an end to Muslim immigration, and the deportation of virtually all Muslims from North America and the UK and Western Europe. If not for immigration, Muslim terrorism and crime (assaults, rapes, gang-rapes, “grooming,” etc.) would not be a scourge in North America, Australia, and especially the UK and Western Europe. The U.S. and its allies have killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims, including who know how many women and girls, in Afghanistan,,Iraq, Syria, etc. We could kill millions of Muslims, including hundreds of thousands of women and girls and prepubescent boys, in more stupid, endless, disastrous, unnecessary wars, and Muslim terrorism and crime would still be a scourge in North America and especially the UK and Western Europe given the large and growing presence of tens of millions of Muslims and the insane and treasonous politics and ideologies of our ruling-elites and governing-classes, left and right and center.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  scott kuehl

Every day, in every way, you’re losing and the muslums are winning.

Paul
Paul
5 years ago
Reply to  scott kuehl

They have declared WAR on us FFS. Wake up

Paul
Paul
5 years ago

Spot On. Hitler, wasn’t defeated with typewriters, I’ve just been barred from posting on Mr Spencers JihadWatch site for pointing that out. Plenty of middle aged farts sitting on their butts venting their outrage and pontificating about Islam on that site but as soon as you point out that the Only way we will Defeat Islam and their Commie Socialist facilitators is with Force not words you get barred.. I don’t advocate violence but what F.cken choice do we have, keep talking and hope or Fight back like the world did in 1939. The longer we delay the stronger the enemies of Humanity get.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Because of that religion, so many American lives and resources lost forever. There will be a reckoning one day.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Their religious symbol of peace is the sword.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  VoiceInDesert

The way to islamic heaven isn’t made by the sweat of one’s brow or good deeds but rather under the shade of scimitars.

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
5 years ago

One very big reason that the truth about our enemies remains unspoken is because some very powerful and wealthy people and interests want it that way. The Sunni Arabs – the Saudis and their fellow Muslims – have spent billions around the world promoting a politically-correct whitewash of Islam’s violent and bloodstained 1,400-year war against non-Muslims. An enemy you refuse to name in a war you refuse to admit you are fighting – is a fight you cannot win.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
5 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

They have had a lot of helpers in the West too.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Until we release the dogs of war to kill people and break stuff until the enemy is either all dead or driven to unconditional surrender we’ll never end this. Frankly I fear we’re fighting the earned judgement of the sovereign Lord and will only be free of this by repenting of our sins…

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Agreed. And that means we will ALWAYS have the rabid animals among us.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

In time they will be eradicated.
Muslims, atheists and others can look forward to spending eternity together in hell.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Not until after the Tribulation, unfortunately.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago

Unless people WAKE UP and realize that Islam is right out of the pit of hell and will CONTINUE to kill and destroy innocents for as long as even ONE Muslim exists, we will have this battle! So basically, it will ALWAYS exist – until Yeshua/Jesus comes for His bride!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I’m waiting for the “peace treaty”.
The pieces of the puzzle are coming together.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The Peace Treaty doesn’t come until 42 months into the Tribulation – after there is a temple. And believers won’t be here anyway during that whole time.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

I say that the first 4 words of this verse, shows that the rapture happens after the tribulation. I think it’s obvious of when the rapture is, at least it’s what I see…

Notice…. “Immediately AFTER THE TRIBULATION”

“they shall gather together his elect”…

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yeah, Trump has put off HIS peace treaty AGAIN, till AFTER the Israel elections…

Netanyahu: Trump won’t roll out Mideast peace plan before ‎Israeli election

“The Trump administration will not present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan before the Israeli ‎election, set for April 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‎Netanyahu said on Monday.” ‎ ‎

https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-trump-wont-roll-out-mideast-peace-plan-before-%E2%80%8Eisraeli-election/

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

You just made a lot of politicians happy! They LOVE spending YOUR money. They are gonna try and break that record next year.

Every where you go they spend a county, a State and even a country TO DEATH!

theoprinse
theoprinse
5 years ago

In retreating from Syria, Afghanistan and perhaps Iraq Trump is capitulating to terror staten like Erdogans Ottoman imperialism who wants to uproot the courageous Kurdish people, capitulating to the Iranian Revolutionairy Garde and Qud forces who want to destroy Israel and their mercenary proxy terror movements like Hezbollah, ISIS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  theoprinse

No, Trump is letting Muslims own their own wars instead of us.

Saudi Arabia has been tasked to help the Kurds fight the other Muslim sect. Saudi Arabia fears Iran.
Saudi Arabia does work closely with Israel because of the Iranian threat. Turkey is no friend to the Kurds or Saudi Arabia. Also there is negotiating going on to have Syria form it’s own Constitution. Assayd only has 40% of his country so it would be to his advantage to stop using chemicals on his people and end the nightmare.

I’d also like to see the U.S. pull out of EU countries. If they want an EU military great! Have one. That is the plan. Germany in particular is not paying their NATO dues. Merkel is too busy wasting money of Muslim refugees and other useless related programs. Merkel wants an EU military and so does France.

EU Army ‘Already Taking Shape’ Brags German Defence Minister
By Victoria Friedman
1/12/19

Germany’s defence minister has confirmed that “a united EU military is becoming a reality,” after her ally and Chancellor Angela Merkel backed Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “real European army.”

“Europe’s army is already taking shape,” Ursula von der Leyen wrote in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt on Thursday.

“Germany and France are the driving forces in defence,” Ms von der Leyen boasted, adding that “We’re moving even further ahead with our close partner France” after the two countries agreed to sign a “new Elysèe Treaty” which, amongst other efforts to, in effect, merge aspects of the two countries, includes common defence.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/12/eu-army-already-taking-shape-brags-german-defence-minister/

John Acord
John Acord
5 years ago

I think that $6 trillion is an underestimate if one is to include all of the inconveniences and delays and loss of productivity the West has suffered as a result of defending ourselves from the jihadist threat. Six trillion dollars has increased our financial instability and what about the infrastructure, health care, innovations that could have been achieved with that expenditure. It’s the old guns and butter proposition. The more guns the less butter. Regardless, we have allowed a growing number of people within our society who worship a cult that is intrinsically hostile and antagonistic and incredibly dangerous. Are we safer now that we have increased by 100% the number of enemies living in our society since 9/11? I think not! Whether it is $6 trillion $10 trillion it has been wasted.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
5 years ago

The recent tweet by Pam Geller says it all “Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib praises Muhammad at Hamas-CAIR reception, says he would fight Trump: This is the Democrat Party today. http://dlvr.it/QwZjHJ” Of course Muhammad would fight Trump just like he annihilated the Jews of Arabia after they gave him a 6 year old girl who tried to kill him for how he was & did all the other nasty things he did because again, that was how the Prophet of Islam was so why are we surprised that Islam is how it is today? Glad that folks are signing a petition to impeach this lady Congresswoman & I will look for it to sign it too but the question remains as to why she was seated in the first place since she doesn’t believe in our Constitution or form of government?

Andrew
Andrew
5 years ago

Bingo! Follow the money; a lot of “Americans” are getting rich off some of that 6 trillion dollars. The security industry, the military contractors to name a couple. Police and armed forces budgets continue to skyrocket. Instead of deporting the problem most Americans apparently want to import more of it. Remember all of the 9 11 terrorists were foreigners. Not one had an ancestor who voted for Lincoln or Douglas.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Gee, only $5.9T? I’m sure those that are writing the checks against this figure are eagerly waiting until it reaches $1quadrillion. You know, because of how ‘cool’ it will look with all those zeros on the screens in Times Square.

Paul
Paul
5 years ago

Tell that to Robert Spencer. He bars posts on his site that point that out. War has already been declared by islam.

Paul
Paul
5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

I know, tell that to the apologists who believe that islam is a religion of peace, because they have nice friendly muslim neighbours. Ignorance is bliss old mate. take it easy.

Scott Smith
Scott Smith
5 years ago

Outlaw Islam. It is the only way.

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott Smith

islam has been 1400 years and keep growing … USA is new kid on the block

Scott Smith
Scott Smith
5 years ago

Christianity is older and the message is love. Islam is about hate and death. I choose God. You choose Satan.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago

A look at some numbers:

US Budget Deficit Hits Six-Year High

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-budget-deficit-hits-six-year-high/4614627.html

Under Trump’s watch, national debt tops $21 trillion for first time ever

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-donald-trump-national-debt-tops-21-trillion-for-first-time-ever/

Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell “Very Worried” About Massive U.S. Debt

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-jerome-powell-very-worried-215035687.html

The National Debt Dilemma

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/national-debt-dilemma

As for the money spent JUST on Afghanistan: (and 17 yrs making THAT country GREAT AGAIN…(not).

The United States’ Perpetual War in Afghanistan

“The United States has spent some $877 billion on the war.” (Imagine if that money was spent on THIS country, or the WALL!!)

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-america/2018-08-20/united-states-perpetual-war-afghanistan

And I REALLY thought that Ms. Geller would see through the bullcrap our government fed us, on who brought the towers down. What a shame, she doesn’t see ALL the evidence, of WHO brought them down. She doesn’t appear to know about “false flags”, I guess. So sad. I got TONS and TONS, of evidence. Some people just refuse to open their eyes, and their minds, and just can’t believe the truth, when it’s right there in front of them. So sad.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  Joan C.

Yeah it wasn’t those 767’s (one of which was an extended range model that had extra large fuel tanks) hitting the WTC towers at 500 MPH that brought them down. Clown.

SFTOBEY
SFTOBEY
5 years ago

These quotes are from their UN-holy book – the quran:

2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them…”

4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”

5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off…”

8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”

8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”

9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”

9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practice not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.”

9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfills his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”

9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”

47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads.”

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From “An Explanatory Memorandum” – Muslim Brotherhood:

“The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions…”

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From the Muslim Brotherhood: “The Project”:

Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West. The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:

* Networking and coordinating actions between like-minded Islamist organizations;

* Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;

* Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;

* Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;

* Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist power base in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;

* Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;

* Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;

* Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;

* Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;

* Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;

* Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;

* Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;

* Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;

* Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;

* Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;

* Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;

* Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;

* Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;

* Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;

* Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;

* Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;

* Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;

* Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;

* Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;

* Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;

* Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world;

In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects, The Project is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or outright terror groups, over the past two decades.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readarticle.aspx?artid=4476
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4475

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