Biden Administration has de-listed Colombia's FARC as a terrorist group and made it eligible for US taxpayer-funded aid.
FARC split into 3 parts, 2 of which remain designated terrorist & the third - still called FARC - pretending to be separate but preserving the terror brand.
The @StateDept's announcement sounds like US is maintaining a tough attitude toward the narcoterrorists, and says nothing about sending US aid to the FARC.
It presumes that the FARC has truly split from its narcoterrorist comrades w/o providing proof. state.gov/revocation-of-…
The Colombian government, the United States' closest ally in Latin America, is unhappy with the Biden Administration's de-listing of FARC as a terrorist group. Colombian President Ivan Duque said diplomatically, "We would have preferred another decision." today.in-24.com/News/668201.ht…
The Obama administration began cutting deals with the FARC during President Obama's 2020 visit to Cuba. There, then-Secretary of State John Kerry first met with FARC leaders. businessinsider.com/john-kerry-mee…
This is the Member of Congress who chairs the panel that controls the State Department budget. Her friends call her 'Comrade Barbara.' centerforsecuritypolicy.org/comrade-barbar…
I feel nostalgic for the good ol' days of FARC hunting. Blended right in.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
1) New poll shows that US military is losing the public trust. Trust and confidence fell from 56% in February to 45% in November, and down 25 points in 3 years. thehill.com/opinion/nation…
2) "the actions of General Mark 'We’re the guys with the guns' Milley likely repelled many Americans who though he sounded like a Turkish generalissimo," James Durso writes.
3) Military complex's biggest threat is "the ambitious Republican congressman who suffers no consequences for repeatedly voting against the interests of the military, despite military leaders’ usual empty exhortations of 'Support the troops!' or 'Putin!!!'"
1) Washington DC is a bubble. People who make their careers in federal agencies, including the military, live within that bubble. That's where nearly their colleagues, friends, social networks, and professional opportunities exist. Rewards & penalties exist within that bubble.
2) Lots of good people exist among the dregs in that bubble. With the busy-ness of every day, and the duties and lifestyles within that bubble, it occurs to very few that things are different outside. Even fewer understand and internalize those differences.
3) With professional advancement, personal affirmation, and financial security at stake, very few are comfortable living outside that bubble.
The longer they inhabit the bubble and the more senior they become, the more chronic the unawareness. This should not surprise us.
With Biden outsourcing "foreign policy to progressivists and Islamists ... Omar and her allies are unhinged and seeking to make generational changes to our American system that will empower un-American global Islamist narratives," @DrZuhdiJasser writes. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/the-american-c…
.@DrZuhdiJasser's essay on Ilhan Omar is outstanding. Omar is working to set up an Islamist op inside @StateDept: "The Press Release on Rep. Omar’s website lists endorsers who are a veritable who’s who of Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups in the United States...." (continued)
@DrZuhdiJasser@StateDept "... She uses data attributed to the discredited Islamist group CAIR (a group founded to support Hamas) in order demonstrate the gravity of the so-called Islamophobia problem. Omar follows CAIR’s lead in treating all hate crimes reports as genuine..." (continued)
As I told - horrors! - One America News on January 14: "Somebody had mapped this out in advance. It was all organized…. This was all pre-planned way before January 6.”
On March 3, @SenRonJohnson asked FBI Assistant Director Jill Sanborn about my assessment of "armed militia groups that had conspired and organized to be there" for the J6 attack on the Capitol. Her response showed that the FBI agreed with my analysis. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/fbi-affirms-ce…
Mob rule: Inspiration for some of what we're seeing in America today comes from the "turbas divinas" or "divine mobs" that the Sandinistas ran in Nicaragua to intimidate, destroy, and demoralize the public into submission. They still do, 40+ years later. academia.edu/34710901/Tropi…
2) Central regimes deploy mobs as extradjudicial enforcers. In 2018, students protesting Nicaragua's social handout system "were attacked with sticks by government-controlled youth mobs, known as 'turbas divinas,' (divine mobs), leaving some injured." univision.com/univision-news…
3) @Univision: "Some of the Sandinista Youth ride motobikes with their faces hidden behind visored helmets, wielding metal pipes and sticks. The mobs brutally beat dozens of young people, the elderly and independent journalists covering the protest."
It was never about the Confederacy. It was part of the cultural Marxist revolution to erase the Founding Fathers. nypost.com/2021/11/22/tho…
The perpetrators tried to censor press coverage so that Jefferson would "disappear" without a witness.
NYPost: "Keri Butler, executive director of the Public Design Commission that voted to banish the statue, at first tried to block the press from witnessing its removal."
New York City officials tried to keep the plot to remove Jefferson secret from the public until the @NYPost got wind of it.
Post: "The commission also attempted to vote on the statue’s removal without a public hearing on the controversial move until The Post revealed the plan."