According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.The Slacker-in-Chief needs to be hit, and hit hard, on this story - in spite of the media's yowling about Mitt Romney hollering "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Mitt was right, because that's what you do when the theater is actually, you know, on fire.
Update: Charles Krauthammer on the collapse of Obama's policy in the Muslim world.
Update II: More details on the attack in Libya (H/T: Tree Hugging Sister).
What else to call it? "Treason" maybe?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should elaborate. Obama took an oath. And then he took another oath after the first was screwed up. (Hum. Harbinger of things to come.) He swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. And as fewer and fewer citizens appreciate, the red meat of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights.
ReplyDeleteHow to organize things is very important. How to divvy up power and authority are likewise very important. But again, the red meat is the Bill of Rights. Americans-- even vegans-- feast on this red meat.
(I grant that dogs are red meat.)
To put "feelings"-- and I don't care who said what when-- ahead of American's desire for, and commitment to, red meat is treasonous.
What Marica said.
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree. Trying to intimidate Americans to hols their tongues on Islam is really just an attempt to impose Sharia law, de facto.
ReplyDelete"Hold", rather.
ReplyDeleteWhy do people assume we're witnessing a collapse of Obama's policy in the Muslim world? What we're seeing now is the logical outcome of that policy. Diminishing America's role and influence in the world is his point.
ReplyDeleteShowing weakness to imperialistic barbarians is always a bad idea. Just ask Rome.
ReplyDeleteDeborah Leigh said... Add dereliction of duty. However, he feels his duty is not to those held within his oath. Criminal negligence and dereliction of duty are high crimes for a president, but there are none who will step forward to bring suit.
ReplyDeleteHe accomplished another goal: diminish the US in the eyes of the world. People want a strong leader. They respected Reagan. Not so much the boy king.
I certainly agree that Obama's Mideast policy was an incompetent bungle from the start, but let's not forget Hillary Clinton and the State Department. She's the one who decided the Libyan embassy didn't need extra security measures.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the tell-all book that will be written someday: Hillary and Huma. I want to know just how much of the State Department's agenda was hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood because HIllary thought of Huma Abedin as "like her daughter".
I wonder whar Chelsea thought of that remark?
ReplyDeleteObama's policy isn't to lead from behind, it's to lead with our behind, like a bassackward turtle.
If Muslims want asymmetric warfare, I propose that we give it to them, more than they can stomach.
Some Libyans held demonstrations to sympathize with the US and denounce the terrorist attack on the US consulate and the murder of ouor people. Good, but they are a tiny minority, like anti-Nazi Germans in WWII. We ought to insist that the Libyan government (such as it is) must track down, capture, and excute every sxine who participated in the attack. They should send us their heads, so we can build a memorial to the diplomats and Marines that they killed. A pyramid of skulls should have a nice effect.
The more foreigners fear our wrath, the less willing they will be to cross us. Why do so many Americans (primarily liberals, but not only them) have so much trouble getting their minds around that concept?