The Real Lesson of Benghazi
About six months ago a State Department official contacted me privately and told me about State employees who had been assigned to study the life of Muhammad, with an eye toward putting together a positive portrayal of the prophet of Islam that would presumably win more Muslim hearts and minds by going out with the United States government’s seal of approval. The officials who began studying the earliest Muslim sources about Muhammad, however, were astonished as they came face-to-face not with a seventh-century Gandhi, but with a figure of war and rapine who appeared to justify the worst allegations of the “Islamophobes” that the Obama administration has so roundly excoriated. Needless to say, the puff piece on Muhammad did not appear.
This disconnect from reality was reminiscent of what is said about State during the Iranian Revolution: that while the Ayatollah Khomeini was bringing about the toppling of the shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, only one of his books could be found anywhere in the State Department, and no one had read it. No one thought the rantings of an obscure fanatic who for years had been exiled to far-off France were important.
This was the willful blindness that killed Chris Stevens, and is the real scandal of Benghazi. The politically correct fantasies that characterize the Washington establishment’s views on Islam and jihad not only make for bad policy; they also kill. Clearly what happened in Benghazi was part of a coordinated, carefully planned series of jihad attacks–in all the controversy over what the White House knew and didn’t know, it has also been forgotten that jihadis stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo on the same day. That raises the question: What did the Muslim Brotherhood know, and when did it know it? And the related question: Why is the Obama administration continuing to cultivate warm relations (and shower money upon) the Morsi regime in Egypt, without undertaking even the most cursory investigation into the possibility of its involvement in those attacks?
From the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” I said repeatedly that it was not a democracy movement as the Western press and the White House were claiming, but an Islamic supremacist takeover that would result in the creation of Sharia states far more hostile to the U.S. and Israel than the Arab nationalist regimes they were supplanting. This assessment was greeted with the usual scorn, but Benghazi shows who was right and who was wrong and how desperately the foreign policy establishment in Washington needs a very thorough housecleaning.
Robert, both of us know that the Islamist-in-Chief’s end goal is to implant the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia into power, all across the Arab/Muslim world. Therefore, his chess pieces are awash in that direction.
As odious as Qadaffi was, and Mubarak too, we understood that strongmen were the only ones keeping the Middle East from completely exploding. However, if one wants an explosive reaction, there is no better way than to let loose the Brotherhood goons, and their Al Qaeda helpmates.
There are no easy answers for the region, but Bengazigate should not have been unexpected. And herein lies the onus – atop Obama’s head, as well as Hillary and her helpmate, Huma Abedin, chief Brotherhood operative in the U.S.
Those who understand the region would have done the opposite from what the POTUS has done,therefore, his actions must be seen as purposeful. He is far from stupid in this arena. And events in Libya cannot be separated from Egypt, as well as the rest of the explosions nearby.
Replace the word Egypt from the following commentary, and its contents are a mirror image with the Libyan carnage. Again,why is this? Exactly.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/30/white-house-mandates-aid-to-morsis-islamist-egypt-in-the-best-interests-of-the-u-s-addendum-to-coming-full-circle-the-planned-empowerment-of-the-muslim-mafia-commentary-by-adina-kutnick/
Your doing great work Robert. We don’t hear Republicans call Islam a religion of peace anymore. Bush was almost as clueless as the current bunch.
“There are no easy answers for the region, but Bengazigate should not have been unexpected.”
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Why anyone should be surprised that the State Department’s Arab specialists, who have been educated in the language and culture of the region, are themselves pro-Arab and relatively pro-Islam is beyond me. Because of PC considerations, however, they get little to no formal education in Islam. Ergo, no shock that they did not know ab initio that Mo was a bad guy. Oh, and by the way, your books, Dr. Spencer, are NOT in the reading syllabus.
It may be appropriate to add here that our State Department has had too high an opinion of itself for decades…coasting on the reputations of those long gone.
The career Civil Service employees there seem to think that they are, individually and collectively, socially superior to other U.S. Government agencies because of their exposure to foreign matters [affaires?] which they think, in a self-feeding, self-perpetuating sort of way, puts them in a category of their very own.
This can be unconscious, almost an osmosis-like effect; but I like to call it an affectation.
So I think it’s fair suggest that last September’s events with the murder of a United States Ambassador have shown that this this post World War Two snobbish, know-it-all “attitude” has been proven deadly in the most immediate and tragic way.
The ilk of Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Stimson, Cordell Hull, and George C.Marshall have been replaced by……Hillary Clinton.
I think you will find the key positions in the state dept belong to muslims now. It is they who set our foreign policy as well.
You can see that same willful blindness on display with Biden’s comments on Iran. Massive quantities of enriched uranium is acceptable.
Impeached president Clinton’s refusal, 3 times in fact, to take OBL into custody during his tenure costed 3,000 people their lives.
To be perfectly fair — yes, yes, I know that’s a favor not often reciprocated by the Left — it is possible that the State Department failed to inform the White House of Ambassador Stevens’s requests for increased security. Whether or not that’s actually true, Hillary Clinton has displayed a sufficient penchant for autocracy to make it believable — and the Clintons are massively indisposed toward Obama and his penchant for autocracy.
That having been said, disagreements over security issues in foreign lands should go to the White House, always. But “should” is a funny word; as often as we hear it, it’s definitely not “binding.” To put it most gently, not everyone does what he “should” do at all times, nor always refrain from doing what he “shouldn’t.” It’s the nature of the species to be ornery about such things, don’t y’know.
Here’s a simple axiom that everyone in the State Dept. and the DoD needs to understand. Whenever a Muslim finds himself in a position where he must choose to align with his brethren or the infidels, he will nearly always choose to align with his brethren either overtly or secretively.
I think Al Qaeda scored an own goal in Benghazi. Yes this may result in Obama’s removal from office,which no doubt,makes them feel nice and warm inside. The US however will likely be much stronger with new leadership.
These people are as self destructive as the Obamaites.
Well, I only hope you’re right. Unfortunately, roughly 50% of the American people think Obama’s great.
We cannot expect the Administration to admit or talk about the fact that we supported fanatics in the Libyan revolution. How they appear in their re-election effort is all that matters to them.
In fact both Hillary and ObamaRx are lovers of Islamic radicals.
Hillary Clinton is a lover of the Muslim Brotherhood – in the most literal sense.
Being saddled with willful blindness and dangerous naivete are the best that Dear Liar can hope for.
The average citizen of any Western country is unable to see the real problem and the real solution. The essential problem is that Islam is incompatible with all of traditional Western Civilization. Islam itself is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion. While there may be passive Moslems, there is no such thing as moderate Islam. The leftist elites continue to insist on a false distinction between Islam and ‘Islamic supremacism’ or ‘Islamism’ or some other such senseless new-speak. They pretend to confront ‘Islamism’, they pretend there is a difference between Al-Qaeda and the Moslem Brotherhood, but meanwhile they have nothing to say about immigrants taking over their host Western country by sharia stealth. This is dangerously incoherent.
The West cannot hope to go to war with over 1 billion Moslems. Nor can the West somehow “improve” the thinking and actions of Moslems and their respective foreign governments. This is nothing but a version of the old White Man’s Burden, skewed to accommodate a progressive outlook. All such craven and dangerously stupid attempts to anesthetize Moslems from their inherent beliefs have been proven incorrect so many times that those who do so must be living in the narrative-driven fantasyland of progressives or neocons to believe otherwise.
In order to defend traditional Western Civilization, Western governments must separate themselves as much as possible from the existential threat of the ideology called Islam. The only real solution is a total separation of Islam from the West, including a complete stop to immigration, a coherent long-term energy policy based on thorium reactors and natural gas, and the self-deportation of all those Moslems who will not immediately renounce sharia, jihad, the hadiths, and mohammed himself. For lack of a better term, call this a policy of Separationism. To do anything else is to bring about the destruction of traditional Western Civilization and the gruesome death of anyone who will not submit to the will of a vile moon-god and his evil worshippers.
Policy of Containment. This is the most likely morally and politically doable and relatively effective policy.
I would add using the food supply as a bargaining tool to keep them from excess wealth to spend on offensive weapons. OFEC, the Organization of Food Exporting Countries.
But it isnt true that we cant go to war with a billion Muslims. We probably could wipe them out (nearly completely exterminate them) within weeks with minimal casualties to ourselves….given total war and use of any and all means necessary as Rules of Engagement.
That picture has such a visceral and nauseating effect on me that I have no words right now.
“… it was not a democracy movement as the Western press and the White House were claiming, but an Islamic supremacist takeover …”
Unfortunately, I think the reality is that Islamic supremacy is the entirely predictable result of democracy in Muslim-majority regions. Like Egypt, Libya, Dearborn Michigan, …
“The fantasies shaping the Washington establishment’s views on Islam do more than make bad policy. They also kill.”
These fantasies are what amounts to a very doctrinaire religion of believing that Islam is a Great Religion of Peace with most Muslims being just like us and with them hence being “Our Partners in Peace” whom will fight with us in a battle for Lollypops and Unicorns against the very small minority of Muslims who are “Islamists” and who somehow have completely misunderstood all the love and tolerance and freedom that Islam’s “Perfect Man”, Mohammad taught and practiced. The Pope, or more accurately Grand Ayatollah, of this what amounts to a religion was George Bush and is now Barack Obama. The Bishops, or more accurately Imams, are America’s own Generals and an ex-General who is now CIA Director. Personally I call this what amounts to a religion The House of Delusion of Present Day Idiots. The sons and daughters coming home in body bags are the Human Sacrifices made to this what amounts to a religion.
Guys, do it legally. Anyone entering our country agrees to abide by our laws. Nothing says they get to pick and choose which of those laws they abide by. Any even minor infraction should lead to instant deportation. Any major breach should lead to jail then deportation. Especially their Imams that preach hatred against the US. Isn’t there a law called inciting to riot or some such or even accessory to whatever crime they have lead their followers to commit? Break up these enclaves, no more street gangs enforcing Sharia law in our towns. We are a nation of laws and freedom, punks should not be allowed to tell us where we can or cannot go. If they scream freedom of religion, fine, let them be martyrs for their religion in jail not unpunished criminals roaming our streets freely just because their religion told them it is okay to break our laws. It is not right that our law enforcement officers are afraid to enter an area they are sworn to protect and serve.
From what I have read of Islam, Mohammad was nothing but a criminal hiding behind a belief that Allah condoned his crimes. It is no different than if Al Capone had set himself up as a self proclaimed prophet and God was telling him the Cosa Nostra was the one true religion and only he could speak for God. With all his mobsters masquerading as priests of his new religion of course and a death sentence for any that didn’t believe him.
The reason that the State Dept. seems blind to Islam and it’s adherents is because many of State’s employees are educated at Georgetown University. Their Middle Eastern studies faculty is known to be very pro-Arab, particularly John Esposito. Esposito is an Islamic apologist.
Saudi money has been used to set up Middle Eastern studies programs in many of our colleges and universities, including Georgetown and Harvard.The only way to stop this problem is to demand that public universities have faculty that present the material in an objective manner. The faculty at private schools are more of a problem. The only real solution is to prevent the Saudis from using their money to negatively influence our educational system. Currently, we also have a problem with what is being taught at the lower grade levels as well. Most of the books that discuss Islam at those levels contain an extremely sanitized version due to Saudis who own or have partial ownership in a number of the companies that publish school textbooks. An awareness campaign is necessary to correct this situation. Check out the Act for America website as they have a PDF that can be downloaded which identifies the problematic textbooks.
Thank you,that needed to be said.
Muslim Obama sitting in the White Mosque and other Western leaders
apologized profusely for the movie to the world’s Muslims and
continually grovelled before Muslims. It was quite irrelevant to Obama
and other merciless Western ruling elites that the Muslims barbarically
murdered the U.S. ambassador and other non-Muslim innocents.
Muslim Obama and Western leaders are extremely DELIGHTED to use the
movie as an excuse to DESTROY our freedom of speech and implement
Islamic sharia blasphemy laws.
Barack Hussein Obama told the UN General Assembly: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
One blogger stated: I consider that statement a death threat to me and all anti-Islam
bloggers, authors, and activists by the President of the United States…
When DECEIVER, Emperor Barack Hussein Obama declared: “The future
must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” he meant
the future must not belong to those who tell the TRUTH about Islam.
Without actually knowing anything about islam, most of “our government” bureaucratic gangsters will attempt to pre-emptively slander those who do know about it. But even their knee-jerk attempts PROVE they already KNOW islam is the greatest threat out there, and so they only get behind it and out in front to “defend” it from the rest of us, so that threat will seem to be immediately over (for them, anyway)! And if the rest of us don’t SUBMIT fast enough, well then that’s just evolution in action, because we were too dumb to Submit to the inevtiable.
Cowardice loves company, and most liberals lately seem prone to busily employ themselves in training the rest of us to be better victims! For our own good, of course!
But, in reality, when a group (say, islam) declares “War!” on us, for “our leaders” to then abdicate their responsibility to protect their citizens and declare “No, they didn’t!” is a simple, obvious case of cowardly, treasonous, criminal negligence.
Why do they always spin superficial situational symptoms into their own “causes!”? Why pretend to go to war against the mere symptoms of “terror/ism,” or “the Taliban,” “al-Quaeda,” or whine about some uniform colours (‘Green On Blue,’) in stead of defending us from their real cause: islam?!
Why deliberately get everything so completely BACKWARDS all the time?!
“Multiculturalism” pretends that, because all the mere superficial symptoms of growing up in different parts of the world (appearance, skin tone, sartorial variances and ‘preferences’ for, and familiarity with, various types of ‘ethnic’ foods, all really only depending on environment) are of only negligible importance, that “All Cultures Must Be The Same!”
As if raising generations under the indoctrinating cultural imperative of “THOU SHALT KILL!” would make absolutely no difference in any subsequent social norms, when compared to raising a populace of children with “THOU SHALT NOT KILL!”
Islam’s own most official instruction manual, the Qur’an, declares islam was created by “god” to violently destroy and replace all “other” religions and cultures in the world. The subsequent actions of their followers confirm this.
Further, they have declared it their “right” to murder anyone who even verbally declares their defensive opposition to the moslem’s attacks, in declaring it “blasphemy” (a ‘crime’ punishable by death) to resist their extortions.
And “our leaders” always advocate that our most “prudent” course of action is to SUBMIT more!
Multiculturalism is a lie being pushed on us by business interests which seek to save money on their labor costs by replacing us with cheap slave labor from their third-world slave-pens. They know non-Whites vastly outnumber Whites globally, yet therefore seek to guilt us into seeking our own demise through the mental inversion of pretending we must accept their slaves because they are all only a helpless minority of refugees, and so it would be inhumanly mean of us to do otherwise. It’s a corporate, crime-selling corruption scheme to buy-us-low to sell themselves high; extortion on a global scale.
The news reporting from the Arab world has always been miserable from almost the start.There are a very select few that actually report on anti-US anti-Western sentiment among the general population.Western journalists tend to not venture out of hotel rooms relying on vague reports being fed to them,usually by the few liberal western educated “money” Muslims or vague “authorities”.It is also something that doesnt fit the propoganda line.It does not serve US interests to show the US and the West is hated since it would feed popular sentiment for disengagement from the Islamic world ,the image must be that inside every Muslim their is an American trying to get out.You can’t show Pakistani’s spitting at you or being angry because “You (White Westerner) killed Bin Laden.”.
The question I would like to see answered by Obama is “How can you justify, as president of the United States making the statement before the U.N. that “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Do you sir, as president actually believe that “beliefs” have rights that trump the right of free speech? That ideas or speech must be restricted so as to not “offend” others. if so you are on a slippery slope that leads us back to the middle ages and blasphemy laws.
Robert is absolutely right. Every American, especially everyone in the Dhimmi Obama administration, should read this article! We need to fire Obama and get rid of his failed policy of appeasement and apology to Muslims. We need to tell our enemies that if you hurt Americans, your punishment will be swift and severe.
The real lesson is in the nature of Islam itself.
Read “The Innocence of the Infidels” to find the root cause at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
All essays that begin with the word “fantasies” are usually show signs of Munchausen syndrome.