Death of Ambassador Stevens Is America’s Shame, Hillary’s and Obama’s
While the mainstream media was occupying itself Wednesday decrying Mitt Romney’s forthright reaction to the carnage in Cairo and Benghazi, their putative bellwether, the New York Times, ironically was busy exposing the real story. It’s clear now that if there is a disgrace in what happened at the Benghazi consulate, it has nothing at all to do with Romney and everything to do with our State Department, its chief Hilary Clinton, and her boss Barack Obama.
Here’s the NYT:
The wave of unrest set off by the video, posted online in the United States two months ago and dubbed into Arabic for the first time eight days ago, has further underscored the instability of the countries that cast off their longtime dictators in the Arab Spring revolts. It also cast doubt on the adequacy of security preparations at American diplomatic outposts in the volatile region.
Benghazi, awash in guns, has recently witnessed a string of assassinations as well as attacks on international missions, including a bomb said to be planted by another Islamist group that exploded near the United States Consulate there as recently as June. But a Libyan politician who had breakfast with Mr. Stevens at the mission the morning before he was killed described security as sorely inadequate for an American ambassador in such a tumultuous environment, consisting primarily of four video cameras and as few as four Libyan guards.
“This country is still in transition, and everybody knows the extremists are out there,” said Fathi Baja, the Libyan politician.
I’ll say. Everybody but our State Department, evidently.
A “string of assassinations”… “awash in guns” …planted bomb… something’s wrong here. It borders on criminal negligence, indeed it crosses that border, that Ambassador Stevens would be left with such paltry security in a country so unsettled and riddled with violence as Libya. The fact these events may now be tied to al-Qaeda makes this negligence all the more unconscionable.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
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Now I know why he removed the Churchill image.
Obama will soon find out what his own ass taste like.
It has always been impolitic, and at times suicidal, to state the bold faced truth.
Well, ask this blogger if she cares…
The fact of the matter is that the Islamist-in-Chief – in tandem with his enforcers – is awash in American blood, as well as that of other innocent bystanders.
They( BHO, Clinton/Huma, Samantha Powers at the tip of the spear)have become the pyromaniacs of the Middle East, and Muslim majority countries.
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They must be held to account.
Roger:
You know a certain amount of French.
What does this sound like?
S’IMBECILE
Holy… Homey… I think you’re on the right track there!!! It’s been reported that Sam Bacile is not a real name.
Churchill was talking about a coward. O’bwana and the Leftists he’s appointed to run the US Government are feeding other people to the croc because they want them dead. O’bwana caves in to our enemies because he wants them to defeat the US. AS the bumperstickers say: “Next time, elect an American.”
The only ‘platform’ that Obama should stand upon is a traitor’s gallows.
good one!
when is our nightmare going to end. we can’t wait for nov. nov. will come and go, obama is not giving up his seat in our w.h. there is so many things that this congress could charge him with, yet they just go along with his b.s.
is this a way to live, ”borrowed time”thats how we live now just waiting till our country FALLS.
Re “The wave of unrest set off by the video”, I’m reminded of a great Theodore Dalrymple essay in which a murderer says, “The knife just went in, doctor!” Who thrust it in? Well, clearly not the guy holding it; the knife was the actor.
And so the *video* “set off” the “unrest” which culminated in murder.
That’s indeed the point! I couldn’t agree more.
Greetings from Poland, GfcE
Guy, Islam does not need a video or anything else to erupt in violence, it is just the way they roll. This is just jihad in action and the video is for the bumpkins in Western civilization. We are asleep and seem unable to awaken to the terrible thought that we are committing cultural suicide step by step. Awake, I say and slay Islam!
It looks very much like the film had little or nothing to do with the murderous riots, it may have all been about 9/11. Did you know that the infamous apology for free speech statement issued by the Obama/Clinton Statement Department in Cairo was put out the day before the riots?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/09/12/media_and_democrats_try_to_make_obama_s_foreign_policy_disaster_about_mitt_romney
This was a planned event. It was advertized on 8/30 and both events (Egypt and Libya) were coordinated as they were both for titularily the same reason, to free the blind shiek. The video was just used to rile up emotion and get the real whack jobs involved.
The only way to deal with the religion of peace is (I am not pushing for the use of nuclear weapons or troops) to turn the sky black from horizon to horizon with B-1′s and B-52′s so the last thing everyone there hears before they meet Allah is the whistling of the cluster bombs.
Policy of Containment combined with Food for Oil.
I prefer napalm. Because of the old ‘fire and brimstone’ connotations that needs to be visited on the heads of these savages.
My sentiments exactly.
The Squire of Simon Pajama manages to sound actually scared of the evil Qommies, which is rather what one would expect of rank-and-file Party base an vile.
Happy days.
(( When Native Management has been tuned to what is considered concert pitch at Pajama Junction NJ, doubtless there will be no such regrettable incidents: all POTUS Mittens’ diplomatic personnel will operate strictly out of aircraft carriers well off the barbarous coasts. ))
Is English your second language? I’m just wondering, because I don’t really understand anything you try to say.
His English is just fine. He sounds like an Obama supporter and his reasoning just as clear as it usually is. He is clearly reiterating a well thought out question by the white house press corps.
Neither do I!
I’m trying to decipher which medication you’re on, or whether you’ve gone off your prescribed meds.
If you’re an escapee wandering the streets in your hospital gown, then at least close up the back of it. Or is that the end you’re speaking from?
As was the case in Iraq, one has to wonder what has happened to loyal supporters of Gaddafi who had victory all but in their grasp and making the final push into Benghazi when it all unraveled thanks to Obama and Europe. These attacks on embassies may simply be revenge.
As for the film, who knows who made such a thing, or why? As of right now the American embassy in Cairo is still under siege and Morsi and the MB, rather than trying to calm the situation, have called for a million man march tomorrow to protest the film and are calling for the U.S. to prosecute the filmmakers.
Obama has lost his grip on Egypt and is being openly challenged and defied. And what are the headlines in the MSM? Picking apart and parsing timelines of Romney’s statement. No one knows what will happen to the US embassy in Cairo but one thing is for sure, Obama will have nothing to do with its fate. As with everything in his foreign policy, he will sit and watch. While this all happens, we have an exact analogue in Dearborn, MI – a Muslim enclave where Christians dare not openly advocate on the street for fear of violence. Liberals, with their Marxist dogma they don’t even know is Marxist dogma, welfare/nanny state and together with their crowing about the coming ethnic demo shift, are an insane suicide cult.
I hate to sound so ignorant, but I have not followed Mr. Simon’s work closely enough to know to whom he is referring. Please, someone, help me out here – who does he think put out the film?
You could click on the links Roger has most helpfully provided, Marion, but I’ll save you the trouble. Iran.
Thanks! You are right – I should have checked the links. regards . . .
Iran
Obama has lost his grip on Egypt? Pray tell when did he ever HAVE any grip on Egypt? Megalomaniacs tend to THINK they run everything, when the reality is, thankfully, very different.
We used to have relative stability and peace in the old days. Of course, the people were oppressed but that’s what you get when you back a strong man. Not saying that’s was right or wrong, just the way it was. I wish people had been listening to Thomas P Barnett. We needed a department of everything else to go in and put a band aid on the problem while the free people of those countries had a genuine voice in the formation of their government.
What you have now is what happens when you back the unruly peoples revolutionary army. Pretty chaotic attempts to gain power with the only means they have, violence.
The press is juming on Romney yet we have this headline, “America’s Top Soldier Calls on Obscure Pastor to Stop Supporting Badly Produced Movie” which shows the administration is STILL blaming the movie. It’s not about the movie. You don’t kill over a YouTube video.
Over the years I’ve been deeply offended by a few movies. Never have I entertained thoughts of killing over them. I hear some people saying that this pastor and the actors of this movie should be sent to the Middle East so that they, not an innocent ambassador and staff, can bear the backlash from their movie. Silly. We have free speech even if we hate what is being spoken. Our representatives around the world represent our values, including free speech. It was a horrible crime, a horrible act of war, but the blame for it was on them not any of us. If they didn’t have the movie to blame for their crime they would have recycled the Danish Cartoons, Fitna, or something.
“Over the years I’ve been deeply offended by a few movies. Never have I entertained thoughts of killing over them.”"
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I take it you’ve never seen “Ïshtar”
LOL!
I sat through “The Goonies” and nobody died.
As a multiple-combat, 22 1/2 year veteran paratrooper and Ranger, I am thoroughly disgusted by Gen. Martin Dempsey’s transparently self-serving admonishments while sucking up to the worst, infantile, naive, embarrassingly incompetent commander in chief in American history. You, sir, are as much of a disgrace as the man-child you grovel under. You have obviously chosen your personal advancement and financial mobility over your sworn duty to your country and to your soldiers. Dempsey is the worst, most politically prostituted Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in my memory. You are worse than Gen. Woosie Clark. I hope your Judas Silver was worth the eternal scorn and derision you have so richly earned. General Martin ‘Benedict Arnold’ Dempsey-Clark.
Sounds like you’re comparing him to General Wilhelm ‘the Lackey’ Keitel.
You got that right. If the top military leaders put their country above their careers, that might shock the sleeping American public into an awareness of the dangerous leadership in the White House. We need the spirit of Gen. Jimmy Doolittle in the bodies of our Pentagon brass.
“OUR ENEMIES ABROAD JOIN OUR ENEMIES WITHIN”
Their poor and their angry find meaning in lust–
Brutal lives drift on sand covered seas.
These outcasts profess they may murder the just,
Unless free men renounce liberty.
They find thrills and adventure in the heat of the crowds–
The destruction of honest men’s work.
But the rush of the riot somehow never allows,
Any questions about their goals’ worth.
We had signs of their vision of bloody redress—
False “reprisals” for offenses contrived.
But our own Socialist Masters ignored each request,
To forestall or repel crafted lies.
So our self-absorbed “leaders” claimed they were “shocked”,
To see vengeance unearned burning bright.
When our citizens were slain, and our liberty mocked,
Corrupt Media raged like whores in the night.
Yes, our “sages” went whoring on the “5 O’clock news”,
And colluded with our enemies abroad.
And our socialist papers defiled honest views,
Of those Patriots who renounced them as gods.
Our Republic is shaky, our confidence dims,
All the world now perceives us as weak.
Unless we first reject our enemies within—
Then our foreign foes win all they seek.
ROMNEY AND RYAN FOR THE REPUBIC – THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION
The best I have seen on this subject…
Do you have a website, or is there some place where your poetry is posted all together? Quite a talent! Great reading!
Great poem of the truth, Thank you
Well thought out and well written…
A miracle has happened; Obama has actually made Jimmeh C. look skillful. Whoodathunk?
Frankly, Sasha would probably do a better job.
“Shoot first, aim later.” -Jimmy Carter, 1980
“Shoot first, aim later.” -Barak Obama, 2012
With any luck Obama will follow the rest of Carters script and leave office in January…
I can’t read your articles anymore. The ads block part of the article and there seems to be no way to X them out. A shame, because I enjoyed your site.
Kevin, with respect, you may want to try downloading a newer version of whatever browser you are using. If you are using the latest version browse, then try downloading the latest version of Firefox. Just do a search on Firefox and you’ll find it. It’s of course free. I’ve had zero problems with FF rendering of PJM’s website.
–meant in all earnestness
– FF
That something alike could have happened was clear since the revolt in Libya and also in Egypt. (And handing over Iraq to Iran on a silver plate!) It’ll get worse. America has left a vacuum in the Middle East, it has abdicated, and this will fully play in the hands of our worst enemies, as demonstrated. The world has noticed the American weakness; your pride has been broken!
What if America will be attacked on its main land again? America will not even know who has done it, it’ll be anonymous…although everybody knows. Will America react? Against who? Stop electing kids and get adults elected. By the way, not only in the White House, in Congress and Senate as well.
This is a chapter in a war. The Muslim Brotherhood is better at it than folks thought. They are mad about a drone attack, want more money, or something. The attacks are growing, and I bet Al Qieda is now a militay arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the west, the global government will do anything to continue the agenda of region 4 under a central bank. This is a vein desire to have a global government by man, and for man. G-d has no place in it for the flag holders like DaOne and company.
I bet it does not matter how many lives are lost to this agenda. The Arab Spring is just another pagan holiday of blood on a long list. Old Knob enjoys it, and can’t get this mess as it was in the time of Noah fast enough.
No, no, no! A Christian can’t be involved. Everyone knows this is the Jews’ fault. And the Israelis. Read the comments at any conservative blog if you don’t believe me.
Excuse me; I fee sick.
feel, sorry.
No, it’s not the conservative sites saying that. Yesterday on HuffPo, which I visit a lot, was reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Yes, somehow it was all the Jews’ fault that a bunch of radical Islamists were attacking Americans in Cairo and Benghazi.
No wonder Roger and all of us here are so worried about growing anti-Semitism on the left.
No wonder Roger and all of us here are so worried about growing anti-Semitism on the left.
Yeah, yeah. You’ll get my attention when you display a shred of concern about the anti-white and anti-Christian bigotry on the left. Of course PJM engages in a lot of that sort of bigotry itself – witness the constant shilling for open borders (for America) on this site.
I can’t speak for others, but I regularly defend (and vehemently so) any anti-Christian nonsense from the Left as well as anti-”dead-white-men” or alive-white-culture from the Left. I frankly don’t know why you seem unaware that we conservative Jews are natural allies of yours? I thought that this site is in fact exactly that: a confluence of conservative Jews (or “right-wing” if you prefer) and conservative Christians(!?)
I know for a fact that most people here at PJM (and I know this because I am a founding member) are exactly as I described above. Sure, they may not all be pigeon-holed quite so easily, but for the most part, the clientele here is pro-Israeli and pro-Republican (one way to describe us).
If you are the same, you may want to be more careful as to how you phrase your missives. I of course give you the benefit of the doubt as you’re commenting on PJM to begin with. That being said however, why are you so quick to spit at an innocent declaration of “anti-anti-Semitism?” The clear implication is that you do not only not have sympathy for that subject, but perhaps you also have leanings against Jews? How else to describe your hot-on-the-trigger remark?
And even in the “worst case” — if the gentleman who posted the comment to which you responded did not feel “pro-Christian” or “pro-Western-culture” — why would that in and of itself stop you from supporting anti-anti-Semitism? You’re implying that there must be a “quid pro quo” — is that something you really want to do? That cheapens the value of your views I’m afraid.
Please tell me I’m wrong in my insinuations.
– FF
Get ready! The haters of Rush Limbaugh will be many. Rush said today 9/14 that PJ Media knew about the attacks in Cairo before our National Security.
You don’t know what you’re reading!
The conservatives are the only ones who will stand with Israel.
It was reported by the da%^ msm that is was an arab jew.
It was not a conservative site.
So get over it and support your poseur in chief!
Look, everyone please decide once and for all. Are we going to have freedom and speech and press in the US, or not. Because either people get to blaspheme each other’s religions all they want (not saying they should or that they shouldn’t pay a social and economic price for it) or we can throw in the towel.
And in that case, no copy of the Bible or Koran or Hitchens’ garbage can be published, because all classic religious texts (atheism couting as a religion here) do. (Although all Jewish texts except the Bible were until recently censored to avoid offending Christians.)
I was agreeing with you as I read your post until I got to this part:
“. (Although all Jewish texts except the Bible were until recently censored to avoid offending Christians.)”
Not saying it is not true but would like to know what you mean by “recently” (as in a date) and in what country (s) ???
thank you.
Oh, Iran does make sense. Honestly, I thoguht he was talking about Saudi Arabia.
It’s a kinda sorta interesting theory, but I don’t see some Iranian disinformation officer being that . . . subtle? Ironic? Truly, innocently awful? Skillful, in a triply-recursive sort of way? That film is so bad that it’s good that it’s bad that it’s good. It’s hard to say.
Check out the history of Iranian intelligence.
When is it wise to underestimate your enemy?
This situation was carefully plotted, scripted, and implemented with orchestration and coordination from both Tehran and Al Qaeda. The “film” was a mere excuse, and a very poor one at that. After all, the “film” was shot in English so we have to ask who voiced over the Arabic?
RE: 0. Of course the slime stream media will do everything in their power to protect him. Just look at the nonsense emanating from all the NBC, CBS, and ABC networks. This is entirely the fault of an obscure piece of film that most highschoolers could have made better. Yeah, right.
I thought it was an article of faith that US Embassy personnel were protected by the USMC. Are saying that these poor folks only had a local security detachment? That seems plain weird to me…
It’s called “musn’t offend the host country- even when it’s debatable if said host actually has a working government”.
The State Department mandarins have a dangerous tendency to try to “calm” the rulers of unstable states by de-emphasizing the security around our diplomats on the ground. Sort of a “See? We trust you!
” thing.
The trouble is, when it backfires, it tends to do so fatally for the diplomats who are actually on the ground.
Another problem here is the State Department’s misunderstanding of the role’ of diplomats in Islam. In the West, the persons of diplomats have been considered sacrosanct since at least the Classical Age in Greece; they were granted free passage and safe conduct even in times of war. By the way, the portrayal of Leonidas throwing the Persian envoy down a well in the movie 300 is apocryphal; even the Spartans respected “diplomatic immunity”. (Leonidas may have felt like it, but he didn’t actually do it.)
In Islam, it’s a different story. Islamic states have traditionally held that while they expect their diplomats to be treated with respect, the diplomats of “infidels” can expect no reciprocity. Any protection they receive is purely a courtesy that lasts only as long as their Muslim overlords like what the diplomats are telling them, i.e., that the infidel states are behaving as the Qu’ran demands. (Paying jizya, etc.)
The second that the “infidels” do something the Islamists don’t like, or simply fail to perform a demanded tribute on schedule, the diplomats’ lives automatically become forfeit.
There’s an old story that Prince Vlad Tsepes, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Drakulya (Vlad, Son of the Dragon), aka “Dracula” (thanks to Bram Stoker), Prince of Wallachia, once used iron spikes to nail Ottoman envoys’ turbans to their heads because they claimed their religion forbade them from uncovering, even in the presence of a prince, as Romanian custom called for. “Then let me reinforce you in your custom” was his reply.
While held up as an example of Vlad’s cruelty and borderline psychosis, this story conveniently forgets one little fact. That being that as a boy, Vlad had been held hostage by the Turks for several years to “guarantee” his father, Vlad Drakul, would not support the Wallachians against the Ottoman invaders. While at the Turkish court, young Vlad saw first hand how the Ottomans treated diplomats who brought them news they didn’t want to hear.
He sent the Ambassadors home with about four two-inch nails apiece hammered into their heads. The Ottomans tended to send “infidel” ambassadors’ heads home. Sans the rest of their bodies. By Ottoman standards, what Vlad did qualified as a minor prank.
The immunity Western diplomats have enjoyed in Islam in the last century or so is an anomaly in Islamic history. It looks like the honeymoon is over. I’d say it actually ended in 1979, but then I’m something of a pessimist. (see Benjamin Franklin.)
Never assume that someone from a different culture shares your culture’s attitudes or mores. The result of doing so can be deadly.
To you.
clear ether
eon
The Ambassador was visiting the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. The Embassy is in Tripoli. Usually we only have Marine Security Guards at Embassies. The Marines do not go with the Ambassador while s/he visits other locations in the country of assignment. While those Marines will defend the personnel in the building, their real mission is to defend the contents of the building, not the people inside.
They didn’t have bullets! “0:’s rule!
Anne Patterson Embassy Chief ordered all Marine Guards to not carry ammo for their weapons.
I bet the FAST 50 have no bullets either.
And, FYI, the Marine detachments don’t have carte blanch to open fire on anyone who gets inside the perimeter. It’s a diplomatic mission. Shooting the locals isn’t diplomatic.
If the CIA and/or other intelligence sources had known about the planned attack and given urgent warning, there might have been time to prepare better security. My impression is that no one was expecting what happened. Were the Marine escorts even armed? We don’t know.
This on the anniversary of 9-11 with the C.I.A. and other intel units saying, ever since the fateful day, that Islamists like to commit more atrocities on anniversaries?
This is another black mark against this administration. For total ineptitude, nothing can beat this unprepared, bunch of non-thinkers.
Anne Patterson needs her arse kicked up in the middle of her back, too.
There were no Marine escorts at Benghazi. The president is a Democrat, remember?
I heard today that at the Egyptian Embassy the Marines were told to keep unloaded weapons and not to have any ammo with them while on duty. They were there to look “pretty”, nothing more.
Any excuse works for a rent a mob.
Multiple reports, originating in Libya and including Pam Geller’s AtlasShrugs, say that Ambassador Stevens was raped and tortured repeatedly before his execution. Completely consistent with previous Jihad assaults as in Mumbai, Israel during the War of Independence, Lebanon, Breslan and so on.
Please, I don’t want to read the word ‘Islamism’ ever again (having used it myself).
Tortured and Raped!?
Can anyone else corroborate these incredible accusations(?) — which, if true are truly horrific.
Confirmed.
Sadly, Yes.It has been confirmed.
– the astute question is raised.
http://www.nopcradio.com/nopc-news/news/67-ambassador-stevens-was-raped-before-he-was-killed.html
rough (Google) translation. (original link provided)
Sources AFP that “the U.S. ambassador to Libya was raped sexually before killing by gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night to protest against the film is offensive to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh),” The sources said that “Ambassador was killed and representation of his body in a manner similar to what happened with Gaddafi, such as murder. “
You probably know the country I’m talking about
Sweden, right? Uh… Canada? Wait, wait, I’ve got the State Department briefing book right here, third times the charm… uh, lets go with Switzerland for the win! It’s always those “ice people” fomenting trouble.
Among other things, we’re now living in an over-feminized world where the kind of masculine toughness and drawing the line leadership response exhibited by Mitt Romney in the aftermath of this Middle East tragedy is sadly misunderstood as a ‘meltdown.’ Such a tragedy.
Whereas things settled down the the Middle East after Reagan took office after the feckless President Carter was defeated, today it seems nothing can denigrate or sully Obama’s shining image. So depressing and demoralizing to live in a country with this kind of nonsense going on.
The Libyans better apologize and find and punish those killers quickly.
Or else Obama might get real mad and start tweeting in all caps.
Perfect.
Your post is what I would like to see as main title on all the papers this morning.
While his caddy is getting the ball out of the sand trap.
Great comment. If I hear “strongly condemn” one more time… it’s like the ineffective parent counting 1..2..2 1/2.. as the kid just goes about doing whatever he wants.
Dobby, that was priceless!
A tragedy instantly becomes fodder for a guy to buck himself up and for the media to buck up a guy.
Beyond disgusting.
In his roll (sic) as president, Barack Obama pretentiously condemns Romney for the kinds of remarks and observations he himself has used and made about his political opponents, relentlessly, inexorably.
But why such a wretched, amateurish production apparently reedited with voice-overs? Why did that attract even a second’s attention?
While I tend to believe the attacks were pre-planned and coordinated and may have even pre-dated this film, I believe the morons would react to any such depiction of Mo, even an amateurish and imbecilic one.
Did you know that every year there are pilgrimages to Mecca during which a few hundred thousand Korans are confiscated and burned by the Saudi authorities? It is true.
No protests, no riots. Every year.
How about a little data on this, a news article? Something?
“Benghazi, awash in guns, has recently witnessed a string of assassinations as well as attacks on international missions, including a bomb said to be planted by another Islamist group that exploded near the United States Consulate there as recently as June.”
And these are our friends. These are the people we gave guns, money, and probably training to overthrow Gaddafi. Wow, these people sure are grateful for what we did for them. Libya is a political basket case right now and WILL BE for years to come. There was a reason why Libya was run by a dictator all those years. He was the only ruthless nut who could keep all of the warring factions and tribes in that country under control. Now that Gaddafi is gone, you will have Somalia on steroids, given all the oil money those different militias and factions are going to try and steal.
And yet Obama and Clinton seem to have to answer for none of this. Nothing. They broke Libya, now they own it. How many years of “foreign aid” (also known as bribes and payoffs in that part of the world) are we going to have to pay before the murderous tribal groups in that “country” decide to leave Americans alone? It is ironic that it was the Barbary pirates, most of which were located in present-day Libya, were one of the first foreigners to attack American interests after we became a nation. Thomas Jefferson actually sent a small naval task force in 1801 to go to Tripoli and not only teach those pirates a lesson, but to impress upon them the importance of not harming American citizens and allowing us to conduct trade without fear of attack or hostage taking. Funny how not much has changed in over 200 years.
The Libyans will never, ever, like us, let alone be an ally or a friend. We are and always will be infidels to them and the best that we can hope for is to show enough strength so that they will basically leave us alone, thinking that killing Americans will not be worth the cost. Are there “moderates” in that country friendly to the west? Maybe, but if there are four or five of them out there, they still aren’t not numerous enough to either offset or subdue all of the crazy and heavily-armed militants that are in their country. So unless you want to totally invade Libya and ensure that the “moderates” stay in power and consolidate their hold on that country, Libya will never be an ally of the United States.
But hey, wait a second. Isn’t that exactly what we are trying to do in Afghanistan, staying in a backwards Muslim country for many years in hopes that the moderates in that country will become pro-western and become good friends of the United States by rejecting radical Islam? Sure, and how’s that working out for us?
They are Islamic fanatics, they will always be Islamic fanatics, and nothing we do will change over 1,000 years of religious fanaticism. If, as Thomas Jefferson did with the Barbary Pirates, we show military strength and make very clear to the Islamic world that our most important responsibility is to protect American lives and property overseas, they may get the message and leave us alone, not wanting to suffer the military consequences. That’s the best you can hope for in that part of the world.
Aptly stated! What a horrible incident. And to an already demoralized nation, yet, another demoralization. There is absolutely no place for appeasement to these people. The world hates us when we are strong, the world hates us when we are weak; however, the world benefits when we are strong. I am so sorrowful that we have come to this place in history. What a shame, indeed.
However, HRC is promoted as the bright one in the Democratic galaxy- the 2016 standard bearer. Epic fail.
I heard that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was shocked, shocked that after all America did for Libya in the last two years, this would happen. I’m surprised worse didn’t happen. It still may–given our gov’ts response so far it is a near certainty.
Do Senators have to go to school and learn how to think and reason and learn about how things work and such?
Unfortunately the Constitution doesn’t cover what to do if idiots elect idiots.
“Obama, Obama, there are still a billion Osamas.”
We know what happened to the first one. Are there really a billion Moslems wishing for death at the rifles of the US military? I have a suggestion….
“If he thinks we’re the devil, let’s send him to hell” – Blue Oyster Cult
3000 to 1 casualty rate isnt something to brag about.
Amen, EG, Amen.
A “string of assassinations”… “awash in guns” …planted bomb… something’s wrong here. It borders on criminal negligence, indeed it crosses that border, that Ambassador Stevens would be left with such paltry security in a country so unsettled and riddled with violence as Libya. The fact these events may now be tied to al-Qaeda makes this negligence all the more unconscionable.
It is criminal negligence. What can you expect from a guy who works four hours a day and can’t even be bothered to attend his Daily Briefings? This is the same deft touch Obama uses in dealing with the economy. Calling him a SCOAMF isn’t strong enough.
My sympathies to the families of those who died. Can someone in the press please ask the administration why security was so lax at the Embassy? You know, in between getting the vapors about Romneys statement about not apologizing for our freedoms. Lax security, Ambassadors death, it’s criminal.
OK, here is my prediction. Mobs are only going to get worse in Islamic countries. There’s either going to be a shoot out at one of these manufactured protests, or some bombs are going to be going off and leveling some Embassies. Before the elections. Democracy in those countries is going to be very ugly before it stabilizes.
Oil & gas will go up. Food prices are going to go up. Be prepared.
Just for clarity’s sake, check spinoneone’s answer upthread. The fatalities were at a consulate, not an embassy. But your point stands about security in Cairo. Scaling the walls of an American embassy and tearing down the flag? The blood boils, the mind reels.
Thank you.
The Marine detachment guarding the embassy in Egypt was not allowed to carry ammunition. The Ambassador trusts the Muslim Brotherhood to protect her and the embassy more than the Marines.
Shrewd decision…
Was Huma Abedin advising the Secretary of State on that?
Yes, I stand corrected, it was at the consulate not the embassy. But that brings up an even more disturbing question.
Why was the Ambassador at this interim consulate with inadequate security on a day that protests were planned to take place?
I still stand by my predictions, this is all going to boil up and explode. al Queda wants an Islamic bloodbath under the American flag.
Now before I get to the meat of my comment let me make it clear that Mitt Romney is no Winston Churchill but we need to remember that when the Brits and the French stabbed the Czechs in the back and abandoned them to the tender mercies of Hitler and the Germans Winston was shouted down in the house of commons and roundly chastized in the press for having the gall to tell what turned out to be the truth. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Oh, And I meant Germans, not Nazi’s. At the time they were one and the same. Just like the Muslims and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thank you, that’s an important point to remember.
The “King” who can recall “Chamberlain” is …the American People.
But this is no Chamberlain , unfortunately it is a whole administration of enemies.
“It borders on criminal negligence, indeed it crosses that border.” -above
Dude, we’re twenty clicks above the Dolong Bridge at this stage. Words fail to convey the magnitude of Obama’s arrogance and his incompetence. But what is more, the unhinged insanity on display the MSM/Journ-o-list stooging for their man and trying to pin this debacle on Romney is just jaw-dropping. Bush2, (I wasn’t a huge fan but I never hated the guy) was a laisez-faire Chief Executive… He phoned it in too many times for my taste, but that never mattered to the MSM – they took every opportunity, and invented even more opportunities to ambush him and smear him. It took real guts to maintain composure and to focus on doing his job as he saw it. And yet, even when he made mistakes and switched course, he was more ruthlessly excoriated for the fact.
The wrong-mindedness and outcome of this vile Arab Spring, brought to us by a cheering Hilary/Obama/Journ-o-list axis (and I’d like to point out quite a few PJM contributors too…) was completely predictable. I, and a handful of others predicted it. I write that, not to toot the horn, but to suggest that most still are in the dark about the enemies we face. The mask is off. We now know that the Obama hunta, including the Clinton arm of the DNC, unions, academia, and the entire Journ-o-list are enemies. I no longer wish to compromise in anything with these cretins. I want to see them utterly destroyed politically.
We are just now glimpsing the nightmare treasures hidden inside the Pandora’s Box these hideous people have opened.
Well said, Morton….it is past time for Americans to recognize this junta as domestic enemies, not political opponents that also love their country but simply have a different opinion. Pure, 100%, unfiltered, all natural, steroid-hormone-preservative free Bovine Scatology. These people do not have America’s best interests at heart, only their own. The democratic party is infested with mooslim bruthahood operatives conspiring with a mooslim president, yep, that’s right, a MUSLIM PRESIDENT that the media allowed to move into the new White Mosque. They are not honest brokers and cannot be negotiated and compromised with – they must be defeated and sent into historical and political irrelevancy if we are to survive as a free, constitutional republic.
It seems like a bad video by an unknown person and Terry Jones with a match have more influence in the Muslim world than all of the wonks and academics at the bloated State Department, Executive Branch and billions of dollars.
Daniel Pipes: “Terry Jones, Sam Bacile, and their future imitators know how to goad Muslims to violence, embarrass Western governments, and move history. In response, Islamists know how to exploit Jones, et al. The only way to stop this cycle is for governments to stand firmly on principle: “Citizens have freedom of speech, which specifically means the right to insult and annoy. The authorities will protect this right. Muslims do not enjoy special privileges but are subject to the same free-speech rules as everyone else…”
Obama = Dhimmi Carter 2.0
Good one.
But at this point I think that we should not offend Carter comparing him to Obama. Carter was and is just stupid. This guy is no stupid. He doesn’t make mistakes.
How was that possible that the embassy was under a deadly attack for FIVE HOURS!!! and no American forces came to rescue?
I just simply don’t get it.
The Marines in Egypt were prohibited by the Ambassador from carrying ammo. They could have defended if they were allowed.
The MEU is the backup force to protect Embassy and personnel.
On Orders from POTUS Obama the MEU was ashore in Egypt training Egyptian armed forces, out of position and probably with NO AMMO they could not act to defend themselves should the Egyptians turn and attack them. Much less rescue the Embassy.
The plans against American imperialism are proceeding pretty well.
An administration of subversives inside, and the same alliance leftists-elitists-islamists outside will do the job of destroying America’s might. economic and military.
You know, I admire Romney for speaking out against this atrocity, so quickly and so forthrightly. Hesitating would have been weasely and cowardly.
Of course, the left is going to make this all about “Romeny spoke too soon!” Like that really matters, at this point.
Oh, and Hillary’s real boss is her dear friend, Huma Abeidin.
This administration’s level of incompetence is beyond belief. A lot of people need to be fired, or resign.
But … but … but … I got Bin Laden!
Wrong.
Greatest “Pants Leg Crease” of all time. (Why, a tingle goes up my leg just thinking about it!)
Mmm Mmm Mmm
There may be a benefit to all of this. Hopefully it ends the “Hillary for President” campaign.
Where is Bill?
EXACTLY what I’ve been thinking! Gawd, I’ve been fighting the “Hillary is BRILL-yunt” theme all over the interleft for four years.
As for Bill, hah, in the past it was always Hillary raging at him over his crap moves that kept sinking their joint political career and their place in history. Now maybe it’s going the other way. I imagine they’re furiously laying a four-year plan to erase and spin this disgrace.
How about our divider in chief’s foreign policy? It’s really on the cutting edge. He has done so much to increase America’s “likableness” in the world. Wow! We really need 4 more years on this. I hope every liberal and our MSM is basking in the light of his successes. Isn’t it time for him to hop on Air Force One and hit the “humbleness” tour again to show the world how sorry he is for this country even existing?
I say it’s time for some real serious change and hope like hell we can put ourselves back on the road to a better world. It will most certainly be difficult but I have experienced enough incompetence in the last 4 years to last me 10 lifetimes.
I am livid that the only thing this country’s MSM can muster is to bash Romney for defending and the producers of a video for making something that shows the truth?
Roger is absolutely correct. The hypocrisy of Obama and the Media is stunning
Maddening that in an important story like this is a side story of the press has trying to hide a disaster of the first order, one that threatens to get even bigger at the most inopportune time, and protect the reputation of two colossally incompetent boobs, Hillary and Barack. That Romney acted understandably, presidentially, he set up himself perfectly as a distraction.
That Romney acted understandably, presidentially, he set up himself perfectly as a distraction.
Any utterance, no matter how sincere or accurate, will be jumped on by the incompetent Obama and his vicious handlers.
Distraction is the point. Demeaning the opponent, a bonus.
You’re point about Romney is well taken, but the media was never going to let the embassy storming and killing of the ambassador rise to the level where Obama’s re-election, and Hillary’s political future would be at stake. On the contrary, if Romney had stayed on the sidelines, lips sealed, he would have been pilloried for not releasing a statement “in support of the president….” And far from blame Obama and his State Department for their craven ineptitude, the mantra would have went along the lines of “….this incident underscores the need for stability in dealing with the complex reality of a dangerous world, and we can’t afford to turn over our foreign affairs to a man (Romney) with no experience…” You know the drill.
”That Romney acted understandably, presidentially, he set up himself perfectly as a distraction.”
Personally, I’d call this one for Romney:
http://www.therightscoop.com/full-press-conference-mitt-romneys-statement-on-libya-and-egypt/
He neutered the pack of hyenas with one hand and laid out a foreign policy at stark odds with that of the groveler-in-chief with the other.
We are witnessing the most incredible phenomenon in the universe, history repeating itself in front of our very eyes. Unfortunately we are reliving The misery of Jimmy MEOW Carter’s presidency. Hopefully this nightmare will end up just like Jimmy’s, and Hussein O will be discredited like Carter.
I hope you’re right but doubts linger. Carter was done in by high inflation, double digit interest rates, high unemployment and gas shortages, in addition to the hostage crisis. Over three decades later, many Americans have swallowed the myth of the religion of peace, despite all evidence to the contrary. We are told to blame a marginal preacher for the actions of millions of people. (If their faith is so strong, why can’t they just shake their heads at the ignorance of infidels?) We are told not to blame Islam or all Muslims for the actions of ‘extremists’ but the same rules don’t apply to them. We apologize to them for their lack of self-control and their own inability to deal with others as equals. The time has come to pull our people from these countries and send their diplomats packing.
The fear remains great that Obama will ride this out and succeed in blaming another of his own failed policies on Bush and the Republicans. The media are aiding and abetting him. War-weary Americans don’t care anymore. Many would just as soon forget the Islamic world exists.
“The time has come to pull our people from these countries and send their diplomats packing.”
Hear, hear! Good post!
Holy Christ, Hillary is on the tube right now talking about the video and praising Islam. Romney has to be the first one to say: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE VIDEO.
Exactly. Trying to deflect blame on some obscure movie when the real blame lies at the feei of the Sec of Stae and the current administration. They [she and Obama] left these people unprotected and exposed on 9-11 for God’s sake. Heads should roll but in the administration not in the diplomatic corps. Unexcuseable is correct-you are inexcuseable as well as your peerless leader.
Using a trumped up excuse to engage in radical extreme slander, faux rage and premeditated assault as part of a worldwide conspiracy, is a despicable act of evil.
Now that I’m done describing the American media, let’s talk about Islamic jihad.
But, I repeat myself.
Radical extreme bedfellows stairstep their agendas, each playing foil to the other against their mutual enemies.
Slander and distortion, propaganda and premeditated lies are orchestrated in this symphony of slime. Our external enemies gin up a faux rage against a tiny, insignificant film representing not even a handful of Americans, Christians or Jews.
And, as they ALWAYS do, the radical extreme leftists conspire to redirect “blame” to their “usual suspects”. This is coordinated, whether caught on open mic or not…by the treasonous left who not only root against America and Israel, but plot to destroy them through Propaganda and Lies.
We face two jihads. One external and one internal.
The film is an irrelevancy. It is simply a tool to do what both jihads wanted in the first place. It’s an excuse. An alibi. A cover.
Even if we turned the barbarians into bloodspots on a sheet of glass once called the Middle East, we would still face the traitorous curs at home. And, they are the greater enemy of freedom, liberty and honor.
Spot on commentary!
There was a ridiculous suggestion in London recently that the UK police would storm the Ecuadorian Embassy in order to remove left-wing rapist Julian Assange. It was rightly shouted down by all, especially leftists who proclaimed it would be an act of war against Ecuador. Now that several US Embassies have been attacked and an ambassador murdered, among other Americans, I hear no-one claiming that this is an act of war against the US…funny, that?
Storming the Ecuadoran embassy would have been an official act. Just as the US embassy in Iran was taken over by ‘students’, here you’ll hear that this was a small band of ‘extremists’ and has nothing to do with the Egyptian or Libyan governments. Individuals don’t declare war, so these countries’ leaders hide behind these mobs.
The video which caused all reaction can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=AccGMUIQQRE
Isn’t the refusal of almost all news stories to link to the video itself a sort of appeasement?
Yes. And to expand the analogy. One problem with Munich was that we did not get the concessions from Hitler necessary to stop the war from coming. The other problem we know about – and that problem is why we should have had a tougher bargaining position with Hitler. And it shouldn’t have been to re-militarize the Rhineland. It should have been to make sure he stopped doing that.
Either that or bombs and guns where they really really hurt.
Sadly 50 French policemen well directed could have put an end to Hitler in 1935 by arresting the occupiers when they first entered the de-militarized zone.
The German Army would have deposed him. What kept him in power (besides being a ruthless psychopath) was his continuing success. Every time the military told him he was going too fast he proved them wrong. Until …..
Good man Mr Simon. The right combination of indignation and intelligence. Bravo!
The administration is trying to spin this as a freedom of speech issue – they see the problem of our enemy’s motivation that they do not respect other people’s opinions. The administration’s boils down to this – the rioters are too touchy.
There is a conflagration going from country to country. It is inseparable from the way the Arab Spring has so far played out. Romney was exactly on target for alluding to this fact.
Clearly this administration is pushing for the interests of the snake in the Garden of Eden. It’s time from them and the snake to be expelled.
“why such a wretched, amateurish production apparently reedited with voice-overs”
I’m sure the film is as insightful, witty, lyrical, profound, and literary at “MacBird!”
Obama and Hillary. I demand their resignation immediately.
“Obama vows justice for the killings”
What’s his plan? Round up the usual suspects?
Who can handle the truth?
President Obama is a Muslim extremist.
The film is a fake. 9/11/12 was Al Qaeda’s revenge on ‘Obama killed Osama’. The events in Egypt and Libyan embassies remind us of President Carter’s 444 days Iranian hostage situation, but Obama’s has to blood of four americans on his hands, because of his boastful ways of the Osama Bin Laden killng.
There are certainly things reported in the media that don’t smell right. $5 million from 100 Jews for that? Seriously? That looks like a high school film project. That gets a C.
To me the movie is an excuse. It was 9/11 and the islamist want nothing more then to kill more Americans. Can you say that they found a soft target in Libya? It is shameful that Obama did not protect Americans in the American Embassies in the middle east. Once again its more important to campaign then lead the country.
How many of our embassies were attacked while Bush was president? The answer is none. Maybe Obama should call Bush and ask for advice.
Barry Soetoro said America is much more loved since He became president.
His death is also the shame of America’s neo-cons, who cheerleaded furiously for Obama’s idiotic (and illegal, not that anyone cares about such things anymore) war in Libya.
It certainly seems to be the explicit policy of the American government and political class in general that where it comes to Muslim countries, “The worse, the better”. We’re going to overthrow stable, peaceful governments and replace them with hard-line Islamist and viciously ant-Western regimes.
It’s as if, in 1979, the US had overthrown the Shah and installed Ayatollah Khomeini in his place.
Romney’s smirk after he finished speaking was disgusting. He has no empathy for others, unless they are from his planet Kolob.
The Romneys: No veterans in 5 generations.
You know, you shouldn’t really do that: have confidence in yourself, get a real job.
Don’t accept the blood money of the subversives, allied of the islamic supremacist, for a living.
On the other hand The Wohn’s uncle has eliberated Auchwitz.
You know what’s disgusting? You. I read no sorrow or compassion in your post, only the schadenfreude of being able to get in a dig at Mitt Romney. You totally disgust me!
They are laughing at the USA in Libya, just as Hillary laughed upon the murder of Gaddafi. Can we call the State Department and inquire if Hilary is laughing NOW???
Mohammedans have no respect for the USA and America is a laughing stock all around the world and all because of the WIMP in the White House .
BTW the film seems to be a fairly accurate description of the life of Mohammad all derived from Islams OWN writings about him the aHadith. They describe how he married his favourite wife Aisha when she was 6 YEARS OLD and CONSUMATED that marriage when she was NINE YEARS OLD in the intervening years he used to pleasure her by rubbing her between her thighs on his knee. He was also a SLAVE OWNING WARLORD and demanded, and got, 20% of all the booty his Muslim thugs took when they raided caravans. He also took is choice of the women captured as his SEX SLAVES. The men and boys he had BEHEADED. Including 900 male members of a Jewish Tribe the Muslims captured , Mohammad made one of their leaders women his WIFE the same day he had him beheaded. Its all there in ISLAMS OWN writings on the life of Mohammad.
Mohammed should have issued an order that all his personal life be closed and off-limits to historians.
See how much smarter Obama is.
And these idiots, who don’t know enough to protect an Ambassador in a dangerous and volatile place — and who choose to shrug their shoulders at violent possibilities on 9-11 — Who don’t know enough to not apologize when we’ve been attacked … These same idiots ask — no “demand” that Netanyahu and Israel leave their security and very survival up to their “judgment.” OMG!
And us too! Double OMG!
I’m listening to Fox and reports of angry demonstrations and violence going around the Middle East … escalating … wondering if this will wind up having something to do with the October surprise (in September!) that I was expecting from The Won’s camp. But, no, that’s crazy … or is it?
Not really, it just occurred to me that missing his Intelligence briefings are a good way to make the One look real ignorant. Maybe he knew about the movie and what Morsi and friends were going to do. After all, this is related to MB demands to get the Blind Sheikh released, and the Sheikh did the first ’9-11′ in 1993.
And I have to believe that the US has intelligence agents in the Egyptian government and society. After all, Israel has plenty of Russian, American etc. agents running around.
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OBAMA: HITS ROCK BOTTOM, THEN GRABS A JACKHAMMER.
In a few months we will witness General Dempsey signing a nonaggression pact with Ahmadinejad. Perhaps he will also lay a wreath on the tomb of Ayatollah Khomenei. Dempsey will be accompanied by Carter, the father of the Iranian revolution
If I were a cynic, I would say the production of the film critical of Islam by a reportedly Israeli Jew, Sam Bacile, that lead to this reaction, was a psyop intended to create a Muslim reaction before the elections here. Now who would want to do that? Of course, no one is asking why the “West” destroyed Libya and installed an Al-Queda franchise. Perhaps Israelis should start wondering what is planned by their elite tribesmen, and the other globalists seeking world dominion. With a repeat of Libya faltering but still planned in Syria, and the Israeli client regime in Egypt replaced with the Muslim Brotherhood, not to mention the Saudis and other Western puppets facing similar fates, what exactly is planned? A decade ago, the Neocons had already planned to overthrow all the independent Muslim states, seemingly for Israel. Is the reality a planned war between Israel and a unified Islam, laying waste the Middle East and it’s resources, and destroying both sides? Bibi thought he was in charge, and was going to force Obama’s hand regarding Iran. He just got slapped down to size. Anyone who thinks this is Obama’s fault should relegate themselves to reading “My Pet Goat”. The plan was created by the PNAC – those who gave us a “New American Pearl Harbor”. They envisioned their end game when the rest of us only saw pawn moves. Obama and Bibi are rooks and knights (or is that crooks and knaves?), more than pawns but expendable, as are our nations. I guess I am a cynic. I have a thought experiment. I produce a video blaspheming Shia and it’s saints. I sign that video “Shlomo Israel”. Without planning, such as Arabic narration, and agents on the ground in the target Islamic country (Iraq) to make it “viral”, that video would disappear into the vastness of the Web. The video that lead to the storming of the embassy was a deliberate stick into an anthill. Otherwise, it would have been just another anti-Muslim hate video, to go along with the anti-Jew hate videos. Wait to Friday and see what happens in Cairo.
A cynic? No, you’re an antisemite.
Hillary nailed it during the 2008 presidential race with her ‘It’s 3 AM and the White House phone is ringing’ ad. President Barry was fast asleep, undoubtedly all tuckered out from his manic fund raising schedule. 3AM, fast asleep, and incompetent.
What is amazing and so shameful is the manner in which visitors to the United States are treated and shamed to almost strip at US airport arrivals. It is laughable that even if they just cross to take another INTERNAL FLIGHT after having been treated like criminals, they then have to go through it all again!!! for an internal domestic flight! And here is the White House giving just four videos in the Consulate in Benghazi as protection! They should hang their heads in shame. Hillary and Barack are to blame for the loss of those four lives in Benghazi and should be indicted for negligence!
Shame is one adjective totally absent from Obama’s lexicon. Let’s see who will be selected to be thrown under the presidential bus. They’re going to need a new bus pretty soon.
SOLUTION
Rent hotels in Malta and Greek Cyprus. Embassy & staff move from Libya and Egypt to respective hotels. Aid money goes to renting a ferryboat going from the islands to the African coast. The Marines would construct and operate a little ferry dock and passenger processing point which is more probing than going through US airport security. If a citizen wants business with the embassy, schedule a ferry trip. Get 5-year leases on the hotels and make full use of the whole time. Cancel the cancellation of the billion dollar debt which Egypt had so they will still have it.
If Muslims on Turkish Cyprus raise hell, get a 5 year lease on a hotel on Crete and use the Cypriot lease for vacationing Armed Forces personnel.
The takedown of the Dhimmi will be an atrocity bringing disgrace if it cannot be deterred.
Get used to this! Both the Left and the Right are ignoring a basic fact-of-life that sits in the middle of the room like a giant squid. None of the so-called “Middle Eastern” countries from Pakistgan to Morocco have any real interest in western democratic institutions or the western-style politics. Tribal and religious sensibilities will trump western liberalism every time. The best that we can hope from these nations is a barely-controlled chaos with an acceptable level of political corruption.
Sounds Harsh? Show me anything that has happened since the fall of the Shah of Iran that leads anyone to believe that Vermont-style political institutions are “just around the corner.” The Middle East will always be a political Bedlam where individual nations are occasionally kept in line by some strongman or other who will wear out his welcome within an increasingly short span of time.
I think what the followers of the pedophile are angry about, well other than the existence of any people who are not muslims, is that Obama keeps “spiking the football” on killing their hero of 9/11, OBL. They were shouting, “One Billion Osamas – Obama!”
Two marines guarding the Libyan embassy; Full secret service detail for Valerie Jarrett, even when she’s on vacation. Welcome to Obamaville!
When are we going to learn that the only thing Islam understands is fear and power?
Forget the yahoos climbing the walls, and point the damn bombs right at the Imams stoking the rubes. “Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal!” Let’s grant them their wish and start at the top.
They can go out in a ball of flame courtesy of a daisy cutter with Allah imprinted on the side, the crater a monument to their abject stupidity.
Then watch how quickly the crowd disperses.
We don’t like Islam. We don’t respect its founder. We won’t stop saying it. We will never surrender. We won’t let street mobs rule America.
Then why to we allow so many of them to swarm into our country?
For more on what triggered Hitler’s invasion of Poland, look at the Danzig Bromsberg massacre which saw 58,000 Germans raped and murdered.
Why would Poland sign a pact with Britain and France, THEN start murdering ethnic Germans. This is how THEY engineer wars.
@JHM dba “P. Aloysius McTammany”
Translation: I am a Liberal idiot!!
Your the President of the United States and your Ambassador of peace has just been attacked, kidnapped, raped and tortured before being executed by strangling.
So what do you do?
Apologize to the killer/rapist blame someone who is not POTUS yet, blame the first amendment and blame the people who made the movie. Then you comfort the folks who did the deed by apologizing again.
Your Chief of staff General calls the movie maker and chews him out.
You have sent your Embassy reaction force into a hostile country to train it’s hostile soldiers.
You have not attended an intelligence briefing in months.
BUT you want American’s to re-elect you or be called racists.
This is what we around here call a deluded very confused fool.
I wish top Hollywood movies with real intelligent and brave actors/actresses can be made on the true brutal history of Islam and Mohammed – especially to educate the many clueless, robotic-like (too much senseless video-games!) and brainwashed young. And tragically, the great sacrifice of Jews/Christians, through so much blood and tears like in Austria and the Crusaders (including of selfless rich/powerful Christians like the great King Richard 1 the Lionheart), are being forgotten or tarnished through Islamic/Left lying propagandas in order to portray falsely Islam, as if never the savage invader/conqueror of Judeo-Christian civilization, all the way into Europe.
Our Lord Jesus Christ’s Salvation hates evil/sin as in “Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good” (Romans 12:9). Persistently, Dictator/War Criminal Barack Hussein Obama keeps FORCING Americans/the world especially Jews/Christians to bow down to evil especially the evil Islam! After all, these evil Muslim terrorists are all imitating the most evil beast of Lucifer, the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, – who created the Devil’s cult, Islam, to defy civilized laws in Christianity and Judaism, especially the Ten Commandments that founded modern civilized Western laws, and to justify Mohammed’s evilness. Thus, Lucifer is indeed Islam’s god! Further, Islam as the lethal weapon, goes on to be used right now, by the Dictators/War Criminals Saudi/Qatar royals-sponsored Muslim Brotherhood (MB) jihadist terrorists, who is intent on GLOBAL Nazi-Hitlerian Ethnic/Cultural Genocide and robbery, whilst torturing and sexually enslaving women/girls in evil Saudi/Arabic veil and Pedophilia child-marriages (ie. RAPE), particularly on non-Arab Muslim/non-Muslim minorities in OIL/MINERAL/LAND-RICH Africa such as in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Yemen, Sudan etc (yes, this is not Arabia but Africa) and mid-East such as Syria, Egypt, Iraq and next, Lebanon (yes, this is Mid-East, not Arabia)!
Finally the Crusades are being seen as Christendom pushing back against the Moslem hordes who overran the Near East, North Africa, and segments of Europe. They reached the gates of Vienna and Paris, and Thank God were pushed back. But hundreds of cities and towns, largely Christian, were never liberated. The liberal professoriate made Christendom the villain. Beginning to wake up, are we?
Mr. Simon, exactly right.
Obama: The Idiot in Chief.
GOOD GAWD. He can’t tell the difference between an ally and an enemy. So, Egypt, according to Oblahblah, is “a work in progress”? Comments like this make it clear that he’s a work in regress, and if he gets four more years, we’re in huge trouble.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/13/white_house_clarifies_obama_s_statement_that_egypt_is_not_an_ally
He’s “counting on the government of Egypt to better protect the U.S. Embassy in Cairo …”? HUH? Why wouldn’t he be deploying the highest level of protection from the United States rather than “count on” a work-in-progress government whose response he’s unsure of?
Obama’s inaction is putting Americans’ lives in danger. Obama’s hopeless.
And, in the how-stupid-can-Obama-get? category: I’m beginning to wonder if he’s purposely trying to come across as an idiot in order to lose this election.
The only thing he seems to like about living in the White House — he doesn’t like going to intel meetings, which is one of the main functions of a POTUS, especially in times of volatility — is entertaining, playing basketball, and first-class-all-the-way holidays and junkets to play golf.
Four years in the White House have guaranteed Oblahblah cash for life on the talk circuit, not to mention the umpteen number of books he’ll be able to write (with a ghost writer, of course). If he loses the election, he can spend the rest of his life on the basketball court and the golf links and not have to worry about such pesky things as public speeches and Cabinet meetings.
‘Sounds like a plan to me.
Why have there been no calls for Clinton’s resignation? She’s a feckless fool, and the Benghazi catastrophe is her responsibility (not just her’s, but she’s boss of the diplomatic service). Is she the teflon SoS? I know the Dems want to preserve her rep so she can run in 2016, but that rep is an illusion, and this is the moment to blow it up.
As much as the media protects Obama it protects Hillary to the same extent or more. She has been an unmitigated disaster as Secretary of State. She is not qualified for the position by background, training or temperament. Her failures, gaffes, lecturing condescending insults, rank cultural and political missteps and insensitivities are near countless. She’s helped steer the ship of state onto the rocks because like Obama, she lives in a world where her fantasies are real. If she only explained herself one more time in the right words, Heaven will blossom forth on the Earth. She’s a tourist.
She takes her orders from Pr. O and Bill is connected to the ME. When he retires, Pr. O will too, be connected with the ME. Not Israel.
It pains me to say it but isn’t it obvious that the MSM has to cover for our affirmative action President. Obama is beyond his depth in so much of what he does.
Governor Romney makes a sensible response to the inane response of “our” Cairo Embassy to the attack on it. Islam is stuck in the 9th century Why should our embassy worry about the 9th century reaction to a movie that virtually no one saw? But Romney’s reaction had to be questioned by media or otherwise the folks might wake up to the recognition that the Chicago emperor has no clothes. Leading from behind is not leadership. It is childish to imagine it is anything else.
Two things: the article might nicely have been a little longer; and, the title, would better in punctuation thus: “Death of Ambassador Stevens Is America’s Shame—Hillary’s and Obama’s”—use of the dash to show specificity, or a most pertinent after thought which was not so necessary or explanatory as a parenthetical, or a footnote, . . .
Mass media in cahoot with Hollywood and the far left. Are the commies back?
If this happened on Bush’s watch the Left Stream Media would be demanding his resignation, saying he was directly responsible for the deaths. Instead, they are screaming that Mitt is evil for saying that Bam-Bam didn’t respond correctly.
But there’s no media bias.
Roger;
Great article & a quote from NYT (I quit reading the ‘Gray Lady’ after 2 weeks in the US & that’s 30 y ago!) One omission though as I’ve just read above & therefore don’t have to do. What an unmitigated disaster is the closet Marxist & real termagant Hillary. Read R. Miniter’s “Loosing Bin Laden” and/or Rob Patterson’s “Dereliction of Duty.” Anyone remembers Arafat in the WH & the mess they left behind & the stealing during/after vacating?
The way I see it, one part of ‘Billary’ should’ve been tried, convicted & executed for treason & the other one locked up for life in a loony-house for the criminally insane. She’s a radical way left of Bubba. People deserve the gubmint they have. It happened to my former country w/ disastrous results many times.
we have the most clueless, dumb as they come, shit for brains electorate anywhere. That’s the problem.
Congratulations Mr. Simon,
You, like most of the rest of Dar al Harb, appears to have missed what just happened. Let me frame it for you a little differently than most have been doing.
First a little basic, general info:
Islam tends towards a very dualistic view of the world. Everything and everyone belongs in one of two groups: there is Dar al islam(the house of islam) or Dar al Harb(the house of war). You are either a muslim or you are an infidel. Property is either the property of allah, held in perpetuity for him by islam(and they have folks who keep track of all the land that has ever been owned by muslims whether through conquest or purchase)or land that must be purchased or conquered in order to bring all the world under islam and in submission to allah. (This, btw, is why the followers of islam regard the land of israel to belong to them, because they conquered it once, so they believe it belongs to allah forever – re-writes all of history if one views property like that doesn’t it?)
So, what really happened Wednesday was this: The islamic world announced the re-emergence of the caliphate through an open and deliberate act of war towards American(aka the great satan.)
This attack was intended to provoke a response. Specifically, any response would fall into one of two categories that would tell the islamic world whether or not the great satan was ripe for conquest or if they need to continue the more subtle tactics of war in which they have been engaging for years now.
The two categories are retaliation -which would have been an indication of continued strength on the part of America or surrender. Guess which one they got?
Many have mentioned incompetence, comparing Mr. obam to Mr. Carter and etc. That’s hogwash. If there has ever been an acting POTUS that could fully understand this message from the islamic world and the impact of an apology in response to that message, it is Mr. barack hussein-the call to prayer is the prettiest sound in the world-obama.
This was nothing less than the deliberate surrender of America to the re-emeerging caliphate. High treason, for which he must be impeached immediately. And if we wish to minimize the cost in the lives and blood of American citizens in this new world war, Congress had best set about arranging a sufficiently instructive retaliatory response for the events of Wednesday as well as those that followed the surrender of the American acting POTUS to Dar al islam.
Whe that is done, we need to start recognizing the new(as well as the classical islamic) tactics of war for what they are and finding ways to counter them appropriately for a nation founded on personal responsiblity, self reliance and individual freedoms. If we do not, then it doesn’t matter that most folks missed the opening volley of WW3 or the re-emegence of the islamic caliphate-because Mr. obama will have been correct and we have already lost.
Now, go ahead, tell me again, all about how important this election is – because denial is such a comfortable place to live.