Tuesday, September 11, 2012 was a bleak day for the United States. Mobs in Egypt and Libya seized our embassy and consulate respectively. In Cairo, they desecrated our flag and replaced it with the black flag of Islam. In Libya, they burned the consulate to the ground and murdered our ambassador along with several others.
The Obama administration’s response? It tweeted. And it tweeted embarrassingly vile and weak things.
Barack Obama remained silent as the day unfolded. Well, other than an interview with DJ Laz, he remained silent.
Late in the evening, Mitt Romney sent out a strong statement condemning the US embassy in Cairo’s tweets and the administration’s awful handling of the crisis.
Mitt Romney’s statement finally provoked a reaction from the Obama administration. The administration said it was “shocked” that the Romney campaign was “politicizing” the situation.
The actual violence and the desecration of our flag, on the anniversary of 9-11, provoked no reaction from the Obama camp. Mitt Romney’s calling them a “disgrace,” though — that brought out the rage. The Obama administration, as some pointed out last night on twitter, was more outraged by Romney’s words than by the attack on sovereign US soil.
At some point, the Obama administration realized it was in a crisis. The US embassy was tossed under the bus, and it started deleting its foolish tweets.
During the 2008 primary, the Hillary Clinton campaign released an ad that highlighted Barack Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience. It asked that if the 3 am crisis call comes in, is he equipped to answer it?
The 3 am crisis call came in during the middle of the day on Tuesday, and in the aftermath this much is clear: Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton were ready to take that call. Tuesday was an abject failure. America looks diminished and unsure of herself, in a region where uncertainty invites violence and war.
Pointing all of that out is not “politicizing.” It’s just speaking the truth.
Obama owns this. It was he and his Administration that bypassed the War Powers Act to unseat Khadafy and install these thugs in power in Libya. It was he and his Administration that supported the “Arab Spring” demonstrations which deposed American ally (bought and paid for, but still ally) Mubarak.
He and his policies; he and his evasion of US law; he and his commitment to “stand with the Muslims”—even, apparently, against the country he was elected to lead—are responsible for this.
Our Ambassador’s dead body being hauled around and mocked. This is what Obama has brought us.
Welcome back, Carter.
– Candidate now President.
I have just lost my stomach. I just sw those pics of our embassador being dragged through the streets just like Quadaffi. My heart is ill….that poor man’s family…OMG…..when will someone in our congress act???????????????? I cannot hold back the tears…………
A wider ramification will unfold as a result of these attacks and the subsequent lack of response from the administration.
Other nations, such as China, Venezuela, and Russia, will look on with interest as to how our political leadership reacts – or rather doesn’t react.
While the atrocities being committed by these despicable people are bad enough, they are acts of violence and desecration being committed against individuals.
These individuals would love nothing more than to be able to do the same thing to our entire country and everyone living here, but they can’t so they attack those who are convenient.
No amount of appeasement from the administration will change that.
When nations think they can likewise commit acts with the same level of impunity, now convinced that the US will not respond or will respond ineffectually, then you run the risk of nation on nation violence of an entirely different magnitude.
That’s when entire populations become at risk.
Nations such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philipines, Israel, Poland (any Eastern European nation really), etc., should be afraid right now….they should be very afraid.
Well, the Beast was right. The 3 am call came and Barry had no answer. Unfortunately, neither does she.
Oh, I’m sorry. She did go to her default position and of course, condemn the murders in “the strongest terms.”
That’ll show ‘em.
I wonder if that was Huma’s advise.
I’d guess these attacks are just the opening round. These attacks will spread to other places and intensify. Look for them today in Karachi and Kabul, Amman and Beirut, Tunis and Algiers, Ankara and Constantinople. Even the tightly controlled Gulf monarchies will permit, and perhaps orchestrate demonstrations. Every diplomatic mission, every diplomatic staffer or every US service member abroad in these muslim countries is at grave risk over the coming days. The US must hold each government accountable for any loss of life and any property damage committed by their peoples. The Egyptian and Libyan ambassadors to the United States should be called to the State Department for a humiliating dressing down. Our ambassador to Cairo should be called home for his misbehavior. Our security personnel should be ordered to shoot anyone who trespasses on embassy grounds.
I realize none of these actions will be taken. And we all know the reason: Obama DOESN’T CARE about American diplomatic or military personnel’s lives or safety, except to the extent it jeopardizes his re-election.
To be fair, the One was mightily distacted by his trip to Las Vegas.
Does *anybody* have the full text of Romney’s initial statement? The one that sent the Empty Chair and the Lapmedia Synchronized Leghumping Team into piranha mode?