After Islamists have taken over Egypt, after al Qaeda raised its bloody head again and killed a US ambassador in the field, Hillary Clinton is keeping hope alive.
“Throughout all of this we must not only focus on the headlines. We have to keep in mind the trend lines,” Clinton said. “It is important to look at the full picture, to weigh the violent acts of a small number of extremists against the aspirations and actions of the region’s people and governments. That broader view supports rather than discredits the promise of the Arab revolutions.”
Here’s a headline: Four Americans Killed in Libya Sacking, American Secretary of State Blames a Film. Clinton did that repeatedly, you know.
Here’s a trend line: When given the chance to vote, Egyptians followed their Gazan brethren’s example and voted for the most Islamist alternative. Have you noticed this trend line, Madame Secretary?
Riddle me this, Madame Secretary: If the totality of the region is so peachy and keen, why then can a silly YouTube movie be turned into a deadly weapon by the mullah on the corner? How does that work?
Does not the fact that a YouTube or an obscure Florida preacher threatening to burn a Koran in his back yard can suddenly spark deadly riots across the world say something about the culture that you extol?
Secretary Clinton gave the speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies today. She also said this:
The United States cannot guarantee “perfect security” for its diplomats and still expect them to do their jobs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.
“We will never prevent every act of violence or terrorism, or achieve perfect security,” Clinton said. “Our people cannot live in bunkers and do their jobs.”
No one is suggesting that they can. Many are suggesting that security at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya was inadequate. They base that claim on two key facts: Security officers on the ground requested more security; and four Americans died when terrorists attacked that consulate on 9-11-12. I’d say they have the upper hand on the facts. But they’re not asking for America’s diplomatic corps to be moved to bunkers. They are asking what you knew about the situation in Benghazi and when you knew it, Madame Secretary.
Clinton also said:
“But it is our solemn responsibility to constantly improve to reduce the risks our people face, and make sure they have the resources they need to do those jobs we expect from them.”
Did you fulfill that responsibility, Madame Secretary?
The “transition to democracy” has turned Egypt from a strong ally at peace with Israel to an unreliable regional power with Islamist tendencies. Whatever Egypt has become and will become, America’s interests have taken a giant step backward.
But Hillary Clinton wants to borrow more money from China to make more Egypts.
[S]he again urged Congress to pass the administration’s request for a $770 million incentive fund to help democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa.
“I again urge Congress to move forward on this priority,” she said.
How about we do a damage assessment on your current policies first?
Clinton also ripped on Republicans.
Clinton took an indirect dig at the Romney campaign and congressional Republicans who have attacked the administration’s shifting account of the attack in Benghazi, saying “we cannot sacrifice accuracy to speed.”
That justifies selling a lie to the American people for two solid weeks, Madame Secretary? Is that what you’re going with?
Or are you going to keep playing dumb like your lackeys?
“Clinton took an indirect dig at the Romney campaign and congressional Republicans who have attacked the administration’s shifting account of the attack in Benghazi, saying “we cannot sacrifice accuracy to speed.”
“Instead we will sacrifice it to expediency.”
“We will never prevent every act of violence or terrorism, or achieve perfect security,” Clinton said.
“I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir,” General Turgidson said.
Shorter history: there are going to bumps in the road.
Does Hilary Clinton take us all for idiots?
This article hits on what I’ve been saying all along: Democracy in the middle east is not really in our best interest. They don’t want freedom, they want sharia law. They don’t want peace, they want a jihad against Israel. Their election results have tended to reflect this. Saudia Arabia is one fine example here. It is not a democracy, but the kings who rule it more or less sit on the extremists, keep the oil flowing, and play ball with the west. It is far more in the United State’s interests to have a system like this than whatever would likely emerge if Saudia Arabia held free elections tomorrow. Apply that throughout the region, if the nation has a stable central government of some sort that is friendly to our interests, then that’s realistically the best we can hope for there. There’s no reason to roll the dice on “democracy” and hand it over to a fanatical theocracy.
Sounds like she is jumping under the bus rather than wait for Obama to toss her under.
I have an idea, Madame Secretary, let’s pull out of countries that hate us and not give them any money. Then if they want ot kill each other, not our problem.
I think you meant absurdly optimistic. I suspect that she knows that any future she dreamed of in public life has come to a crashing end.
IF HILLARY HAD AN OUNCE OF INTEGRITY, SHE WOULD RESIGN.
But she has no integrity and, unfortunately, she won’t resign.
Innocent people working for the US gov’t died under Hillary’s watch. Innocent people working for the US gov’t died because of Hillary’s department’s refusal to provide more security. People in Hillary’s department watched the attack in real time on a security cam and knew immediately that there were no protests — yet she et al continued w/this lie for weeks.
I can’t help but wonder how much Huma Abedin, Hillary’s Chief of Staff and member of the Muslim sisterhood knew about this whole incident –and when.
I said it in 1993 and I’ll say it again. She has all the political instincts of a stone.
– Chelsea to Cairo.
To get a clearer grasp of the breadth and depth of the failure of the Obama / Clinton foreign policy, see the following map of recent attacks on US embassies and institutions across the globe. It’s not just Libya and Egypt as the media would have us think.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201645180959880549419.0004c9a894dfb66defab9&msa=0&ll=34.161818,47.8125&spn=102.607507,158.027344
Hillary is a rank tourist. Her credentials consist of being Bill’s wife and traveling with him to several foreign countries when he was president plus, of course, an outsized ego and overweening arrogance.