On this year’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks, Islamic fascists attacked our embassies in Libya and Egypt,
which eventually spread to over 20 Middle Eastern and surrounding
countries. The initial reactions by the
Obama Administration are puzzling.
They first call it spontaneous and blame the assault on an
anti-Islam video posted by an American.
Then they walk that reaction back and call it a pre-planned attack by a
group connected to Al-Qaeda. What’s
puzzling is that it has taken the Administration somewhere between 1 to 2 weeks
to admit that it was a terrorist attack and that it was pre-planned.
Did the Anti-Islam
Film Cause a Spontaneous Uproar?
I’ve seen the anti-Islam film. It was frankly disgusting and a dumb thing to
do. The person was an idiot to make it
and post it. However, there were barely
any views of the film before the attacks to have caused the attacks and the
murders. Virtually all the views of the
film came after the attack happened.
The fact that the Obama Administration’s first initial
reactions to the terrorist attacks were to, in so many words, sympathize with
the attackers and apologize to them is very revealing about Obama. I find it odd that our President seems to
sympathize with foreigners, and sometimes terrorists, better than he
sympathizes with his fellow Americans.
I found it interesting that the Obama Administration
called the attacks spontaneous. Obama
seemed to be trying to find an excuse for the terrorists before he had to
condemn them. What is also interesting is that Obama called the occupy movement spontaneous as well.
I have no proof that Obama equates the Islamic terrorists
with the Occupiers. However, he has
seemed to sympathize with the Islamic terrorists in his initial reactions just as
he has sympathized with the Occupiers.
He has also referred to both uproars as spontaneous.
Forced to Acknowledge
the Attacks as Pre-Planned by Terrorists
When the argument that the anti-Islam film caused the
attacks started to unravel the Obama Administration was forced to acknowledge
that the attacks were pre-planned. Obama
still seemed to try to find a way to tie the anti-Islam film to the pre-planned
attacks though. However, they still
maintained that the embassies were well guarded and that they didn’t know about
the attacks beforehand.
This has been one of Obama’s failures as a President. His Administration is always too quick to
respond to incidents or terrorist attacks with specific initial responses, and then they always have to change
their responses as new information suggests something else. It makes me start to contemplate whether
Obama is just flying by the seat of his pants as President.
Slow to Acknowledge
Terrorism in the Middle East
As of this writing, FoxNews.com has just reported, “U.S.
intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the U.S. Consulate
in Libya that it was a terrorist attack and suspected Al-Qaeda-tied elements
were involved.” This news should cause
heads to roll in Washington. If our
government knew about the attacks in advance and did nothing to secure our
embassies on the anniversary of 9/11, then the incompetent people that let four Americans be murdered
should be fired.
I think one reason why Obama seems to be slow to acknowledge
terrorism is because he fights for “democracy” in a different way than Bush
did. Bush seemed to be more methodical
in who his Administration supported to spread “democracy” in the Middle East,
and elsewhere in the world.
Obama seems to support groups like the Muslim Brotherhood,
which is a known terrorist group, without much investigation into what type of
groups they are. If we truly believe in
spreading freedom and democracy across the world, then we need to make sure we’re
supporting the right groups and not just groups that when in power will
basically continue the policies of the regime we’re trying to topple.
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