Posted By Lambchop
The attacks of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the brutal murders of Ambassador Stevens and the three other staffers are foreign policy disasters for the Obama administration - disasters of epic proportions.
First the administration issued a statement from the State Department that apologized to the militant Islamists for “hurt feelings,” and reinforced the administration’s well-known tone of appeasement and moral equivalence. This has been the Obama administration’s STATED POLICY toward radical Islam since 2008.
Second the administration seemed to buy into the story that Muslims were actually offended by the production of a movie criticizing Islam. As if those “hurt feelings” forced the militant Islamists to coordinate a violent attack on our Embassy in Egypt and Consulate in Libya? Despite the administration’s efforts to sympathize, The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt called for the U.S. to apologize. At the same time, President Morsi did nothing to prevent the attack on our American Embassy in Egypt.
The Obama administration foolishly chose to verbally attack Romney FIRST (who wisely criticized the asinine statement of appeasement issued by the Obama administration) instead of condemning the attacks of the militant Islamists. Meanwhile, the administration, in a colossal failure of intelligence, missed the warnings and obvious coordination of the two attacks even though there was evidence that militant Islamists have been actively targeting the western leaders and staff in Libya and Egypt. Perhaps the administration forgot that an RPG was fired at the vehicle of the British Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya three months ago?
At some point, the Obama administration realized their mistake and tried to walk back the statements of conciliation– to pretend otherwise is disingenuous. Of course, this validated Romney’s criticism. The Obama administration failed to grasp that their hysterical flurry of statements (from Obama and Clinton) did not erase the problems that President Obama’s proclamations created in the first place. The resulting chaos caused by Obama administration’s attempt to appease and conciliate militant Islamists is ludicrous.
Obama’s reelection continued to take priority as the President resumed his campaign today, without mention of any investigation into his administration’s failures to protect the Embassy, the Consulate, and the lives of those who worked in the two locations.
The damage control strategy of the White House so far has been to blame Romney for “jumping the gun”. Obama’s misplaced political machinations are not enough to hide the administration’s grievous errors and halt the lethal consequences of Obama’s Doctrine of Appeasement.
I'm sure Obama campaigned with all the gravity that the loss of an American Ambassador's life demanded.
Posted by: German Shepherd | 09/12/2012 at 07:59 PM