Let us thank the Somali pirates

American Thinker ^ | April 11, 2009 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

Flashback: It's 1979, and President Jimmy Carter is facing a hostage crisis, with American diplomats being kidnapped by Islamist "students" in Tehran. Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew our Cold War ally, the Shah of Iran, with the tacit of the Carter Administration, because it thought of the murderous Ayatollah as "some kind of saint," in the words of former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young.

Jimmy and Zbig have been trying to explain their disastrous ignorance ever since; and because they are mentally stuck in appeasement thinking, they have infected the Obamanites with the same plague bacilli.

Flashforward to 2008, and an American merchant marine captain is being held hostage by Islamist pirates off the coast of Somalia. It's a repeat of 1979, and the world is watching to see if Obama is going to be any more effective than Jimmy Carter was.

Obama may think this is a "distraction". The rest of the world sees it as a test. And so, far Obama is flunking. The world will draw its own conclusions very quickly      

Thank heavens for the pirates! Why? Because we must know as soon as possible if the Obamanites are as incompetent and foolish as they proudly claim to be -- or whether they can summon up the guts to try to rescue the captain. We have plenty of special ops forces who are trained for hostage rescue. The West has forty years of experience in knocking over hostage takers, as Israelis did in Entebbe. But similar methods have been perfected by now, as shown most recently in Colombia, where US forces advised the Colombian government how to deal with another hostage situation.

It always comes with real risk, both to our own troops and to the hostages. And yes, Mr. Obama, we may have to knock some pirates' heads as well.

If Obama fails to take action, watch for Russia to make a move on the Ukraine. China will get more aggressive toward Taiwan. Iran will openly throw sandals at Obama effigies, and the rest of the world will realize --  uh-oh, no more cop on the international beat. North Korea will launch another missile over Japan -- pahdon me, another satellite launch will somehow go astray, heading toward Hawaii.

That means one of two things: either the aggressors start winning, or somebody else has to play the international cop -- the role the United States has carried for sixty years.

So who do you want to play the world's cop?

Russia will happily volunteer do it for Europe, since Europe won't do it for itself. China could squeeze concessions from Japan and South Korea to stop the Norks. And in the Middle East it will either be Israel -- which can protect the Arab countries from nuclear attack by Iran -- or it will be the mad mullahs of Qom. I would guess that the Israelis will bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, with the covert help of Arab Gulf states.

Welcome to the age of American weakness. The whole world, we were told in the last eight years, wanted to bring the US down a notch or two. Well, just be careful what you wish for.

Maybe we should thank the Somali pirates for testing Obama this early in the new administration.

[neverdem]

The link said his escape was witnessed by a UAV. We should have destroyed the lifeboat once he was off of it.

[Star Traveler]

You said — Maybe we should thank the Somali pirates for testing Obama this early in the new administration.

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Talk about “testing” a President, take a look at the testing that Reagan went through on my list that I compiled today. It’s quite informative.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=43#43

I don’t think Obama will match up to Reagan and what he had to go through no matter how long Obama is in office.

[BAW]

With nothing concrete to base this on other than my gut . . . I don’t believe this was the test Biden spoke of during the campaign. What we are watching simply may be an extra.

[Balata]

I wonder is this is what Biden meant when he said Obama was going to be tested?

[antceecee]

I thought the same thing! Where are our highly trained experts? Perhaps they have been told to stand down and do NOTHING?????
What the hell are we doing... handing our enemies a hammer to pound us with?????

[gleeaikin]

I hear another group of pirates with Dutch hostages they have been holding for a while are rushing to join their friends.

[Star Traveler]

You said — I wonder is this is what Biden meant when he said Obama was going to be tested?

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No way! at all...

You gotta look at that list I compiled and you would see this is no test at all...

See post #2

[antceecee]

This is the pre-test. Sort of like the practice test you take before you take the SAT’s.
Just putting it into the ONE’s realm of understanding.
Wonder if he failed that one and the SAT and got into Harvard based on race.

[Islaminaction]

Why don’t 4 snipers just fire at once and kill all the pirates? Maybe Obama does not want to hurt the poor Islamic terrorists.

[antceecee]

You really need to get the message....”We are not at war with Islam”.... I’m sure you just forgot... silly you!

[Star Traveler]

Hey, I did the PSAT... :-)

did pretty good actually... [that was long before all the scores started going downhill... ]

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[antceecee]

; ~ )

[Islaminaction]

My bad, I never learn from those that know everything.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Hillary.

[AmericanArchConservative]

I’m not surprised at the policy underachievement by “team zer0bama” so far...not even disappointed - I knew to expect this kind of moronic appeasement and inaction.

I’m just terribly concerned for the future security of my Republic and my fellow (non-Obamanation) citizens. None of those in charge are competent to the task.

ner0bama is already fiddling, waiting for America to burn to the ground.

A.A.C.

[pillut48]

Flashforward to 2008

Say when??

[antceecee]

Of course the ONE is busy with affairs d'etat as well:

[Balata]

I said that with tongue-in-cheek. I don’t think Biden’s IQ is above room temperature.

[antceecee]

You are just an underserved constituent. Maybe you are eligible for a bailout!

[Star Traveler]

I “captioned” that one in another thread; let’s see if I can remember...

Obama says, “Why don’t we rent ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ to see if we can get some ideas about how to handle this crisis!”

LOL...