Bolton and Others Blast Obama‘s ’Absorb a Terrorist Attack’ Quip

The Blaze ^ | 22 September 2010 | Jonathan M Siedl

[combat_boots]

Bob Woodward’s new book Obama’s Wars includes a new revelation about the president’s outlook on domestic terrorism — and some aren’t too happy about it.

As the Washington Post reports today, the president sat down with Woodward in July and discussed his views on another terrorist attack in the U.S.:

Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said: “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”

That quote isn’t sitting well with some, including former UN Ambassador John Bolton. Appearing on “Fox and Friends” this morning, Bolton blasted the president for the statement and said the comment proves Obama may not be fit to be commander-in-chief:

[Freddd]

Yep, WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

[combat_boots]

Pam Geller today:

“Obama’s Response to Imminent Terror Threat? Bring it On”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/09/obamas-response-to-imminent-terror-threat-bring-it-on.html

[huldah1776]

I thought that at first, too, after reading just the heading but this - "But the left is pushing this idea that we can safely “absorb” many new 9/11′s with an eye towards getting us to “accept” the greater bargain they fatuously offer — peace, and a general wind-down of post-9/11 security “overreactions” like the FBI tracking Muslims suspected of terrorist ties. " Means a SLOW SURRENDER!

[combat_boots]

“Slow surrender”
In a word, Yes.

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One of my postings: Current events point to MacArthur’s strategy of island/target skipping and the “We Were Soldiers” battle to take the fight to the enemy on the part of Islam.

“The forty year theory.”
A post by Combat_Boots

Ibn Khaldun is famous in the world of studying Middle Eastern history as the author of “The Introduction,” (Al Muqaddimah). In this work, he outlines a cyclical theory of history, which comprises four phases:

1) Raw rise to power from a clan or nomadic group
2) Refinement of the reins of power
3) Apogee
4) Decadence and decline

The clannishness or “Asabiyyah” of a group progresses through “level(s) of civilization…(and is) strongest in the nomadic phase. Once the rise and fall occurs, “another more compelling Asabiyyah may take its place” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah).

The volumes contained in the actual history that “The Introduction” precedes are not only long, but also varied and expansive. In a nutshell, Ibn Khaldun ties time in terms of specific generations to the physical space those generations occupy. For example, the idea of a social contract is explained, as is a description of the tension between the power of the rural versus the city. “Ibn Khaldun conceived both a central social conflict (”town” versus “desert”) as well as a theory (using the concept of a “generation”) of the necessary loss of power of city conquerors coming from the desert” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah).

The length of each of the four power phases listed above is approximately one generation, or 40 years. That being said, we are witnessing waves of varying strength in the global conflict between Islam and the Western World that has existed since the breakout of Islamic military conquest in 711. Significant events in Western-Islamic tension have continued unabated. While these dates are not exactly 40 years apart, they nonetheless suggest that the conflict has never ceased, but, has simply permeated ever more deeply into the ethos of the peoples involved—beyond military capabilities to the citizenry. To wit, as evidence, please consider these dates:

1450s – Vlad Dracula fights the Ottoman Turks
1492 – Moors leave Spain @ Granada
1529 – 1st Siege of Vienna
1530 – Little War in Hungary
1565 – Siege of Malta
1571 – Battle of Lepanto
1590 – Treaty of Istanbul (generally with Persia, but including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia)
1593-1606 – The Long War
(Note: the Hapsburg/Venetian/Russian forces capture a number of previously held countries in the 16 and 1700s)
1683 – 2nd failed siege of Vienna
1687 – Second Battle of Mohacs
1699 – Treaty of Karowitz
1716-1718 – Battle of Petrovaradin or Battle of Peterwardein
1730 – Rebellion of Patrona Halil and end of the ‘Tulip Period’
1739 – Treaty of Belgrade
1798 – Napoleonic expedition in Egypt
1807 (and following) Tanzimat period of modernization
1813 – Serbian Uprising
1821 – Greek War of Independence
1853 – Crimean War (includes the actual Charge of the Light Brigade)
1867 –Formation of Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Ausgleich or Compromise of 1867,
1877 – Russo-Turkish War 1878 – Treaty of San Stefano
1913 – First Balkan War
1914 – World War I & collapse of the Ottoman Empire
1937– Rise of Nazism, creation of the Islamic Corps under the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
1948 – War against Israel
1967 – Six Day War
1983 – Murders of US Marines in Beirut
2001 – 9/11

The Spice Routes founded the circumvention of the Middle Eastern trade routes as assuredly as the oil routes have led to the same area. The market for trade goods has been and will continue to be the locus of control. It isn’t that the Crusades of 1095-1261 ended; they merely crossed over religious bounds to market control and, now, to recognition of the cultural clash.

Also see: “The Gunpowder Empires” http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/2805/gunpow.htm

Reference: http://www.museo-on.com/go/museoon/home/db/exhibitions/_page_id_977.xhtml

[chessplayer]

It`s treason to say this country won`t be utterly destroyed by a terrorist attack? I don`t get it. If he had said this country can`t survive another terrorist attack,,,now that would have been music to bin-Ladens ears.

[huldah1776]

I’m going to have to study that little war in Hungary. I’m half Hungarian.

[combat_boots]

cool.

Frantzie’s forebears fought at Lepanto.

I know there are others with deep historical roots on FR.

I should have linked up all my references. Maybe that’s a todo.

[chilltherats]

You meant “Shame! WOW!”, right? Kidding, I know what you meant, but it is indeed shameful.

I’d like to see what zero would do if his precious azz was threatened by an “absorbable” terrorist attack, lol! That pansy would run for the nearest rathole he could find and leave the sife and kiddies in the dust.

Bolton is right. Of course zero’s not fit to be CiC. He’s not fit to kiss the azz of one average taxpayer or to lick the ground one American soldier walks on.

[Frantzie]

Beretta’s armbuster (rifle) barrels were one of the keys to winning at Lepanto. The other was Christian slaves on the Islamic (ottomon) ships rebelling and killing the muslim crews.

[pghoilman]

We could absorb a terrorist attack. In fact, it would be a crisis you can be sure we wouldn’t let go to waste”

[NCC-1701]

“...Whose side is he on?...”

It’s obvious, isn’t it?

[absalom01]

I fear that we will all pay a terrible price before this insouciant egomaniac’s first, and only, term expires.

[mojitojoe]

He’s a moron. He’s only there for appeasement and the perks. Vacation gal has probably threatened to kick his skinny a$$ if he doesn’t make sure she keeps her chushy lifestyle for the full 8 years. I despise these lowlifes.

We be movin’ on up now and we be lovin’ it.

[King Moonracer]

we absorbed it and we are stronger.

What an ignorant, GD monster he is. I wonder how many deaths we can absorb under his healthcare bill?

[Chode]

and 0bama takes another one in the...........HA ha!!!

[Quickgun]

It was his choice of words. His statement leads one to believe that he doesn’t really care if we are attacked. Saying that it won’t “utterly destroy us” sounds different to me than “We can absorb one, or we’ll just soak it up” And I don’t believe he cares...

[angcat]

As long as Hussein and Wookie perish in the attack then I shall try to absorb it myself. How's that.

[DejaJude]

Hmmm, sounds like a “bring it on” moment. Didn't Bush get hammered for that?

[DejaJude]

That’s just what I thought! It’s “bring in on”.

[WestSylvanian]

So, we’re supposed to be able to absorb a dirty bomb or a biological attack? Widespread anthrax attack or a release of smallpox? This is downtown New York or Los Angeles? This guy is a disaster.