Posted on 09/15/2012 8:57:47 AM PDT by drewh
One of the ways of understanding the strange nonchalant response of the administration to prior warnings of trouble in the Arab Spring countries, and its contextualization of the violence on the anniversary of 9/11, is its belief that it is somehow separated from the object of the violence.
Raging crowds and Islamic wrath could not possibly be connected to the enlightened Obama administration given the three years of laborious Muslim outreach and the long-ago departure of George Bush.
So we are to think away all those burning flags, stormed consulates, and dead Americans, and instead remember that the violence “is a response,” a sort of cry of the heart against a couple of America-residing video makers — and has nothing much to do with any anger at well-meaning Americans per se.
Apparently no one in charge seems to grasp that this latest video pretext is simply yet another tool, in a long line of many, for premodern Islamists to manipulate and galvanize their fury against the United States, whose success and power obsess them no end — no matter what we do or who happens to be in the White House, soaring Cairo speech and “leading from behind” or not.
for example, Jay Carney’s latest and perhaps most embarrassing explication yet:
"this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims"
Note to Mr. Carney: Radical Islamists really do not care whether “we” have judged some crackpot video “reprehensible and disgusting.” They have more important aims than distinguishing the Obama administration or its policies from the moronic Terry Jones.
If Jay Carney has any say at all in U.S. policy, then we are in real trouble.
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Our mediots have ignored the grim reality of what is happening across Africa!
Obama also made MUSLIM OUTREACH the MAIN thing at NASA!!!!! NASA!!!! And the IDIOT in charge DID THAT!!
AMEN!! Hillary AND Obama do have BLOOD on their hands. What a GRUESOME TWOSOME!
“couple of America-residing video makers”
Oh, on some of the MSM, the video makers are labeled “right wing Christians”, the very antithesis of Obama Democrats. The Islamists are being told, “Look guys, these are our enemies too.”
Precisely. This is about respect, or lack thereof, and we can't repeat it often enough.
The 11 long years between major uprisings speaks highly of the respect that was apparently restored when our soldiers summarily sacked one of their strong horses, Saddam Hussein. What gained more respect from our enemy however, was the fact we sent in ground troops, willing to shed blood to exact consequences on our enemy.
Though we cloaked our entry into Iraq in defensive and altruistic terms, thankfully our enemies, both Arab and Persian, saw everything as punitive and retaliatory. To what should be our shame, only our enemy's persecution complex caused respect to be gained.
This is why drone killings gain us no respect, just the opposite, killing from afar makes us look weak in the jihadis' eyes.
Under Obama/Hillary we have adopted the Nicholas Berg foreign policy, the belief that our good feelings toward the enemy will somehow prevent them from wanting to behead us. If we don't change we'll suffer the same fate as Nicholas Berg.
We now need unabashed, unapologetic punitive and retaliatory measures.
Wake up America. They don’t like us. They are not like us and they don’t want to be like us
Yes, the troglodytes want us back in the Stone age and for them to be able to rape and pillage at will. Islam is Satan’s religion
We need to bring back those hardcore American and Filipino troops who dealt with mohammedans by killing them and dousing them in pig’s fat.
God bless America/Pork/booze and the West.
Obama spent an entire week bragging to the whole world that he killed Osama,
next thing ya know Egyptians are burning our embassy shouting "We all all Osama".
Go watch the movie instead.
Some choice we have now, eh?
"this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims"
Poor Jay Carney. Only a few months ago one of the golden boys of the MSM circus, he's now just another very-used, sh*t-stained sh*t-shoveler, and the only job he'll be able to get after leaving the White Hut is checking behind moronic spellchecker programs for blunders and gross delirium, for 15 cents a word.
This is Barky's deal. This is Islam -- and he calls the shots on policy toward the raggies, very definitely. He owns this Pottery Barn, the whole damn thing.
Beastie must be livid -- tremblingly livid.
I'm sure she's asked her pig-footed consort by now (no, no, not Huma -- the other one! 8D ), whether they guy they used to know who knew a guy who knew a guy, is still around, still in business, and still knows a guy who knows Joe Pesci uhh, knows a guy.
The blood IS on her hands and if she had any honor or integrity - which we know she doesn't - she would have resigned by now.
Lots of shark attack stories too.
Need a photoshop freeper to put an empty chair next to that 3:00 A.M. phone call waiting to be answered.
Exactly....you don’t see them pulling out a can of film and lighting it on fire to show their anger at a movie.
bttt
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