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The reign of imagination-Did US Ambassador understand why he, his fellow Americans were murdered?
Jerusalem Post ^ | 9-18-12 | CAROLINE B. GLICK

Posted on 09/18/2012 5:29:56 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 09/18/2012 5:30:00 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 09/18/2012 5:31:16 AM PDT by SJackson (none of this suggests there are hostile feelings for the US in Egypt, Victoria Nuland, State Dept)
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Note also that the agitators did not select the Ann Barnhardt video with the Koran commentary and bacon bookmarks; nor did they select any of the material Pam Geller could have supplied; nor Robert Spencer’s. They went with the most stupid specimen they could find. That’s no accident any more than the date when the tumult occurred.


3 posted on 09/18/2012 5:48:22 AM PDT by HomeAtLast
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BTTT


4 posted on 09/18/2012 5:50:50 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (We the People are coming!!)
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The reign of imagination-Did US Ambassador understand why he, his fellow Americans were murdered?

?????????????

I guess he is still contemplating it.


5 posted on 09/18/2012 5:52:50 AM PDT by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.")
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The day before the attacks, al-Qaida released a video of Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called for his co-religionists to attack the US in retribution for the killing – in June – of his second in command Abu Al Yahya al-Libi by a US drone in Pakistan.

Zawahiri specifically asked for the strongest act of retribution to be carried out in Libya.

As for the attack in Libya, in an online posting the night before he was killed, US Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith warned of the impending strike. Smith wrote, “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”

This is a must read by Caroline Glick. I have three observations:
1. The flag of our Presidency - our Commander in Chief - has been captured by the enemy;
2. Martin Dempsey is a damned fool, and a tyrant wannabe; and
3. This election is for all the marbles.

6 posted on 09/18/2012 5:55:11 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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I really doubt if most Americans REALLY understand Islam and that goes for our “leaders” in BOTH political parties.

Hillary is probably bright enough to understand it, but her sympathies have always lain with these thugs going back to her days as an activist lawyer.

ONCE AGAIN: Islam is NOT a “religion” in the sense that most westerners understand that term. It is a socio-political economic system with a religious base.

Unlike most purely theologically based belief systems, it has been around for 1500 yearrs or so and has NOT essentially altered its ideas. It is still the same system which enslaved or murdered Millions of people in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Based on prior performance and modern behavior, it will NEVER change.

The ONLY way to deal with people who believe in the sword is with a bigger sword - well sharpened.

Successful statesmen deal with reality as it is, not as they wish it to be.


7 posted on 09/18/2012 6:11:27 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://www.yoututbe.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28)
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how could this happen?

Not encouraging words to be coming from the Secretary of State?

8 posted on 09/18/2012 6:16:44 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Take two Aspirin and call me in November - Obama for Hindmost.)
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Yep he understood just like Nick Berg understood right before they killed him.

Both understood right before they were killed they were idiots for trusting terrorist and even more of an idiot for trusting the people in this country that were collaborating with terrorist.

9 posted on 09/18/2012 6:18:44 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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There is no evidence that our diversity is our strength yet every lefty spouts this mantra ad nauseam.


10 posted on 09/18/2012 6:23:29 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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Liberalism is a mental disorder, so I doubt he understood. More likely, he thought the crowd was worked up about Todd Akin and the GOP war on women.


11 posted on 09/18/2012 6:23:47 AM PDT by rhinohunter (DraftWalkerNow)
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The Administration is desperately covering up the failure of its Mideast policy.


12 posted on 09/18/2012 6:34:30 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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Don’t worry,..liberal women will finally clue in about their loss of freedom as the harem doors are closed behind them,...and will still equivocate how they are in control....


13 posted on 09/18/2012 6:46:53 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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Obama and his advisers agree that jihadist Islam is the predominant force in the Muslim world. But in their imaginary world, jihadist Islam is a good thing for America.

See my tag.

14 posted on 09/18/2012 6:58:56 AM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Cvengr
Half the left wing skanks would love being locked up in a room full of other left wing skanks.

Easy pickings.

They would view it as their own harem.

15 posted on 09/18/2012 7:06:42 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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[Article] Dempsey’s belief that a third-rate riff on Muhammad supported by a marginal figure in Florida is the cause of the terrorist attacks on US embassies is not simply shocking. It is devastating.

The idea that the Chairman of the JCS is so naive is itself naive. Rather, he is being directed to do and say certain things. Since Sec'y Clinton, at State, is saying and doing the same things, then therefore the source of these mouthings is the man whom they both obey.

It means that the senior officer in the US military is of the opinion that the party to blame for the assaults on US government installations overseas was an American pastor. To prevent the recurrence of such incidents, freedom of speech must be constrained.

This is Obama-ism. Deflect ... deflect ... deflect ... lie ... blame and repress. This is the essence of the Obama way, and it has nothing to do with pastors or videos or even "the Chicago Way" -- it's totalitarianism and government by an army of lies.

16 posted on 09/18/2012 9:44:14 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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There is no evidence that our diversity is our strength yet every lefty spouts this mantra ad nauseam.

The Left's dream of power is that their ideological juju will be so persuasive, so overweeningly overweening, that people(s) with widely divergent interests, backgrounds, and understandings of life will rush together to support the "overarching" Leftist objective of more, and still more, and still more again, secular power -- hell, let's say it, it's ideologically-based Empire, with the advantage of numbers, i.e. of supporting population base, over the old European empires supported by at best one nationality each.

The Russian Bolsheviks ate and slept that propaganda for generations -- and yet, when Gorbachev left office, the whole enterprise, the Russian and Soviet Empire, split apart into previously-subordinate ethnicities, some of them Russian (Ukraine, Byelorussia aka Belarus). It doesn't work, and yet libs and Progs continue to push it here in the States, with better historical support inasmuch as the U.S. is a compacted, not a national or ethnic, society.

17 posted on 09/18/2012 10:00:34 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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The way the Left employs the term "diversity," is actually an attack on the diversity of Mankind. It serves Marxist purpose; it aids those who would immerse all Mankind in a world-wide tyranny; it undermines personal freedom; it serves no altruistic purpose, whatsoever.

See To Put "Diversity" In Context.

People need to recognize the fact that we are not "debating" with honorable people. We are defending all we hold dear against the Leftist quacks in Academia, and the indoctrinated robots they have been launching into society. We need to stop treating their lunacy as intellectually respectable points of view.

When you encounter some one who is intellectually naked; have the common sense of the little boy in the Andersen fable, to say so.

William Flax

18 posted on 09/18/2012 10:16:58 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: SJackson
These graphs are the most unsettling. Although anyone who has been around or in the US Army in the last 10 years or so will hardly be surprised at the embrace of PC toxins by the highest ranking personnel:

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thinks that the party responsible for the Muslim violence against the US on the anniversary of September 11 is a kook in Florida who enjoys saying nasty things about Islam.

The day after the murderous assault on the US Consulate in Benghazi, and in the face of an ongoing mob assault on the US Embassy in Cairo, and on US embassies in Yemen and Tunis, Dempsey called Pastor Terry Jones in Florida and asked him to withdraw his support for a film that depicts Muhammad in a negative fashion.

Dempsey’s spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told Reuters, “In a brief call, Gen. Dempsey expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause. He asked Mr. Jones to consider withdrawing his support for the film.”

Dempsey’s belief that a third-rate riff on Muhammad supported by a marginal figure in Florida is the cause of the terrorist attacks on US embassies is not simply shocking. It is devastating.

It means that the senior officer in the US military is of the opinion that the party to blame for the assaults on US government installations overseas was an American pastor. To prevent the recurrence of such incidents, freedom of speech must be constrained.

And Dempsey is not the only senior US military commander who harbors this delusion.

A similar response was voiced by Gen. George Casey, the US Army chief of staff, in the wake of the massacre of US forces at Ft. Hood in November 2009 by Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan. Hassan, who had been in contact with al-Qaida commander Anwar al-Awlaki and described himself as a “soldier of Islam,” was clearly acting out of Islamic jihadist motivations when he shot his fellow soldiers.

And yet, responding to the attack, Casey said that worse than the massacre itself – that is more sacred than the lives of his own soldiers – was the notion that “our diversity” should fall casualty to Hassan’s murderous attack. In his words, “Our diversity not only in our army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

What these nauseating comments by these tin soldier/milicrat officers represent is that after two generations Robert Strange McNamara’s expressed goal of changing the officer corps from combat leaders to ‘managerialists’ has succeeded. George Casey who is surely a zero was the son of a hero who died in heroic circumstances. His son's actions disgrace the service of the father. Martin Dempsey is a classic example of the ventriloquist dummy who says what his handlers tell him to say. He has absorbed the Progressive mind set so well that he automatically spews out the coded words of ‘we have to be reasonable to keep the Muslims engaged in a strategic dialog’. Note the safety of the men and unfortunately now women commanded by these two uniformed hollow men are not the first and last concern. Indeed it appears they are not a concern at all. How could the lives and well being of mere American soldiers be as important as ‘diversity’ and ‘politically correct dialog’.
The hope I nourish is that the Islamists are really stupid versions of the Nazis and they will overplay their hand in some incredibly atrocious way that will force the Progressives to act like patriots at least for long enough to incinerate the Islamacists.

19 posted on 09/18/2012 6:58:46 PM PDT by robowombat
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Obama is responsible for the take over the ME by Al Qadea and friends.

He is the one who bombed Gaddafi — without congressional approval. He is the one who ordered a “kinetic military operation” at a cost of $100,000 a week of tax payer dollars making the world save for Sharia.

Nice work Democrats! The world is a much more dangerous place thanks to the misleadership of this reprehensible and disgusting president.


20 posted on 09/18/2012 7:59:18 PM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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