Posted on 10/23/2012 1:36:04 PM PDT by neverdem
Background music of appeasement gave both Obama and Carter murdered diplomats.
His name was Adolph "Spike" Dubs. He was Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to Afghanistan. Where, on February 14, 1979, Ambassador Dubs was kidnapped and murdered by a pro-Communist Afghan faction known as the Setami Milli. The victim of what might be called the Jimmy Carter Apology Tour -- which preceded the Obama Apology Tour by over 30 years.
Ambassador Dubs' death is being recalled these days in a most interesting fashion.
Following the murder in Benghazi of Barack Obama's Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, along with two Navy Seals and Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, the Stevens murder is being frequently noted, as here in the New York Times, as "the first time since 1979 that an American ambassador had died in a violent assault."
Incredibly, after the death of Ambassador Stevens and the others, the President said flatly in last night's debate: "The Libyans stand with us." Wow. If that is true, why are the Ambassador, two Navy Seals and a Foreign Service officer dead at the hands of Libyans? The very fact that Ambassador Stevens wrote in his journal that he feared for his life clearly indicated the blanket assessment that "the Libyans stand with us" was simply not true.
There has been zero reference to Ambassador Dubs, the President whom he served -- not to mention the foreign policy that resulted in his death...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
So I guess Hussein was right when he said "the Libyans stand with us".
It seems like every time a democrat is elected POTUS, people are killed.
Good piece, thank you.
Don’t forget about William F Buckley.
Buckley was a station chief, not an ambassador
Cleo Noel, Jr. was the assassinated US ambassador to Sudan, executed in 1973 on the orders of Yassir Arafat
Yet 20 years later, Arafat was the most frequent overnight guest in the Clinton WH
Go figure
Buckley was CIA using State Department as cover.
Wasn’t there an ambassador murdered in Khartoum? I remember one killed by a sniper there.
Cleo A. Noel, Jr. -- March 2, 1973 -- killed when Black September seized the Saudi embassy. Johnson and Nixon saw one ambassador killed in their years in office. Ford two, Carter one. Two others died in plane crashes.
Three people were killed in an attack on an embassy this year, but no ambassador died. There were also deaths in attacks on our embassy in Tunis. It sounds like it was the attackers in the mobs who died, but I don't know.
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