Posted on 09/14/2012 7:14:23 AM PDT by barryobi
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"The murder of an ambassador in Libya and the attacks on US diplomatic missions in other Arab countries is sure to strengthen the skepticism that more than a few Americans feel toward Muslims and the political changes brought by the Arab revolutions. The deeply held American belief that all you have to do is liberate people from serfdom and dictatorship, and then democracy and a market economy will develop more or less on their own, burned to ash in the trial by fire of Iraq. A fact that academics and historically informed diplomats have always known can now be observed throughout the Arab world: Deeply ingrained cultural attitudes do not change simply because one political regime replaces another. In the long process of building a democratic society, it is not possible to simply skip stages."
TBerliner Zeitung writes
"The attacks on US embassies and consulates in the Arab world can not be justified in any way. If it turns out that al-Qaida is behind the attacks, as some US officials suspect, then they are acts of terrorism committed under the guise of religion. If they turn out to be uncoordinated actions by angry believers, then they are an expression of a frightening ignorance. A crazy individual US citizen has uploaded a movie onto the Internet which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. The US government can not be held responsible for that. But that clearly does not help US President Barack Obama very much. He has to bear the political consequences of the recent events"
"Four years ago, Obama pledged to seek reconciliation with the Muslim world. Now, it is doubtful whether he has succeeded. The US and its European allies now have to ask themselves how much support they still enjoy in the countries of the Arab Spring."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Warm up the big blue airplane for another apology tour.
Iceland, Finland, then a weekend in Belgium ?
NOT TRUE!
You actually have to have a policy to ruin it.
I feel like we’re in the Soviet Union, and the only place to get the truth about our country is from outside.
This is what happens when you put a golfin’ & partyin’ boy into a man’s job.
Eventually, the incompetence catches up - and that’s what we’re seeing now with the Blue-lipped Kenyan Usurper.
Thank God this clown will be out in 4 months.
Correction: The deeply held Democrat and MSM belief that all you have to do is liberate people from serfdom and dictatorship, and then democracy and a market economy will develop more or less on their own, burned to ash ...
You can lead people to freedom, but you can’t make them free.
“He has to bear the political consequences of the recent events”
Wow...don’t tell our presstitutes for Obama that. They are trying to shift the blame for Obama’s obvious foreign policy failure to Mitt Romney! Truly despicable behavior on the part of U.S. media.
That is a brilliant line.
Agree, they’re a bunch of liars here. Even the leftist Independent and De Spiegel give us news/opinions we can mull over and decide for ourselves. Our bunch of liars make it up like we’re all idiots. They forget we have a voice today and it’s getting louder and louder.
Not merely complicit, the Europeans DROVE the NATO policy because they depended on Libyan oil.
Der Spiegel if my memory is correct caters to the Liberals of Hamburg. Wow, if they are against Obama, then something isn’t right.
“anyone with a brain can see Obama is not fit for office”......................... That’s our major problem, the brainless zombies vote. Its not a case of what Obama will do, its a case of what will Obama give me as far as they are concerned. Its not a question of us (USA), its a question of me.
A fact that academics and historically informed diplomats have always known can now be observed throughout the Arab world: Deeply ingrained cultural attitudes do not change simply because one political regime replaces another. In the long process of building a democratic society, it is not possible to simply skip stages."
I don’t know where I heard this,,Savage or Rush but one of them said “ They will always hate us, they have to fear us” This simple sentence should be the the basis for all foreign policy dealing with the Middle East.
I know one stupid comment we’re are probably going to hear pretty soon from the liberals is that the right wing and Romney are behind the attacks. I can see Obama with his staff sitting around a table trying to come up with lies and convoluted stories to spin whatevers the acts of terrorism as being caused by the right. I’m making the prediction because I know there’s no way he will relinquish his power and will lie, cheat,andsteal to keep itwith whatever means necessary even if it means assassinating people to keep their mouths shut. Cant wait to see all the books written by his staff that detail the level of corruption and deception he was involved in after he’s removed from office.
Look, folks, Obama must go, and....the Democrat Party must be the unit that removes him from office and fires Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta. The Dems should march down to the White House today, and demand that Obama resign immediately. And...if he does not resign, then the Dems should immediately began action to impeach him.
The blood of our tortured and murdered public servants drips from Obama’s & Clinton’s inept, anti-American hands!!! The “four” Americans slaughtered because of Obama’s inept weakness and failure to give them protection were worth one hundred times what both Obama & Clinton are worth. May both Obama & Clinton burn and rot in hell for eternity for causing the deaths of these fine, young, patriotic Americans. They both belong in bonding kinship with likes of the Devil himself!!!
And....friends, if the Dems take no action, we should defeat everyone of them at the polls, come November 6, 2012!!! ABO!!!
“A crazy individual US citizen has uploaded a movie onto the Internet which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.”
Yeah, you’d have to be crazy to denigrate a war-mongering pedophile.
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