Posted on 09/18/2012 6:35:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: US expects ‘full cooperation’ in protection of diplomats By Jonathan Easley - 09/18/12 07:28 PM ET President Obama on Tuesday said he expects “full cooperation” from the “Muslim world” in protecting US diplomats from protests in the Middle East.
“The message we have to send, I think, to the Muslim world is, we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe,” Obama said in an interview with late night talk show host David Letterman.
Last week, protesters stormed the US Embassy in Egypt and burned a US flag in response to a crude anti-Muslim movie trailer. The film is also being blamed for a terrorist attack on the US Embassy in Libya, which left four Americans dead, including the US ambassador to Libya.
“In this part of the region, as they emerge, into a new form of government, part of what they’re going to have to do is to recognize that democracy is not just casting a ballot, it’s respecting freedom of speech and tolerating people with different points of view,” Obama continued, according to pool reports. “And it means that you’ve got to make sure that you never have any excuses for the kind of violence against innocents we saw last week, and that’s a message that I’ve sent very clearly to the leaders of various countries, and we expect their full cooperation, because that’s the only way the international order works.”
Republicans and Democrats have expressed outrage over images of protesters tearing down the U.S. flag at the Cairo embassy and over President Mohamed Morsi's weak response. White House spokesman Jay Carney last week said Obama spoke with Morsi and was “very clear” that “our mutual obligations include the protection of diplomats.”
“Our first job is obviously to make sure that we’re reinforcing security at these embassies, that we’re fully investigating what happened and bringing these murderers to justice; that’s our number one priority,” Obama told Letterman. “But the broader issue here, is there’s a lot of change that’s taking place in the middle east and we as Americans always stand on the side of democracy, we want people to have opportunity to determine their own fates, their own destinies.”
Echoing a message sent by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, Obama said the US had nothing to do with the production of the controversial video. On Tuesday he called the video “offensive,” but said that’s “never an excuse for violence.”
Unless we are prepared to back up our words with “a big stick”, our words are worthless in the eyes of Islam. Our fearless leader refuses to understand this concept (or doesn’t care). He shows a weakness that doesn’t truly reflect America’s values or resolve.
Once again the “smartest guy to ever sit in the office†(extreme sarcasm) proves his naivety and utter stupidity.
“”that’s our number one priority””
NOT another number one priority!!! That number one priority list is getting pretty doggone long!!! Has he been able to scratch anything off that list as accomplished since he started it? I do wish I’d kept a list of those NUMBER ONE priorities!
Apparently Bammy now has permission from his Muslim Brotherhood friends to talk a little tough for the American electorate. You go get em there, Missy O.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
Embassies are just a news story.
Do ya’ll see where I'm going?
They are attacking the USA by proxy. They attack by proxy because they are COWARDS.
Come to my shore muzzie!
Here you go: from the media research center
http://www.mrc.org/node/38728
Closing the barn door after the horse got out.
Youre a little late Obama, why don’t you just attend another fundraiser, something you are good at.
>> Republicans and Democrats have expressed outrage over images of protesters tearing down the U.S. flag
I’m outraged at US Officials denigrating the 1st Amendment.
These muzzies know our government is weak, they know our government will roll over like yellow dogs as our embassies in foreign countries are attacked.
You know what else i KNOW?
They are COWARDS who fear the citizens of the USA.
That’ll tell em..........
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I'd like to leave the tellin' up to me
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9mm meet muzzie, 2nd ammendment, meet disbelivers
oh hhahahhaha...that will straighten them out..in othere words he doesnt have time to mess with details..too busy..
I’m sure the diplomats feel much safer now, especially the gay ones.
Obama doesn’t speak to us from the Oval office, he speaks to us and the world from a late night entertainment program.
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