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Barack Obama Tiptoes Around the Threat of Terrorism
US News & World Report ^ | October 11, 2012 | By Mary Kate Cary

Posted on 10/11/2012 5:15:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

"I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world," President Barack Obama said in 2009, "one based on mutual interest and mutual respect." He went on to list the tensions between America and the Muslim world he sought to relieve—yet at the latest meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, he skipped meeting with any of his fellow world leaders for a taping of The View. It's hard to believe those snubbed leaders, who included Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, think the president is actually relieving any tensions in the Middle East.

President Obama doesn't put much time into working the phones or flying to funerals or inviting world leaders for weekends at Camp David, unlike some of his predecessors. He puts more value on the words in a speech—because to him, soaring rhetoric is the end, not the means to an end.

The administration's tiptoeing around the very real threat of terrorism—part of its "new beginning" with the Muslim world—sends a signal of weakness that has had alarming consequences: dozens of embassies attacked, American flags burned, and American personnel evacuated, while al Qaeda gains weapons and territory in Africa. When Israel rightly voiced fears about Iran getting the nuclear bomb, the president dismissed it as "noise" he'd prefer to "block out."

He's blocking it out, alright. The president has only attended a third of his daily intelligence briefings this year; a National Security Council spokesman said that's because he's "among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet." Really.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ambassadorstevens; benghazi; benghaziattack; benghazigate; election2012; failure; libya; stevens; terrorism; usembassy

1 posted on 10/11/2012 5:15:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
After autopengate, who would be surprised?

UPDATE: But Obama did send a personal letter to rapper Heavy D’s family when he passed away.

2 posted on 10/11/2012 5:21:55 AM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...bowing will get you “up on your toes” in more ways than one....


3 posted on 10/11/2012 5:31:13 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
bowing will get you “up on your toes” in more ways than one....

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4 posted on 10/11/2012 5:36:15 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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5 posted on 10/11/2012 5:45:00 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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6 posted on 10/11/2012 5:48:00 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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To: Oldeconomybuyer; SJackson; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; SunkenCiv; blam; Fred Nerks; onyx; bd476; ...
Thanks for the post and the ping.....passing it on!

Here we have a rationale for refusing to call the Benghazi attack a Terror act and simply implied it was the result of mob action.

7 posted on 10/11/2012 11:10:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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Very telling line from the article:

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White House adviser Valerie Jarrett has full-time Secret Service protection, yet there were no Marines protecting our ambassador in Benghazi that night.

8 posted on 10/11/2012 11:28:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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9 posted on 10/11/2012 11:32:10 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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The bestselling “Unholy Alliance” is now in paperback! Former Leftist radical David Horowitz blows the lid off the dangerous liaison between U.S. liberals and Islamic radicals. With America’s battle against the disastrous force of terrorism at hand, Horowitz takes us behind the curtain of the unholy alliance between liberals and the enemy - a force with malevolent intentions, and one that Americans can no longer ignore.


10 posted on 10/11/2012 11:34:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
" President Barack Obama said in 2009, "one based on mutual interest and mutual respect."
What a swell guy!
11 posted on 10/11/2012 12:18:54 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Ernest.


12 posted on 10/11/2012 5:42:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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