Monday, August 5, 2013
World Wide Terror Threat
George Bush Jr, George Bush Senior, Reagan, even Clinton would have responded by beefing up security with extra Marines. Obama tucks tail and runs away. I doubt if most of these embassies even re-open. After all, in his mind they are probably symbols of American Imperialism. JMHO.
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One good troll post deserves another. It's about time someone realized that parking a shitload of Marines in front of every embassy is NOT a deterrent. Reagan "beefed up" security and a bunch of Marines got killed for his grandiose gesture. Sooner or later, you need to make choices. If we respond to every threat by endlessly shipping troops all over the world, then we can be lead by our nose by every rag bag group that want's to make a name for themselves by goading us into a response. It's sort of like internet trolling.
ReplyDeleteThe downside of course is that eventually, a group is going to be serious and is going to launch and attack. Unlike the president's you mentioned, Obama has waged an unprecedented war with drones and has ignored the concept of sovereignty to kill everyone we think is a terrorist threat. While other presidents have "beefed up" security as a show of force that has stopped nothing, Obama has taken direct action. Action, I must ad, that I am not fully in agreement with.
That's two paragraphs. Was that enough response to satisfy the troll in you?
Max,
DeleteIn a sense, closing up embassies is a form of running, isn't it? For what it's worth, I'm not sure beefing up security is realistic or practical.
I just take this in in the context of the second 9/11, though. Still too many unanswered questions, and it's ow eleven months.
An aspect of this that I find questionable is releasing (sorry, 'leaking') that the credibility of the threat was an email from Zawahiri; why would that bit of information be made public? It would only serve to benefit the administration, no one else. Somewhat similar to the stuxnet matter, another of those false-scandal scandals.
Jean
Jean
"In a sense, closing up embassies is a form of running, isn't it? "
DeleteDo you ever wonder how many people have needlessly died or gotten a severe ass kicking for that attitude? I think an alternate view is that when you close an embassy, temporarily, you take away something the enemy wants. It's no game when people die, but part of war is denying the enemy what they want. No radical army is going to take an embassy of ours and hold it. What they want is some grandstanding bullshit. They can stomp around on the street and claim victory for making us run, and Obama can hit them with a drone like he has endlessly in Pakistan to the point that Zawahiri is having to have someone else step up to fight his battles.
as to whether it's false scandal or not, meh. I kinda don't really care. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, does it make a whole lot of difference? We showed the radical world how serious we were by our escapades in Afghanistan and Iraq. It stopped nothing. Every administration does shit like this to the point that it's no longer something I get worked up about it. Conservatives will squawk now, liberals will do so later when Republicans inevitably do it.
This episode is a smoke cloud for Benghazi.
ReplyDeleteWe dont want another Benghazi do we? So we close embassies in all these shit holes. Don't get distracted by the inconvienent fact that Benghazi is 400 miles away from Tripoli.
Benghazi? That's working for conservatives in a Charlie Sheen "Winning" kind of way. If you are looking for smokescreen, how bout the fact that just as Snowden got some asylum, we have a story about how the NSA saved us on this one?
ReplyDeletePart and Parcel. We need the NSA to protect us from "chatter". They need chatter to distract us from the fact they are arming Al Quaeda "rebels" as the truth is exploding all around them.
ReplyDeleteSomeone comes up with this little gem to accomplish both. Now the statists in both parties are telling us how lucky we are to have such a benevolent government.
Heres how you know its legit:
News report: Congressman so and so says this chatter is super serious. Pre 9/11 serious.
...And in other news, A-Rod will play tonight!
" Now the statists in both parties are telling us how lucky we are to have such a benevolent government."
DeleteBingo!