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NYTimes: Libya Attack Discussion is the Republican’s Fault?
12 Oct 2012 4:21 pm Warner Todd Huston

Surprising to no one, The New York Times agrees with the absurd spin from team Obama that the only reason anyone is talking about the Obama administration’s week worth of lies about the attacks on our embassy in Libya — attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, one of them our own ambassador — is because the Republicans keep bringing it all up in the national discussion.
The Times has decided to ignore the recent hearings about what the Obama administration knew and when it knew it. There’s just …

The Iraqi Question
11 Oct 2012 10:31 am Matt Vespa

With the supposed conclusion in hostilities in Iraq, Frederick Kagan, of the American Enterprise Institute, and Kimberly Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War, have outlined that we risk losing Iraq and how our early departure has not only seen an influx of sectarian violence, but an incremental rise in activity from Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AIQ). This is part of a series of columns the couple have written concerning American policy in the region. However, with the Middle East and much of North Africa erupting in a fury …

Obama’s Decision To Put US Forces On The Ground In Jordan Is Lunacy
11 Oct 2012 8:31 am John Hawkins

Did you know that Barack Obama has made the utterly bizarre decision to put American troops on the ground in Jordan
The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers in Brussels, Panetta said the U.S. has been working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordan deal with refugees pouring …

State Department To Benghazi Security: “Hey, Stop Asking For Help”
9 Oct 2012 8:33 am William Teach

Smart power
(CBS News) One of the men who was in charge of security for U.S. diplomats in Libya says he feared for their safety long before the attack last month on the consulate in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed in the attacks on the Libyan consulate, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The concerned military security officer and Army green beret, Lt. Colonel Andrew Wood, will tell his story to Congress on Wednesday.
Wood first set foot in Libya last February to lead an elite, 16-man counterterrorism team. From the moment he arrived, he …

Romney: “You Know Obama’s A Complete SCOAMF On Libya, Right?”
5 Oct 2012 9:06 am William Teach

OK, he didn’t call Obama a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but, dog whistle, you know?
(Fox News) Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a “tragic failure” of security and that the Obama admiration’s explanations have been “misleading.”
“Let me note my condolences and sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives,” Romney told Fox News in a joint interview with …

MSNBC Continues to Push ‘Nothing to See Here’ Narrative About Libya Debacle
3 Oct 2012 4:34 pm Matt Vespa

In the October 1 broadcast of NewsNation with Tamron Hall, a segment featuring former State Department Middle East officer Joel Rubin focused on how the Romney campaign was “trying to put all of these things in a big pot hoping that something picks up steam” concerning President Obama’s foreign policy. Yep, it’s still the same game with some in the media – which is to trivialize what can hurt the president to prevent it from becoming news.
Rubin said of Romney and his team that they were throwing a lot of …

Team Obama Tries New Spin On Benghazi Attacks
1 Oct 2012 9:37 am William Teach

Now they’re trying to say that they always considered it a terror attack
(Daily Caller) White House officials are now insisting that President Barack Obama has always treated the Sept. 11 strike in Benghazi, Libya as a terrorist attack by jihadis.
“Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the president called it an act of terror the day after it happened,” President Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod told CNN’s Candy Crowley Sept. 30.
The new pitch is the administration’s third effort to spin the shocking Sept. 11 attack, threatening to …

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on Terror
27 Sep 2012 1:41 pm Warner Todd Huston

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on TerrorAs the turmoil in the Middle East roils and President Obama’s foreign policy scheme faces severe pressure, a recent survey of likely voters finds that pessimism about our success in the War on Terror “continues to grow” with 45 percent saying they think the U.S. is winning that war, a 17-point drop from its one-time high of 62 percent in February 2009.
Rasmussen found that 45 percent think the U.S. is winning the war, 21 percent think the terrorists are winning, and …

Surprise! Poll Finds Most Think US-Muslim Relations Worse Under Obama
26 Sep 2012 7:25 am William Teach

Remember this gem from Cairo?
“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.”
And this one from 2007?
“If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world, they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country,” he continued. “And I may be a Christian, but I understand their point of view.”
How’s that working out?
(Daily Caller) A plurality …

To Obama, Mid-East Violence and Murders: “Bumps in the Road”, Israel: “Noise”
24 Sep 2012 2:49 pm Michael Fell

In comments made during a CBS ’60 Minutes’ interview, Barack Obama described violent attacks on embassies in the Middle East and the murder of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, as “bumps in the road”.
When asked if recent events in the Middle East had changed his outlook on supporting the Arab Spring, Obama responded: “Well, I’d said even at the time that this is going to be a rocky path. The question presumes that somehow we could have stopped this wave of change. I think it was absolutely the …

“Bumps In Road” Continue To Roil As Muslims Protest
24 Sep 2012 9:08 am William Teach

The Salafist protests have even reached Athens
(Reuters) As delegates from around the world gathered in New York for a U.N. General Assembly where the clash between free speech and blasphemy is bound to be raised, U.S. flags were once again burning in parts of the Muslim world.
Iranian students chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” outside the French embassy in Tehran in protest at the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, days after widespread protests – some deadly – against a film …

There’s Room for Defense Cuts
22 Sep 2012 9:40 am Brian Garst

Pending sequestration cuts are hanging in the air over DC, with politicians squirming under the prospect of actually putting a limit of any kind on spending. There’s a particular debate raging over the propriety of the spending cuts set to hit defense and what they’ll means for military readiness, with some Republicans – typically the big spenders on defense – starting to balk. I’m no defense expert, but I have a hard time imagining that a nation that spends more than the next 15 biggest spenders on defense – including …

Pathetic: Obama Admin. Airs Ad In Pakistan Condeming “Innocence Of Muslims”
21 Sep 2012 6:57 am William Teach

While Team Obama isn’t willing to air an ad here in the United States apologizing to all the Tea Party members whom he called “Teabaggers”, all the private citizens Team Obama has insulted, the women insulted by million dollar donor Bill Mahr, nor all the Mormons who’ve been denigrated by the Broadway show “The Book Of Mormon”, they’re willing to apologize and distance themselves from a stupid movie made using our 1st Amendment
(Politico) The Obama administration is airing ads on Pakistani television condemning the anti-Islamic film “The Innocence of Muslims,” …

Instead of Watching Embassies Burn Obama Watches Football Last Weekend
18 Sep 2012 4:27 pm Warner Todd Huston

We are told that President Obama watched a lot of football this weekend. I guess it was more fun than attempting to deal with our embassies burning in the Middle East and our soldiers being killed in Afghanistan.
The newsflash is courtesy of Amy Gardner’s twitter feed. Gardner, the White House reporter for the Washington Post, reports that the press gaggle on Air Force One reported that Obama spent his time watching football.

President Obama didn’t watch SNL season opener this weekend; watched a lot of football, per Josh Earnest on AF1 …

Joe Klein Desperate to Change Debate From Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures
17 Sep 2012 7:30 pm Warner Todd Huston

As our embassies burn and our foreign officers are being murdered overseas, TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein is desperate to change the current narrative of Obama’s major failures in the Middle East. So, in his latest piece, Klein wants to go back to talking about Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts healthcare policies.
Who can blame Klein for trying this? After all, from the Obama-loving media’s perspective talking about Mitt Romney’s garbled healthcare positions is a better plan than talking about Obama telling Egypt they aren’t our ally, Obama skipping all his intelligence briefings so …

An Untrustworthy White House
17 Sep 2012 2:16 pm Michael Fell

One person was killed and dozens more were injured when protesters attempted to storm a U.S. outpost in Pakistan. More flag covered coffins will arrive in the U.S. after four American soldiers died over the weekend as a result of ‘insider’ attacks in Afghanistan. There are claims a video shows U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens being dragged through the streets to the delight of a jeering crowd. Sudan rejected an American request to send Marines in to guard the U.S embassy. Hardline Islamist television is openly inciting anti-American violence in …

White House: Mid East Attacks Not Premeditated
16 Sep 2012 4:11 pm Michael Fell

The attack on America’s Benghazi consulate was not premeditated.
It was all about the video.
So said the White House, so said the State Department, so said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice:
“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this …

Say, Why Is The Arab World So Easily Offended?
16 Sep 2012 10:22 am William Teach

The Washington Post’s Fouad Ajami poses this question, and works to answer it, which is rather strange, considering that so many Liberals constantly tell us that it’s not the 1.3 billion plus Muslims who are bat guano violent, just a small minority. Ajami seems to be saying that all are like this, at least in the Middle East.
Modernity requires the willingness to be offended. And as anti-American violence across the Middle East and beyond shows, that willingness is something the Arab world, the heartland of Islam, still lacks.
Time and again …

CNN Hides Facts: Cairo Riots Not About ‘Offensive’ American Movie, But Freedom of Blind Sheik The Goal
14 Sep 2012 1:04 pm Warner Todd Huston

Just before the crowd in Cairo, Egypt erupted in violence against the U.S. embassy there, CNN’s cameras were in the capital interviewing protesters who said that the main purpose for their protest was to have Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (known as the ‘Blind Sheik’) released from a U.S. prison. Yet as soon as the riots began, CNN began to push the false story that the riots were sparked by some low-budget American movie that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad.
The very day before rioters stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo, CNN’s Nic Robertson …

HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens
13 Sep 2012 1:20 pm Warner Todd Huston

Huffington Post contributor Sharmine Narwani took the occasion of the murder of our ambassador to Libya to launch into an anti-American diatribe that culminated in her asking why she is supposed to care about Ambassador Chris Stevens’ death or that of the other two killed with him.
Sharmine Narwani, who is also a correspondent for Al Jezeera and an associate at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, took to her Twitter account on Wednesday after it was reported that Ambassador Stevens was murdered by a rioting Islamist crowd in Benghazi, Libya.

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