Shooting Blanks

Here's your Arab Spring. Embassies under attack in Libya and Egypt. One of our ambassadors murdered. We did everything possible to make these people like us and this only made things worse. We elected a president that these people loved knowing we were sacrificing our security for their needs. The president did not disappoint with his cut and run military strategy, his worldwide apology tour, outlawing torture even though enhanced interrogation is not torture but some could call it torture so it had to go, changing "the war on terrorism" to "overseas contingency operation" along with a plethora of other new age nonsense. Things only get worse when you become weak, strength yields respect, weakness invites attack. No US president we have ever had seems to get it and this current one is the most clueless of the bunch. You see, we are seen as cancer to these people, all of us are seen this way, the liberal and the conservative alike. They hate all of us equally and want us all dead, we are not human beings to them, we are a disease, we are the great Satan. Sure, they hate conservatives more as they see this as aggressive cancer while the liberal is more of a benign cancer but they want to kill both and it is when the cancer becomes benign or weak that they think they can attack it with the most vigor. What will our response be? I am sure, like the economy must wait, this matter must wait until after the election so whatever action we take can not harm the re-election chances of the president. Oh sure, there will be a speech or two to make him look good but nothing else because people who don't know what they are doing use words as weapons but he does not seem to realize no one is listening and he has been shooting blanks for a long time now. cjpost