This current situation over the murder of Chris Stephens and three other Americans in Benghazi is yet another demonstration of the riddle: How can you tell if Obama is lying? Answer: Are his lips moving?
Apparently everybody knew the attack on the Benghazi consulate was a terorist act within 24 hours of its execution. Ambassador Stephens mentioned in a journal days before that he felt his life was in danger. Some news reports stated that the Libyan and US governments had received threats of some kind from terrorists warning of the attack shortly before it happened.
But now, according the current US regime, it was all because of that little -- and stupid -- movie trailer. Sometimes they still say that -- the Comrade told the UN Assembly that the other day. Although surely by now they know better, and have claimed that they know it was the act of terrorists.
So what's with the White House? Bare-faced lies or their heads are so far up their butts they can't see past their tonsils?
What do you think?
See, according to the Comrade, and other anti-Americans, including a lot of Libertarians, curiously enough, everything that goes wrong for America overseas is "Our chickens coming home to roost," in the words of the eminent Rev. Jeremiah Wright. See, it's all our fault.
Like the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center was this evil plot that George Bush dreamed up. For some reason.
I've mentioned before that I'm a US Civil War buff. I mean, I've studied it very closely, and not the battles so much (although pretty extensively), but also opinion and activities on the home fronts.
Very interesting. Lincoln was elected Nov. 7, 1860. He wasn't sworn into office until March, 1861 -- I mean, communications and everything pretty much sucked at the time. So President Buchanan, who preceded Lincoln, remained in office as most of the slave states seceded from the Union in the months between November, 1860, and March, 1861. Buchanan protested secession and questioned its legality, but he didn't do much. Buchanan didn't want to take any major actions about secession, taking the approach that Lincoln would have to handle it. Buchanan didn't want to start something, then dump it on Lincoln.
So in the South -- the newly-formed Confederate States of America -- rebels began seizing and sacking federal forts, post offices, customs houses, armories, etc. etc. And this before Lincoln was iunaugurated in March. Buchanan didn't do much of anything.
So the Confederates ranted on, full of hellfire and bluster about their own glory and how much they were obliged to sustain slavery and the planters' gentry status as some kind of wise and benevolent ruling class. They had every right, they claimed -- oddly, since they claimed that right under the US Constitution, which they'd just thrown off. And they were all full of beans about how wonderful things would be for them, since, of course, wasn't it obvious? "The Yankees won't fight."
Yeah, the Yankees were just a-shaking in their boots in the face of Confederate might and manliness.
Well, we all know how that turned out. The Yankees did fight. The Yankees beat the living tar out of the CSA, stripped the southern states of any status whatsoever under the US Consitution as well as much of their wealth, and kept them under martial law for years after the war, or the combat, ended. The Yankees did fight, eventually, and only about a month after Lincoln was inaugurted.
And an all out war might possibly have been deferred or somehow negotiated if the Yankees had presented some kind of forthright and stubborn resolve from the start of secession, rather than allowing the rebels to cling to the consolation of "The Yankees won't fight."
Right now, former Ambassador John Bolton, along with many, many others in government who are largely political conservatives, are emphasizing that America is best presented to the rest of the world as an unmoving rock, strong, resolved, and backed up by an unimaginable military might.
The Comrade and his cohorts, on the other hand, opt for a "kinder, gentler" USA, that wouldn't harm a flea, and when under assault, apologizes for provoking the attack. Leading the muslim terrorists and others around the world to believe that "The Yankees won't fight."
Well, good going, Comrade. Your humble and apologetic posture only invites attack. And you know how it goes... If you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect to get different results.... That's one definition of insanity, no?
So the White House becomes an asylum, and not the kind Thomas Paine was talking about.
Save the Republic.
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