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Friday, September 14, 2012

Analysis: Weeks Before U.S. Election, Mideast Gives Obama Perfect Storm


An eruption of violent unrest across the Middle East is confronting President Barack Obama with the most serious challenge yet to his efforts to keep the Arab Spring from morphing into a new wave of anti-Americanism - and he has few good options to prevent it.

Less than two months before the U.S. presidential election, a spate of attacks on embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen poses a huge dilemma for a U.S. leader who took office promising a "new beginning" with the Muslim world but has struggled to manage the transformation that has swept away many of the region's long-ruling dictators.
On top of that, even as he tries to fend off foreign policy criticism from Republican rival Mitt Romney, Obama is grappling with an escalating crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations over Iran's nuclear program and increased bloodshed in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad has defied international calls to step aside.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

he says he had a tough day on 9/13. What about Chris Stevens & the other 3's day?

Anonymous said...

I was watching some footage from the 2008 campaign and Obama was all over how he was an expert in the Muslim culture because he lived amongst it. He understood the religion, the culture, the concerns, the hopes....he just knew it all because he lived amongst it.
Now come on! Supposedly (because anything that comes out of his mouth is debatable) he lived there from 6-10 years of age which hardly makes him an expert.
In between this footage they were showing the violent protests that have erupted due to this "expert" and his policies and stances.

lmclain said...

He is in so far over his head, it ain't funny. He goes to a fund raiser as 20 embassies are under attack? Afghanistan is a failed endeavor, the econonmy is getting WORSE after 4 years of his enlightened leadership, the whole world thinks we are in decline, we print money like its a party at the Fed, and the list is endless. And 45% of voters think he deserves four more years. Four more years of THIS? We won't survive four more years of this....

Anonymous said...

What gets me is a member of our foreign service is dragged through the street, sodomized and brutally murdered and Obama goes off to these fundraisers. Says alot about his upbringing and how he was raised which obviously was like common low class trash. Goes to show you can dress them up with a fine suit but you can not take them out.

This violence has now spread to Austrailia and to 20 other countries. These countries are not going to put up with this and in short order are going to be calling Obama out. Their resources are going to be stretched thin protecting the American Embassies.

Anonymous said...

Joe, people need to stop spreading the lie that Steven was "dragged through the streets and sodomized."

The photo showing the dying Stevens being "dragged" clearly shows it was people trying to help him. They were not shouting. He was supported under his arms. The guy had a cell phone in his mouth. Those nearby were not pouncing on Stevens, they were providing a guarded path to bring him through.

If you will remember, we have seen the horrible pictures of when an enemy drags an American and it is not by supporting them under the arms.

The terrorists who did this are horrible and need to be found and put down. But Stevens was loved by a lot of Lybians. Let's honor his memory by not using him and forgetting what a loved human being he was by people everywhere.

Anonymous said...

Stevens nor none of the Americans were much loved in Libya regardless of the obama/clinton propaganda 10:14. Even the loyalist who previously tolerated Americans hate them now.
This is what they refer to as something like a trophy drag in that culture and you can clearly see in the photos that others are taking pictures and one shows a cell phone shoved right in Stevens face. No Libya is going to risk their own life to help an American. Proof is in how the US hired Libyan security forces scattered when the gunman breeched the wall of the consulate.

Anonymous said...

10:14 The Libyans hate the US and thereby hated STevens who was representative of the US, no matter what you are being fed.
Previously Libya was divided into the Islamists and the loyalists. Quadafi was able to keep the Islamists under control. Libya was a prosperous modern Africian country when he was in power. At the urging of Obama he was overthrown and murdered so the loyalists who previously tolerated Americans have now sided with the Islamists who have always hated Americans. The Obama admin is only attempting to justify their experiment in Libya, a country which due to them is ruined.

Anonymous said...

Come on 10:14
OK He was not dragged through the streets. OK He was not sodomized (although many Americans enjoy the practice, and it is no longer considered a bad act but one of love and enjoyment).

But he was not loved! The Nation was destroyed by NATO forces as was the country of Iraq. We bombed all of their bridges, their power stations, their water treatment facilities, etc. Lybia had one of the most sophisticated water delivery systems in the world!

We are the aggressors, and now our "allies" (al Qaeda) are out of control - just as they are in Afghanistan. The CIA created and funded Al Queda to help maintain control of the poppies. Now several countries are in ruin because of our reckless foreign policies.

Anonymous said...

10:14 This was reported in the Middle Eastern press who have very little reason to lie, unlike the White House who has every reason in the world to sanitize the events that occured.
When weighing conflicting events you have to look at the sources and see who more reasons and motives to lie and base a conclusion off of that instead of taking everything that is said as gospel.

Anonymous said...

10:14, No Stevens was not loved no matter what you think.
Libya has not ever needed the US for anything ever but the US needed and still needs Libya to help combat terrorism.

The US couldn't wait to get rid that "evil dictator." This "evil dictator" who himself did much to combat fundamentists. He learned alot from the Iranian revolution. Lessons such as idle hands are the devils workshop so he created what amounted to many many useless jobs so people had to work to get paid and so they could be kept under surveillance for signs of terrorist activity. He created these jobs out of petrol money and people resented having to work for money in such a rich nation as Libya. They wanted to sit around and listen to the ramblings of the ayatollah's on short wave and plot terrorist acts. Those loyal to this "evil dictator" were rewarded and this was resented.
Then NATO and the US steps in to "help" the dissatisfied who in reality were and are the fundalmentalists who realized finally they could fool the incompetent US government into thinking they wanted a "democracy" and the US fell right into the plan. Now everyone in Libya hates anything to do with America.

Anonymous said...

"But he was not loved! The Nation was destroyed by NATO forces as was the country of Iraq. We bombed all of their bridges, their power stations, their water treatment facilities, etc. Lybia had one of the most sophisticated water delivery systems in the world!"

People are under the impression that Libya was some 3rd world country which was far far far from the truth. The per capita income was higher than the US could ever hope to see as was the literacy rate (90%.) Gucci and Versace and Mercedes Benz were mainstays not anything special. If someone didn't have money it was their own choice. People were paid handsomeely for menial jobs and tasks as long as they didn't fall under the influence of the Islamists.