My Daily Kona

The more I hear about Obungler and Benghazi, the more pissed I get.   This is the first time that I can recall an American President sacrificing Americans for political expediency....Bastard

     

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
I’m having the strangest sense of deja vu over the last eighteen months or so, and the attacks on two diplomatic missions in the Middle East over the last 24 hours has only intensified it.  Once again we have an American government that either tacitly or actively undermined an ally in the region in favor of supposedly democratic Islamist radicals, and once again we have an American government that gets taken by surprise when the government that results either fails to protect our embassies and consulates or arguably participated in an attack on them. Once again, the response to those attacks have been more mea culpa than mighty, and once again the weakness of the response puts our other diplomatic missions at risk.
It’s looking a lot like 1979 all over again.
In that year, President Jimmy Carter abandoned a key regional ally, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, who was no one’s idea of a nice guy.  But we didn’t need Pahlavi to be a nice guy; we needed him to stand up against the Soviet Union.  The CIA had squelched an earlier democratization movement in the late 1950s to maintain the monarchy and its influence in Iran, and apparently some in the US government thought Ruhollah Khomeini would bring that democratization to fruition in 1979.  The Shah had to flee after his American allies withdrew their support, and Khomeini imposed a theocracy with a 12th-century mindset on what had formerly been one of the most liberalized Muslim nations in the region.  When Pahlavi came to the US for medical treatment a few months later, a demonstration of “students” overran the American embassy in Tehran and took dozens of diplomatic personnel hostage, holding them for 444 days.
Eighteen months ago, we abandoned a key ally in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak, who likewise was no one’s idea of a nice guy.  But he had kept the Pax Americana in the Middle East for three decades, even when his predecessor Anwar Sadat got assassinated by Islamist radicals for doing so.  Once again, we had an American government encourage the “democracy” movement run by radical Islamists in chasing our ally out of power.  Once again, we seem surprised when the radical Islamists put radical Islamists in power.  And once again we have “students” assaulting our embassy in the capital, this time Cairo, without so much as an apology from the radical Islamist government now running the nation.
The trend is even worse in Libya.  Not only did our consulate get attacked, but four of our diplomatic personnel were murdered, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, who went to the consulate to rescue his staff:

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday.
They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob guns and rocket propelled grenades.
The three Libyan officials who confirmed the deaths were deputy interior minister for eastern Libya Wanis al-Sharaf; Benghazi security chief Abdel-Basit Haroun; and Benghazi city council and security official Ahmed Bousinia.

Mubarak looked like a saint next to Moammar Qaddafi, and few mourned his fall from power.  The outcome is still more in doubt in Libya than in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood have seized control of everything.  But Qaddafi had at least been somewhat more cooperative since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and the West’s military attack on Qaddafi that caused his fall — led by the US initially — sent a big message on the futility of cooperation with the US and the West to all of the other governments in the region.
This outcome from the so-called “Arab Spring” was obvious almost from the start, and certainly from the moment we tossed Mubarak to the wolves.  We’d lived through it before.  The Obama administration failed to learn from the past, and so we get to repeat it.

I am really pissed   I had to think about this...how to frame it without spewing a bunch of invectives on the keyboard, I try to maintain a PG site since my kid likes to see what I post.   I saw on the news that our embassy's  in Egypt and Libya was sacked........they burned the American flag and tried to run up the Jihad flag.  They killed our ambassador in Libya...and Obama sends an apology to the 7th century degenerates because he was afraid to hurt their feeling?    Rage don't begun to cover how I feel.  We are humiliated on the world front by the same people that were our allies before Obama and crew favored a regime change and took out Mubarak that was a staunch ally of the United States and Israel.
   Embassies are the sacred soil of the country that has its flag on it.  the laws of that country are the laws in the embassy.  The host country is supposed to guarantee the safety and security of the embassy, this is a bedrock of international law.  With our embassies getting sacked by the mob. it is a piece of the United States that has been invaded.  This should be a concern to the present administration, but I guess that they are used to pissing on our national sovereignty since they refuse to stop the illegals from crossing our border and have ceded huge sections of our border to the drug cartels.
      The Arab spring that Obama has favored has basically put the Muslum Brotherhood in charge of these countries.  Forst off, he supported having mubarak leave in favor of the radicals...then he does an end run around the U.S. Constitution to support the Libyans in throwing off Quadaffy Duck.  These same people that Obama supported killed our Ambassador and 3 other Americans.  And what does he do....Issue an Apology....Am I missing something here...?  Americans are killed but we have to apologize...?   This also happened on 9-11...think that was an accident...?  I heard from some of the news cast that the people were chanting..."Obama...we are all Usama"  think this was an accident....?  a sudden uprising...?  This was planned to humiliate us and with Obama in the white house they knew that he has no spine...He is afraid of offending the muslims so he lets them do what ever the hell they want and he issues apologies...?   Like I said...Rage don't even cover the depths of how I feel right now.
    And  top it off despite the crisis going on....what is his priority...A campaign stop in Las Vagas so he can raise more money to get his sorry pussy ass reelected.   Like I said...I am pissed.   he goes to Egypt to do a "reset" of our policies to the Muslims....he also told NASA that their prime duty is to tell Muslims how good they are with math and science.

    
* Latin for "CAUSE FOR WAR"