Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Libya Update: US Envoy Killed by Islamists
BLOWBACK FROM PRO-ISLAMIST POLICY
An American ambassador was killed by Libyan Islamists--on 9/11. Read more.
[FURTHER UPDATE: OBAMA CALLS ATTACK "OUTRAGEOUS"]
Outrageous?
Will the United States retaliate--or apologize to the killers?
The question is far from rhetorical. In a real sense, the State Department did apologize to the attackers.
WTF? Understand, as President Obama has a habit of saying, that U.S. foreign policy is pro-Islamist. The U.S. and its NATO allies needlessly intervened in Libya--on the side of an Islamist-led uprising that included outright Al Qaeda supporters. The U.S. also emboldened the Islamists--meaning, the Muslim Brotherhood--to overthrow Egypt's peace-preserving, pro-American President Hosni Mubarak, an Arab leader who cooperated closely in the fight against Islamist terrorism. And the U.S. also instigated and inflamed the Syrian uprising; clearly, the strategic objective has been to install a Muslim Brotherhood "Islamic democracy" in Damascus.
No wonder U.S. relations with Russia (driving distance from the Syrian border) and China (struggling with its own Islamist problem) are so poor so many years after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of both the Soviet Union and the international Communist threat. Washington's catastrophic policy of trying to ride the Islamist tiger without being devoured by it--a policy inherited from the cynical British, masters of manipulation--is unfortunately alive and well under the political cover provided by the killing of Bin Laden and the decimation of Al Qaeda, the only Islamist group, apparently, with which the Obama administration is not prepared to diplomatically engage (code for collaboration).
The perfidious, pro-Islamist policy also benefits from the continuing economic crisis--effectively, a managed depression--which understandably distracts the beat-down electorate, especially the vanishing middle class that normally pays more attention to national security issues.
Postscript: President Obama condemned the attack; but he didn't utter the obligatory, empty promise to bring the perpetrators to justice. Libya's governing body, however, issued a statement that both condemned the attack and vowed to track down the killers.
Related: The Craven Response to the Murder of an American Ambassador
# posted by Confidential Reporter@ 8:12 AM links to this post
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More signs of blowback from the Obama administration's backing of radical (rightwing political) Islam--more specifically, the Muslim Brotherhood Click here to read the article by Bill Gertz, one of the best reporters in Washington.
Few Americans realize what's happened. While decimating Al Qaeda with drone and commando strikes, the administration has supported the MB, the Sunni clerical fascist group that (a) spawned Al Qaeda and (b) has shown a remarkable ability to bridge Islam's Sunni-Shiite theological divide in order to advance the global jihadist cause. The decades-old, covert policy of trying to manipulate Islamism that led to Jimmy Carter's betrayal and abandonment of Iran's pro-American Shah and the Carter-Reagan secret war in Afghanistan, and, ultimately, also, to the horrific blowback of 9/11 is no longer a secret. U.S. foreign policy is now overtly pro-Islamist. Incredibly, Islamism and overlapping branches of organized, fundamentalist Islam are basically regarded by the administration as constituting a force, or wave, that is both unstoppable and essentially progressive--in the way that some members of previous generations of Americans and Europeans once viewed fascism and Stalinism as invincible and in sync with history's forward march.
Osama Bin Laden is dead. But Islamism is alive and well and gaining across the Middle East and Central Asia, owing in large measure to the dangerously misguided foreign policy of the United States.
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