George Rebane
[This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 September 2012.]
The events of this week continue to highlight the long held conclusion that we have an amateur in the White House. As more becomes known about the attacks on sovereign US territories in Cairo and Benghazi, we are discovering the utter ineptitude of this administration as it overlooked visible evidence, and ignored prudent preparations against the likely 9/11 assaults by radical Muslim organizations in countries with unstable and/or embryonic Islamic governments.
The murders of our ambassador to Libya and members of his staff were not the consequence of spontaneous riots by Muslims infuriated by an insulting video supposedly produced in America. Our long notorious lamestream media has done its usual diligent cover-up of the relevant events that led to this year’s 9/11 attacks. The posting of the video was a convenient but unnecessary trigger that covered the planned assault by a hundred-plus, well-armed company of Islamic terrorists. Seldom do spontaneous demonstrators show up with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns, and carry out their work with the active co-operation of the local constabulary.
But what all this calls attention to is what has not been going on within this administration and its conduct of foreign policy. Besides ignoring strengthening terrorist attacks against western diplomats in north Africa and the mid-east, our President has demonstrated to our Muslim enemies that the United States is disengaging from that part of the world, and discounting the advances of expansionist Islam.
One can argue that this is just because Obama is busy getting re-elected, and doesn’t want us to focus on either his domestic or foreign policy records. But, if so, then this kind of policy is inviting its predictable responses from our enemies that now range from Pakistan to Tunisia. Why must we learn from Australian news sources that “Libya’s new draft constitution starts with the declaration that “Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia)”…”. And that last March the WW2 graves of allied soldiers buried near Benghazi were desecrated by Islamists. That near the same city in June militants fired rocket propelled grenades at a convoy carrying the British ambassador, and that a bomb exploded just outside the US consulate that is now in ruins.
It goes on, but as recently as two weeks ago Libya’s interior minister stated that “heavily armed Islamists posed a serious threat to Libya’s security.” And these were just the publicly available warnings that things were coming to a boil in north Africa. It is difficult to conceive of what more could Obama’s national security mavens and foreign policy advisors demand before they would tell the President to prepare for action. But then we recall that Obama has missed almost 2 out of 3 of his security briefings during the last 18 months. And these events may now demonstrate that national security has not been a high priority of our President’s foreign policy.
Time does not permit a more complete recounting of his economic policy disasters, and the cynically named Affordable Care Act that at last accounting will not save the average family the advertized $2,100 a year in healthcare costs, but instead add on $2,500 and counting to a program that will devastate the healthcare industry in all of its dimensions – professional services, pharmaceutical advances, and development of new medical technologies. The bottom line of it all is that everyone will have a healthcare policy, but the shrinking available healthcare will become highly rationed.
The amateurish conduct of this ideology dominated administration is documented by best-selling author Edward Klein in a volume, coincidentally titled, The Amateur. This book was on the NYT best seller list for weeks, yet no lamestream outlet would interview him. In it Klein “reveals a callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president with messianic dreams of grandeur supported by a cast of true believers, all of them united by leftist policies and an amateurish understanding of executive leadership.”
Among his most telling and now timely conclusions, Klein states that “Obama has taken a more personal role in making foreign policy than any president since Richard Nixon – with disastrous results.”
My name is Rebane, and I expand on this and related themes in my Union columns and on georgerebane.com where the transcript of this commentary with related links is posted, and where these events are debated extensively. However these views are not necessarily shared by KVMR. Thank you for listening.
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