Posted on 02/10/2011 10:43:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s hard to overstate how bad February 10, 2011, will rank among the worst days of Barack Obama’s administration. Earlier today CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress that Mubarak would announce his departure today. That didn’t happen. Now our intelligence agencies are scrambling to understand what all this means. This catastrophic intelligence failure is the worst since 9/11 (rivaling even the 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate).
Then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in response to a question by Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) that the Muslim Brotherhood was “largely secular,” despite the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood lists as its two “key pillars” the imposition of sharia law and the reestablishment of the global caliphate — in English on the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website. This is the same organization that has as its credo, “Allah is our goal. The Quran is our constitution. The Prophet is our model. Jihad is our way. And dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” A bastion of secularism, apparently. (Brian Fairchild has more of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “largely secular” greatest hits.) Understandably, Clapper’s media flacks are now trying to walk back his statement.
But you can’t blame just the intelligence community for this administration’s worst catastrophe (so far, yikes!). While many were pointing fingers at Panetta and Clapper, this is as much, if not more so, a failure of the State Department. How exactly did our embassy in Cairo not know what Mubarak was going to say? Hasn’t Hosni Mubarak been our closest ally in the Arab world? Didn’t Obama go to Cairo at the beginning of his administration and vow to improve the United States’ diplomacy in the Middle East. What’s the status of that now? Since this crisis began a few weeks ago, this administration has taken virtually every possible position including their open willingness to throw Mubarak under the bus. Is there a reason why any of our allies in the Middle East should trust a single word this administration says?
The short and long-term fallout from this diplomatic breakdown, the State Department’s ineptness, and the intelligence community’s cluelessness may be beyond estimation. Last week Sarah Palin said that Obama got the 3 a.m. phone call and it went to the answering machine. What we learned today is that the 3 a.m. phone call to Obama was met with the message, “This number has been disconnected.”
God help us all, because it could get worse.
Debka file tonight said the Saudi King ripped into his puppet hard about trying to push Mubarak out. The Saudi King, who’s clan are major investors in US TV networks, is close friends with Mubarak.
This whole situation tells me that our enemy, the Muslims that Obama bows down to, are lying to his face and our allies, the Israelis, who know everything that is going on, are not telling Obama anything at all.
In other words, he’s blind, in the dark, with no braille map or even a clue. He’s completely lost. Carter country, here we come.
Bttt.
A Second Lieutenant with a .45 and a compass.
Hmmm. Tricky. Some are sweating in Cairo 2nite.
As president, he doesn't have that option. After he makes a statement, he can't just disappear. Don't know what's going to happen in Egypt, but the media has given up on Obama as a leader. Now, they're just trying to get him re-elected out of blind devotion.
The more books I read about our intelligence agencies the more I see them as being useless.
Yikes!
Why is Washington DC involved in this? And Owebama hasn’t even criticized the “brotherood”. Sadness prevails.
Simple to see that no one knows what they’re doing in Gubment. The world is upside-down. 2 more years.
The Usurper has attempted to practice Taqiyyah on the people who invented it.
Next he’ll try to teach Grandma to suck eggs.
(And somebody should tell him that Taqiyyah only works if the lie is consistent and believable. It doesn’t work if you tell three different lies in the same week.)
Considering just how much they’ve been hamstrung-they pretty much are!
This is what happens when you put a political hack (Leon Panetta) in charge of the CIA. To the Liberals, everything is Political - even national security (yes, that means Janet "Butch" Incompetano and Robert "Gay blade" Gates)
100 DAYS OF BEING A LAUGHINGSTOCK IN PARIS
Paris, France. It is very cool to be a French intel guy. A spectacular meal at a Parisian bistro with $90 entrées and a $200 bottle of Bordeaux? No problem. I’d known this fellow since he got me out of a jam in Sudan years ago. His James Bond days are over, but still, riding a desk for the DGSE — Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (General Directorate for External Security), France’s military intel agency - in Paris has its decided benefits.
One of them is not being infected with Obamamania. “My agency considers him a joke,” he confides. “Every day there is some fresh lunacy that we cannot believe. Mr. Bush would often make us angry. But at this man we just laugh.”
“In truth, it also makes us sad,” he continued. “French resentment towards America is strong, so being able to laugh at your country feels good. But it is such a sad and strange thing to see America - America The Great! - do something so crazy as to elect this ridiculous man.”
“There are many people in America who think he isn’t a legitimate president as he wasn’t born in the US and isn’t a natural citizen. What do you think?” I asked.
He shrugged. “I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had reason to make an inquiry.”
“There are a lot of people convinced he is a traitor who hates America and is actively determined to destroy it. Any opinion on that?”
He didn’t shrug at this. After a long slow sip of wine, he mused, “I would not go that far. Many of his actions, however, are very puzzling because they are so counter-productive regarding America’s best interests. There seems to be a consistent pattern in that direction.”
“What does Sarkozy think of him?”
“Nothing but contempt.”
After a pause he asked, “And Langley?”
“Well, if you thought the war they waged against Bush was intense, it was nothing compared to how they’re going to screw Obama. He has tried to gut them with the ‘torture memo’ release and slashing their budgets. The morale is depressed, sullen, and enraged. You know what a left-wing outfit Langley is. They thought he was their boy and they feel betrayed. All kinds of damaging stuff on him will be appearing via their media friends.”
He nodded. “And in Tel Aviv City?”
He was referring to the huge underground city complex of Langley’s underneath the US Embassy in the Israeli capital. “That’s an interesting question. You know how vast and deep the relationship is there. Langley is making every effort to overcome the total and massive distrust their Israeli colleagues have for Obama, whom they know is selling them down the Jordan River. So far though this effort is in words. The Israelis are waiting to see what Langley does.”
He said nothing. I smiled. “You guys wouldn’t be Langley’s cutout for thwarting BO regarding Israel, would you? I’d never suspect that...”
He continued to say nothing, gave me only a slight smile in return, and poured me another glass of wine. “The Bordeaux is good, yes?” I nodded.
“You know, the French media worships this man the same as yours in the US. All of this ‘100 days’ talk, it is impossibly stupid. Most anyone in the French elite, the business leaders, Sarko’s people, they all know this. They all think this is some crazy joke of the Americans. But it is a very, very dangerous joke. For 100 days your president has been a laughingstock among the tout le monde No one may be laughing 100 days or 10 months from now.”
He leaned forward. “The world can go - how do you say - sideways with this man very quickly. No one he has working for him knows what they are doing - possibly excepting Mrs. Clinton - and he certainly does not. All of us in our little community are worried - us, our friends in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv, and Langley too as you say. It is not like the barbarians at the gates. It is everythere are no gates. The Somalis, Chavez, Iran, Putin, Beijing, the ‘Norks” as you call them, the list is long and it is growing. We are not sure what to do.”
It took me a moment to respond. “The best thing that has happened now is Obama making Langley his enemy. They will be cooperating with you more, be more a part of your worried community. Working together, you can undermine his efforts more effectively, block and maybe even repair the damage.”
It was my turn to lean forward. “Then again, all together you could be more pro-active. The man is a mystery. Nobody can make public his actual birth certificate, or even the particular hospital he was born in, or his college grades, or how he got into Harvard, or how he made editor of the Harvard Law Review and never wrote a single article for it. It goes on and on. He really is a Zero. I think all of you guys should find all of this out and make it known.”
I added, “The quicker the better, before the laughing stops and the real dangers begin.”
“What is that phrase you use?” he asked. “Something to consider?”
I laughed. “Yes, there is much to consider - and much that you can do. I mean, really, if the Soviet Union could be dismantled, so can this presidency.”
It was a beautiful April afternoon in Paris. He walked me back to my hotel. It could be that the times we live in may get even more interesting.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/05/a-laughingstock-in-paris.html
Obama’s worst day [February 10, 2011]
Yeah, now I would have said Jan 20, 2009. The beginning of his nightmare and ours at the same time. Ours because we got him, his because he’s going to be the worst President in history, just above Jimmy Carter and FDR battling it out for second. Jimmuh is still working hard on it, but doesn’t really stand a chance ...
Cut more intelligence spending. That’ll fix it.
It’s totally unexpected that a president whose resume consists of community agitating, running for office and editing a newsletter, and a secretary of state who rode her husband’s coattails into power and position are inept.
It sucks for them, us and our allies that reality is about more than just trashing your political opponents and that fun income redistribution stuff.
His Weakness is our New National Crisis ...
Our Grandchildren will end up paying for this as well
I cannot express adequately my contempt for this manchild.
For Godsake will he please go on Vacation again!
TT
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