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Disgrace in BenghaziAnd a dying superpower’s blundering response.
National Review ^ | 9-14-12 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/15/2012 6:55:33 AM PDT by radioone

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To: radioone
What comes around, goes around. Time to slam Barack Hussein Obama, the current Commander in Chief, with the same "jokes" the Left hurled at President Bush.


21 posted on 09/15/2012 8:27:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I have a new title for BHO: “Miss Leader”.

Several meanings, all true.


22 posted on 09/15/2012 9:17:25 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I have a new title for BHO: “Miss Leader”.

Several meanings, all true.


23 posted on 09/15/2012 9:25:33 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Gaffer

You say “pessimism” I say realism. Here’s the one thing I read that I haven’t seen posted here on FR:
“Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, said some years ago that America risked being seen as harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. At the Benghazi consulate, the looters stole “sensitive” papers revealing the names of Libyans who’ve cooperated with the United States. Oh, well. As the president would say, obviously our hearts are with you.”

We have posted here, again before anyone else, that we’re not sure whose side Zero is on.

The point is that we’re running out of allies, of nations that trust us to do the right thing. America is close to being alone. That’s not a tendency on our parts to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view. It’s a fact and as the man said, facts are stubborn things.

In 2012, Eurabia, Israel and all of the others facing determined, murderous muslim religious fanatics, they all look at us—at the things we do and fail to do—and they wonder whose side we’re on.


24 posted on 09/15/2012 9:25:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Gaffer

If we do not get our economy healthy again, in a very short period of time, we will be a dying nation!!


25 posted on 09/15/2012 9:48:20 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: radioone

I don’t know who you think you are linking too but I got blocked content, slow loading and something about online arrest records.


26 posted on 09/15/2012 10:11:17 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Take two Aspirin and call me in November - Obama for Hindmost.)
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To: LaserJock

“...Jefferson and others may have been right that republics may at best be temporary things...”

Plato nailed it almost 2000 years before Jefferson. I reccommend everyone read Plato’s Republic. The book provides a lot of thoughtful insights into the “lives” of governments.


27 posted on 09/15/2012 10:19:39 AM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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I do not accept the “dying superpower” connotation here.

Nor do I, unless, DumBO gets a second term. But, what is needing to be said is that we are going to have to take the same ground again.

28 posted on 09/15/2012 10:36:26 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: depressed in 06

Agreed. It seems it takes absolute incompetence and near utter despair to shock the moral masses of this country. Let’s hope they still can be shocked into action.


29 posted on 09/15/2012 10:43:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: radioone

Discouraging but typically well-written and insightful article by Steyn - and includes one little gem that we should all adopt in the future: he refers to the slime in the MSM as the “court eunuchs”.

I’ll be using that one in the future.


30 posted on 09/15/2012 11:00:40 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Gaffer

Our country is only as powerful as its leader and right now every raghead Muzzie on earth knows Obastard is a paper tiger.


31 posted on 09/15/2012 3:13:52 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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