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Pay No Attention to the Burning Flags, Stormed Consulates, and Dead Americans . . .
National Review Online ^ | September 14, 2012 2:09 P.M. | By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/15/2012 8:57:47 AM PDT by drewh

One of the ways of understanding the strange nonchalant response of the administration to prior warnings of trouble in the Arab Spring countries, and its contextualization of the violence on the anniversary of 9/11, is its belief that it is somehow separated from the object of the violence.

Raging crowds and Islamic wrath could not possibly be connected to the enlightened Obama administration given the three years of laborious Muslim outreach and the long-ago departure of George Bush.

So we are to think away all those burning flags, stormed consulates, and dead Americans, and instead remember that the violence “is a response,” a sort of cry of the heart against a couple of America-residing video makers — and has nothing much to do with any anger at well-meaning Americans per se.

Apparently no one in charge seems to grasp that this latest video pretext is simply yet another tool, in a long line of many, for premodern Islamists to manipulate and galvanize their fury against the United States, whose success and power obsess them no end — no matter what we do or who happens to be in the White House, soaring Cairo speech and “leading from behind” or not.

for example, Jay Carney’s latest and perhaps most embarrassing explication yet:

"this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims"

Note to Mr. Carney: Radical Islamists really do not care whether “we” have judged some crackpot video “reprehensible and disgusting.” They have more important aims than distinguishing the Obama administration or its policies from the moronic Terry Jones.

If Jay Carney has any say at all in U.S. policy, then we are in real trouble.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911iivdh; carterisobama; coughlin; emptychair; emptysuit; obamaiscarter; oic; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 09/15/2012 8:57:52 AM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

What did they say about bush and the iraq war?


2 posted on 09/15/2012 9:01:17 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: drewh
The problem with islam is one cannot practice fairness nor practice restraint. The doubters will learn perhaps, one day.
3 posted on 09/15/2012 9:05:41 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: drewh
That is why they burned Obama in effigy.
4 posted on 09/15/2012 9:09:44 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: drewh

“this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims”


Does he really think that the protestors are sitting around with their I phones/I pads watching You Tube.

If you have ever been to the middle east it is a really sad situation to see how the people live. In many cases our poverty level would be luxury to them.

Think of it this way also. If your better life is the afterlife, then why not take out your “ on earth” anger at anyone who you believe doesn’t see things the way you do.


5 posted on 09/15/2012 9:15:03 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: drewh

In time this will land at Hillary’s feet. A double suicide between Obama and HRC. Under her watch, all her stuff fell out that she over which she is solely responsible. IF, an effeminate diplomatic approach toward tea, sympathy and wreckless security was her idea, she has blood on her hands.

If she rather was carrying out only Obama’s orders, she failed to cover herself royally. They are complicit without a doubt.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 9:15:46 AM PDT by RitaOK
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To: no-to-illegals

The horrific thing about this is that we have a *minimum* of another four months of this administration to live with.


7 posted on 09/15/2012 9:16:02 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: drewh

If the administration believes what Carney said, Romney has to make the point: Obama is so lacking in understanding that he actually believes this destruction all over the globe to be simply the result of a video. In any case, the destruction and overt hostility indicate a total lack of respect for the US and its leadership.


8 posted on 09/15/2012 9:17:41 AM PDT by djpg
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To: drewh

A current and most informative series of videos that details the integration of the UNs OIC, thru the Muslim Brotherhood and its intimate link with Al Qaeda and the immediate, current events of Islamic Jihad going on are those by Maj. S. Coughlin at: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19087.xml?cat_id=210

THere is a 10 yr plan in operation, at its midpoint, scheduled to end in 2015. It is necessary that everyone know about it. Al Qaedas move to small raids and individual Jihad are detailed, as is the action of Maj. Hasan leading up to the events going on now. The role of abrogation of Koranic scriptures is central to understanding the Islamic Jihad going on now and where it is supposed to lead. Coughllin documents the Al Qaeda demand that the Muslim Brotherhood move from Meccan interpretations of how to proceed with Jihad, and move to Al Qaeda use of vastly more aggressive methods detailed in the Medina portions of the Koran. The difference is outlined in detail.

The discreditation of the US First Amendment is under attack from the UNs 57 Muslim State OIC on down through the Muslim Brotherhoods representation in the current Executive Branch of the US Govt....eg Abedin in the US State Dept.
Coughlin details the interrelationships of all major Islamic organizations in the US.

The videos are the clearest, most complete and analytical presentations to date on the Islamic agenda and integrative activities up to today, and Coughlin also details his clear method of predicting what is going to be done next. He details how and why he has been correct for a long, long time. It is because Islam does it by the book.


9 posted on 09/15/2012 9:19:45 AM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: drewh

Meh. Isn’t there some football on? This is the reality TV I was looking for...I mean this hold no candle to Cajun Pawn Stars...

/dripping, venomous sarcasm.

WTFU America!


10 posted on 09/15/2012 9:24:07 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: drewh

“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”2
Majid Khadduri

from The Quranic Concept of War; Parameters; US Army War College; LTC Joseph C. Myers...

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/Articles/06winter/win-ess.htm

Our own Sociopath of State, POSOTUS and their propagandists using PSYOPS against us to shut down speech.

RESIGN Rodham
RESIGN Hussein

Treason


11 posted on 09/15/2012 9:26:18 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: marktwain
agreement, horrific it is. Should it become more than four months ... horrific will not define what is likely to become the norm.

May have to at that point place a RIP America sign in the yard, for all the good that would do.

12 posted on 09/15/2012 9:26:39 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: RitaOK

Yes, while this is most of TOTUS Slowbama’s job, it’s ALL of Secretary of Appeasement Clinton’s job, and she’s failed utterly at it.


13 posted on 09/15/2012 9:27:55 AM PDT by MCH
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To: drewh

Let’s also not forget that our beloved McCain was out front pushing to liberate these scumbags too! Still is pushing to help Al Queda in Syria as we speak!


14 posted on 09/15/2012 9:28:04 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Some choice we had in 2008, huh?


15 posted on 09/15/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: drewh
"The eastern world,

It is exploding,

Violence flaring,

bullets loading,"

Some things never change.

16 posted on 09/15/2012 9:30:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The United States of America apologizing to knuckledragging, cavedwelling Neandethals. Whodda thunk!)
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To: drewh

I remember right before 9/11 happened, the headline news was Gary Condit’s Intern sex affair, and Britney Spears looking ridiculous with that snake over her shoulders.


17 posted on 09/15/2012 9:31:16 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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To: drewh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo


18 posted on 09/15/2012 9:31:55 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: drewh
Thanks to dead for this reality:

Carter is Obama. Obama is Carter.

Both are Traitor Losers, who hate America!

Jimmy Carter's presidency was doomed by the Iranian hostage crisis after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Islamist extremists following the Iranian revolution.

A year after the 52 Americans were taken hostage, Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released just as President Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter, was sworn in.

1979

2012


As Clint noted, the Empty Chair improved by codetoad:

It is past time to fire Barack and his empty chair and have both of them hit the road back to Chicago!

Thanks to RushIsMyTeddyBear and Focault's Pendulum and for finding these morphing graphic art realities

19 posted on 09/15/2012 9:38:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: AmericanSamurai

CARNEY is nothing but a PAID LIAR whose main job is to HIDE THE DECLINE. We are in big trouble when the FOREIGNER shares the same foreign policy as CODE PINK.


20 posted on 09/15/2012 9:39:14 AM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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