Posted on 05/14/2013 11:46:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Libya, a post that has been vacant since insurgents attacked the diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
With little discussion, the panel on a voice vote approved Deborah Kay Jones, a career diplomat who has served in Kuwait, Argentina, Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the committee, praised Jones and spoke of the imperative of filling the job amid increasing lawlessness in Libya. On Monday, a deadly car bomb exploded near a hospital in Benghazi and officials gave conflicting numbers on the death toll. …
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You’re not sounding sexist, you’re right.
The Arab world cannot be enlightened as long as they are in the deep darkness they profess. Further the purpose isn't to enlighten any, that's if anything at all, a front....it's all about using them in the grander scheme...and the Arabs know it.
I am fully convinced there is nothing “the people” can do about the Global Push and the monetary stage they are playing on.
We can, at best, only get drips and drabs of their plays and usually only after the fact.....there is no Press in the USA that seeks to report on the International events as they are, because they don't know nor can they discover.
Islam was founded roughly 1,400 years ago. If we look at Christendom at 1,400 years Joan of Arc was being burned alive by the Church for sorcery and chattel slavery was practiced in much of the West. Christianity evolved and Islam must evolve if it is to survive.
sending a woman ambassador to Libya is stupidity
Islam must evolve if it is to survive....
I see no evidence that there is a desire to do that...nor do I anticipate so.
And I in no way compare Islamic History even remotely comparable to Christian History. ...’Churchianity’ is another story altogether.
Did they also include a Star Trek red-shirt uniform for the poor sap?
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