More Evidence of America’s Wrongheaded Approach to Jihad

Center for Security Policy ^ | 22 May 2013 | Christopher Holton

[LSUfan]

It has been over 9 months since Jihadist terrorists attacked a US diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya and killed 4 Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.

Make no mistake, an attack on a diplomatic facility is an act of war. And Christopher Stevens was the first US ambassador killed in the line of duty in over 30 years.

Despite this, America finds itself mired in a scandal surrounding this incident and the Obama administration’s shameful handling of it. Meanwhile, there has been no response from America to this act of war. That transmits profound weakness to the world, more importantly to the Middle East and, most vitally, to our Jihadist enemies.

This week, as if to add insult to injury, we have learned that US FBI officials have identified five suspects in the attack.

This report is troubling because it further demonstrates that the US is firmly back into a “September 10th” posture of dealing with Jihadist terrorism as a law enforcement issue and not warfare.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In practical terms, the next Republican president should unleash SOCOM, and send them out to eliminate the terrorist instigators and facilitators. Make it look like an accident.

When some Imam chimes up, calling for murderous jihad, it should just guarantee that he accidentally falls through the outhouse hole.

[econjack]

...America finds itself mired in a scandal surrounding this incident and the Obama administration’s shameful handling of it.

I disagree. Americans are not mired in the scandal, Obama is. He has been inept at every turn, from this travesty to virtually any economic policy he has touched. He is in way over his head and, unfortunately, is surrounded by advisers who are just as bad. He was just as bad in his first term, so I wondered how he got reelected. Then, when that poll worker in Cincinnati admitted to voting for him six times in the last election, I finally understood how he got a second term. Personally, I think that lady should be locked up and throw the key away, because once people learn that voting in US elections is a sham, this Republic is done.

[Forty-Niner]

...Laying us open to further attacks. I suspect that the battleground won’t be Libya or Iraq/Iran, Afghanistan, or some other Mideast hell hole. As the Boston Marathon shows the next battleground will be on our own streets from firmly entrenched terrorist cells all across the nation.

What’s broken is our immigration policy that allows jihadists legal entry and shuts a blind eye to illegal entry on our southern border.

Immigration reform? Shut down the border and start deporting people from both of the above groups.

[silverleaf]

maybe that will be a “come to Jesus” event for our own State Department diplomats and staff, seeing as how their heroes barry and hillary and John effin Kerry wrote off Ambassador Stevens as a speed bump, his assassination as something that no longer makes any difference, and the terrorist attack as something that happened so long ago it’s time to just move on

[RipSawyer]

“once people learn that voting in US elections is a sham, this Republic is done.”
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The Republic is gone, the question is whether it might ever be resurrected. The Republic was doomed once people were taught to call it a Democracy and only a small percentage realized there is a difference.

[caligatrux]

Make no mistake, an attack on a diplomatic facility is an act of war. And Christopher Stevens was the first US ambassador killed in the line of duty in over 30 years.

... there has been no response from America to this act of war. That transmits profound weakness to the world, more importantly to the Middle East and, most vitally, to our Jihadist enemies.

Remember Mogadishu? American soldiers dragged naked through the streets and we did nothing -- NOTHING -- in response.

Our enemies responded not with flowers and hugs, but by plotting and executing 9/11/01.