Posted on 09/14/2012 1:00:07 PM PDT by PhxRising
US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:
"The murder of an ambassador in Libya and the attacks on US diplomatic missions in other Arab countries is sure to strengthen the skepticism that more than a few Americans feel toward Muslims and the political changes brought by the Arab revolutions. The deeply held American belief that all you have to do is liberate people from serfdom and dictatorship, and then democracy and a market economy will develop more or less on their own, burned to ash in the trial by fire of Iraq. A fact that academics and historically informed diplomats have always known can now be observed throughout the Arab world: Deeply ingrained cultural attitudes do not change simply because one political regime replaces another. In the long process of building a democratic society, it is not possible to simply skip stages."
The left-leaning Berliner Zeitung writes:
"The attacks on US embassies and consulates in the Arab world can not be justified in any way. If it turns out that al-Qaida is behind the attacks, as some US officials suspect, then they are acts of terrorism committed under the guise of religion. If they turn out to be uncoordinated actions by angry believers, then they are an expression of a frightening ignorance. A crazy individual US citizen has uploaded a movie onto the Internet which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. The US government can not be held responsible for that. But that clearly does not help US President Barack Obama very much. He has to bear the political consequences of the recent events by himself."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Now, this German Der Spiegel newspaper article summarizes 7 German newspaper stories critical of Obama's Middle East policies.
So the Middle East and Europe have turned on the Great Uniter. Who is next?
Sad now that to get the truth you have to go to foreign news sources, it’s like living in the Soviet Union.
And his middle finger economics plans ain't working out so well either.
Could this be orcestrated by the Obama Administration of aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus psycho spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue like Obama -- in coordination with the mentally deranged issue of centuries of Islamism's consanguineous marriages; i.e., the jihadists?
Is this the mother of all October surprises where Obama suspends the Constitution?
For the civilized world, "not so much".
What’s next you say. Øbama will do as much damage as he can before being thrown out on his sorry ass.
Assuming 0bama didn't want the ME on fire. Assuming he doesn't have any other cards to play as the flames grow. Assuming the media won't back any play he makes.
The US is in ruins. That was the whole point of his mid-east policy.
President Surges In The Polls. What's going on?
Obama’s Middle East Policy Is in Ruins
And his middle finger economics plans ain’t working out so well either.
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Perhaps Ozero knows he will lose the election, and somehow has decided, with the help of his Muslim Brotherhood buddies, to coordinate “Scortched Earth” actions before he leaves office.
With Pope Benedict scheduled to visit Lebanon, who is to say that all of this is really to put his holiness in danger. Afterall, Ozero hates the Roman Catholic Church.
Hopefully the really vast majority of Americans!
But I wouldn't bet on it.
poll numbers are FAKE
Rasmussen has Romney up by 5% (always uses “likely voters”, and always uses the proper proportion of dems to repubs).
Remember, during 2000 the dems used 12-14% more dems in their polling, and in 2004 the dems used 16-18% in their polling. Some were truly shocked .. they had believed their own FAKE polling data.
Since some of the media are now showing people the ratio of dems to repubs in the polls, the dems have backed off a little.
Remember too .. the dems always LIE .. they mistakenly believe “everybody does it” - which is not true. Rasmussen does not FAKE it or make up his polls - but the dem slaves in the media ALWAYS DO.
I agree, our MSM media is as bad as Pravda was under the Soviet Union. The Obama administration gives them the talking points for the day, and then they coordinate with each other on how to attack Romney.
The MSM continues to talk some random video that had nothing to do with the attacks. The video was used by the terrorists to mislead us, and the MSM has fallen for it.
This was a preplanned act of terrorism to fall on the anniversary of 9/11. From the Independent article, “the attack was in revenge for the killing in a drone strike in Pakistan of Mohammed Hassan Qaed, an al-Qa’ida operative who was from Libya, and timed for the anniversary of the 11 September attacks.”
Over 400 people attacked our consulate in Benghazi and used rocket-propelled grenades. RPGs aren’t used by just spontaneous demonstrators; they are the weapon of choice for terrorists.
Middle East, Far East, Near East, Europe, Pacific Rim.....
Every policy, if there really is one, is a joke.
We've pissed off our enemies, and allies .
Great work there Jarrett, Axelrod. Your spokesdork is lost.
He hates the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
But he seems to love Satan.
What's going on? Outright deliberate lying by the media to the American public is what's going on. It's just the usual plan by the American Democrat Party Media (aka the "Main Stream Media" for some reason) to manipulate the thinking of the America public towards voting for the Democrats.
If Al Qaeda managed to nuke a American city tomorrow I have no doubt that the Democrat Party Media would assign the blame to Romney, evangelical Christians or the Tea Party and claim it resulted in a ten point jump in the polls for the man-child Obama.
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