After scenes from the terrorist bombings in Brussels disappeared briefly from our television screens, we saw clips of President Obama sitting with Raul Castro at a baseball game in Cuba and dancing the tango in Argentina. Even after seven years, I can’t understand how he can be so indifferent and callous with the loss of life to terrorism; not to mention his refusal to call out Muslim radicals.
I remember the picture of him smiling from his golf cart within an hour after the news of the beheading of James Foley. And we remember how he flew off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser just hours after four Americans were killed in the Benghazi attack.
Not to be forgotten was the president’s Dec. 6, 2015 Oval Office response to the Dec. 2, 2015 shooting in San Bernardino during which he again avoided to name the attackers as radical Islam terrorists, and chose to focus on gun control.
While we were mourning the loss of four Americans in Benghazi, President Obama and his secretary of state were cooking up their excuse that a video was to blame for the terrorist attack (liveactionnews.org)
If you think Hillary Clinton would bring foreign policy change to the White House, forget it. If she couldn’t support Obama’s foreign policy, she could have resigned. Her stint as secretary of state was fruitless, and we are reminded of her failure to provide proper security for our ambassador and foreign service officers killed in the Benghazi attack. And, of course, her lack of attention to protecting classified information continues to be revealed.
“What America needs is strong, steady leadership …” she told AIPAC attendees on Monday. This from a person who has supported President Obama, and his lead-from-behind policy. In her speech at Stanford this week, Clinton talked about her four years as his secretary of state, that has given her experience and an understanding of global complexities. Of course, there was no mention of the growth of ISIS during the Obama-Clinton partnership.
She criticized Donald Trump’s suggestion that Muslims should not be allowed to enter the United States at least until we can figure out what’s going on. His comment came after the San Bernardino shooting and at a time when the vetting process for accepting Syrian refugees here was being discussed.
When word that the Brussels terrorists, like those in Paris, were moving freely within “no go” neighborhoods where the police were not welcome, Ted Cruz called for the aggressive policing of Muslim neighborhoods. Clinton accused him of “demonizing all Muslims.” Trump has suggested the need for surveillance in Mosques.
During her AIPAC speech, Clinton criticized the “very different visions of American leadership,” from the Republican candidates, “that would insult our allies, not engage them, and embolden our adversaries, not defeat them.” One would think she was talking about herself or Obama.
DAMIFINO – She can’t be trusted folks. (washingtontimesphoto)
If you don’t believe a Clinton administration would be a continuance of the Obama administration, note that she told AIPAC attendees of the need to continue our commitment of “defending and advancing the international order.”
It was during Obama’s speech at West Point in 2010 that he was criticized over his decision to seek a new international order as many questioned how much U.S. sovereignty he would be willing to give up in exchange for more global cooperation. His remarks there came just two years after he boasted that he would fundamentally transform America.
When it comes to recognizing the left’s inability to mount an effective strategy against Islamic terrorism, we the voters better “get it.”
