The “Manchurian Candidate”
and Obama’s Pathetic “Responses” to Islamist Terrorism
Following Barack Obama’s groveling
“apology and appeasement” tour across the Middle East and North Africa shortly
after his inauguration, he began a concerted effort to debase our relations
with moderate allies in the region, Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Europe. It wasn’t that we couldn’t see this coming,
since he made it clear even before the election that he would sit with our
enemies “without preconditions.” And, if his words were insufficient, he
secretly opened back-channels to Iran even as Ahmadinejad was mocking the
United States.
His disastrously inept “policies”
were criticized by conservative commentators, who saw only the effects, but wholly
missed the causes of such disasters as the Russian “reset” and abandonment of
Poland and the Czech Republic. This gave way to his capitulation to Iran during
the nascent “Green Revolution, which saw protesters jailed, beaten and shot in
the streets. Not long after, he began dismantling the American presence in
Iraq, where the small force left in place served as the only deterrent to
previously-warring factions, that we have seen devolve into radical Sunni
terrorism and the establishment of “the Caliphate.”
There soon followed the
eruptions of Islamist radicalism in Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen, after the “promise”
of the “Arab (false) Spring.
But, these debacles, the resulting
rise and empowerment of radical Islam were NOT the result of ineptitude, but
perfidy! Obama took every opportunity to
assist or enable Islamists who opposed Western culture and ideologies (much as
his father did, and he, himself, advocated in his “Dreams From My Father.” He embraced the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt,
inviting them to Washington; he did nothing to stabilize Libya after we enabled
Qaddafi’s destruction, he invited Taliban to open negotiations, even after they
openly asserted that they would never truly negotiate with “the West.” All the
while, his infatuation with Iran’s growing influence and increasing presence in
the region helped him keep up the façade of talks, which were little more than
appeasements, capitulations and American compromises.
When, at last, the Islamists
were sufficiently encouraged and abetted enough to begin seizing swaths of
sovereign territory from Syria and Iraq in murderous and despicable attacks
upon indigenous innocents and non-combatants whose only offense was to be “non
believers,” Obama felt somewhat compelled to feign “outrage.” Even after
sort-of committing U.S. forces to assist a feeble resistance, he admitted that
he hadn’t been upset enough by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (or as he peculiarly
insisted, “the Levant” –ISIL) atrocities to formulate a strategy!
He and the ever-accommodating
John Kerry continued throughout to profess outrage, indignation and revulsion,
while doing as little as possible to actually have any negative effect upon
their progress. It was only after the
rest of the civilized and sane world witnessed the effects of his indifference
upon the hapless and harmless Kazidis that he actually began a half-hearted
effort to take land away and protect some of the people in ISIS/ISIL’s way.
It was during the latter part
of this semi-opposition that ISIS/ISIL began to suggest that indifference was
not good enough, and began to take American’s hostage and subject them to
ghastly detentions and threts of murder, as if to tell Obama, “Good, but not
good enough.”
This culminated in a final attempted
“Grand Gesture:” the illegal, unannounced and highly suspicious “swap” of FIVE
known Islamic terrorists for ONE suspected traitorous/deserting Bowe Bergdahl!
Since his release, Bergdahl
has been “investigated,” but the results or even the process of such
inquiry remain secret, leaving many American
s wondering just what, if anything, we gained in the transaction.
(NOTE: How familiar are you
with Richard Condon’s 1959 novel, “The Manchurian Candidate,” in which an
American ex-POW soldier is returned to the U. S., only to be revealed as a
hidden secret weapon against his own country?)
Witness the results of the
string of such atrocities and Obama’s (and occasionally Kerry’s) pathetic
responses.
8/14: ISIS beheads Jim Foley
Barack Obama: "Today the
entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist
group ISIL” “The U.S.
continues to "do what is necessary" to protect Americans.”
"We will be vigilant
and we will be relentless," he said.
John Kerry decried “the unfathomable brutality of ISIL” “When terrorists … have murdered our citizens, the United States held them accountable, no matter how long it took,”
9/14: ISIL/ISIS beheads Steven Sotloff
Barack Obama: “Americans are repulsed by their barbarism. We
will not be intimidated.”
“The United States will
continue to lead a regional and international effort against the barbaric …
ISIL .”
9/14: ISIS beheads David Haines
Baeack Obama: “ the U.S. “strongly condemns the barbaric
murder,” and … “stands shoulder
to shoulder tonight with our close friend and ally in grief and resolve.”
Obama said the U.S. will work
with Britain and a broad collation of nations to bring to justice those who
committed what he called an "outrageous act."
10/14: ISIS beheads Alan Henning
Barack Obama: “the U.S. “strongly condemns the brutal murder”
and –[is] “standing
together with our UK friends and allies. “We will work to bring the perpetrators of
Alan’s murder — as well as the
murders of Jim Foley, Steven
Sotloff and David Haines — to justice.”
Obama said the U.S. will work
with Britain and a broad collation of nations to bring to justice those who
committed what he called an "outrageous act."
1/15: ISIS beheads Haruna Yukawa
BaeackObama: “the U.S. “strongly condemns the brutal murder
… and “we stand shoulder
to shoulder with our ally Japan.”
Obama said the U.S. will work
with Japan and a broad collation of nations to bring to justice those who
committed what he called an "outrageous act."
1/15: ISIS (a.k.a. ISIL) beheads Kenji Goto
Barack Obama: “the U.S. “condemns the heinous murder of
Japanese citizen and [is] “standing
together with a broad coalition of allies and partners…
John Kerry: “We share the sorrow and continue to
stand shoulder-to-shoulder
with our ally Japan in confronting terrorism.”
Obama said the U.S. will work
with Japan and a broad collation of nations to bring to justice those who
committed what he called an "outrageous act."
1/15” ISIS burns Muath Al-Kaseasbeh
alive
Barack Obama: "it's
just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization.
And it, I think, will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of a
global coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated."
HOW JORDAN DOES IT:
After
refusing Jordan’s insistence on providing “proof of life” before it capitulated
or appeased with the release of captured ISIS fighters, they murder Jordanian
pilot Muath Al-Kaseasbeh.
'Kill
our pilot and we'll execute ALL your prisoners': Jordan 'says it will hang its
ISIS captives' if airman hostage is dead. Jordan 'warns it will fast-track
executions in retaliation for ISIS bloodshed'. Fears are now growing that
Al-Kaseasbeh has already been murdered Jordan says it is still waiting for
proof that captured F-16 pilot was alive
Victor
Davis Hanson, of the Hoover Institution, also sees a meythod to Obama’s
apparent madness. His take covers all of
Obama’s American reduction, not just vis a vis Islamists.
NATIONAL
REVIEW ONLINE
February
3, 2015 4:00 AM
Obama
Does Have a Strategy
Once you see what he is trying to accomplish,
it all makes sense.
By
Victor Davis Hanson
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