MY SAY: OBAMA CAN RUN BUT HE CAN’T HIDE
My brilliant friend Andrew Bostom whose must read new book will appear very soon reminded me this morning (at 6:30 A.M.) that the Arab uprisings in Lybia, Yemen and Egypt are policy issues owned strictly by our President.
This crisis is one you can’t blame on George Bush or anyone else by any stretch of imagination. Obama’s obsequious outreach to the Moslem world and the uprisings and subsequent rise of Islamic Jihadists in power (it is not only the Boyz in the Moslem Brotherhood Terrorhood) all occurred under this President’s watch.
And, how fitting that Bill Clinton addressed the Democratic Convention. As we watch in horror our Ambassador’s body dragged through the streets and Obama’s late and lame response, we are reminded of Bill Clinton’s craven response when in Mogadishu in 1993 an American soldier’s body was dragged through the streets by a savage crowd.
In October of 1993, Clinton sent United States Rangers and Special Forces to stabilize Somalia. His plan, presented to Congress with a timetable, was “to conclude our role there honorably but we do not want to see a reversion to the absolute chaos and the terrible misery which existed before.” His words came back to bite him. Subsequent investigations disclosed that U.S. soldiers on the ground were left without armed vehicles or sufficient firepower from the air. The Clinton administration and then Secretary of Defense, the late Les Aspin, repeatedly denied the Special ops teams’ and the Rangers’ requests for more armored vehicles, AC-130 gunships and tanks.
The American public witnessed gruesome televised scenes of rampaging Muslim Somalis dragging and desecrating the bodies of American troops. Congress demanded a withdrawal and Clinton did a “cut and run” operation leaving Somalia in worse shape than ever and Aidid unbowed. The end result was the perception that America can be defied by any rag tag army of terrorists.
Sound familiar?
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