On Sept. 11, 2012, four Americans were murdered in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Soon afterward, Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, appeared on Sunday talk shows to state the administration’s view that the attack was a reaction to a cartoon mocking Mohammed. “There’s no question ... there have been such things that have sparked outrage and anger and this has been the proximate cause of what we’ve seen.”
Several weeks later, when this lie was obvious to all, the administration reluctantly admitted the attack was a planned act of terrorism.
On May 31, 2014, Bowe Bergdahl was released after being exchanged for five high-value Taliban prisoners. President Obama lauded the event in a Rose Garden ceremony. Susan Rice, now the national security adviser, said that Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction.”
On March 25, 2015, the Army charged Bergdahl with “desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place.” The quarantine of the Taliban Five is over. Several have already had contact with terrorist comrades.
In an address on Sept. 10, 2014, Obama touted Yemen as a counterterrorism success story and said it would be the model for our strategy against ISIS. “The strategy of taking out terrorists ... is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen ... for years.” In February, the U.S. evacuated its remaining people from Sanaa as Yemen fell into civil war fueled by Iranian-backed terrorists.
These are examples of the administration’s astute Middle Eastern analysis and diplomacy.
Now Obama claims a deal with Iran. Disastrously, it gives the world’s worst terrorist state access to the world’s most frightening weapons. Even if the West uncovers deceit, it will depend upon Russia, through its position in the UN, for action. Russia will now sell Iran its advanced anti-missile system. Obama is “not surprised.”
Like Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler, Barack Obama and his lackeys have secured “peace in our time.” All should remember how well that agreement worked.
Michael Lubin
Durango
