In Benghazi, Libya, the
American Consulate was attacked and four American diplomatic workers were
killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
In Cairo, Egypt, a crowd of 500 demonstrators breached the
outer perimeter of the American embassy and set a vehicle on fire. A statement by Ambassador Anne W. Patterson
blamed the violence on people who said bad things about someone's religion.
Ambassador Patterson's statement is a direct attack on First
Amendment privileges.
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Both incidents happened on September 11, 2012.
The Egyptian government is controlled by an organization called
the Muslim Brotherhood. During the "Arab
Spring" the Obama administration sat back and did nothing to stop this
group from taking power and allowed our alley, Hosni Mubarak to be taken away
to jail. Many security experts warned at
the time that the Muslim Brotherhood is a cover for radical Muslims throughout
the world.
The Obama administration ignored these warnings and has even
gone further by giving Egypt foreign aid money.
It occurs to me that the present administration has the same
foreign policy acumen as the Carter administration.
The administration's failure to prevent the Muslim
Brotherhood from taking power resembles the appeasement policy of Neville
Chamberlain when he dealt with Adolph Hitler.
In addition, in this election year, the President is campaigning
as a champion of women's rights. The
irony is, radical Muslims don't believe women have any rights.
To financially support the new Egyptian government is treasonous
in that it lends aid and comfort to our enemies.
The failure of the State Department to tighten security at foreign
posts on an anniversary of September 11, 2001, smacks of total clueless incompetence.
That's the way I see it.
