The Obama Administration’s Mark Dayton Moment?
Bill Kristol made several good points in this video:
Still, the thing that he didn’t do is what I’ll do here: The U.S. closing its embassy in Yemen is the U’S. government’s equivalent of Mark Dayton shutting down his office a week before the 2004 elections based on information that no one else got.
This is yet another embarrassing moment for the Obama administration’s national security team. Earlier this week, the Obama administration announced that they were working closely with the Yemeni government in shutting down AQY. Days later, they’re shutting down the U.S. embassy in Yemen.
This is a huge propaganda win for the jihadists. Democrats repeat the mantra that closing Gitmo is imperative because the jihadists use it in recruiting new jihadists. Obviously, the Democrats didn’t learn from their Murtha/Clinton cut and run episode in Somalia.
If they’d learned from that, they’d know that the U.S. cutting short military operations told bin Laden that we were, in his words, “a paper tiger.” It’s impossible to think that the jihadists don’t believe that the Obama administration is the newest American paper tiger.
Couple the embassy closing with arresting Abdul Mutallab instead of capturing and interrogating him and it’s been a disastrous week for the Obama administration’s national security team.
Technorati Tags: Yemen, Embassy, President Obama, Somalia, President Clinton, bin Laden, Paper Tiger, Jihadists, Mark Dayton
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
January 4th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Well, ya see, Gary, this is what Duh-1’s foreign policy is all about - give “the people” (in whatever land it happens to be in) what they want, and they’ll leave us alone.
Only problem is, as you note, they won’t.
Never in the history of western civilization has one turkey-jerk leader been able to sell his own country out more thoroughly and faster than Obama has. Problem for we who love our country is, people are paying attention to what Slick Barry says, and ignore completely what he does.
January 4th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
For a group that considers itself so intellectually superior to the general population, its incredible how insanely stupid liberals can be about as simple an issue as handling terrorists, and terrorism.