Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rices gives a great impression of stupid for Jake Tapper of ABC News:
video:
text:
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told me this morning on “This Week” that the United States is not “impotent” in the face of violent protests sweeping the Muslim world being aimed at American interests.
“We’re not impotent,were not even less popular to challenge that assessment” said Rice. ” What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi and many other parts of the region was a result, a direct result, of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting.”
President Obama has been very public since the start of his presidential term that he intended to heal relations with the Middle East that were damaged during the Bush administration.
Hat tip and reax, Donald Douglas, American Power:
At the video above, Rice indicates that President Obama “picked up the phone” and told President Morsi in Egyp to get with the program. Okay, sure. Morsi doesn’t want to lose his foreign aid. But if the U.S. had real power — if Obama’s Cairo foreign policy had any real effect — those protests would have never taken place to begin with. And with protests, the Egyptian military could have smashed them with the blink of an eye. What popularity? The banner at the ABC News clip has 33 countries now mounting anti-American protests. This is the biggest popular repudiation of America I can remember in my lifetime. And Ambassador Rice is sticking with the meme that the “Innocence of Muslims” video is 100 percent the cause of all the violence and outrage? It’s getting obscene to listen to this administration’s dissembling and lies.
Two points:
One, it does not take a great military genius to see that the attack on the American consulate in Libya was an coordinated military ambush. Ambassador Stevens was taken to a supposed safe house which came under coordinated heavy weapons fire. Mere mobs do not carry RPG’s and mortars, nor know the exact location of a safe house.
Two Ambassador Rice has an unbelievable amount o f faith that this stupid internet video was the sole Muslim grievance against the Un9ited States. The video was put up in July and the attacks break on on the eleventh anniversary of Nine Eleven. In the intervening time the Obama administration has continued drone attacks and spent a week in Charlotte spiking the I killed Usama bin Laden football. Yet killing Muslims and bragging about it, is not considered to be aggrevation, only a stupid internet video.
Print This Post
Subscribe to RSS feed
