Awr Hawkins @ Big Peace
On Oct 19 President Obama delivered a speech claiming Al Qaeda is nearing defeat. On that same day, Al Qaeda delivered an attack on a Yemeni army base that killed 24.
Obama told a cheering crowd: “Four years ago, I told you we’d end the war in Iraq and we did. I said we’d end the war in Afghanistan and we are. I said we’d actually focus on the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and we have. Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat.”
In Yemen, two Al Qaeda suicide bombers in military uniforms, in a military car, drove their car into the military base in Shuqra and detonated it. At that point, other Al Qaeda militants opened fire from outside the base. In total 16 army personnel were killed and eight Al Qaeda members.
While Obama told the cheering crowd, “Osama bin Laden is dead” — as if that means the war on terror has been reduced or nearly wrapped up — Saudi Arabia, many Yemenis, and others in the Gulf region told news outlets that Al Qaeda is on the rise and they fear Obama’s handling of the war on terror is actually driving that group’s membership higher.
I think that might have been the last day Obama included that phrase in his stump speech.
Dropping it doesn’t make him look any better, of course.
His foreign policy seems to be one of alienating our friends, appeasing our enemies, and labeling as his top enemies our own people, our VETERANS, the Koch brothers, Sam Adelson, Mitt Romney, etc.
Speaking of Obama only doing things that make him look good while ignoring DUTIES that make him look bad, anybody notice Obama’s Administration hasn’t bothered to give Congress a quarterly report on the $831 billion in stimulus money since last year?
This isn’t optional.
It was a law!
Obama is ignoring reporting requirements whenever he wants to.
Old reports (back when Obama’s peeps did them) begin, “As part of the unprecedented accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) was charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular……
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/20/laws-are-for-little-people/