Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, September 12, 2012


Beware the Mainstream Media My Friends...

I've been waring you all along, but hopefully even the most skeptical of my readers now understands what's going on and what's at stake.

For the moment I'm simply going to pause my front page comments here and at the end of the night... after I've posted all the newsbites I'm going to post today... I'll come back to this front page and finish my train of thought.

OK... back as promised...

Here's the deal: I'm ashamed to be an American of this America... America 2012.

I'm ashamed that the Egyptian government felt (and correctly so, it seems) that they could deliberately allow a mob to overrun U.S. sovereign territory (our Cairo Embassy) and tear down Old Glory... burn Old Glory... and replace the Stars and Stripes (even if only temporarily) with the the Black Flag of al Qaeda - on September 11th of all days.

I'm ashamed of those in power (Hillary Rodham Clinton certainly; Leon Pannetta; ultimately Barack Hussein Obama) who were so blase about basic security that on September 11th - of all days - there was no extra security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and so it was burned to the ground (again... U.S. Sovereign territory) and our Ambassador to Libya - along with three other American diplomats - was murdered.

I haven't felt this way since Jimmy Carter was President.

The United States isn't loved... nor or we feared... nor are we respected. For this I blame George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.

But it's not just them. It's Congress. It's the Courts. It's the bureaucrats. It's the political generals and admirals and the crony capitalists and the Union overlords and... and...


...and...

It's the fucking lazy, stupid, cowardly, selfish, short-sighted, unprincipled American People. We've done this to ourselves - and worse, to our children and grandchildren.

When I stop to consider that the best case scenario come 2013 is President Mitt Romney, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker of the House John Boehner...

                                                          (*HOLDING BACK TEARS*)

Goodnight, folks. Tomorrow is another day...

15 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/us-libya-usa-attack-idUSBRE88B0EI20120912

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed in an attack on the Benghazi consulate and a safe house refuge...

It was not immediately clear precisely how or where California-born ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed during the assault. (Stevens was a key player when the Obama administration supported the anti-Gaddafi insurgency.)

U.S. consular staff were rushed to a safe house after the initial attack, Libya's Deputy Interior Minister Wanis Al-Sharif said. An evacuation plane with U.S. commando units then arrived from Tripoli to evacuate them from the house.

"It was supposed to be a secret place and we were surprised the armed groups knew about it. There was shooting," Sharif said.

* OBVIOUSLY LIBYAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GAVE THE LOCATION OF THE "SAFE HOUSE" TO THE TERRORISTS! EITHER THAT OR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S STATE DEPARTMENT LEAKS LIKE A SIEVE.

Two U.S. personnel were killed there, he said. Two other people were killed at the main consular building and between 12 and 17 wounded.

* JEEZUS...

* WHY COULDN'T THE CONSULATE HAVE BEEN DEFENDED? WERE THE MARINES ON SITE ORDERED NOT TO RESIST THE TERRORSTS?

* ON 9/11 THERE WAS NO EXTRA SECURITY - THEIRS OR OURS - PROTECTING THE CONSULATE? REALY...?!?!

Gunmen attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of last year's U.S.-backed uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule.

* YEP. PRETTY CLEAR WE DIDN'T TRY TO DEFEND THE CONSULATE - WHICH IS OFFICIALLY U.S. SOIL.

Another assault was mounted on the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

Violence also threatened to spread to other Muslim countries. By nightfall on Wednesday, 24 hours after the attacks in Egypt and Libya, police were firing teargas at angry demonstrators outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia.

* WE KNOW. MORE TO FOLLOW ON THE OBAMA/CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY IN ACTION...

William R. Barker said...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/12/Exclusive-Obama-Skipped-Intel-Briefings-Week-Before-Embassy-Attacks

According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing - known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) - in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff...

(*PURSED LIPS*)

According to a recent study by the Government Accountability Institute, Mr. Obama has only attended 43.8% of his Presidential Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his Administration. The White House responded by claiming that President Obama reads daily intelligence reports, even if he does not attend the briefings personally.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

The last time prior to the slayings that the White House calendar publicly confirms Mr. Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing was September 5th. (The White House did not provide an official public calendar for September 8-10.)

* I SINCERELY HOPE THAT THE SEPTEMBER 8-10 BRIEFINGS WEREN'T MISSED. I TRULY DO. I'D RATHER NOT BELIEVE THAT EVEN OBAMA WOULD HAVE FAILED TO ATTEND PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFINGS ON 9/11 ITSELF OR THE DAYS PRIOR.

* IF I FIND OUT THAT OBAMA DID INDEED ATTEND BRIEFINGS... I'LL NOTE THIS. I STRIVE TO BE FAIR EVEN TO THIS PRESIDENT.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

* REMEMBER HOW GADDAFI WAS MURDERED...??? THIS WAS HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S PUBLIC REACTION. THINK SHE'S STILL CACKLING NOW?

William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/msnbc-host-whos-more-dangerous-the-supreme-leader-in-tehran-or-netanyahu/

* THIS IS THE LEFT, MY FRIENDS! WHEN MIKE BARNICLE IS THE "VOICE OF REASON" YOU KNOW THAT WHAT THE TRUE LEFT BELIEVES IS SIMPLY BEYOND THE PALE.

“Morning Joe” host Mike Barnicle asked Joe Klein if Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is more dangerous Wednesday morning.

MIKE BARNICLE: Who is the more dangerous player on the world stage right now, the supreme leader in Tehran or Bibi Netanyahu?

(A MALE VOICE - EITHER SCARSBOROUGH OR DEUTSCH): Don’t answer that.

* RIGHT THERE, FOLKS! THAT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!

JOE KLEIN: It’s not Netanyahu. the supreme leader is a fascist and he right now is causing great pain to his people in a way that Bibi Netanyahu never would.

* AT LEAST KLEIN HAD THE BALLS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION!

DONNY DEUTSCH: I understand the point of your question, but that was a silly question.

SCARBOROUGH: That was a clown question, bro.

* BULL. IT WAS A TOTALLY REASONABLE QUESTION THAT GOES RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER - OBAMA REFUSING TO MEET WITH NETANYAHU. THAT'S THE CONTEXT OF THE QUESTION.

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: One point we know with Netanyahu, as Joe can tell you, anybody’s who’s been in the room with Netanyahu, you don’t have to be with him long to know that there’s only one way, only one way, to get along with him and that is to agree with every single word he says, which Mitt Romney apparently does.

* BASICALLY A TWOFER - A SHOT AGAINST NETANYAHU AND A SHOT AGAINST ROMNEY. NEVER MIND ANSWERING THE QUESTION. THOUGH... IN A WAY... HER ATTEMPTED DEFLECTION DOES ANSWER THE QUESTION - IT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/09/12/Obama-Snubs-Netanyahu-Attends-Jayz-Fundraiser

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and on that day President Obama snubbed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but did agree to appear on David Letterman's show.

Priorities.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

Now we're learning that yesterday, you know, on 9/11, MTV confirmed that although Obama can't find time to meet with Netanyahu, he has found time to attend a fundraiser with Jay-Z and Beyonce: "Entertainment Weekly confirmed Tuesday (September 11) that Hov and wife Beyoncé will host a fundraiser for President Obama at the rapper's 40/40 Club in Manhattan next Tuesday. The president will be in attendance at the 100-guest event, with ticket prices hitting $40,000 per guest. Reportedly, it will be Obama's last fundraising event in New York City before the November 6 election."

* FOLKS... THIS IS WHO WE'RE DEALING WITH. THINK ABOUT IT. REFLECT UPON IT. AND IF YOU HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT... YOU'LL STEAM ABOUT IT!

William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/the-cairo-tehran-express/

According to U.S. officials, the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Maj. Gen. Murad Muwafi, met in early August with a senior official of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

The meeting between Muwafi and the Iranian, identified by officials only with his last name, Gerami, set off security concerns because the Iranian spy service is a key player in Tehran’s international support for terrorism, as well as anti-U.S. and anti-Israel operations. News reports in Egypt quoted Muwafi as saying his service had some advance intelligence warning of the Aug. 5 Sinai attack but failed to alert other military and security authorities.

Within days of the meeting, however, Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi replaced Muwafi in a political shakeup following a terrorist attack in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 16 Egyptians in August. It is not known if the meeting with Gerami was the cause of Muwafi’s ouster, or if it was the result of the Sinai attack. (Officials believe Muwafi’s ouster is part of Muslim Brotherhood efforts to purge the government of pro-military elements.)

Disclosure of the Egyptian-Iranian intelligence meeting comes as the Obama administration is planning to provide $1 billion in aid to bail out Egypt’s new Islamist government.

The administration is said to be seeking closer ties to the new regime in Cairo, following the ouster in February 2011 of long-time ally Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile in Cairo, Islamic protesters on Tuesday stormed the U.S. Embassy and pulled down the American flag...

(*PURSED LIPS*) (*GRITTING MY TEETH*)

According to U.S. officials, “dozens” of pro-terrorist Islamist preachers have been released from prison, including former members of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad. For example, an Egyptian military court set free six imprisoned members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), including Mohammed al-Zawahiri, brother of current al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Earlier, EIJ leader Sheikh Murjan Mustaff Salem, also known as Abd al-Hakim Hassan, was released.

Ahmad Ashush was also released from prison. Ashush fought in Afghanistan and was close to Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri.

Many of the radical Islamists have formed a new group called “the Salafi jihadist trend,” also known as Ansar al-Shariah in Egypt, which seeks to set up an Islamist state ruled by Shariah law. The Salafists have criticized less radical Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood for taking part in the democratic process. The radicals want to use force to create a hardline Islamic regime without secular groups.

In February, the Treasury Department identified the MOIS as a key facilitator of terrorism and supporter of human rights abuses in Iran and Syria.

The radicals are active in the Sinai region of Egypt.

William R. Barker said...

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/09/12/endangered-eyeless-spider-indefinitely-delays-15m-texas-highway-project/

An endangered eyeless spider is holding up a $15 million Texas highway project.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Construction of the highway underpass project on Texas 151 was indefinitely delayed after a biologist consultant with the Texas Department of Transportation discovered the Braken Bat Cave meshweaver, according to San Antonio Express-News.

* NOPE. NOT THE ONION. NOT A SNL SKIT. THIS IS AMERICA 2012!

The Express-News reports the spider, which is about the size of a dime, was added to the endangered species list 12 years ago.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

Department of Transportation spokesperson Josh Donat says it’s just now a wait-and-see plan on what to do.

* YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME...!!!

“We have to wait until the Fish and Wildlife Service gives us the thumbs up for plan B or plan C or whatever plan we end up going with,” he told KSAT-TV.

* THIS IS AMERICA 2012, FOLKS. IS THIS YOUR AMERICA? IS THIS REALLY THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE?

Construction for the $15 million highway project started in April.

* AND NOW IT'S STOPPED - INDEFINITELY.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/press-coordinates-question-ask-romney_652241.html

The blog RightScoop.com has audio of the press coordinating which question to ask Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at his press conference this morning on the events in Libya and Egypt.

* FOLKS... AGAIN... THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MIGHT AS WELL BE ON THE DNC PAYROLL! NONE OF THESE REPORTERS WILL BE FIRED...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* HERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: "No matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question...”

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: "…pointing out that the Republicans…" *unintelligible* "…Obama…."

CBS REPORTER: "That’s the question."

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: "Yeah that’s the question. I would just say 'do you regret your question?'"

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: "Your question? Your statement?"

CBS REPORTER: "I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…"

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: "And then if he does, if we can just follow up and say ‘but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…’" *inaudible*

CBS REPORTER: "You can’t say that..."

CBS REPORTER: "I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question."

* AND APPARENTLY THE FIRST QUESTION TO ROMNEY WAS INDEED:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: "Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?"

(*PURSED LIPS*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.navytimes.com/mobile/news/2012/09/navy-russian-warships-displayed-dnc-veterans-tribute-091112

On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message.

But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.

(*SNORT*)

While retired Adm. John Nathman, a former commander of Fleet Forces Command, honored vets as America’s best, the ships from the Russian Federation Navy were arrayed like sentinels on the big screen above.

(*GUFFAW*)

These were the very Soviet-era combatants that Nathman and Cold Warriors like him had once squared off against.

“The ships are definitely Russian,” said noted naval author Norman Polmar after reviewing hi-resolution photos from the event. “There’s no question of that in my mind.”

* FOLKS... (*JUST THROWING MY HANDS UP IN THE AIR*)

Naval experts concluded the background was a photo composite of Russian ships that were overflown by what appear to be U.S. trainer jets. It remains unclear how or why the Democratic Party used what’s believed to be images of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at their convention.

* THE DEMS HAVE SINCE APOLOGIZED AND BLAMMED THE SCREW-UP (OR WAS IT...???) (*SMIRK*) ON "VENDER ERROR."

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Based on this specific group of these ship types, one naval expert concluded that this was most likely a photo of the Black Sea Fleet.

“Ships are all Black Sea Fleet,” A. D. Baker III, a retired Office of Naval Intelligence analyst, told Navy Times after looking at the image. “These four ships, at the time the photo was taken, constituted the entire major surface combatant component of the Black Sea Fleet,” Baker said, noting the photo was likely to be six years old or older.

(The Kerch is now on the list to be scrapped, Baker said.)

William R. Barker said...

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/12/investigators-sebelius-illegally-campaigned-on-taxpayers-dime/

Independent federal legal officials have concluded that [Obama administration] Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by conducting political activity at an official (and hence taxpayer funded) event, according to a statement released on Wednesday.

“Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012,” the news release from the U.S. Office of Special Council states.

The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from using their official authority or influence to affect the outcome of an election. A federal employee is permitted to make partisan remarks when speaking in their personal capacity, but not when using their official title or when speaking about agency business.

After the event, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reclassified the trip from official to political and issued a statement to that effect. Secretary Sebelius and HHS reimbursed the U.S. Treasury for all costs and expenses associated with her travel to the event. OSC found no evidence that Secretary Sebelius made any other political statements in her official capacity.

The Obama administration’s decision to allow cabinet secretaries such as Sebelius to speak at events sponsored by large Democratic electioneering groups has raised other Hatch Act concerns.

During a fundraiser for the pro-Obama Priorities USA Super PAC in March, senior White House adviser David Plouffe gave a speech to two-dozen major Democratic donors. When it came time to ask donors to open up their wallets, however, Plouffe left the room.

The abrupt exit illustrates how the Obama campaign and the White House divide activities in the new world of Super PAC politics.

(*SMIRK*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/09/12/117000-Americans-Get-Jobless-and-Disability-Benefits.aspx#page1

Roughly 117,000 Americans double-dipped by cashing unemployment and Social Security disability checks during the height of the jobs crisis, costing taxpayers a combined $856 million in fiscal 2010 according to a government watchdog agency.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

The additional strain on the system will make the SSDI trust fund insolvent in four short years.

* THE FUND IS INSOLVENT NOW! IT'S OPERATING AT A DEFICIT! THIS "SOLVENCY" vs. "INSOLVENCY" IS AN ACCOUNTING GIMMICK - THE GOVERNMENT DOUBLE-COUNTING IT'S OWN IOU's AS "ASSETS" EVEN THOUGH THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN SPENT.


With most eyes fixed on the election battle between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, it was easy to miss the alarming report by the Government Accountability Office that was initially released this summer.

* ACTUALLY... I NEWSBITED THIS AT THE TIME IT CAME OUT. (*WINK*) THIS IS SIMPLY A "REMINDER;" A "REITERATION."

Disability insurance is intended for those whose medical conditions prevent them from working, while unemployment provides a cushion for job seekers who were laid-off. But the data unearthed by the GAO shows that many Americans have simultaneously relied on disability and unemployment insurance – and that overlapping payments are allowed under the programs’ different eligibility requirements.

(*SIGH*)

* FOLKS... IT GETS WORSE... READ ON!

The Social Security Administration...in a 2010 memo to the administrative law judges who determine eligibility for disability benefits, [wrote,] “It is often uncertain whether we will find a person who applies for unemployment benefits ultimately to be disabled under our rules, and our decision-making process can be quite lengthy,” the memo said. “Therefore, it is SSA’s position that individuals need not choose between applying for unemployment insurance and Social Security disability benefits.”

* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU JUST READ... (*SIGH*)

* FOLKS... THESE DOUBLE PAYMENTS REPRESENTED DELIBERATE POLICY!

No current federal law authorizes a reduction or elimination of benefits in the case of double-dipping.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

And neither the Social Security Administration nor the Labor Department has “a process to indentify these overlapping benefit payments” being provided in part through state governments, the GAO said.

(*BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL*)

The average double-dipper collected $7,316 in fiscal 2010.

About 1,500 reaped more than $40,000 a year.

One individual highlighted in the report got $62,000 during that period, and having since maxed out 99 weeks of unemployment in the middle of 2011 was still collecting $2,377 a month in disability as of April.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/09/197694.htm

* THIS IS INSANITY! JUST READ THIS! YOU'RE NOT GONNA FRIGGIN' BELIEVE IT!

* THIS IS AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT AMOUNTED TO A PRESS CONFERENCE AND WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO KNOW WHO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS WERE...!!!

* SERIOUSLY... FOLKS... I'M NOT EVEN GONNA EXCERPT! JUST READ THE WHOLE FRIGGIN' MESS AND ASK YOURSELVES... "IS THIS MY AMERICA?"

William R. Barker said...

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mobile-christopher-stevens-killed-m,0,2291982.story

A White House official said national security advisor Tom Donilon first briefed the president on the violence in Benghazi on Tuesday afternoon, at the top of a weekly meeting with the Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey.

The president was updated throughout the evening, and notified late Tuesday that Stevens was unaccounted for.

Obama learned Wednesday that Stevens was confirmed dead Wednesday morning, the official said.

* MEANING... THE SON OF A BITCH JUST WENT TO BED...?

* FOLKS... TUESDAY WAS 9/11! OUR EMBASSY IN EGYPT HAD ALREADY BEEN ATTACKED. OUR CONSULATE HAD BEEN SET ON FIRE. AND OBAMA WENT TO BED...?!?!

William R. Barker said...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed14fc70-fc51-11e1-aef9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26IoHtVgK

The median income of American households dropped to its lowest level since 1995 last year, extending its decline during President Barack Obama’s tenure...

(*PURSED LIPS*)

According to annual data from the Census Bureau, median income adjusted for inflation – a closely watched measure of the financial health of average Americans – fell to $50,054 in 2011, or 1.5% cent below its 2010 level and 4.1% below its score when Mr. Obama took office in 2009.

* AND, FOLKS... REMEMBER... THE GOVERNMENT DELIBERATELY UNDERSTATES INFLATION. YA KNOW THAT $4-gal. YOU'RE PAYING AT THE PUMP... THAT $12.99-lb. YOU'RE PAYING FOR BOAR'S HEAD ROAST BEEF... FOOD AND FUEL AREN'T PART OF THE INFLATION MATRIC! IT'S AS IF YOUR DAILY COST OF LIVING IS IRRELEVANT. ARE THESE IRRELEVANCES TO YOU, FOLKS? ARE THEY...???

Although real median income had already started to slide beginning in 2008, before Mr. Obama entered the White House...

* HOLD IT! HOLD IT! HOLD IT! HOLD IT! REPUBLICANS LOST BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS IN THE 2006 ELECTION! STARTING IN JANUARY OF 2007 AND CONTINUING ALL THRU 2007 AND 2008 NANCY PELOSI AND HARRY REID AND THE DEMOCRATS HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OF CONGRESS! (OH, YEAH... AND OBAMA WAS A SENATOR! AND SO WAS HILLARY CLINTON!)

Real median household income reached its peak at $54,932 in 1999...

* WITH NEWT GINGRICH HAVING BEEN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JANUARY 4, 1995 – JANUARY 3, 1999!

* YES, FOLKS... BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT... BUT REPUBLICANS - CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS - CONTROLLED CONGRESS STARTING IN JANUARY OF 1995!

Under President George W. Bush, it fell to $52,778 by 2004 before recovering to reach $54,489 in 2007 and then sliding again in 2008.

* SEE A PATTERN, HERE, FOLKS...?!

* IT LITERALLY BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES THINKING THAT THE GOP COULD HAVE HAD NEWT GINGRICH AS OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THIS YEAR...

William R. Barker said...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3329/libya-iraq

* YOU SHOULD READ THIS. AND YOU SHOULD NOTE THE DATE IT WAS PUBLISHED - SEPTEMBER 7, 2012.

[W]hat does the current state of Libya say about who we are?

* THAT'S A HINT FOR YOU. AGAIN... YOU SHOULD READ THE ARTICLE.

[T]he Arab Spring opened the door to Salafi violence across North Africa from Mali to Tunisia and east through Libya and as far as Egypt.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... YOU SHOULD READ THE ARTICLE.

The Arab Spring uprisings have been used by the Islamists as a pretext for purging Christians in Egypt and Syria, as well as Sufis in Mali and Libya. Despite a recent election in Libya that was widely hailed as a signpost of stability, the country is in no way stable and its central authority is an illusion.

* SO IT WOULD SEEM. (*PURSED LIPS*) (*SIGH*)

Libyan security forces have stood aside or even helped the Salafis do to Libya what the Taliban did to Afghanistan.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 7TH... NOW - AS YOU KNOW - THE LIBYAN "SECURITY FORCES" HAVE DONE FAR WORSE THAN STAND ASIDE AS GRAVES AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS ARE RAZED; NOW THEY'VE STOOD ASIDE AND ALLOWED THE AMERICAN CONSULATE IN LIBYA TO BE BURNED TO THE GROUND AND THE U.S. AMBASSADOR AND THREE OTHER AMERICANS TO BE MURDERED.

In Tunisia and Egypt, Salafi violence has been met with similar inaction or delayed reactions from the security forces. The Muslim Brotherhood and some other Islamists distance themselves from Salafi attacks on non-Muslims or on variant Muslim groups to maintain plausible deniability while the Salafis rid them of people they consider infidels and heretics. The Salafis have foreign backing and no shortage of recruits eager to kill and maim for the cause, and the Post-Arab Spring governments are staying out of their way.

* AGAIN... SEPTEMBER 7... AND FOUR DAYS LATER... ON SEPTEMBER 11... THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ALLOWED THE U.S. EMBASSY IN CAIRO TO BE VIOLATED, OUR FLAG DESECRATED, THE AL QAEDA FLAG RAISED IN ITS PLACE...

* I AM ASHAMED OF MY GOVERNMENT. I AM ASHAMED OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS.

* LAST TIME... READ THE ARTICLE.