Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Is the Worldwide Terrorist Warning a Serious Obama Error in Judgment

Unnamed Yemeni security officials have confirmed a drone strike, suspected to have been launched by the US, at about 2 a.m. local time Tuesday. The strike killed four al-Qaida members riding in a car in the eastern province of Mareb where al-Qaida operates. Fox News has reported that a second drone hit a militant hideout, which, according Fox sources, makes six drone strikes in Yemen in the past six days. Yemeni sources believe one of the dead is Saleh Jouti, a senior al-Qaida member. Early on Tuesday before the drone strike, the State Department ordered the evacuation of most embassy personnel and urged all US citizens to leave Yemen because of the al-Qaida threat that triggered the shutdown of 19 American diplomatic posts this week. The US Air Force already has flown more than 80 State Department personnel out of Yemen to Ramstead Air Base in Germany. "The US Department of Defense continues to have personnel on the ground in Yemen to support the US State Department and monitor the security situation," Pentagon spokesman George Little noted. The Obama administration has offered few specific facts about the nature of the threat, but repeatedly has said it appears to originate in - and possibly be directed toward - the Arabian Peninsula, where Yemen is located and which is home to al-Qaida's most active affiliate. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the staff departures "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" and added that all Americans in Yemen should leave immediately because of an "extremely high" security threat level. Two hours later, the British government said it had "temporarily withdrawn" all staff from its embassy in Yemen due to the terror threat. In an official statement, the Yemeni government said it was taking "all necessary precautions to secure diplomatic facilities, vital installations and strategic assets." The AP has reported that Yemeni officials were also focusing on the strategic Bab al-Mandeb straits at the entrance to the Red Sea international shipping route as a possible attack target. Fox News has confirmed that a Yemeni intelligence official was fatally shot Sunday just south of Saana. The official's death is believed to be related to the latest terror scare - a negative result predicted by former US intelligence officials. On Monday, a US intelligence source told Fox News that the terror threat that led to the closure of many US embassies resulted from intercepted communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri - who is Osama bin Laden's successor - and Nasir al-Wuhayshi, head of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Zawahiri allegedly told al-Wuhayshi to "do something." Officials with the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence would not confirm the details of any such intercepted communications. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said only that the threat potentially goes "beyond" the Arabian Peninsula. Some analysts pointed to the lack of specificity in questioning whether the threat was being blown out of proportion. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the world has been absorbed in this terrorist threat warning issued by the United States for five days. Like all of us, I was concerned and waiting for the Americans to stop yet another terrorist strike. But as the days pass, I have had time to consider these events and I have some questions. (1). If there was a plot underway, wouldn't the worldwide broadcast of its existence have caused al-Qaidi to stop. And doesn't this very US broadcast make drastic embassy closings and evacuations unnecessary. (2). Why would a message as innocuous as "do something" strike such fear into the US government. (3). Why would al-Zawahiri use a cell phone to give such an important order, knowing that the US is closely monitoring such communications. (4). What good does it do to close certain embassies if, as the US says, it does not know the location of the strike - but if the latest information suggesting a Yemen or Arabian Peninsula target is reliable, then why keep so many other embassies closed all week. ~~~~~ Dear readers, does al-Qaida now know how to produce maximun disorder with a minimum investment of its resources. And has President Obama over-reacted in order to prevent "a second Benghazi" on 9.11.2013. He is still not absolved in the Benghazi security disaster. Has he simply frozen al-Qaida in the best way possible, by going public worldwide based on routine inconsequential intelligence information. And, most importantly, is the collateral damage of the President's over-reaction the entry of al-Qaida into the Yemeni capital in force - as is being reported by CNN. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! Perhaps President Obama will feel obliged to answer some of these questions now circulating. He owes us an explanation.

10 comments:

  1. If (and that is a very big if) there was a plot, an identifiable, pin pointed geographical/regional location that was identifiable in the alluded to "chatter" that was intercepted then this could have been a "reactionary" leak by al-Quaida. Just way to measure our response and time response to their chatter. firstly. And secondly a network test to ascertain the depth of our listening capabilities.

    That being said. I don't really believe a word that I just wrote. therefore it can be concluded that I don't believe any of the "press releases" that have been put out by the White House, State Department, CIA, or Defense department.

    This has been a pure a simple ruse on the part of the Administration in Washington DC.

    Neither the President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chief of National Intelligence. or anyone else on that level of a few levels down have come out to face the cameras.

    There is a "theory" in Washington DC that if you have bad news or questionable news release it on a Friday afternoon after 3:30 PM. Why? Because everyone is gone except for a skeleton crew in the press office maned by "copy boy" types.

    I think NONE of this is factual to any level of verification.

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  2. “The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

    There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

    Obama has tried to live in the middle since he was elected and it has only proved him incapable and devious; he blanks out the real truth and substitutes that truth he utters or proclaims. Moist of the time it is far from the truth as I think this situation will be proven to be.

    He seems to have learned nothing from the Benghazi affair. And although we have a new Secretary of State he seems to be in the same wave length as the old one was.

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  3. Well Mr. President certainly does...

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    1. And trying to live in the middle while all along belong to the Progressive Socialists in thought and diversion action will be the Achilles Heel for them.

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  4. Have we just witnessed another "bungle" by the Obama Team in Foreign Affairs. they seem to have not learned anything in the past 5 years, let alone from the incident at Benghazi at all.

    I'm having trouble with where the blame really lies. certainly Obama is the president and the "buck stops with him". But is anyone giving any thought that the level of the professional public servants has deteriorated so badly that we have series of bad decisions, bad planning, and even bad motives being made at the lower senior management levels as well.

    I am not excusing anyone at all. But maybe besides having an incapable president and department secretaries we have an excess of incompetent,square pegs in round holes types, mid level executives that are the "Peter Principal" personified, and we expect results that are simply beyond their capacity.

    In our rush over the past years to be fully diverse in the work place we have set aside our goal of excellence. I had some military training that was difficult at best. We once started out with 105 people in a training class. it was so difficult that at the end of the training at graduation only 8 were there on the podium. And yet today that same strict enforcement of excellence is still their SOP. If you cut the muster your in. If not there is NO shame if you gave it your all. Everyone is not cut out to be a surgeon, a lawyer, a government official with foreign policy control.

    To answer my opening question ... Yes, I think this latest bungle of this administration in everything, just not foreign Affairs.

    A shame. Children learn by their mistakes. Seem some adults can't.

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  5. The world is full of people who always say the right thing, using the right words and phrases. And they express their thoughts at the exactly right time.

    We should be careful of these people especially when they have the decision making power and authority on issues that affect your life and well being. These people need to be judged by their actions and correctness of decision making rather than the words and phrases they offer.

    Words have meanings as someone told me years ago ... specific meanings. But actions have consequences.



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  6. Is the Worldwide Terrorist Warning a Serious Obama Error in Judgment.

    Tonight it is appearing that it is simply that. McCain is off to the "front" to lend his self proclaimed expertise to this confused matter.And still there is NO words from Obama or Kerry or Hagel or anyone else really. just a stream of press releases. And where was the President today ... in Los Angeles shaking hands and getting his picture taken.

    To John McCain and any others that have the time ... "Don't articulate a fight you DON'T intend to wage (and) can't win" ... at least with the present thinking in Washington on either side of the aisle or at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    Soldiers go to war willingly when they are told the truth and they go not to primary to defeat what is in front of them , but to preserve what is is at their backs.

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  7. Appearing on the 'Tonight Show,' Obama spoke publicly for the first time about this week's potential terror threat & the NSA's controversial surveillance programs.

    My, Oh my. What a choice of venues to discuss something this serious and with a stand up comedian.

    So if actions do speak louder than words what do these actions say ... SERIOUS or NOT

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  8. "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  9. We clearly have a situation where the duly elected President,Representatives & Senators for the most part are willing to forgo their oath of office and proceed down the road of self elevated importance and knowledge as to what is best for their electors.

    And the real calamity here is that the electors seem to be willing to sit on the side lines and allow the erosion, the compromise, and the dismantlement of their rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights to be swept away in the name of "PROTECTION"

    Readers ff you are neutral in situations of freedom and liberty, you have chosen the side of the oppressors.

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