The Middle East and Violence; Who Would Have Guessed... Benghazi Attack

The Middle East is once again becoming unavoidable for Obama. Obama has praised the "Arab Spring" from the beginning without actually knowing what was really going on there.

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya. March 28, 2011.

I believe that this movement of change cannot be turned back, and that we must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms: our opposition to violence directed at one’s own people; our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people.

At the time Obama made these remarks; there was still debate over whether or not to arm the Libyan "rebels" because we didn't really know who they were. But somehow Obama knows that they share our core beliefs?

A U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans died in Libya on September 11, 2012 as the result of an attack on the consulate.

TRIPOLI, Libya — US officials are increasingly suspicious that the murder Tuesday of the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American officials was not the result of a protest against an anti-Islam film, but instead was a coordinated terror strike timed for the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as a crowd of hundreds attacked the consulate Tuesday evening, many of them firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

By the end of the assault, much of the building was burned out and trashed. Stevens was the first US ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.

Hillary Clinton doesn't seem to grasp what's going on either.

Until now, Libya’s struggles had largely faded from the national headlines. Americans were shocked by Wednesday’s news that heavily armed Libyans assaulted the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, setting fire to the buildings and killing four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Even Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?

Even more attacks have broken out.

Since Tuesday's deadly assault in Libya -- and a protest the same day at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo -- demonstrations, both small and large, have been reported in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran and among Muslims in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir. Security has been heightened at U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide.

While some protesters say they have not seen any of the online film, they were incensed by reports of its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.

These things alone make a few things apparent. For starters; Obama's foreign policy skills are severely lacking/non-existent. The Obama administration's policy of "peace through weakness" has caused the world to become much more unstable. And somehow Hillary Clinton is amazed that fundamentalist Muslims aren't beholden to Infidels (the U.S. in this case) for helping to oust Qaddafi.

It gets even worse; Obama was praising the Arab Spring uprising and Libya on the same day that the U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed.

Obama won't meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he has a meeting planned next week with Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi.

Want more? Just keep watching this administration.

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