The editors of The National Review cover the debacle in the Middle East that The Obama-Fuhrer’s anti-American policies in the region have brought us. Two embassies under attack in Libya and Egypt and an ambassador and a number of others murdered. Meanwhile, the Dumb Bastard goes off to Las Vegas to party. This is truly treasonous. Impeachment would be good, if the Senate was not in the hands of the same party that brought us this fiasco. If you think this is as bad as it looks, then you must vote in November. This cannot be allowed to go on or it will result in a conflagration of epic proportions.
Americans are murdered by Islamists, and sovereign American soil is violated, on the anniversary of September 11, and the first word from the administration to reach the world is an apology. So naturally, the mainstream media are focusing on what they in their considered wisdom have determined is Mitt Romney’s crass and ill-timed response to the crisis, even as the Obama campaign found itself in a foot race with the Obama administration to see whether the former could condemn Romney before the latter condemned the terrorists.
But Romney was right to call the Cairo embassy’s obsequiousness “disgraceful,” which is why the White House eventually followed Romney’s lead in disavowing it. Romney was also right to defend his statement against charges that he had “jumped the gun,” saying it is “never too early . . . to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values.” Although the press acted as if Romney’s performance at the press conference was laughably unpresidential, what he said was appropriate and true: “It breaks the hearts of all of us who think of these people who have served during their lives for the cause of freedom and justice and honor,” and “the attacks in Libya and Egypt underscore that the world remains a dangerous place, and that American leadership is still sorely needed.”
