By Alan Caruba
All Presidents are hostages to events. It is, however, the manner in which they respond that shapes their outcome.
By the afternoon of September 11, the Obama administration scrambled to disavow a statement to the assault on the U.S. embassy in Cairo that had been issued by the embassy.
The statement said, “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”
“Misguided individuals”?
“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect views of the United States government” an unnamed administration official told Politico.
But the statement did reflect the Obama administration’s views as expressed repeatedly over the years. Indeed, in condemning the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and his staff, issued on September 12, was repeated in President Obama’s statement. “While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the senseless violence that took the lives of these public services.”
The attacks, deliberately timed to coincide with the eleventh anniversary of the worst attack on the U.S. homeland since Pearl Harbor on 9/11, the administration made no effort to connect them. It made no effort to explain to Americans that this nation is at war with Islam, a war made manifest in Afghanistan following 9/11, pursued against the dictator Saddam Hussein, and which the President himself has been personally carrying out with drone attacks on al Qaeda leaders in Yemen and in Pakistan; a war personified in the ten-year effort to find and kill Osama bin Laden.
It was a war declared by Iran when, in 1979, Islamist revolutionaries scaled the walls of the American embassy in Tehran and took our diplomats hostage for 444 days until releasing them the same day Ronald Reagan took the oath of office for his first term in office. He would later order an attack on Moammar Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya after he sponsored terrorist attacks carried out against American targets in Germany and the bombing of an airliner over Great Britain carrying Americans. Gaddafi sued for peace.
If Obama had announced that the proposed funding to Egypt would not be sent, nor similar support for the nascent Libyan government that replaced Gaddafi then, at the very least, a message would have been sent that we will not support governments that stand aside when such attacks occur.
Obama’s “diplomacy” with the Middle East has been a message of apology.
All this is reminiscent of former President Carter’s failed attempts to assert American power and outrage. For all the criticism of President Bush, after 9/11 he swiftly authorized the bombing of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Obama has been trying to open lines of communication with the Taliban instead of steadfastly pursuing a policy of destroying them. In this regard, ignoring Pakistan’s support for them has been a failure of spectacular misjudgment.
Never forget that Osama bin Laden was found and killed in Pakistan where he had received sanctuary, living barely a mile from that nation’s equivalent of our West Point academy.
Contrast that with Republican candidate, Mitt Romney’s response to the Libyan killings. “I am outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt, and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
This goes way beyond the politics of the current campaigns. It goes to the heart of the fact that America has been under attack since the killing of marines in Beirut in 1983 and by the attacks on our embassies there and in Africa, and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
Islam is at war with America and the West. Iran has covertly been waging this war. And the Obama administration’s response has been to attack our only true ally in the Middle East, Israel, openly withdrawing from support for a nation that, along with ours, is threatened by Iran.
We must stop apologizing to our enemies and begin to punish them before they once again bring their war to our shores.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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Comment by Jorge Aviles on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pm and here my apology UP YOU`RS Is about time christians stend up to evil
Here is one MAHUMMAD IS DEAD,CHRIST LIVES!! and thats the truth!!
Comment by Jorge Aviles on September 14, 2012 at 2:55pm The video came from someone from Egypt thats a christian.That what I heard on the radio talk show Gibbson.
Comment by Genevieve J. Douma on September 14, 2012 at 9:25am I still don't know about this internet film,have not seen it. What is it about ,is it still on internet ?
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on September 13, 2012 at 8:24pm Just who should OBOZO Apologixe too? The U.S. and US.
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on September 13, 2012 at 8:23pm 
Comment by Virginia Gomez on September 13, 2012 at 5:36pm I HAVE A BETTER SOLUTION, WHY NOT SEND OBUMA, HILLARY CLINTON , PELOSI, REID, HOLDER AND ALL THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT OBUMA AND PAY A ONE WAY TICKET TO CAIRO, LIBYA, SYRIA, AND LET THEM BOW DOWN, GET ON THEIR KNEES AND ASK THE MOBS FOR FORGIVENESS AND IF ITS GIVEN, SO BE IT; BUT IF THE MOBS ARE SO ENRAGED AND THEY DECIDE TO BEHEAD OUR GOVTMT OFFICIALS THEN "GO WITH GOD". WE CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.
Comment by Cynthia Catsman on September 13, 2012 at 11:48am Seems we've reached a point where there is little difference between enemies of the state and the state itself.
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on September 13, 2012 at 11:17am Why would a President of the Greatest nation on the earth apologize to muslims.
Treason is the first reason - and a person who doesn't give a billy-be-damned about the United States is the other.
This President has committed enough Treason to last a 100 years into the future.
Get Busy Congress and do your jobs or get out of your chair and leave.
One is going in next election and that is 30+ year Cliff Sterns from florida who would not even respond to his mail and email.
BY BY BABY.
Comment by Thomas Angle on September 13, 2012 at 4:31am We can't say that Mohammed was a pedophile
I say it all the time. Heck I do it every chance I get. He is a pedophile, his followers are pedophiles and they worship Satan. If I pass a muslim on the road, street or anywhere I make it a point to stare them down(well I do that with obama supporters also. Wait he is a muslim also, hmm). The only way I would be glad to talk to them if they want to talk seriously about Jesus. Until them, I take them at their word that I either submit to islam (the pedophile prophet religion) or die. Those are fighting words and I do have a family to protect.
Obama makes me sick,he is a wet noodle. god help us if he wins in Nov.
He is not a wet noodle. He is a muslim and support the destruction of this country. We are the wet noodle for allowing it to go on. What would have the Americans done in the 40's with someone who sang the praises of the Nazis or Japaneses? I can garran-dang-tee you they would not of allowed him to hold office let alone elected hi president. Think in that one real hard and tell me how you love you country. obama is either a traitor or an enemy combatant.
Comment by Kenneth Paul Russell on September 13, 2012 at 2:52am Obama slobbering all over himself IS the reason that these terrorists feel embolden to do these sort of acts against America, and Americans all over the world! I am sick and tired of this Usurper-in-chief telling the rest of the world we are sorry for our actions! We're sorry we saved Egypt, and Syria, from the dictators that brutalized it's citizens? We're sorry that we have freedom of speech to be judgmental about the Muslim "cult"!? They "murdered", our Ambassador, a man who dedicated his life, to helping the middle east, and the oppressed people in that part of the world!
Someone! Please tell Obama, to SHUT UP! He's nothing more than an embarrassment, to the United States of America!
As an American, I am sick to death of this Muslim Obama, leading our great country to a Godless Hell!
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