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Posted by Reasonmclucus September 27, 2012 at 12:14 a.m.

Is Obama Losing the War on Terror?

The recent violence in the Middle East indicates Obama is losing the war on terror. If Walter Cronkite were alive and doing the evening news he might have said the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya meant the U.S. could not win the war. The attack was more successful than the attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon in the 1968 Tet Offensive.

If President Barack Obama really believes that the attacks are a "speed bump" he may be dangerously out of touch with reality. The 9/11 attack was preceded by attacks on American embassies in Africa. The new attacks may give al Qaeda confidence that it can pull off an attack on America or American interests.

The most disturbing thing about the Libyan attack is that the Obama administration should have been prepared for it. The continued instability resulting from the U.S. led overthrow of the Libyan government reduces the ability of Libyan authorities to deal with terrorists. The situation is comparable to the situation that existed after the fall of the Shah of Iran. The primary difference is that the people who attacked in Libya weren't interested in taking prisoners.

Al Qaeda operative Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi was involved at the start in the attempt to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi. Al Qaeda has now "rewarded" Obama for his assistance in helping them get established in Libya.

There are conflicting reports about whether the White House received specific warnings about possible embassy attacks. The White House and embassy officials shouldn't have needed warnings about the danger of an attack on or about the anniversary of the 9/11 attack. Whether or not attacks occur on specific targets on 9/11 of any given year may depend in large part on how prepared American facilities appear to be. Terrorists are more likely to attack sites that appear to be unprepared. If the White House didn't have intelligence that attacks could occur, it's because the White House doesn't have intelligence.

Egypt is another country that is still unstable after the fall of the old regime and thus vulnerable to terrorist actions.

The Obama administration has encouraged mass demonstrations, some of which turned violent, in the Middle East over the last few years. The success of such demonstrations in changing governments has encouraged residents of the region to believe demonstrations might help achieve other goals including changing U.S. policies.

A recent anti-Muslim film in the U.S. was used by activists to get people to conduct demonstrations in several countries. Sony corporation is planning to release a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden. We might consider bin Laden to have been public enemy number 1 at the time, but many Muslims might view the killing of Muslims by Americans in a different context. They may ignore the reason the U.S. wanted to kill bin Laden and just view it as another anti-Muslim action by the U.S. They may even decide that the mass murdering bin Laden is a martyr. In war the actions of our forces that we regard as heroic may be regarded as murder by those on the other side and vice versa. For example, Libyans welcomed the may responsible for bombing a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland as a hero after he was released for medical reasons. Obama needs to use all his persuasive abilities to discourage the release of this film.

Recent attacks on Allied personnel by Afghan forces indicates Obama is mishandling the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Withdrawing troops from a combat zone can cause host country forces that are remaining to feel the withdrawing troops are deserting and should be punished. Obama needs to delay withdrawal until he can convince local forces that American forces are withdrawing because they are no longer needed. He needs to convince Afghan forces that they can handle the situation. His job will be more difficult because of the American failure to provide any type of assistance, including military supplies, to our former South Vietnamese allies when North Vietnamese forces invaded in 1975.

The War on Terror is more like the Cold War than past shooting wars. The WOT is an endurance contest testing who has the most will to continue the fight. Afghanistan is a major battlefield of that war rather than being the war itself. Withdrawal from Afghanistan would merely shift the fighting to some other location. Withdrawal from Afghanistan could provide al Qaeda with a major propaganda victory. If the withdrawal isn't done properly, al Qaeda could use it to claim that terrorism can defeat the U.S. and use it to recruit more terrorists.

The 1968 Vietnam Tet Offensive failed to achieve its goal of provoking a general uprising against the United States. Muslim terrorists have the same goal of provoking a general uprising against the United States. They don't have an army to launch attacks, but they can use provocations by Americans which could include any "accidental killing" of civilians in Pakistan. Obama needs to suspend all operations in Pakistan until the situation cools down.

I realize allowing terrorists to use Pakistan as a sanctuary could increase the risk to American forces in Afghanistan. I was in a similar situation in Vietnam. Communist forces were able to use Cambodia as a sanctuary. The Nixon administration held off going into Cambodia until the Cambodian government requested our help to keep Cambodia from asking for Chinese assistance against the U.S. Attacking sanctuaries in Pakistan could create pressure by Pakistanis to force their government to turn against the U.S. Civilian causalities in Pakistan at the present time could be used by terrorist agitators in other countries to spark anti-U.S. demonstrations throughout the Middle East. Recent anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan could intensify if American forces conduct operations in Pakistan or if the movie about the killing of bin Laden is released.

World Net Daily http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/did-obama-send-a-gay-ambassador-to-libya/ is reporting a rumor that Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens was homosexual. Regardless of whether the rumor is true or not, if Libyan terrorists believed the rumor it might explain the brutality of his murder including his rape. http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/mideast-media-say-amb-christopher-stevens-was-raped-before-killed/ The assignment of a suspected homosexual ambassador would have been particularly provocative when it coincided with the release of the movie "Innocence of Muslims" which portrays Muhammad as a homosexual pedophile.

I don't know what the intent behind the anti-Muhammad movie was, but the Obama administration needs to investigate the possibility that a person behind the movie, although probably not all of those involved, could have been an al Qaeda undercover agent. It wouldn't be the first time someone produced a fictional movie to inflame passions. Hitler produced a phony atrocity film in World War II. Nearly a century ago in the U.S. the movie "Birth of a Nation" falsely portrayed the Reconstruction era in a way that inflamed whites against blacks.

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Klumma 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Hey, Blottster. Dude, to the guy that got stood up/ used by a dude and had a mildly retarded rant. (See your previous Blot(g). You.

Do you even respond to your stupid blogs? If not, you may want to shut it down for a while until "Stevie" says yes. E.G. Read previous blog responses. Or, if that did not help just let someone know and you can be redirected.

From you: "It never bothered me that anti-war protesters believed my participation in Vietnam was wrong. Their statements didn't upset me because I didn't think I was doing anything wrong."

Damn, Rambo. Sorry to be off topic but I just read your enthralling Bio. Then again, I guess it is on topic in a way since you put it on the table. Ever considered detailing your "In Country" accounts to Oliver Stone? Could be a movie deal in there. Could be called Platoon 2. Or, Clerks 2. Give it a shot, Warrior!

Agnostick 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I don't I've ever seen him respond to one of his blog posts; apparently, we are the unclean, unwashed masses who need saving... and He views Himself as Moses Come Down From The Mountain, with all the knowledge and answers to save us! Don't bother with pesky, meddlesome questions, boy!

... and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

RoeDapple 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Occasionally . . . but the tidy bowl man's comments are as rambling as his blogs . . .

http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/science-becoming-religion/2012/sep/24/dear-mr-romney-everyone-pays-federal-tax/#c2146942

( . . . . And y'all thought Donnuts was a bit loopy . . . )

LarryNative 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Klumma, I hope one day you have someone you care about enter this world mentally handicapped and then see how funny it is to make mock of these individuals after you learn the emotional and financial hardships these families endure. You are a piece of excrement in my book.

Klumma 7 months, 3 weeks ago

For you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCHESB0-7Q

kernal 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Gee, I saw this same headline and some of the same sentences elsewhere on the web the past few weeks. Same Walter Cronkite reference. Missed some of the silly drivel since I strive to avoid bs websites run by paranoid schizophrenics and other extremists.

jonas_opines 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"Is Obama Losing the War on Terror?"

Sure, why not? Or, alternatively: No, not at all.

See, the fun thing about declaring wars on Conceptual things, like Terror, Hate, etc., as opposed to states, countries, groups, governments, etc., is that anyone can then pick any metric that they want to prove a win or a loss, losing or winning. Since there is no clearly defined end-game or goal, we're free to make up whatever we want.

So what's the end goal: No lives ever lost to terrorists? The surrender of terror itself? Peace in the middle east?

How many of those goals are feasible? How many are achievable? How many are even conceptually possible?

Personally, this is why I tend not to trust the idea of declaring wars on concepts, or inanimate objects (drugs). Because there's no clearly-defined win-point or lose-point, and what it leads to, as we've seen in almost all cases, if not all, is perpetual war.

Agnostick 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Hard to say. If you Google "reasonmclucus" a variety of interesting links will show up. The sixth or seventh one down, from "Israel Insider" is particularly... informative.

Similarly, if you branch off of your first Google search and do a search on "Jalexson," you get more interesting things... including a link to the Swift Boat Veterans web site ( http://www.swiftvets.com )

I could post direct links to things, but someone might get upset. :rolleyes:

agnostick@excite.com

LarryNative 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I think he is a Democrat posing as a crazy GOP member to make all GOPers sound stupid.

90sgirl 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Seems the more you read the more evident it becomes that this Reasonmclucus is a flaming narcissist.

But life is short and this idiotic time waster has used up his allotment.

tolawdjk 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Let me know if I missed any high points here.

1) The author's opinion is that the stability provided by the leader of Lybia, a known supporter of terrorism, was better than the instablity used by terrorism that currently exists. This instabilty is Obama's fault in the author's opinion.

2) The author is advocating that Obama supress the freedom of speech of a corporation (and a citizen of the US, under current legal interpretation) because it -may or may not - make some people across the globe angry. However, the author says it is okay that Obama has "encouraged" other citizens of other nations to demonstrate, using a right to free speech that they may, or may not, have spelled out in their country's constitution. That some of these demonstrations have turned violent is also Obama's fault, in the author's opinion.

3) While, in the author's opinion, Obama is loosing the war on terror, Obama needs to suspend all operations in Pakistan because elements in Pakistan support terrorism and fighting the war on terror in Pakistan would upset these elements.

4) There is rumor, floated by World Net Daily and unsubstantiated by any other source, that the now -dead- US ambassador to Lybia may or may not have been gay. The author feels that this is Obama's fault that a US citizen was killed for practicing his God given right to Freedom of Liberty, The implication is that the POTUS should have somehow suppressed this individuals Rights.

Did I miss anything?

Agnostick 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Somebody loves Freeperland!!!

FREEP THIS BOARD!

riverdrifter 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Maybe the terrorists got to GOES 13 which had been acting up lately and totally kicked the bucket on Monday. http://www.space.com/17748-major-weather-satellite-goes-13-fails.html

Liberty275 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I don't like too many of Obama's ideas or policies. and at best he represents the office poorly, but I have to give him credit on foreign policy. He's ordering effective missions and drone strikes, not closing gitmo and suckering the rest of the world into thinking we care what they think I don't particularly like his apologies, but they are all alligator tears.

Also some speech a few days ago I think he walked a pretty fine line concerning the film trailer telling the world Americans do dumb things like make stupid movie trailers and he finds them repulsive. Next sentence though, he said he will stand for our constitutional rights in the face of any people that don't like what we say. Finally, I have a chance to be proud of the president.

I'd concentrate on something other than Obama's foreign policy job if you want to beat him. Jobs, inflation, debt, a poor attempt at socialized medicine, his clumsiness without a teleprompter, his lies, union support - pick one. You have a plethora of angles that will work much better.

Katara 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Klumma 7 months, 3 weeks ago

CORKY!! The Corkster!?! Who would have known? You gave up an acting CAREER for Blogging? Hey man, takes guts. Although you have aged I knew I recognized you from somewhere.

Yes, I understand that the "Industry" can be brutal. Hence, in your aged wisdom you have turned to Blogging to fight back. Yeah, that rocks in a small way for you, me thinks. Must have been hard to turn in the contact lenses for the ole' frame rig. But you have matured, yes?

Let us remember when you were fighting the good fight, and fighting the Powers that Be.

corky fights the power by omegamoo

Yes, growing means making choices. Am sorry to say that you made the wrong one, Dork. Fight the power. BTW - your Moonwalk needs much improvement.

Have a nice day, Dork. (Smiley face)

LarryNative 7 months, 3 weeks ago

The govt did a poor job defending our embassy in Libya and if you think otherwise, stop drinking Obama juice and look at the facts. That being the case, our govt still gets an A+ in keeping our country safe and if you think otherwise, stop drinking the GOP juice and look at the facts.

gl0ck0wn3r 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"I realize allowing terrorists to use Pakistan as a sanctuary could increase the risk to American forces in Afghanistan. I was in a similar situation in Vietnam. Communist forces were able to use Cambodia as a sanctuary." - That there is some good logic, Vern. I particularly enjoy the history by analogy in which you reference your brutal experience as a postal clerk in the 'Nam.