Obama Surrenders America To Terror
By Larry Johnson on October 6, 2010 at 4:00 AM in Current Affairs
Bumped Up
News just on the wires that the United States will issue a travel advisory warning Americans to stay away from crowded places frequented by Westerners in Europe. I shit you not. Talk about cowardice and surrendering to terrorism. We laughed when we derided the French several years as a frightened band of cowering primates (the precise term was “surrender monkey”). But now it is Barack Obama and his pathetic National Security Team.
This decision was made late yesterday at an NSC meeting presided over by former CIA hack, John Brennan. Brennan, if you recall, failed to properly and accurately count the number of terrorist attacks in 2003 when he was running the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. (Read it here.) Brennan was a screw up when he worked for George W. Bush and he is a bigger screwer upper now.
Here’s the situation. The United States intelligence community, CIA specifically, has acquired information from a source believed to be reliable who is reporting in a very general fashion that followers of Bin Laden are keen on attacking hotels and tourist spots in Europe. But, once you get past the scary warning of generic mayhem, there are no specifics about when, where or how.
Brennan, who is in charge of the counter terrorism portfolio, has failed big time in carrying out his responsibility on this issue. How?
Instead of bringing together a full interagency task force to scrub this intelligence and determine the exact nature of the threat, he is opting for the ultimate cover your ass approach. He’s hitting the panic button and is directing State Department to issue a public warning to the effect that Americans traveling to Europe should avoid public places frequented by Westerners. This is so fucking stupid I don’t know where to begin.
So, stay away from the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Westminster Hall in London. Don’t go near the Spanish steps in Rome. However, feel free to stroll around muslim neighborhoods in some of the poorer suburbs of Paris.
Rather than man up and deal with the threat in a sensible manner, the Obama Administration is going to depths not even the fools in the Bush Administration would consider. This is shameful. Can’t wait to watch the European governments erupt over this slap in the face. America the coward, no longer home of the brave. No time for a steel spine and stiff upper lip. Led by Barack Obama and his team of nitwits, we are pissing ourselves like a two year old child in diapers.


















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