Obama’s Fog Of War

There’s been a whole lot written and said about Benghazi, but in my view, few are hitting the nail on the head.  What is really going on is that President Obama’s worldview is collapsing in the face of reality, and even he can’t prevaricate enough to sustain that view in the public’s mind.

Despite using both the words “terror” and “Benghazi” somewhere in a long speech on September 12, Obama later blamed the Benghazi attack on “the video” — first on Letterman on September 16 and then at the U.N. on September 25.  Anyone with eyes and ears knows that Obama and his people were blaming the attack on “the video” for days and weeks after the attack.  If you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Chris Matthews or the newspaper he tells us to read.

How many times do we have to hear that some attack by jihadis is a reaction to something we did?  Did we allow someone to post a video on YouTube?  Did we allow someone to draw a cartoon?  Did one of our infidel Marines touch a Koran with an ungloved hand?  Did we let girls go to school?  How many ways are there to offend these people?

These jihadis tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.  While not totally successful, that attempt killed six people and injured more than a thousand.  Osama bin Laden wrote his first fatwa, declaring war against the U.S., in 1996 — during President Clinton’s first term.  In his second fatwa, written in 1998, he said this:

On that basis, and in compliance with God’s order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it[.]