On Tuesday, I posted President Obama's attempt to blame the current attacks on America on 'radicalization'.....but for some reason one can only surmise....refuses to pinpoint the actual enemy.
He obfuscates rather than focuses the message, with blurred passages, like this:
"Finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States. Whether its a shooter at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin; a plane flying into a building in Texas; or the extremists who killed 168 people at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City America has confronted many forms of violent extremism in our time." President Obama Speaks on the U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy | The White House
Those are the 'radicals' attacking America???
Today, Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ, demanding clarity.
1."More than anything, what one should want from an American president on matters of U.S. strategic interests is clarity.....Then there's a speech by President Obama on America's national interests.
2. At the end of a long article Tuesday in the New York Times, describing the president's laborious path to the terror speech's proposals, one finds this passage: "Even as he set new standards, a debate broke out about what they actually meant and what would actually change."
3. The bureaucrats translating the text of the Affordable Care Act are having similar debates about intent and meaning. But f the national security bureaucracies are uncertain about a president's intentions, the costs may be counted in lives.
4.... his thoughts on terror at the National Defense University,... at the Naval Academy's commencement in Annapolis and then at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day. Those speeches also reflected the Obama technique on matters of war and peace. They combined eloquence, empathy, scapegoating and politics. Listeners the world over may ask: What exactly is he saying to us?
5. .... fighting and dying in Iraq." And "this time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan." Not one positive word about either effort."
6. .... it is unprecedented for a commander in chief to encourage feelings of failure and defeat.
7....a presidency spreading ambiguity about national purpose is unsettling."
Henninger: Obama's Dangerous Confusions - WSJ.com
He obfuscates rather than focuses the message, with blurred passages, like this:
"Finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States. Whether its a shooter at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin; a plane flying into a building in Texas; or the extremists who killed 168 people at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City America has confronted many forms of violent extremism in our time." President Obama Speaks on the U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy | The White House
Those are the 'radicals' attacking America???
Today, Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ, demanding clarity.
1."More than anything, what one should want from an American president on matters of U.S. strategic interests is clarity.....Then there's a speech by President Obama on America's national interests.
2. At the end of a long article Tuesday in the New York Times, describing the president's laborious path to the terror speech's proposals, one finds this passage: "Even as he set new standards, a debate broke out about what they actually meant and what would actually change."
3. The bureaucrats translating the text of the Affordable Care Act are having similar debates about intent and meaning. But f the national security bureaucracies are uncertain about a president's intentions, the costs may be counted in lives.
4.... his thoughts on terror at the National Defense University,... at the Naval Academy's commencement in Annapolis and then at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day. Those speeches also reflected the Obama technique on matters of war and peace. They combined eloquence, empathy, scapegoating and politics. Listeners the world over may ask: What exactly is he saying to us?
5. .... fighting and dying in Iraq." And "this time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan." Not one positive word about either effort."
6. .... it is unprecedented for a commander in chief to encourage feelings of failure and defeat.
7....a presidency spreading ambiguity about national purpose is unsettling."
Henninger: Obama's Dangerous Confusions - WSJ.com
