Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Why is it shocking to the scared little chickens on the right that we could absorb another attack?
Oh wait, I think it's obvious.
"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger," Obama reportedly said.
According to the book, Obama said, "I have two years with the public on this" and pressed advisers for ways to avoid a big escalation in the Afghanistan war.
"I'm not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars," he reportedly told Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in October 2009. "I want an exit strategy," he said at one meeting. Privately, he told Vice President Biden to push his alternative strategy opposing a big troop buildup in meetings.
Obviously he doesn't want to add more trillions to the national debt as Bush did wiith his 2 wars. But the right wing wacko don't care about the deficit. They just want to smear Obama with all the smears they can possibly come up with.
First, I'm happy Queen found the quote so it is able to be read in context.
Second, it seems that the smartest president America has ever had chose a poor word to describe persevering terrorism, which seems to be what he meant, rather than "absorbing" terrorism.
Likewise, the American people can "absorb" a lot of Barak Hussein's bullshit.
No doubt Barak Hussien's reaction to 9/11 would be perfectly Clintonesque: cheap, and as completely innefective as the reaction after the 1993 WTC bombing.
My, my, Samson, still the dumb ass, I see. The perps of the 1993 attack were caught and prosecuted. The ones from 9-11 are still alive and free.