The Apologist Policy

By Semperpapa

Remember when some American people were incensed by the Obama apology tour just following his coronation as king of America? Remember when you felt your blood pressure shoot up as he called America “arrogant”?
Well that appears to be not just an anti-American stance on the part of a man who really dislikes the country he has been elected to lead, but also a systematic policy, handed down from the White House to the minions executing day-to-day operations.

On August 6 2010, the State Department unveiled its Country Report on Terrorism 2009. It was unveiled by none other than Daniel Benjamin, the Nation’s Counterterrorism Coordinator.

In his remarks, Mr. Benjamin stated that one of the strategies Obama wants to use to fight international terrorism is the analysis of American role in fueling the increase of terror activities.
What the report basically says is that the efforts made by law enforcement and the Military, the application of intelligence methodology to combat terrorism is not enough if not combined with the analysis of American actions that may contribute to the radicalization of our enemies.

Benjamin says that questions should be asked regarding American presence in certain parts of the world as it relates to the way America is accepted there and that the answers should be used to ascertain if our presence is a catalyst for increased terror activity.

“I do think that that is something that is very much at the center of our policy making and our deliberations,” Benjamin said. “It very much affects our thoughts regarding our presence in particular parts of the world where we may not be wanted as much as we might think or might like.”

Clearly a shot at our foreign policy of the past, it appears that Mr. Benjamin is a believer, just as his superiors are that America bears responsibilities for the terror attacks our Nation has incurred over the years. Maybe it was our support of the State of Israel or our presence in Saudi Arabia or in the increasingly Islam infected Europe, it looks like the administration Apology Policy is in full swing.
Benjamin added:
“I do think that that is something that is very much at the center of our policy making and our deliberations. It very much affects our thoughts regarding our presence in particular parts of the world where we may not be wanted as much as we might think or might like.”
And finally:
“There’s a wide range of different circumstances in which we find terrorists, but the question is, ‘What’s the appropriate way to deal with them? What threat do they pose to us, what are the long-term implications for our security, but also for our ability to work with countries in that region?'”

So, if I get this straight, the policy of the White House and State Department is to propagate American foreign policies to the rest of the world. In the particular case, the policy is to reach out into the mind set of the enemy and find the way to change our National approach so that the enemy is not going to be too mad at us and continue to try to kill us.
Definitely not a very encouraging prospect for the safety and security of my Nation and my family, unless the statements of Mr. Benjamin are going to be qualified with a follow up in the form of “…and if that does not work, we’ll kill them all”.

I understand that the fringe Left, from Obama to Code Pink, is convinced that the foreign policies of America have been the kind of imperialistic policies that have translated in America having such a vast colonial empire, but the appeasement of our enemy can be considered the primary cause of the attack of September 11.
The scourge of al Qaeda was very well known to the intelligence community, including the role that Osama bin Laden was playing in that organization.
But the intelligence community was prevented to exchange information with internal Law Enforcement, so that all the activities entertained by the 19 perpetrators of the attacks of that day were destined to go unnoticed.
The inactivity of Clinton and his surrogates throughout eight years of that administration was instrumental in giving bin Laden and Sheik Mohamed the necessary impression that terrorist attacks were going to be handled as criminal, law enforcement issues, controlled by the United States laws and Constitution.
America’s enemies have reached a point of perfection in using our laws and regulations against us, and pointing this out is going to get me a label of ‘intolerant’ and ‘racist’, which matters very little to me.

Going back to inactivity, attempting to appease an ideology that has sworn to destroy our way of life, is only going to result in a lessen security posture, just as our Nation was in the years prior to the 9-11 attacks.

Just my thoughts!