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Obama
Doctrine Leading America Toward Another
9/11
by Ernest Istook
According
to national security expert Dr. James
Carafano, the terrorist attack in Algeria shows that America
is on the
path to another 9/11, thanks to the Obama Administration's foreign and
military
policy.
Carafano
is Vice President of Foreign and
Defense Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He told me,
“The
warning lights are blinking red,” even while President Barack Obama
pretends
that things are under control.
The
terrorists, Carafano claims, showed in
Algeria that they have the ability to threaten American interests. He
pointed
out that the attack on the Sahara Desert natural-gas complex
demonstrated
several elements of a well-functioning international terrorist network.
Those
include:
Ability
to place an insider among the target’s
people to gain intel
A
large group (30+) of terrorists involved and
coordinated in the assault
Ability
to assemble people and weapons across
borders (even from Canada) for a trans-national attack
Carafano
told me that he sees a pattern
developing:
We’ve
got multiple terrorist attacks, each
increasing in sophistication and organization, while the President of
the
United States is ensuring us we’ve got this under control. Here we have
a
President telling us--after Benghazi, after Algeria--telling the
American
people, "a decade of wars [are] coming to an end, we’ve got this under
control." [Meantime] the lights are blinking red.
Carafano
summed up Obama’s performance in one
word: “Horrific.”
“We
were heading towards… 9/11, and I’m just
afraid we’re on that path again,” Carafano said.
The
September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
followed a series of earlier attacks, Carafano noted, such as bombings
in North
Africa, the attack on the USS Cole, and the bombing of the Khobar
Towers. Yet
the warning signs were not heeded.
Carafano
told me that President Obama doesn’t
notice that re-emerging pattern: “The President thinks he’s taking care
of the
United States and I do believe he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the
room.
There’s something called cognitive dissonance, which is when things
don’t go
exactly like you say they are. You just rearrange them in your head so
it all
makes sense to you.”
Carafano
sees the terrorists’ agenda that Obama
does not: “Wherever there has been chaos and disorganization
opportunity, Al
Qaeda has tried to organize foreign fighters and send them in there to
create a
new battle front in their holy war.”
He
cited Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya as
following that pattern, as Al Qaeda fills in a power vacuum while also
grabbing
unsecured weapons. The overthrow of Libya’s dictator Qaddafi--aided by
Obama--was a golden opportunity to terrorists, Carafano says:
Al
Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is an
Algerian affiliate of Al Qaeda… was just about dead. They were on their
knees,
they were broke, they were laughing-stock and Libya let them get back
in the
game. That leads to Benghazi. They outsource the Islamist insurgency to
Mali,
so now we have a new Afghanistan in Mali, and then we have this attack
in
Algeria, which is also linked to Mali.
Carafano
said Obama’s choice for new CIA
Director, John Brennan, “unfortunately is the architect of Obama’s
counter-terrorism strategy” and is letting terrorists build strength.
America’s
own watchdogs are lulled to sleep by Obama’s approach, Carafano noted:
“You see
a plot like this [in Algeria], especially after Benghazi, in the same
part of
the world get pulled off. And people in intelligence are just kind of
blinking
their eyelids and saying, ‘I didn’t know about that.’”
I
recounted that America was given months of
advance warnings from the murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris
Stevens, who
reported that there were terrorist training camps in the vicinity of
Benghazi
and elsewhere in Libya, Mali, and Algeria. Yet those reports were
ignored by
the State Department.
Carafano
doubted that any light will be shed by
the long-awaited Congressional testimony of outgoing Secretary of State
Hillary
Clinton. He said he expects it to be a meaningless Kabuki dance. Nor
does he
expect improvements from Secretary of State nominee John Kerry or
Secretary of
Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, because both follow the Obama Doctrine,
namely:
Outsource
national security to international
organizations
Make
friends with your enemy
Ignore
the War on Terror
Substitute
diplomacy for hard power
Obama
re-committed to most of those very items
in his second inaugural address. Carafano summed up his concerns: “The
lights
are blinking red. We are reverting to policies of the 1990’s, which are
exactly
the policies that got us to 9/11.”
Source:
Breitbart
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