Nine days from now, it will once again be September 11th. It will be twelve years since the horrific attacks of 2001. It will be one year since the assault on the US embassy in Benghazi that left the American ambassador and three other brave men dead. We need to remember these events, but that is not why I am writing about them. The truth is that there is a good chance that we will see yet another terror attack this year on 9-11. We need to know what, if anything, the federal government is doing to prevent such attacks.
Look, in normal times, every American would assume that the president and the rest of the federal government would take seriously this threat of an anniversary attack. These, however, are not normal times. After last year's attack in Benghazi, president Obama and his highest deputies went out of their way to lie to the American people about what had happened. For weeks they told us that the attack had been a spontaneous response to a youtube video and not an organized terror attack. After that lie fell apart, Obama and his people did all they could to hide the folks who were on the ground during the attack from Congress and all other investigators. Obama even has allowed the people who perpetrated the attack to avoid any retribution even though America knows full well who they are, where they live and exactly how to find them. Will we see a repeat in 2013 of this sort of attack?
This year, it is even more likely that US interests will get attacked. Most likely the Assad regime in Syria and its partners in Iran will attack US interests disguised as some sort of Sunni terrorist group like al Qaeda. That will put more pressure on Congress not to authorize a strike on the Assad regime which is contending with these terrorists every day. From the Assad/Iranian point of view, such an attack would be a "twofer". The attack would hurt American interests and the enemies of Assad and the Iranians would be blamed.
Right now, all eyes in Washington are on the Syrian crisis. We need, however, to find out just what is happening to shore up America's defenses prior to the anniversary on 9-11. There is too much at stake to just rely on the amateurs in the Obama White House to handle it properly.
Look, in normal times, every American would assume that the president and the rest of the federal government would take seriously this threat of an anniversary attack. These, however, are not normal times. After last year's attack in Benghazi, president Obama and his highest deputies went out of their way to lie to the American people about what had happened. For weeks they told us that the attack had been a spontaneous response to a youtube video and not an organized terror attack. After that lie fell apart, Obama and his people did all they could to hide the folks who were on the ground during the attack from Congress and all other investigators. Obama even has allowed the people who perpetrated the attack to avoid any retribution even though America knows full well who they are, where they live and exactly how to find them. Will we see a repeat in 2013 of this sort of attack?
This year, it is even more likely that US interests will get attacked. Most likely the Assad regime in Syria and its partners in Iran will attack US interests disguised as some sort of Sunni terrorist group like al Qaeda. That will put more pressure on Congress not to authorize a strike on the Assad regime which is contending with these terrorists every day. From the Assad/Iranian point of view, such an attack would be a "twofer". The attack would hurt American interests and the enemies of Assad and the Iranians would be blamed.
Right now, all eyes in Washington are on the Syrian crisis. We need, however, to find out just what is happening to shore up America's defenses prior to the anniversary on 9-11. There is too much at stake to just rely on the amateurs in the Obama White House to handle it properly.
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