For the last two years, I have basically mocked president Obama for ever saying that it was an internet video that caused the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The idea that an organized attack with heavy weapons was caused by the posting of a video was so ridiculous that I simply could not believe that Obama used that line even as a phony cover story. How could Obama ever expect intelligent Americans to believe that anyone would be driven to attack by a video?
I was wrong, and I now admit it. We now have proof that there can be an attack as the result of a video. When ISIS killed hundreds and then thousands in Syria, Obama was unimpressed and unmoved. When ISIS forces came out of the desert and took Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq, Obama was again non-responsive. The ISIS forces rounded up Christians and other non-Sunni Moslems in those two cities and slaughtered many, including some by crucifixion and stoning. Obama still did nothing. When ISIS forces took Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq and surrounded villages populated by Yazidis and Christians in order to target those people for death, Obama still did nothing. It was the problem of the central Iraqi government, we were told, and that government is not diverse enough, so there is nothing the USA can do.
Then came the execution of American journalist James Foley, a video of which was posted on the internet. Suddenly, that video made Obama come alive and order American air strikes. Another journalist was killed and the video posted by ISIS, and now Obama is speaking to the nation to tell us his strategy for dealing a death blow to ISIS. Internet videos really did get a world leader to take military action that resulted in the death of a great many people.
I apologize to president Obama. He was right in the first place. There really are people in the world (like him) who are motivated to launch attacks by an internet video.
I was wrong, and I now admit it. We now have proof that there can be an attack as the result of a video. When ISIS killed hundreds and then thousands in Syria, Obama was unimpressed and unmoved. When ISIS forces came out of the desert and took Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq, Obama was again non-responsive. The ISIS forces rounded up Christians and other non-Sunni Moslems in those two cities and slaughtered many, including some by crucifixion and stoning. Obama still did nothing. When ISIS forces took Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq and surrounded villages populated by Yazidis and Christians in order to target those people for death, Obama still did nothing. It was the problem of the central Iraqi government, we were told, and that government is not diverse enough, so there is nothing the USA can do.
Then came the execution of American journalist James Foley, a video of which was posted on the internet. Suddenly, that video made Obama come alive and order American air strikes. Another journalist was killed and the video posted by ISIS, and now Obama is speaking to the nation to tell us his strategy for dealing a death blow to ISIS. Internet videos really did get a world leader to take military action that resulted in the death of a great many people.
I apologize to president Obama. He was right in the first place. There really are people in the world (like him) who are motivated to launch attacks by an internet video.
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