Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
In the wake of the recent US Embassy attacks, I have asked; “Where were the Marines during the embassy breaches? “Who told them to stand down”? In the case of the US Embassy breach in Egypt, it appears that I now have a most disturbing answer.
She [US Ambassador to Egypt Ann Patterson] did not permit US Marine guards to carry live ammunition, according to USMC blogs. Thus she neutralized any US military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy. In this respect, she did not defend US sovereign territory and betrayed her oath of office. She neutered the Marines posted to defend the embassy, trusting the Egyptians over the Marines.
She apparently judges that Egyptian President Mursi spearheads a democracy and a new civil order, despite the mounting evidence that Mursi disregards US interests, cavorts with US enemies, is a budding authoritarian ruler who disdains parliament and does not honor the basic obligations of diplomatic agreements and the Geneva conventions.
Readers, by definition, whenever an embassy of any country is overrun by locals in any country, everyone knows that the ambassador and senior staff must be replaced.
Timing
Readers also should remember that by definition the time for an official government protest for an attack on a US embassy is always when rioters attack or deface the embassy compound itself, long before they violate or penetrate the US sovereign territory or deface the US Flag. Not nine hours later and not when the details become clear. Then it is too late to take action to keep an embassy from burning or to protect American diplomats. The objective is safety, more than knowledge.
The US simply failed to defend itself.It bears repeating: apologies never mollify criminals. Only law abiding citizens believe such baloney. Criminals consider apologies to be acts of submission, especially in foreign cultures.
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When NightWatch wrote last night, every news channel carried video footage of the violation of the US Embassy; the destruction of the Embassy’s US flag; the raising of the Islamic flag – not the al Qaida flag, mind you – and the burning of the US flag.
AFTER those events, the news services carried Ambassador Patterson’s denunciation of Americans at fault. Ambassador Patterson at no time denounced in public the Islamists who violated her Embassy.
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The bottom line is that some deferential, weak US diplomats have done more to encourage anti-American outbursts and to promote the perception of US weakness and subservience to Muslims than US citizens exercising free speech. They need to be vetted and replaced because they do not speak for us.[...]
Submission is surrender.
THIS. CAN. NOT. STAND.
H/T’s Joe Siewell and the Washington Free Beacon
Previously:
- ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Dedicated To ‘Obama The Impotent’ AKA ‘He Who Bows’
- Attention ‘Obama The Impotent’! A 3rd Breach On Your Watch! The US Embassy In Yemen Under Assault [Photos]
- Trailer For “Innocence of Muslims” Mo Mocking Film That Sparked Deadly Islamic Jihad In Libya & Muslim Riots In Egypt –Filmmaker Sam Bacile In Hiding
- Romney: Obama Admin. Response To Egypt & Libya Embassy Attacks “Disgraceful”
- Libya: Armed With RPG’s Muslim Mob Sets Fire To US Consulate [Update 3: US Ambassador & 3 Staff Members Dead - Video of Consulate Being Burned To The Ground]
- Egypt: Muslims Tear Down American Flag At US Embassy Replace It With Black Flag Of Jihad [Photos & Video] –Embassy Bows
Then SHE NEEDS TO GO and be held responsible for the deaths as well as Barry!!!
YOU MEAN NO RUBBER BULLETS EITHER YOU KNOW THE SAME KIND THEY USE ON OUR BOARDERS THAT THE AGENT WAS KILLED? SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR THIS…BUT THEN THEY WORK FOR OBAMA.
Insane!
Civilian control of the military only works when the civilians in charge aren’t asshats of the highest order…
Rules of Engagement! And what gives an Ambassador the authority to leave US soil unprotected? Arrgghhh!
They’ve been set up by our pres. to die.
same problem in Lebonnon wasn’t it…no ammo….freeking politicians never learn, and our boys always burn
Same thing happened at the border
Orders from their Commander in Chief? A policy just for any American Embassy, but not for others?
lets not arm the Military, and lets take the guns from the civilians………..idiot(s)
“VOTE VOTE VOTE NObama OUT OF OFFICE NOV 6TH 2012!” BECAUSE FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! YOUR CHILDREN WILL THANK YOU BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING FOR AMERICA!
Why are they even there then??
Great Scott!
Another reason the mother f-er needs to get out of the white house.
WTF ? I’ve heard some stupid things in my life. But this BY FAR is the stupidist. And the Obama admin didn’t see anything wrong w that? Did they try to change that policy? Prob not. Don’t want to offend other countries. Even if it means putting American lives at risk. Wow.
Unbelievable !
Live ammo carried for his fundraising event in Vegas?
yep, let’s disarm the good guys – what a terrific idea. If we disarm the good guys (military protecting the embassy in this case), then I’m sure that the bad guys will get rid of their weapons…
Idiocy!
Wtf!!!!
That decision comes from higher up than the Ambassador. Someone’s feeding those Marines a line of shit.
All part of his plan! He really does speak out of both sides of his mouth!
Ridiculous!
Holy Mother of God! My brother is rolling over in his grave.
Turning our military troops into Barney Fyfe deputies . Appeaser In Chief .
then why are they even there?????? what is the purpose of a Marine on guard duty, with an empty gun????? Who’s running the show in this country now? Oh ya, I forgot, that guy, no wonder. You can’t take a Marine’s ammo from him, it isn’t American!
I don’t want to be a marine at an embassy
Why is the Ambassador dictating orders to the Marines?!