Friday, October 12, 2012

Another Foreign Policy Epic Fail

From Fox News: A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official at the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.
The Yemeni officials said the killing bore the hallmarks of an Al Qaeda attack, but it was too early to determine if the group was behind it. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The assassination resembles other attacks targeting Yemeni intelligence, military and security officials in retaliation for a wide military offensive by Yemen's U.S.-backed government against Al Qaeda's branch in the country.
Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Washington considers the most dangerous offshoot of the terror network, had taken advantage of a security and political vacuum created by last year Arab Spring-inspired uprising and seized territories and cities in the south. The government-led offensive has pushed the militants out to mountainous areas from where they have been staging suicide attacks and assassinations inside cities.
In less than a month, we have had 5 people killed at 2 different embassy attacks.  That is unacceptable.  If Obama cannot keep the embassies safe then he needs to close down all embassies that have security problems.  
This shouldn't be a political issue but a common sense issue.  The U.S. embassies have to be the safest areas of a country, except maybe the country's equivalent to the White House.  
But right now, it appears that we have unsafe embassies and the Obama is in over it's head it doesn't seem to know what to do.
How many more people will be killed because the Obama administration, including Hillary Clinton, have no clue what they are doing?

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