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The Gulf oil spill is not 9/11

hypocritexposer

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The Gulf oil spill is not 9/11: the Obama administration plumbs new depths of stupidity

By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: June 15th, 2010


Increasingly, political judgment as well as basic common sense is being suspended in the White House. We are witnessing not only the dramatic dumbing down of US policy under the Obama administration, with cheap soundbites standing in for strong leadership, but also a staggering inability to comprehend the scale of the global war the West is engaged in, as well as a disturbing willingness to downplay its importance and forget the scale of the loss the American people suffered nine years ago.

Much of the blame for this decline must be laid at the door of Barack Obama and his cynical team of advisers. I cannot imagine former president George W. Bush ever comparing an environmental disaster to the attacks on the United States on 9/11. Bush’s immediate handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina wasn’t brilliant, but at least he didn’t seek to continually shift responsibility or evoke the images of 9/11. And in contrast to President Obama, President Bush actually built up US power after America was attacked, by increasing defence spending, strengthening alliances, and striking America’s enemies with great force, instead of groveling before them in humiliating fashion.

President Obama’s comparison of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 with the Gulf oil spill is deeply offensive to the victims of 9/11, as well as a demonstration of an extraordinary lack of historical understanding and perspective. The al-Qaeda atrocity was a premeditated act of mass murder as well as a declaration of war against America by a brutal and barbaric Islamist enemy, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives, most of them American. It was a seminal event that fundamentally changed the course of history, and altered forever America’s outlook on the world. It cannot be reduced to the level of an accidental environmental tragedy, no matter how large, which is an entirely different kind of event altogether.

By doing so, the Obama administration is cheapening the memory of 9/11, and using it as a convenient political tool to deflect away from the president’s own leadership failures in the wake of the Gulf spill. This is no way for a president to head a great nation, and smacks of ruthless political opportunism rather than real leadership.

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100043496/the-gulf-oil-spill-is-not-911-the-obama-administration-plumbs-new-depths-of-stupidity/
 

hypocritexposer

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The Brits aren't showing obama much love lately. Time to send them some more DVDs and maybe another back rub for the Queen. :lol:


The Brits aren't showing obama much love lately.


Barack Obama's analogy between the Gulf oil spill and 9/11: dirty politics from the Chicago school

By Damian Thompson World Last updated: June 14th, 2010

Barack Obama is easily clever enough to understand the effect of his comparison between the environmental challenge facing America after the Gulf oil spill and the terrorist challenge it faced after 9/11: a subliminal equation of heartless British oil executives with homicidal Islamists. But he’s also unscrupulous enough not to care.

This is how he put it: “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.” Nice.

I wondered recently how an expensively educated kid from Hawaii plunged into the filthy pool of Chicago machine politics and emerged smelling so sweet that America elected him president. David Remnick doesn’t address the question in his hagiography, and I’m not sure anyone knows the answer. But if there were any doubt about where Obama served his apprenticeship, then today’s little elision between a terrible accident and meticulously plotted mass murder clears it up.

Mayor Richard Daley – the father, not the son – would have been proud of Obama. It may be windy in Chicago, but if there’s one thing the boys from the Democratic machine learn it’s how to blow a dog whistle loud enough for the right people to hear. Sure, it’s a fairly obvious device, but then so was referring to BP by its former name, British Petroleum. It’s often the cheap tricks that work best, eh, Mr President?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100043465/barack-obamas-analogy-between-the-gulf-oil-spill-and-911-dirty-politics-from-the-chicago-school/
 
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