9/11 2012 Attacks.

Good morning Mr. President, Madame Secretary, friends, enemies and all the ships at sea.  As we peruse the overnight news this “misguided individual” resolves today “to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims” secure in the righteousness of this course that “the Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns” me.  And I welcome their condemnation.

Islam continues its anti-American protests near the American embassy in Cairo, hurting the feelings of President Obama, who placed a call to Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi.  Morsi, hurting the feelings of the New York Times, had not condemned the 9/11 2012’s attacks.  Here are how Obama’s and the Times hurt feelings have been expressed. This is written by Helene Cooper and Mark Landler for the Times:

         “While the violence there did not result in any American deaths, the tepid response from the Egyptian government to the assault gave officials in Washington — already troubled by the direction of President Mohamed Morsi’s new Islamist government — further cause for concern.”

 “[Obama] found less reason to be pleased with Egypt, the second-largest recipient of American foreign aid after Israel, at $2 billion a year. Mr. Morsi issued only a mild rebuke of the rioters — and on Facebook — while his movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has called for a second day of protests against the lurid anti-Muslim video that set off the riots. And though the Egyptian police coordinated with American officials, Mr. Morsi waited 24 hours before issuing his statement against the militants who stormed the embassy; Libyan authorities issued immediate, unequivocal statements of regret for the bloodshed in Benghazi.”

Facebook, that’s pretty funny, he doesn’t have twitter?

“Mr. Obama seemed to indicate that the American relationship with Egypt is evolving. ‘I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy,’ he said in an interview with Telemundo…”

That statement is right: Egypt is not an ally of the U.S. but this misguided individual agrees that Egypt is not quite yet an enemy. Maybe soon.

“For the United States, ‘politically the bigger issue is Egypt,’ said Martin S. Indyk, a former United States ambassador to Israel. ‘On the one hand, you didn’t have Americans getting killed, but this was the fourth time an embassy was assaulted in Cairo with the Egyptian police doing precious little,’ Mr. Indyk said. ‘And where was President Morsi’s condemnation of this?’ ”

“Several foreign policy experts said they worried that Mr. Morsi was putting appeasement of his country’s Islamist population ahead of national security.” [emphasis added]

There is appeasement going on in the Obama administration, not in the Morsi administration.

“What makes Egypt’s uncertain course so vexing for the White House is that Mr. Obama, more than any other foreign leader, has sided again and again with the Arab street in Cairo, even when it meant going expressly against the wishes of traditional allies, including the Egyptian military, the Persian Gulf states and Israel.”

You can really sense Obama’s hurt feelings there.  Oh well.  Neville Chamberlain’s feelings were crushed by Hitler.  Appeasers get their feelings hurt.

“For anti-American unrest to erupt in Egypt after all that could reflect a deeper divergence of a once-staunch ally from the United States. Mr. Morsi’s belated reaction came after other actions that have troubled American officials, from his decision to attend a meeting of nonaligned countries in Tehran to his choice of China for one of his first overseas trips. Mr. Obama has pledged to forgive $1 billion in Egyptian debt.

‘How does the president go to the Hill and say, “We need to forgive $1 billion in Egyptian debt?” ‘said Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”

Good point. How does he?

The report above and others draw a distinction between the conduct of Islam among our not-friends-not-yet-enemies in Egypt and the conduct of Islam in Libya. In the latter, the government swiftly and unequivocally condemned the attacks and murder of Ambassador Stevens and pledged assistance in bringing the perpetrators to justice. President Obama is taking them up on their offer and has sent a team of Marines and two destroyers to the area.

Elsewhere in Islam attacks on America occurred in Yemen today where protesters of hurt feelings again invaded sovereign U.S. territory, breaching the embassy walls and, let’s see, what would they do, oh yes, burned the American flag.  According to Nasser Arrabyee and Alan Cowell for the Times:

“The protests came hours after a Muslim cleric, Abdul Majid al- Zandani, urged followers to emulate the protests in Libya and Egypt, Sana residents said. Mr. Zandani, a onetime mentor to Osama bin Laden, was named a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ by the United States Treasury Department in 2004.”

“President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi of Yemen said in a statement that he ‘extends his sincere apologies to President Obama and to the people of the United States of America’ for the attack.”

This misguided American accepts President Hadi’s apology as I am sure another misguided American, President Obama, does. The problem is President Hadi does not have control of his people.  The protesters must be hunted down and imprisoned; al-Zandani and his close followers must be killed; al-Zandani’s mosque must be destroyed; and any gathering of Muslims in Yemin or elsewhere in Islam protesting should be bombed. If Hadi agrees to do all of that we should accept.  If not, President Obama should do it.

In Iran 500 hurt feelings gathered in front of the Swiss embassy (which handles U.S. affairs) in Tehran, chanting “Death to America.”  Obama should have bombed the protesters, killing them.  And in Iraq, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia there were also protests by Islam.  I would not bomb the Hurts yet in those last four countries. If no American was killed, let them continue to protest. They will turn violent soon enough. Iran is different, its hostility to America so virulent and so long-standing that we should attack now.

There is no media consensus today on the role played by Innocence of Muslims in all of this. Yesterday the undersigned misguided individual cited to a USAToday report that the 9/11 2012 attack in Cairo had been planned by Egyptian Salafists. The charge against the Salafists has not been picked up by others that I have seen.

Several mainstream news outlets are now reporting that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks on the Libyan embassy. Here is CNN:

“A London think tank with strong ties to Libya speculated Wednesday that Stevens was the victim of a targeted al Qaeda revenge attack. [emphasis added]

The assault ‘came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al Qaeda's second in command killed a few months ago,’ the think tank Quilliam said Wednesday.

It was ‘the work of roughly 20 militants, prepared for a military assault,’ the think tank said, noting that rocket-propelled grenade launchers do not normally appear at peaceful protests, and that there were no other protests against the film elsewhere in Libya.

‘Jihadists will want the world to believe that the attack is just a part of the protests against an amateur film produced in the U.S., which includes crude insults regarding the Prophet Mohammed. They will want the world to think that their actions represent a popular Libyan and wider Muslim reaction; thus, reversing the perception of jihadists being outcasts from their own societies,’ Quilliam president Norman Benotman said.”