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In the hours before delivering his State of the Union
address, Obama cleverly ordered an attack by Navy SEALs on a Somali camp where “pirates”
were holding 2 Western aid workers hostage. This enabled Obama to publicly
congratulate Secretary of War Leon Panetta inside Congressional chambers before
the Congresspeople assembled for his speech and on camera in front of millions
of viewers. That left it to the media to whisper breathlessly what the
congratulations were for. Smooth,
Barack!
The two hostages, a Dane and an American, were seized way
back in October. So I don’t think the timing of this mission was mere
coincidence. According to the BBC, the captors were stoned on quat, and as it
was the middle of the night, were asleep. The SEALs dispatched 9, described as “gunmen”
by the NY Times. The NY Times also claims that ransom negotiations had “broken
down” after the Somalis rejected $1.5 million in ransom. However the BBC interviewed
their employer, the head of the aid agency, who said that they were in the
middle of negotiating, but he had previously asked for U.S. help.
Personally, I don’t care for hostage takers. These aid
workers were part of a demining operation. It doesn’t help Somalis in general when
hoodlums target do-gooders trying to make their miserable lives better. On the
other hand, I don’t feel like celebrating another U.S. death squad operation. Obama
more and more is relying of assassination to get his sorry ass reelected. That
should chill anyone’s blood.
His state of the Union speech was extremely militaristic.
Both the opening and closing paragraphs, as well as some in the middle,
consisted of military jingoism and boasting of his great victories over
Al-Qaeda. I suppose that befits the head of an Empire.
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