Captain’s Quarters has the story – what we all “knew” about Arafat is unequivocally true – and the State Department has had the facts for decades. There is no murdering terrorist, evidently, with whom they will not negotiate.
The State Department should have warned successive administrations from dealing with this terrorist and instead recommended that we capture him and try him for the murders of Noel and Moore. These men worked for the State Department themselves. I guess the lesson here is that State won’t lift a finger to bring assassins of diplomats to justice, a lesson that current diplomats may want to consider now. (via It Shines For All)
The State Department’s deliberate policies of appeasement, when there was no doubt whatsoever about the kind of person they were dealing with, are a great example of why the world no longer respects the United States. I don’t particularly care if we are liked, which is fortunate because we never will be unless it is the kind of “liking” we benefited from after 9/11. When we were wounded and bleeding, every country had “goodwill” toward us which was “squandered” the minute the bleeding stopped and we were no longer perceived as vulnerable. We don’t need to be liked, especially when the criteria for being liked is being weak.
We need to be respected, and under the current mindset at the State Department, that will never be permitted to happen. We need John Bolton to go over there and clean house, but that will never, unfortunately, happen. So all we can do, until we lose a city and quite possibly even after that, is look forward to State Department weenies insisting that giving thugs and terrorists all the time extensions they need to build weapons to use against us is the right thing – indeed the only moral thing – to do.
