Monday, October 22, 2012

The last debate: Foreign Policy

Diane Sori; Foreign policy...Obama’s Achilles heel via Conservative Bloggers on Facebook
"Romney needs to remind everyone that to make it even worse this miserable excuse of a president had the unmitigated gaul to stand in front of the U(seless) N(ations) and yet again offer an apology to our enemies, an apology for a privately made video that had absolutely NOTHING to do with the violence and MURDERS of our people just so he could cover his own butt for failing to answer Ambassador Stevens’ cry for help."

5 Crucial Questions for the Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
"Tonight’s final presidential debate will focus solely on foreign policy. Moderator Bob Schieffer announced that the topics will be: “America’s Role in the World,” “Our Longest War—Afghanistan and Pakistan,” “Red Lines—Israel and Iran,” “The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism,” and “The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World.” Heritage’s foreign policy experts have written a series of tipsheets for prepping on each of these issues, featured on our Debate 2012 page and linked below."

Also at the above site: The Obama Doctrine: A Failed Policy Leaving America Weaker in a Dangerous World

Expect this at the debate tonight: WH Spin: No Evidence AQ Was Involved in Benghazi
"No evidence? That’s funny, considering the group behind the attack, Ansar al-Sharia, is viewed as al-Qaeda’s face in Libya, according to a Library of Congress report from this summer. Also, the intelligence community reportedly intercepted phone calls in which Ansar al-Sharia leaders bragged to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leaders after the attack. Also, the State Department has designated Ansar al-Sharia a new alias for al-Qaeda in Yemen, etc."   "Spinning Benghazi", posted here earlier.

Blackfive offers this point of view from a military blog: Why didn't Obama send military help in Libya?  "Now there is a very interesting question that could actually come up during tonight's Presidential debate. CBS News has a devastating report about what was known about the attack while it was happening. "
...."They did nothing and watched on a drone feed hoping that the situation would change, but campaign slogans don't save lives. That takes making an actual gutsy call and as it turns out the Osama-slayer didn't have time to poll this one, so he loaded up AF one and flew to Vegas."

Big Journalism; Bob Schieffer's 2008 Pro-Obama Debate Record   "Bob Schieffer, the moderator for the last of the three presidential debates in 2012, needs to be watched carefully; he has a clear partisan agenda that favors Barack Obama that was evident even in 2008. When he moderated the last presidential debate that year, he didn’t flinch from his Democratic Party mission."

Graham on Benghazi: 'A National Security Breakdown'  " "I am totally convinced this is going to go down in history as one of the most major breakdowns of national security in a very long time," Grahama said. "It's Exhibit A of a failed national security strategy." " Watch the video below:

Here is the transcript in case the video does not play.

The Tucson Citizen calls the Graham-Durbin the Benghazi Smackdown: Lindsey Graham vs Dick Durbin   And as Obama did in the second presidential debate, Durbin feigns indignation over the idea that Democrats would ever invent a narrative for political purposes. Instead he has tried to convince us that we didn’t hear what we heard, and we didn’t see what we saw.

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