Al Qaeda regaining foothold in Middle East bubonic plague for American elections

Some would like to hold Obama responsible for all the things that went bad in the United States for the last few years, other look at him as the vanquisher of al Qaeda.

There may have been the  daring raid that killed the most hated man in what was once known as Christendom, bin Laden, with everybody hoping it would bring the world to calmness again, but it did not. Mainly because there were stupid people who wanted to get some international attention. some found it necessary to agitate the Muslims to get their cause in the picture. On the anniversary of  the 9/11 attacks, terrorists pulled off a daring, successful attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing the American ambassador and three others. The Muslims had good reason to strike on September the 11th. For them doing it in a nation where NATO had just installed a new government was  laughing at the world indicating that it could not have their say in Muslim world. They also showed the world that the NATO would love the world to believe they could handle it and that the regions they would like to have under control are moderate and peaceful, but that it is not as the Western Power Machine presents in the media.

Can the U.S.A. form the Bridge between West and East? – The Jeliana Bridge in Benghazi, Libya over the 23rd of July lake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For the Middle East matter it was also no help that Republicans and Israelis were ramping up the pressure on president Obama to take a harder line against Iran’s nuclear program and the theocracy’s ally in Syria.

America wanted to soothe the world and minimise the problem, but by doing so the Muslim extremists felt mocked at and took more offence, certainly when the western world did not enough to do something against the French Hebdo cartoons.

“U.S. economy grew at an even more sluggish pace in the 2nd quarter,” and subsequently revised gross domestic product figures “downward from 1.7 percent to 1.3 percent.” when more problems in the Middle-East would arise some think this may give the weapon industry another boost. but on the other hand the world can need it as a hole in the head.

Obama succeeded to have more than $1 trillion in stimulus measures, got his 2010 health law and a massive package of bank regulations, those things were mostly unpopular. Killing is all upside.

This perception of Obama as the vanquisher of al Qaeda was not only reinforced by the president’s frequent mentions of it but by leaks from the administration that cast Obama as a philosopher/warrior contemplating a kill list for his armada of drones and weighing carefully his power of life and death over his enemies.

The only times Obama has much talked about radical Islamist terrorism in the campaign, he has sought to reinforce the notion that the war is won and he won it. He promises constant vigilance, but suggests that the season of anxiety for the nation is over. And it is far from over.

It would be better if both parties would face this ongoing problem and would try to show the world also how they would like to work together to get Russia on the site of the majority of the United Nations and to become an ally to work against terrorism all over the world and against all the religious extremists (Muslim, Christian, Hindu a.o.).

They also should give more attention to the discrespanstion in the world about the wages. It should not be allowed any more that certain people can earn up to more than three hundred times more than an other worker. Also companies should give their fair share of taxes to the community.

And the world shall have to get to be informed that it should work on a system where all people, no matter which religion, should have to be trained or educated to be respectful for each others ideas, how different they may be.

The united States, Europe, Russia, china and India should join forces to embank the extremism and to give their citizens the right picture of other cultures and religious thoughts. But they also should work on the unemployment which continues to worsen, and as such undermines the tranquillity of the governmental systems in the different countries. This unrest by the population, looking for means to survive could became a ticking bomb for the Capitalist countries and the democratic systems.

Syria (Photo credit: ewixx)

In first instance the world has something to do against the Islamic bubonic plague and than it has urgently to direct his attention to the labour-force and just distribution of wealth. In the Middle-east we can see that the inequality is also a nutrient medium. If the presidents and governments in charge are not going to work to wipe out this substrate for extremism they shall be giving Al Quaeda and other extremist organisation the wind in the sails and those who would like to undermine the democratic system shall be able to hang out the flags.

Romney has not benefited from revelations about the Obama administration bungling its initial response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. Obama actually expanded his lead over Romney last week on who is better able to handle foreign policy, from 9 points to 12 points.

Democratic intensity has slipped slightly to 75 percent. A week before last, still in the afterglow of their convention, 81 percent of Democrats called themselves “extremely likely” to vote. Republican enthusiasm, meanwhile, held steady around 80 percent.

Regardless of whom they’re supporting, twice as many voters (61 percent) expect the president to prevail in November as expect him to lose.

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  The bloody facts at hand tell an entirely different story, and this is exactly the story that PC media pundits, plus leftist leaders will NEVER tell.

  To wit, here are just some of the truths – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/21/repeat-until-the-cows-come-home-there-is-no-moderate-islam-period-addendum-to-what-the-west-in-general-and-its-leaders-in-particular-know-about-islam-can-fill-less-than-a-thimble-m/

  The truth shall set us free, as well as save western civilization!

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