Obama administration calls London terror attack 'senseless violence' – the same language President Obama used over Benghazi
The US State Department has issued a statement in the aftermath of yesterday’s barbaric killing of a British soldier by Islamist militants in Woolwich. It reads in full:
The United States condemns today’s attack in the Woolwich district of London. We stand with our U.K. allies in the face of such senseless violence. Our thoughts and condolence are with the family of the victim and the British people.
This is exactly the same language President Obama used to describe the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya and three American personnel in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, at a Rose Garden press conference on September 12:
Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.
Why does the use of this language matter? The Obama administration initially hesitated to describe the Benghazi attack as an act of terrorism, not least because it undermined the US administration’s narrative that al-Qaeda was a diminishing threat. It ludicrously attempted to blame the killings on an anti-Islamic video that hardly anyone had seen. The White House’s bungling over Benghazi and its failure to act to save the lives of US personnel in danger is now the subject of Congressional hearings, and is proving a major embarrassment for this administration. It was blatantly obvious from the start that the Benghazi atrocity was a terrorist attack carried out by Islamists, yet President Obama and his team were unwilling to acknowledge it as such.
Yesterday’s attack in London was also clearly an act of terrorism by Islamists, yet, the State Department made no mention of either, despite the fact there was widespread coverage of the nature of the attack in the US media yesterday. The Washington Post, citing the ITV news report, quoted one of the killers as saying:
We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth. We apologise that women had to see this today but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.
It’s time for President Obama to acknowledge reality. This is a global war between the free world and the forces of Islamist terror. These are not acts of “senseless violence.” They are acts of brutal terrorism aimed against Great Britain, the United States and all who defend the principles of liberty, freedom and Western-style democracy. It is important that political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic identify exactly who the enemy is, what their aims are, and why they must be emphatically defeated.
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