GEN Tommy Franks, GEN Hugh Shelton Among 500 American Warriors to Run Full-Page Ad Endorsing Mitt Romney For President

PJ Tatler reports.

Navy SEALS Ad Blasting Obama

 

 

Plus:  The mother of murdered State Department employee Sean Patrick Smith told reporters this week, “I believe that Obama murdered my son.”

Interesting

Newt Gingrich:  I heard networks have emails sent directly from the White House instructing a counter-terrorism group to stand down in Benghazi.

The Obama Doctrine

Via Breitbart.com: 

Victims of the Nov. 2009 Ft. Hood shooting are being denied benefits commensurate with combat injuries because the Obama administration refuses to label the attack an act of terrorism.

Instead, the shooting Maj. Nidal Hasan carried out after screaming "Allahu Akbar" is still being labeled "workplace violence." 

 

Military Endorsements

Over at The Other McCain, Smitty has compiled a list of the retired flag officers who have endorsed Obama or Romney.  The tally?  Romney 359, Obama 6. 

Foreign Policy

Here is Drudge's headline in advance of tomorrow's foreign policy debate:

Pretty well sums it up, doesn't it?

Obama = Not Optimal

"My Son Is NOT Very Optimal . . . He Is Very Dead"

Mother of U.S. diplomat killed in Libya attack slams "insensitive" Obama's comment about security fiasco.

Former Obama Advisor: Our Foreign Policy Is A Mess — Especially In The Middle East

Via Hot Air:  

Despite some successes large and small, Obama’s foreign policy has disappointed many who initially supported him. The Middle East initiatives heralded in his 2009 Cairo speech fizzled or never got started at all, and the Middle East today is more volatile than ever. The administration’s response to the escalating violence in Syria has consisted mostly of anxious thumb-twiddling. The Israelis and the Palestinians are both furious at us. In Afghanistan, Obama lost faith in his own strategy: he never fought to fully resource it, and now we’re searching for a way to leave without condemning the Afghans to endless civil war. In Pakistan, years of throwing money in the military’s direction have bought little cooperation and less love.

The Russians want to reset the reset, neither the Chinese nor anyone else can figure out what, if anything, the “pivot to Asia” really means, and Latin America and Africa continue to be mostly ignored, along with global issues such as climate change. Meanwhile, the administration’s expanding drone campaign suggests a counterterrorism strategy that has completely lost its bearings – we no longer seem very clear on who we need to kill or why.

Read the whole thing . . . and then look forward to Monday's foreign policy debate.

Bombshell

US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack.  The Obama administration, with the media's backing, instead chose to blame the attack on a Youtube video and actively suppress free speech.

If true, this is a remarkable scandal.  Any chance the legacy media will start asking questions?

"Bumps in the Road"

That's how Obama described the attacks on America's embassies and the first killing of an American ambassador since 1979.

Even Obama Can't Be This Weak/Incompetent. Can He?

Pat Dollard:

The U.S. State Department is currently in negotiations with the Egyptian government for the transfer of custody of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” for humanitarian and health reasons, a source close to the the Obama administration told TheBlaze . . . . The Blind Sheikh is serving a life sentence in American prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His release has been called one of the top priorities of the new Islamist administration in Egypt.

DNC Tried To Show Support For US Military

By using images of Russian ships and Turkish fighter jets.

Who Needs Facts When You Have A Pliant Media?

B. Daniel Blatt:  Facts barely figure into Libya narrative of Obama officials.

America "Was Warned of Embassy Attack But Did Nothing"

The latest headline from Drudge:  "According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted."

Maybe if the President actually attended his intel briefings?

Perhaps, If We Had A Independent, Non-Biased Media

Shouldn’t the president’s failure to attend intelligence briefings be getting more media coverage?

Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending Their Parents a Form Letter

So reports the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft. 

By contrast:  President Bush sent personal letters to the families of “every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice.”

To be fair, Obama did find time to send a personal letter of condelence to the family of rapper Heavy D when he died.

Bow To Nobody

Via Breibart.com:  Ryan Zinke, the former Navy SEAL who started the super PAC, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News today. “The ad itself accurately portrays where this President is,” said Zinke. “It accurately portrays his core belief that America should not lead. This president is shaping America to be one of the followers, to relinquish our role as a world leader. I didn’t fight 23 years as a Navy SEAL to watch America bow to anybody.”

If He Were a Republican, This Would Make Him an Idiot

Riel:  Barack Obama botches rank of top Navy SEAL William McRaven.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Leading From Behind (Valerie Jarrett)

JWF:  Book Says Obama Deferred to Valerie Jarrett Over Whether To Go After bin Laden: ‘Obama feared taking responsibility’