[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

LOL, did anyone ever think maybe they were not invited.

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Your not thinking it through completely! Mr. Obama is #1 tarjeta del mundo since he pulled the plug on their #1, the late Mr. Bin Laden...With all the marchers and chaos ongoing in France at the moment, sufficient to enable a hot female suspect's escape to Syria or Turkey, the French Security DOES NOT NEED POTUS on its ground arriving in a conspicuous AirForce #1, nor any member of his immediate political family ie the cabinet such as the VP or Secretary of State. We lost one ambassador in Libya; it's dangerous work, and I understand our French ambassador was nearby-that's HIS job and he's doing it. We've lost 4 presidents to political nuts and with Islam's present nut-case plethora ideologically and technical proficiency; with a tradition going back to even King Richard I and the Assassins, no need to risk a fifth POTUS. And, If I can think like that, it means someone else already has. merci mon ami

Originally Posted by August

Neals right. Folks on both sides of the political spectrum here are pretty mad that the best the USA could muster at such a significant event was an ambassador.

Originally Posted by Skybird

I have linked the absence of Obama to security concerns. The deeper dimension of what it would have meant in recognising that several other terror attacks were indeed Muslim terror that absolutely had something to do with Islam, has escaped me.

The implication from that, describing the official view of earlier terrorism, is even more worrying.

I think my consideration (above) is the still correct one; Moreover Besides Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, of Benghazi, Five other U.S. ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty:
Adolph Dubs, in Afghanistan, 1979
Francis E. Meloy Jr., in Lebanon, 1976
Rodger P. Davies, in Cyprus, 1974
Cleo A. Noel Jr., in Sudan, 1973
John Gordon Mein, in Guatemala; 1968 Of the six ambassadors five were killed in moslem oriented or influenced countries. Now that Al Qaeda has claimed a credit for the attack out of Yemen under Bin Laden's successor, and gave $20,000 for the operation, POTUS stays put. ...inasmuch as the overstrained French clearly do not have the security situation under control at present and do not need the considerable headache of Obamas's security added to their other concerns. I'm quite sure the drones in Yemen are scoping out white pickups-of-opportunity and proven killer POTUS has his finger on a button where it and he belong... Even the captain of the USS Vincennes wife was attacked by a pipe bomb in San Diego after her husband's vessel downed an Iranian airliner in 1989 and she had to leave her teaching job and home for security reasons. Clearly this is now all-out war and the enemy is out there and able to strike at will whenever and wherever it chooses. Our response should be like Churchill's in WWII "hunt to destruction"; no quarter-let Allah sort em' all out.