The Interview New York City Premiere Canceled
Under threats of North Korean terrorist attacks, the New York City premiere of The Interview has been canceled.
And now the chickens of Benghazi 2012 have truly come home to roost. Obama responded to the Benghazi terrorist attacks by persecuting a US-based film maker and leaving the terrorists responsible unpunished. And we all told ourselves: "It's okay. We're still free. We just can't criticize Mohammed. It's just that one thing."
Nope. That's not how reality works. We've demonstrated to the world that we will roll over and submit to even weaker foes who threaten us based on being mad about our expression of ideas. And that sort of admission of weakness is open-ended. Once we've submitted to one such threat, why not the next, or the next?
If the threat were being made from someone in America, we could of course arrest and prosecute them. When sort of threat is made internationally by a Power, the remedy is war, or its credible threat.
The person in charge of prosecuting such wars so as to end such threats is the President of the United States. But this President is not clear that he even supports America. He's ashamed of America and would never consider killing people abroad to defend American liberties.
So he doesn't.
And a little more of our freedoms die.
And now the chickens of Benghazi 2012 have truly come home to roost. Obama responded to the Benghazi terrorist attacks by persecuting a US-based film maker and leaving the terrorists responsible unpunished. And we all told ourselves: "It's okay. We're still free. We just can't criticize Mohammed. It's just that one thing."
Nope. That's not how reality works. We've demonstrated to the world that we will roll over and submit to even weaker foes who threaten us based on being mad about our expression of ideas. And that sort of admission of weakness is open-ended. Once we've submitted to one such threat, why not the next, or the next?
If the threat were being made from someone in America, we could of course arrest and prosecute them. When sort of threat is made internationally by a Power, the remedy is war, or its credible threat.
The person in charge of prosecuting such wars so as to end such threats is the President of the United States. But this President is not clear that he even supports America. He's ashamed of America and would never consider killing people abroad to defend American liberties.
So he doesn't.
And a little more of our freedoms die.