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Home Front: WoT

Obama Administration Refuses to Label London Attack as Terrorism

2013-05-25

That's ok. Because the perpetrators were videotaped saying it in plain language with the blood still dripping from their hands, and those tapes are all over the news and YouTube. Anyone who doesn't get it is clearly working not to do so.

Yesterday's appalling attack on a London street in the middle of the day, which left a British solider dead, was a barbaric act of terrorism perpetrated by Islamist fundamentalists. British Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged the motivations behind yesterday's cowardly act by saying:

This country will be absolutely resolute in its stand against violent extremism and terror. We will never give in to terror--or terrorism--in any of its forms. Second, this view is shared by every community in our country. This was not just an attack on Britain--and on our British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam--and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act. We will defeat violent extremism by standing together.

In stark contrast, the Obama Administration's response has been to avoid calling the attack terrorism, let alone terrorism motivated by a radical Islamic ideology. Instead the Administration, via the State Department, said it stood with the U.K. in the face of "such senseless violence."

Senseless violence? One can hardly term a targeted attack on a U.K. soldier in broad daylight -- where the assailants gleefully admit the radical motivation behind their attack -- "senseless violence."

Yet, use of this terminology is nothing new for the Obama Administration. "Senseless violence" is the Administration's catch-all phrase loyally called upon whenever motivations for a despicable act should not be ascribed, lest someone take offense.

Particularly troubling is that "senseless violence" is the same terminology the Administration used when describing the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other U.S. citizens.

And thus we know what they believe both attacks to be, and what they fruitlessly hope their flimflamming will keep us from noticing.

Posted by:tipper

#2 T'wasn't terrorism - the people were just standing around and didn't seem to be terrorized at all.

Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-25 17:51

#1 "Tell the Press it was senseless violence"

Posted by: Bill Bumble8658 2013-05-25 14:41

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