{"id":31992,"date":"2012-09-13T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31992"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:35:52","slug":"no-ammo-for-marines-at-egypt-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31992","title":{"rendered":"No ammo for Marines at Egypt Embassy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of you sent us this link to the Washington Beacon<\/a>‘s article about the Marines in Egypt who are reporting on various forums that they had no ammo the other day when the embassy was attacked. I wasn’t going to mention it to you guys because it just looked like a published rumor which fit our perception of this administration. <\/p>\n

But the folks at the Washington Beacon contacted us and asked if you guys knew where these rumors were coming from. I’m not so naive to think that this is the only place you hang out, so if any of you Marines know which message boards and which Marines are saying this, we’d sure like to know. Screen shots would be great, or if you could get someone to email us so we can verify or lay the rumor to rest. And y’all know how I protect my sources.<\/p>\n

The Beacon is getting their information from Nightwatch<\/a> who isn’t sourcing their comments either;
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NightWatch Special Comment: Ambassador Anne Patterson’s April Glaspie moment.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Anne Patterson, the US Ambassador to Egypt, experienced her ‘April Glaspie’ moment yesterday when she blamed Americans instead of Egyptians for attacking, storming and desecrating the US Embassy in Cairo and the US Flag.<\/p>\n

Old hands will remember, April Glaspie, who was a rising star in the State Department’s constellation of diplomats. Her notorious conversation with Saddam Hussein in early 1990 led Saddam to believe that the US encouraged and condoned an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.<\/p>\n

Having worked closely with US officials for a decade in the struggle and war against Iran, Saddam understood that everything after the Glaspie talk was plausible deniability by US President Bush, 41.<\/p>\n

Glaspie misunderstood and misjudged the Iraqi leadership and the situation in Iraq. Patterson’s operations at the US Embassy in Cairo bespeak a comparable misjudgment of the Egyptian Arab situation, its volatility and the depth of anti-American sentiment.<\/p>\n

She did not permit US Marine guards to carry live ammunition, according to USMC blogs. Thus she neutralized any US military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.<\/p>\n

In this respect, she did not defend US sovereign territory and betrayed her oath of office. She neutered the Marines posted to defend the embassy, trusting the Egyptians over the Marines.<\/p>\n

She apparently judges that Egyptian President Mursi spearheads a democracy and a new civil order, despite the mounting evidence that Mursi disregards US interests, cavorts with US enemies, is a budding authoritarian ruler who disdains parliament and does not honor the basic obligations of diplomatic agreements and the Geneva conventions.<\/p>\n

Readers, by definition, whenever an embassy of any country is overrun by locals in any country, everyone knows that the ambassador and senior staff must be replaced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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