The Mouths that Roared

“In the Loop, Al Kamen

Columnist

Obama and Clinton can’t seem to please al-Qaeda

By Al Kamen, Thursday, March 31, 7:36 PM

Al-Qaeda’s media operation fired off a typical rant a few weeks ago, before President Obama did that not-war thing in Libya, talking about how the recent upheavals in the Middle East “showed that the infidel governments of the West” care only about themselves.

The March 12 release, translated by Flashpoint Partners, a research and analysis company focused on terrorism, apparently is from al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi. Libi whined on and on about how Americans support Hosni Mubarak — “Egypt’s Pharaoh” — and the dictators in Tunisia, Yemen and other places until “they see the winds of change blowing and their agents are about to leave” and then come in and say “we are with you.”

But when Iranian pro-democracy protesters were attacked, Libi wrote, “despite the fact that only two people were killed . . . the old lady of malice — the American Secretary of State — immediately condemned” Iran.

Libi then launched into an attack on Obama, saying he spoke about Iran’s crackdown on protesters while Moammar Gaddafi’s “criminal gangs . . . with their tanks , jets and automatic weapons . . . massacred” Libyans.

Well, now that Gaddafi doesn’t have his tanks and jets — courtesy of the U.S. Air Force — and we’re all allies now in Libya, you’d think maybe Libi would shut up and issue an apology to Hillary Clinton , right?

Don’t wait for it. He is, after all, a terrorist.

The month that roared

Speaking of the president, at 3:23 p.m. Thursday he issued a proclamation that April would be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. That’s certainly a worthwhile proclamation.

Then, a minute later, we got an Obama announcement that April was designated National Donate Life Month, as in organ donation. Another worthy notion.

So which is it? We were already confused enough by the possible implications of the new Obama Doctrine.”