Benghazi, Arkansas and Ft. Hood: The Obama Administration’s Pattern of Failure in Identifying the Enemy

The purpose of this post is to tie together two earlier posts in recognition of a pattern I have discerned.  Last month, I posted about the Obama Administration’s unwillingness to label the attack on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya as “a militant act of jihad (Islamic holy war),” in my post, The Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya Was an Act of Jihad, Not Anger, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-attack-on-us-consulate-in-libya-was.html.  I had posted in February of this year about the Administration’s refusal to recognize the 2009 attacks on the military recruiting office in Arkansas and at Ft. Hood, Texas, both of which were similar militant acts of jihad, in my post, American Casualties of Jihad in the U.S. Homeland Should be Awarded Purple Hearts, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/02/american-casualties-of-jihad-in-us.html. 

As I have noted repeatedly, the Obama Administration’s inability or unwillingness to label correctly who the enemy is in the War on Terrorism and recognizing what the enemy’s motivations are renders the Administration incapable of identifying who the enemy is and, therefore, of defeating it.