I’m sure we all remember that catchy little phrase
from back in 2008 when Barry was running for president. What we were being promised back then was
plenty of “Hope and Change.” Sadly there
was enough people who bought into what was really nothing more than a
bumper-sticker slogan and Barry was able to strut into the Oval Office. But unfortunately, if we have learned anything
over the course of Barry’s presidency, we’ve learned that some ‘Hope’ can be
misplaced and that ‘Change’ is not always for the better.
So unless you
happen to be one those who see absolutely nothing wrong with what Barry has
done to our country, or are quite comfortable viewing the world through rose
colored glasses, or are simply nothing more than your typical rabid leftwing
ideologue, I think it’s rather difficult to look at this country, or the world
in general, and say with any confidence that either are in better shape today
than they were on that day when Barry first assumed office on that very dark
day back in January 2009.
Much has been talked about over the course of the
last 7 years that makes it pretty much unnecessary to list here all of the
damage inflicted upon our nation by Barry during his tenure as president. Nor is there any real need to list all of the
hot spots that have sprung up all across the globe since that same dark day in
2009. But having said that I think it
might be worth mentioning that the worldwide number of annual terrorist deaths
has more than quadrupled since Barry was inaugurated in January 2009.
And despite the growing number of conflicts
springing up all across the globe, it was as recently as December of last year
that, while on yet another one of his many vacations, Barry, in speaking to
service members at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii last Christmas, actually said
that the world has become much safer in recent years. I can’t help but wonder if many of those in
attendance weren’t left scratching their heads wondering just what the Hell it
was that their Commander-in-Chief was talking about.
Because the fact is, deaths from terrorism increased
80 percent last year to an all-time-record of 32,658 people killed, compared to
18,111 in 2013. The number is up about 426 percent from the 7,654 killed by
terrorists in 2008 under President Bush. The 2014 economic cost of 13,370
terrorist attacks in 93 countries included property damage, medical costs, lost
income for victims, and the indirect costs of preventing and responding to
terrorist acts and the estimate costs for those attacks hit an all-time-high of
$52.9 billion.
For instance, Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq
and Levant (ISIL), you know the JV Team, were jointly responsible for 51
percent of all claimed global terrorist fatalities in 2014. About 57 percent of all the attacks and 78
percent of all the deaths occurred in the five nations of Afghanistan, Iraq,
Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria. But the
number of nations suffering over 500 or more deaths from terrorism increased in
2014 by approximately 120 percent, to 11 countries.
Nigeria experienced the largest increase in
terrorist activity with 7,512 deaths in 2014, a jump of over 300 percent over
the prior year. But Iraq continued as
the worst place for terrorist attacks in 2014, with 9,929 killed, setting
another new all-time-record for a single nation. The number of countries suffering at least
one terrorist fatality spread significantly last year, from 59 in 2013 to 67 in
2014. Advanced Western nations suffering at least one terrorist death included
Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada and France.
And as the Middle East destabilized from 2011
through 2014, global terrorist attacks set a new record each year. Over the three-year period, the total number
of people killed by terrorism was approximately 63,214. And let’s not forget that it was Dec. 18,
2011, that the last U.S. forces left Iraq, effectively ending an almost
nine-year war in the country. It was two
months earlier that Barry had said, “As a candidate for president, I pledged to
bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end.”
A responsible end? Hardly!
And it would appear that 2015 year was well on track
through mid-June (latest data available) to set another all-time record, with
the IntelCenter tracking “5,209 terrorist and rebel incidents” that killed a
total of 14,193 people. The rapidly
expanding number of terrorist attacks, nations targeted and civilians killed
virtually guarantees that terrorism will continue set new records in the years
ahead. Which will be virtually
guaranteed should Hitlery Clinton be elected president, God forbid!
To even the most liberal among us it would seem that
if the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama has made anything abundantly clear,
it’s the fact that when America does little more than to sit on its hands, the
world tends to go to shit, and in pretty short order. And when you have as president a man who came
into office promising to “fundamentally transform the United States of
America”, the country will quickly deteriorate on every front: economically,
socially, spiritually and morally. And
that is what has now happened, on both counts.
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