It is increasingly impossible to underestimate the Obama administration. No matter how bad it gets, they find a way to make it worse. I remember being puzzled that Obama was bombing the Khorasan Group, but no one seemed to know who they were. Now we know why. They didn’t exist, other than in the deluded mind of the Obama administration. The Obama administration pulled a name out of the hat, because they refuse to admit that al Qaeda continues to exist. This is beyond pathetic. This administration is incapable to telling the truth, about anything. Obama said al Qaeda was destroyed, so al Qaeda had to be destroyed. Drones and precision airstrikes weren’t working, so the decision was made to solve the problem by calling al Qaeda something else. Hey, how about the Khorasan Group. That way this will look like a new threat and Obama will suddenly look like he is on top of something, for a change. The problem is that in addition to CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS and even Fox News, we have people like Breitbart and the National Journal. The following article by Andrew McCarthy is breathtaking:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388990/khorosan-group-does-not-exist-andrew-c-mccarthy
There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the “Khorosan Group” suddenly went from anonymity to the “imminent threat” that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.
You haven’t heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn’t one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the –Iranian–Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
Bob Beckel hinted at some terrific October surprise regarding national security:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/388368/bob-beckel-warns-october-surprise-dems-andrew-johnson
’ll tell you: I would expect an October surprise,” Beckel said on Thursday. “I think I know what is — I’m not going to say it, but I think I know what it is — and it is going to shake things up, and it has to do with national security.”
Talk about grasping at straws. Now we learn that this imminent threat was so serious that no one bothered to inform our European allies:
http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/article2264747.html
European counterterrorism specialists say their American counterparts never mentioned an imminent plot by al-Qaida operatives in Syria to attack Western targets and didn’t brief them on the group that’s supposedly behind the plan, a previously unknown terrorist unit that American officials have dubbed the Khorasan group.
The European specialists, who meet regularly with U.S. officials on terrorism issues – particularly air travel and potential terrorist operations involving Western passport holders – said they were never specifically warned about such a group or such a plot. Such an omission, the specialists said, seemed unlikely if the plot were truly imminent.
This would make for a hysterical SNL skit, but there is nothing funny about this. The threats from al Qaeda and ISIS are all too real. Obama may be laughed off the international stage, but that is small comfort.
TDM