This is the speech I would have liked to have heard from
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday.
“My fellow Americans, today is the eleven year anniversary of
the horrible mass murders of innocent men, women, and children in
the United States by sick, twisted terrorists hiding behind the
cloak of Islam. By a terrible stroke, today also marked vicious
attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya. These
attacks, by raging, cowardly mobs, were supposedly instigated by an
amateur e-mail about the being whom Muslims consider sacred and a
Holy prophet, Mohammed. This e-mail was made in the United States
under the protection of our Constitution, which protects freedom or
speech and expression. The mobs who attacked our missions objected
to the e-mail cartoon or whatever it was. They have the complete
right to object. But they do not have the right under any
international law to attack our diplomatic stations for any reason
at all.
“My opponent, Mr. Barack Obama, chose to meet this international
outrage by apologizing to the mobs in the form of a letter from
Mrs. Clinton’s State Department condemning the making of the
offending e-mail.
“Let me be clear about this: Mr. Obama is wrong. We have
complete freedom of speech in this country. We do not apologize to
mobs of thugs and bullies for our residents having free speech.
When I take office, the era of apologizing to foreign thugs and
bandits for the United States of America and our freedoms is
over. We are not ashamed of being a free country. We are proud of
it.
“We expect the governments of Egypt and Libya and all other
nations to do their duty under law to protect our embassies. If
they can’t, we will take appropriate action. We are not going to be
pushed around and we are not going to be bullied by gangsters and
we are not going to apologize for the Constitution.
“There was a further default in Mr. Obama’s leadership today. At
a time when the whole world is desperately concerned about the
certainty that Iran will soon have nuclear weapons and that same
Iran has promised to use them to have a second Holocaust against
the Jews and ‘…wipe Israel off the map…’, the Prime Minister of
Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, pleaded with Mr. Obama for a face to
face meeting in New York when the President will be there for the
opening of the UN General Assembly session. Mr. Obama brushed
off Premier Netanyahu, head of government of one of our closest
allies, saying his schedule did not permit such a meeting. It
turned out that Mr. Obama did have time, however, on this trip to
New York City to have a comedy interview with David Letterman.
“When reaction to this behavior turned negative, Mr. Obama
hastily did an improvised phone call with Mr. Netanyahu and denied
his own version of events released earlier.
“This is unacceptable, especially at a time
of extremely high tensions in the Middle East. In the
Romney-Ryan administration, peace and the maintenance of security
for the U.S. and our allies will take precedence over talk shows
and comedy and campaigning, no if’s, ands, or buts. Our
administration will take war and peace seriously. We realize this
may seem uncool to some, but we really don’t care. Peace is what we
are about, and security. Not laughs.”
He didn’t make that speech but it’s not too late.
