Why does this all sound so painfully familiar??

I am watching with sad amusement as events unfold with Somali pirates.  Amusement because The Big "O" is being bitch slapped by four men in a row boat.  Sad, because the stakes are real, the threat to the life of the captain is real and The Big "O" is way out of his league.

It sounds familiar because we have been in this place before.  With a weak president filled with lofty rhetoric an sadly lacking in real courage.  His actions lead to Blackhawk Down and the second, more successful, bombing of the WTC because he projected weakness, he was hesitant, basically, he showed the world that America was the home of the pussy,- - not the home of the brave.

And, as this morning, yet another capture of another boat by another team of pirates in the same region.  The Big "O" is on it!

Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists

By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung

Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 11, 2009; Page A01

Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials maintain that uncertainty about the intentions of the al-Shabab organization dictates a more patient, nonmilitary approach.

Does the the phrase "weak house" ring a bell??  You need to go back to December 2001 and an interview with UBL on what encouraged him to attack the WTC and what he saw in Clinton's response in Somalia - a weak horse.  By way of CNN:

UBL: (...Inaudible...) when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse. This is only one goal; those who want people to worship the lord of the people, without following that doctrine, will be following the doctrine of Muhammad, peace be upon him. (UBL quotes several short and incomplete Hadith verses, as follows): "I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad." "Some people may ask: why do you want to fight us?" "There is an association between those who say: I believe in one god and Muhammad is his prophet, and those who don't (...inaudible...) "Those who do not follow the true fiqh. The fiqh of Muhammad, the real fiqh. They are just accepting what is being said at face value."

I wonder if after The Big "O's" apology tour, his kneeling to the protector of Mecca and Medina, saying we are not at war with Islam we are seen as a "strong horse" or a "weak horse".  Hummmmm - strong horse, weak horse - strong horse, weak horse.  Which could our enemies see??