Barack Obama calls al-Qaeda’s resurgence “Junior Varsity”

 During the 2o12 presidential campaign Barack Obama ran around the country telling the American people that al-Qaeda was on the run. He used this statement as proof that his foreign policy of Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement was working.

  Then came the al-Qaeda terrorist attack in Benghazi which left Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods dead and if not for the coordinated attack on Mitt Romney by Barack Obama and Candy Crowley the American people might have realized before the election that this statement was not true.

  Now that Barack Obama has been sworn in we are seeing radical Islamists in power in Egypt and Libya, and al-Qaeda has taken over Fallujah and  Ramadi and now CNN(!) is reporting that al-Qaeda holds more ground in the Middle East than in any other time in history.

  This naturally has Barack Obama on the defensive and when recently asked about to juxtapose his claim about al-Qaeda being on the run with real world events this is what the president had to say:

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”

  Basically what he is saying is this: the real al-Qaeda network is dead, thanks to him, and now we only have to worry about dealing with a minor league al-Qaeda team.

  How dismissive of the real threat Americans face is that insulting comment? Tell that to the victims and the families of the Benghazi attack Mr. President. Tell that to the victims of the Fort Hood workplace violence attack, tell that to the victims and the families of the Boston Marathon bombing. I am sure they do not draw the same distinction between a real al-Qaeda attack and a junior varsity attack.