Obama and the Potemkin Embassy Threat

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RedState: Obama and the Potemkin Embassy Threat

By: streiff (Diary) | August 4th, 2013 at 07:24 PM

 

Today a virtually unprecedented event took place. Throughout North Africa and the Middle East nearly two dozen US embassies are closed because of the threat of a terrorist attack. Some of these will remain closed until late next week.

 

Some 750 years ago, an English friar, William of Ockham, proposed an interesting heuristic for solving problems of logic and natural science. When presented with several explanations, he said, one should favor the answer with the fewest possible assumptions. The simple answer, he reasoned, was more likely to be true than a complex solution.

 

Ockham’s Razor compels me to call bull**** on this particular terrorism alert and to offer a simpler explanation: that this threat to our embassies simply does not exist.

 

The only evidence proffered in defense of this ridiculous exercise at playing Chicken Little is the word of the Administration. I, for one, can think of nothing this bunch of cretins and incompetents has done that makes their word credible.