Do narratives dictate climates, or do climates dictate narratives?

Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Charles Krauthammer recently contrasted how President Obama is ‘playing president’ for Sandy, but not Benghazi. Apparently, he wants to have credit where credit is not due, and avoid blame where blame is due.

Not to be unduly facetious (for I know innocent people are suffering) I nonetheless think there are some interesting parallels between the two incidents.

In both cases, there were ample warnings of what was to take place. With Benghazi, these warnings went unheeded, and with Sandy, preparations were taken. The difference is that there is no stopping a natural disaster from taking place, but an armed attack? That’s why we spend gazillions on the military, and not only was nothing done to protect against a deadly September 11 attack on American soil, but the carpet was pulled on the few defenders who were there.  It is a stain on this country’s honor. Little wonder Obama and his fawning servants in the press corps have been trying to sweep it under the rug from day one.

What I would like to see is Obama treat Sandy the way he tried to treat Benghazi. Blame the storm on an obscure anti-Muslim video that no one ever heard of before, then raid the producer’s home. I mean, it’s not as if there isn’t just as much of a “connection” between these two events in the eyes of militant Islamic crackpots. And just as they praised the Benghazi attacks as the work of Allah, they are saying the same thing about Sandy as they connect the two:

Some anti-American Muslim clerics have cast the deadly Superstorm Sandy as divine punishment for ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad or for other perceived ills of American society.

The remarks by some on the fringe brought a backlash from other Muslims who said it was wrong to relish the suffering of others.

In Egypt, one radical cleric described the hurricane as revenge from God for the crude, anti-Islam film made in the U.S. that sparked waves of protests in the Muslim world in September.

Radical cleric Wagdi Ghoneim described Hurricane Sandy as revenge from God for the crude, anti-Islam film made in the U.S. that sparked waves of protests in the Muslim world in September

Radical cleric Wagdi Ghoneim described Hurricane Sandy as revenge from God for the crude, anti-Islam film made in the U.S. that sparked waves of protests in the Muslim world in September

‘Some people wonder about the hurricane in America and its causes,’ Egyptian hardline cleric Wagdi Ghoneim tweeted twice this week in the aftermath of the storm.

‘In my opinion, it is revenge from God for the beloved prophet,’ he added, alluding to the film.

OK? Now, let me try to reduce this to simple logic. The claim that the film triggered Hurricane Sandy is just as truthful and just as valid as the claim that the film triggered the Benghazi attacks, right?

So why isn’t the Obama administration trying to charge the film’s producer with being responsible for inciting a hurricane?

What’s with the double standard? Why can’t the man be consistent?