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Americans believe as much as
ever after the Fort Hood
massacre and jockbomber
incident and despite being
fed a year-long diet of the
administration's euphemisms
and legalisms for jihadist
killers and their evil
deeds, that there is an
ongoing Global War on
Terror.
Americans also believe that
we should wage this war with
all of our might, just as
the Muslim extremists who
started the war continue to
do. Americans believe it is
OK to treat jihadists like
"criminals" if that term is
amended to
war criminals and if they are
detained, interrogated and
prosecuted accordingly. |
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Obama admits that while he
sucked
shave ice in Hawaii
the war with al Qaida
continued on a Detroit-bound
flight. |
Ample evidence that Americans are
passionate about strong homeland
security and the things that must be
done abroad to insure it, is the
huge surge in support for George W.
Bush that resulted from his decisive
reactions to the tragic events of
September 11, 2001. The three safe
years that followed enabled his
relatively easy re-election in spite
of the left's hyper-partisan
criticisms of his Global War on
Terror initiatives.
There was never
such
thing as
"a systemic failure I
consider totally unacceptable..." as
was admitted to by the president
this week.
Rather, the homeland was kept secure
and the purposefully-created
"system" improved with time.
Of course, this was enabled by the
previous administration's support
for the military and intelligence
communities to do what was necessary
to gather intelligence and thwart
emerging enemy plots. The promise
was kept to discontinue the
unrealistically uncooperative,
overly-legalistic interagency
practices that the Clinton
administration had perpetuated.
For Barack Obama to be in a position
to admit failure -- even once -- in
this critical presidential
responsibility exemplifies the
squandering of the inheritance of a
working, improving homeland security
system. It exemplifies the arrogant
stupidity inherent in acting
ideologically rather than
practically to life-and-death
issues.
Under any president, this system
should have continued to improve
rather than being allowed to decay
and become yet another shovel-ready
government project that will be
given a bureaucratic bailout touted
to rejuvenate it and rescue it from
oblivion like a rusting bridge on
the Interstate.
Make
no mistake, this was allowed to
happen in the name of ideology and
reform driven by the kind of
twisted logic
in which an enemy combatant is given
US citizens' legal rights after an
attempt to blow up a crowded plane
while his cohorts' death-by-unmanned
drone are applauded as the most
humane way to keep our own troops
out of harm's way.
Don't strain your brain by trying to
figure out how risking American
civilians' lives by coddling
captured miscreants will ultimately
make the rest of them hate us any
less.
No histrionics, apologetics,
indignant out-of-character rhetoric,
future-promising or admitting that
"the buck stops here"
can ever
eradicate this admittedly
"unacceptable"
failure from the
record of the head of that failed
system.