The two recent events most important to America's future had nothing to do with health care or the economy. They had everything to do with our ability -- more accurately, our willingness -- to defend ourselves from enemies that want us dead.
The two recent events most important to America's future had nothing to do with health care or the economy. They had everything to do with our ability -- more accurately, our willingness -- to defend ourselves from enemies that want us dead.
And they both beg the question: what are we doing to ourselves?'
Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan's alleged massacre of 14 people (13 adults and an unborn baby) was bad enough; Senator Joe Lieberman rightly labeled it "the worst terrorist attack since September eleventh." What made the attack worse was its preventability.
Hasan left marker after marker, indicator after indicator, that he was a sympathizer of radical Islamism. The intercepted e-mails between Hasan and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who pronounced the accused gunman a "hero" for his actions. The lecture to medical colleagues that non-believers in Islam should have their throats cut and boiling oil poured down their throats. Even the business cards declaring himself to be an "SoA" -- Soldier of Islam. The Army knew all this and more....yet allowed Hasan to stay, defying common sense. The prospect of removing a Muslim from the ranks was apparently deemed a greater threat to the Army's image than retaining a powder keg just waiting to explode. The virus of political correctness, hatched in the fetid fever swamps of Harvard Yard and Cal-Berkeley in the mid-1980s, has metastasized into a beast that is eating us from within.
The madness continued after the murder spree. In an incomprehensible display of tone-deafness, top Army General George Casey said as bad as the shootings were, "...if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse." Worse, General? Worse than 14 people murdered? Worse than 31 others whose wounds may affect the rest of their lives?
The gravestones of every Fort Hood victim should be engraved with the following: "died of political correctness."
On the heels of the Hasan debacle came the Obama Administration's outrageous decision to grant 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged conspirators the full rights and benefits of a civilian trial.
Set aside the lunacy of allowing people who have already -- proudly -- admitted their guilt in the worst attack on American soil. Forget the absurdity of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder declaring Mohammed et al. guilty while simultaneously promising a "fair trial" will be rendered.
What many people fear -- and fully expect -- is that KSM et al will ultimately not be the ones on trial. Just as OJ Simpson's trial morphed into a judgment of the Los Angeles Police Department, the terrorists' proceedings will become a circus maximus whose focus will be George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, the Patriot Act, the Guantanamo Bay detention center, "extreme rendition," the entire war on terrorism. That's what the Angry Left has wanted for years. Thank to its agents in power -- beginning with Obama and Holder but certainly not ending with them -- that's what it's going to get. The uproarious, happy sound in the distance is our enemies laughing themselves into a frenzy at our national security death wish.
Since 2003, we've heard that America's methods in fighting radical Islamism have simply "created more terrorists." How many terrorists will be inspired by watching KSM and friends spew their anti-American hatred on a worldwide platform -- courtesy of the American taxpayer? How many new agents of terror will that create?
Our enemies no longer have to plot grandiose attacks against America. We're doing the work for them, and they barely have to lift a finger.
#1 Lets be clear, we aren't doing this to ourselves, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the ultra left are doing this to us. Elected through an elegant scheme of vague centrist promises and emotional pap, and capitalizing on 8 years of Hollywood and MSM demonization of Bush, we have the most extreme leftist in our history leading the nation, or at least controlling the federal government and all of the mechanisms of power. And, seeing the nation awakening, they are in a rush to create more power over our lives, via cap and trade and healthcare. The question is, how much damage care they doing, how many laws, rules and agencies are they creating, how many leftist judges are they installing, and how many leftist civil-servants are they salting away for careers in the goverment? Can we control this before the nation runs off the social and fiscal cliff, whose edge is very, very, close? Another year of these grim times and tyrannical actions by goverment, and random, white-hot angry violence will break out, coming from those who never knew want before, or faced the humiliation of total poverty. Hard, dangerous times loom if we don't stop this train wreck in 2010 elections!
#2 Far bigger threats are a) the importation of an underclass of 11 million semi-literates or illiterates from Mexico, and b) multi-trillion dollar unfunded liabilities across almost every level of government in the US.
I don't see either party doing anything meaningful about these two slow-motion mass destruction tendencies.
2010 won't change anything. We need a new political class in this country.
Posted by lex 2009-11-28 11:51||
2009-11-28 11:51||
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