THE CONSEQUENCES OF OBAMA: TERRORISM IS BACK
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on January 5, 2010
Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that the "chickens came home to roost" on 9-11. He was wrong. But they have now, indeed, come home to roost as we witness the results of the unilateral disarmament President Obama has practiced in the war on terror. Beset once more by terrorism on our soil and in our airspace, we find ourselves suddenly overmatched by those who the Bush Administration kept away from our shores for seven years.
This new onset of terrorism is not the product of any change in the international environment or some new "systemic" flaw in our intelligence operations. It is due to the policy of President Obama in letting down our guard and inhibiting those charged with our protection.
| Under Obama, the hunters have become the hunted as America inverted her priorities. Those who have been working to keep us safe have, themselves, come under scrutiny for profiling, harsh interrogation techniques, and a failure to give terrorists constitutional rights they don't have. The result is predictable: Timidity and caution have become the order of the day in our intelligence community. In a world where hunch, guesswork, and a willingness to leap to conclusions by imagining the worst are vital to success, a cover your butt mentality has taken over. If you come to the wrong conclusion, if you profile without adequate justification, if you accuse incorrectly, you are finished. Your career and your pension will be gone. Guess right and you are accorded anonymity. Guess wrong and you're through. |
The failure of the intelligence operatives to pass along the information about the Ft. Hood shooter or the airline bomber did not flow from a blind spot or a lack of co-ordination, they stemmed from terrorism of a different sort -- the terror of making a mistake and falling on the harsh mercies of Eric Holder.
Now Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutall sits, lawyered up, in a federal prison. His interrogation will proceed, if at all, under the watchful eye of his counsel. He will not finger other operatives nor warn us of other impending attacks. He will receive the full panoply of constitutional rights, none of which he is entitled to.
Barack Obama does not seem to understand that these terrorists come here to use our laws and our system, not to protect us, not even to shelter themselves, but to destroy us.
Abdulmutall should be interrogated by the military, without benefit of counsel. The evidence we obtain should not be admissible in a court of law nor used as the basis for his sentencing. But it must be used to ward off future threats and attacks.
But Obama is a true believer. His persistence in downgrading the war on terror to a criminal investigation will continue. And we will experience more and more attacks. Because pessimism is the bodyguard of liberalism, he will explain to us that the world has become more threatening and that he is doing all he can to keep us safe. But the truth will be that it will have been his policies and priorities that are leaving us exposed.
And the attacks will continue.
I found these to be interesting words regarding Attorney General Eric Holder and his proceedings with this prosecution for a terrorist attempting to commit an act of terror and war. I also find it interesting to consider that while there were many incidents on Bush's watch after September 11th, this year we've had the shooting at the U.S. Army Recruiting Center in Little Rock, AK which killed 1 soldier, the Fort Hood Shooting in Texas, which killed 13, and an attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253, which had 290 passengers and crew on board, as the plane was descending. However, all of these might have happened no matter who was president.
Since the attempted attack on Christmas Day there have been several incidents at airports, including:
-- the Sunday, December 27th, incident where the same flight caused worry over a passenger who spent a "suspicious" amount of time in the bathroom,
-- the mystery man who walked through the screening checkpoint exit at Newark Liberty International Airport and temporarily put a terminal on lockdown and delayed several flights for hours on January 3rd,
--and today, January 5th, when two airports (Bakersfield's Meadows Field Airport and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, both experienced delays due to suspicious luggage. The suspicious luggage turned out to be an old bag used by airport employees and bag that tested positive for TNT containing a Gatorade bottle with honey inside of it, respectively.
Not to mention the general uptick in airport security and government communication nationwide and internationally. Those three afore-mentioned incidents make me wonder, though, had Umar Farouk Ubdulmutallab not tried to blow up an airplane and murder 290 people (possibly more) would people have payed attention to the guy using the restroom on that same airplane just 2 days later? Would the other man's bag have been sniffed by dogs or would his honey have been discovered and taken into custody? Also, who the hell was that mystery man? Was he a civilian, somebody testing our security, or somebody deliberately setting off panic? If it's one of the latter two, who does he work for and how did he disappear? I doubt we'll ever know the truth about him.
-- Cody M. Buckmann 06 JAN 10
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