Just when you think it can’t get any worse, liberals just keep on talking. This weeks front-runner for RUFs “Idiot of the Week” , which for the record is always a very close race as we do have a LOT to chose from given the selection, is American Interest writer John Mueller.
Mueller’s piece “Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity” makes ridiculous claims that are so far from the truth they could only come from a liberal train of thought.
He states that President Bush “garnered great political benefit from the terrorism scare”. First of all, Sept. 11 was not a scare. It was an attack our country, our fellow Americans and our ideology. Secondly, any acclaim that President Bush received after that day was well deserved as he faced on one of the darkest times in our nation with grace and steadfast resolve. I remember sitting at home that day thinking to myself “Thank God Gore didn’t win”. Thirdly, if anything the Presidents approval ratings because of the war in Iraq are a constant issue to the Democratic Party, because they are sooo low. C’mon Dems, you can’t have it both ways. To say he benefited from the attack is both blatantly offensive and disgusting.
He further goes on to (incorrectly state) that: “There have been no al-Qaeda attacks whatsoever in the United States since 2001”.
Not for lack of trying:
-Jose Padilla, May 2002: attempted to smuggle a dirty bomb into O’Hare Airport in Chicago. He was later found guilty of conspiring with Islamic terrorist groups and was convicted by a jury in 2007.
-Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Mukhtar al-Bakri, and Shafal Mosed (Lackawanna Six) pled guilty in 2003 to proving to support al-Qaeda and attempting to attend a terrorist training camp.
-Iyman Faris, May 2003, pled guilty to providing material and conspiring with al-Qaeda to commit terrorist attacks in the US by way of the blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge.
- The Virginia Jihad Network, June 2003 – connected to the Taliban and al-Qaeda and convicted for violating the Neutrality Act.
- Dhiren Barot, August 2004, was the leader of a terrorist cell who had made plans to attack the NY Stock Exchange and a plethora of other financial institutions through out the country.
- Assem Hammoud, July 2006, linked to al – Qaeda and admitted to plotting to attack the underground New Jersey transit system.
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was captured in March of 2003 and is charged with being involved with multiple terrorist attacks and is one of Osama bin Laden’s senior operaters. He admitted to aiding in the plot that took place on 9/11.
These are a few of the examples of attacks that were planned by individuals who were linked with al-Qaeda but were thwarted by our law enforcement agencies. The point Mueller makes sounds almost as if we should feel BAD for capturing these individuals and stopping the attacks before they happened. Should we have let them take place so he can have an argument to stand on?
He goes on to write “No true al-Qaeda cell has been unearthed in this country”…the majority of the examples I’ve just provided contradict every bit of his last statement.
His last and final argument on this matter is sketchy at best: “the homegrown ‘plotters’ who have been apprehended, while perhaps potentially somewhat dangers at least in a few cases, have mostly been flaky or almost absurdly incompetent”. Wait. I thought we hadn’t yet “unearthed” any terrorists in this country? His last statement is a complete and full contradiction of his previous statement. C’mon.
He goes on to equate the terrorist “scare” with the Communist “scare” in a feeble attempt to make an argument stick. Communism stopped by Reagan, terrorism combated by George W…and you point is what exactly? Oh yes, Republicans do it better. We knew that.
Of course he touches base on the Patriot Act, which anyone who is familiar with the Social Contract knows where I’m going with this… we (as a nation) give up certain freedoms to our governing bodies in order to ascertain a level of protect or security that we would not be able to get on our own. There’s no way I can monitor the country on a daily basis and keep a look-out for terrorists. I don’t have the resources, ability, or know –how…so I give up some of my freedoms in order to have the Dept. of Homeland Security take care of that on my behalf. Now each time I pick up a cell phone I am fully away of the governments ability to listen in…on my conversations about shoes, Indiana Jones, Stephanie Meyer or where I am going to dinner. I know that they are not going to waste their time with lil’ ol’ me. Now, if I were to pick up the phone and use words like “bomb”, “fire”, “attack” , “WTC” , “White House” or “Jihad” then yeah I’d have agents knocking down my door, and rightly so. Is this NEW to anyone besides Mueller??? The fact remains that all the attempted attacks I previously mentioned were thwarted because of our governmental agencies working with resources like the Patriot Act.
Let’s face it. Everyone knows that the War on Terrorism, much like the War on Drugs, will never truly be won. That doesn’t change the fact that we have a moral obligation to fight. We don’t fight because we think we can win. We fight because it’s the right thing to do. We fight because we have an obligation to our country, every free democratic nation, to fight injustice and protect the innocent as well as our freedoms. Mueller couldn’t be more wrong, or liberal for that matter.
Mueller’s piece “Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity” makes ridiculous claims that are so far from the truth they could only come from a liberal train of thought.
He states that President Bush “garnered great political benefit from the terrorism scare”. First of all, Sept. 11 was not a scare. It was an attack our country, our fellow Americans and our ideology. Secondly, any acclaim that President Bush received after that day was well deserved as he faced on one of the darkest times in our nation with grace and steadfast resolve. I remember sitting at home that day thinking to myself “Thank God Gore didn’t win”. Thirdly, if anything the Presidents approval ratings because of the war in Iraq are a constant issue to the Democratic Party, because they are sooo low. C’mon Dems, you can’t have it both ways. To say he benefited from the attack is both blatantly offensive and disgusting.
He further goes on to (incorrectly state) that: “There have been no al-Qaeda attacks whatsoever in the United States since 2001”.
Not for lack of trying:
-Jose Padilla, May 2002: attempted to smuggle a dirty bomb into O’Hare Airport in Chicago. He was later found guilty of conspiring with Islamic terrorist groups and was convicted by a jury in 2007.
-Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Mukhtar al-Bakri, and Shafal Mosed (Lackawanna Six) pled guilty in 2003 to proving to support al-Qaeda and attempting to attend a terrorist training camp.
-Iyman Faris, May 2003, pled guilty to providing material and conspiring with al-Qaeda to commit terrorist attacks in the US by way of the blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge.
- The Virginia Jihad Network, June 2003 – connected to the Taliban and al-Qaeda and convicted for violating the Neutrality Act.
- Dhiren Barot, August 2004, was the leader of a terrorist cell who had made plans to attack the NY Stock Exchange and a plethora of other financial institutions through out the country.
- Assem Hammoud, July 2006, linked to al – Qaeda and admitted to plotting to attack the underground New Jersey transit system.
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was captured in March of 2003 and is charged with being involved with multiple terrorist attacks and is one of Osama bin Laden’s senior operaters. He admitted to aiding in the plot that took place on 9/11.
These are a few of the examples of attacks that were planned by individuals who were linked with al-Qaeda but were thwarted by our law enforcement agencies. The point Mueller makes sounds almost as if we should feel BAD for capturing these individuals and stopping the attacks before they happened. Should we have let them take place so he can have an argument to stand on?
He goes on to write “No true al-Qaeda cell has been unearthed in this country”…the majority of the examples I’ve just provided contradict every bit of his last statement.
His last and final argument on this matter is sketchy at best: “the homegrown ‘plotters’ who have been apprehended, while perhaps potentially somewhat dangers at least in a few cases, have mostly been flaky or almost absurdly incompetent”. Wait. I thought we hadn’t yet “unearthed” any terrorists in this country? His last statement is a complete and full contradiction of his previous statement. C’mon.
He goes on to equate the terrorist “scare” with the Communist “scare” in a feeble attempt to make an argument stick. Communism stopped by Reagan, terrorism combated by George W…and you point is what exactly? Oh yes, Republicans do it better. We knew that.
Of course he touches base on the Patriot Act, which anyone who is familiar with the Social Contract knows where I’m going with this… we (as a nation) give up certain freedoms to our governing bodies in order to ascertain a level of protect or security that we would not be able to get on our own. There’s no way I can monitor the country on a daily basis and keep a look-out for terrorists. I don’t have the resources, ability, or know –how…so I give up some of my freedoms in order to have the Dept. of Homeland Security take care of that on my behalf. Now each time I pick up a cell phone I am fully away of the governments ability to listen in…on my conversations about shoes, Indiana Jones, Stephanie Meyer or where I am going to dinner. I know that they are not going to waste their time with lil’ ol’ me. Now, if I were to pick up the phone and use words like “bomb”, “fire”, “attack” , “WTC” , “White House” or “Jihad” then yeah I’d have agents knocking down my door, and rightly so. Is this NEW to anyone besides Mueller??? The fact remains that all the attempted attacks I previously mentioned were thwarted because of our governmental agencies working with resources like the Patriot Act.
Let’s face it. Everyone knows that the War on Terrorism, much like the War on Drugs, will never truly be won. That doesn’t change the fact that we have a moral obligation to fight. We don’t fight because we think we can win. We fight because it’s the right thing to do. We fight because we have an obligation to our country, every free democratic nation, to fight injustice and protect the innocent as well as our freedoms. Mueller couldn’t be more wrong, or liberal for that matter.
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