Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:25:36 PM
In the ultimate identity politics achievement it seems that America has elected a learning
impaired president. Nowhere is this clearer than in his administration's comments about
the terror threat facing the nation today, or in his administration's belated responses to it.
Let's be clear about one thing: the Obama administration has not protected anyone from
anything. Military recruiters in Arkansas were gunned down by a self-admitted jihadist,
yet Obama persisted in referring to him as an "isolated extremist," and paid more attention
to a black professor/friend's run in with local cops. A Muslim army officer, promoted on
the basis of political correctness instead of competence and common sense murdered
13 in cold blood and wounded 32 others on a Texas military base. Obama's response?
"Let's don't jump to conclusions." Farouk Abdulmutallab's jockey shorts failed to detonate
on a Detroit bound aircraft and after lawyering him up and Mirandizing him, Obama
leaped to the conclusion that he was an "individual acting alone," while his Secretary of
Homeland Security prattled that "the system worked." It later became clear that the
would-be bomber was trained in Yemen as part of a terror organization and then sent
on his deadly mission, Oops! Fast forward to May and Times Square, where Faisal Shazad
drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the middle of the crowded theater district
and attempted a detonation that failed. Once again early denials that Shazad was part
of a larger conspiracy faded in the light of facts.
What are the larger implications Americans should draw from this sequence of repeated
missteps, gaffes and misdirections? Most obvious is that the "system" didn't "work," that
the attacks were not "thwarted," as Attorney General Eric Holder claimed but, in the case
of the two bombers, failed because of their own incompetence in building and triggering
the devices. Major Nidal Hasan and the Arkansas shooter were far less "thwarted," and
succeeded in taking American lives. America is not ahead of the intelligence curve, missed
telltale signs that these attacks were coming and only by the grace of God (not "the system")
averted truly massive casualties.
Another reason why the system doesn't "work" is because the criteria for enemy
identification have been manpulated so as to virtually guarantee that it can't. Eschewing
words like "terror" and "Islamic extremist" as pretexts for profiling, Obama and his
people have simply laid down the welcome mat for those espousing a totalitarian
and fanatical religious extremism that is prepared to murder an infinite number of
helpless civilians until their deranged goal of world domination is realized. Worse,
Obama's supporters have engaged in a despicable political misdirection by suggesting
that the greater danger of terrorist violence comes from within via Tea Party supporters
or militia groups. Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and Obama supporter speaking
on Fox News right after the Times Square incident emphatically bet that it was a
right-wing militia attack. This is not mere stupidity. It is purposeful and malicious
misdirection pointing people away from the real enemy so Obama can continue his
love-in with an Islamic world that hates Americans.
Equally disturbing is the fact that Faisal Shazad, a naturalized American citizen who
just spent five months in Pakistan (red flag, anyone?) learning to build bombs, and one
who was on the supposed "no fly" list, had already boarded a plane for Dubai to make
his escape when an alert Border Patrol agent woke up and turned the plane around.
This is the third terrorist on the no fly list to succeed in boarding an international flight
in a month. Does anyone else think there's something wrong with this picture?
Open borders, lax air security, poltical correctness, bogus claims about the nation's
true vulnerability and empty boasts about a system that clearly doesn't "work" equals
a whole lot of dead Americans. How many would have died if those bombs had gone
off? Hundreds? Thousands? And when you add that to the fourteen who did die, at
the hands of Islamic extremists on American soil, and you still don't see not only
that we HAVE a problem, but what that problem is, then you are truly learning
impaired.
Barack Obama lives in a make-believe world of one-world socialist idealism. He
cannot protect us because he will not be honest about the source and degree of danger,
nor will he take the painful steps necessary to rid us of it. Those who will not learn
from history are doomed to repeat it. That is a self-chosen learning disability. Remember
that next time, when the bomb actually detonates.