It’s interesting to see the contrast between former President George W Bush and President Barrack Obama in the way that they handle crisis. After September 11, 2001 Bush squarely lays the blame at the feet of the terrorists who carried out the attack along with some blamed reserved for the bureaucracy of government.
President Obama lays the blame for this UNSUCCESSFUL terrorist attack not on the terrorists and counties that aided them. No he lays the blame on the intelligence community, the very people who are not allowed to defend themselves. He takes no blame himself, he pins no blame on the bureaucrats he has leading those intelligence agencies.
President Obama is proving constantly what conservatives knew before he was elected. He, and the Democratic Party, are only interested in power and are more concerned in bestowing rights on terrorists than protecting the American People.
How many brave American’s will die at the hands of a ruthless enemy because of poor leadership from America’s political leaders? How long will they fight an enemy abroad so that enemy can be treated as a common criminal Americas courts? How many tax payer dollars will be spent on lawyers, housing, trials, etc? How long, assuming these terrorists are convicted, will these terrorists be alive exhausting all their appeals in America’s judicial system? How many brave Americans will die abroad during the trial?
How many Americans will be beholden to the establishment running Washington because they collect a check from the government? How many of these Americans will have the wherewithal to vote against the people handing them money they didn’t work for? How many millions must we spend in the largest expansion of government power ever in the history of our nation? How many duplicate government agencies will we continue to fund?
How many people will transition from private employers to government employment? How many will quit working altogether with the belief that government will support them? How long is the road to socialism, are we there yet, will we know when we get there? How long before they run out of other peoples money? How many leaders, elected or otherwise, will stand up against the socialist tide?
How long until people of courage take back our government? Who will be the Jefferson, Adams, and Washington of the next revolution? Who in congress will put country before party? How long until the other 50% of the electorate see the similarities between our current leaders and Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, and Hugo Chavez?
How many will die needlessly? How long will revolution take? Who will lead us from the perils of socialism?
If not you, who? If not now, when?
For eight years former President George W. Bush and his administration worked hard at trying to keep terrorists out of our country. Oh what a difference ten months makes, we go from a strategy of killing terrorists around the world to promoting terrorists (in Honduras) and willfully bringing them into the country. The Democrats in Congress claim that people are more worried about the economy and healthcare. Really, are there truly that many Americans willing to trade security for an improved economy and healthcare?
I guess so, after all that’s what the majority has voted for. I am certain that these terrorists will be tried in New York, Chicago, San Francisco. Places where they are certain to receive a “fair” trial by impartial, yet highly liberal, anti war judges and juries. All so in the end they can parade these poor terrorists in front of the cameras so they can tell how Bush falsely imprisoned them for all those years. After which they will return to Pakistan to resume planning the next attack on America.
At the rate we’re going the terrorists might actually have a chance. They’ve weakened America to the point where we not only let them back into the country but we spend tax payer dollars to fly them here. This is the same 1990’s thinking that led to the attacks on 9/11.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
– GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
It comes as no surprise that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This committee of socialists has a long rich history of rewarding the intentions of socialists rather than their results. After all this is a committee that has ignored true efforts towards peace exhibited by US Presidents such as Reagan, Truman, and Bush 43 in favor of those American Presidents and Vice Presidents that have proven to make things worse, Carter, Gore, and now Obama.
Our path to peace in first nine months of the Obama administration has led us to increasing failure in Afghanistan. The Taliban has managed to gain strength; Obama has weakened the CIA more in nine months than Clinton did in his first four years. Iran has been able to accelerate its nuclear program to a point where it is now a serious threat and all Obama can do is throw away the missile defense plan for Eastern Europe. North Korea has thumbed its nose at us again knowing full well that Obama doesn’t have the stones to confront them in a serious way.
These are not paths to peace; these are paths to more severe conflicts in the future. This is a “bury your head in the sand approach to foreign policy” that will result in larger conflicts down the road. Never mind the disaster that is the Obama domestic policy, Obama hasn’t succeeded at anything other than getting elected and collecting awards based on “Hope” not results.
The time has come to get rid of the imbedded reporters traveling around Iraq and Afghanistan. As we’ve seen this week the media can’t take care of themselves and we have thousands of troops that protect people that 95% of the time don’t report the truth on the ground anyway.
Our brave men and woman are over there in harms way are fighting to protect our freedoms. They shouldn’t have the added burden of protecting a reporter who chances are takes freedom for granted anyway. The media needs to get out of the way stop getting in the way and stop putting the troops lives at risk. Never again should a member of our armed forces die or be injured protecting a member of the media in a war zone.
Let the troops fight! Bring the media home!!!!!!!
Hillary opening a trip to India illustrates the weakness of the Obama foreign policy by demanding other nations start battling terrorism.
via FoxNews
"It must be stopped," she said, adding that the United States cannot do it alone.
Do it alone? What planet is Hillary on? Obama has gone out of his way to close down the war on terror. He has weakened our position in Iraq and Afghanistan. His policies in closing Guantanamo are putting terrorists back on the front lines to kill more innocent civilians as well as American soldiers. Hillary says the US can’t do it alone? I would suggest that the policies of Obama are to not do it at all…
As if that wasn’t enough Hillary didn’t have the sense to stop there.
"The bottom line for me is, our government is committed in the fight against terrorism,"
"And we expect everyone" who shares the American desire to end violent extremism "to take strong action to prevent terrorism from taking root on their soil and making sure that terrorists are not trained and deployed — and we believe that around the world."
Really, what American desire? America went out of it’s way to elect the antithesis of ending violent extremism. The voters took the bailout and elected a Commander in Chief who in the first six months weakened our country and took us right back to the mentality and circumstances that led to the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Mrs. Clinton maybe you and the President should concentrate on what America can do to fight terrorism rather than berate our allies for not doing enough.
Maybe it’s something about July 4th that causes us to reflect on heroes of our past but do we not see the heroes of today? A hero is a person who fights for those they do not know, a hero fights for their family, a hero fights for their country regardless of how ungrateful a large portion of them may be. Our men and women in uniform both at home and abroad are there to protect our rights, our beliefs, our constitution. Regardless of your political beliefs they deserve our respect, our admiration, and our support.
Heroes are also those that we rely on at home, firefighters and law enforcement. Many of the nations firefighters are volunteer living and working in small towns across America. Rarely do we look at firefighters as volunteers but many of them give up off time from their regular jobs for training and other exercises never mind that they answer the call to a burning structure at 2am. In many cases they are first on scene to auto accidents and have to deal with some pretty horrific scenes on our nations highways.
Contrast that with political leaders (of both parties) who look at themselves as heroes. Some have fought for our country as members of the military and deserve our respect for that. However few have distinguished themselves in the political arena in a way even remotely classifying themselves as heroes.
I was on a flight this weekend in the Pacific Northwest, leaving Seattle, on this flight was a young man on his way home for two weeks from Iraq. Now being the Pacific Northwest, an area not known for respecting members of our military, I had not expected anyone to notice or say much to this man but was pleasantly surprised. As we were making our decent the flight attendant leaned over and told the man “thank you for your service and all you do” as I got off the plane I patted his shoulder and said thank you to a man I don’t know, who is home for two weeks with his family before he returns to a battle in a far away place.
As we take our vacations, long weekends, days with family, etc this summer please remember that somewhere in a far away place there are real heroes who wake up every day helping to secure not only our freedom but the freedom of people in other countries who aspire to have it but are not strong enough on there own to achieve it. For they are today’s heroes….
