From Tragedy To Tragedy
From tragedy to tragedy. How quickly we forget.
It was only eight years ago that the United States was attacked by covert cells of Islamic fascists bent in bringing death and destruction to America and her people. I remember the sadness, I remember the pain, I remember the anger and I remember the fear.
How could this happen, or more appropriately, how could we have allowed this to happen. With all our intelligence, with all our abilities, how could we allow these terrorists to live amongst us and train to fly jet airplanes with no need for the lesson on how to land them?
It was only after the political hacks on the 9-11 Commission began to investigate that the American people discovered the walls of silence installed between intelligence agencies by the Clinton administration and Janet Reno.
In an effort to ensure that this type of tragedy would never happen again President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security. There was plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the loss of privacy rights such a commission would impose. And there was snide insults regarding the original attempts to grade threat levels by colors like red, orange and green. There was the usual partisan bickering over how and why we should impose restrictions or tap phone lines. It was during this time that slowly but surely the liberal side of the aisle was able to confuse a sufficient number of Americans on just who the enemy was and what they were capable of.
This sad, dangerous and confused message continues today with the newly installed head of the DHS Janet Napolitano.
You may recall this bastion of truth and honesty from her days as lead attorney for the sad and confused Anita Hill in her attempt to destroy the object of her unrequited affection Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It was Napolitano that tried the pubic hair in the Coke routine that not only got a lot of comedic input on late night television but also may have been the turning point in the approval process as even the most liberal members of the panel began to see the ridiculousness of the claims being made.
And now as head of the agency tasked with keeping the country safe from those bent on her destruction Napolitano has come out with a dire warning. Is she warning us about more terrorist cells or an impending attack from abroad? No. She is warning us about the threat that comes from our returning military personnel.
Napolitano has issued a warning that US military veterans could become right wing extremists. While it is difficult to discern exactly what information she is dealing with to make this assessment one thing is clear, the Obama administration has led the country so far to the left that anything short of Al Franken looks right.
Napolitano is basing her assessment of the tragic Oklahoma City bombing. Her internal memo cautions that military personnel could be so dissatisfied with the Obama administration as to create “another Timothy McVeigh situation”. This only proves how completely out of touch she is. Could it be possible that liberals are so completely devoid of common sense that they honestly believe the OK City bombing was celebrated or even accepted by the right wing of the country?
I too remember the OK City bombing and as a staunch right wing conservative I felt all the same pain as I did on 9-11. All the pain, all the sadness, all the anger and all the fear. To equate the carnage brought about by one mentally challenged veteran and use that to damn all those that served is an insult far above the name calling and spitting many endured as they returned home from Vietnam. Those disgusting displays were carried out against our veterans in airports and shopping malls by the clueless pacifists being led by the left wing media, not by a government official tasked with national security.
If this is the level of “intelligence” we are now depending on to keep us safe we should all be afraid.
Very, very afraid.
