A Terrorist War Obama Has Denied -- A Commentary

From The Washington Post:

Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The system worked." The attacker's concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son's jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers.

Heck of a job, Brownie.

The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration's response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to play down and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face. Napolitano renames terrorism "man-caused disasters." Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York -- a trifecta of political correctness and image management.

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My Comment: Charles Krauthammer is not the only one who is finding the actions of the White House incomprehensible. My contacts outside of the U.S. .... Canada, Asia, Europe, and (specifically) Russia .... they are all shaking their heads in wonderment, questioning if the U.S. administration is truly aware of the consequences of their actions and its long term implications.

As for myself, living in Canada gives me a viewpoint that is out of the beltway and the bubble that it creates. I tell critics of the President that we must reconcile ourselves with the fact that President Obama and his Democrat allies received a huge mandate from the American people for change .... and change is what he and Congress are now delivering. If it works .... he deserves the accolades and kudos for his foresight and vision. If it fails .... and it almost did on Christmas Day .... condemnation and denunciation will be the order of the day.

I learned a long time ago that the American public and the politicians that they elect are a fickle group .... and they will always give the politicians that they elect a few years to implement and initiate their policy .... for better and/or for worse. The only thing thing that we on the opposite side can do is point out why this is wrong, and hope that in the long run our worst nightmares do not become today's headlines.