In This War, Islamists Have Found A Shared Strategy. We Haven't -- A Commentary

The body of Islamic Jihad commander Muhammad Abdallah, killed in an Israeli air strike, is carried during his funeral in Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip, 28 December 2007. Abdallah was killed in an Israeli air strike, and is one of six Palestinian militants killed in separate Israeli attacks on Thursday. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

From The Telegraph:

David Miliband is misguided to claim that the terrorist threat is disaggregated and heterogeneous, writes Matthew d'Ancona.

The inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday will be a festival of hope, generational change and soaring rhetoric. But the predominant emotion will be relief: goodbye President Bush, squinty dynast and low-IQ ideologue. Welcome, President Obama, brilliant, handsome and sensible person. Please, sir, can we have our planet back? The world will click the heels of its ruby slippers and sigh: There's no place like home. Everything will be OK now.

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My Comment: Liberals like President Obama and Hilary Clinton are of the firm belief that their "anti-Bush" policies will help to protect America. A majority of Americans are also of the same opinion.

Critics (like myself) can only voice an opposite point of view. We know that we are right .... but we hope that we are wrong.

President Obama and his administration are of the belief that they are right .... and are not even thinking that they are wrong.

Because critics like myself are not in a position to implement strategy and policy, our options are only limited to the following. If they (the Obama administration) are wrong .... and the worse happens .... they must be taken to task for what they have done. They must accept the responsibilities and consequences for their bad decisions, and we (in turn) must position ourselves to convonve them that their strategies were wrong, and that President Bush's were right.

The Patriot Act, Guantanamo, the war on terror, defining properly Islamic jihad and all of its content, FISA, rendition, water boarding ... all of the measures that have protected us for the past 7 years must be brought back .... or at least looked at.

There is a part of me that fears that I will be saying a lot of "I told you so" in this blog in the next year or two .... that the worst will happen. I hope that I am wrong.