War & Politics

War & Politics
By Daniel G. Jennings
In the last couple of weeks America’s political class has demonstrated how incapable of leading and protecting this country it really is. Disturbing news indicating a major new terrorist offensive against all civilized nations is coming in yet all the politicians seem to be able to do is fight among themselves.
What’s happening overseas is utterly frightening France is burning, mobs of Islamic youth some of them apparently in league with Islamic extremists are burning French cities and attacking police and civilians. The French government seems incapable or worse unwilling to stop the violence and protect it’s own citizens. In Australia, police broke up a ring of Al Qaeda terrorists planning a major bomb attack. In India, terrorists set off bombs in markets and cities killing dozens of innocent citizens. In Jordan, suicide bombers attacked three hotels killing 52 innocent people.
This indicates that Al Qaeda is expanding its operations on new fronts. It’s operatives are able to launch major terrorist attacks in new countries. The attacks in Jordan are particularly disturbing the Iraqi insurgency is expanding it’s operations into neighboring countries. A strategy that seems designed to destabilize the entire Middle East and make it into a battleground for Al Qaeda. Israel will probably be the next target, Al Qaeda will expand its’ suicide attacks to that nation which could provoke a greater Middle Eastern war.
The Australian arrests prove that Al Qaeda has the capability to infiltrate even the most advanced nations and set up cells there using both homegrown and imported fanatics. These cells, as the London and Madrid train attacks prove, are capable of launching devastating bomb attacks that can kill dozens or hundreds of innocent people.
The violence in France proves that the housing projects and slums of Europe are a breeding ground for Islamic violence. The disenfranchised youths burning France’s cities could easily become Al Qaeda’s foot soldiers in Europe and beyond. These riots could give Bin Laden an army in the heart of Europe in a country that possesses nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, intercontinental missiles and lots of other high tech weaponry.
If all this wasn’t bad enough the President of Iran seems to have gone crazy holding a disgusting rally of anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel that seems like something out of the Third Reich. The result of this won’t be a resurgence of Islamic power in Iran but a series of destructive Israeli attacks on Iran, quite possibly with Chinese help, that will blast Iran back into the stone age further destabilizing the region and leading to more war.
Yet what are our leaders doing? The Democrats are running around screaming for President Bush’s blood and ranting and raving about lies about WMD two years ago and a minor scandal involving some third rate vice presidential staffer. President Bush is giving meaningless defenses of his policies in useless press conferences. The talking heads are talking about Judge Alito and Scootergate anything but the international crisis which is as dangerous as anything we’ve seen since 1941. Worse of all both Democrats and Republicans seem to be more concerned about the rights of captured terrorists than the safety of the United States.
The media instead of sounding the alarm are enabling the self deception of our leaders by giving them a stage upon which to enact their sick little show. The reporters are following Scooter Libby around instead of covering the havoc overseas. Or worse putting out reports that make American security forces who are fighting terror look like the bad guys. The media’s pet Republican John McCain and his ranting and raving about torture of terrorists (even though there’s no evidence of that) while nobody is asking what are we going to do about France?
The sickening situation reveals the moral bankruptcy of both of our so called political parties. The Democrats who have an excellent opportunity to come back seem to be more interested in committing ritual suicide to appease the left rather than winning elections. How will the pompous intellectuals who screamed about torture of terrorists look when the bombs go off in New York or Orlando? All the Democrats had to do was sit back and let the Republicans destroy themselves. Instead they’re destroying themselves by selling their souls to the peace movement.
Notice the most astute of all Democratic leaders, Hillary Clinton, is nowhere to be seen during this debacle. She’s laying low so she can jump on her white horse and ride to the rescue after the big Democratic losses in November 2006.
The Republicans instead of standing up to the media elite’s insane campaign to brand America’s security forces and intelligence community torturers are bowing to it. Rather than taking on the morally bankrupt human rights activists who denounce the good guys for defending themselves but ignore the bad guys’ atrocities the Congressional Republicans are going along with the witch hunt. Nor has any major Democrat come out against the stupidity and hypocrisy of the human rights movement.
Only President Bush is standing up to this stupidity which will make him look like a popular national hero when the next terror attack comes. When the Al Qaeda bombs go off next the President will look like a wise leader who put the nation’s defense first. The Democrats will look like fools who refused to defend their own nation.
One prediction here, the only Democrat who will stand up and defend the President and back him will be Hillary. The Left will attack Hillary for taking this stand which will make her look like a brave and thoughtful patriot standing up to the arrogant intellectuals. This debacle will destroy the Democrats in Congress but lay the groundwork for a successful Hillary campaign in 2008.
In the end these political games are disgusting and frightening. Our so called leaders are behaving like the Byzantine intellectuals who argued about theology and refused to defend their homeland because of theological differences with their Emperor while the Turks were setting up their canons outside the walls of Constantinople in 1453. In the end those Byzantine scholars were butchered by the Sultan’s storm troopers the Janissaries or sold into slavery. I just hope that history is kinder to the United States than it was to the Byzantines.