Have I Missed Something?

Have I Missed Something?
By Daniel G. Jennings, Angry Pundit
I’ve been monitoring the news lately and I’m beginning to wonder, have I missed something? Is the War on Terror over? Have our troops wiped out Al Qaeda’s leadership? Have Mr. Bin Laden and Mr. Zaquarri walked in and surrendered to our troops? Has Al Qaeda disbanded and called off the Jihad against it?
I ask these questions because of recent news stories. In Europe: the self-proclaimed champions of human rights are up in arms about secret prisons, the CIA’s efforts to round up, imprison and interrogate terrorists. In Washington, President Bush has backed down and agreed to Senator McCain’s ban on torture and now The New York Times and its apologists in the Democratic Party are attacking the President for ordering our spies to eavesdrop upon the communications of potential terrorists. So it looks like we are now more concerned about the “rights” of those who want to kill us than the fanatics who are plotting to destroy us.
It looks like a large segment of our political leadership and our media elite have decided that the war on terror is over and there is no more threat. The danger is that nobody seems to have told the bad guys that. Although the self proclaimed defenders of civil liberties and human rights don’t want to admit Al Qaeda is still out there plotting new atrocities against us. The war is far from over, and we are still in grave danger.
Somewhere in his hideout Bin Laden must be laughing his head off and thanking Allah for this. This talk of civil rights and perceived lowering of our defenses will embolden the terrorists and encourage them to rachet up the violence against us.
Those responsible for Sept. 11 are still out there and they want to hurt us. Our success in Iraq and Afghanistan gives them even more reason to attack us.
We are living in extraordinary times when our nation faces an extraordinary threat. We are in grave danger of a catastrophic terror attack or series of terror attacks that could hurt and kill dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or in a worse case scenario hundreds of thousands of Americans. On Sept. 11 two of our greatest cities were attacked and several thousand Americans were killed. Shortly afterwards somebody, (who still has not been caught) attempted to spread one of the deadliest biological weapons known to man, the anthrax virus, through our mail system in an obvious attempt to infect millions.
Faced with such extraordinary threats, President Bush took reasonable action. He ordered the CIA and military to do whatever it took to track down, capture and interrogate the terrorists. He ordered the National Security Agency to monitor the communications of suspected terrorists. Bush did exactly what Lincoln or Truman would have done in his place, he did his duty by taking reasonable steps to defend the lives of the American people.
Now Mr. Bush is being attacked by arrogant fools who refuse to see the real threat and instead listen to hysterical voices in the media that claim our national reputation and civil liberties are in danger. What is frightening is that these fools are having some effect and may succeed in tying the hands of our defenders.
It’s also disgusting to see our political leaders more concerned about the “rights” of our enemies than the lives of the American people. Congress isn’t addressing crises like the high cost of fuel and medical care or the lack of health insurance that affect average Americans’ lives. Instead it is smearing the reputation of our military and intelligence agencies while worrying about the rights of fanatics who want to kill us.
There is no evidence that Americans’ civil rights are in danger, the Bush administration’s security measure are restrained and specific. There have been no witch hunts or concentration camps. None of the monstrous abuses committed by that liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who locked average Americans in what he openly called concentration camps during World War Two because they had Japanese sounding names and their ethnic group didn’t have enough votes to impress him, have reoccurred.
Nor is there any evidence that our national reputation is in danger, overseas a small elite of intellectuals is angry at us, an elite that hated us long before Sept. 11. You can’t tell me that average people around the world actually care about the rights of terrorists or what Americans do to them. I imagine an honest poll in most of the world’s nations would show that the man in the street doesn’t give a damn what the US military does to captured terrorists. Just once I’d like to see an American journalist go into a pub in Liverpool or Birmingham and ask real Englishmen what they think. The intellectual is likely to be shocked by a reaction like: “I wish Tony Blair had the @#!%$^ balls to put a rope around those (censored) characters necks like your president does.” from a loyal Labor Party Voter.
Yet this nonsense has become a political issue in the United States and a major one at that. It’s a sad, distressing and scary situation.
There is a potential upside to all of this, when the next major terror attack occurs the fools like Sen. John McCain who are wrapping themselves up in the flag and screaming about terrorists’ rights will be hoisted on their own petards. When the real bad guys attack and commit another atrocity a lot of political careers will be over and a lot of short sighted, self righteous fools will find themselves seeking new jobs.
At this moment all I can say is Thank God we have a man like George Bush in the White House. No he isn’t perfect but at least he has the character and courage to do what needs to be done. Hopefully, his replacement will be cut from the same mold. If not we could be in a lot of trouble.
So Mr. Bush stay the course and battle on. The American public is with you and the idiots screaming about civil liberties and human rights will find that out at the next election. Note: Hillary Clinton is well aware of these facts Mr. Bush and she’s with you because she wants another eight years in the big White Jail on Pennsylvania Avenue.