Welcome to the “Friday’s with the ‘hammer” thread. First off let me wish every single poster here a happy new year especially to “m”, Vagabond Trader, Carolina Girl, Chickadee, newsjunkie_ky, loppyd, Urban Infidel, typicalwhitey and Nevergiveup – you guys make it easy for me not to miss that once great blog that is now a train wreck. Also, a happy new year to the two contributors whom I occasionally argue with – we are still on the same side!
Back to the column – Dr. K. as usual with his psychiatric training, dissects and eviscerates the naiveté of the Obama administration and their almost willful incompetence and incomprehension of the threats that we face. They actually seemed to believe that it was all George Bush’s fault and that once he was gone and the current POTUS mouthed his clichéd platitudes and sang Kumbaya and “All we are saying, is give peace a chance” – all would be well in the world. Obama will do lasting damage to this country ecomoincally and to the world – long after he has gone back to the political swamps of Cook County, Illinois (which is where he frankly belongs). His incompetence and slavish devotion to the ideology he learned from Franklin Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, can be seen in the hard core ideologues and left-wing incompetents he as appointed (Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano) or tried to appoint (Vann Jones).
A terrorist war Obama has denied
by Charles Krauthammer
Washington PostJanet 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.
And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term “war on terror.” It’s over — that is, if it ever existed.
Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has not. Which gives new meaning to the term “asymmetric warfare.”
Tags: Charles Krauthammer
