The Gorelick Wall Redux
The Gorelick wall is directly consistent with that attitude. Clinton hailed the arrest and conviction of the masterminds involved with that 1993 plot and apparently considered it a closed case, ignoring the larger network of thugs still poised and equipped to attack us. The overall feeling projected by the White House was that we didn’t need worry about terrorism anymore, because we’d made an example of the criminals we managed to catch. Certainly this made Clinton’s leftist base feel good and made him popular enough among his base to win a second term. But I daresay that the second World Trade Center attack on 9/11 was the direct result of that mistaken approach and that, obviously, terrorism had not been contained by Clinton’s approach.
The Democrats didn’t learn from that mistake. That point was driven home soundly when President Obama tried to mimic Bill Clinton’s strategy on terrorism, and the results were predictable. The only reason that they didn’t have to pick pieces of plane and people out of the tarmac in Detroit is because the detonator failed.
I don’t deny that the Bush administration made mistakes in many areas in their response to 9/11. They took that different approach post-9/11 because 9/11 proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the radical ideology behind Islamist terrorism could not in fact be contained. It became clear that it had to be defeated. Democrats mouthing sympathies about the individual liberties of those attacking us cannot shield us against car bombs or falling planes, and it seems doubtful they will make those attacking us stop.
While I’m not calling for the willy-nilly elimination of individual rights in the pursuit of security, I, like most Americans, have grown a little bit weary of 80-year-old grandmothers being told they can’t bring toothpaste in their luggage while we completely ignore Islamic radicals already on security watch lists — all in the name of political correctness. What I’m suggesting is that a reasonable case could be made for “profiling.”
That aside, the larger lesson here is that in trying to avoid a war, both Democrat administrations have succeeded in widening it. It’s time the Democrats learn that the path to peace is winning the war.
It certainly sounded the other day like Mr. Obama had a change of heart with regards to his policies so far. He has now openly admitted that the United States, along with the rest of the world, is involved with a war against al-Qaeda.
Well, great, but let’s remember, please, that nobody has ever questioned Mr. Obama’s speaking ability. He has always talked a good game. What Americans on both sides of the aisle have been complaining about bitterly is Obama’s policies on terrorism. The speech has been made. Now it’s time for him to act. He needs to move away from the policy outlined by Jamie Gorelick.
I wonder, frankly, if we will ever see such a policy reversal before Election Day 2012. Given past history, I doubt it.
Finally someone makes the connection and speaks aloud. THANK YOU!
BTW, wasn’t Gorelick one of the revolving door CEOs of Fannie or Freddie by which the Democrats gave their buds a few months at a time robbing the public piggy bank? Or was it Harmon? Or Att.Gen. Holder? Or Raines?
Oops. Come to think of it, it was all of them.
Billions.
Indeed, so it was. We certainly have a target-rich environment, don’t we?
Still blaming Bush’s predecessor?
I shuld think the answer to that question is rather obvious; I’m pointing up an attitude that is common to both Democrat administrations. How much clearer does that comparison have to be?
Is it not obvious that the long struggle is nearly over?
Is it not obvious that the triumph of Islam is inevitable?
There is little time left.
Cease provoking the soldiers of Allah (swt).
Cease your blasphemies against Allah (swt) and His Messenger Muhammed (saw).
Cease oppressing Muslims.
Renounce your false religions.
Embrace Islam now and live in peace in submission to the will of Almighty Allah (swt).
Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
Allahu akbar!
It isn’t so much a “wall” that I am worried about, I am more concerned with the PC blindfolds everyone in Washington and most of the media are wearing. It prevents them from seeing who the real enemy is – ISLAM. Not al Qaeda, ISLAM. Islam has delcared war on the infidel world, they call it jihad, and it it long past time when we should be calling it jihad as well.
America Muslim: a contradiction in terms.
Jamie Gorelick [pronounced as a two syllable word] belongs in prison. Two reasons: Her “wall” that had no basis in the Constitution or Congressional legislation, but was only to ‘avoid the appearance’ of cross-institution information passage, and 2) her position at FanFred {I don’t give a Frack which one, they are Huey Dewey and Louey Twins as far as I am concerned) where she earned something like $21 million doing NOTHING!!! with no prior experience required.
This is Washington DC political “good old boy” networking at its grossest example.
She belongs in jail. If Libby belongs for mis-remembering, she belongs for ~2700 killed because of her bad judgement.
tomw
YEah!!! I am so mad at this crap that I could chew nails and spit the results at every democRAT I can find. This is so WRONG and so ignored by the MSM hacks.
Is it not obvious that the long struggle is nearly over?
Is it not obvious that the triumph of Islam is inevitable?
*** Nope. Quite the contrary.
*** Hell, 1.5 billion Muslims can’t even defeat 7 million Israelis.
There is little time left.
*** The train already left.
Cease provoking the soldiers of Allah
Cease your blasphemies against Allah and His Messenger Muhammed.
Cease oppressing Muslims.
*** Like 3,000 Muslims who died in the World Trade Center?
*** Like hundreds of Muslims who died in train stations in London, Madrid, India, etc?
*** Like hundreds of Muslims who died when sewer-side bombers in Africa tried to attack US Embassies?
*** Oh wait, those weren’t Muslims who were murdered … they were innocent civilians, trying to live their lives.
Embrace Islam now and live in peace in submission to the will of Almighty Allah.
*** Nah … but here, have this Tract, explaining why you should convert to Christianity.
Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
*** YOUR grandchildren will be punk rockers.
Allahu akbar!
*** Hail Mary, full of grace.
Jamey Gorelick’s career would make anyone who cares about this country sick. After her work for Janet Reno, she went on to make millions as a top exec for Fanny. For the ultimate in irony, she was put on the “911 Commission”, presumably to help cover up her part in making the attack possible. http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/unsung_contributor_to_the_fannie_mae_disaster_jamie_gorelick