I guess this brilliance is why California keeps electing Feinstein to office. It sure isn’t her animal magnetism.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) questioned John Brennan Thursday over the activities of al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki at Brennan’s confirmation hearing at length.
“I think–and this is just me–I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can,” Feinstein concluded.
No, it’s not just you, Senator. It’s them. They want to kill us. Some of us have devoted our careers to pointing this out, and often find ourselves speaking to a nation that doesn’t want to hear it.
As you may be able to tell from the tone of this post, I can’t help feeling jaded after watching some of today’s hearings. On the CIA side, John Brennan made the case that waterboarding terrorists to extract useful intelligence out of them is worse than killing them and everyone around them with a drone, even if they’re American citizens. Obama comes to making these life-and-death decisions with no background in law enforcement or the military, but no one is pointing this out. He has never been a judge or a police officer or, until his presidency, had to make any grave decisions. Now he makes such decisions over what amount to Top Terrorist Baseball Cards, with no review and no transparency.
The Republicans did a decent job on the Benghazi side, getting Panetta and Dempsey to admit that President Obama was not involved in any of the response to the attack — Obama was AWOL, if you like — and that Hillary Clinton’s State Department never even asked the military for any help. So, according to Panetta and Dempsey, the military never responded. The president never seemed to care. After one briefing early in the assault, he checked out and never inquired about the fates of the Americans involved again. The next day, he was off to Vegas for a fundraiser. Obama lives to campaign, even while he left Americans to die.
The jaded feeling comes in with the realization that none of this will really matter. While the Democrats mostly wasted time today, the Republicans failed to get Benghazi into the national conversation so that people care about it. They never asked the simple question, “Where was the president, and what was he doing?” They didn’t coordinate their questioning so that they could build a compelling narrative out of the assault. As a result, plus the usual mainstream media coverup, it won’t matter. Tomorrow, Obama will be out there again calling for new laws on guns that won’t stop criminals but may disarm law-abiding citizens, or race-baiting on immigration, and it will be as if the nation never learned that under the current president, we do leave our people behind, and it may now be open season on our diplomats around the world. For the most part, the nation will not have learned that, and among those who did, will be millions who do not care.
Despite her failure before and during the attack, and her lies afterward, Hillary Clinton will suffer no political fallout for the deaths of four Americans that occurred in her department under her watch, and for whom she should have provided more security. Obama’s poll numbers won’t move. Even blood on the hands of a Democrat no longer matters.
“I think–and this is just me–I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can,” Feinstein concluded.
Hmmm, yet we can only shotguns to protect ourselves (Biden) or non-assault-type rifles that are single shot or small pistols with magazines that only hold 7 rounds. Is it just me or does there seem to be a disconnect within Di Fi’s brain?
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““I think–and this is just me–I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can,” Feinstein concluded.”
But I thought that Cairo speech healed everything.
At least Feinstein is aware that the terrorists exist. Hang around leftist/Democratic discussion boards for a while and you will see that denial of the terrorists’ existence is the dominant belief, followed by acknowledging their existence while denying their influence. Wherever the terrorists have invaded and taken control of a society, it is assumed that they have always been there and are the sole legitimate representative of the people.
Are you sure you didn’t mean to say, “At best, Feinstein is aware that terrorists exist?” It just seems more logical to me.
Yes, they do. But does that excuse our actions?
How do seemingly random drone strikes against people halfway around the world make us safer, exactly? Another 9/11 isn’t going to happen, since we lock the cockpit doors now (never mind the hysteria we’ve succumbed to with the TSA).
How does using double tap drone strikes against first responders in foreign countries make us safer?
It certainly doesn’t make people over there love us anymore. Not that they ever will. But when they see their dead civilians (including many children), don’t you think they might be a lot more inclined to get revenge than just generic outrage?
“I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can …”
And This is Why.
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Not goin’ to say much, just speaks volumes…all by itself:
Sequence of events leading up to Goebbels’1925 “Principles of Propaganda”
In 1919 the German gov’t passed the “Regulations on Weapons Ownership”
In 1920 they passed the “Law on the Disarmament of the People”
In 1928 they passed the “Law on Firearms and Ammunition”
In 1938 they passed the “German Weapons Act” which specifically forbade Jews from dealing in firearms or ammunition.
On November 9&10, 1938 was Kristallnacht, where 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent off to concentration camps. Remember:US FEEMA has Internment Camps.
On November 11, 1938 the Germans passed “Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons”
I think you know the rest of the story.
Anybody care to explain to me how we become 1940′s Germany WITHOUT gun control?
History has an uncanny way of repeating itself…watchout for “The Left Hand!!!” Pray.Amen.
Well stop the presses!