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Date Posted: 05/28/10 10:22am
Author: Gary L. Bauer
Subject: It's been a rough year and a half!

Shifting Strategy Misses Target

Yesterday counterterrorism advisor John Brennan unveiled Obama’s new security strategy. The new plan will focus more on homegrown radicals and domestic terrorism. Well, there’s no doubt that we’ve got a problem with radical Muslims in America. But, according to the Washington Times, “Mr. Brennan specifically said the Obama administration would no longer use the terms ‘Islamist’ and ‘jihadist’ ‘because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.’”

Where is Brennan getting his information? As far as I know, Brennan has not converted to Islam, but he is holding himself up as an expert in that faith and allowing this rubbish to dictate our counterterrorism strategy. Can “jihad” at times mean a personal struggle? Sure. But throughout history, including today, it also has had another meaning that is extremely relevant to our national security.

Everyone knows that whenever a Muslim terrorist attacks us, he claims he to be committing an act of jihad. The jihadists often yell “Allhu akbar” – “Allah is great” – as they commit their evil deeds, just to make sure we don’t confuse them with disgruntled Baptists or Episcopalians. Perhaps Brennan isn’t aware of that fact.

Maybe Brennan should go ask the “humanitarians” at Palestinian Islamic Jihad exactly what they mean by the term “jihad.” Palestinian Islamic Jihad is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and no doubt believes that it is “purifying the community” when it blows up Jews and Christians. Perhaps he should talk to the countless Muslim religious leaders who are telling young Muslims today to kill the infidel – to wage jihad.

There are lots of things that the Obama Administration is doing wrong with respect to our values and the economy. But there is nothing more dangerous than the politically correct malfeasance that the White House is attempting to pass off as a national security strategy.

By the way, here’s one more example of the administration’s lack of seriousness. Yesterday, the State Department reassured the Mexican government that National Guard troops about to be deployed to the border will not be engaged in any efforts to enforce our immigration laws. That comes as Fox News reports that the Department of Homeland Security is warning Texas authorities that a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist organization is believed to be traveling in Mexico and may attempt to cross into the U.S.

But wait – there’s more… While we’re arresting thousands of “other than Mexicans” coming across the border, and while the Department of Homeland Security is issuing terrorist watch warnings along the border, what are Senate liberals doing about it? They blocked a plan to send thousands more National Guard troops to help keep the terrorists out!


Our Whiny President

At a fundraising dinner in San Francisco this week, President Obama repeated a line that has become an administration theme recently in its attempts to deflect responsibility and justify its outrageous out-of-control spending. Obama whined, “Now, let’s face it, this has been as tough a year and a half as any year and a half in our history since the 1930s.” Really?

Does Barack Obama think he’s had it harder than FDR during the 1940s, when Pearl Harbor was attacked or when we lost thousands in the great battles of World War II? Does Obama think he’s had it harder than Harry Truman who had to decide to drop the atomic bomb or engage in Korea? Does Obama think he’s had it harder than John F. Kennedy, who starred down the Soviets in the Cuban missile crisis?

Does Obama think he’s had it harder than Ronald Reagan, who had to clean up after Jimmy Carter, and dealt with sky-high interest rates and even higher unemployment rates than today? Does Obama really think he’s had it harder than George W. Bush, whose presidency was transformed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

The president does have a point, though. It has been a tough year and a half -- not for him but for millions of Americans who have had to contend with his policies. I’m thinking about the small business owners and entrepreneurs who are watching their taxes go up and can’t run their businesses without consulting thousands of pages of new regulations.

It’s been tough on the border communities who have suffered under an explosion of drug and gang related crime, while Obama ignored their pleas for help. It’s been tough on those who cherish our traditional values, as Obama has undermined marriage and forced us to pay for the destruction of innocent human life. It’s been tough for those who love America to watch as Obama has repeatedly apologized for America, coddled our enemies, offended our allies and worked relentlessly to “fundamentally transform” the nation we love.

It’s been tough, but I have hope. I know there is a vast reservoir of good and decent people in this great country who cherish faith, family and freedom. Working together, I believe we can make America a shining city upon a hill once again.

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