PING!
Posted on 08/11/2006 8:43:48 AM PDT by GMMAC
The Left has no answer to London plot
By Mike Gallagher
townhall.com
Friday, August 11, 2006
I had a really weird reaction to the news that British authorities thwarted a massive terror attack on scores of American and British passenger airliners this week. Naturally, I felt a wave of appreciation and pride for the intelligence gathering personnel who managed to head off this latest evil scheme. I was enormously relieved that countless men, women and children were spared a terrible death by the maniacal Islamic extremists hellbent on slaughtering the innocent.
But I immediately wondered what Cindy Sheehan and Ned Lamont are saying now.
Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary with a simple, solid, consistent drumbeat of a theme: we need to tuck tail and lose the war in Iraq immediately. No more fighting, forget any progress made in that troubled part of the world, we just need to get out, he says. Now.
When a slick millionaire cable executive is able to articulate that position of failure, it appears that enough Connecticut Democrats will swallow it. Frankly, it does seem mildly appealing, at least to the simple-minded. Who likes hearing about American soldiers coming home in body bags? How many obituaries showing young, fresh faces can we bear to see?
But even a person of limited intelligence and wisdom is able to absorb the events of the past two days and see how foolish and ridiculous Lamont’s position really is.
Somehow, the loony left has managed to convince a fair number of Americans that Iraq has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or terrorism. I don’t quite know how they’ve managed to do that. A simple Google search of legitimate, reliable news sources can confirm the miles and miles of irrefutable connections between the bad guys of Iraq and the bad guys of terrorism.
You don’t believe me? Go ahead and look it up. Ask where the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking fled after slaughtering an American named Leon Klinghoffer, way back in 1985. You doubt the connections? Find out where the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing sought – and received – safe harbor. I’ll give you a hint: they were sheltered in a city spelled B-a-g-h-d-a-d.
Furthermore, investigate the mountains of documents confirming meetings between top level Al-Qaeda leaders and high-ranking members of the Iraqi government.
No, the anti-war voices in America are lying when they say there is no connection between Iraq and terrorism. And they know it.
So now that we know that another 9/11-type attack was nearly successful, what could Ned Lamont possibly say?
Cindy Sheehan likes to say that President Bush “killed (her) son.”
Do you think she considers how many sons and daughters would have been killed over American and British skies had this plot not been uncovered? Does she care?
Callers to my radio show today ran the gamut over this latest example of terrorist threats. One man made the perfect analogy, comparing the way we teach our children to stand up to the schoolyard bully to the way the United States is leading the world-wide war on terror. “Every culture understands this concept”, he said. “If the bully is left alone, he never goes away. Ned Lamont and many liberal Democrats think if we leave the terrorists alone, they’ll just peacefully mind their own business, never bothering us again.” I thought his point was terrific.
And then there was Amanda.
She was calling from Colorado, and she chastised me for embracing violence as a solution to violence. “You right-wingers love blood and guts and you never have any sympathy for the other side”, she said. “The other side?” I asked. “You mean the terrorists?” She responded with a sneer in her voice: “You just don’t understand. They feel that WE’RE the terrorists. You conservatives are wrong in defining this war as something between good and evil.”
I had just about had enough. “Amanda, let me ask you something”, I said. “Do you consider the 19 hijackers of 9/11 evil?” Long pause. “No, I do not,” she replied. “We should look at ourselves to discover what we did to make them hate us so much. This is all our fault.”
Make no mistake, this woman was serious. I actually told her I hoped she was a comedienne, someone making a prank call to a national radio show. She assured me that she was not. So I had to ask her what she did for a living. Her answer will haunt me for a long, long time: “I’m a schoolteacher.”
This war is so complicated because we are fighting an entity that is all over the world, an enemy with no geographical boundaries. It’s also tough because we all know that it’s a war that will be fought for many, many generations.
But most of all, it’s so difficult because not every one of our enemies are named Ahmed and Muhammad and Abdul.
Some of America’s enemies in this war are named Ned. And Cindy. And Amanda.
PING!
They don't have an answer for ANYTHING, except Bigger government, More taxes, Less freedom, More welfare and its BUSHS fault!..........
They'll just say that it's all made up
OR
part of a Bush plot.
Check the blogs. The left must be destroyed as a political force in this country.
The left has a lot to say, they're claiming this wouldn't have been an issue had we not been in Iraq.
This is so unfair to the left. They sure as hell DO have a plan.
"I surrender..."
It's on page one of their play-book.
Poor Amanda. They don't hate us for what we did - they hate us for who we are. They hate us because we exist.
Have no doubt - the war is coming to our shores. We will fight it in our own cities, on our own streets, and our dead, both young and old, will lie unburied.
They are nuts over there.
“We should look at ourselves to discover what we did to make them hate us so much. This is all our fault.”
It is our fault. We need to become an Islamic country under Islamic law. /sarc
Incredible....so if someone goes out and kills Ted Kennedy the Kennedy family should ask themselves what Ted did to make his killer hate him so much?
The timing of these arrests were very suspicious, coming after the Lamont victory and all. Is there any real proof those arrested were really terrorists? Considering the timing, it is logical to assume Bush just picked up the phone and called Tony Blair to stage these arrests as a personal favor. Sometime after the election, the case will quietly be dropped due to lack of evidence. If it is mentioned at all, it will be buried on page A16 by the pro-Bush media.
Why don't we ever hear any Muslims saying this kind of stuff.
But, we weren't in Iraq on September 11, 2001.
dung.
Kinda puts the lie that Fat Bastard (Michael Moore) wrote (letter) earlier this week about the Lamont victory.
That's the 1st thing i noticed about this.
GREAT article! Thanks.
I would be willing to bet that there is nothing in life that will make this woman happy. No matter what she has, it will not be enough. Nowhere she goes will be as nice as she thinks it should be. No food will taste as good as she thought it would. There is simply no satisfying people like this. When they get "this", they always look and say "why didn't I get that." Yet if they got "that" instead, they would ask "why didn't I get this".
It's a manifestation of who they are on the inside. They hate themselves and project that hatred onto every situation they encounter. When they see someone hate their country their first question is "What did we do to deserve their hatred" not "I do not think it is OK to hate people, why should they?". It;s akin to rape victims blaming themselves for being attacked. Their focus is on what they could have done instead of why the rapist attacked them. It's sad, but she is a lost cause.
Michael Moore is quiet...
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