Posted on 09/12/2001 5:13:03 AM PDT by truther
The first statement you made is true; however, there is simply NO WAY their future anti-U.S., terroristic potential could have been known at the time when Reagan was arming the Afghan rebels against the Russians. The earlier decision eventually led to bad results, but it is NOT entirely true that it was a bad decision at the time it was made.
Your second statement is PURE NONSENSE! We will always "spend billions on defense" just like we spend billions on lots of other things, but how many billions and just how the billions are spent are the real issues. Clinton both defunded and politicized intelligence, security, and the military with a vengeance for the full eight years of his disastrous tenure. I wonder if he and Hillary the Great have any appreciation of the results of what they and their evil, lying toadies have done to this country. I doubt it.
Our enemies are within - and all America must know it!
Mr. Woolsley was on this morning encouraging the Bush administration to go further than just thinking the terrorists and those who "harbor" them must be dealt with. He said he hoped the Bush team would also focus on the NATIONS who finance, who train, who sponsor terrorism as part of their official policy - something the Clinton administration STOPPED DOING SHORTLY AFTER HE CAME INTO OFFICE!!!!
I totally agree with him!
Does anyone recall the rash of hijackings in the 70's and how they were stopped? Hmmm???
On several occasions during the two term blight on our nation that was the administration of X42, the FAA conducted several studies of airline security. On at least one occasion the findings were addressed directly to the president together with recommended improvements. X42 did not see fit to implement any security enhancements.
Clinton culpible??? I rest my case.
The platform for international terrorist activity over the last thirty plus years has primarily been commercial airline travel. Short of placing armed, federal marshals on board each flight, cockpits should be intruder proof to prevent terrorists from taking over control of aircraft. Video cameras should be installed at every gate to make a visual record of the persons who actually board each flight. I realize the latter is after the fact regarding yesterday's tragedy but I expect the FBI and CIA would give anything to have just such evidence today. If the local convenience store can afford this technology I expect the airports in this country can as well.
IMHO
You don't solve a problem by dealing with symtoms of the problem. You solve it by dealing with the THE problem.
The PROBLEM is the feminization of America and its great institutions by the party of the emasculated; The DemocRAT Party.
Clinton, "The Great Emasculator" is the epitome / poster boy for that party.
Algore, Clinton's emasculated hand-picked successor, did all in his power to try and prevent the military vote from being counted in Florida.
Algore, the choice of the emasculated party to be THEIR president.
Algore, the feminized male who hired and paid Naiomi Wolfe to teach him how to be an "alpha male".
Cowardly "BASTARDS", as you call them, cannot "take advantage" of MEN.
Thats the "problem" that must be solved.
Tom brought up the subject of the CLINTON decimation of US HUMAN INTELLIGENCE capabilities – that going all the way back to Sun Tsu, SPIES are a necessary part of the information gathering process. He mentioned that if we’d had a few spies and spooks out there in this increasingly dangerous world, we MIGHT have gotten one of them close to the perpetrator and been able to interdict the MURDER of perhaps 15,000 Americans in the incredible tragedy we witnessed this morning.
I think it’s safe to say that Clancy knows a bit about the subjects on which he writes.
Tom then tagged CNN by name as one of the news agencies that greeted Clinton’s decimation of the intelligence community with approval, continuing to say that they COULD have spoken out TO OPPOSE HIM but failed to do so. Tom’s rather clear implication was that CNN played a role in today’s catastrophe.
Judy VISIBLY RECOILED – and quickly concluded the interview. Her expression made it clear that she was NOT happy with Tom.
Clancy was RIGHT ON THE MARK and until we DO beef up those assets, it’s gonna happen again – and probably sooner than later.
And do you suppose there is some sinister significance to the fact that this happened on 9-11 (911!)? Are these people THAT sick? Don’t bother responding as that was a rhetorical question.
Let’s all pray – and shed a tear or two -- for the lost firefighters, police officers, innocent citizens and their families. Until this is behind us, we must put aside as many of our partisan differences as our principles will allow.
And we must also pray that our precious Constitution does not become one of the first victims of this SICKENING and senseless act.
THE HORROR! THE H O R R O R!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you don't mind that I changed the word "Democratic" to DemocRAT. There's nothing democratic about those Socialists/Trotskyites.
Hers is "the face" of the Emasculated Party [the DemocRAT Party] in America.
Clinton, "The Great Emasculator", was himself emasculated. No __MAN__ would EVER admire, or be married to, such a base mentality.
Her mouth was running in the Senate this morning, as if it wasn't UNAMERICAN, emasculated ideas, and practices like those she advocates that didn't INVITE this attack on America in the FIRST place.
"I apologize - he got his statements out before I could stop him!!! It won't happen again."
I will bet dollars to donuts, Tom Clancy will never be asked by CNN for an interview again.
I think these clips deserve a thread of their own.
Oh Geez, give me a break. Who determines what the correct spelling of an Arabic name is? Tell me, is it Peking or Beijing? Is it Qaddafi or Kaddafi? I would answer rather that if you're going to be that ridiculously picky at a time like this, then you would have to write it in it's original language. Can't do that can you, so leave people alone. It's like telling someone whose house is on fire that they should make sure their house is clean for the firefighters when they arrive.
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