Posted on 10/19/2001 6:43:32 PM PDT by RobFromGa
For the first time ever, the country has a strategy of homeland security and a Cabinet officer to carry it out.This just shows how taking a ridiculous stand often depends on a failure to think clearly. Merely on its face and leaving aside the evidence everyone but amundsen is aware of, this statement and the establishment of a strategy and Cabinet office are about intensifying focus, and not at all about an entirely new endeavor. to find any support in that facts or the statement that the federal government has done "nothing" for common defense in the past 200+ years is patent nonsense. The rest of the post shows no more thoughtfulness or reason than the part quoted.So let me see, for the last 200+ years when one of the only clear mandates for the federal government is to defend the country against foreign enemies we were doing nothing? And then consider this statement in context with the next from Dick.
At any other time in our history, the events of 1993 on the WTC would have resulted in the perpetrators being hunted down and totally destroyed. Instead Clinton made it a criminal matter and only caught the dupes and allowed the rest to fester into the attack on 9-11.
Sorry you can't see that.
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