I Have started a new site. Containing this article. Appreciating the Commander-in-Chief

FrontpageMagazine.com ^ | 3-11-02 | Conservomax

[Conservomax]

I have started a beta-version of an online debate that gives opposing views on the same issue, The first issue is teh 6-months since the war on terror began (when we were attacked). I was hoping some of you guys could take a look at it. As I appreciate your views more tahn some whiny liberal shmows.

http://www.medianotions.com/virtualdebate

Here is some of the text of Horowitz's article that acts as the conservative argument.

But there are some who can’t take yes for an answer. In some quarters the leader responsible for these triumphs is himself under siege. The Democrats’ Minority Leader thinks the war lacks direction and definition (What is it you don’t understand about evil, Mr. Daschle?) Others on the left are even more carping. Salon.com, for example has an ongoing series called Bushed! whose articles regularly accuse the President of not having done anything right since the military victory in Afghanistan and – more generally (and absurdly) of not being up to his job.

These attacks come in an environment of danger that makes them difficult to comprehend even as partisan hits. There are an estimated 100 al-Qaeda cells operating within the borders of the United States. During the last decade, 100,000 terrorists have been trained in al-Qaeda’s terror camps from the West Bank to Afghanistan with one mission – to kill American men, women and children, and destroy the Great Satan. Last week US forces engaged undefeated al-Qaeda fighters in the largest battle of the war in Afghanistan since Tora Bora. In Jerusalem a few days earlier, a suicide bomber from one of Yasser Arafat’s terrorist units "waded into a crowd of religious families emerging from Sabbath prayers or bar mitzvah celebrations … [and] approached a group of women with baby strollers before detonating the large nail-packed explosive device on his body." (LA Times 3/3/02) Among the Israeli dead there was an 18-month old girl and four other children. The war to destroy Israel and establish a terrorist state on the land stretching from the West Bank to the Mediterranean is now in full swing.

Six months ago, in the wake of 9/11, President Bush went before the American people. He told the nation that we were at war and it would be a long one. In this, as in other matters affecting this conflict, the President has told the truth – no small matter as far as our security is concerned and – for a recent President -- not a small grace. Al-Qaeda first bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 using Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi terrorists. Bill Clinton did not even visit the site. For eight years Clinton did not inform the American people what government intelligence knew -- that our country was under attack by an international army of religious fanatics whose backers included half a dozen nations armed with weapons of mass destruction. Nor did Clinton put in place the most basic security measures -- at airports for example – that would have prevented the September attack.

Where are the articles about Clinton’s incompetence? Where is the recognition that Clinton was not up to the job as commander-in-chief and that Bush’s response to the war against us has been masterly and responsible in contrast?

Even with Bush’s response, the future may be worse than we think. The administration is attempting to thwart al-Qaeda plans to poison America’s water supplies and destroy our nuclear power plants. A recently released report which has turned out to be a false alarm indicated that al-Qaeda was plotting to detonate a "dirty" nuclear bomb in New York City, which could kill 100,000 people -- precisely the number of victims at Hiroshima. The fact that this was a false alarm is not really reassuring, however. The reason: we know that 80 out of 132 nuclear "suitcase" bombs built by the Russians are missing from their inventories, and may have fallen into al-Qaeda hands.

We are engaged with a medieval enemy fighting a holy war with 21st Century weapons. It is not George Bush who has made this a war of good versus evil, as his critics suggest, but a ruthless enemy whose soldiers plan to go to heaven over our dead bodies. Every man woman and child in America has been targeted for death. Hatred of America, of Christians and of Jews is preached not only across the Muslim world outside the United States but inside our borders as well.