And who is doing anything about it? Not the Bush Administration.
George W. Bush is in a position to put a permanent end to Al-Queada. He is in a position to tell Amnesty International, the ACLU and the UN what they can do with themselves (and while that may not look good to the world scene, it would make people here feel less on edge and guarantee him a second term).
He has done neither.
If anything, he has acted more like his father, listening to the same people from a decade ago, telling him it was perfectly okay to declare a touchdown at the 5-yard line instead of taking it past the goal line.
You may feel good about that, but I certainly do not.
And he used that position to do some very gutsy things.
1. nixed Kyoto
2. withdrew from the ABM treaty, and insisted on building missile defense system
3. drew a line in the sand over ICC
4. enunciated the Bush Doctrine, that terrorist organization of global reach (meaning representing a direct threat to the U.S.A.) and those that harbor them were going to pay.
He has done some other good things, but those things were gutsy and principled in my opinion.
I'd like to live in your world. Truth is, we've over 700,000 NGOs operating from within the US, most on the left, ABA (who Bush kicked out..along with NOW), NEA, AFL/CIO, NAACP, NOW, AP, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WP, XXX-42, DNC, DU, PFAW, ACLU...we pretty much just mind our own business while they've been busy infiltrating our infrastructures until we now have a truly unbalanced and rude group of unelected folks influencing policy...and these folks know they're unaccountable to anyone.
About Johnny Jihad, the Bush administration is most definitely working to get info from terrorists in spite of the left and libertarian attempts to bash them for racial profiling and abusing civil liberties, but more folks are interested in believing press lies spin than the facts.
Check:
Lawsuit Abuse: " Trial lawyers are robbing decent, honest, Americans of their money, trust, freedom and peace of mind."
See also: Protecting the trial lawyer monopoly
www.overlaywered.com.
Conservatives attacked Reagan for not being able to get past the Rats in DC. If Reagan had a tough time with the organized crime machine on the left during relative peace, why do we lose focus on our real, many enemies in a more corrupt America during wartime against the nastiest group of thugs we've ever faced?
Losing by Winning?