What You Haven’t Heard About Mukasey’s Speech
Posted by
Matt Margolis
in
General Government, National Security on
November 23rd, 2008 at 03:05pm with
11 responses.
Tags: Michael Mukasey, Terrorist Groups.
Tags: Michael Mukasey, Terrorist Groups.
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While Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s collapse during his speech at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Federalist Society got a lot coverage, the speech itself has not gotten a blip… So, I encourage all of you to read it in full.. but I will post a short part of it here to capture your interest:
As the end of this Administration draws near, you would expect to hear broad praise for this success at keeping our Nation safe. Instead, I am afraid what we hear is a chorus with a rather more dissonant refrain. Instead of appreciation, or even a fair appraisal, of the Administration’s accomplishments, we have heard relentless criticism of the very policies that have helped keep us safe. We have seen this in the media, we have seen this in the Congress, and we have heard it from the legal academy as well.In some measure, those criticisms rest on a very dangerous form of amnesia that views the success of our counterterrorism efforts as something that undermines the justification for continuing them. In an odd way, we have become victims of our own success. In the eyes of these critics, if Al Qaeda has not struck our homeland for seven years, then perhaps it never posed much of a threat after all and we didn’t need these counterterrorism policies.
Again, I encourage you to read the whole thing.
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11 Responses to “What You Haven’t Heard About Mukasey’s Speech”
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Mark
despite what all the drooling, rage filled, BDS’ers who troll here say…W will be viewed very kindly by history.
People will look back at the looney left will ponder ,WTF were those people thinking?
well FmrMarine – the only precedent for something like that was Truman – but he actually did something worthwile when he was president. He finished WWII and defeated Japan. Not to mention the economy was booming when he left office. His unpopularity was due to the one sole cause essentially – the failure of the Korean war. Bush has so many , so absurdly many failures, its hard to imagine him going from a disapproval rating of 70% now to as Mark would have it – one of the best Presidents ever. I am sure with time people will forget his failings and he will get a bit higher – but I am thinking that he is much more similar to Nixon in this regard. When he dies – it will give him a boost but he will never make it out of the bottom 10 presidents in most people’s minds.
But I do have to thank him for one thing. His utter and complete failure as a president and human being turned what could have been a 25 year run for the Republican party into nothing more than a sad footnote and sling shot the most liberal president since FDR into power who will bring (gasp) socialist elements back to our economy, end torture, end gitmo, start federal funding again for family planning, and probably appoint some of the most liberal justices ever…
Sweet – thanks for that Bush (and Matt and Mark who helped him)
Terror Morale = Dem’s Timetable
Every sound bite, every campaign trail demand for time tables and withdrawals from Iraq or Afghanistan strengthened and emboldened our terrorist enemies. Such statements are like recruiting posters to the “faithful”, who know that if they can just keep up the pressure the Democrats will walk away from Americas obligations as well as our duties to ourselves and the world.
These may be unwanted obligations but they are ours nonetheless. If we walk away we will face stronger terror recruiting and weakened Muslim governments who will ignore our cries to root out the breeding grounds for terror in their own lands for decades to come. If we leave before Iraq can stand on its own we will throw the oil markets into chaos and we will encourage terrorists to attempt to create Muslim states all over the region. We will then be faced with terrorism actively expanding and exporting toward the West.
We are at a historic crossroads and to some we have chosen a path that is unacceptable. Unfortunately walking away is not an option because we saw the results of that in the 1990’s and we need to fully support this war at all cost. Make sure you remember that when you consider walking away or support such actions. Millions may die based on the choices you make and countries may fall as happened when your parents & grandparents balked after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
the mistake of Vietnam was not leaving to early. The mistake was going at all.
The mistake was going at all.
Gee, wo sent us in? Kennedy. Who escalated? LBJ.
“Gee, wo sent us in? Kennedy. Who escalated? LBJ.”
Yep, and they were wrong.
Awesome comment from our AG. It speaks for itself. We will miss him. Eric Holder has some very big shoes to fill.
Actually, the mistake of Vietnam was in letting the politicians run the day to day war, rather than the generals. This was the same problem with the pre-surge War in Iraq. It would be so nice if people actually remembered their history/current events classes.
You miss my point, Casspurr–as usual. Your mate libS comes here to gloat, and to assert that Bush was a complete failure, then he cites one of the biggest blunders in Donkaroach history. Maybe she should’ve brought up Hoover, or some other Republican. But no, we get JFK and LBJ, a couple of the most ineffective presidients ever, right behind Jimmuh.
Casspurr, when are you gonna fess up and admit that you were never a Republican?
yes – Casper is right. Democrats got us into Vietnam and Democrats escalated it. They were wrong and they were democrats. You see – not everyone is a mindless political hack. Both sides make horrible mistakes.
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They were wrong and they were democrats. You see – not everyone is a mindless political hack.
No….but you certainty are.
Viet Nam just like Iraq are only a battle front on a much larger war.
Viet Nam was against marxist communism, which I believe in the end we won.
Iraq and afghanistan are only a small part of a global war against radical islam.
To bad you lefTARDS are to stupid to recognize it.