I watched it, and after a while I got tired of essentially hearing that people on my side merely played upon fear, were fearful ourselves, and went about doing horrible, anti-American things which The One will now fix and get us back on track…but, meanwhile, no one is getting out of Gitmo for a while, and if they do they’re going to SuperMax…and I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be at Club Gitmo than in SuperMax.
More important to me than this is the fact that Obama made it abundantly clear that the War on Terrorism has now become the War on al-Qaeda – faced with a global jihad made up of disparate groups backed by various, national players, Obama has opted to become the miniaturist of American national security…he’s going to go after al-Qaeda (with a few swipes at the Taliban, along the way) and fixate American policy on chasing the ghost of bin Laden through the Tribal Areas. We’re in a lot of trouble, folks – al-Qaeda has already been vastly weakened and, at any rate, is only one, small part of the Islamist terrorist threat we face. Obama and his Democrats said we took our eyes off the ball when we went to Iraq – well, its the 7th inning and they are concentrating on the ball used by the first batter in the first inning…
He repeated the usual litany of entirely unsubstantiated, kook-leftist talking points to justify his policy (ie, “Gitmo is a terrorist recruitment tool”), and showed that in the area of national security and the War on Terrorism, he’s walking blindfolded into disaster. He’s getting advice some really smart people (Gates, Panetta, eg) but he seems unwilling to draw the full conclusions from what he’s learned since he received his first Presidential intel brief as the Democrat nominee – that the rhetoric of the left, at best, covered only a peculiar and highly incomplete aspect of what we face. Some moves made since January 20th were encouraging (such as not releasing the photos), but this speech shows that in policy, Obama is retreated to 9/10 and relying upon the magic of his name and the federal courts to keep us safe.
It is an error and I hope it is not paid for in blood.
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