Andrew C. McCarthy says "His latest remarks betray an alarming ignorance." Criminal prosecution of war combatants, yeah, that's the ticket.
"As a national-security strategy, however, and as a means of carrying our government’s first responsibility to protect the American people, heavy reliance on criminal justice is an abysmal failure."
More to the point, "A successful counterterrorism strategy makes criminal prosecution a subordinate part of a much broader governmental response. Most of what is needed never happens in a courtroom. It happens in military operations against terrorist strongholds; intelligence operations in which jihadists get assassinated — without trial; intelligence collections in which we cozy up to despicable informants since only they can tell us what we need to know; and aggressive treasury actions to trace terror funds."
Finally he says, "That is how you stop the homeland from being attacked, which is what we have done for the last seven years. And it is that from which Obama wants to move away.
Obama would bring us back to September 10th America. And September 10th is sure to be followed by September 11th ."
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For my part I say, we'd ALL like it if September 11th, 2001 never occurred but it did. Failing to acknowledge or learn the lessons of that ill-fated day won't make it go away. Ignoring evil doesn't make it go away either. Mr. McCain you might want to pound this message out about a gazillion times a day.
For my part I say, we'd ALL like it if September 11th, 2001 never occurred but it did. Failing to acknowledge or learn the lessons of that ill-fated day won't make it go away. Ignoring evil doesn't make it go away either. Mr. McCain you might want to pound this message out about a gazillion times a day.
Dwight-up Mr. McCain, President Eisenhower said, "Freedom will not long tarry in the hands of cowards."
