Liberal Democrat Senators Reid and Kennedy attempted to spin yesterday’s foiled terrorist plot emenating from London which many believe would have culminated in a terrorist attack which would have dwarfed 9-11.
Kennedy had this to say:
it is clear that our misguided policies are making America more hated in the world and making the war on terrorism harder to win.”
“Dingy Harry” added:
“The Iraq war has diverted our focus and more than $300 billion in resources from the war on terrorism and has created a rallying cry for international terrorists.”
Wow. How novel. Will they ever get it? A major terrorist plot is thwarted by our number #1 ally Great Britain, and all the “hurry-up-and-lose” lib Dems have to say is that it reveals that Muslims hate us? and that if we had not removed Saddam and liberated the Iraqi people from his oppressive dictatorial regime that the terrorists would not have planned this attack and others around the world? If this were true how does one explain the multitude of terrorist attacks on US interests prior to 9-11 and Iraqi Freedom?
What yesterday’s thwarted terror attack proved Senators is that the very conter-terrorist programs that Dems have tenatiously opposed and exposed to our enemies are the very programs that are enabling us to avert future 9-11’s.
In short, Democrats who claim to want “focus” on the war on terror have wanted it fought without the intelligence, interrogation and detention tools necessary to win it. And if they cite “cooperation” with our allies as some kind of magical answer, they should be reminded that the British and other European legal systems generally permit far more intrusive surveillance and detention policies than the Bush Administration has ever contemplated. Does anyone think that when the British interrogate those 20 or so suspects this week that they will recoil at harsh or stressful questioning?
The real lesson of yesterday’s anti-terror success is Britain is:
that the threat remains potent, and that the U.S. government needs to be using every legal tool to defeat it. At home, that includes intelligence and surveillance and data-mining, and abroad it means all of those as well as an aggressive military plan to disrupt and kill terrorists where they live so they are constantly on defense rather than plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners.
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