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President Obama and his far-left base are bent on releasing savage terrorism suspects from Guantanamo, and even closing that prison, while at the same time once again blaming America (via Bush, where and whenever possible). He’s done it overseas, but now the focus is on berating Americans at home, interrogating the interrogators, especially those in the CIA (but perhaps mostly those outside the CIA, such as those with an address in Crawford, Texas, and wherever Dick Cheney lives).
So: let the terrorists go — in fact don’t even call them terrorists — but interrogate and possibly charge those who question the terrorists who have helped kill thousands of us, and seek to kill a great many more. Question those who have, even by the evidence they’ve recently released in order to “justify” the investigations, actually saved America and no doubt other countries like Canada from what would surely have been subsequent terrorist attacks. Throw them in jail. This is “smart”, we are to believe. It’s that “hope” we heard so much about. It will “unify Americans”. It’s so “forward-looking”.
It’s certainly “change”. And its insane.
For their part, Canadian liberals and other further leftists all cheer on this bizarre, dangerous, ideological, brainless Obama political move to appease his far-left base. And like them, they also constantly seek to raise doubts about our mission (even while our countrymen are over there), because they don’t want us to be there at all (in the “hope” that the situation will just go away, possibly).
But a former UK Chief of Defence Staff, General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, blasts the current Labour Party and its U.K. government for what I call its absolutely typical liberal-left, September 10-mentality shared by all liberals; and its arrogant or even denialist disregard for the threat (which I remind you is not in Crawford, Texas, actually); and their insidious shoulder-shrugging, their naive notions of “soft diplomacy”; their adherence to failed 1960s-era peacenikism; and manifestly their abject disregard for and mishandling of the current wars.
It’s like they want to lose.
Lord Guthrie wrote a column in The Times, but The Sun is all over the ruckus he’s caused by daring to speak the truth to the ignorants.
Dumbed-down defenders of their own turf
Britain is at war, but one would never know it walking around Whitehall. For too many politicians it is merely another day of awkward things happening in far away places. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan appear no more than inconvenient blips — something to be muddled through until things return to normal.And muddle is the word, as was manifest in a scathing report into defence procurement leaked this week. Its author, the former Labour adviser Bernard Gray, an experienced observer of the defence scene, blamed incompetence and “political fudge” for £35 billion of defence project overspending.
Moreover, The Times revealed that poor decisions about software have kept eight Chinook helicopters, costing a total of £259 million, in climate-controlled hangars during the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. Such an error would never happen in the private sector without dismissals and a plain identification of where the buck stopped.
The revelation is all the more appalling because Chinooks are lifesavers. They are the safest way to evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield — and a brilliant tactical device to get behind Taleban lines to confuse and mystify the enemy. Chinooks also help resupply and reinforcement where land movement is dangerous.
That we have insufficient available for our needs in Afghanistan is best explained by the size and structure of the Ministry of Defence. The department employs 87,000 civilian staff for 175,000 servicemen and women. At the head of this unwieldy edifice are six ministers, each enjoying a private office and their own staff — six private empires, with their own turf to be jealously guarded. Sadly, bigger does not mean more efficient; usually quite the opposite. …
Just as in Canada, they know full well that “there’s a bloody war going on”, which, in order to defend our very democracies and way of life, we must win. The left behave this way in the face of that knowledge. It makes you wonder what they’re trying to win, and lose.
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