Sleepwalking Through History
Michael Goodwin at NYDN:
Whew, that was a close one. We suffered a big attack and were in mortal danger for a while, but we are safe now. Thank God, the war on terror is over. There are no Islamic extremists. Homeland security is not an issue. The only problem in Iraq is how to get out.
Wait, this is news to you? Then you didn’t watch the Democratic debate Thursday. Or maybe you did watch, but since those unpleasant topics were completely or mostly ignored, you assumed the war was over and went to bed believing peace is at hand and Santa Claus is busy making toys at the North Pole.
It’s not your fault. It’s the Democratic presidential candidates who are sleepwalking through history.
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Consider that what was once called a generational war against an existential threat is now by unanimous consent of the candidates only a misguided Republican war in Iraq that must be ended immediately. What was once a bipartisan concern about the new phenomenon of lethal nonstate actors such as Al Qaeda has been reduced to denunciations of waterboarding and attacks on the Patriot Act. Thursday produced only one reference to Islam — when Sen. Joe Biden complained that Bush acts as though America is at war with the whole religion.
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Last week, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced sweeping security measures that include searches and bag screenings at railroad terminals and car bomb barriers at airports and malls. Theaters, restaurants, hospitals, stadiums, schools and places of worship — any place where crowds gather — will get advice on how to train employees to carry out searches and evacuation drills, the Guardian newspaper reported. Other beefed-up measures focus on who is entering the country and where they go.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Congress that “we must fight terror together.”
Germany is giving its security authorities more power after a group of Islamists were charged with violent plots and a government report said 900 members of Hezbollah were in the country. The sudden sense of danger is a shock, with one woman telling USA Today that Germany’s refusal to fight in Iraq lulled the country into thinking Islamic terrorists would focus elsewhere; “we assumed that if we behaved well in the world, nothing would happen to us,” the woman said.
Ah, if that woman lived here, she could run for President of the United States. I know which party would have made her feel right at home.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:46 am on Sunday, November 18, 2007
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November 18th, 2007 at 10:56 am
You know the Donks are out of touch when even the Europeans have figured it out…
Good thing at least one country is not “behaving” in the world, eh?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Jules:
Michael Goodwin writes for the NY Daily News; the link you’ve provided is correct, but the name reads NY Post.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Apologies to Our Dark Lord Murdoch.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
No doubt the Democrats believe that if there’s another terrorist attack in the US, their leaders and candidates will escape blame. After all, it’s the “Republicans’ war”, or “Bush’s war”. And once again, they will have underestimated the ordinary citizens.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Consider that what was once called a generational war against an existential threat is now by unanimous consent of the candidates only a misguided Republican war in Iraq that must be ended immediately. What was once a bipartisan concern about the new phenomenon of lethal nonstate actors such as Al Qaeda has been reduced to denunciations of waterboarding and attacks on the Patriot Act. Thursday produced only one reference to Islam — when Sen. Joe Biden complained that Bush acts as though America is at war with the whole religion.
They’re such complete idiots, in last Thurs. Democrat debate.
It make me want to move.
To Cuba. Maybe Venezuela …? Has Oogoe completely eviscerated “democracy”, \yet, reduced legislative procedure to a shambles, and made himself President For Life ?
It’s hard to keep up with all the BS.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I don’t pretend to know my own country anymore.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
“behaved well in the world” — one of the most chilling characterizations of appeasement and sycophancy that I’ve ever read.