It Is About 9/11!

As I've said before many, many times - everything we are doing today, from the War on Terror to the War in Iraq to the hardline and possible conflict against North Korea and Iran - it all is because of the seismic shift made in foreign policy as a result of the attacks of 9/11. And balderdash to those on the left, including many of our Democrat Congressmen and Senators (judging by their response to the President's speech) who disagree with that. I'm not, as some would have you believe, questioning their patriotism. Most, if not all, of them are very patriotic. It's just that they are unable or unwilling to place their patriotism above their partisanship. Once again, I'm not questioning their patriotism - I'm questioning their intelligence, judgement, and their ability to lead in a crisis. Leaving 9/11 alone for a sec, the frenzy on the left over Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is useful only to our enemies. There is a measured, disciplined way of investigating and punishing those responsible on our side for clearly unacceptable levels of abuse - but it is not the way of Dick Durbin, Jack Reed, Henry Reid, and Ted Kennedy.

And as to our treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo - specifically our treatment of the Koran - what are we doing? The Koran is an important religious text and deserves to be treated with respect, but doing things like handling it with only gloved hands is ludicrous. The essence of the Islamic Radicalism or Fundamentalism that we are fighting is that anyone not adhering to their particular brand of Islam is less than human. That includes Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and every other religion you can imagine including non-Wahabbist Muslims. Not only are we less than human - we should be converted or exterminated. By using only gloves to handle the Koran we are agreeing with that view - that we are dirty and unworthy. That's a bit too nice for my tastes. And what of the thousands of Korans that are being destroyed by radical Muslims during their daily world-wide bombings and murders, right now concentrated in Iraq? They have no problem 'desecrating' those Korans.

Those of the 'Bush lied' belief constantly bring up the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Inquiry to 'prove' that there were no connections between Al-Quaeda and Saddam Hussein. And this view is being promoted by the MSM. I would advise those who believe that to actually read the reports. While there is no evidence at the present time that there was operational control between Saddam and Al-Quaeda, there was ample evidence presented to and acknowledged by both commissions that there were links and ties between the two. The fact was that Iraq was the biggest supporter of world-wide terrorism after Iran at the time of our invasion. Andy McCarthy has a good refresher about all of this on NRO. Read it all.