posted by Sibyl West
It should surprise no one that with all the Clinton retreads in the administration and the State Department, and all the Muslim sensitivity training of the last eight years, the ship of state should be listing towards the same old rocks. Ben Shapiro points this out in this piece from CNSNews.com and he is one of the better sources for analysis I’ve found because he knows the terrorist networks and actually gives names. One key of the puzzle is to understand that the different jihadi groups are like the nearly 300 ACORN subsidiaries listed as having their headquarters in the abandoned funeral home in New Orleans – different names for the same agenda. What is stunning, however, is to know that the Pakistani ISI plays good cop to the more bloodthirsty Lashkar-e-taiba bad cop. And the billions per year the US government gives the Pakistani army also has a trickle down effect in that direction. Once again the American taxpayers are paying for their own demise while funding Muslim upon Muslim brutality abroad.
The Clinton method took us from WTC 1993 bombing to WTC 9/11/2001. I don’t want to extrapolate from there to what may be in our future. As Jasper Schuringa demonstrated on flight 253, it is time for citizen’s Plan B.
When We Fail to Learn Our Lesson
by Ben Shapiro Wednesday, December 30, 2009
President Obama still wants to try the Clinton administration terror strategies. Strategies like civilian trials for terrorists. Strategies like shipping terrorists to American prisons.
Ten years ago, on Dec. 24, 1999, a group of Pakistani men hijacked an Indian airbus, Flight IC-814. After forcing the plane to land in Afghanistan, the hijackers negotiated the release of three terrorists virtually unknown in the United States: Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar.
And America slept.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testified before Congress that she was “concerned about the fact that groups … involved in the recent hijacking of Indian Airlines 814 operate in Pakistan.” She went on to explain that “we have been concerned about Pakistan’s support for the Taliban, who are, in turn, closely linked to Osama bin Laden.” Yet the Clinton administration did nothing, continuing to treat Islamic terrorism as a law enforcement problem.
It didn’t work.
Read it all at CNSNews.com
The Wake-up Call from Flight 253
by Jeff Jacoby discusses these hard lessons and more:
- Terrorism isn’t caused by poverty and ignorance.
- The global jihad is real.
- Terrorists can always adapt to new restrictions.
- The Patriot Act was not a reckless overreaction.
Be sure to read it all at JeffJacoby.com
