05/06/10
From Ann Coulter
OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: HOPE THEIR BOMBS DON'T WORK
by Ann Coulter
May 5, 2010
It took Faisal Shahzad trying to set a car bomb in Times Square to get President
Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano to finally use the word "terrorism." (And not referring to Tea Party
activists!)
This is a major policy shift for a president who spent a month telling Americans
not to "jump to conclusions" after Army doctor Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly
jumped on a desk, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and began shooting up Fort Hood.
After last weekend, now Obama is even threatening to pronounce it "Pack-i-stan"
instead of "Pahk-i-stahn." We know Obama is taking terrorism seriously because
he took a break from his "Hope, Change & Chuckles" tour on the comedy circuit to
denounce terrorists.
In a bit of macho posturing this week, Obama declared that -- contrary to the
terrorists' wishes -- Americans "will not be terrorized, we will not cower in
fear, we will not be intimidated."
First of all, having the Transportation Security Administration wanding infants,
taking applesauce away from 93-year-old dementia patients, and forcing all
Americans to produce their shoes, computers and containers with up to 3 ounces
of liquid in Ziploc bags for special screening pretty much blows that "not
intimidated" look Obama wants America to adopt.
"Intimidated"? How about "absolutely terrified"?
Second, it would be a little easier for the rest of us not to live in fear if
the president's entire national security strategy didn't depend on average
citizens happening to notice a smoldering SUV in Times Square or smoke coming
from a fellow airline passenger's crotch.
But after the car bomber and the diaper bomber, it has become increasingly clear
that Obama's only national defense strategy is: Let's hope their bombs don't
work!
If only Dr. Hasan's gun had jammed at Fort Hood, that could have been another
huge foreign policy success for Obama.
The administration's fingers-crossed strategy is a follow-up to Obama's earlier
and less successful "Let's Make Them Love Us!" plan.
In the past year, Obama has repeatedly apologized to Muslims for America's
"mistakes."
He has apologized to Iran for President Eisenhower's taking out loon Mohammad
Mossadegh, before Mossadegh turned a comparatively civilized country into a
Third World hellhole. You know, like the Ayatollah has.
He has apologized to the entire Muslim world for the French and English
colonizing them -- i.e. building them flush toilets.
He promised to shut down Guantanamo. And he ordered the mastermind of 9/11,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to be tried in the same courthouse that tried Martha
Stewart.
There was also Obama's 90-degree-bow tour of the East and Middle East. For his
next visit, he plans to roll on his back and have his belly scratched like Fido.
Despite favorable reviews in The New York Times, none of this put an end to
Islamic terrorism.
So now, I gather, our only strategy is to hope the terrorists' bombs keep
fizzling.
There's no other line of defense. In the case of the Times Square car bomber,
the Department of Homeland Security failed, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service failed, the CIA failed and the TSA failed. (However, the Department of
Alert T-Shirt Vendors came through with flying colors, as it always does.)
Only the New York Police Department, a New York street vendor and Shahzad's Rube
Goldberg bomb (I do hope he's not offended by how Jewish that sounds -- Obama
can apologize) prevented a major explosion in Times Square.
Even after the NYPD de-wired the smoking car bomb, produced enough information
to identify the bomb-maker, and handed it all to federal law enforcement
authorities tied up in a bow, the federal government's crack "no-fly" list
failed to stop Shahzad from boarding a plane to Dubai.
To be fair, at Emirates Airlines, being on a "no-fly" list makes you eligible
for pre-boarding.
Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security should consider creating a "Really,
REALLY No-Fly" list.
Contrary to the wild excuses being made for the federal government on all the TV
networks Monday night, it's now clear that this was not a wily plan of federal
investigators to allow Shahzad to board the plane in order to nab his
co-conspirators. It was a flub that nearly allowed Shahzad to escape.
Meanwhile, on that same Monday at JFK airport, approximately 100,000 passengers
took off their shoes, coats, belts and sunglasses for airport security.
But the "highly trained federal force" The New York Times promised us on Oct.
28, 2001, when the paper demanded that airport security be federalized, failed
to stop the only guy they needed to stop at JFK last Monday -- the one who
planted a bomb in the middle of Times Square days earlier.
So why were 100,000 other passengers harassed and annoyed by the TSA?
The federal government didn't stop the diaper bomber from nearly detonating a
bomb over Detroit. It didn't stop a guy on the "No Fly" list from boarding a
plane and coming minutes away from getting out of the country.
If our only defense to terrorism is counting on alert civilians, how about not
bothering them before they board airplanes, instead of harassing them with
useless airport "security" procedures?
Both of the attempted bombers who sailed through airport security, I note, were
young males of the Islamic faith. I wonder if we could develop a security plan
based on that information?
And speaking of a "highly trained federal force," who's working at the INS these
days? Who on earth made the decision to allow Shahzad the unparalleled privilege
of becoming a U.S. citizen in April 2009?
Our "Europeans Need Not Apply" immigration policies were absurd enough before
9/11. But after 19 foreign-born Muslims, legally admitted to the U.S., murdered
3,000 Americans in New York and Washington in a single day, couldn't we tighten
up our admission policies toward people from countries still performing stonings
and clitorectomies?
The NYPD can't be everyplace.
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