I’m curious – what can we expect from a President Barack Obama, when (not if) we are attacked again? Terrorists are neither sane nor rational. They are even less so when driven to murderous attacks intended to destabilize and reign fear and conquest in the name of their demonic god.
So again I ask – what can we expect from a president and party that view America as being responsible for the angst of devolved homo sapiens who see it as their divine responsibility to commit murder – murder based upon a barbaric, pagan fanaticism posing as a religion?
We saw what Carter did. Besides saber-rattling and crashing helicopters in the desert, he exercised the obligatory liberal action of choice, i.e., economic sanctions and diplomatic initiatives – all of which were as productive as attempting to get apple juice from a grapefruit.
Bill Clinton’s handling of terrorist attacks against the U.S. and her interests was even more appalling. As Byron York wrote: “…[He] talked tough – but he did not act tough. Indeed, a review of his years in office shows that each time the president was confronted with a major terrorist attack … Clinton was preoccupied with his own political fortunes to an extent that precluded his giving serious and sustained attention to fighting terrorism.
“Clinton had been in office just 38 days when terrorists bombed the World Trade Center … [his] reaction seemed almost disengaged. He warned Americans against ‘overreacting’ and, in an interview on MTV, described the bombing [not as the work of terrorists but] as the work of someone who ‘did something really stupid.'” (“The Facts About Clinton and Terrorism”; The National Review Online; Sept. 11, 2006)
Now, in a time of worldwide terrorist unrest, we have a president-elect who, in a YouTube interview, promised to slow and prevent the development of future weapons and combat systems and to leave Iraq as soon as he takes office. We have a president-elect who purposes to cut investments in missile defense systems and to make deep cuts in our existing nuclear arsenal.
Obama has been referenced as today’s President Franklin D. Roosevelt – as I pen this piece it is Dec. 7 – the 67th remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The day following the attack, President Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for a declaration of war – a world war that would cost America nearly 400,000 of her brightest and most promising “lights” of the future.
Regardless of whether, as some argue, Pearl Harbor simply gave Roosevelt the cover to enter a war he wanted into anyway – the crucible is that he was willing to make a decision for which he had to know there would be no easy or painless path to success.
The Autonomist writes, “Obama’s overall stance regarding America’s ability to defend itself is, to put it mildly, a recipe for self-induced national destruction. The world has always been a dangerous place where actions speak louder than words. That is a reality that only an arrogant, messianic … like Barack Obama would think he could change [with talk and sanctions].
“Obama is nothing we haven’t seen before: a naïve, effete leftist – one who views the U.S. with general disdain – a self impressed politician who thinks that if the U.S. disarms, gets on its knees and begs the world for forgiveness for its real and imagined sins, [our enemies] will magically lay down their weapons, give up their totalitarian ways and become ‘world citizens’ of a soft, dull and squishy, equitable and peaceful brotherhood of man, one in which all needs are met and all desires satisfied.” (“Like a Good Leftist, Barack Obama Will Disarm America”; Antiprotester.blogspot.com; April 15, 2008)
Terrorist acts against us in the past, and those that will surely come in the future, have been and will be deliberate acts of aggression. Will Obama have the courage of Roosevelt, Truman and Bush to look the enemies of America in the face and exercise American might in the only way villains understand? Or will he give a speech and call for sanctions? He isn’t campaigning any more. It is time for America to know we can count on this president to engage in more than mea culpas, kumbayah, and lofty speeches.
On this 67th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, President-elect Obama should have given a speech acknowledging the indebtedness that he and all Americans owe to those who sacrificed that day and those days following. He should have assured those that still plot acts against America that, like the Roosevelt the left would portray him as – he is equally as willing to render swift retribution if they do us harm.
But then again, George Soros and company wouldn’t like that, and we all know that Obama owes a lot to the curtsy-and-run dovish liberals for his election.
