Leon Panetta, a guy who has not formally held an intelligence job, is Obama’s pick for the head of the CIA and he already demonstrated the most important qualification for that office – that he is an awfully nice man.
A little on the background importance of niceness:
First, Obama has made plain that the War on Terror has been canceled outside of Afghanistan, and droves of terrorists are now leaving every country in the world except Afghanistan because they always obey the rules, just like Obama does. These developments are deeply essential to the coming victory of niceness, and because the military will no longer be involved in the War on Terror in 95 percent of the world, the CIA director’s office becomes all the more important. For projecting essential niceness, that is.
Big bold buckets of niceness for everyone is imperative! In fact, the entire reason Islamist terrorists believe that the Quran says, “Kill the idolaters wherever you find them,” is not because the Quran says, “Kill the idolaters wherever you find them.” No, Islamists believe this because liberals in the West have been insufficiently nice to murderers arrested for being murderers. You didn’t know?
Good old Leon told us, “Torture is illegal, immoral, dangerous and counterproductive. … All forms of torture have long been prohibited by American law and international treaties respected by Republican and Democratic presidents alike.” See? He is projecting safeness. He will satisfy the No. 1 War on Terror foreign policy maxim of the Democrats. Oprah Winfrey has actually released the intellectual property rights to the following statement, so that the president has every weapon available to fight the War on Terror: “If only they see what nice people we are, then they won’t hate us!” Panetta so gets The Niceness Maxim. He is the nice man he has been waiting for.
But while the satisfaction courses through the veins of every NPR listener, and the euphoria thrills the mind of terrorist listeners, there is a larger lesson to be learned. And here it is.
The safety of 300 million people, and the Constitution, has been surrendered to people who really think that being nice to our enemies is exactly the same thing as “national security.”
Write this on the back of your eyelids, sing it in the shower, and put it on your screensaver. You cannot be too in tune with it, whether you recognize it for the terrorism that it is, or you fervently “hope” along with it. The Niceness Maxim and its national security corollary will rule the next four years of your life, and it will probably cause the deaths of millions of people. It is the proverb of the age, the rhyme of the season, the controlling fact.
Nice, isn’t it?
Suppose a terrorist is captured. He is part of a group dedicated to genocide. He is known to be involved in planning, financing or acting out the murder of as many innocent non-combatants as he possibly can.
He is not just guilty of capital crimes. He is guilty of capital war offenses on the battlefield.
The rules for dealing with invading armies of saboteur terrorists are wildly different than for non-treasonous citizen crime.
A crime committed by a citizen deserves the due process of the state, because the citizen, who lives under and recognizes the authority of the state must be protected from the abuse of the country’s power.
But those of an invading army, by definition, are not citizens of the regime; they are trying to overthrow it with violence. They, by their actions, have rejected the constitutional rights and privileges of the regime. It is foolish for us to extend the Constitution’s protection to a non-citizen who’s only use of those protections is to annihilate constitutional government. An invading army of terrorists who are captured in the course of carrying out genocide against civilians are already deserving of death. They are not worthy of Miranda rights, but more importantly, they are not legally entitled to them; armies don’t dust for fingerprints.
But, I so want to be nice.
So let me go straight to the source, the new Director of Centralized Niceness – Leon Panetta.
Mr. Panetta, so I don’t get this wrong, people who are guilty of capital crimes you will refuse to give even corporal punishment to, even in order to prevent more capital crimes? Am I getting this right Panetta?
So nice!
America? Niceness in high places acquits the guilty and punishes the innocent. It’s not really so nice at all.
And so we shall lay the blood of every American killed by this Niceness at your untortured feet, Mr. Panetta.
