Security, Obama Style

Observing our national Joke in Chief respond to recent events in conjuction with his long held stances on national security issues has been an exercise in frustrated disbelief. Seeing this man and his cronies dismantle our country through social attack is one thing - to see them knowingly risk the safety of our soldiers and citizens in the GWOT (and no matter what these idiots say, there IS a Global War on Terror) because of their liberal view of the world is just sickening.

The ongoing issue about air safety is a very difficult nut to attack - I understand that. There is not going to be a way to completely make airline travel safe - no matter the security measures taken here in the US, there will always be a hole somewhere in an airport that is not as secure as ours. There will always be a method of getting a weapon or explosive onto an aircraft - so the shoe bomb and the underwear bomb fizzled (literally) ... next time it might be a tampon grenade. (Yeah, laugh all you want ... remember my post about the terrorist a*hole who blew himself and his targets up with explosives stuck up his ass?) To completely lock down the skies, security-wise, would make our air travel system unusable. THAT is our enemy's goal - not the 200 or so lives they would take by downing a jet, but the resulting chaos that would grip our society for years.

Obama, this week, is convening a meeting on how to adjust air safety to meet the ongoing and upcoming threats. Unfortunately, all the meeting attendees are Obama cronies - and past performance has shown that this pack of idiots can't think their way out of a paper bag. I expect that he'll address them for a few minutes, and then send them off for breakout sessions to come up with ideas written on large paper tablets. The first blurb I've heard coming out of the meeting - we're actually going to enforce the no fly lists that we already have. Absolutely useless....

How about addressing the issue by killing these bastards before they try to get on the plane? To be fair, there is some of this going on, and I am sure there is much more that we don't know about. However, given this administration's reluctance to use electronic intercepts to ID terrorists, I am pretty sure we are not doing all we could.

How about dumping the complete idiot who is in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, a completely brain dead liberal woman who declared to the world that the system had worked because a Dutch civilian had the balls to jump over rows of seats and stop the underwear bomber from succeeding in blowing up that plane? Yeah, the system worked - the a*hole was known, had been reported as a security risk, and was still allowed to board the plane.

How about addressing Yemen seriously? This arm-pit of a country is the new terrorist paradise. The government there is trying to supress the a*holes, but is far too weak to make meaningful progress. Chatter indicated a threat to a western embassy, so what do we do? Do we increase our security? Do we aggressively move to intercept and defeat the threat? No ... we pack up our toys and run away, giving the terrorists a victory without even trying. This teaches the bad guys that all they have to do is get on the internet and make a threat, and they disrupt our country - the threat doesn't have to be real. One pissant terrorist wannabe with an internet connection can cause chaos.

How about not releasing terrorists that we've already captured, giving them a first class plane ticket back to their 'home' country where they will pick up arms once again against us? How about not opening the doors on these murderers just so you can say you're closing the evil Gitmo?

How about not treating terrorists caught on the battlefield as common criminals, giving them the same Constitutional rights as US citizens? How about not spending millions of our tax dollars moving these bastards to another prison inside the US (strategically located to create a few jobs in Illinois, to help the very much in trouble incumbent Democrat Senator), when they are currently housed in the best facility in existance, created specifically for the purpose? How about not spending millions of dollars on civilian trials and all the paraphenalia that goes with it, when military tribunals, already set up for the purpose can do so without risking bringing these a*holes onto the US mainland?

How about some serious border control? I read a local story recently about a Mexican national who had been caught 9 times in this country illegally and deported. Obama's DoJ didn't want him charged with any crime, and admitted they had no idea what to do about him. How about some kind of control over the 12-20 million illegals in this country already (numbers vary depending upon who 'counts'). Our country has the most lax immigration and enforcement policies in the world. If someone wants in illegally, there isn't much to stop them. If they want to stay, there is very little chance of them being found - and even if they are, many liberal locations in the country refuse to do anything to them, and other places will just attempt to deport them.

How about not castrating our military with useless edicts and massive cuts? How about not unilaterally cutting our defensive capabilities to appease our 'former' enemies around the world?

How about the left in this country waking up and realizing we're at war, and it's not a conventional war. The enemy isn't behind a border. The enemy isn't defined by a flag. The enemy doesn't respect non-combatives. The enemy doesn't respect us for withdrawing our troops, curtailing our efforts, trying to make nice, trying to appease, unilaterly disarming, or having Obama as Immaculate in Chief. The enemy doesn't want anything defined as a conventional victory - all they want to do is kill us all and establish a fundamantalist Islamic state to run the world.

I guess it is unreasonable to expect a far left administration to treat issues such as defense and security seriously. Hell, they can't even keep uninvited guests out of the White House.....

Sorry if this was rambling a bit ... it is a large, unpleasant subject, one that gives us nothing but bad news on an every day basis.

Update - I've got to be fair about this. After his meetings, Obama came out and stated that the system failed - information we had was not used. He was clearly unhappy about it, and in reports of the meeting itself, he made his unhappiness known to his cronies in very clear terms.

OK - I give him credit for stating the obvious. Let's see if anything comes from it. I kind of doubt it - the DHS Secretary should have been fired the day it happened.