War on Terror or Police Action

How is the Obama administration fighting terrorism? Is this still a war on terrorism or have we turned this into a police action?

Based off the current climate, policies and restrictions being put into practice, it would appear that President Obama is ready to declare “Mission Accomplished” for the war on terror and that “all major combat operations have concluded.” Does this sound familiar to you?

An article by Margaret Coker and Summer Said in the Wall Street Journal is reporting an Al Qaeda group based out of Yemen has claimed responsibility for the bomb attempt in the skies over Detroit on Christmas. Coker and Said wrote “The group (al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) , also known by its initials AQAP, said the suspect had the blessing of the organization in ‘his response’ to U.S. attacks in Yemen, apparently referring to recent U.S.-backed military strikes conducted by the Yemeni government against suspected al Qaeda operatives.” They went on to report “In the statement, the group warned of fresh attacks in the Arabian peninsula, in particular, calling for attacks against foreign embassies: ‘We call on all Muslims ... to throw out all unbelievers from the Arabian peninsula by killing the crusaders who work in embassies or elsewhere,’ the statement read. The al Qaeda statement said Mr. Abdulmutallab ‘managed to penetrate all devices and modern advanced technology and security checkpoints in international airports ... defying the large myth of American and international intelligence, and exposing how fragile they are, bringing their nose to the ground.’”

President Obama has already referred to the bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab as an “isolated extremist” instead of acknowledging this is a continuation of the war that al Qaeda declared upon us in the 1990’s. According to Representative Peter King (R-NY), an “iron curtain” has come down around this topic from the White House and all information is being controlled very strictly. Why is the White House not briefing the proper members of Congress?

How many innocent Americans have to die for President Obama to view this as the war that it is? This is the first time that the Democratic party has governed in the war on terror… they are failing this country and if they maintain on this path, I fear that more Americans are going to be murdered due to the inept policies of this administration. There is now a connection between Umar Farouk Abdulmuttaalab and Major Nidal Hasan, the “suspected” shooter in the terrorist attack at Fort Hood in Texas- the radical cleric Anwar Awlaki, who is reported to be one of the rising stars in al Qaeda.

Here is something else for you to think about- is the suspected terrorist going to be Mirandized and granted the right to an attorney? If this happens, the game is over, we LOSE the opportunity to interrogate him and gather more intelligence on al Qaeda, including the newest threat in Yemen, and the “rising star” Anwar Awlaki who has already been linked two the Fort Hood terrorist attack.

Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the suspected, IS A ENEMY COMBATANT and should be treated as such. This was ANOTHER act of war and if it is NOT treated as such, it will set a very dangerous precedent.

In another article from ABC news, Brian Ross, Anna Schecter and Joseph Rhee wrote an article: Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.S. They reported that “two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from ht Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into the ‘art therapy rehabilitation program’ and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.” Do you think Senator Durbin got that memo yet?

President Obama along with his progressive and liberal base have rallied against Guantanamo as a cause of the hatred that is harbored by the Islamic fundamentalists that want to kill Americans. I’m sure that if you look through some of the progressive and liberal blogs, they are blaming the attempted attack on two things:
1) The two terrorists that were released for Guantanamo set up this attack only because they were sent to Guantanamo. This is ridiculous. They ended up at Guantanamo for a reason… it wasn’t a tour bus stop in the middle east that stopped at Guantanamo.
2) President Bush is at fault… he released them. Again, absolute idiocy. For all the faults and policy errors that President Bush had, one of the things that he did mostly correct was to prosecute the war on terror. If you look back through recent history (2001-2008), the progressive movement has done nothing but hampered and hindered the Bush administrations war on terror.

The progressive and liberal radicals in this country are so concerned with being politically correct and not hurting anyone’s feelings that they are effectively weakening America. I have served in Iraq, I have gather, and analyzed intelligence while working with the Iraqi Army. I have seen up close and personal members of Al Qaeda. Let me reassure you- these people hate you! They hate what you stand for and they would kill you with the same emotional effect you have when you throw out a used tissue.

What will it take for the liberal and progressive base to understand this? Is it possible for them to understand? Do they have such an overinflated sense of their own importance, in which they have a deep-seeded need for admiration that they seem to believe that they are superior to others and have little regard for the feelings of others that disagree with them? Do they have a fragile self-esteem which makes them lash out at anyone (Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc…) by calling them racists, fascist, etc…?

Does the current administration and progressive majority of Congress have a martyr complex? Are they so intimidated by strong willed, strong minded, independent, result-oriented people that they feel threatened enough to think that the people that are actually prosecuting the war on terror (Bush administration, the CIA, the military) are the enemy and need to be brought down to size instead of the terrorist? Are they willing to sacrifice their own political careers and the safety of America due to this complex?

Let me be clear- this is a WAR on terrorism and a war on radical Islam. If the President and the progressive majority in Congress does not wake up, they will continue to weaken America to a point where another catastrophic act of terrorism will take place on American soil, leading to more deaths of American citizens that could have been prevented by a tougher stance and policies.