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November 24, 2009

Whose Side Are They On?

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

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An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama's conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense – and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests: Whose side are they on?
 
Consider the following illustrative examples of such troubling behavior:
 
The Obama administration has done everything possible to obscure the true nature of the jihadist attack perpetrated at Fort Hood, Texas earlier this month. Unfortunately, it may not be merely complicating the prosecution of the alleged perpetrator, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. For instance, terrorism expert Steve Emerson has warned that, by charging Hasan only with murder rather than terrorist acts, the Justice Department is denying investigators tools available to law enforcement under the counterterrorism Patriot Act.
 
Worse yet, by denying the role played in this attack by Hasan's adherence to the seditious, jihadist program authoritative Islam calls "Shariah," the administration can only compound the problem that has been illuminated by the investigation to date: The collective refusal of the Army, the intelligence services, the FBI and the U.S. government more generally to act against an individual with such proclivities.
 
This refusal goes beyond "political correctness." It reflects more than an understandable reluctance to risk the retribution to careers and livelihoods associated with being labeled "racists," "bigots" and "Islamophobes." It amounts, as a practical matter, to submission to the dictates of Shariah. And Americans are understandably horrified by the extent to which this practice has been – and is – affecting the capacities of those responsible for keeping us safe. 
 
Then, there is the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder, putatively taken without input from President Obama, to subject New York City to a trial in civilian court of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other Gitmo detainees believed to be responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Holder's truly pathetic – to say nothing of unpersuasive – appearance before Senate Judiciary Committee last week made clear that this trial has no real upsides for the United States, and plenty of downsides.
 
The latter include: the prospect of new terrorist attacks in Manhattan (Sen. Chuck Schumer says he wants the feds to provide an additional $75 million to protect the city); the certainty that the defendants will use the "platform" they would be afforded as a vehicle for waging political warfare against this country; and the distinct possibility that the constitutional rights they will undeservedly obtain in such a trial will prompt a federal judge to let them off the hook, or at least seriously compromise sensitive intelligence sources, methods and data.
 
The President is signaling by his indecision (and by the leaks coming out of his administration regarding his interminable deliberations) that he is now more interested in figuring out how to get out of Afghanistan than how to win the struggle there. Our enemies have understood the sea-change that has occurred in this erstwhile "necessary war" and are redoubling their efforts to defeat us. Meanwhile, ordinary Afghans are, quite sensibly, anticipating a Taliban victory and hoping to obtain a tolerable separate peace.
 
At the same time, al Qaeda is striving to reassert itself in Iraq, exploiting the vacuums of power created by the precipitous withdrawal of American forces from cities and the reopening of smuggling routes from Syria. President Obama's studied indifference towards the situation there and his determination, come what may, to pull all U.S. forces out is setting the stage for a portentous American rout.
 
Team Obama's diplomatic initiatives elsewhere have also been unblemished by success. The Iranian mullah-ocracy has responded to the President's "outstretched hand" with spittle and contempt as it relentlessly marches, essentially unimpeded, towards its goal of operational nuclear weapons. The administration's fatuous bid to "engage," and thereby disarm, North Korea has fared no better. Its only tangible negotiating "success" to date is the adoption by the UN of an Islamist prohibition on "hate speech" against Muslims – which was, believe it or not, co-sponsored by the United States, despite the assault it represents on our First Amendment rights.
 
Other adversaries have taken Team Obama's measure, too. Russia is being rewarded for signing onto an arms control agreement they need much more than we do with far-reaching and ominous concessions (notably, deep cuts in the numbers of U.S. missiles and bombers and restrictions on our strategic conventional arms and missile defenses). China's massive anti-American arms build-up is being greeted with nothing more than fatuous talk by the President about bilateral "partnerships" and "cooperation." 
 
We can only speculate about the motivations behind such deeply problematic behavior on the part of a President of the United States and his administration. What is beyond dispute, however, is the cumulative effect of the application worldwide of the Obama Doctrine – emboldening our enemies, undermining our allies and diminishing our country: Team Obama is making it much more difficult to defend our vital interests and the security of our people, even as its actions encourage the emergence and intensification of threats to both.
 
History will judge such behavior harshly. Whatever the intentions that motivate it, hindsight will surely deem the side this presidency was on was not ours.
 
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributor Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times.
 

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It really gripes me that all of the media, including FOX and most of the blogs seem to expect from Oama somekind of rational behavior. They ignore all that has been exposed regarding his history and everything he has claimed since he entered the campaign for President.
He has many time ex[poused reteric that shows he, at the very least, is sympathetic to extremist muslim causes.
He is leading the infidels to slaughter just as The Pied Piper led the rats to drowned in the sea.
Wake up America! There is very little time to recoup our Constitutional form of Government.

posted by: Doug Olinger
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 07:24 AM

All prophecy must come to pass to be fulled according to the WORD OF GOD!
I do not like what I am seeing but I know it is written in the Word of how the end times will come about a one world Govenerment
so look to the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation!
it's our only hope.
Love in CHRIST

posted by: Ardy
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 08:27 AM

why should we be surprised at what obama is doing? he is doing what he said he would even before he was elected if we listened to what he was saying. he indends to break this country no matter what.
LL

posted by: lorraine ludlow
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 09:03 AM

In spite of the fact that our current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is an admitted Muslim, probably was born in Kenya and by all known prior associations and current actions/statements is an avowed Socialist, people in this country still expect rational, freedom oriented behavior.
This leads me to one conclusion. The American people have finally gotten the government they deserve.
Liberty once lost will never be regained without massive expenditures of treasure and blood, and I don't believe the American spirit is alive and well any longer.

posted by: OregonBuzz
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM

The complete lack of the simplest yet most valuable ability to man kind is 'common sense' & 'simple truth'.

We The People are tagged as 'hostile' while the real 'hostilities' are a simple threat.

WOW, to think there are this many incompetent officials, both elected & appointed in D.C. is frightening. However, in the same token, perhaps they are NOT incompetent after all. Look at their agenda, they are on a mission to completely Destroy our Foundation - thus 'fundamentally transforming America' as it was put

posted by: Charlotte
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 01:33 PM

We sleep with the enemy within. The Government, it showed can not protect us. We must follow Our Constitution, We are a Republic and as Citizen We The People should be prepared to defend ourselves from tyranny.

posted by: ben
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 03:10 PM

Everything in the article was right on the mark. This trial in NY,is/will be a most disasterous,precedent setting move,ever by a"President". Holder was absolutely distroyed in the senate hearing when cross examined. The potential down side to National Security regarding all of the info that must be provided for citizen of the US in Fed Court.

posted by: don
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 03:40 PM

I inadvertently sent my previous post before I it was complete. MY complete post follows: Everything in the article was right on the mark. This trial in NY,is/will be a most disasterous,precedent setting move ever, by a"President". Holder was absolutely destroyed in the senate hearing when cross examined. The potential down side to National Security regarding all of the info that must be provided for an individule prosecuted in the US in Fed Court.will be devastating in so many ways. Basically the following taken from the text of Grahams questioning of Holder says it all. There was a lot of toe dancing and side stepping with never a creditable answer from Holder on numerous questions. This statement from Graham was in answer to Holders mumbled , "It depends" When ask how do we detirmine if a combatant is to be issued a "Miranda warning" . GRAHAM: Well, it does not depend. If you're going to prosecute anybody in civilian court, our law is clear that the moment custodial interrogation occurs the defendant, the criminal defendant, is entitled to a lawyer and to be informed of their right to remain silent. The big problem I have is that you're criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we'd have mixed theories and we couldn't turn him over -- to the CIA, the FBI or military intelligence -- for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now we're saying that he is subject to criminal court in the United States. And you're confusing the people fighting this war. For anyone who has not seen the video of the dismanteling of Eric Holder ,this is a must

posted by: Don
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 04:21 PM

In email I've received, it's been said that obama was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii. And, in several photos I've seen, the latest being at Ft. Hood's memorial to the victims, obama is shown to be abjectly unsympathetic to the victims by just standing there with his hands clasped together in front of him.
My Point: since he is not a citizen of the U.S.A., he could not be tried for treason nor be impeached from office. He would be tried in a tribunal. Holder, Pelosi, Reid, etal, would be tried for treason for aiding and abeting obama.
At this point, there is no vehicle available to round up these perpetrators of our demise except the U.S. military. Trouble is, their "leaders" are in collusion along with obama & the congress.
If anyone has a solution to how we can get the military to "take over", I'm all ears.

posted by: marineseabee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 01:44 AM

Maybe now they'll believe Obama is in fact Muslim, and is in fact lying to the 'infidels'(Us). How else can someone explain the apparent intentional destruction of this country by his every act. Every man woman and child should read the Koran, then will you understand your enemy(Obama).

posted by: weaver
Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 03:43 PM