THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 67, April 2, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMONG DEMOCRATS, NATIONAL SECURITY IS OPTIONAL
By Christopher G. Adamo
FULL STORY:
If Americans truly want to prevent a recurrence of 9-11, it is essential
that they recognize the manner in which Democrats and the Liberal media are
willing to cloud the entire issue for the sake of partisan politics. Any
lingering doubts that remained after the Democratic Party presidential primaries ought to have
been completely dispelled by last week’s charade of a Congressional hearing.
Star witness for the opposition was former national security operative
turned author, Richard Clarke. The contradictory nature of Clarke’s past
statements, when compared to the text of his newly released book,
unequivocally proves that, on one occasion or another, he was lying through
his teeth. It is a logical impossibility for both stances to be truthful.
Upon investigation of his comments, a demonstrable bias against Republican President
George W.Bush becomes increasingly apparent.
In particular, Clarke’s demeaning characterization of the President's National Security
Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, whom Clarke claimed to be befuddled by the very
mention of Al-Qa'ida, loses all credibility when considered in light of Rice’s
statements, made prior to her conversation with Clarke, in which she
incontrovertibly displayed a thorough understanding of the terrorist
organization and the threat it posed to the United States of America. Clearly, Clarke’s
attempt to portray Rice as ignorant cannot possibly constitute anything
other than an ad hominem attack. Similarly, those 9-11 Commission members who
have since treated Clarke’s book as sacrosanct are telling much more
about themselves than about President Bush’s competence in protecting the
American homeland.
Rumors are already circulating to the effect that the Commission will make a
determination that, in retrospect, the attacks could have been prevented,
and Democrats are salivating at the prospect. Hardly a profound indictment
of lapses within the Bush White House, such a finding possesses all the
insight of knowing last month’s winning lottery ticket number.
If the Democratic Party leaders' partisan assessment of this situation is to be believed, the
Clinton administration can be forgiven for eight years of hapless bumbling
and inaction, during which time several opportunities to apprehend Osama bin Laden
were ignored. Yet President Bush is to be condemned for failing to
unilaterally turn the world upside down during the seven months and three
weeks between his inauguration and the terrorist attacks, taking decisive action to prevent the attacks.
Suffice to say that, among those making the most noise about the Commission
and its entirely predictable findings, national security isn’t even on the
radar screen.
In contrast, judging from the consistently hysterical reactions of Liberals,
mere questioning of the absolute purity of their own motives constitutes a
far greater outrage against humanity than any of the horrific deeds
perpetrated by the terrorists whom their policies enabled. Unfortunately,
too many Conservatives have dutifully acquiesced and, unlike the regular
Liberal accusations of Bush’s Iraq policy as “all about oil,” those on the political
Right refrain from suggesting that the Democrats' pursuit of a purely
political agenda, at the obvious expense of the nation’s safety, is anything
less than patriotic. Perhaps it would be sufficient to simply question the
“patriotism” of hostile foreign entities, such as the French and North
Koreans, who just happen to agree with the Democrats.
Of course, none of the 9-11 Commission’s “findings,” nor any of the baseless
accusations of incompetence on the part of the Bush administration which
regularly spew forth from Democratic Party spokesmen, Democratic members of
Congress, and certain of the 9-11 Commission's members, constitute an “official
action” by the Kerry presidential campaign. But who can doubt that Kerry may benefit from
such venomous assaults against the most outstanding aspect of the Bush
Presidency.
Even Bill Clinton has gotten in on the act. In a speech given last week at
the “Democrat Unity Dinner,” he lamented the complete dissolution of
national “unity” and “resolve” that had been so glorious in the immediate
wake of 9-11. And in a ruse that only he would attempt with a straight face,
he sidestepped the fact that it was his own party that labored so feverishly
to undermine that sense of oneness among Americans. Neither did Clinton
explain that the initial “national resolve” to deal with the perpetrators
was not, in the minds of most Americans, a rallying call for appeasement and
meaningless UN resolutions.
Like Spain’s Socialists and Australia’s opposition party, Democrats indicate
a willingness to gamble once again with national security. Their present
campaign strategy, detrimental as it may be to the nation, is apparently an
approach that they consider worth the risk. Somewhere in the darkness of an
obscure cave, a demonic smile is creeping across the face of Osama bin
Laden.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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The Middle East & the Arabs
Terrorism & U.S. Homeland Security
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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