Posted by
Rich on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:58:29 AM
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune editorial "
Monumental failure" is a monumental joke.
In
it they chastise the U.S. Park Police for not doing their job
effectively according to a Interior Department's inspector general
report on security at American historic sites like the Washington
Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Let's see now where is the
most likely threat from terrorists today? How about Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Gaza, and hundreds of other soft human targets around the
world like schools, churches, airlines, and train stations.
That
is where we most need to concentrate our security efforts, given our
limited resources, stretched military and intelligence services. Forward
deployment is the key to keeping us safe in America. Fighting
terrorists in the mountains and deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan not in
the streets of Washington, D.C. is the goal.
Have we become complacent as a nation since 9/11? Yes we have.
More
threatening, however, are Democrats, the Herald-Tribune, MoveOn.org and
the anti-war left who do not recognize that President Bush, the CIA,
the FBI and our fantastic military have kept us from another attack for
over six years.
What the Democrats and anti-war left want is
surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan, legal rights for enemy combatants,
the closing of Guantanamo, withdrawal from the world stage and a return
to the failed foreign policies of the Clinton administration. Each of
these is dangerous, taken together they are deadly.
My solution
to the problem of some security guards, "chatting on a cell phone,
doing a crossword puzzle and -- it appears -- taking a nap" is to fire
them and their supervisors and replace them with combat veterans from
Iraq and Afghanistan. These veterans understand the threat and the
absolute need for vigilance at all times.
I worry about those
that don't take the threat seriously or even worse say that America is
the problem, not Islamofacists and terrorists.
Complacency is the monumental failure and could be our undoing.