Meanwhile At An Embassy In Syria

Vanity ^ | 5 February 2006 | .cnI redruM

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Arlen Specter may not really consider himself a Republican, but since he was nearly deposed from his Senatorial fiefdom by Pat Toomey, he’s certainly learned how to play one on TV. The topic de jour involved the wiretapping of phone calls made from the US to suspected Al Quaida operatives. Specter eloquently made the case that the FISA Act of 1978 may not even pass Constitutional muster. It may very well be possible to defend the US from foreign aggression without having to page Senator Kerry at Davos and humbly request his permission.

This should provide little relief to anyone inured in what’s happening in the real world that lies beyond the savage rush hour thoroughfare; known as The Capital Beltway. Here real threats encroach upon the civilized world. Outside the confines of the exclusive enclaves of sybaritic privilege, people are dying at the hands of savage and barbaric Islam.

The solons conducting our government want this problem to go away and stop diverting the funding from highways, health plans and daycare centers. The Islamic jihadists who hate us and our entire way of life, would like to eat our intestines and are not too particular about doing cooked or raw.

The entire opportunistic furor over the political cartoons that depicted Muhammad with a bomb on his head should point our wistful gaze in the direction of reality. Like a cold glass of water in the face to a drunk, they should waken our leadership to the danger that threatens our very existence. Just because Bin Ladin sounds crazy and just because the current President of Iran sounds like an idiot, doesn’t mean either man is doing stand-up for Ted Kennedy’s of Hillary Clinton’s amusement.

The Islamic world, outside of Pakistan, may not have nuclear weapons, but it doesn’t take an anatomy textbook to figure out which of our orifices they intend to cram those nukes into, once they get them. Islam wants America dead. It doesn’t take a PhD to decipher this simple fact of life.

So Senators Specter, Leahy, Graham and Clinton aren’t terribly sure how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Meanwhile, down the road, Mahomet II continues to marshal his janissaries. They will arrive at the gates soon if an army isn’t fielded to stop them in their tracks.

Explaining this to our leadership, which fields 800 reams of MoveOn.Org’s hate mail a day, seems well, nigh impossible. Aettius had to feel a similar headache when he attempted to explain Attila the Hun to Emperor Valentinian III.

Our President doesn’t care much whether the I’s are dotted and the T’s crossed, or vice-versa. What he does care about, is preventing the consuming hatred that Islam feels towards the West from eating us for breakfast. He should be praised for his steadfast vigilance and the US Senate should work very hard at making itself more useful to George W. Bush than the Roman Senate was to Augustus when Antony and Cleopatra rebelled against Rome.

But no, our illustrious Senators remain too aloof, too egocentric, too deracinated from reality to see what’s coming. Maybe Senator Chaffee or Senator Byrd will really figure out how many angels can dance on a pin. Meanwhile, at an embassy in Syria, the ground truth unfolds in an awful but predictable manor.

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I will give Specter some credit for defending the President on the FISA issue. However, if we were a serious people that understood how much trouble Islam could really cause us, the Senator from PA would never have had to point out the obvious.