Posted on 01/05/2010 7:35:06 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Even President Obama has admitted that we're falling down on the job when it comes to fighting the war on terror.
In 2002, one would-be shoe bomber forced millions of travelers to take off their shoes. In 1996, terrorists planned to bring down aircraft on transatlantic flights by smuggling liquid explosives onto plane. They were thwarted but they succeeded in preventing passengers from bringing liquids into airline terminals.
Lesson number one: In this terror war, the jihadists have the upper hand. THEY are in charge. THEY are the ones who choose to use a new weapon and they are also the ones who – by using simple logic -- have refrained from using the same terror weapons more than once. In fact, since September 2001, Al Qaeda’s henchmen have avoided rushing into the cockpit of an airliner with box cutters. Does this mean we were successful in deterring the terrorists? Of course: as long as we can prevent them from using the 9/11 methods, they won't be naïve enough or foolish enough to repeat the same strategy. So are we winning the fight with Al Qaeda by using these measures? No, we are simply protecting our population until we win the war. But winning is not measured by surviving potential copycat attacks.
Instead, this war will be won by striking at the mechanism that produces the jihadists. And on that level, we haven’t won this war either under the previous administration nor under the incumbent one. For, as President Obama admitted late last month after a near-terror attack on Northwest Flight 253, there is a "systemic failure" in our defense against the jihadi terrorists.
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Just Profile, Baby! New SLOGAN NEVER will be used by this gov’t however...
Hopefully the new congress in 2011. The current bunch does not seem to have a problem with the CIC violating laws created by the Congress.
See Goldwater-Nichols Act.
What self respecting jihadist wants to be known as a man caused disaster specialist. And, ZerO thinks Gitmo causes more resentment towards America.
Yep.
Adapt the profiling techniques used by the Israelis … when was the last time an Israeli airline was subject to threats?
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