....it gets worse.
David Miliband, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, has said that we are not engaged in a war on terror and that the construct is misleading and incorrect.
'War on terror' was a mistake, says Miliband | Politics | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton, the President-elect's candidate for Secretary of State, claims that the US will now use "smart power" to combat our enemies, presumably the terrorists.
Both of these incompetents have neither paid attention to events nor appear to be much in the way of students of history. The British toff makes the common leftist mistake that we're dealing with more of a criminal problem than a national security problem. His next predictable stop involves our search for a deeper understanding of what makes Ahmed tick. The blithering idiot seems impervious to the idea that Ahmed and his brethren consider the western world as inhabited with infidels requiring eradication. He goes so far as to regret the British involvement and subsequent deaths in Afghanistan with the facile observation that the Taliban wasn't facilitating attacks upon Britain. One can only wonder how he'd have viewed Hitler's invasion of Poland and France.
Then we have, on our side of the pond, Madame Clinton who is apparently able to decipher a difference between talking with Hamas and talking with Hamas' Iranian masters. The latter she is willing to do regarding their nuclear programme while the former the former threatens the Jewish vote in New York. Actually the latter was a joke but I'm just searching for a way to reconcile Madame Clinton's two positions. I am sure that, if the application of smart power and the art of negotiation fail, there will be no aspirin factory safe in the remote mountains north of Tehran.
We confront an enemy, multiple enemies actually, whose been emboldened by past allied passivity, particularly US in origin. We sit upon the cusp of victory in Iraq where every knowledgeable observer said the US would cut and run. The out-going President has spent his political capital to ensure just one thing; that the world fully understands, "Don't Tread on Me!" Much of the mindset that made it possible to seemingly attack the US and her interests with impunity now returns in these two personages. Is everyone so euphoric that Mr. Bush is finished that they're willing to accept the notions that made the world ripe for an 11th of September? It may never be the 10th of September again, given the anarchist's habit of imitating success. It may always be, for the foreseeable future, the 12th of September. At least we should plan that way.
Trans-Atlantic Anglo idiocy is no way to ensure either Britain's nor America's safety. It's likely that Mr. Miliband will be swept out with Mr. Brown shortly, returning to his ecological fantasies. Not so with the pending Secretary of State. Madame Clinton belongs in New York, as much as she belongs anywhere. Is it possible that saner heads will prevail? Certainly Madame Clinton, noted author of,
It Takes a Village, could better serve the administration at Health and Human Services or, perhaps, the Rural Electrification Authority. Between she and her husband, they should be able to separate the LILCO from much of it's available capital while in the latter position.