EIGHT DECADES OF INSIGHTS-80

MORE OF THE SAME

Seal of the United States Department of State. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s bad now. Can it get worse? It sure can. Just elect another Progressive Socialist Democrat to the White House. We had our experiment with their kind of change. It isn’t good. Let’s elect a real moderate Democrat or a true Conservative in 2016. And let’s pay attention to the primary process. No more nominating candidates without a resume or with an incredibly incompetent record. Remember, having won elections in the past is does not qualify anyone to stand for the presidency. Winning elections means you can raise money and are good at messaging, not much else.

I wonder how a candidate such as our disgraced former Secretary of State can even think about running for president. Benghazi and the cover up should be enough to disqualify anyone with a sense of honor and pride. Standing with the families of the murdered Americans at Ben Ghazi during the arrival of their remains at Andrews Air Force Base, our Secretary of State was recorded telling them a distasteful video was the cause and the maker of the video would be punished. Days before the dead heroes arrived at Andrews, the President, his Secretary of State and many other key officials knew it was an attack by al Qaeda affiliated terrorists who were responsible. That single incident is the most shameful thing I have ever witnessed in my years of serving in and following the U.S. Government. As shameful was the non- action of the timid Defense people who left Americans to die without even trying to rescue them. In the past, officials like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs would resign rather than follow the political directions of the amateurs in the White House that resulted in leaving Americans behind without trying to save them. The morale of active duty soldiers and veterans can’t stand more tentative political maneuvers on the part of their leaders. It is an American tradition that we don’t leave people behind.

We also must not forget the The Secretary of State’s failed reset with Russia, the support for Assad in Syria as a reformer, and the abandoning of the Eastern European nations who were willing to let us establish a much-needed ballistic missile radar system to protect against Iranian missiles. How can the Democratic Party nominate anyone with such a shameful resume? Only if they continue to be under the control of the Progressives. We need to get back to a two-party system where one of them is not the Progressive Party in disguise.

Hillary Clinton Shame – Benghazi Heroes Woods, Doherty, Smith & Stevens (morningliberty.com)
‘It Goes Back to the Bin Laden Attack’: Expert Who Said New Benghazi Info Will Leave You ‘Amazed and Shocked’ Gives More Details to TheBlaze (theblaze.com)
House GOP Grills Pickering, Mullen on Benghazi and ‘Whitewash’ Gov’t Investigation (theblaze.com)

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by Barry Kelly | September 19, 2011 · 7:05 pm

Insights of Eight Decades #2

The airliner, full of passengers from all walks of life, is in its final landing stages. One of the passengers, an Islamic Jihadist, is preparing to kill every one of them. Only he fails to set off the explosives hidden in his underpants. His actions attract attention from the passengers and crew and he is quickly overcome and taken into custody upon landing. The story should be that he was taken off for interrogation and after some hours or days of questioning, using no torture, he tells his captors all they want to hear and is sent to Gitmo where he is tried by a military tribunal, found guilty and executed. The information gained is used to protect our citizens. End of story.

Not quite. You see we have an Attorney General (AG) who wants to extend some of the rights and protections of United States Citizens to foreign nationals who are trying to kills us. Foreign terrorists, who were not captured on the field of battle or were not wearing a uniform of any recognized nation, have little or no legal protection beyond the requirements of our humanity. Let’s agree there are a few exceptions. Taliban fighters captured on the battle field could be covered by the Geneva Conventions, al Qaeda terrorists are not. In our past wars the terrorists would have been summarily executed.

The AG’s view is supported by a number of well minded citizens who believe every captured foreign terrorist has the protection of our Founding Documents and Law. Therefore, they should be tried in our civilian court system where the rules of evidence and required legal assistance severely limit the prosecution. Evidence collected on the battle field or in the process of apprehending a terrorist organization will often not be permitted in a civilian court. The very process of submitting evidence collected, at some personnel risk, by the military, law enforcement and intelligence organizations threatens the exposure of the sources and methods used by the people trying to protect us.

The underpants bomber is now ‘lawyered up’ and whining about how the FBI violated his rights. Is something wrong here?