liberal turns conservative

[justashooter 430]

A fascinating speech, in true, rarely found, journalistic fashion!

This is about her personal experiences in the Middle East, gleaned from her interviews with soldiers and enemy alike.

The synopsis, is she feel we are being lied to by the government with regards to current events.

She spoke before 1,100, in which the foreign correspondent and 60 Minutes star skewered American policy in Afghanistan and Libya, called for a ramped-up military campaign against terrorists, and criticized the Obama administration and others for both underestimating the Taliban’s strength in Afghanistan and for tolerating Pakistan’s obvious coddling of terrorists killing American soldiers.

In front of the Chicago audience, Logan contended that the terrorist presence in Afghanistan is continually understated. She scoffed at the numbers routinely used by many in the government and think-tank communities to describe the Taliban’s presence in country.

While discussing what she believes to be the knowingly understated claim of the Taliban presence in Afghanistan, she said it is absurd to compare Afghanistan to Vietnam. In the latter war, the Viet Cong constituted an insurgency willing to live and let live as long as the U.S. got out of their country.

Al Qaeda is not an insurgency, is driven by ideology and wants to kill us all, on our own soil if they must and even if we pull all our troops out of Afghanistan, Logan said.

She likened the murder of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, to the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 American sailors. She argued that it could well be a precursor to another terrorist attack on the U.S. Indeed, the federal 9/11 Commission did find clear common denominators among a variety of terrorist actions against Americans, including the Cole bombing and the subsequent World Trade Center attacks.

“The 9/11 attacks were a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise,” the commission wrote. “Islamist extremists had given plenty of warning that they meant to kill Americans indiscriminately and in large numbers.”

[Danno 1,228]

She sounded like Bush with all that -They want to destroy our way of life- stuff.

One thing I learned in middle school was, just because you are tired and ready to stop fighting doesn't mean the other guy is.

[justashooter 430]

She sounded like Bush with all that -They want to destroy our way of life- stuff.

One thing I learned in middle school was, just because you are tired and ready to stop fighting doesn't mean the other guy is.

well, they do. America is the Great Satan, ya know. radical fundamentalist muslims won't be happy until we are all dead.

but you remember what patton said about dying for your country? thank god for superior fire power.