09.08.06
Osama is the key ?
I’ve never understood the first part of this point, mostly trumpeted by liberals and the media (one and the same usually), but in this case made by Newt Gingrich:
Just consider the following: Osama bin Laden is still at large. Afghanistan is still insecure. Iraq is still violent. North Korea and Iran are still building nuclear weapons and missiles. Terrorist recruiting is still occurring in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and across the planet.
We hear this a lot from Pelosi and Reid and Dean… But these are the same people that claim that by capturing or killing terrorists on the battlefield we just “create” more terrorists ? What is the magic bullet that catching OBL will serve ? We’ve captured or killed #2 men all over the planet, and this is poo-poo’ed as an insignificant event, and something that just causes more fanatics to join the cause against us. If we get the #1 guy is that some sort of phaser into the port-hole of the Death Star that all the sudden causes the entire system to collapse ?
“It’s been 5 years- FIVE years- and we still haven’t caught Bin Laden,” is a regular refrain from the DNC and their minions. It’s also been 5 years since we were hit on our own soil. Seems to me whatever strategy we’ve been using- Bin Laden dead/captured or not- seems to be working pretty damn well.
