National Security @ MindSay

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but apparently in the name of national security, the US is set to shoot down a satellite by firing a missile into space.  According to a report from the Associated Press (via MSNBC), President Bush has ordered the Navy to shoot down a broken spy satellite before it re-enters the earth’s atmosphere in an effort to minimize risk to humans.  From the report:

“Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the same briefing that the "window of opportunity" for such a shootdown, presumably to be launched from a Navy ship, will open in the next three or four days and last for seven or eight days. He did not say whether the Pentagon has decided on an exact launch date.

Cartwright said this will be an unprecedented effort; he would not say exactly what are the odds of success.

"This is the first time we've used a tactical missile to engage a spacecraft," Cartwright said.”

When 9/11 occurred, only the Neocons had a plan to address terrorism. The Clinton strategy was immersed in treating Islamofascist terrorists as international criminals rather than enemy combatants determined to alter America’s way of life.

Neocons influenced President Bush to take down Islamofascist regimes to introduce democracy as a way of politically combating the seed bed of terrorism. Ironically there has been more success with this in Afghanistan than in Iraq. I say ironic because Afghanistan’s people are steeped in the violent ideology of Wahhabi and Taliban interpretations of Mohammedanism. That populist is the epitome of a fundamentalist Mohammedan.

Iraq though Mohammedan; faced a quarter century of Baathist-Socialist Mohammedanism. Old Saddam Hussein attempted to enforce a degree of secularism into the Mohammedanism of Iraq. The Shi’ites hated him for it. It is in Iraq that America currently faces the greatest challenges concerning the introduction of democracy. Radical Mohammedans have flocked to Iraq to fight American soldiers as if it was a Jihad against an invading Crusader army.

This is unfortunate because America’s desire was to build a democratic rule of law under the aegis of a stable government. Iraq is so divided by Radical Mohammedanism from foreign Sunnis and Iran influenced Shi’ites, I am of the opinion that Western Democracy will not take hold as the rule of law in Iraq.

Thus there is the appearance that the Neocon strategy of transformation in the Middle East is a failed strategy. Since it was the Neocon baby, it is the Neocons that are the stigma and scapegoats of a failed nation building strategy.

Something to consider: who had a better or even an alternative plan? Answer: NO ONE!

Neocon strategists have developed another plan. I have not heard a person who identifies himself as a Neocon say the nation building democracy plan is currently a failure. There is a certain amount of political hubris as there is with all political ideologies. Do not think for a minute that Left Wing thinking is devoid of hubris. After all Left Wing utopianism is alive and strong even after the collapse of the Communist Soviet Union as a failed structure for governing people. That also is hubris.

In America the Left Wing plan for the War on Terrorism in Iraq is to cut-n-run enabling the appearance of victory to Islamofascism and radical Mohammedanism. That strategy will only allow the continued growth and eventual domination of the radical reactionary interpretations of Mohammed, the Quran, the Hadiths, the Sunna and Sharia Law and so on. The concept of a moderate Mohammedanism is shrinking daily in the Mohammedan dominated nations and Mohammedan minorities in Western lands. Clearly the cut-n-run strategy is will mess up the global future of Western Civilization.

The Neocons and (smart) Conservatives are calling for a “troop surge” to alter strategy to confront terrorists with a more root out the rodent vermin goal. Then extricate American troops. If democracy latches on in Iraq or Afghanistan, it will be a Mohammedan cultural version. Civil Rights and Liberty as we know will not exist in a Mohammedan democracy; however a better rule of law may develop that goes after radical terrorists in ways that only a Mohammedan can comprehend.

Or despotism may win the day because medieval thought patterns may be too entrenched in Mohammedan culture until a moderate transformation (hopefully) over takes the radical. Then America will back to the old fashioned client States. The Client States will receive American support for existence as long as they quell the radicals in their nation. Both versions may not be amenable to American and Western National Interests.

President Bush has assigned General Patraeus to replace General Abizaid as the Commander land troops in Iraq. He will employ the NEW military strategy and we will see where the chips fall. If the Democratic Congress interferes with Patraeus, the new strategy will certainly fail. Let us think long term and not short term. The short term will result in long term anguish for America and the West. The Short term will embolden current minority Mohammedans to embrace its radical nature, placing the so-called moderate on the shelf of insignificance.

Sandy Berger: This is a man that worked as National Security Advisor to President Slick Willie Clinton. As National Security Advisor, Berger was obviously privy to Classified Documents and Classified knowledge undertaken under the direction of the Clinton Administration.

Sandy Berger at the request of and request of Slick Willie acquired post Clinton Administration access to Classified Documents at the National Archive. Berger destroyed the Classified Documents he selected. This is act is heinous enough, however it happened on MORE than one occasion. Berger went FOUR times to the National Archives before he was caught destroying sensitive documents probably relating to Clinton information on words or actions taken that would not find favorable light.

This smacks of a HUGE conspiracy! Berger takes the fall. Slick Willie again escapes from a tarnished link to illegality. AND Senator Hillary Clinton thus gets a coat of Teflon in which no scum of impropriety sticks.

Here is the Real Clear Politics analysis of Berger’s acts of treason.

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This is from the politically astute and classical scholar Victor Davis Hanson (not a bad writer either) from today on the pathological frivolity that defines the political left in this country;

"What sends liberal criticism (of Bush, Republicans and conservatives in general) over the edge into pathological hysteria? . . . The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years, and they've occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26 years. The left's current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating others for a more elemental frustration - that they can't gain a national majority based on their core beliefs. More entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, gay marriage, de facto quotas in affirmative action, open borders, abortion on demand, and radical secularism - these liberal issues don't tend to resonate with most Americans."

Like sports, ultimately what matters in politics is winning, and other than Bill Clinton, the Democrats haven't had much success at all. 1964 and the Kennedy Administration were their high-water mark but that was 40 years ago.

While Democrats may get better marks when it comes to such issues as education, health care, the environment, etc. the not so dirty little secret is that those issues are of secondary importance and little interest when it comes to national elections. And always will be. State and local elections have more sway when it comes to improving schools and providing health insurance coverage. The only issues nationally that matter, Republicans own, and not because they have such a sterling record but because enough voters, like me, have zero confidence that the Democrats can perform when it comes to national and homeland security and maintaining low tax rates that are the foundation of sustaining economic growth and current level of prosperity.

Remember what is at stake in this election and who you want in charge when the egg timer goes off. Any vote for a Democratic candidate is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability.

Liberals Gone Wild!

Feds show CAIR latest screening steps, sensitive counterterrorism procedures.

The Bush Administration has to decide if America is at war with terrorism and those that support terrorism or if the Administration has to satisfy those that adhere to the deficient doctrine of the Left, viz. being "Politically Correct."

Taking CAIR through security checkpoints at an airport is like giving the enemy a blue print to terrorize citizens. CAIR has an agenda and it is not to promote the American way of life. Their agenda is related to global Mohammedanism. Mohammedanism is anti-Western, anti-American and anti-Liberty.

Come on President Bush; use some clarity on the concept of Islamic fascism.