ÜberLibs and National Security…

Last week, I talked about the fatal flaw of the überLibs and how they can’t fathom that there’s true evil in the world that wants to kill as many Americans as possible. The only part I left out is the hatred they do believe in.
The politics of the überLibs are dictated by one thing only: sheer vitriolic hatred toward George W. Bush and anyone who dares vote Republican.
These are the people who are taking over the Democrat party. They’re the Michael Moores, Howard Deans, Voldemorts of the world. They’re folks like those at MoveOn.org or the Daily Kos. They can’t talk about anything with substance. Instead, they deal in half-truths and wild accusations.
Consider today’s rambling on the Huff-and-Puffington Post today by author Larry Beinhart. Beinhart, who is the author of “Wag the Dog,” says today that Republicans are the ones who are really weak on national security and that Democrats should use that to their advantage to win in November.
The only problem is that Beinhart sounds like a moron.
Oh, wait, here are his supporting points:

1. 9/11 happened on their watch.

Of course, we can’t say, absolutely, that it would not have happened if they had not been asleep at the wheel. But we can say that they did not do all they could have done to prevent it. We can say that Bush literally pushed away the warnings.

Right. George W. Bush pushed away the warning signs: the Khobar Towers…the U.S.S. Cole…the first World Trade Center bombing…not going after Osama bin Laden…all of the warning signs that occured during the Clinton Administration. Bush was president for EIGHT WHOLE MONTHS and Clinton had eight years.
Details like that don’t seem to stop the all-knowing Beinhart, though. The United States let any terror group with a bomb work unhindered during the Clinton years and he still wants to pin 9/11 on George Bush. How full of crap is this guy?

2. George Bush and the Republicans failed to get Osama bin Laden.

We got both Hitler and Hirohito in less time than we’ve been chasing bin Laden. Every day that bin Laden’s out there, he’s proof that you can attack the United States and get away with it. That’s a bad message to send, and believe me, people in the terrorist world have heard it loud and clear. That’s very bad for national security.

Yeah, forget the fact that Sudanese officials tried to give Osama bin Laden to Clinton and he passed because he only wanted to commit crimes against America. However, national security expert Beinhart continues…

3. George Bush and the Republicans gave Osama bin Laden what he wanted.

Bin Laden wanted the US to get into a quagmire. He wanted our troops tied down in an Islamic country so that an insurgency could do to them what the Afghanis did to the Russians and to the British before them.

A modern, hi-tech army is very good at invasions. It’s also good for fighting back against other armies. But a modern hi-tech army is not good at occupying a country against the will of the population. Even if the army is as violent and ruthless as the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan were.

What Osama bin Laden wants is you, me and every other American dead. That’s what he wants. We’re trying to find one man who could be in any one of a handful of countries. Bin Laden’s goal wasn’t to get our military into a quagmire, it’s to keep the region from becoming stable. Besides, the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan were freedom fighters. al Qaeda are cowardly, murderous bastards. Big difference.

4. George Bush and the Republicans squandered America’s power and prestige.

Before 9/11 most people in the world probably thought that America’s intelligence services were able and astute, agencies to be feared.

The Bush administration has made them appear bumbling and inept. They did this, first, by ignoring their warnings and then, second, by making them the fall guys for 9/11.

After 9/11 most of the world feared America’s wrath and America’s might. By failing to get bin Laden and his gang, then by attacking the wrong country, unleashing chaos, and getting our armed forces into a situation that they can’t win, the administration showed the world they have less to fear than they imagined.

The sad part is he actually believes this crap. There’s only one person bumbling and inept in this, and it’s Larry Beinhart.

5. The Bush administration empowered Hezbollah.

The ‘insurgency’ in Iraq was Hezbollah’s textbook and their inspiration. If Iraqis could do that to Americans, surely they could do the same to the Israelis. And they have.

It’s not yet on the record, but it’s clear from everyone’s conduct, that the administration encouraged the Israelis to ‘unleash’ their forces against Hezbollah. They probably thought Israel’s modern hi-tech armies would quickly smash their enemy.

George W. Bush empowered Hezbollah. Sure. This is the same Hezbollah that bombed the Khobar Towers in 1996 killing 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi citizen and then President William Jefferson Clinton did nothing.

6. The Bush administration radicalized Hamas.

Hamas was elected. Sworn to the destruction of Israel or not, they should have been encouraged to become responsible players with carrots as well as sticks. Instead the administration put them up against the wall, hoping to starve the Palestinian people into voting for a different group. Would that work if someone tried to do it to us?

Yeah…forget that Slick Willie was urging a dialogue with Hamas this year saying that we shouldn’t cut them off. If a Democrat does it, it’s OK in Beinhart’s world.

7. Bush and the Republicans tied down our forces in Iraq while Iran and North Korea invested in nuclear technology.

That made North Korea feel secure enough to test ICBMs. If they had been successful, they would have had a delivery system for their nuclear weapons.

That would be incredibly bad for national security.

Iran, with American forces tied down in Iraq, feels secure enough to defy the UN as well as the US.

Very bad for national security.

Huh. Wouldn’t you know that Beinhart doesn’t tell you who gave the nuclear technology to North Korea in the first place? Bill Clinton. It would seem that Mr. Beinhart has a fuzzy memory at best.

8. By the way, every major European nation has had successful arrests and real trials of real, dangerous terrorists. People on the level of this group that the British just took down.

The most ferocious terrorist arrested in the United States since 9/11 has been the shoe bomber.

Ten, twenty, forty, a hundred billion dollars, a trillion dollars, and the best we have to show for it is the shoe bomber?!

Republicans are bad on national security.

One would think that the best indicator of the fact that there haven’t been thousands of dead Americans killed by terrorists on American soil would be a better indicator, but that’s just me.

9. We have trashed the bill of rights. We have trashed the Geneva conventions. We have a president and a vice president willing to go the mat to fight for the right to torture people. We have spent a fortune on illegal wiretaps. We have spent a fortune on collecting everyone’s telephone data.

And what have we achieved by all of this?

A quagmire in Iraq. Dishonor. Debts. An empowered al Qaeda. A new war in Lebanon. The inability to stand up to Iran and North Korea. Osama bin Laden at large, an inspiration to extremists everywhere.

Republican are unimaginably bad on national security.

What is this guy smoking?
Trashed the Bill of Rights? How…by reporting on library books?
Trashed the Geneva Convention? No, I don’t think so. The Supreme Court ruled and the Bush Administration is, of course, adhering to the ruling. The Bush Administration was wrong and then accepted correction.
Fighting for the right to torture people? Is this guy for real?
Spent a fortune on illegal wiretaps? Those wiretaps were ruled as perfectly legal, thanks.
Spent a fortune collecting everyone’s telephone data? That data is available for sale to corporations through the phone company and you’re worried about the fact the government has access to it anyway via the FCC? Get real.
The only thing that überLibs like Larry Beinhart are interested in is obfuscating facts and telling half-truths to advance their agenda which will do nothing but weaken America and put people like you and me at risk. People like Beinhart have nothing but hatred and can’t rationally discuss differences in ideology. They want to blame George W. Bush for everything, yet refuse to acknowledge that the “placate and pay” foreign policy of the Clinton Adminstration did more to hurt this country than any of the überLibs will ever admit to.
All they have is their hate.
Hey, but Beinhart has a new book out called “Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin.”
I’m thinking that’s going to be a pretty long search for him and that Beinhart must be still looking. Clearly he wouldn’t know the truth if it came up and introduced itself to him.
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com