Connecticut, London's Calling
NRO's Andrew McCarthy has written about the connection between the foiled terrorist attacks and the Connecticut Senate primary between naive neophyte Ned Lamont and terrorist-hating Joe Lieberman.
Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 9:08 PM
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Reality has once again inconveniently burst the antiwar, anti-security, anti-American balloon, just as the November victory ballrooms were being booked. Just as central casting was whipping the articles of impeachment into shape. The high crimes and misdemeanors of George W. Bush include: hunting down terrorists, detaining them, interrogating them, penetrating their communications, and following their money. These damn jihadists just won't cooperate. Can't they read the polls?As I've documented before, Ned Lamont's view of the world and how he'd solve problems is naive and then some. Here's Lamont's 'solution' to the Iran crisis:
"We should work diplomatically and aggressively to give them reasons why they don't need to build a bomb, to give them incentives. We have to engage in very aggressive diplomacy. I'd like to bring in allies when we can. I'd like to use carrots as well as sticks to see if we can change the nature of the debate."I ask Connecticut natives and liberals everywhere: Do you really think that Iran's mullahs think like that? In light of yesterday's thwarted terrorist attack, can we afford to take a Lamont-like view of the world? God help us if we do.
- The antiwar Left has a conveniently flexible moral compass. Consequently, the Clinton era Echelon program was fine, but Bush's NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program is an impeachable offense. Mishandling classified information by a Clinton CIA director was worthy of a pardon, and destroying classified information (and lying to investigators about it) by a former Clinton national-security adviser was worthy of a pass, but leaking the unremarkable fact that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA is the crime of the century.
- Bombing Kosovo without U.N. approval was a moral imperative; invading Iraq after over a dozen U.N. resolutions is a violation of international law.
- Renditions conducted between 1994 and 2000 were just good national-security sense; renditions conducted between 2001 and 2006 are war crimes.
- Indicting Osama bin Laden in 1998 and then doing nothing to capture him while he bombed two American embassies and an American naval destroyer, killing hundreds, was aggressive yet intelligently modulated counterterrorism; allowing Osama bin Laden to evade capture in Tora Bora while killing and capturing hundreds of his operatives and decimating his hierarchy is irresponsibly incompetent.
This is a daunting task. It's a job for adults and patriots, not opportunists and power-mongers. On Tuesday, Democrats in Connecticut showed the door to Senator Joe Lieberman, a patriotic adult who happens to be a liberal, and ushered in an antiwar Left opportunist who, until about five minutes ago, was a Lieberman supporter. On Wednesday, al Qaeda reminded us that it will gladly kill opportunists of any political stripe.TRANSLATION: This isn't a job for a politically naive rich boy. It's a job for a thinking man. This is a job Joe Lieberman is qualified for. It's a job that Ned Lamont might never be ready for.
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