The Opinionator

Tears Of A Clown

In the estimation of your humble author, anyone shedding tears because we waterboarded KSM loses much of my respect. First, there is still a debate as to whether waterboarding and other more aggressive interrogation techniques are torture at all. It is important that those of us who do not think they are do not concede the point. Yet that is exactly what is happening. If anti-war nitwits can waterboard each other at a protest with no ill effects, it is not torture!

Second, when KSM hints darkly that something is on the horizon, our government has a duty to find out what is being planned. Anyone who thinks that the Obama administration would not do the same is a fool. President Obama is only able to release documents and explore prosecutions related to interrogations because the Bush administration did the dirty and hard work of combatting Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism.

It is only under pressure from former VP Cheney that the administration and their media accomplices have had to acknowledge that the techniques resulted in actionable intel and resulted in preventing an attack on Los Angeles among others. Cheney is correct, if you are going to release the details of our efforts without the results you lose the context to determine their effectiveness and whether we should have used them. So release the results. I am confident that even many Obama voters will agree that we did the right thing. Those that still cry over the waterboarding of KSM and company are crying the tears of a clown.

President Obama Grows A Pair, Captain Freed

Here is the story from CNN. Three of the four pirates appear to have succumbed to excessive ventilation.

Thanks to HolyCoast for the heads up.

WaPo Attempts To Cover For Obama Incompetence

The Washington Post has a nice puff piece on why President Obama has been sitting on his ass eating pizza while the pirates embarrass the hell out of us and expose the new administration as being ineffective. The last paragraph of the story says it all,

But many on the national security team insist that it is their caution and willingness to consider all aspects of the situation that differentiate them from the overly aggressive posture of the Bush administration that they say exacerbated the terrorist threat.

Sure. Bush has nothing to do with this and we were not targeted by pirates like this because the previous administration was respected and feared. the inability to make a decision and the weakness shown by Team Obama puts us all in danger. Blaming President Bush for all our troubles is the classless way that our new President has dealt with domestic issues. President Obama does not have that luxury in this instance. Eventually, he has to take ownership of his Presidency and make a decision. The buck stops with him and from I can see so far, that is not a good thing. Let the weakening of America proceed!