Calling A Spade A Big Nasty Spade

Michael Chertoff on the Dems’ mania for softpedaling the war on terror:

The impulse to minimize the threat we face is eerily reminiscent of the way America’s leaders played down the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolutionary fanaticism in the late 1970s. That naive approach ultimately foundered on the kidnapping of our diplomats in Tehran.

A sensible strategy against Al-Qaida and others in its ideological terror network begins with recognizing the scope of the threat they pose. Al-Qaida and its ilk have a world vision that is comparable to that of historical totalitarian ideologues but adapted to the 21st-century global network.

Is this actually a war? Well, the short answer comes from our enemies. Osama bin Laden’s fatwa of Feb. 23, 1998, was a declaration of war, a self-serving accusation that America had somehow declared war on Islam, followed by a “ruling” to “kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military … in any country where it is possible to do it.”

It’s on this misapprehension, I have to hope, that the Democrats will founder in ’08. 

4 thoughts on “Calling A Spade A Big Nasty Spade

  1. Mitch quoted: “Is this actually a war? Well, the short answer comes from our enemies. Osama bin Laden’s fatwa of Feb. 23, 1998, was a declaration of war, a self-serving accusation that America had somehow declared war on Islam, followed by a “ruling” to “kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military … in any country where it is possible to do it.””

    Unfortunately Angryclown has been in a coma for six years. So did Bush kill that bin Laden guy? You know, hunt him down, smoke him out and kill him?

  2. No, but he did take away the great big country where he got to openly train his Merry Men and practice beating women bloody with the Mecca Slugger.
    Gee, that coma stuff is a shame, but it does explain a lot of comments over the last couple of years.

  3. True, Bush did make bin Laden move. And we all know what a pain that can be. You have to box up all your books on jihad, bubble-wrap the souveniers you picked up off dead Red Army soldiers, send out change of address postcards to all your friends….

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