{"id":8573,"date":"2010-02-09T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:32:20","slug":"strict-obedience-is-demanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"Strict Obedience Is Demanded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the great lefty whinge during the Bush Administration – “you called us unpatriot<\/em>ic?”<\/p>\n

(Of course, no lefty could name a single significant<\/em> conservative who had called all liberals unpatriotic, or who were referrring to defined groups of lefties whose stances were proudly anti-American, or who were referring to specific policies that, they claimed, actively harmed US interests and endangered the United States; when pressed to provide same, the examples inevitably turned up to be one of the three limited cases above, and they always will.\u00a0 But I digress).<\/p>\n

But now that they’re in power<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Criticizing the Administration’s handling of the Eunuchbomber is…well, you know where this is going, don’t you?<\/p>\n

In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brennan writes that, “Terrorists are not 100-feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right.\u00a0 But they deserve the response we hope to enact; extinction.<\/p>\n

But let’s be honest; after all their lofty campaign rhetoric, the Administration is finally\u00a0learning how to deal with terrorists.<\/p>\n

From Dick Cheney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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