The worst President in history

The other day, I wrote a post on Eagles Up! Talon about the dishonesty of the media and how it takes some folks pounding away on their Dell laptops in their living rooms to bring the real news to the fore. In that post, I referenced a John Hinderacker post at Powerline which declared that we have indeed been made safer in recent years by the war in Iraq – despite what Barack Obama and his moon-eyed minions chant;

2003
May: Suicide bombers killed 10 Americans, and killed and wounded many others, at housing compounds for westerners in Saudi Arabia.

October: More bombings of United States housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killed 26 and injured 160.

2004
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2005
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2006
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2007
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2008
So far, there have been no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

I have omitted from the above accounting a few “lone wolf” Islamic terrorist incidents, like the Washington, D.C. snipers, the Egyptian who attacked the El Al counter in Los Angeles, and an incident or two when a Muslim driver steered his vehicle into a crowd. These are, in a sense, exceptions that prove the rule, since the “lone wolves” were not, as far as we know, in contact with international Islamic terrorist groups and therefore could not have been detected by surveillance of terrorist conversations or interrogations of al Qaeda leaders.

It should also be noted that the decline in attacks on the U.S. was not the result of jihadists abandoning the field. Our government stopped a number of incipient attacks and broke up several terrorist cells, while Islamic terrorists continued to carry out successful attacks around the world, in England, Spain, Russia, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia and elsewhere.

Of course, nothing we can say will change their minds – the truth is a bitter pill. This morning, in the Wall Street Journal, Thane Rosenbaum, a Fordham law professor who admits that he “didn’t vote for President Bush – twice”, makes a startling admission;

We all waited for terrorism’s second shoe to drop, and, seven years later . . . nothing has happened.

Other cities around the world became targets: Madrid, Glasgow, London and Bali; the entire nation of Denmark; and, of course, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Here in America, however, the focus moved from concerns over counterterrorism measures and the abuse of presidential authority to the war in Iraq, the subprime mortgage crisis, the failing economy, the public meltdown of Britney Spears, and now, the presidential elections.

All this time Americans have been safe from suicide bombers, biological warfare and collapsing skyscrapers, while the rest of the world has been on red alert. And yet President Bush is regarded as the worst president in American history?

[…]…when a professed enemy succeeds as wildly as al Qaeda did on 9/11, and seven years pass without an incident, there are two reasonable conclusions: Either, despite all the trash-talking videos, they have been taking a long, leisurely breather; or, something serious has been done to thwart and disable their operations. Whatever combination of psychology and insanity motivates a terrorist to blow himself up is not within my range of experience, but I’m betting the aggressive measures the president took, and the unequivocal message he sent, might have had something to do with it.

Well, maybe not startling for those of us who’ve been paying attention, but startling in the context of a Fordham law professor noticing it. Of course, we won’t hear any of that from the purely partisan Democrats in Congress or on the campaign trail. Because of their opposition to virtually everything President Bush and the Republican Congresses did, the Democrats would have to admit they were wrong. Nancy Pelosi’s inability to credit our troops with the relative calm returning to Iraq shows the depths to which they’ve sunk.
Democrats had hoped that spineless cowards like Chuck Hagel would have some sort of influence on the Republican Party and the war would end before it became successful. Their gamble failed when General Petraeus’ strategy worked and a majority of Republicans stuck with the President.

Now it’s time to make the Democrats pay at the polls for their treasonous undermining of our national security.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War