Powered by Max Banner Ads
Scheuer Shreds Obama On National Security
If there’s one man who probably knows more about national security and radical Islam than anyone it’s Michael Scheuer. He spent 22-years as an analyst at the CIA and spent a large amount of that time tracking radical Islamic groups and studying their words and actions.
In 1996, the CIA took the unprecedented step of creating an in house unit whose sole purpose was to to track one man — Osama Bin Laden. From 1996 – 1999 Mike Scheuer was head of the Bin Laden Unit (formally known as Alec Station, named after Mike’s son Alec).
Scheuer also designed the CIA’s Rendition program which was used to snatch terror suspects abroad and fly them back to the U.S. for prosecution or to another country for interrogation.
Beyond his unparalleled expertise, Michael Scheuer has no political ax to grind. He’s fond of ripping into both Bushes, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and now Barack Obama. His only interest is to see that America is protected and that we have a competent national security policy.
In short, If Scheuer says Obama’s national security policy is f*cked up — we should listen.
In a scathing Washington Post editorial, Scheuer doesn’t hold back. He says the way Obama is playing politics with interrogation and our national security in general is going to get people killed.
I’m actually surprised the WaPo even printed the Op-Ed it’s so brutal and frank. I’m guessing the couple of shots he took at Bush soothed liberal hearts on the editorial board.
Here’s a taste:
Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology — a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" — cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.
Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder’s identifying them as "moral cowards." Mulling Obama’s claim, one can wonder what could be more moral for a president than doing all that is needed to defend America and its citizens? Or, asked another way, is it moral for the president of the United States to abandon intelligence tools that have saved the lives and property of Americans and their allies in favor of his own ideological beliefs?
There is no question in my mind and in the mind of experts like Scheuer that president Obama’s reckless ACLU national security policy has put us all in danger.
-Chris Jones
Posts
