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Gerald Warner’s article is today’s must reading. In his article, Mr. Warner claims that President Obama doesn’t know who the enemy is, then provides examples of President Obama’s war:

Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora’s Box by publishing the Justice Department’s legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

“Don’t be discouraged by what’s happened the last few weeks,” he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers.

Today’s Democrats are forever worrying about “America’s image in the world.” That’s a lovely notion in peacetime but it’s dangerous in wartime. Worrying about “America’s image in the world” potentially gets in the way of national security officials doing their constitutionally mandated duties. Specifically, it might cause them to pull punches in interrogating HVTs.

It’s time Democrats, especially this wet-behind-the-ears president, understood that they serve the American people first, not the European elitist snobs. It’s time Democrats learned that the least of their worries are Tea Party attending Kentuckians who believe in the Constitution. It’s time Democrats learned that military people returning from Iraq or Afghanistan aren’t potential terrorists.

In short, it’s time that Democrats stop living in the soft puffy world that they’re currently living in. I’ll close with Mr. Warner’s closing paragraph because it’s a great summation:

President Pantywaist’s recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America’s enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

I won’t say that President Obama hates America. I’m perfectly comfortable, though, saying that President Obama’s first priority isn’t putting the United States’ interests first.

It isn’t a stretch to say that President Obama’s plan of restoring America’s image in the world is off to a bumpy start.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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