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That’s the only conclusion thinking people can draw from Ms. Pelosi’s 60 minutes interview, according to this Jack Kingston Washington Times op-ed.

In a stunning performance on “60 Minutes,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi proved again why she cannot be trusted to keep America safe from the threat of global terrorism and Islamic extremists. Mrs. Pelosi demonstrated that she does not understand the global nature of the threat when she stated flatly “the war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.”

I’d tell Jack Kingston, one of my favorite congressmen, that he shouldn’t limit his statements to Ms. Pelosi. All of the Democratic candidates sing from the same hymnal: “Iraq isn’t part of the war on terror” they say. “He diverted troops from the real war on terror in Afghanistan”, they’ll tell you. Except that they think we’ve forgotten President Bush’s greatest speech from the well of the House on September 20, 2001, where he said:

Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money; its goal is remaking the world, and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.

The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics, a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists’ directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and make no distinction among military and civilians, including women and children.

This group and its leader, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries. They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan, where they are trained in the tactics of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction.

Is Ms. Pelosi now saying that “more than 60 countries” have now been shrunk to Afghanistan? God help us if that’s what she’s saying. Seriously, the President’s plan for keeping us safe is complex, multi-faceted and multi-pronged. Most importantly, it’s protected us while preventing future attacks, attacks which had been planned but were thwarted by intelligence services using the SWIFT program, the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program and through CIA interrogations that have yielded a treasure trove of information.

Al Qaeda’s No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a letter to the leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, was clear about the location of the global jihad and the importance of victory in Iraq:
“Victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established in the manner of the Prophet in the heart of the Islamic world…As for the battles that are going on in the far flung regions of the Islamic world, such as Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Bosnia, they are just the groundwork and the vanguard for the major battles which have begun in the heart of the Islamic world.”

Shouldn’t we trust Ms. Pelosi’s judgment? After all, wouldn’t she know more about where the GWOT is than Zawahiri? Who knows more about the GWOT: Ms. Pelosi, sitting on her backside in Washington or Zawahiri, directing his troops from a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan?

All kidding aside, the truth is that we can’t afford a Speaker Pelosi, a Judiciary Impeachment Committee Chairman Conyers, a Chairman Rangel of the Raise Our Taxes Committee or a Chairman Hastings of the House Intelligence Committee. Those are things that will bring destruction to the progress and prosperity to the U.S.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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