Let us not forget what was the first thing that the Bush administration
did immediately following the September 11 attack: The administration
arranged secretly the safe transport of Saudi royals and officials residing
in the U.S. back to Saudi Arabia.
5 years, 5500 lives (3000 civilians, 2500 G.I.s), and $250 billion later, the U.S.
border is still not secure; ports of entry are vulnerable; fifth column American
Muslim organizations and "charities" (most notorious being CAIR) operate
unhindered, and are accorded not only the status of legitimate entities but
receive privileged treatment lest, God forbid, the government hurts their
delicate Muslim sensitivities; and our fearless, supposedly born-again "crusader",
cowboy and his crony mouthpieces still promote the ludicrously naive, if not
outright disingenuous, view that Islam is a religion of peace, hijacked by a tiny
minority of extremists who misunderstand its peaceful teachings, and who
identify with the "militant" interpretations because of economic disadvantage,
lack of opportunity, and lack of "freedom." (Never mind that when Muslims
were given the opportunity to exercise "freedom" in legal, internationally-
supervised elections, whose results were uncontested, in Gaza, afghanistan
and Iraq they essentially elected to relinquish this short-lived freedom in
favor of an authentic Islamic governance.
Occasionally, the brave "crusader" cowboy would toss a bone to his disappointed
conservative base in the form of a strongly-worded, albeit devoid of meaning,
statement which involves the use of intentionally misleading terms such as
"Islamofascism" and "radical Islam" (Islam is fascist and "radical" by definition,
as prescribed in the Qur'an and Hadith; any negative qualifier preceding or following
"Islam" is automatically redundant and misleadingly suggests that there exists an
Islam that is moderate or non-fascist, and that Islam can be reformed---a view held
by some misguided and misinformed so-called conservatives and Middle East scholars,
such as Daniel Pipes, but a view that is patently false nonetheless).
If there is one lesson America should have learned, it is this: Next time, listen to JTF!