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There is news coming out of Washington that the Bush Administration may be leaning towards a Cold War era style of deterrence to ward off possible terrorist attacks by terrorists.  Since this is coming from the New York Times, I hope this news is wrong, anything seems to be possible.

The idea is to use police and others to keep the terrorists off balance.  This would dissuade them from carrying out attacks in this country.  Does this sound familiar?  Maybe like the Clinton stance against terrorism in the 1990s.  I did not work then and it will not work now.  In this age of political correctness run amok, how would the police keep the terrorists off balance when they can not use profiling? 

In New York City, as many as 100 police officers in squad cars from every precinct converge twice daily at randomly selected times and at randomly selected sites, like Times Square or the financial district, to rehearse their response to a terrorist attack. City police officials say the operations are believed to be a crucial tactic to keep extremists guessing as to when and where a large police presence may materialize at any hour.

This is another way of saying New York will wait until after another attack to do anything.  So we turn back the clock to the 1990s and wait for another 3000+ people to die before we become serious about fighting terrorism.  Even officials acknowledge that deterrence “represents a second-best solution” to fighting the terrorists, the first being to kill or capture them. 

Another ploy being discussed by the military is “countermessaging.”  The idea is to use the internet and the terrorists’ own chat room and videos against them in an effort to turn the people against the jihadists.  This process is too slow.  Changing minds is a lengthy process.  In the long run this might work, but in conjunction with killing the terrorists wherever they may be found.

I hope the idea of deterrence is just another ploy by the liberal New York Times to again bash the Bush Administration, though I doubt it.  Killing terrorists works, trying to understand them kills Americans.  I just hope the administration understands this simple fact.

Tags: Terrorism by Chuck
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John Hawkins from Right Wing News has an excellent post on why liberals lie about who they are.  His main point is: conservatives feel to tell who they are because the United States as a whole leans slightly to the right.  Liberals on the other hand have to lie about their policy positions and who they are because the American citizens have rejected their socialistic ideas.  (my word, not his)

This is something I have advocated for a long time.  Liberalism has been rejected by the American people, so liberal candidates have to lie about who they are and what they support.  As an example, just look at Barack Obama’s stance on the DC vs. Keller decision on the 2^nd Amendment.  A earlier questionnaire which was filled out by Obama says he is against gun ownership. Then he vacillates on the issue during the Presidential nomination process.  Finally, after winning the Democrat nomination, he takes both sides of the issue after the High Court made their decision affirming the individual right to gun ownership.  This is what a Democrat does, they lie to win votes.

I would add one more thing to John’s post.  For Dems, the end justifies the means.  So Democrats and liberals will do anything to win—lie, cheat, steal, register dead people, register illegal aliens, etc.  They will do anything to pass their liberal agenda.

Nothing is sacrosanct for liberals.  In order to win, they will attack the troops, they will attack churches, they will attack their own country, and they will even throw their own families under the bus in order to pass their liberal legislation or to win an election. 

Republicans and Conservatives are different.  Since the country is a center right politically, they do not need to lie about who they are and they do not need to lie about the issues they support.  They support the troops no matter what.  They are patriotic to the core of their being.  They do not attack churches.  And lastly, there is a line Conservatives will not cross, for either moral or ethical reasons.  There is no line for Liberals.  Again, the end justifies the means.

Tags: Democrats by Chuck
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