"Meet the Press" Frustration

Here is what I hate most about the Left...everything is our fault. There is an implicit...and sometimes explicit...desire to blame America for everything bad that happens to it. Why? I think when you are a bleeding heart liberal you do not believe in absolute truth. Remember the furor over Bush using the term "evildoer"? "How dare he? Who is he to call someone else evil?" Of course they say that because if you don't believe in absolute truth then you don't really believe in good and evil. What that means is that if someone commits an "evil" act, then we need to figure out why they did that. What made this poor innocent creature choose an action so obviously out of character? Their answer invariably comes back to, "Well, the US must be responsible. After all, if this person is angry with us, we must have given them a reason."

I won't use the language on this blog which that line of thinking arouses. I will say this...that line of "reasoning" will insure the end of this country and will make us more vulnerable than we have ever been. If you are more interested in playing armchair psychiatrist than actually going out and getting the bad guys then you deserve what you get. This is the real world. It's not a university classroom and it's not the campaign trail. There are people who want to kill you...not because of anything you have done to them...but just because you exist. That is called evil and it's a lot more real than thinking that closing Gitmo is going to make us safer.

How can Obama stand there and say that Gitmo has made us less safe? That it is helping in the recruitment of new terrorists? How does he know? Is there a recent CNN poll that surveyed 700 Al Qaeda members and determined that 54% of them became terrorists in the last two years because of a prison in Cuba? That is pure political garbage backed up by zero facts. But of course this administration wouldn't know a fact if it subsidized it into existence. Last I checked, the 9/11 hijackers hated this country and wanted innocent Americans dead long before the idea of Gitmo was ever conceived. I'm glad Cheney spoke up and said something. Someone has to stand up to this torrent of misleading (is that the right word, Nancy?) half-truths.