Dodging Terrorist and Administration Bullets
One more time, we seem to have dodged yet another Islamic terrorist bullet. At least we’ve gotten through Christmas Day without some Muslim maniac wreaking mindless vengeance for some of Islam’s self-inflicted hurts. But the holidays, principally the Christmas holidays, aren’t over.
There’s not much of a threat to Kwanzaa since there are relatively few Kwanzaa-adherents in America or anywhere else and African Americans don’t seem to be high up on the Al qaeda hit list. However, since that racial holiday largely coincides with the Christmas season, which includes not only Christmas Day but the Christian Feast of the Circumcision on New Year’s Day and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, we’re hardly out of the holiday terror-attack woods yet.
Our national security defenses and lack thereof offer little solace that when the inevitable attacks come they will be expected. Despite repeated protestations to the contrary, those attacks will be as big a surprise and shock to people such as our Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper as they will be to the rest of us.
The Seattle Times called Clapper’s screw-up on national television last Tuesday a “terror gaffe,” missing the mark by light years with that description. A gaffe is a blunder, a mistake, an impropriety, an indiscreet solecism, such as those frequently made by the Gaffe Machine, our gaffe-prone president whose blunders are customarily covered up by his mainstream media.
The “terror gaffe” committed by Clapper was far less a gaffe than a horrifying instance of proof that, with all the billions spent by our government to secure America’s safety and security, we’re about as safe and secure as we were on the morning of September 11th, 2001, or less so. This despite national security adiviser John Brennan’s reassurance that, “We are in much better position today than we were last year at this time,” which in itself is scary.
Cause for trepidation over the security of our national security is not simply rooted in consistent and persistent lapses at airports. When National Intelligence Chief Clapper freely, unashamedly, admitted his obliviousness concerning the disruption of a major terrorist plot in London and the arrest of a dozen terrorist suspects, he could not even be granted a pass due to what could indelicately be termed a brain fart.
When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about his thoughts concerning those arrests, Clapper in effect responded by mumbling ala Tweety Bird, ”London? What? Terrorists? Where? When? Do you see a cat? I don’t see a cat.” Deer in headlights show more awareness.
The most unsettling aspect of Clapper’s ignorance of an event that was of major import to our national security was not even his bewilderment at the question or his desperately looking to Brennan to bail him out but rather in the spontaneous cover up by his fellow experts and by the White House.
Brennan conceded that his boss Clapper should have been briefed on the London developments but, apparently, wasn’t, which should call for some underling’s head on the block. If Clapper was in fact briefed, he should be as gone as yesterday’s weather.
Brennan then tried to provide the ultimate, dutiful, cover: Clapper was busy, busy, busy with other matters including the START Treaty and with those other lunatics in North Korea but that Clapper, (again, His Boss), will be kept in future loops even if he is busy, busy, busy: [http://tiny.cc/17zpp]
Funny, I seem to recall the Gaffe Machine ridiculing John McCain a few years ago for McCain’s inability to multitask.
As one observer pointed out,”Last time I checked we’re not at war with Russia or N. Korea, but we are indeed at war with radical Islam (at least it’s at war with us–regardless of whether or not the Obama administration chooses to admit it) And Brennan has the chutzpah to try to spin this away by saying ‘steps’ are being taken to ensure he’s not kept in the dark on such significant developments in the future?”
See that comment and the video of Clapper’s looplessness here: [http://tiny.cc/jh7w9]
For now at least, it looks like our nation’s Director of National Intelligence will continue in that role, doling out some of the $50 billion from his agency’s budget, perhaps because of the administration’s assumption that he’s the best we can can get. Multitasker or no, Clapper must be considered no more inept than other possible national security experts.
If this is the best we got to survive and beat back Islamic terrorists, maybe we should all start studying the Koran and sharia law before we end up as ignorant as James Clapper!
Bin laden and al-Zwahiri must be laughing themselves silly.
There’s not much of a threat to Kwanzaa since there are relatively few Kwanzaa-adherents in America or anywhere else and African Americans don’t seem to be high up on the Al qaeda hit list. However, since that racial holiday largely coincides with the Christmas season, which includes not only Christmas Day but the Christian Feast of the Circumcision on New Year’s Day and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, we’re hardly out of the holiday terror-attack woods yet.
Our national security defenses and lack thereof offer little solace that when the inevitable attacks come they will be expected. Despite repeated protestations to the contrary, those attacks will be as big a surprise and shock to people such as our Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper as they will be to the rest of us.
The Seattle Times called Clapper’s screw-up on national television last Tuesday a “terror gaffe,” missing the mark by light years with that description. A gaffe is a blunder, a mistake, an impropriety, an indiscreet solecism, such as those frequently made by the Gaffe Machine, our gaffe-prone president whose blunders are customarily covered up by his mainstream media.
The “terror gaffe” committed by Clapper was far less a gaffe than a horrifying instance of proof that, with all the billions spent by our government to secure America’s safety and security, we’re about as safe and secure as we were on the morning of September 11th, 2001, or less so. This despite national security adiviser John Brennan’s reassurance that, “We are in much better position today than we were last year at this time,” which in itself is scary.
Cause for trepidation over the security of our national security is not simply rooted in consistent and persistent lapses at airports. When National Intelligence Chief Clapper freely, unashamedly, admitted his obliviousness concerning the disruption of a major terrorist plot in London and the arrest of a dozen terrorist suspects, he could not even be granted a pass due to what could indelicately be termed a brain fart.
When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about his thoughts concerning those arrests, Clapper in effect responded by mumbling ala Tweety Bird, ”London? What? Terrorists? Where? When? Do you see a cat? I don’t see a cat.” Deer in headlights show more awareness.
The most unsettling aspect of Clapper’s ignorance of an event that was of major import to our national security was not even his bewilderment at the question or his desperately looking to Brennan to bail him out but rather in the spontaneous cover up by his fellow experts and by the White House.
Brennan conceded that his boss Clapper should have been briefed on the London developments but, apparently, wasn’t, which should call for some underling’s head on the block. If Clapper was in fact briefed, he should be as gone as yesterday’s weather.
Brennan then tried to provide the ultimate, dutiful, cover: Clapper was busy, busy, busy with other matters including the START Treaty and with those other lunatics in North Korea but that Clapper, (again, His Boss), will be kept in future loops even if he is busy, busy, busy: [http://tiny.cc/17zpp]
Funny, I seem to recall the Gaffe Machine ridiculing John McCain a few years ago for McCain’s inability to multitask.
As one observer pointed out,”Last time I checked we’re not at war with Russia or N. Korea, but we are indeed at war with radical Islam (at least it’s at war with us–regardless of whether or not the Obama administration chooses to admit it) And Brennan has the chutzpah to try to spin this away by saying ‘steps’ are being taken to ensure he’s not kept in the dark on such significant developments in the future?”
See that comment and the video of Clapper’s looplessness here: [http://tiny.cc/jh7w9]
For now at least, it looks like our nation’s Director of National Intelligence will continue in that role, doling out some of the $50 billion from his agency’s budget, perhaps because of the administration’s assumption that he’s the best we can can get. Multitasker or no, Clapper must be considered no more inept than other possible national security experts.
If this is the best we got to survive and beat back Islamic terrorists, maybe we should all start studying the Koran and sharia law before we end up as ignorant as James Clapper!
Bin laden and al-Zwahiri must be laughing themselves silly.
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