February 24, 2006
A Right-Wing Insecurity Complex
Printer FriendlyBy: Rachel Marsden
Conservatives on both sides of the border are suddenly having massive brain cramps on national security issues.
George W. Bush's move to allow a state-run company from the United Arab Emirates to operate six major American ports has achieved the impossible: Some lefties opposed to the proposal have finally caught up with common sense and come out in favour of Middle Eastern profiling, and the issue of port security is now on the front burner for the first time. Damn, that Karl Rove is a mad genius!
What's the point of playing a stellar offensive game over in the Middle East when your own end zone is wide open? This is World War III, people -- wake up! Would Reagan have put the Russian government in charge of U.S. interests during the Cold War?
Bush argues that the UAE is a trusted partner in the war on terror, and that America shouldn't discriminate between this Arabic company and the British one currently operating the ports, which the UAE firm took over.
Yes, it should. Here's why: While Britain is drop-kicking hatemongering jihadists out of the country, the Emirates aren't. Two 9/11 hijackers hailed from there, and al-Qaida did more UAE financial transactions than Janet Gretzky on Super Bowl weekend. The UAE also recognized Osama bin Laden's Taliban buddies as Afghanistan's legitimate government up until 9/11.
If you believe Bush, the Emirates have smartened up since 9/11 and are now on our side. But according to the 9/11 Commission, they were America's counterterrorism allies back in the 1990s, too -- all while high-level UAE officials camped out regularly with bin Laden in Afghanistan. The Clinton administration even passed on killing bin Laden when they had the chance in 1999, for fear of taking out UAE royalty, er, "U.S. allies," along with him.
And Bush trusts these guys with his ports? Why stop there? How about contracting out the security of U.S. nuclear sites to Pakistan? They're into nukes -- and they're "allies" in the terror war, too.
Perhaps all of this port prattle is overblown. When only about 5% of containers coming into U.S. ports are inspected, aren't they just paying lip service to security anyway? Heck, put Paris Hilton in charge.
Here in Canada, Conservatives made a similar boneheaded move in recently vowing to arm our border guards.
Customs officials aren't trained to use deadly force. Their job is to collect taxes, cause lineups, and fire off nasty looks as you come back from a midsummer cross-border shopping spree wearing 10 layers of clothing and two rings on every finger.
Still don't believe me? Just go to the Canada Revenue Agency website, click on "job opportunities", and note the link to an info booklet for the "customs inspector test."
Finally! Accountants and handguns -- together at last! Stephen Harper's Conservatives had better be ready to teach these guys how to shoot. Better yet, how about simply putting more RCMP at the border to handle situations for which they're actually trained?
Conservatives need to wisen up on national security issues. If need be, when making these sorts of decisions, they should ask themselves "WWJD" -- "What Would Jimmy (Carter) Do?" -- then just do the opposite.
Posted by redguy at February 24, 2006 09:13 PM
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Rachel,
As usual, right on the mark and very funny about it :)
I believe a very wise man once said, "When military men do not go into government, you end up with policy set by cowards, and fools for generals." ... generals being appointed by politicians, after all, in a democracy.
Right now the generals should be honoring their oaths to the nation by pointing out just how
'seriously flawed' the UAE deal is from a security standpoint. Just putting an arab owned company on the docks with arab management is going to provide the conduit the Jihadists have always dreamed of ... especially with so many Jihadis here in North America.
The reason the Liberals are freaking out is that 'THEY' are responsible for insuring that so many Jihadists are still in North America, and more pouring in every day .. (and now we know why) .. so, yeah, the Libs do know the magnitude of the danger they created, and how the crows are coming home to roost.
You'd think the Conservatives would comprehend that, wouldn't ya?
Arming typewriter jockeys at the borders isn't sane policy. It sounds tough to the citizenry, but the Jihadists giggle at the thought. But it scares the crap out of me ... I'm military, so I've got sense enough to know where that's heading.
We need 'enforcement' of the existing immigration laws, and strict deportation of the Jihadi nut jobs, That will reduce border incidents.
But the Port Security issues? Bush must have taken a stupid pill to think he could sell that mess to the western world as any where near sane.
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