{"id":26464,"date":"2011-09-09T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26464"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:56:35","slug":"was-eugene-robinson-paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26464","title":{"rendered":"Was Eugene Robinson paying attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist who won a Pulitzer prize in 2009 for cutting and pasting Obama campaign press releases, today explains why the war against terror is over in his column “Post-9\/11 permanent state of war should have ended long ago<\/a>“;<\/p>\n

There never was a \u201cwar on terrorism.\u201d It wasn\u2019t \u201cterrorism\u201d that crashed airliners into buildings on that brilliant Tuesday morning. The attacks were carried out by a 19-member assault team from al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization then being sheltered by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. There most definitely was a war against al-Qaeda, and we won.<\/p>\n

Within four months, U.S. invasion forces had routed the Taliban and scattered what was left of al-Qaeda to the four winds. Maybe that was the moment we should have recognized our victory. Maybe it was March 1, 2003, when Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the man most responsible for designing and orchestrating the 9\/11 attacks, was captured. Or maybe it was the moment in 2004 when Afghanistan\u2019s fledgling democracy held its first presidential election.<\/p>\n

By the middle of the decade, we had accomplished every rational goal of the war that 9\/11 began. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He goes on to trot the old “Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9\/11” excuse. According to the belly-aching left, represented by the vacuous Robinson, the war against terror was really a war for revenge…no real strategy other than getting payback for 9\/11. <\/p>\n

So was Robinson paying attention when George W. Bush declared war against terrorists and said we wouldn’t differentiate between terrorists and the people\/nations who supported them?<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a call to war directed at solely Americans, it was a call to war for the whole world. It was an opportunity for ALL civilized nations to eradicate the vermin who murder innocent people to make a political point. It was a chance for the Spaniards to declare all-out war on the Basques, for Colombia to wipe out FARC, for the world to battle against the Tamil Tigers, the Filipino Moros, the Partiya Karker\u00ean Kurdistan. It was a missed opportunity for the United Nations to outlaw terrorism as a political weapon. <\/p>\n

The majority of the European countries instead wrung their hands and waved their crying towels in hopes that the US would once again do their heavy lifting so they could stay above the fray and pontificate about their purity.<\/p>\n

The left likes to say that Bush squandered the good will we’d earned from the world on 9\/11, but it was the world who squandered an opportunity to stand up to the terrorists of the world. An opportunity that may not come around again. And that’s why i can’t feel sorry for the Indias, the Spains, the Indonesias who are continually plagued with terrorist attacks because they blew their chance to end terrorism.<\/p>\n

And linguini-spined hippies like Robinson shied away from the dirty work to be done, preferring to yap about “Bush’s War” and “chickenhawks” instead of recognizing that terrorism’s time was over. Of course, the Taliban and al Qaeda listened and fought for ten long years – ten years after they should have given up their struggle – because nimrods like Robinson gave them hope. <\/p>\n

Al Qaeda in Iraq finally gave up when they anticipated a victory after the 2006 elections but instead faced a “surge” of US troops in spite of the hippies and Democrats’ empty words of support for terrorism. Now al Qaeda is resurgent in Afghanistan because victory is within sight, thanks to our anticipated premature withdrawal.<\/p>\n

So, in reality, Robinson is correct, it’s time for his side to declare victory…for the terrorists. The European hand wringers and American intellectually vacant hippies, the gutless wonders, won it for them. When the next terrorist attack kills scores of Americans they can point with pride at that which they have wrought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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