Keep America Safe: 100 Hours
‘US Cozies Up to Saddamists in Yemen’ by Jane Novak
“The US must be that desperate to find anyone to partner with, and there’s even talk of forming yet another Yemeni security agency. But its hard to stomach an alliance with these particular Ba’athists when we tally the numbers of US troops killed by terrorists that came down the Yemeni rat trail. They are already aligned with al Qaeda, as are certain sections of the Yemeni security forces and the Yemeni administration.”
Liz Cheney: ‘We’re not going to win this war through more intense airport screenings’
At the end of the day, we cannot win this war without daily, unwavering, resolute presidential stewardship. By tasking his counterterrorism officials to spend their time focused on trying to close Guantanamo and investigating their predecessors, by treating terrorists as criminals, by treating terrorist attacks on the U.S. as the acts of ‘isolated extremists,’ President Obama has failed to make fighting terror and keeping the nation safe his top priority.
‘The Gitmo Obsession’ by Charles Krauthammer
Imagine that Guantanamo were to disappear tomorrow, swallowed in a giant tsunami. Do you think there’d be any less recruiting for al-Qaeda in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, London?
Jihadism’s list of grievances against the West is not only self-replenishing but endlessly creative. Osama bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa commanding universal jihad against America cited as its two top grievances our stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia and Iraqi suffering under anti-Saddam sanctions.
Today, there are virtually no U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. And the sanctions regime against Iraq was abolished years ago. Has al-Qaeda stopped recruiting? Ayman al-Zawahiri often invokes Andalusia in his speeches. For those not steeped in the multivolume lexicon of Islamist grievances, Andalusia refers to Iberia, lost by Islam to Christendom — in 1492.
‘September 11 taught us many lessons. To our peril, we have forgotten them’ by Victor davis Hanson
[T]he current policy of apology and kowtow — coupled with a cynical realism (albeit cloaked in nonjudgmental, multicultural relativism) and presented abroad with a sense of hesitation and self-doubt — is, in fact, a prescription for reviving radical Islam. That lesson likewise was apparent after 9/11.
‘Panel votes for Gitmo prisoner transfer the same day three convicts escape IL prison’ by Ethel C. Fenig
Some of those released violent prisoners, not so surprisingly, returned to their old violent way of life of murder and assault.
So let’s recap. There is already a prison in Guantanamo holding uh, detainees, in an escape proof location, surrounded by an ocean. Illinois has an empty prison awaiting criminals who commit crimes in Illinois but somehow can’t scrape up enough money to run it despite/because of its high taxes and high corruption so violent prisoners are set free. So for some reason the Guantanamo prisoners are to be transferred to Illinois. And Illinois criminals? I know, let’s transfer them from freezing, snowy, gray Illinois to the sunny climes of the suddenly emptied Guantanamo and provide them with art therapy a la the oh so (un)successful Saudi program to rehabilitate terrorists and then everyone will be happy.
New Bill in the Illinois House May Help Stop Sale of Thomson
State Representative Mike Tyron wants to make sure Illinois lawmakers have a say in selling property worth more than one-million dollars.
He’s filed a bill that would require the General Assembly approve selling unused property. It would also have to be unused for six years. It just so happens the Thomson Correctional Center would fall into these categories. Tyron says selling high-value property should be done in the open so the public can see what is happening. Right now, the governor can sell the property without any say by the General Assembly. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability voted to support the sale of the prison to the federal government.
