Silky gets tough
- Posted by Martin on September 7th, 2007 filed in General, Islamofascism, John Edwards, Martin
NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is proposing an international organization to fight terrorism through shared intelligence - cooperation that he says will combat the dangers facing the United States where President Bush has failed.
Number of successful attacks launched against the United States since 9/11: Zero.
Edwards said the centerpiece of his terrorism policy will be a new multilateral organization called the Counterterrorism and Intelligence Treaty Organization. He said it will be designed to coordinate operations like the recent arrest of three suspected terrorists in Germany who were suspected of plans to bomb airports and other institutions in the country.
I certainly think another multilateral organization will do the trick. I mean, after all, the existing ones do such a bang-up job.
Edwards accused Bush of focusing on Cold War institutions designed to win traditional wars instead of cooperation with allies to take out small hostile groups. He also accused him of “an exclusively short-term focus on the enemy we know” and “a foreign policy of convenience that readily does business with whoever is available and regularly turns a blind eye when our allies behave wrongly or fail to cooperate.”
“Most of all, instead of reckless, solo pursuit of an ideological agenda that abandons our moral authority and disregards our allies, we need to re-engage with the world and reassert our moral leadership,” Edwards said.
Huh? By moral leadership is he talking about abandoning a country to the tender mercies of Al Qaeda? Because I don’t think that would really count.
Heavens preserve us if this man ever sets foot in the White House.
raz0r says:
Let’s see, we’ve had zero successful attacks on us since 9/11. Other western nations cannot say the same.
And who tipped the Germans off about the planned attack? Oh, that’d be the US.