Guantanamo: A symbol of US resolve (???)

Some real nuggets from former Press Secretary at Romney for President and communications advisor at the Free and Strong America PAC. God help us


Guantanamo: A symbol of US resolve
By Eric Fehrnstrom
January 27, 2009
Email| Print| Single Page| Yahoo! Buzz| ShareThisText size – + THE REASON George W. Bush kept America safe is because he treated the war on terror as a real war and not a law enforcement action.

The Patriot Act, the NSA surveillance program, transforming Guantanamo Bay into a detention facility, enhanced interrogation techniques - all were part of a major shift away from the belief that the struggle against Islamic extremism was only occasionally a cause for military action. In 2004, Senator John F. Kerry summed up the prevalent attitude of the Democratic Party: "The war on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering law enforcement operation." Discredited then, Kerry's view is back in vogue now.

Among President Obama's first official acts was to shut down Guantanamo and issue less coercive interrogation rules to the CIA. In his inaugural speech, Obama couldn't even bring himself to identify who it is we are fighting, describing our foe as a "far reaching network of violence and hatred," instead of what it actually is - radical, violent Islamic fundamentalism. That's like a child coming home from school after being bullied and saying that "a far reaching network of violence and hatred" was responsible. Accurate, but not really helpful in stopping the bullying.

Bush generously gave us a choice of names in describing the terrorist forces: "Islamic radicalism," "militant Jihadism," and "Islamo-fascism."

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/27/guantanamo_a_symbol_of_us_resolve

"Eric Fehrnstrom is a Republican communications consultant"
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and another America hater.:puke: