Beyond parody, and dangerous…

Absent Andy McCarthy’s  warning,   I would never have believed the Reuters report,  and would have wasted a lot of time searching for attribution to The Onion.

This is the same John Brennan who couldn’t hack it in the Bush Administration,  but still thinks he’s the smartest terrorism expert in the world,  whose boss is the smartest president ever.    And they both think there are moderate elements in Hezbollah and are looking for them in an outfit still designated a  “foreign terrorist organization”  by the U. S. government?   This is hardly Brennan’s first foray into insanity.   Liberal,  but admirably hard-headed Michael Totten accurately  terms this a snipe hunt.

Andy also points us to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air,  who  reminds us that the group has killed a number of Americans,   yet His Oneness is reaching out to it,  not Israel.    Not to mention that the murderous thugs are  promoting themselves hrough “Jihadi Tourism.”

Feel safer now?

Five Muslim soldiers may have been involved in trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson,  SC.    They  were part of an Arabic translation service.

Meanwhile,  Obama’s top counter-terrorism  adviser says he is a citizen of the world,  just like His Oneness,  would never profile Americans and sees bias against Muslims like that against the Irish.

If you will not name your enemy,  you will not defeat him….

And Homeland Security  has lost nearly 200 guns, nearly 300 if you include those lost due to Hurricane Katrina and lifted from safes.

Terror prez…

Pres. Obama is trying desperately hard to look not only presidential,  but also serious about being serious about terrorism.   He says we are at war with Al Qaeda,  which leaves out rather a large bunch of affiliates and singletons,  doesn’t it?    He said that the Christmas bomber had a U.S. visa and passed through the same screening as other passengers.   But  one of those other passengers has said repeatedly that Abdulmutallab was with an older well-dressed man who told the airline agent the Somali had no passport and that they “did this all the time”.    Mr. Haskell has also said the pair were sent on to a manager.   Like another passenger,  Roey Rosenblith,   I wonder where the security camera footage is of that area on that day,  and why it hasn’t been released.

Perhaps His Oneness has a different understanding of identity documentation,  having claimed a certificate of live birth as his birth certificate.   I can’t sign my great-nephews up to play T-ball without a certified copy of their birth certificates,  but  a young foreign male can board a plane bound or the U.S. without a passport?  That makes a peculiar kind of sense for a man who said in one of his books he found his birth certificate,  yet tries to pass off a totally different document as the birth certificate rather than produce the real thing.

His Oneness grandly announces he’s less interested in assigning blame than in fixing the system,  then goes on to say that  “the buck ultimately stops with me.”    We are not given a hint as to when that buck spinning around so wildly in the obfuscating black clouds and hot air pouring from the White House will allow it to settle down,   ever so lightly,  on the desk in the Oval Office.

Saying  “this is a time for citizenship”,  not partisanship,  was a very nice touch.    I was less than charmed by his repetition of  “we aren’t at war with the Muslim world” blather.    A pretty well-crafted speech,  but we don’t know what the great steps that he claims to have taken are,  we don’t know what the system reforms are, and it’s all a great deal of sound and fury signifying nothing.    What I found most disturbing was the assumption of His Oneness that we all want the same thing all over the world.    A chunk of that world wants to exterminate us,  a  point which still seems unknown to the man charged with keeping us safe.

What we do certainly know is that the deceptive and nearly useless circus of airline security will  continue,  which is why I refuse to fly.

K. T. McFarland was right on Cavuto yesterday when she asked:   “Why are we treating citizens like terrorists,  and terrorists like citizens?”

And to find out that the one campaign promise His Oneness did keep,  go  here to learn of John Brennan’s plan for Obama to “dial back” Bush-era anti-terrorism activities,  and  here to learn about Brennan’s baggage from the intel community.