The idea that we should treat the Christmas Day bomber, or as I like to call him, the blue balls bomber, as a common criminal is absurd. He is a foreign national that came here with the purpose of hurting and killing people. The government and people of this great nation must come to terms with the war we are in. This war is unlike any war we have seen before. This war is not between countries or necessarily ideologies, instead it is a war of factions and groups.
The Cold War was a war of ideology, it wasn’t necessarily one country against another, instead was a group of countries on two sides of an issue that fought their wars in distant lands and in covert means.
War used to be between uniformed soldiers each claiming their allegiance to a flag or a nation. The soldiers that we face now pledge their allegiance to what they believe to be a omnipotent force and presence. Their allegiance has transcended terrestrial limitations, and they come from different walks of life. They have no nation, no flag, no uniform to distinguish them or designate them as a soldier. During World War II it was easy to know who the enemy was, they wore the swastika or the sun on the uniform, or were unified under a banner of a common symbol.
During WW II German U-boats patrolled the U.S. East Coast sinking merchant vessels. If one of those captains was able to slip past our defenses and crept up the Hudson River to open fire on ships and docks there, and was captured before he could escape or scuttle his boat, that captain and crew would have been held as POW.
There is no difference between that German captain and what Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab did. They are soldiers fighting for something, and they have chosen us as their enemy. It is time we realize that they are ours as well.
Criticism of Obama on national security likely to remain big issue - washingtonpost.com
No comments:
Post a Comment