http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob200402121806.asp
Highlights:
When it comes to our progress in the war on terror, it's clear why the Democrats and their friends in the media only want to carry on about how the decision to go to war in Iraq was made and how allegedly unprepared we were for the occupation. The far bigger story of what has been accomplished since 9/11, as outlined by a senior Bush-administration official, effectively makes the case that the world is demonstrably safer owing to actions taken by the United States.
.....When President Bush took office, the Taliban was hosting al Qaeda training camps, with an estimated 20,000 graduates in the late 1990s. Saddam was a "continuing threat" to his neighbors and the world, and we faced "a serious proliferation problem, especially in [the] nuclear area that involved, we believed, Libya, Iran, based on past experience, Iraq, and North Korea certainly."
...The bombing of the Beirut barracks in 1983, the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center — "the first al Qaeda attack on the U.S mainland" — and the bombings at the Khobar Towers and on the USS Cole showed terrorists that they "can launch attacks against the United States with relative impunity, there wouldn't be a significant price to pay....
....The Taliban is gone from Afghanistan and "enormous damage" has been done to al Qaeda there. Over 500 members of al Qaeda have been "wrapped up" in Pakistan, and an Iraqi regime with its "record of weapons of mass destruction and its established relationship with al Qaeda...a sanctuary for terrorists" is gone.
Clearly American leadership was crucial in reducing these threats. As the official pointed out, when Khaddafi decided to give up his weapons of mass destruction, "he didn't call the U.N. or the IAEA...he got a hold of George Bush and Tony Blair."
. The challenge for Democrats is to avoid talking about the progress the administration has made in meeting threats they haven't the foggiest idea about how to handle.
Linear Mode
