Honesty...

In my prior post, I mentioned that I was unsure we had the "honesty" to win WWIV. The lack of honesty, to be clear, cuts both ways.

In our blame focused society and in the high spirit of ultra-partisanship, the Left seeks to "blame" President Bush for 9/11. In response, the Right points out that the plot developed under President Clinton and it was President Clinton's policies and lack of action that encouraged Osama bin Laden.

They are both dead wrong; and both are knowingly wrong. It is clear that the 9/11 plot had nothing to do with who was President during 2001; a President Gore would not have caught the hijackers, noone would have.

It is equally clear that President Clinton - like President Bush pere; President Reagan, President Carter, President Ford and President Nixon - did not appreciate the rise and potential lethality of terrorism. Further, in retrospect, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was a big distraction at an important time. While it is true that President Clinton brought that upon himself - and I yielded to no one in my desire to have him resign - the zealous prosecution by the Right was not in the best interests of the country.

The Islamofascists do not care who is in office. The cowboy Bush...they hate him. But it defies reason that a "liberal" President would be tolerated by them. Given the Islamofascists position on gays, women, blacks, etc. , it is illogical that they would find common cause with a "liberal" president.

My own feeling is that Munich 1972 was the first major "shot" in WWIV. We need to understand that. The taking of the US Embassy in 1979 was the enemies first real action against us. It has escalated ever since and will continue to escalate (if we do nothing) in the future.

Let's be honest about this.