AS I SEE IT: 9/11: THE RHETORIC AND THE REALITY AND THE FAILURE OF POLICY
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9/11: The Rhetoric and the Reality, and the Failure of Policy
September 11, 2010 – Ruth King
As memory of 9/11 recedes our policy makers, military leaders and pundits are more worried about offending Moslem sensibilities and being accused of Islamophobia than actually confronting the facts about jihad.
There is much nostalgia today for President George Bush the 43rd. Count me out.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 jihad, President Bush delivered strong speeches to the United Nations, the Congress and the American public and his rhetoric often soared.
However, his total whitewash of Saudi Arabia and its role in enabling and funding terrorism and its repressive and brutal enforcement of Sharia law was appalling, and, thanks to efforts of his administration, the Saudis were engaged in a series of meetings with U.S. officials, on September 19 and 20, 2001, in Washington D.C., followed by talks with with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Riyadh on October 4, 2001, and with Vice President Dick Cheney later that year to discuss joint efforts to “ combat terrorism”.
Since then, Saudi Arabia has contributed to American universities and think tanks where their “munificence” has altered curricula and policies in favor of the Arab/Moslem war against Israel and the West.
President Bush also exonerated Islam from the events of 9/11.
On September 20th he said: “The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.”
The “fringe” went on to commit atrocities throughout the world, and the Bush administration continued to back away from confronting the truth about jihad.
In September 2003, the President said “We have learned that terrorist attacks …. are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans…….. so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.”
Engage what enemy? The” fringe”?
By the time President Bush was winding down his tenure, the election debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and the subsequent ones with John McCain did not even mention Islam or jihad.
Well, we now do meet the enemy “ on our streets and in our cities.” Remember: Times Square on Christmas 2009, where a bomber almost caused a major disaster; November 2009 on an airline where the “panty bomber” with explosives hidden in his shorts almost brought down a craft with hundreds of passengers; in our military bases where a homegrown Moslem terrorist killed soldiers on November 5th, 2009; in May 2007 when Moslem terrorists almost caused carnage in Fort Dix, N.J.; in a military recruitment center in Arkansas in June 2009 where a jihadist targeted soldiers and killed one. The list is endless, but the “fringe” remains nameless in spite of their stated purpose.
And here’s what the “fringe’ Hamas minister and cleric Yunis Al-Astal had to say on April 11th, 2008 (thanks to Andrew Bostom) on AlAqsa Palestinian TV:
“Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs [i.e., Jews, Koran 2:65, 5:60, and 7:166, and other foundational Muslim texts] in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam – this capital of theirs [Rome] will be an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe. I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad…
These statements do not deter the pundits, statesmen, academics and President Obama who continue to perpetuate the tribute to Islam that started so shortly after 9/11.
They forget the adage: “Even if you feed endless amounts of meat to the tiger he will not become a vegetarian.”
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ruth S. King is a freelance writer who writes a monthly column in OUTPOST, the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel.
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