Stuck on Stupid
posted at 9:03 am on June 18, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Susan Rice appeared on MS-NBC’s Morning Joe, which presumably originates out of either New York City or Washington DC, both attacked on 9/11 by al-Qaeda terrorists almost seven years ago. In fact, they were the last American cities attacked, as the Bush administration has managed to foil terrorists enough to keep them from hitting us, which no one predicted on 9/12/01. Everyone assumed that we would be hit again and probably often.
That track record speaks volumes to everyone — except Rice and the Barack Obama campaign. She says that the war has been fought “stupid” by George Bush and John McCain:
First off, John McCain hasn’t fought the war on terror; George Bush has. McCain had the correct strategy to fight the Iraq war, but had no opportunity to implement it. Bush adopted McCain’s approach in late 2006, more than two years after McCain privately and then publicly demanded the adoption of the current counterinsurgency strategies that have succeeded. If Susan Rice can’t tell the difference between the two, then it isn’t John McCain who’s stupid. That’s nothing more than perhaps the lamest attempt to tie George Bush to John McCain, a big non-sequitur from a campaign that has already specialized in them.
Second, I’ll take a “stupid” strategy that results in zero terrorist attacks any day over a return to the Clinton-era strategy of prosecuting terrorists after they kill lots of people. Barack Obama suggested that we return to the posture we took in 1993 of simply arresting people after they commit terrorist attacks, blithely ignorant of the series of escalating attacks al-Qaeda committed during the 1990s after the conviction of the Blind Sheikh and his henchment for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Apparently, Americans need to die before Obama will take action to stop terrorists rather than stop them before they attack.
If that’s what Susan Rice calls “smart”, then it explains a lot about Barack Obama’s ineptitude on the campaign trail. (via John McCain Report)
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