The recent failed car bombing in Manhattan’s Time Square along with the attempted Christmas Day transatlantic flight attack served as a reminder for many American’s that the September 11th attacks were by no means a one off special from the enemies of the West. Following these latest attacks they heard strong words from their President, reassuring words. But when it comes to Obama it always pays to look a little more closely to his actions.
Despite the pleadings of Mayor Bloomberg the Obama administration has announced that it will be cutting New York’s anti-terrorism budget this year; 27% off of mass transit security and 25% from port security. Perhaps not your typical response in the wake of a failed bomb plot that could have seen hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists blown away as they went about their business. But then it looks far less unusual when considered alongside Obama’s wider plans for scaling back the safety of Americans. Indeed this is the second year in a row that the current administration set about raiding $30 million from a government programme established to secure American cities. A not unworthy cause considering that since the 2001 Twin Tower attacks Homeland Security has prevented at least 11 terror attacks in New York alone. Yet Obama seems to remain unconcerned, for while his eagerness to splash out on welfare programmes will leave his next budget with a deficit hole of oh no more than $1.6 trillion, American’s can rest assured that their President will at least be making savings elsewhere; $2.5 billion from the defence budget to be precise.
None of this would really matter if we were living in the strange version of the world that Obama claims we are, but of course we’re not. A window into what that world looks like came in the form of Obama’s National Defence Review in February of this year. For while the review dedicates 8 pages to analysing the possible implications climate change could have on defence it only manages to fleetingly mention the threat of a nuclear Iran just once. As for the threat of Radical Islam, well the 128 page document didn’t seem to quite have room for that. Clearly the fact that the man responsible for shooting dead 12 soldiers at a Texan military base in November of last year was of course a Muslim is in the Obama world view nothing more than an irrelevant coincidence. Well we wouldn’t want to go and say anything that might undermine all of the nice things Obama said to the Islamic world in his Cairo speech. An address that strayed so far from reality that it really should have been nominated for the Booker prize for fiction.
Obama inhabits a mysterious world of his and the Lefts own making. It is critically dangerous because it fails to deal with the threats that we really face, dealing instead with a world that Obama wishes we lived in rather than with the one that we actually do. It is often said that Conservatives are merely Liberals who have been mugged by reality, well then all I can say is that Obama walks on much safer streets than the rest of us.
Despite the pleadings of Mayor Bloomberg the Obama administration has announced that it will be cutting New York’s anti-terrorism budget this year; 27% off of mass transit security and 25% from port security. Perhaps not your typical response in the wake of a failed bomb plot that could have seen hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists blown away as they went about their business. But then it looks far less unusual when considered alongside Obama’s wider plans for scaling back the safety of Americans. Indeed this is the second year in a row that the current administration set about raiding $30 million from a government programme established to secure American cities. A not unworthy cause considering that since the 2001 Twin Tower attacks Homeland Security has prevented at least 11 terror attacks in New York alone. Yet Obama seems to remain unconcerned, for while his eagerness to splash out on welfare programmes will leave his next budget with a deficit hole of oh no more than $1.6 trillion, American’s can rest assured that their President will at least be making savings elsewhere; $2.5 billion from the defence budget to be precise.
None of this would really matter if we were living in the strange version of the world that Obama claims we are, but of course we’re not. A window into what that world looks like came in the form of Obama’s National Defence Review in February of this year. For while the review dedicates 8 pages to analysing the possible implications climate change could have on defence it only manages to fleetingly mention the threat of a nuclear Iran just once. As for the threat of Radical Islam, well the 128 page document didn’t seem to quite have room for that. Clearly the fact that the man responsible for shooting dead 12 soldiers at a Texan military base in November of last year was of course a Muslim is in the Obama world view nothing more than an irrelevant coincidence. Well we wouldn’t want to go and say anything that might undermine all of the nice things Obama said to the Islamic world in his Cairo speech. An address that strayed so far from reality that it really should have been nominated for the Booker prize for fiction.
Obama inhabits a mysterious world of his and the Lefts own making. It is critically dangerous because it fails to deal with the threats that we really face, dealing instead with a world that Obama wishes we lived in rather than with the one that we actually do. It is often said that Conservatives are merely Liberals who have been mugged by reality, well then all I can say is that Obama walks on much safer streets than the rest of us.
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