Wednesday, February 22, 2006
MoDo waxes wroth about the National Security Fire Sale
With her column today, MoDo expresses her anger, and the anger of real Americans, at the efforts to outsource our ports to the folks who brought you 9/11.
What kind of empire are we if we have to outsource our coastline to a group of sheiks who don't recognize Israel, in a country where money was laundered for the 9/11 attacks? And that let A. Q. Kahn, the Pakistani nuclear scientist, smuggle nuclear components through its port to Libya, North Korea and Iran?It really is interesting how absent Our Dear Embattled Leader was last weekend. Missing for The Shooter and missing for the National Security Fire Sale. Hmm! Another three day drunk?
It's mind-boggling that President Bush ever agreed to let an alliance of seven emirs be in charge of six of our ports. Although, as usual, Incurious George didn't even know about it until after the fact. (Neither did Rummy, even though he heads one of the agencies that green-lighted the deal.)
Same old pattern: a stupid and counterproductive national security decision is made in secret, blowing off checks and balances, and the president's out of the loop.
Was W. too busy not calling Dick Cheney to find out why he shot a guy to not be involved in a critical decision about U.S. security? What is he waiting for — a presidential daily brief warning, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack U.S. Ports?"
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