Come on now! Forget about it. Anybody getting to the top of the heap in Chicago, ain't no panty-waist, unwilling to step over a few bodies he himself made waste to in making his bones. Seeing this rather obvious fact, one must ponder why the national political debate since the massacre in Bengazzi has focused exclusively on the purported bow and apologize reconciliation policy of the Obama Administration toward the world's 2.5 billion muslims. Too easy a target, I guess.
Ok, having declared the entire Republican establishment wrong, it is thus my responsibility to illuminate the real reasons these adherents to the Religion of Love are attacking our embassies across three separate continents. Fortunately, after re-reading a goodly number of my previous blogs, I am up to the task at hand.
Its the Drones, stupid. This Administration has finally initiated a viable policy to close Gitmo - release the current detainees (or move them to civilian jail in NYC), while killing every found terrorist identified world-wide, so no jihadist is captured, thereby obviating the need for prisoner detention. This "Death from the Sky" extermination program has its merits, most assuredly in the total absence of risk to the American fighting forces. Nonetheless. these surgical strikes have come up a cropper in winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. Why? You ask? Let me enumerate the reasons: (1) a U.S. soldier on the battlefield fires a bullet into his target's body causing a single enemy combatant fatality; a drone wipes out the targeted enemy combatant, as well as everyone else in the rather extensive kill zone. Collateral damage sounds almost benign, it is not however well received by the family, friends and neighbors of the innocents blown to Vallhala, sans their entitlement to the 70 virgins because they did not die themselves blowing up infidels through setting off their own suicide bomb vests.
Muslim cultural resentment to our drone program capacity to kill without risk to ourselves cannot be overstated. It is so pervasive that I will skip going over reasons 2 through 10, and instead sum up with the observation that any Administration which has chosen to Kill at Will, to Slaughter dozens of guilty and innocent together. that did not anticipate mass violence against Americans where we are found within range of their rage - our embassies and consulates - took the stupid shot, as the stupid pill was just too slow. Surely, therefore, we desperately need a real national debate on the pros and cons of stealth killing from 20,000 feet - no weakness in understanding the consequences of following the Chicago Way.
