Dear Friends,
Last week was not a good week for national security. The Supreme Court decided to give captured terrorists more rights than American citizens have in American courts. In his dissenting opinion Justice Scalia said this decision 'will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.' Barack Obama then lauded this 'law enforcement' first approach to the war that Osama Bin Laden and his followers declared on us long before September 11.
For over a decade Osama Bin Laden and his followers were at war but the Clinton Administration saw individual criminal acts and brought lawyers to a gun-fight. It appears that an Obama Administration - with the Supreme Court's support -- would do the same. This is something our nation cannot afford.
... you this must read ... Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. Rush Limbaugh describes terrorism expert, Andrew McCarthy's book best:
Andrew McCarthy tells a terrifying story of a nation's leaders - unsure of how to wage battle against an enemy with no rules of engagement, no concern for political correctness, and legions of zealots control through religious fanaticism. Their solution? To prosecute a handful of individual terrorist while thousands of their follows planned their assault on our shining city on a hill.'Finally, from the legal front line, a devastating account of the peril we put our country in when we treat terrorist atrocities as if they are mere crimes. Andy McCarthy was there when the jihad began. Read this book and you'll understand why this war is a war, and why we have no choice but to fight it and win it.' -- Rush Limbaugh
McCarthy was in the courtroom and led the successful prosecution of the jihad organization that carried out the 1993 World Trade Center attack and now he takes you behind the scenes when law enforcement and intelligence agencies underestimated the threat of the terrorist movement growing around us. This was not a battle that could be won in the courtroom. We learned that terrible lesson on September 11, 2001.
As last week's news demonstrates, there are still many in Washington that don't believe this is a war. A Memoir of the Jihad shows in stark and shocking terms the human cost of this approach. This book arms you with the facts about what the jihadists are doing as they operate within America's borders, boldly targeting our cities and seeking to destroy our way of life.
Bill Bennett said after reading McCarthy's book,'In any intellectual street fight or battle, I want Andy McCarthy on my side - he is a smart and forceful intellectual ally. In a time of war, this is all the more so, and America is lucky to have him on hers.'
With Barack Obama suggesting we should deal with terrorism like ordinary crimes and Democrats handcuffing our intelligence agencies efforts to disrupt terrorist networks, American families are in ever-increasing danger of becoming victims of terrorism. Solving a crime of terrorism after the fact won't save lives. Only by taking the fight to the terror networks will we be able to protect Americans from another terrorist disaster in one of our cities. ....
Sincerely,
Jonathan Garthwaite
Source: A friend
