In Mission Accomplished?” at The American Thinker, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs wonders why, now that the war on terror is over, we don’t just close the DHS — rather than target Americans who are not terrorists. And while we’re at it, how about scaling back the TSA as well?
Eight years after war was declared on the US and the most heinous attack on the USA was launched on American soil, the war has been won (according to President Obama). Done. Over. Does not exist.
No need to call it the war on terror, so says Obama. Now it is merely an “overseas contingency operation”. How wonderful.
Staunch allies in the war against the jihad are no longer relevant or necessary. They have become our adversaries — Obama believes our security lies with Islamic allies.
Homeland security is refocusing its efforts on domestic threats. Proud Jews like me (“Jewish extremists”), veterans (the malleable variety), tea party activists and assorted Americans are to be feared, monitored, silenced. Normal is the new enemy. Reason and rational, the reviled.
Frankly, it appears to me that the Department of Homeland Security ought to be dismantled. It was established to fight Islam’s war on the USA. According to the Obama administration, this is no longer a threat, so why not shut it down and save taxpayers an enormous amount of money?
If we are closing Gitmo, and these killers no longer pose a threat to our national security, why stop there? Just yesterday, Obama halted the program in New York to detect biological attacks. Further deep cost cutting measures could be taken in the same spirit. Dismantle the bloated TSA. Little old ladies need not be harassed at airports anymore. Americans will not have to spend untold hours on line having their moisturizers and lotions and cosmetics confiscated by lucky TSA employees (ah, how many bottles of Eau de Italia have I surrendered).
But is the global jihad really over? What do you think?
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