In response to Dick Cheney’s sounding of alarm bells over the possibility of another terrorist attack thanks to the dismantling of Bush administration counterterrorism policies by President Obama, and in response to the far left’s warped distortions of his comments as “wishing” for another terrorist attack in order to “hurt Obama,” Michael Goldfarb writes:
Just got done reading a powerful piece opinion piece (h/t: Dan Collins) in the Wall Street Journal written by Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl. Pearl is a professor at UCLA and has seen first hand how terrorist apologists on liberal college campuses can turn “a symposium […] on human rights” into a “Hamas recruitment rally.” He also calls out other elites in the media and elsewhere for their failure to call terrorism for what it is and who instead engage in a “normalizing” of evil that is both repugnant and frightening.
Fox News reports on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to the suggestion that Alcatraz be re-opened to house the remaining Gitmo detainees once Gitmo has been closed:
Read it and weep: Obama to close terrorist ‘black sites’ … in addition to Gitmo, of course.
Most of you have already heard today about the news articles that came out today about how tomorrow, President Obama is supposed to issue an executive order to shut down Gitmo Bay within the year. As if that’s not bad enough, today Rep. John Murtha, infamous for slandering our Marines over the Haditha controversy, offered to house the detainees in his district:
