By Mark Alexander
As President George W. Bush outlined in his Doctrine of Pre-emption back at the dawn of Operation Enduring Freedom, “This is a long war, and we have a comprehensive strategy to win it. We’re taking the fight to the terrorists abroad, so we don’t have to face them here at home.” Fortunately, that doctrine was largely continued by BHO, however reluctantly and in contradiction with his “soaring” presidential campaign rhetoric.
Who deserves the credit? The short answer is the operators who assaulted OBL’s compound — though you might not know it given the assertion of Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, that Obama’s (read: “Leon Panetta’s”) approval of the operation was “one of the … gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.” (Indeed, a “very gutsy call” according to Sen. Diane Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intel Committee.) For the record, “gutsy” would describe the entirety of the SEAL Team operation, and particularly the point man on the final assault against OBL. It would not, however, describe a U.S. president putting other men in harm’s way from the safe and comfortable confines of the White House.
Obama claimed, “We must also reaffirm that the United States is not — and never will be — at war with Islam.” That’s nice, but about 150 million Islamist adherents believe they are at war with us. As the imam at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque made clear this week, “Today the dogs of the West are rejoicing at the killing one of the lions of Islam. … We say to them, from Al-Aqsa Mosque, from the heart of the Caliphate, which, Allah willing, is soon to come: ‘Dogs should not rejoice at the killing of lions. A country of dogs will always remain a country of dogs, while the lion remains a lion, even after it is killed.”
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