Posted 9:06 pm Friday, November 02, 2012
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Benghazi shows the world is still a dangerous place, November 2
When are our national political leaders ever going to learn that the world is a dangerous place? The facts are we were unprepared in December 1941 for a “sneak attack” by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, though they had been pummeling China for years and had attacked the Russians in 1905 without warning. Yet no warning was sent from Washington D.C. to the commanders in Hawaii that negotiations with the Japanese had been broken off 24 hours prior to that attack.
We were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 and our “war planners” again had dropped the ball. The World Trade Center had been bombed eight years before, and yet our leaders were still unprepared for any and all contingencies, even though we had been warned and threatened by Osama bin Laden many times before.
Just this past month on Sept. 11 our ambassador and three other Americans were slaughtered in Libya by those who we know want to do us harm, in any way possible at every moment of each day, and again we were caught unaware.
What in blazes are our leaders doing to prevent such attacks? This is not a partisan critique, since both sides have dropped the ball. However, the American people should be very angry that much of our tax money is wasted on pet projects that award cronies of those elected to high office, and not common defense.
According to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, “Congress shall provide for the ‘common defense’ of this Union.”
David E. Pierson
Tyler
We were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 and our “war planners” again had dropped the ball. The World Trade Center had been bombed eight years before, and yet our leaders were still unprepared for any and all contingencies, even though we had been warned and threatened by Osama bin Laden many times before.
Just this past month on Sept. 11 our ambassador and three other Americans were slaughtered in Libya by those who we know want to do us harm, in any way possible at every moment of each day, and again we were caught unaware.
What in blazes are our leaders doing to prevent such attacks? This is not a partisan critique, since both sides have dropped the ball. However, the American people should be very angry that much of our tax money is wasted on pet projects that award cronies of those elected to high office, and not common defense.
According to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, “Congress shall provide for the ‘common defense’ of this Union.”
David E. Pierson
Tyler
