My Take: Enemies Foreign and Domestic

The good news – no, great news – is that British authorities foiled terrorist plots to blow up domestic air flights from Great Britain to the United States. Our British allies in the war against Islamic terrorism and totalitarianism are diligently doing their jobs. We owe them a great deal of gratitude.

The bad news is that we still have enemies. Unfortunately, not all of our enemies are foreign. We have an unusually high number of anti-war organizations conducting fifth-column style actions aimed at impeding America’s ability to prosecute this war and defeat our enemies. A Newsmax article reporting on this British victory states, “While the British arrests were made by Scotland Yard, disruption of terrorist plots usually entails at least some international cooperation. Since 9/11, intelligence and law enforcement agencies throughout the world have integrated their operations and largely abandoned territorial concerns in the effort to hunt down terrorists. Nowhere is that better illustrated than at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which President Bush established to bring together all terrorist-related information in a single secure building in northern Virginia… They have access to the raw intelligence reports of the CIA and the FBI. The initial lead in a case such as the one in Great Britain could have come from a National Security Agency (NSA) intercept of a conversation by an al-Qaida operative, from tracking of international banking transactions, from an informant developed by Britain's MI6 counterterrorism agency or the CIA, from police monitoring of secure chat rooms, or from a walk-in looking for money.”

Yet in America, media such as the New York Times reveals classified techniques being used to track terrorist financial deals even though they were implored to not release the story. The ACLU is initiating a lawsuit against the NSA. The ACLU says that Constitutional privacy rights are being violated. I say that is every American’s right to be able to get to work, go on vacation, or do anything on any given day without being blown to smithereens. Other nations engaged in the war against Islamic terrorism do not have a problem with this type of data surveillance. Whether intentional or unintentional, the actions of these American organizations hurt America’s ability to win this war and provide useful information to our enemies. They are fifth-columnists.

I have long decided that if America is once again attacked on a scale similar to 9/11, I will hold those fifth-columnists personally responsible for their part. I doubt that they care much about what goes on at chuckschants, but I think that every American, especially every new victim created by another attack, should hold all of these organizations and individuals responsible for refusing to support America’s efforts to defeat these dangerous, fanatic, and deadly enemies of the free world. This latest plot could have been that attack. Over and over we have heard from these organizations, including elected politicians of the Democratic Party, protest about being called unpatriotic because of their opposition to this war. When their opposition impedes America’s ability to win and provides sensitive information to our enemies, then, yes, they are unpatriotic. Their actions speak louder than their words.