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The "Southern Avenger" Jack Hunter is a conservative commentator on WTMA 1250 AM talk radio and columnist for the Charleston City Paper in South Carolina.


Our Stupid Foreign Policy
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by admin



In the ongoing war of words over who�s more willing to fight the �War on Terror,� former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Obama has made us less safe, while Obama says the policies of Cheney made us less safe. Obama�s right�Cheney did make us less safe. And Obama continues to make us less safe precisely because he continues the policies of Bush/Cheney. Arguing between the two is like debating whether it was mistress no. 4 or 40 that finally made Tiger Woods less safe from his wife�s lawyers.

But at least Woods, deep down, had to realize his behavior might one day come back to haunt him. And now Woods is learning the hard way about that nasty constant in human nature: retribution.

Cheney and Obama, on the other hand, have learned nothing. Ignoring that 9/11 was caused primarily by Islamists seeking retribution for constant U.S. intervention in their �holy land�-something Osama Bin Laden made perfectly clear�Bush/Cheney launched a pointless war in Iraq, giving al-Qaeda its best recruiting tool in its history. In his tenure, Cheney did absolutely nothing to fight the terrorist threat�his administration invested in it. Heavily.

This phenomenon of opposition to American foreign policy translating into terrorist activity is so well-established, the CIA created the term �blowback� to describe it. Cheney and Obama not only refuse to address blowback, but instead squabble over who�s more willing to use torture or increase airport harassment, a conversation which does nothing to address the root problem of why terrorists want to attack us in the first place or why there are more terrorists now than before 9/11.

Could you imagine police detectives trying to stop a serial killer while completely ignoring his motives? Or how about if police simply dismissed the murderer as �crazy,� which is probably true, as many so-called �Islamofascists� are certainly not of the same mind as you or I. Yet in order to stop such a murderer, crazy or not, law enforcement still tries to get inside his mind, paying particular attention to certain patterns.

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It is good to see that Jack Hunter has apparently read the thread I began over a year before the US Presidential election, "Will a Republocrat save us?" and well before Obama was anywhere near being a front-runner for the nomination, in which I stated