Is Obama Asleep on the Security Beat?
I miss George W. Bush. There, I said it. I know one could come up with a list of his failures, including, arguably, the Iraq War. But for all of his problems, the Bush Administration kept us safe in America after 9/11. The Bush/Cheney team put into place all sorts of policies that kept the bad guys from doing harm.
Not that the bad guys didn't try. In a fascinating piece for the Heritage Foundation (Dailysignal.com, 6/14/16), David Inserra notes that the Orlando massacre was the 86th attack or attempted attack by radical Muslims in America since 9/11.
His piece even provides an instructive timeline with each of the attacks. I painstakingly went through each of the attempted attacks during the Bush years on Inserra's timeline, including the would-be attack on Fort Dix (2006) and on the New York subway (2006). Thankfully, each one of these is listed as, "Plot foiled, terrorist(s) apprehended."
In short, Bush kept us safe. He got a lot of flak for it. But the facts speak for themselves.
When President Obama took over, he added a concern for the civil rights of the attackers.
And the results? About one attack a year.
