Reply #31: Counter Strategy

[jmondine]

Not much is known yet about this plot. As more info surfaces, we'll have more facts to strike back at the neocons.

A couple of observations so far, though. Two of the destination cities for these flights were New York and Washington, D.C., which the DHS recently downgraded, and therefore cut their funding. None of the flights were scheduled for Woodville, Alabama or Columbia, Tennessee, in spite of the no-doubt incredible temptation to take down Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo and the Kangaroo Conservation Center.

Considering that this plot seems to have come from Pakistan, the last known location of Bin Laden, if I was a Democratic candidate, I'd point out that all this time and all these resources, wasted in the black hole of the Iraq folly, could have, and should have been focused on capturing Bin Laden. Get our troops out of Iraq and start focusing on the real terrorist threat.

Furthermore, this proves that all the "Number Two" Al Qaida operatives we've taken down has done absolutely nothing to cripple their ability to plan and coordinate massive attacks on the West. This plan was stopped days before it was to have been carried out, and Chertoff has said that we're not even sure all the conspirators have been caught. This isn't about a "Global War on Terror", this is about one group, one organization, which the Republicans and the Bush administration have been absolutely impotent at handling. They say the we're "soft" on Terror? More like Bush is "soft" on Bin Laden.

Let the neocons have their moment in the sun, gloating with glee over the near death of almost 4,000 civilians. Our follow-up strategy is simple. Keep blasting away at their pathetic lies and spin with the plain, hard truth. The midterms are three months away. If they want to make security the main campaign issue, we have all that time to shed light on their sad excuse for a record over the past six years.