Are you better off now?

Posted by Judson Phillips on September 10, 2012 at 7:47am in Tea Party Nation Forum

 

“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

Ronald Reagan tossed that question out with the effect of a nuclear bomb in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1980.  Since then it has become a standard question asked in Presidential elections.  As important as that question is, especially this year, there is another even more important question that needs to be asked.

What is it?

Eleven years ago today was the last full day of normalcy for Americans.  For about 3000 Americans, it was their last full day of life.

While today’s high school seniors have no memory of 9/11, a majority of Americans still do.   Most of us still remember where we were when we first heard the news.  We remember seeing video of the second plane hitting the towers.   We remember the long trail of black smoke staining the otherwise pristine clear blue sky.   We remember the pictures of the people having to choose between jumping to their death or being burned to death and we remember the towers coming down.

Tomorrow is the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.   The question we need to be asking is, “Are we safer now than we were eleven years ago?”

The answer is an overwhelming no.

After 9/11, George Bush acted decisively.  Within three weeks we began bombing Afghanistan and helping the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban from power, after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden.

The administration went after Al-Qaeda wherever they were found.

Unfortunately, the Bush Administration bought into the “Islam is a religion of peace,” garbage.

The Bush administration captured terrorists, locked them up, used enhanced interrogation techniques against them, discovered and disrupted plots for other terrorist attacks.

Then came the Obama Regime.

If the goal of the Obama Regime was to help our enemies in the global war against terrorism, they have succeeded.

Obama promised to shut down Guantanamo as a detention center.  He promised to shut down and end sites where terrorists were held and enhanced interrogation was used against them.  His Justice Department made public our interrogation techniques so the enemy could better prepare for them.  The Regime insisted on civilian trials for the enemy.   That idea was so bad even Obama had to back away from it.  The Regime has been releasing terrorists to “build good will” with terrorists.  The Regime is trying to negotiate with them instead.

You cannot negotiate with those who want to kill you.

Under Obama, Iran is coming closer and closer towards nuclear weapons and Obama is more worried that Israel might take actions to stop Iran than it is about Iran itself.

Major security leaks have come from the Obama Regime, which hurt Israel’s ability to deal with Iran, and these leaks have damaged our national security.

Are we safer now than we were eleven years ago?

Absolutely not.

As we come to the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, that is a question we need to be asking ourselves.  We know the answer.

Obama thinks America, not radical Islam is the problem.

Would Mitt Romney handle American security better than Obama?

One thing is certain; Romney does not view America as the enemy.  That is a good start.   Unlike Obama, Romney does not hate America and does not want to see America diminished.

No matter what, Romney would be infinitely better than Obama on defense.

Hopefully, a year from now; we will be safer than we are today.