6/13/2014 - David Limbaugh Townhall.com
If people aren't extremely concerned about
what's going on in this country now, you might want to check them for a pulse.
Frankly, I am having a hard time getting my mind around the rapidity of the
nation's decline.
I have written two books chronicling
President Obama's nightmarish path of destruction, but since the second one was
published, events have been happening at an even more explosive pace. Who would
have ever imagined that Ronald Reagan's famous statement that "freedom is
never more than one generation away from extinction" would turn out to be
a gross understatement?
In the past several weeks alone,
alarming events have transpired that are enormously disturbing by themselves.
Taken together, they are borderline horrifying, yet Obama proceeds, undeterred.
Remember in the seemingly distant past
when the Veterans Affairs scandal occupied the front pages of our newspapers
and Web reports? You may faintly recall that an interim independent report by
the VA's inspector general found that officials had falsified records at a
Phoenix medical center to conceal the amount of time veterans had to wait for
appointments. Some 1,700 veterans were allegedly kept on these waiting lists,
and they waited an average of 115 days for an initial primary care appointment.
An audit by the Department of Veteran Affairs revealed that VA medical centers
nationwide have misrepresented or sidetracked patient scheduling for more than
57,000 former military personnel, and some 64,000 were not even on the
electronic waiting list.
Many suspect that the administration
deliberately covered up this disaster because President Obama had conspicuously
promised to clean up the VA in 2008. More importantly, he realizes the VA could
be seen as a microcosm of Obamacare and expose the horrors of
government-controlled health care. Though few seem to be noticing because of
everything else going on, the FBI office in Phoenix has opened a criminal investigation
into the VA scandal.
Just as that scandal was blossoming
into a toxic flower, Obama unconscionably released five top Taliban leaders
from Gitmo, allegedly in exchange for a U.S. soldier who, the administration
said, served with "honor and distinction." I say
"allegedly" in exchange because I'm not convinced that Bowe Bergdahl
had anything to do with it, other than serving as Obama's cover to release five
of the worst conceivable U.S.-hating terrorists as part of his sinister ploy to
close the detention facility and further appease Muslims worldwide. I qualified
the "served with 'honor and distinction'" description because the
only people making that claim are administration officials and Democratic
shills. Those closest to Bergdahl, the soldiers with whom he served, say he
virtually deserted.
In my view, too many people are
focusing on the wrong things concerning this scandal. This is not primarily
about Bergdahl, and it is not primarily about Obama's not informing Congress,
as troubling as both of these aspects are. Instead of obsessing over Bergdahl,
we need to be looking instead at the abject dangerousness of these terrorists,
the harm they can inflict on our soldiers and the incentive this negotiated
release gives all terrorists to capture American soldiers and civilians in the
future.
Instead of mainly fretting over Obama's
serial lawlessness, which always demands our scrutiny, we need to emphasize the
substance of this "deal." It will not do for Republican congressmen
to lightly dismiss this as merely an affront to their own authority to pre-approve
this action. This is not about them. It's ultimately about the safety of
Americans and American allies. You just don't release these dangerous people
when everyone knows they are still a threat to our people. For Hillary Clinton,
John Kerry and others to suggest they don't represent a danger to Americans is
offensively ludicrous. Osama bin Laden was not present in the United States
when he planned 9/11 or when it was implemented, as far as we know.
Also, Obama's Environmental Protection
Agency recently imposed, unilaterally, oppressive new emission standards for
coal plants that will be an enormous burden on the industry, harm energy
consumers and make America less energy-independent.
And just this week, we saw the stunning
invasion of our borders by Central American immigrants, including innocent
children, who have been shipped to the United States because Obama lawlessly
granted amnesty to children and because he refuses to enforce the border. It's as
if he's inviting illegal aliens in.
Then there's Iraq, where an
al-Qaida-connected group has captured major cities and seized banks and
American arms and equipment in its mission to retake the country and establish
an Islamic caliphate from which to coordinate its global jihad. This, too, was
predictable and predicted and is a result of Obama's deliberately reckless
withdrawal from Iraq, for whose freedom thousands of American service members
sacrificed. We've also learned that the administration is refusing the Iraqi
government's urgent request for air support against these insurgents.
We can only imagine what will be in
tomorrow's papers.
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