Like Watching a Car Wreck....
Monday, June 20, 2011
I want to turn away, but I can't...
This morning I am rolling up the flank of the Attorney General while Uncle Jimbo assaults by fire because evidently, the Attorney General of these here United States believes that the best weapon to use against terrorists isn't an M-4 with a SOPMOD package and a rucksack full of ammo in the hands of a skilled operator, it is a Miranda Warning Blaster Cannon, a Search Warrant Launcher and a Legal Discovery Bomb.
I know, not a news flash Deebow, and predictably, there has been a barrage of return fire...
Centrist and right-of-center national security experts reacted with contempt to Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim at a legal convention that the courts are the nation’s “most effective terror-fighting weapon.”
“That’s utter nonsense. . . it is simply lunatic,” said Ralph Peters, military analyst, author and former soldier. In the war against the jihadis, he said, the courts “have been totally ineffective when they’re not outright destructive.”
“He’s unconsciously shilling for his own profession,” said Michael Rubin, a Middle East expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “Holder, like many ambitious bureaucrats, wants to build a bureaucratic empire. . . [and] by doing so, he will get Americans killed.”
On Sunday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell added his voice to the criticism. “The attorney general said the other night our biggest weapon in the war on terror was the U.S. civilian court system,” he said on CBS’ Face The Nation. “I don’t know what planet he’s living on.”
I guess we will have to remember all those brave barristers that kicked in the doors at the Bin Laden compound and aggressively read Osama his Miranda rights and moved immediately to a speedy trial. This is not one of the most laughable things the Attorney General has ever said, nor is it the most clueless thing either, but it is consistent. If I was this guy's boss, things like this during the campaign season would generate an expedited pink slip, or if I liked the guy, a stern warning to STFU and keep your pie-hole closed about this stuff in public.
For the record, if I had a choice on who to fight terrorists with, and my choices were 120 lawyers or the 120 soldiers in any random rifle company, I think everyone here would agree that they know which way I would lean. We don't need the lawyers mucking it up for everybody...
I second what Uncle Jimbo said... Fire Attorney General Holder now....