Sunday, November 2, 2008

Bush's Greatest Accomplishment- Forgotten

LNR has lambasted the President and indeed endorses Hillary Clinton as a write-in candidate. However, it's absolutely "shocking" that as we near the end of Bush's second term, no one in the media or the country is thanking Bush for protecting America the last seven (7) years against terrorism. Since 9/11 not a single terrorist attack has taken place on American soil. Something the President said he was going to do, which is the paramount task of a President- protecting the nation.

The main reason people began to live in groups was for mutual protection. Nothing else can happen in a nation- a good economy, good standard of living, nothing- without security- national security is the penultimate of the raison d'etre of government.

Imagine the thousands of miles of border, airspace, millions of visitors, illegal aliens, airports, harbors, water supply, busses, subways, hundreds of thousands of targets, yet, since 9/11 for seven long years since the surprise attack in New York - not one single attack on our soil. That is a giant accomplishment, attesting to the President's determination to keep the nation safe, while our soldiers keep the terrorists bottled up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Keep in mind that there is no doubt that hundreds if not thousands of terrorist plots or even attempts are being made to strike America, yet they have been stopped in their tracks. Often, in the shadowy world of intelligence and restrictions on what can be published, there are thousands of unsung heroes in the the U.S. intelligence community.

For all of the justified criticism of the President, can the nation, the people, the media be at least objective enough to recognize the President's greatest accomplishment.

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