>How Safe Are We 10 Years After 9/11?
Friday, 09 Sep 2011 11:10 AM
By Frank Gaffney
So, where are we 10 years after 9/11? It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.
Unfortunately, our government is pursuing policies that can only encourage those who aspire to do us harm to redouble their efforts.
Such an assessment was implicit in a critique of President Barack Obama’s new counterterrorism “strategy” delivered last week by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman.
The Democrat-turned-Independent from Connecticut described the president’s so-called “Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States” white paper as “ultimately a big disappointment”:
The administration’s plan . . . suffers from several significant weaknesses. The first is that the administration still refuses to call our enemy in this war by its proper name, violent Islamist extremism. We can find names that are comparable to that, but not the one that the administration continues to use which [is] “violent extremism.”