Leadership and Crisis, by Gov. Bobby Jindal: on Homeland Security
Bobby Jindal:
Ill-advised to scale back missile defense
The Obama administration wants to focus on disarmament. Like those who argue that guns can cause crime, Pres. Obama's team seems to believe that simple reducing the number of military weapons--including the weapons we ourselves possess--will
reduce conflict. But weapons, whether hunting rifles or tanks, are inanimate objects. I'm not worried about the objects themselves, but about who controls them and where they're being pointed. If Canada announces it is building a new missile,
I wouldn't be too concerned. But when Iran or North Korea do it, I'm a lot less sanguine. We can abolish as many of our missiles as we want, but that's just not going to convince international miscreants to do the same. That's why Pres.
Obama's decision to drastically scale back our missile defense program was ill-advised. The real cause of war and international conflict is not the existence of weapons, but authoritarian leaders trying to expand their power.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.246
Nov 15, 2010
Bobby Jindal:
Don't give Miranda rights to terrorists
I don't see any reason to continue giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists, as we did to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Flight 253. As Senators Collins and Lieberman wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder, the decision to treat
Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal "almost certainly prevented the military and the intelligence community from obtaining information that would have been critical to learning more about how our enemy operates and to preventing future attacks."
This is just common sense; intelligence is our first line of defense in war. That's why I voted in Congress to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) so the president and the attorney general could authorize electronic surveillance of foreign agents without a court order. Extending full legal protections to foreign terrorists will simply mean more dead Americans.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.250
Nov 15, 2010
Bobby Jindal:
Claim of "poverty causes terrorism" justifies globalism
Islamic terrorists often hail from the richest Middle Eastern nations--fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia--while dirt poor Muslim countries like Mali, Bangladesh, and Niger produce few if any terrorists. Many suicide bombers ha
graduate degrees and well-paying jobs before they chose to murder innocent civilians in suicidal attacks. Nevertheless, the Obama administration continues to cling to the "poverty causes terrorism" theory because it supports the social work approach to
national security that it favors. As we engage and defeat our enemies on the battlefield, we also need to win the battle of ideas by projecting confidence in our values, history, and our way of life. Our president has made a bad habit of apologizing t
foreign audiences for America's supposed transgressions. The American president must proudly represent the world's greatest democracy to the world. It is naive to think these apologies gain us respect--they simply convey a dangerous lack of confidence.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.257-258
Nov 15, 2010
Bobby Jindal:
Make no apologies when we must use our military strength
We live in a dangerous world, and America needs to be strong. We must remain not just strong, but the strongest power in the world, and we should make no apologies when we must use our military strength from time to time.
But this is not where our true strength lies. Military might is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
A strong military in the hands of a corrupt, wicked, or oppressive regime does not make that regime great.
Having military superiority is great--but it has to be tethered to a culture that promotes goodness, freedom, and justice. Without that, we would be no better than the old Soviet Union.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.271-272
Nov 15, 2010
Janet Napolitano:
Uses term 'man-caused disasters' instead of 'terrorism'
In these politically correct times, it's even too much to ask that our own government refer to Islamic terrorists as "Islamic terrorists." Instead we hear the deliberately vague expression "extremists." This is nonsense. People who want to kill
Americans are terrorists. Apparently even the word "terrorism" is too judgmental, since Janet Napolitano announced shortly after being named secretary of homeland security that she preferred the ridiculous term "man-caused disasters."
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.247
Nov 15, 2010
Joseph Lieberman:
Treating terrorists as criminals prevents obtaining info
I don't see any reason to continue giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists, as we did to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Flight 253. As Senators Collins and Lieberman wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder, the decision to treat
Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal "almost certainly prevented the military and the intelligence community from obtaining information that would have been critical to learning more about how our enemy operates and to preventing future attacks."
This is just common sense; intelligence is our first line of defense in war. That's why I voted in Congress to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) so the president and the attorney general could authorize electronic surveillance of foreign agents without a court order. Extending full legal protections to foreign terrorists will simply mean more dead Americans.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.250
Nov 15, 2010
Susan Collins:
Treating terrorists as criminals prevents obtaining info
I don't see any reason to continue giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists, as we did to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Flight 253. As Senators Collins and Lieberman wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder, the decision to treat
Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal "almost certainly prevented the military and the intelligence community from obtaining information that would have been critical to learning more about how our enemy operates and to preventing future attacks."
This is just common sense; intelligence is our first line of defense in war. That's why I voted in Congress to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) so the president and the attorney general could authorize electronic surveillance of foreign agents without a court order. Extending full legal protections to foreign terrorists will simply mean more dead Americans.
Source: Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal, p.250
Nov 15, 2010
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