Condoleezza Rice Corrects Liberal Students on the War on Terror
Condoleezza Rice is one of the most intelligent and rational cabinet officials any White House administration has ever had, and it shows in the calm, factual manner with which she dispatches liberal angst.
In this video below, Rice visited a college dorm at Stanford University for a reception and dinner, and a liberal student comes after her with the same tired old allegations of torture and American wrongdoing (in the face of the barbarism of Islamic terrorism).
Rice cuts through the pansy, anti-American regurgitated pap and puts the issue in a clear light.
When the student tries to paint the aberration of the guard misconduct at Abu Ghraib as a matter of American policy, Rice quickly points out just what it was, and that it was dealt with. Most 8-year-olds would know better than to try and scuttle national defense on the basis of the misdeeds of a few individuals who did not follow the rules themselves–individuals who were punished for their misdeeds, I might add.
She also provides this young man some perspective on the blame-game second-guessing the Left has been so eagerly involved in during the years of the war on terrorism:
I know a lot of people are second-guessing now, but let me tell you what the second-guessing is that would have really hurt me: if the second-guessing had been about three thousand more Americans dying because we didn’t do everything we could to protect them.
Had that been the case, the Left would have had something legitimate to squeal about, though it likely would have been due to their own making, in doing everything they could–as they have done before and after 911–to interfere with our efforts to make America safe.
She also reminds the myopic Left what the consequences of a weak foreign policy and a weak national defense looks like:
If you were there in a position of authority and watched Americans jump out of 80-story buildings because these murderous tyrants went after innocent people, then you were determined to do anything you could that was legal to prevent that from happening again.
These anti-American liberals have consumed such a rich diet of hate and loathing for their own country for so long, they cannot be reasoned into understanding the necessities of war, or the tremendous lengths we went to in order to keep life-saving and attack-preventing interrogation as humane as possible while enabling us to extract useful information.
All that matters is that they feel guilty for the fantastic affluence we experience here in America, and (while not having the guts to give up that affluence for themselves) so they feel the need to engage in self flagellation (with their country as the “self”) to make themselves feel better.
About the evil dungeon the Left thinks Club Gitmo is, Rice asks the student, ”Did you know that Guantanamo was called a ‘model medium security prison’ by representatives of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe?”
The student admitted, “I did not know that.”
Indeed. There are too many things liberals can’t answer because they have not done their homework. Watching Keith Olbermann and reading the Daily Kos isn’t doing your homework.
They should end their diet of American self flagellation, learn something about the basis of morality, the nature of evil, about their country, and about developing a mature thought process.
Perhaps then they could do something genuine to make their country a still-better place and stop tearing it down at every turn.
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