Posted by
Bert Chapman on Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:44:20 PM
In a distressing sign of the left wing ideological imbecility influencing Obama Administration policymaking, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a report warning of potential threats to national security from returning U.S. military veterans. Using "reasoning" generally practiced by kooky anti-racist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, DHS hypothesized that U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq could be susceptible to undefined "right wing propaganda" and might then use their military skills to launch terrorist attacks in the U.S. given existing economic anxieties.
Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano has apparently apologized for this stupidity to veterans organizations and to normal intelligent Americans, but her department has suffered serious damage to its analytical credibility and Napolitano's own credibility has also been seriously, if not fatally, compromised. Instead of focusing on mythical right wing threats existing only in the fevered delusional imaginations of leftist multicultural paranoids, Napolitano should direct DHS analysts to focus on addressing real security threats to the U.S. emanating from Islamist terrorists and spillover violence from Mexican drug cartel wars. It is vital that all U.S. intelligence agencies conduct sober threat-based assessments of existing and emerging threats to U.S. security and not succumb to the ideological delusions of Obamaite supporters who are convinced that there are "racists under every bed" who seek to thwart the messianic delusions of the Obama Administration. I hope Americans maintain their outrage over this shoddy analysis and that congressional homeland security oversight committees rake Napolitano over the coals and conduct hearings on whether the Obama Administration is compromising the quality of intelligence analysis on security threats to the U.S. in order to placate its militant left-wing ideological base.