The Committee on Present Danger - Revived Woolsey and Lieberman

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000010.html

JAMES WOOLSEY IS AT IT AGAIN. He is now spearheading the revived Committee on the Present Danger which was a mainstay of national security hawks during the Cold War and served as the platform for the late Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson's iconic ascent as the Democratic Party's toughest national security voice. But now he's lining up distinguished Americans, mostly neocons but not all, to stand tough against terror. You can find the list and more information at www.fightingterror.org. (One question, does anyone NOT want to fight terror?)

Woolsey has recruited Scoop Jackson wannabes Senators Joseph Lieberman and Jon Kyl as honorary chairs. And on the surface of it, the organizing statement of the Committee says some sensible things:

America faces its gravest threat in a generation: an organized global movement -- assisted by rogue regimes -- has adopted mass terror as a weapon to achieve political goals. And, the prospect that this deadly collusion will involve weapons of mass murder is at hand. . .Victory over terror inspired by radical Islamists -- fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere -- will also be a long struggle. It will involve waging a war of ideas and educating the American people on the nature of the anger.

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What does greatly concern me in the statement is the righteousness of it, the notion that a "unified voice" against terror is the path to winning this long battle:

Yet, in the course of time, and with success diluted by weariness, some would diminish the scale of the threat that America and our allies must confront. We know, however, that with denial, the danger only grows. This is a war not of fixed formations and battlefield, but of unpredictability both as to time and place of action. . .When faced with a clear and present danger, Americans have always set aside partisan politics to secure this nation and to affirm our common values. The War on Terrorism requires no less.

[hang a left]

1. Nice try.

"When faced with a clear and present danger, Americans have always set aside partisan politics to secure this nation and to affirm our common values. The War on Terrorism requires no less."


This runs right along side "don't change horses in midstream" bs. I don't want to be "unified" with any of them.

[MisterP]

2. Lieberman's also with Lynne Cheney and, I think, Bill Bennett

in AVOT.