"The Left almost always opposes
fighting evil, and almost always wants to disarm those who want to
fight."
Dennis Prager has offered that insight, in minor
variations, many times over the years that I've read and listened to
Prager's radio show - as examples of that insight come up
often.
This week's example of that insight is found in the
Senate confirmation hearing for Trump's nominee to be CIA Director -
Gina Haspel. Trump has nominated her, the first woman to be nominated
for that position, because she has an accomplished career at CIA on
the front lines of the Cold War and the War on Terror. Democrats, and
near-Democrats like John McCain, oppose the confirmation of Haspel
because her work fighting al-Qaeda in the Work on Terror included
supervising a CIA black site where rendition and enhanced
interogation took place - and they consider her a "torturer".
I
got a glimpse of Prager's insight on this story when I read a Tweet
from the ACLU yesterday, which read:
"Haspel won’t
answer whether she oversaw the torture of Nashiri. She did. It
involved:
• Locking him, naked, in coffin-like boxes
• Slamming him into walls
• Waterboarding him"
"Abd
al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a 37-year-old Saudi, did not deny having been a
terrorist operative for Osama bin Laden. He admitted his role in the
bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, an attack that killed 17 Navy
sailors. Captured two years later in Dubai, he talked openly about
planning more attacks."
Wait. Stop there. Why did ACLU
westernize Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri's name down to simply Nashiri in
their tweet? And why did they leave out his al-Qaeda resume which
includes killing Americans and planning to kill more? Because they
want Westerners to be sympathetic to this high-ranking terrorist, and
his murderous resume doesn't help in casting him as the good guy and
Haspel and the CIA as the bad guy to defeat Haspel.
Did the interrogation techiniques
work on Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri?
"Nashiri did not do much
resisting. After he was locked into the smaller box for the first
time, early in his stay at the black site, he began to talk about two
of the main operations to which he would be linked in U.S.
intelligence summaries: an aborted plan to attack oil tankers in the
Strait of Hormuz, and a plot — for which he was trying to raise
funds when he was captured — to crash a small airplane into a ship
in the Emirati harbor of Port Rashid."
So, he was an
al-Qaeda planner, like Khalid Sheik Muhammed (KSM) was. He was the
"ticking time bomb" that we talk about when we talk about
justified interrogation.
Did the CIA injure the terrorist in
their custody
"Various psychological evaluations of
Nashiri have found lasting scars. In addition to a phobia of water,
he has been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic
stress disorder. A psychiatric expert, Sondra Crosby, called him “one
of the most damaged victims of torture” she had ever
examined."
The 17 Navy sailors that Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri murdered on the USS Cole were unavailable for comment on
whether it bothered them that the terrorist who killed them was
depressed and has PTSD...
Me, I'm wondering why we haven't
shot him yet....
You know who wants to testify to help
Democrats defeat the nomination of Gina Haspel to be CIA Director?
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in Gitmo, who we also should have shot by now.
KSM and the Democrats are aligned against Haspel. Boo.
Sometimes
I believe that those on the Left forgets not only the devastation of
the 9/11 attack, but the uncertainty in the months following over
whether there would be further attacks, including the anthrax attacks
in the US. That would explain their opposition to Gina Haspel, who
was on the front line overseas tasked with discovering whether
al-Qaeda was planning further attacks.
The broader
explanation is Prager's insight: The Left doesn't fight evil, it
fights those who fight evil.
The GOP should confirm Trump's
CIA Director, Gina Haspel, immediately - Democrats and John McCain
notwithstanding. Do it.
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