Have We Forgotten?

The Darryl Worley song, “Have We Forgotten”, tells the story of how we have basically forgot how it felt on nine eleven and the days directly after the attacks. Does anyone remember what happened that day anymore? New United States Attorney General Eric Holder must have missed that day in time. Attorney General Holder has decided to open up an investigation of CIA interrogators because they threatened terrorists during interrogations. The techniques that were used were enormously successful and we are about to cripple the intelligence community. The CIA is not above scrutiny but to investigate years of proven techniques to obtain information is ludicrous.

The second major event on the same wave length within the past week was the release of the Lockerbie Bomber from a Scottish Prison. Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al Megrahi, received a hero’s welcome when he landed in Libya. Megrahi was released on humanitarian grounds as he suffers from cancer. Did Megrahi show compassion to the passengers and crew when flight 103 had 259 people aboard when they were blown out of the sky?

Time has passed since 9/11 and flight 103 I give you that, but to forget these acts is almost as big a crime as the acts itself. There was no mercy shown by the individuals who committed these heinous acts; yet we are now to believe that mercy should be shown on them.

The individual freedoms that we have as citizens of this country were not handed to us without a struggle. Freedom is not free and we as a nation need to maintain that freedom on a daily basis by any means necessary.

The Geneva Convention was drawn up in 1949. It covers the humanitarian treatment of armed forces on land and at sea, prisoners of war, and civilians. And all of them have now been accepted by virtually every State in the world. Terrorists are not, nor should they ever be covered in any convention. They are not soldiers they are murderers.

The Obama administration could be tying the hands of the CIA and its sister agencies if they continue to place restrictions on the people who try and keep us free from the awful acts committed against us. Obama has been in office for the same amount of time almost as President Bush was when the attacks on 9/11 came. President Obama must remember back to that day longer and harder than everyone else here in America as he is the leader of the free world. It is now his administration in place and ultimately his responsibility as President of the United States to make sure another 9/11 or flight 103 never ever happens again.

Unfortunately, this is a poll driven political society now and there is an equal divide in this country as to how to handle terrorists properly. On January 22nd, President Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay, where several of the terrorists that have been detained, within one year. At the time of President Obama’s announcement of the closing of Guantanamo Bay, public opinion was equally divided on whether to close the facility. Since that time, Americans have had second thoughts on closing the Guantanemo almost 2 to 1. Several of the terrorists that have been returned to their homeland have gone right back to their old ways.

Shouldn’t our elected leaders start making the right decisions and better yet the tough decisions needed? When you are given the honor of representing your constituents, is it not your number one responsibility to keep them safe at all costs?

We can no longer just sit back and hope the rest of the world will come to the table and negotiate. Terrorists do not want to negotiate, they want to annihilate us. They want to bring harm on our families any way they can. They are not rational and we cannot treat them rationally. By taking away techniques the CIA use to gather information from terrorists is just bad business.

We are in an age where nuclear weapons could easily fall into the wrong hands. Close your eyes and imagine if the 9/11 terrorists or Abdelbaset al Megrahi had a nuclear weapon. Do you honestly believe this country could have survived a nuclear attack on its very own soil? We have to stop being complacent and we need to take a proactive approach to fighting terrorism or we could be in serious trouble.


To listen to Darryl Worley's Have You Forgotten cut and paste this link in your web browser:
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