Obama, Osama, What's The Difference?

Less than you might imagine - and shrinking all the time:

The Obama administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the program that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner cockpits in order to ward off another 9/11-type attack.

The administration recently diverted $2 million from a program to train and certify pilots to carry firearms safely while on duty. Instead, it is using the money to hire additional field inspectors to help discipline pilots who step out of line, according to a report in Tuesday’s Washington Times.

A Times editorial condemned the Obama administration's action, calling it “completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots.”

Since Obama took office, the approval process for certifying pilots to carry firearms has ground to a halt, the newspaper reports. Pilots are afraid to speak out about the behind-the-scenes maneuverings, for fear of retaliation, according to the newspaper. No cases have been reported in which pilots have brandished a weapon inappropriately or otherwise abused their eligibility to carry firearms.

Well, now, THAT little bit 'o change will certainly make it easier for al Qaeda to reprise the 9/11 attacks, won't it? You could almost imagine that Red Barry made a secret campaign promise to bin Laden himself, and is now delivering on it.

But who would bin Laden have in the United States to carry out fresh Islamikaze hijackings and other manner of mass-casualty attacks? Funny you should ask:

Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners...For "people who can be released there are a variety of options that we have and among them is the possibility is that we would release them into this country," Mr. Holder said. "That process is ongoing and we've not made any determinations or made any requests of anybody at this point." [emphases added]

That's not "transferred to the U.S. civilian criminal justice system"; that's, "turned loose altogether inside the United States to do as they please." AKA Willie Horton goosed logarithmically. Anybody outside Obamatopia think these animals, five of whom (including Khalid Sheihk Muhammed) just recently renewed their "vows" to bring America to its knees, would be so grateful to False Messiah for their "liberation" from President Bush's "mistreatment" that they'd transmogrify overnight into model, high-tax-paying citizens?

These two criminal derelictions are just the latest in a series of them:

Since coming to power, the Obama administration has undertaken a series of moves that signal a major de-emphasis of programs enacted to keep America’s homeland safe from terrorist attack:

Obama’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, labeled enhanced interrogation techniques as outright “torture” during his Senate confirmation hearings.

Obama banned waterboarding and ordered CIA interrogators to abide by U.S. Army Field Manual regulations.

He selected Clinton-era political operative Leon Panetta to serve as his CIA director. Panetta’s qualifications to run the agency have been questioned widely.

Obama announced that he would shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba within one year, raising the prospect of hardened terrorists entering the U.S. criminal justice system, or worse, being released to rejoin al-Qaida.

He indicated the U.S. defense budget would be sharply reduced.

He has sent a letter to Russian leaders, apparently offering to back off on the ballistic missile defense system that would protect Europe from Iran and North Korea.

Nobody wants to believe that the individual charged with "preserving, protecting, and defending" the Constitution and people of the United States is actively trying to expose both to external attacks and mass destruction at the hands of our enemies. But this harrowing litany of anti-national security insanity and its intracible logic leaves the objective observer few options.

Namely, two: Either Barack Obama is dumber than a box of hair, in which case he is criminally negligent; or he is as "brilliant" as his drooling worshippers insist he is, in which case he is committing multiple acts of treason. Either way, he is dismantling the nation's defenses in time of war and inviting the renewed maiming and slaughter of thousands of American civilians.

For these "gentlemen"....