Poor guy! All he wanted to do was to accompany his girl to the airport, give her a last minute hug and kiss, and then see her off. The last thing in the world that Haisong Jiang, a Rutgers student from China intended was to create the international stir that occurred after he walked inside Terminal C at Newark’s Liberty International Airport.
The world’s gone a little crazy lately. Governments mimic the craziness also: Like, for instance letting a Nigerian board a plane bound from Amsterdam to Detroit, even after his father, a prominent Nigerian, alerted the U.S. Embassy that his son might try to pull off some jihadist trick.
Not to be outdone by Amsterdam security, the U.S. Government booked the alleged jihadist in a civil court in Michigan after his failed attempt; gave him no-charge premium medical care; and let him have an expensive civilian lawyer.
The alleged Islamic terrorist will be tried in a U.S. civil court with full U.S. Constitutional protection. We may never find out who the jihadist’s possible Yemeni associates were. All of this thanks to Eric Holder, the legal front man for President Barack Obama.
Meanwhile naïve Jiang – legally here – incurs the wrath of our two U.S. Senators, especially that of Frank Lautenberg who, I initially thought, might favor placing him under the guillotine. But cooler heads prevailed, and Mr. Jiang is now subject to “only” 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Too bad there are not more loving Jiangs in this country and fewer potentially malevolent jihadists.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Friday, January 2, 2009
Always Faithful
Imagine what life would be like if every American were “Always Faithful.” The term can be applied to every single facet of American life, both public and private. Few Americans understood the meaning of that phrase better than Marine Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 21, and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, 19, both killed in action in Iraq.
The two Marines were guarding the main entrance to a joint American-Iraqi security compound in Ramadi, one of the hell holes in Iraq’s Anbar province, when they spotted a truck approaching from a distance. As it weaved in and out of the barriers, heading directly towards the gate loaded with a ton of explosives, two other guards – Iraqis – ran for cover as did other nearby Iraqi police.
Only the two U.S. Marines, Yale and Haerter, stood firm, firing their weapons at the Jihadist suicide driver bearing down with his hand on a dead-man switch. The truck exploded away from the gate, saving the lives of dozens of soldiers inside the compound.
Semper Fidelis – Always Faithful – even unto death. That’s the lived motto of the U.S. Marine Corps, and it was loyally carried out that day as two young American warriors protected not only their own, but other Iraqis inside the gate.
The two Iraqi police officers whose duty it also was to defend that gate obviously had not internalized the meaning of “Always Faithful.” It reminds me – and perhaps a few of you reading this: Why is it that the Iraqis themselves are so unwilling or incapable of straightening out their own affairs? And if they won’t, then why does America continue to shed its blood for this intolerant theocracy pretending to govern as a democracy?
The two Marines were guarding the main entrance to a joint American-Iraqi security compound in Ramadi, one of the hell holes in Iraq’s Anbar province, when they spotted a truck approaching from a distance. As it weaved in and out of the barriers, heading directly towards the gate loaded with a ton of explosives, two other guards – Iraqis – ran for cover as did other nearby Iraqi police.
Only the two U.S. Marines, Yale and Haerter, stood firm, firing their weapons at the Jihadist suicide driver bearing down with his hand on a dead-man switch. The truck exploded away from the gate, saving the lives of dozens of soldiers inside the compound.
Semper Fidelis – Always Faithful – even unto death. That’s the lived motto of the U.S. Marine Corps, and it was loyally carried out that day as two young American warriors protected not only their own, but other Iraqis inside the gate.
The two Iraqi police officers whose duty it also was to defend that gate obviously had not internalized the meaning of “Always Faithful.” It reminds me – and perhaps a few of you reading this: Why is it that the Iraqis themselves are so unwilling or incapable of straightening out their own affairs? And if they won’t, then why does America continue to shed its blood for this intolerant theocracy pretending to govern as a democracy?
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