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Newt Gingrich Says Beating President Obama Is A Matter Of National Security

By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Newt Gingrich is obsessed with the Middle East. He’s also obsessed with painting President Obama as some kind of Islamic fundamentalist sympathizer who seeks to destroy America. During a speech in front of a crowd of Oral Roberts University students, Gingrich continued that line of attack, and said that defeating President Obama this November is a matter of national security.

“This is not smearing everybody, this is not Islamaphobia. If we can’t have an honest conversation about radical Islamists, and if we can’t figure out — there’s a very specific group of people across the planet. Across the planet today, the forces of religious repression are on the march and this administration has intellectually disarmed, it has morally disarmed, it is incapable of describing what threatens us. The president wants to unilaterally weaken the United States. He wants to cut the aid to Israel for its anti-ballistic missile defense. He refuses to take Iran seriously. We are in a world that is very dangerous. And I say this to those of you who represent the next generation because you’re going to bear the consequences. We are really at risk someday in your lifetime of losing an American city. So, defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security because the fact is that he is incapable of defending the United States.”

Here’s the video:

It never ceases to amaze me how Republicans can accuse President Obama of making America less safe when his foreign policy achievements include the killings of multiple terrorist leaders using a strategy of small teams of America’s elite military forces. Here’s a short list of them just to remind everyone of just how seriously President Obama takes the national security of the United States.

1. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki: KILLED

2. Al-Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri: KILLED

3. Al-Qaeda deputy leader ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman: KILLED

4. Al-Quaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri: KILLED

5. AQAP senior operative Ammar al-Wa’ili: KILLED

6. AQAP senior operative Abu Ali al-Harithi: KILLED

7. AQAP senior operative Ali Saleh Farhan: KILLED

8. Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul: KILLED

9. Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud: KILLED

10. Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top: KILLED

11. AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan: KILLED

12. Al-Qaeda operational commander Saleh al-Somali: KILLED

13. Al-Qaeda operational commander ‘Abdallah Sa’id: KILLED

14. Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar: CAPTURED

15. Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani: KILLED

16. Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar: KILLED

17. Al-Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi: KILLED

18. Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri: KILLED

19. Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: KILLED

20. Al-Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri: KILLED

21. Al-Qaeda senior external operations planner Abdullah Khorsani: KILLED

22. Al-Qaeda Mastermind Osama bin Laden: KILLED

And that’s just a short list. Let’s add multiple Somali pirates and multiple Somali hostage takers killed or captured as well. President Obama takes Islamic terrorists seriously. He just doesn’t want to declare war on the entire Arab world like Newt Gingrich does. But if you’re still confused about which man would keep America safer, I think the following quote will make it clear.

“This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger … It’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.” ~Newt Gingrich, at a book talk in Huntington, NY, April 2008, saying that Republicans should allow terrorist attacks on American soil to remind us of the dangers in the world.

The above quote should seal Gingrich’s fate with the American electorate. Do we want to vote for President Obama, who has an iron clad record of killing terrorists and preventing attacks on American soil? Or do we want Gingrich, a man who has stated that the government should allow terrorist attacks to get through from time to time just to keep people afraid? The answer should be simple.

© 2012, agentleman.