Scott R. Sullivan

April 10th, 2007 by Scott

The latest antics have just cemented the fact that there are those in Washington that have no sense of reality. They have opted to pull military and intelligence resources from the War on Terror to give the President the weather report.

According to The Boston Globe (April 9, 2007):
The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue. The measure also would order the Pentagon to undertake a series of war games to determine how global climate change could affect US security, including “direct physical threats to the United States posed by extreme weather events such as hurricanes.”

First, notice that the left is too afraid to say ‘global warming’ and must now use the phrase “climate change.” You see, with the left, it is about semantics and word games. They can’t say they are liberals; they are progressives. But I digress.

Senator Dick Durbin (D) and Senator Chuck Hagel (R) are sponsoring this bill. Representative Ed Markey (D) is the chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Dependence and Global Warming (a new bureaucratic committee formed by the Democrats in March, 2007, and a whole other topic, in my opinion), is going to introduce a companion bill in the House.

The key point in the Globe article comes to light on the second to last paragraph on the second page:
John J. Hamre , who served as deputy secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, said global warming couched in security terms would make if far more difficult for politicians to ignore.

The Democrats know they are losing their fight to make ‘global warming’ an issue. People realize this is an issue that is over-hyped by the left. More and more scientists are speaking out, saying it’s not the dire emergency Al Gore and the far left are making it appear. They’ve even pointed out that there is global warming on Mars. And don’t forget that yesterday, the United States saw the coldest day in April in history in many places, like Charlotte.

As is standard with the far left, they cannot win on the issues, they must find other, covert ways, to get their beliefs passed. For example, the Democrats say they are against the war. They make public statements demanding we bring our troops home so we don’t “waste” any more American lives. Instead of refusing to pass a budget, forcing the troops home within months, they are using September of 2008 as the cut and run date (so they could have an issue in the 2008 election year) and filled the military spending bill with pork.

Now, they have made it clear that they’d rather have our military play war games against a possible heat wave instead of hunting bin Laden and the real danger of a possible nuclear bomb going off within the United States. Shows just how much they like the military. First Clinton’s military cuts, now they want the military to be weathermen.

What should be the focus of our military? Irritating heat waves or deadly chemical or nuclear bombs?

Let our military fight the real threats.