Why does this news, albeit not new-according to their website when they created it, not surprise me. It actually explains alot, doesn't it? We knew Jihad-Joe Lieberman was on his mission and "cause", and I had some other ideas about why Schumer was willing to stick his neck so far out for Jihad Joe, but I thought it was more about the DLC.
"The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism.
FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and Militant Islamism.
FDD uniquely combines policy research, democracy training, strategic communications, and investigative journalism. We focus our efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad."
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/...
After Downing Street broke the news for us.
To quote a few lines
"We are reading only about 24 arrests today. If we were already in the heralded antiwar world of Ned Lamont and the war-against-the-war crowd, it could be much different. We could just as easily be reading about ten jumbo jets exploded out of the sky. Or 3,000 murdered innocents -- mostly American and British citizens.
Reality has once again inconveniently burst the antiwar, anti-security, anti-American balloon, just as the November victory ballrooms were being booked.
Just as central casting was whipping the articles of impeachment into shape. The high crimes and misdemeanors of George W. Bush include: hunting down terrorists, detaining them, interrogating them, penetrating their communications, and following their money.
These damn jihadists just won't cooperate. Can't they read the polls?
As British authorities continue trying to round up around 50 -- fifty! -- mostly homegrown Muslim militants who were attempting to execute over the Atlantic the very plan master terrorists Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed nearly pulled off over the Pacific a dozen years ago, it's worth reminding the triumphalist antiwar Left of an important point."
There is nothing like exaggeration is there, 24 men have been arrested, and they are looking for a couple of men in Pakistan, how does that become 50? Wishful thinking, and I would like to point out, that the British did this with police and Intelligence services, not with 130,000 troops in the field.
So we appear to have a replacement group for PNAC and the names are not that shocking but a few are. Senator Schumer why is your name here" Are you anti-Lamont and part of the we don't want the Anti-war democrats to win this fall group? Exactly what is your position, are you taking Liebermans place as Bush's favorite Democrat?
Here is the list of members and associates, you can decide for your self, what this is about, me I have a good idea, along with a "new middle east" we are getting a new "PNAC" and here is the opening salvo.
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/...
Biographies
Board of Directors
Steve Forbes
Board Member
CEO Forbes Magazine
Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Board Member
Fmr. Ambassador to the UN
Jack Kemp
Chairman Emeritus
Fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Distinguished Advisors
Judge Louis J. Freeh
Fmr. Director of the FBI
**Sen. Joseph Lieberman*
(D-CT)
U.S. Senate
Newt Gingrich
Fmr. Speaker of the House
R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA
Board of Advisors
Gary Bauer
President
American Values
Charles Jacobs
President
American Anti-Slavery Group
Donna Brazile
Campaign Manager
Gore 2000
Charles Krauthammer
Syndicated Columnist
Rep. Eric Cantor
Chairman (R-VA)
Task Force on Terrorism
Bill Kristol
Editor
Weekly Standard
Rep. Eliot Engel
(D-NY)
U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Richard D. Lamm
Fmr. Governor
Colorado
Rep. Mark Foley
(R-FL)
U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Jim Marshall
(D-GA)
U.S. House of Representatives
Frank Gaffney
President
Center for Security Policy
Sen. Zell Miller
(D-GA)
U.S. Senate
Amb. Marc Ginsberg
Fmr. Ambassador
Morroco
Richard Perle
Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor
Rep. J.D. Hayworth
(R-AZ)
U.S. House of Representatives
**Sen. Charles E. Schumer**
(D-NY)
U.S. Senate
Senior Fellows
Khairi Abaza
Middle East and Democracy Expert
Barbara Newman
Investigative Reporter and Author
Avi Jorisch
Terrorism Expert
Dr. Walid Phares
Terrorism Expert
Samer Libdeh
Middle East and Democracy Expert
Victoria Toensing
Fmr. Chief Counsel to Sen. Intelligence Committee
Andrew C. McCarthy
Legal Commentator, Terrorism Expert
Adjunct Fellows
Dr. Jonathan Adelman
Professor
University of Denver
Michael I. Krauss
Professor of Law
George Mason University School of Law
Dr. Mohammed Akacem
Professor
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Agota Kuperman
U.S. Foreign Service (ret.)
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Journalist
Dr. J. Peter Pham
Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs
James Madison University
Paul Crespo
Former Marine Corps Officer and Military Attaché
Jess Sadick
Terrorism Specialist
U.S. government
Tanya Gilly
Member of the Iraqi National Assembly
Dr. Frederic Smoler
Professor
Sarah Lawrence College
Orde Kittrie
Law Professor
Arizona State University
Jan Ting
Law Professor
Temple University
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/...