There's no question now that Barack Obama intends to leave our most vital assets naked to terrorist attack. You've probably heard this story from the AP:
Pressured by the Obama administration, Citigroup Inc. reversed course and said it will not take delivery of a corporate jet it previously planned to purchase.
The canceled deal comes amid a chorus of concerns from politicians who are worried about how banks that have received federal funds are spending the money. Citigroup has received $45 billion in capital from the government in recent months amid the ongoing credit crisis.
"Citi has no intent to take delivery of any new aircraft," the New York-based bank said in a statement Tuesday.
This move is as disastrously short-sighted as Obama's decisions to leave Iraq, close Gitmo, re-establish habeas corpus and follow the rule of the law. If we follow the rule of law, the terrorists win. Even a fifth-grader can understand the logic of that.
What's buried in the article is this important nugget:
Aside from not taking control of a new jet, Citi is also planning to cut the number of corporate jets in its existing fleet to two from five, said the person, who asked not to be identified because those details haven't been made public.
(Psst! Put it over there! Over there! And cover it up with that tarp!)
This has got to be causing extreme excitement in certain familiar quarters. In the boardroom at the Bank of Tokyo the salarimen are swearing a blood oath to the Nikkei Exchange. In the private dining rooms at Deutschbank, chubby burgomeisters are chattering excitedly over the sacher torte, unbuttoning their waistbands and muttering about liebensraum.
"Citibank is wide open to aerial attack!"
It's the moment our enemies have waited for, the ultimate hostile take-over. Soon the skies over New York will be darkened with private jets holding the CEOs of Credit Suisse and Banca di Roma, eager to plunder our credit default swaps and our mezzanine tranches, wielding their Mont Blancs like bloody bayonets.
When they come, the call will go out, and Citijet will scramble its jets -- its two lousy jets. They'll fight valiantly, of course, but against overwhelming odds, and the outcome is not in doubt:
The rape and pillage of the U.S. banking system. By someone other than U.S. bankers. Oh, the humanity.
Let it be on your head, President Obama.