Wednesday, July 16, 2008   Return to top

If (when) John McCain loses the White House race to Barack Obama and Republicans are soundly defeated in House and Senate races, it won't be because of National Security.

In a Rasmussen Reports survey, commissioned in July of 2007, the number of people claiming we were losing the war on terror equaled those who said we were winning at 36%.
Perceptions have changed dramatically, since then. The net figure on this question has risen by 28 percentage points, to a 48-20 split, in favor of those who believe we are winning the war on terrorism.

Unfortunately, President Bush has not received the credit he deserves on this issue because the issue of economic security has completely overshadowed that of National Security. This is yet another example of Americans not thinking things through.

72% of Americans think high fuel costs are the biggest threat to our economy-and rightly so. Yet, Americans continue to not understand how high fuel costs are the result of hostile regimes holding a disproportionate sway on the world oil market.

This makes oil control a weapon that unfriendly regimes can use to bring the entire world economy to it's knees. Refusing to use our own oil resources is a threat to our National Security.
In the aftermath of 9/11, I thought our nation learned that our National Security provides the very foundation, without which, our economic security is impossible.

Liberal policies will severely damage both.

~Sonlit

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