Captain Obvious is reporting that yes, it seems likely terrorist group Hamas will use the $100 million plus in U.S. aid to Fatah when they were the terrorist group running the Gaza Strip. Hamas captured weapons, ammunition and CIA secrets and now the geniuses who thought it would be a good idea to give money and weapons to terrorists are afraid the Unapproved-Of Terrorists will use that booty to kill Israelis and, well, I suppose everyone else on Earth if they have the chance.
Hamas Victory Brings Secrets
When the Islamist group Hamas conquered the Gaza Strip in June it seized an intelligence-and-military infrastructure created with U.S. help by the security chiefs of the Palestinian territory’s former ruler.
According to current and former Israeli intelligence officials, former U.S. intelligence personnel and Palestinian officials, Hamas has increased its inventory of arms since the takeover of Gaza and picked up technical expertise — such as espionage techniques — that could assist the group in its fight against Israel or Washington’s Palestinian allies, the Fatah movement founded by Yasser Arafat.
Hamas leaders say they acquired thousands of paper files, computer records, videos, photographs and audio recordings containing valuable and potentially embarrassing intelligence information gathered by Fatah. For more than a decade, Fatah operated a vast intelligence network in Gaza established under the tutelage of the Central Intelligence Agency…
Funding known terrorists is bad enough, which is exactly what we’re doing when we give money to Fatah. But what do we do when those terrorists also end up being inept, and run like frightened dogs leaving all our aid and secrets behind? Why, throw even more money at them of course! A report from about 10 days ago highlights the rank absurdity of how we do business, and exactly what George W. Bush thinks we should be doing with our tax dollars:
Bush to offer more aid to Palestinians
American President George Bush will on Monday offer new support for the Fatah-led government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, marking a higher profile effort to resolve the Middle East conflict.
Bush will announce $190-million (about R1,3-billion) in new aid to the Abbas government according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity…The $190-million is for the current fiscal year 2007 that ends on September 30. That aid is in addition to some aid programs that have already been announced, including $86-million (about R602-million) the administration has requested from Congress that was intended to provide security for Abbas.
And this from a man who refuses to use federal tax dollars on stem cell research because it’s “immoral.” He doesn’t even bother to even make an effort to appear consistent. Protect embryos, save fetuses, fund terrorists. Genius.
Despite the fact that Bush has cut anti-terrorism funds for American cities, we have, somehow,m managed to find $20 billion in military aid for September 11th terrorist home country Saudi Arabia.
Nice to know my hard earned tax dollars are going to good use. Well the Pres. is only in office for another year and a half. It’s not like he can screw anything else up….right?
It is coming to a point that I am speechless. While I support his ideals on the war, he consistantly undermines his own plans. I never understood giving Palestine aid. I no longer know what to think about the President. His intentions are good, however as I have been taught, “the way to hell is paved with good intentions” Is he just gliding his way to the end of the term? Does he even know what he is doing anylonger? Does he listen too much to his advisors?
Tammy, the only conclusion I can draw is two fold:
He truly believes, by his faith, that these people are merely ‘misunderstood’ and need help. That if we give them help then they we see the light and recognize the good guys from the bad.
OR
He learned the lessons of Vietnam too well. He is staying out of it too much. Allowing those around him to control the outcome of situations that he, himself needs to direct.
However, I am inclined with a third reasoning..pod person, 100%
Great post
Or he’s just so tired that he doesn’t care anymore. The man has done what he feels is right for 6 years and has been demonized, called a liar, and attacked at every turn.
I think he’s just given up.
At least we all still have to take our shoes off at the airport and they slam granny up against the wall and run a metal sensor over her like she’s Obama himself given the winning air ticket selected “at random”… Oh, and how’s that fence building going…all while we give money to the bad guys! Sigh…
Wolvenbear—Yes, Bush has done what he thinks is right. Unfortunately he has a simplistic concept of right and wrong and a naive belief that right will prevail virtually on its own. The underlying problem with George W. Bush is that he is all too literally a man of faith.
Mature idealism is deep, complex and tempered by reality. GW is splashing in a bubble bath of aphorisms. He’s intelligent enough to be capable of complexity but finds it more comfortable to rely on faith. He should be a Sunday school teacher.