Obama: 9/10 mentality in a 9/11 world?

While listening to Barack Obama's speech yesterday and comparing it with former Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks, the difference between the two administrations could not be more stark.

Barack Obama appears to have a 9/10 mentality which, sadly, is shared by many Americans who have either forgotten the terror of 9/11, were too young at the time, or who feel America was to blame.

Dick Cheney lived through 9/11 and was an active party to efforts to protect Ameicans from another deadly terrorist attack, efforts that paid off with no further terrorism on American soil since that September day in 2001.

However, Muslim extremists have continued their reign of terror around the world. How long before that terror returns to our homeland?

Rush Limbaugh compared the two speeches on Thursday. Among his remarks:

"You cannot win wars with apologies. One of the things that Cheney said in his speech is, when terrorists see us divided, debating whether they should have constitutional rights, they don't stand back and reassess their opinion of us and say, "You know what, maybe we're wrong about the United States." What they see is weakness. Obama was all over the notion that Guantanamo Bay led to the creation and recruitment of more terrorists, ignoring the fact that we were repeatedly attacked by terrorists long before Guantanamo Bay was opened as a terrorist prison, ignoring the fact that, as Andy McCarthy pointed out to me in an e-mail, the number one terrorist recruitment tool is a successful terror attack. And there has not been a successful terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11, eight years, and the terrorists, we could say, suffered a defeat in Iraq."

From Dick Cheney's remarks:

"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists. One of them was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who has also boasted about his beheading of Daniel Pearl. We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country, things we didn't know about Al-Qaeda. We didn't know about Al-Qaeda's plans, but Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few others did know. And with many thousands of innocent lives potentially in the balance, we did not think it made sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time, if they answered them at all."
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"Intelligence officers of the United States were not trying to rough up some terrorists simply to avenge the dead of 9/11. We know the difference in this country between justice and vengeance. Intelligence officers were not trying to get terrorists to confess to past killings. They were trying to prevent future killings. To call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who have saved American lives and to cast terrorists and murderers as innocent victims. What's more, to completely rule out enhanced interrogation in the future is unwise in the extreme. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness and would make the American people less safe."

Read Rush's monologue which includes remarks from Dick Cheney and Barack Obama, and decide for yourself which administration's plans best protect the American people. Perhaps this administration needs the banner: