The Bush Administration was harshly criticized by the left for broadly expanding the powers of federal government to protect the American people from the immediate threat of global terrorism.

Now, the Obama administration is seeking a broad expansion of federal powers to seize non-bank financial firms to protect the American people from the immediate threat of grave danger to our personal fortunes.

What’s the difference? The former was intended to ensure foreigners who had ill intentions towards our nation were restricted in their freedom to continue their mission. The latter is one more step towards government control of our lives.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032400847.html?hpid=topnews

According to the Washington Post (link below), the Global War on Terror is over. In just over two months into the current administration, the focus of our troops deployed to the Middle East is no longer on destroying the evil of terrorism.   Apparently, terror no longer exists as a threat to the national security of the US. Our troops are no longer engaged in a war on terror; they are merely involved in an innocuous “Overseas Contingency Operation.”

What a great idea! Why didn’t we think of this before? Rather than face the reality of the situation at hand, we can simply change the reality by calling it by a far less distasteful name. We don’t want to offend any of our “allies” throughout the world, so we simply rename the mission for which our troops have been sacrificing for the past six years.

It will make it far easier to justify bringing home our military units when they are merely involved in a contingency rather than a war. Unfortunately, the “contingency” will continue for the people of Iraq, finally freed from a brutal regime and finding their own way with a newfound taste of freedom. Once the US moves out, the serpents will move back in to squeeze the life from this new freedom.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/23/the_end_of_the_global_war_on_t.html?hpid=news-col-blog