Our government, militants and 9/11

By Joseph DuPont, Towanda, Pa.

Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 | 2:03 a.m.

How can anyone say with a straight face that our government is concerned about the Islamic State attacking us on the homefront when officials keep our southern border wide open and portray the Fort Hood attack as common workplace violence?

We armed and funded variants of these Muslim extremists as they toppled Egypt and took out Libya, and now they’re working on toppling the government of Syria for Saudi Arabia — the same country implicated in the 9/11 Commission report for the training and housing the men who flew planes into our buildings on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now President Barack Obama is surprised the Islamic State militants are so powerful after he armed them.

Can you imagine how powerful the Islamic State would be had Obama, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham gotten their way and bombed Syria for these extremists?

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark said he was told 10 days after Sept. 11 by his replacement that the government had already formulated a plan to take out “Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.”

Where is a real liberal when you need one? Where is a real journalist when you need one?