{"id":3555,"date":"2009-10-14T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2009-10-14T17:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:32:02","slug":"keep-america-safe-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/keep-america-safe-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"keep America safe<\/strike> scared…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Oh Lord! And I naively thought that Liz’s American Dominance<\/strong> theme was just a Sunday Talking Head Talking Point for Chris Wallace on Fox New Sunday<\/strong>. Looks like it’s going to be her life’s work.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Liz Cheney’s group ‘Keep America Safe’ takes on ‘radical’ White House<\/a>
Politico <\/strong>
By BEN SMITH
10\/13\/09<\/div>\n

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security. The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away from Bush era foreign policy on issues from detaining alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to building a missile shield in Eastern Europe. <\/p>\n

“The policies being proposed by the Obama administration are so radical across the board,” Cheney said. “Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you want the nation to be strong and so many steps this president is taking are making the nation weaker.” <\/p>\n

The new group will add institutional heft to a scathing critique of Obama articulated first and loudest by Liz Cheney’s father, and fills a void left by a Republican Party made skittish by the Iraq War, and apparently more eager to engage the president on domestic issues like health care. Its formation marks the end of an unusual partisan truce on America’s central national security challenge, Afghanistan, and after a presidential campaign in which Obama and Republican John McCain agreed on many security issues from Central Asia to Guantanamo Bay. <\/p>\n

Keep America Safe<\/a><\/strong> will focus on issues like troop levels<\/strong>, missile defense<\/strong>, detainees<\/strong>, and interrogation<\/strong>, according to Liz Cheney, who is heading the group along with Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and Debra Burlingame, the hawkish sister of an American Airlines pilot killed in the September 11 attacks… <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
A traumatized person has experienced an indelible life-altering event. PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder], the syndrome that follows, involves trying to do the only thing that would help – that the event had never happened in the first place. In working with a traumatized patient, how does one distinguish between things learned from the experience and patterns of behavior that are impossible, life constricting attempts to "prevent the past" – to "unhappen" the traumatic event? To tell a woman who was raped in a dark parking lot not to avoid such places would be the height of absurdity. But to challenge her running from any man with a plaid shirt because the rapist wore a plaid shirt, or avoiding all social contact because she might see a man with a plaid shirt, is part of helping her "recover"  [an actual example]. She will always feel a jolt when she sees a man with a plaid shirt, but she needs the tools to rationally evaluate her emotional reaction and keep it from ruining the rest of her life.<\/div>\n

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Such things happen in groups of people as well. France was decimated by World War I. After the war, they built a fortification that bisected Europe – the Maginot Line:<\/div>\n