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National Security Adviser: Obama Makes US Safer

Jones rejects Cheney, notion that new policies increase vulnerability

By Rob Quinn| Posted May 28, 09 7:33 AM CDT|

(Newser) – President Obama's policies have made America a safer place, his national security adviser said yesterday in his first speech since taking the job. James Jones cited strategies like the renewal of ties with allies and rejected suggestions the president had made the US more vulnerable, AFP reports. "No administration is going to suggest that their performance had made the country less safe," the former Marine Corps general said in a clear rebuke to Dick Cheney.

"I firmly believe that the United States is not only safe but it will be more secure and the American people are increasingly safer because of the president's leadership that he has displayed consistently over the last four months, both at home and abroad," Jones said. "He has said clearly and unequivocally that we are at war with terrorism and terrorism can take many facets."

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National Security Adviser James Jones delivers remarks on national security to the Atlantic Council in Washington yesterday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

National Security Adviser James Jones, a forner marine general and NATO commander, speaks at a briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington earlier this month. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert )

National Security Adviser James Jones said plans like the closure of Guantanamo Bay are making the country safer. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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ClearSight
May 28, 09 7:47 AM CDT

For every opinion like the one above, I've read one to the inverse. Honestly we have more to fear from our own government than we have from Islamic nut jobs or sawed off dictators an ocean away. Reply

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Citrixguy
May 28, 09 7:49 AM CDT

Well duh...what in the blue h*ll do you expect him to say???? - Hey Newser Reply

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Reader64481089
May 28, 09 8:08 AM CDT

Here is another "little studied article" that has been largely ignored for the past few (8) years some may find intriguing. http://www.aclu.org/about/26706res17870917.html perhaps we need to get back to the roots the country was founded upon? Reply

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Citrixguy
May 28, 09 8:41 AM CDT

ACLU = America criminal liberty union

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JaneMP
May 28, 09 8:09 AM CDT

Petraus (sorry about the spelling), Powell--General after general, military leader after military leader has said the same thing: we are safer with Gitmo closed and refusing to torture. Cheney is making us less safe by suggesting we are. Reply

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godawgs
May 28, 09 8:39 AM CDT

well of course, if it was such a big deal where was all of the crying and big ado when bush was in charge. they have to get inline iwht the party that is in charge. we will see how safe we are or the state of affairs with this North Korea issue that has popped up. I don't think that we are any less safe then we have been for the last 7 years.

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Reader65069154
May 28, 09 8:27 AM CDT

I feel a lot safer about the Korean peninsula with James Jones in charge. Reply

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Citrixguy
May 28, 09 8:43 AM CDT

What to buy the Brooklyn bridge? - You seem naive enough to believe it's for sale.

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Observer
May 28, 09 8:47 AM CDT

We are safer. Bush policies were disasterous - no other way to describe them. We are still fighting two wars he started. The costs are so astronomical that no one can say how much we are spending on what. Most of the world is at peace. Very few support our efforts in Iraq or Afghanistan. Very few. It is time we pulled out of both and let them rot or kill themselves. It is not our problem. Neither have any capacity to seriously harm us. The anomaly of 9/11 will always be a possibility. We need to worry about our internal state of affairs - the economy and the growing police state. Unmmanned surveillance, warrantless wiretaps, militarization of the police force. All the aspects of the Patriot Act which are anti-American and anti-civil rights. Join the ACLU and fight back people. Reply

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wwwonderer
May 28, 09 10:15 AM CDT

This is my problem with 'safety'. NO ONE is ever completely safe. There will always be the possibility of danger, intentional or not. Why not just EVERYONE a suit of armor lined with asbestos or some other fire-retardant. No matter how much u spend on TSA, Homeland Security, etc., there will ALWAYS be the possibility of a 9/11. The trick is to A) Put competent people in power, not loyal yes-men lackies. B) Try not jerk off the warnings that you do get.

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Rob
May 28, 09 6:05 PM CDT

Bush started one war, in Iraq. The Taliban was harboring a man responsible for killing 3000 innocent people, supporting an act of war against Americans on American soil. The war in Afghanistan was started by bin Laden and Mohammed Omar.

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Lula
May 28, 09 9:08 AM CDT

Sure we are safer. The Busg/Cheney administration tried to scare the bee-jeebers out of peope. Thank God, they are OUT. Reply

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TerrifiedCitizen
May 28, 09 10:09 AM CDT

There's a need to exercise caution when defending such an obvious course to not lord it over the human rights of others... the decision not to lower ourselves to torture other humans is mandated by a sane and healthy conscience, and not because it may or may not motivate bad or angry people to be better neighbors. If we tie torture too closely to any present or future national security, the door is open for evil forces to use the argument for bad when inevitable attacks transpire... Attacks of one sort or another will never cease, and can even be provoked or staged for political reasons. We aren't a better people because our own acts of terror cause us to feel some sort of artificial peace and security, we're a better people because we exact and exemplify a higher standard of human life... Otherwise, we're no different than the inhumane forces we call terrorists and enemies? Reply

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