Andy McCarthy, responding to the fact that Imam Faisal Rauf was recruited by the Bush administration to help burnish America's image abroad:
Islamists were sent on State Department junkets and recruited to indoctrinate our agents and our armed forces in Islamic sensitivity. The State Department became transparently pro-Palestinian and pro-sharia — even helping establish sharia’s centrality to the new constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Clinton and Bush administrations regarded Islamist regimes like Saudi Arabia and Yemen as “strong allies” of the U.S. Clinton and Bush sought the holy grail of a grand deal with Iran, all the time overlooking or rationalizing the mullahs’ killing of Americans.
During this time, Liz Cheney was working at the State Department. By McCarthy's logic, Cheney was part of a pro-Sharia organization. Why aren't we investigating her? And why is McCarthy defending and associating himself with someone who held a former leadership position in a pro-Sharia organization? Obviously enhanced interrogations are the only way to get to the bottom of this. And just to be safe, the government should temporarily designate Cheney and McCarthy enemy combatants, and question them without a lawyer pursuant to Miranda's public-safety exception. After all, we have no idea what's coming, and we have to do whatever we can to Keep America Safe.
The problem with McCarthyism is taken to its logical extension; even the McCarthyists become suspects. Fortunately (?) for McCarthy, his tribalism acts as a shield against logic.
