America on "perpetual duty" Overseas, not working

There's been increasing chatter on the Right that a purely defensive posture against Al Qaeda has not been working. Conservatives, and even some libertarians are beginning to argue that a return to the Bush doctrine of taking the fight to the enemy may be a more effective strategy.

Andrea Tantaros, a regular contributor on Fox News late night, and a known defender of Sarah Palin, goes after the Obama administration for foreign policy failures. Tantaros's new blog column, "America needs to match Defense with Offense," rips into Obama's lax policies over the Christmas Day bomber, Yemen, intelligence failures and Afghanistan.

From NewsMax:

he's been apprehensive about acknowledging the current jihad, or holy war... the approach of the Obama administration to terrorism: staid, backward-looking, largely passive, chock-full of blame-shifting and always on defense.

The President's agenda as it relates to keeping us safe is based on a laundry list of our problems: Guantanamo, the CIA, advanced interrogation. What's missing is the acknowledgment that al-Qaida is a problem, one that Obama is committed to fighting and defeating.

Liberals are mistakenly preoccupied with downplaying the threat of radical Islamic jihadism...

Obama may be a reluctant wartime president on matters of security policy, but being on defense means nothing without going on offense. America cannot be on perpetual duty, and we can't get where we need to be as a society by just playing defense; you've got to play both. And it can't be on our own.

Read her full column from Sunday, Jan. 10 at NewsMax.