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Errol Southers is the guy Barack Obama wants to head up the Transportation Security Administration. He has been embattled with some republicans to get approved because of allegations that he misused intelligence files for personal use. While that might be the case, is it more alarming what Southers’ opinions about the War on Terror are?

Hot Air has a video of an interview done with Errol Southers and Videojug.

In that interview, Southers explains that the “War on Terror” is a “political phrase” much like the War on Drugs. While I suppose one could argue that even though the War on Drugs didn’t fly planes into the World Trade Center, drugs have taken the lives of many in this country but isn’t it more a matter of choice to do drugs than to have a plane fly into your workplace and blow you to bits? One has to ask just how serious Southers would take his job if it means that another “Pantybomber” gets through security only to be successful in detonating a bomb is no different than missing out on a new shipment of heroin coming into the country.

We can further argue the case that Southers “don’t get it” when he says that the War of Terror deserves parity with global warming.

I do think, however, it [the War on Terror] deserves to perhaps have some parity with global warming, with education, with the economy, but national security is always going to supercede everything else.

My, how reassuring that national security is going to at least have some priority over global warming. Who can seriously muster up any concern over global warming when your family was blown to hell by a terrorist who slipped through all the channels aimed at protecting us. If our leaders are putting that much emphasis on global warming maybe it explains why the “Pantybomber” got a visa and was able to board a plane for the U.S., even though he was on a terror watch list.

I don’t know about you, but I would have a difficult time approving of Mr. Southers as TSA director if his view on the War on Terror is nothing more than a “political phrase” that deserves parity with global warming. I don’t think I’d have a lot of confidence boarding a plane with him in charge of my security.

Tom Remington

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