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6:15 PM, May 21, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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Andy McCarthy writes:

President Obama's speech is the September 10th mindset trying to come to grips with September 11th reality. It is excruciating to watch as the brute facts of life under a jihadist threat, which the president is now accountable for confronting, compel him forever to climb out of holes dug by his high-minded campaign rhetoric - the reversals on military detention, commission trials, prisoner-abuse photos, and the like.

The need to castigate his predecessor, even as he substantially adopts the Bush administration's counterterrorism policy, is especially unbecoming in a president who purports to transcend our ideological divisions.

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