On Christmas day, a terrorist came perilously close to successfully staging an attack within the US. The administration has set out to carefully review how this attempt could have taken place, with the President vowing to strengthen the system protecting Americans and to hold his administration accountable for its mistakes. Within a day, conservatives had begun discussing preventive war on Yemen, confidently asserting that Obama's policies had caused the attack, and using the incident for fundraising purposes.  For the sake of Americans' security, conservatives should abandon these dangerous tactics, and take up the administration's call for unity in countering the terrorist threat. 

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In the last nine months, American soil has not been attacked, perhaps the most significant plot against the U.S. since 9-11 has been stopped, key terrorist operatives have been killed, and operations disrupted, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and global support for the U.S. has skyrocketed. But prominent neo-conservatives Liz Cheney, daughter of the former Vice President, and Bill Kristol have launched a new foreign policy initiative devoted to attacking President Obama. Subtly titled “Keep America Safe (KAS)”, the initiative is more about defending the Bush administration and its failed policies than advancing approaches that would enhance American security.

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