Unable to compete in the world of free debate with transparent facts, liberals behaved like children this week, proving that in the end national security and even national identity are always subservient to their own ego, reputation and appearance.

It was pathetic, cowardly and sickening.

It is also far too typical.

Liberals, who in large part are people devoid of true substance and belief, who also have great contempt for God, morality and truth, are often unable to deal with facts that reflect poorly upon them. And using pathetic, self-serving, crybaby tactics is how they are commemorating this week, the fifth memorial of 9/11.

By now you've no doubt read all about the ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11" and some of what it will contain on Sunday and Monday evening. This no-holds-barred look at mistakes that were made in both the Clinton and Bush administrations will criticize decisions made and the decision makers in the run up to Sept. 11. Beginning just before the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, based upon the 9/11 commission's report, it will trace events that led up to the horrific event we commemorate this week.

Every insider I spoke to who has seen it has referenced it as "amazing, historical and important." Others have called it an "even-handed critique." It sounds to me to be very faithful to the original report.

But then came word that Bill Clinton and four of his top staffers objected to the way they were portrayed. But they didn't just object. They bellyached, they threatened, and in the end they were able to force ABC television to cave on some material that took a critical look at their role in the years between 1993-2000.

Something that particularly irked them was the implication that the Clinton administration allowed Osama bin Laden to escape. But this was no implication – it is fact. On at least two occasions, OBL was within our grasp but it was our lack of initiative that let him slip through our fingers. While Clinton was being serviced by an intern and Hillary was busy letting him, he bombed an aspirin factory in response to terrorist actions taken against us.

The Clinton staffers who squealed like pigs over the ABC series do so for the same reason they did most things when they were in power. The central focus of the Clinton years was not, "What is best for the nation?" It was always, "What is best for the Clintons and the people they liked?" As long as the dot-com boom held up we as a nation were told that the State of the Union was strong, even as our enemies plotted, planned and even attacked us – and no response came.

Now that the ugly truth is about to be seen by millions of Americans, and because it will embarrass those in powerful positions, Clinton and his staff demand the facts be changed to assuage the people's opinion of them.

And one of those making the demands is none other than Mr. "Stuff the papers down my pants" Sandy Berger.

But in reigniting this debate over the image of liberals in America, they have exposed themselves as something worse. Not only are they unable to deal with criticism – something all leaders must do to be effective – but they are a true danger to America.

The great sin of 9/11 was that we as a nation did not dare to imagine the destruction that our enemies could cook up for us.

In Clinton's time, his administration refused to!

And this holds true for us today. Where are the great voices from the Democratic Party ready to lead the charge to make America safe from the dangers of open borders? Where are the vibrant leaders in liberal America who are ready to deal justice to those who seek to kill Americans? Where are those on the ideological left who have any clue as to how to aggressively stop terror threats from re-emerging?

The few that used to exist have been run out of the party.

Because liberals are under the misguided notions that 1) there is no such thing as moral absolutes, good and evil, right vs. wrong, and 2) if we just take the time to talk to them we can get them to like us, they are not even aware that the "infidels" the enemy seeks to kill first would be their immoral, self-serving, hedonistic, wicked selves. And in that ignorance they are also blinded to the direct overtures the enemy continues to make – recently, even Mr. Ahmadinejhad saying directly, "Bow down to Islam, or you will be forced to."

Liberals are pathetic because they serve selfish, immoral purposes. That is also what makes them weak. In their twisted thinking they believe with all their hearts that such weakness is actually strength. And that perversion of reality is sealing their doom.

Their doom does not have to be America's end.

And, whether they realize it or not, by preventing them from regaining power, we are saving them from themselves!

Kevin McCullough's first hardback title, "The MuscleHead Revolution," is now available. Kevin is heard daily in New York City, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey on WMCA 570/970 from 2-5 p.m., and he blogs at muscleheadrevolution.com.