Posted by
Bert Chapman on Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:15:25 AM
Yesterday, we were reminded that Islamist terrorists still desire to kill Americans on a large scale and are engaged in a titanic existential struggle to impose Sharia on the world. Thanks to the courage of passengers on the Christmas day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit and thanks to the ineptitude of the attacker in seeking to detonate his explosive device near the end of the flight instead of just after the plane took off from Amsterdam, this was just a terrorist incident instead of a horrific attack with hundreds of fatalities. We should be thankful that an investigation will be conducted on the security breakdowns that caused the attack instead of having to look for the black box in Atlantic Ocean waters.
A number of questions must be asked. Why did the U.S. allow a flight which originated in Nigeria (a country noted for its lax airport security procedures) and presence of some Islamist terrorists, to come to the U.S? Was the perpetrator of this attempted attack actually on the "no-fly" list? If he was, why was he allowed to board? Why was such a poor job done inspecting this individual's carry on baggage at either Amsterdam of the flight's place of origin in Nigeria? Why was he allowed to carry explosive materials onto the plane? Throughout history our enemies have been emboldened by our expressions of rhetorical weakness or demonstrations of actual weakness when we're at war. During the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese government and Viet Cong took great encouragement from the antiwar demonstrations in the U.S. I expect Al Qaida and the Taliban take equal satisfaction when their useful idiots in this and other countries denounce our efforts to defend freedom.
This attempted attack is also a response to the Obama Administration's pathetic efforts to distance themselves from Bush Administration antiterror policies. The absolutely imbecilic decision to publicly try the perpetrators of 9/11 in a Manhattan federal district court, instead of executing these monsters in a Guantanamo brig, is one example of their failure to understand the nature of the conflict we're in. The multicultural political correctness of our airport security screening, which began during the Bush Administration, is a another sign of our weakness. We know that the individuals most likely to cause terrorist incidents on airplanes are Arabic, Farsi, and Pashtun speaking Muslim males and females. Yet we conduct detailed body searches on elderly women and other individuals who have no interest or ideological desire in blowing up planes in the name of Islam or any other cause. We are so afraid of racial and religious profiling and being branded as "racists" that we weaken our defenses against the individuals most likely to commit terrorist actions and kill Americans as we genuflect before the false gods of diversity and multiculturalism. We delude ourselves into thinking Islam is a "religion of peace" when its raison d'etre and modus operandi, since its origins in the Arabian peninsula nearly 15 centuries ago, have been to spread their religious beliefs by violence.
Yesterday's attempted attack, along with the Fort Hood murder spree by an Islamist psychiatrist, demonstrates that Americans are reaping the seeds of the Obama Administration's weakness in pursuing our enemies and understanding the existential threat they pose to us. Unless we jettison politically correct multiculturalism in our transportation security and military counterintelligence, their will be more attacks on American soil which will result in large scale fatalities. All individuals engaged in air and other forms of travel must serve as front line transportation security sentinels. It's time to wake up from the Obama hangover and face the cold brute reality of our rapacious Islamist enemies. The war goes on despite the howlings of our antiwar critics.