Narrowing the Focus

The President seemed sufficiently aroused in his homeland defense speech yesterday to start to take al Qaeda seriously. There can be no doubt that these Wahhab-inspired would-be mass murderers are determined to inflict damage on the infidel and this must motivate our security services and animate serious action to declaw the next attack attempt. This renewed rhetoric of calling a war "a war" is great as far as it goes, but it may be missing the forest for the trees. These Sunni jihadists may not pose as great a threat as the Shia madmen who have been dispatched from Iran to cause us trouble since the Lebanon bombings when Ronald Reagan was President. Iran has made trouble for the US in Iraq, has made common cause even with some Sunni terrorists operating against us in Afghanistan, and is gearing up with a nuclear program that could precipitate World War III. Sadly, Obama is waking to only a portion of the threat and still not taking the totality of expansionist political Islam- world jihad, seriously. So with tunnel vision about a brush fire, the Obama administration is letting the barn burn.