Take Threats Seriously

Law enforcement efforts met with some derision in the recent past. When a small group of black Muslims was accused in Miami of hatching a harebrained scheme to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, the charge became fodder for jokes. Although the allegation, did not result in convictions, it had to be scrutinized, investigated thoroughly, and if it had turned out to be an authentic threat, prevented at all costs. A terrorist does not need to have attended a training camp in Pakistan or be a military veteran to pose a real threat. Some plots become successful because law enforcement thinks they are so improbable that they only make halfhearted efforts to investigate them. Even after flight instructors became suspicious of men of Middle Eastern origin who wanted to learn how to fly large commercial jets but showed no interest in learning how to take off or land them, officials at high levels showed little desire to ascertain why and that contributed to three thousand deaths on September 11, 2001. The Washington D.C. snipers, Malvo and Muhammad seemed more like blunderers than steely-eyed terrorists but proved to be quite deadly. Every threat must be divined, evaluated, and thwarted.

Recrimination and Regret

The author is dismayed to report the ascendancy of our leftist leader. He gratuitously included homosexuals in tonight's remarks supporting my contention in this blog that he intends to overturn traditional morality by force of law. He pretends inclusion, but his victory portends at the least, the marginalization of those with religious values who would bridle at the idea of gay marriage and privileges in employment for the practitioners of this profligate lifestyle. According to ABC's Brian Ross, Obama and his national security team (a sad oxymoron) intend a hasty draw down in Iraq to focus on Bin Laden. Bin Laden is a figurehead in whose name acts of terror will only increase if he is martyred or caught. The real enemy is expansionist Islam whether in its Sunni Wahhab incarnation or Iranian Shia form. Obama offers no answers either domestically or abroad, only demagogic platitudes and chants of collective delusion and hysteria. "Yes we can" bankrupt the Treasury, destroy business, and invite attack. God save America.