11-13-2009

COUNTER-TERRORISM: Ignoring The Threat Does Not Make It Go Away: One can imagine army commanders, confronting what the FBI described as a “potential” terrorist, realizing that in the current political climate, disciplining (or discharging) a Moslem army officer would endanger the careers of the generals involved in such a decision. So nothing was done, until the terrorist made his move.

Tom McGuire: The NY Times front-pages a mini-debacle – Peter Galbraith, adviser to John Kerry and Joe Biden, has been getting rich off the advice he has been giving the Kurds…If this had been an advisor to Dick Cheney, libs would be leaping from tall buildings. Instead, the Times is utterly and absurdly opaque on the Biden connection.

Charles Krauthammer: The delicacy about the religion in question — condescending, politically correct and deadly — is nothing new. A week after the first (1993) World Trade Center attack, the same New York Times ran the following front-page headline about the arrest of one Mohammed Salameh: “Jersey City Man Is Charged in Bombing of Trade Center.” Ah yes, those Jersey men — so resentful of New York, so prone to violence.

Major Hasan Embraces Tradition: Major Hasan was not satisfied with all the advantages America provided. He wanted more, and he found the road to mass murder in the exhortations of Islamic radicalism. It was all someone else’s fault, and they must pay.

So Now Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Is A 9/11 “Suspect”

The latest version of the ‘Trial of the Century’: Criminal trials for those who make war on the United States? Still trying to be the “anti-Bush,” Obama is an idiot for trying this. Where to begin in criticizing this idiocy? If you thought the OJ Simpson trial was a circus, you’ll love KSM’s coming extravaganza. Lawyers, salivating over 7 figure advances for book contracts. Ditto the judge. Ditto the prosecutors. Double dittos for the jurors.

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