A bomb scare in Pittsburgh, and a real bomb in Times Square have put terrorism back in the news. Authorities caught a Pakistani man they believe drove an SUV full of propane tanks and gasoline into Times Square and lit the fuse. Had the contraption been given enough time, the propane tanks would likely have blown up and sent shrapnel at New Yorkers at supersonic speed. We dodged a bullet because a tee shirt vendor spotted the thing. I would be much more reassured had homeland defense stopped the bombing, but like the underwear bomber, this one slipped through the cracks. Many are questioning the competency of Janet Nepolitano. The primary question being asked is, are there enough resources being dispatched in the direction of radical Islamic terrorists, or are many of those resources being funneled away toward domestic threats like the Christian militia dopes who were arrested a few weeks ago.
Ideally, we would pay enough attention to each type of terrorist as necessary to prevent things like the Times Square bomb, but I think we all realize at this point that it's only a matter of time before someone slips through the cracks and detonates one of those bombs, and kills Americans. The Fort Hood shooter already slipped through the cracks, and he was about as overt as a radical can get without hanging a sign on his chest that declares he is a terrorist.
The administration seems to be determined not to provoke Muslims. They want to downplay any connection to Islam, no doubt in the hopes that Muslims will like us more, or at least hate us less. It is a denial of logic. Logic dictates that radical Islamists have not stopped their attempts to harm us. I know, I know, that's really going out on a limb.
While the are doing that, idiots like MSN, mayor Bloomberg, and Bill Clinton continue to insinuate that we the Tea Partiers are the threats. Our rhetoric is dangerous, they say. How long before they pull their collective heads out of their asses and admit that we are not the problem. We only threaten their spending habits, not their lives. The threats to their lives are elsewhere.
