The most that can be said about the Boston Marathon
terrorist attacks and subsequent pastiche was that it made for interesting…no…riveting
television. At its worst, it is an
American tragedy on so many levels.
There are dead people, one a child.
There are severely injured people who will feel effects the rest of their
lives. There is the dead campus security
officer who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And finally two wasted lives of young men who
from all reports were talented and smart, one gunned down and the other facing
God knows what. What were they thinking?
In many ways this is worse than the Sandy Hook and Aurora
and Gabby Giffords shootings. The
perpetrators of those horrific acts were nuts, psychopaths walking among
us. But the young brothers who bombed
the marathon were sane, at least by common definition. They chose to do this. It was religiously and politically motivated. Their thinking may have been warped, but the
act of terror was deliberately done by choice to express a point of view.
America needs to come to its senses. There is evil in the world, and it is
currently operating under the guise of radical Islam. You can call them whatever you like, but those aren't Episcopalians blowing up a marathon race. We have reached the point where we can’t even
call it what it is. The Associated Press
banned its reporters from using the word “Islamist.” Political correctness is trumping all common
sense. Granny’s breasts are being felt
up at airports yet the FBI, alerted by another country two years ago to problems
with the eldest brother, literally let these guys walk away with no follow
up. Had they done their job, they would
have seen the terrorist propaganda posted on You Tube, and the radical teaching
of Islamists posted on Facebook; put there by the elder brother who they
supposedly investigated. The fallout
from this is just beginning.
Unfortunately both Benghazi and the Boston Marathon don’t
follow the current administration’s narrative that the war on terror is
over. In fact, the opposite is
true. Maybe Al Qaeda’s structure has
been diminished to a degree, but most of the activity is at lower levels. They may or may not be capable of pulling off
another 9/11…at least not now. But they
are more than capable of small scale attacks against soft targets. Boston will be the model in the foreseeable
future…until Iran gets Nukes.
The Obama administration has taken the position that
America’s greatest threat is homegrown terrorism, and not of the type that just
happened in Boston. Obama and crew are
convinced that terrorism will come from right wing militia groups, white
extremists and Tea Party types. His adviser David Axelrod commented that Obama’s
initial reaction to the bombing was that it was “tax day.” His Homeland Security Agency has purchased
enough bullets for twenty years, and a fleet of armored vehicles. This predilection also manifests itself in
his preoccupation with semi automatic weapons.
He wants to know who owns them and limit their effectiveness as he
builds a civilian army.
Meanwhile, these young men took the best America had to
offer and gave back to America their worst.
America needs to take a lesson.
The ethos of Suspect 1 and Suspect 2 were formed
by a twisted system. These young men
studied in schools that celebrated diversity instead of commonality of American
culture. Look at the family life of
these young men, raised by somebody other than their parents in God knows what
circumstances. At some point, their
religion took a turn to the extreme.
They were traveling back and forth to Chechnya with impunity. Our government was warned but political
correctness got in the way. They posted
their extremism online for the whole world to see…and we did nothing.
Here are the politically incorrect solutions to the
problems:
1) America
needs to celebrate the melting pot theory of one common American culture rather
than “celebrating diversity.”
2) English
needs to be the common tie that binds the culture.
3) Profiling
needs to be included as one defense against terrorism no matter how abhorrent
it may be to us. With deference to the
Muslim community, Muslim males between the ages of 18 and 30 need to be
scrutinized if traveling back and forth to areas where terrorism is taught, and
that is just the way it is.
4) One of
the brothers was sworn in as American citizen two years on ago…on 9/11. How did that happen?
5) Visas
to students from Islamic countries need to be checked and re-checked and
re-checked again.
The solution to terrorism is common sense. America needs to come to its own senses, then
use some common sense. Otherwise we are just sitting ducks along a marathon race route.
