Suspect 1, Suspect 2, and America

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.