A Dread Revived: Terror in the Trunk

For years it has been a weapon of choice in hot spots across the globe, from Iraq to Sri Lanka to Colombia: Cars or trucks loaded with explosives, detonated in busy markets, public squares and government buildings.

One of the clocks used in the failed bombing of an S.U.V. Related Police Seek Man Taped Near Bomb Scene (May 3, 2010) Security Network Planned for Midtown (May 3, 2010) Bomb Squad Has Hard-Won Expertise (May 3, 2010) Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes (May 3, 2010) Bomb Squad Has Hard-Won Expertise (May 3, 2010)

Since 9/11, both law enforcement officials and typical New Yorkers have worried and wondered — why not here? They were simpler propositions than hijacked planes, and they could, as a result, have an even more destabilizing effect on the city and its residents.

SUV attempts to kill scores in Times Square; taken into custody

Mounting an offensive to reassure the public after the botched car bomb attempt in Times Square Saturday, Obama put Janet Napolitano on television Sunday morning. (File this under 'In case you still harbored doubt Obama is a moron.')

Napolitano told Fox News Sunday that there might possibly, maybe, perhaps be a way to 'seriously consider' the possibility that a car bomb parked in Times Square might've been an act of terrorism, rather than the usual smoking grand opening of an outdoor Barbeque stand. Though they're "not ruling anything out."

The car bomb that Napolitano seriously suspects might have been a car bomb was loaded with three propane tanks, a couple of filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, black powder, electrical wire, two clocks with batteries. The vendor who alerted police said he heard what sounded like firecrackers popping, so the possibility that the incident was an early jump on July 4th celebrations hasn't been ruled out either. Or how about May Day? After 9/11, you can never be too sure.

On ABC's This Week, Napolitano reassured America that we don't exactly have all the facts and don't know what happened, so "Times Square I think now is safe." She added "we are alerting state, local officials around the country, letting them know what is going on" about this incident "that we have no information [about] other than it was a one-off," and nothing more. She also said the border is secure. (And you were wondering why she gets paid the big bucks.)

Meanwhile, Obama has instructed his administration to closely monitor the situation in Arizona.

The Obama administration's default response to a terrorist event is to dryly deny any terror link, pooh-pooh any wider plot (within seconds after the event), pull hilariously amateurish flopperoo Napolitano out of storage to claim it's just an isolated, amateurish one-off flopperoo (move along, nothing to see here), avoid "racial profiling" and, if the culprit's name later turns out to be Mohammed or Hasan, drool about how wonderfully peaceful all Muslims are, and that (insert perp's name here) was just an exception who, anyways, loaded up the ol' SUV with explosives only when he snapped over zoning ordinances in east Jerusalem.

So, seconds after the arrival of reports that a white guy had been captured on surveillance video, the liberal default response was . . . request a huge blow up of the footage to see if that small dot on his red shirt was an anti-Cap-'n'-Trade "Tea Party" button.

The bloody attack outside an Arkansas military recruiting station last summer, plus the bloody Fort Hood shooting rampage in November, plus the botched Christmas Day airline bombing, and now the Times Square car bomb joins the fast-growing list of 'man-caused disasters' unlikely to have occurred were George W. Bush still President.

From the mouths of waterboarded captured terrorists and through "illegal" "warrantless" "wiretaps" the "failed" Bush chaps kept bagging the plotters and foiling the plots early enough in the planning stages that the state-runs routinely brushed aside the threats as 'set-ups' cooked up by the Neo-conic Fascist Zionist Texas Nazi Bush administration in its drive to eeevilly spread Halliburton's demonic hegemony over the planet. Foiled JFK airport terror plot? Set up. Foiled Sears Tower plot? Entrapment. Foiled Brooklyn Bridge plot? Evidence from "warrantless" spying, nuff said. Foiled U.S. Bank Tower (formerly "Library Tower") plot? Set up, or, hmmmm, plot not fully developed. Etc.

After 9/11, Bush counterterror ops so stupendously foiled every plot that libbies invented nutty plots to 'explain' why the system seemed to work. But with Obama you get Napolitano claiming Obama's botched reaction to the Christmas bomber showed the "system worked" and that Obama's inaction at the border has produced a border "as secure as it has ever been."

By the way, how's holding KSM's trial in New York City working out for ya now?

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