Will the Next Attack Get Our Attention?

American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2007 | J. Peter Mulhern

[neverdem]

He hasn't announced any plans to engineer regime change in either Syria or Iran.

Democrats are gearing up to make a lot of noise in support of ignominious withdrawal from Iraq before gracelessly accepting the inevitable reality that the Commander in Chief calls the shots in wartime. This way they hope to appease their defeatist constituency without having to take the fall for yet another surrender and the blood bath that would certainly ensue.

The entire discussion is surreal.

IMHO, it sounds like we're up the creek without a paddle.

[weegee]

We've had more jihadis in America killing Americans. It has always been labeled the work of lone nuts. No ties to any common mind poison that is Islamic Supremacist ideology.

The concern is that there will be a "large" attack (and not just a disruptive and lethal series of attacks like the DC sniper duo). But then we are back to John Kerry's acceptable nuisance level of terrorism. I wonder how many murders committed by the KKK would be acceptable if he were president. It is the same thing, a supremacist killing those who are "inferior".

[txroadkill]

Ping for later read

[gr8eman]

Nobody who matters has been willing to identify the people we need to fight, describe their motivations accurately and explain how we can defeat them.

Stopped reading right there...the authors misconception that no one who matters has been willing to identify the people demonstrates exactly the problem that exists. If the intelligent, hard working people who have expended great energy to research the facts of the situation (Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn) do not matter then the problem will only be evident when mushroom clouds appear on the horizon...and then still...people like the ones on CNN will say it is all a Neocon plot!

[FLOutdoorsman]

'people like the ones on CNN will say it is all a Neocon plot!'

What would you say if the stated goal is to attacks us and we keep a undefended southern border.

Sounds like a plan to increase the power of the Gov't under the use of a Terrorist attack.

/sarc??

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate
This does not insure "good" government; it simply insures that it will work.
But such governments are rare, most people want to run things but want no part of the blame.
This used to be called the "backseat-driver syndrome."

LAZARUS LONG

[TheLion]

"The entire discussion is surreal."

Especially when one pulls out all the stops to keep the borders open.

[tomnbeverly]

Will the Next Attack Get Our Attention?

Maybe. The way I see it unfolding is like this. Democrats will win the Presidency in 08. They will come up with some grand appeasement plan to get us out of Iraq and the Middle East. Al-Qaeda will celebrate, regroup and strike again only this time with weapons they obtain from Iran potentially radiological.... When that happens with 50k or more dead American Civilians all I can say is George W. Bush will be vindicated. So how do the Rats stake their political future against this inevitable reality? That is the question.

[neverdem]

Stopped reading right there...the authors misconception that no one who matters has been willing to identify the people demonstrates exactly the problem that exists. If the intelligent, hard working people who have expended great energy to research the facts of the situation (Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn) do not matter then the problem will only be evident when mushroom clouds appear on the horizon...and then still...people like the ones on CNN will say it is all a Neocon plot!

Why do you believe Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn have any effect beyond the like minded? It's not that I would not wish that they were read by everyone. I wouldn't mind it. But they are not.

[DB]

In general I agree with this assessment.

It is like watching a slow motion train wreck. It is obvious what is coming, yet no one is willing to actually do what is required to stop it. I'm just glad I don't live in a major city.

[Old_Mil]

Another terrorist attack will no doubt point the finger of blame at the Bush administration for allowing 100,000 new Muslim immigrants to legally enter the United States per year following 9-11...and who knows how many illegally, given his inaction and unwillingness to build a wall on our borders.

[TigersEye]

The Dems have already made their bed on the WOT issue. If it goes as you say, Dem Pres and Congress when the next big one comes, they will completely mismanage the domestic consequences resulting in chaos which rips this country up for a while. Either way the Dems are toast. If W finally actually takes the gloves off and cleans some clocks in the ME the libs will look like the fools that they are. If they take the reins they will end up looking worse. They've charted a treasonous course they can't back away from.

[blondee123]

If 9/11 didn't get their attention, nothing will! It is a slow motion train wreck, are we (FR) the only ones who realize it?

[wildcatf4f3]

Here I am. I'm your next Churchill. over here! pick me!

[TYVets]

I'm just glad I don't live in a major city.

Or downwind from one.

[DB]

"Downwind" is a highly variable condition.

Normally we are not, but sometimes we are.

[DB]

There's always the chance the next hit will be in Washington while congress is in session...

[TYVets]

You are 100% correct.

There are no guarantees in life.

[bjcintennessee]

ping

[gotribe]

Bush will never be vindicated -- he'll go down in history as the architect of a disaster. He has spent the entire last three years fighting a limited war and giving the democrats complete leeway to oppose this war and create an opposition that is now completely entrenched across economic, ethnic, and political divisions.

Bush still talks more about how we should save the iraqis than he does about how we should kill -- yes KILL -- islamic fundamentalists. Seriously, who gives a rip about the iraqis? They and their form of government have never been the reason we are fighting terrorists.

Bush is the worst communicator as president I have ever seen. He has yet -- after five years -- to define victory against terrorism in a way that has any meaning and value to Americans. Because he won't define it, we won't defeat it. He's lost his moral authority in my opinion.