A friend there writes a newsletter and has much criticism for the liberals there who will not fight.
We are repeatedly told here that there is only a small Islamist threat--and all of that beyond the oceans in Baghdad streets and Afghan caves.
But the stark revelation of writers such as Melanie Phillips in Londonistan indicates the radical imams are busily recruiting jihadists worldwide.
The "media" has been and continues to be the propaganda arm of the treason party and of the enemies of America.
The case of Israel is indicative: the BBC (and to a slightly lesser extent, The New York Times and other American outlets) paint Israel as the oppressor and the occupier, paint the terrorists as "militants" or "freedom fighters"--thus paralyzing the appropriate response.
We are made infinitely less safe by this propaganda industry--which is the same one which paints our work in Iraq as self-defeating, exacerbating the problem, doomed to failure.
The treason party opposes every defense we take to be preemptive, leaking key security tactics, demonizing our troops (Haditha, etc.), bleating over nothing-burgers like abu Ghraib.
When the outrages occur, there will be no telling the American people today--post 911--that their children are victims of Ritalin or bullying or some lone outrider.