As always, Steyn effortlessly makes a definitive argument for his point of view-—but he doesn’t touch the idea that
the timing may be an attempt to get in under the wire in the changing of Administrations. OR a test, done with enough “lag-time” til Jan. 20, to elicit some response from the new AMerican President. So far, correct me if I’m wrong, I haven’t heard anything from Obama about this.
If he continues silent, or offers just cliches, or marginalizes this as a local Indian/Asian problem, that will speak volumes. My guess is that there IS an element of “test” in this Mumbai mayhem. They are waiting to see whether we rush to mobilize beefed-up safety measures in our cities. So far, I believe I heard a little something about “more police at malls”. After all, Christmas shopping has already begun. And yesterday, “Black Friday”
proved we are only too capable ourselves of mini-acts of fatal terrorism that have nothing to do with ideology—there should have been police AT THAT WAL-MART controlling the stampeding crowd.
You must have missed it. Obama issued a statement saying that he is recommending a 2 Trillion dollar Mumbai bailout for Muslims. Nancy Pelosi has already sponsored a bill proclaiming Mumbai Muslim Independence Day to be celebrated on our 4th of July. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are co-sponsoring legislation to provide all Muslim terrorists with 100% mortgages with no credit checks as a show of good faith to the Mumbai terrorists. Joe Biden was confused and couldn’t find India on a map.