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Here is my contribution to the cause: a letter to the editor of my local rag:

The President and the majority of our “state-run” media have ignored the first successful terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 and the death of an American soldier but have been quick to denounce and mourn and publicize the death of noted abortionist George Tiller.

Approximately 7 hours after Dr. Tiller was murdered, the President released a statement: “I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.” Then, he quickly directed his Attorney General to dispatch US Marshals to guard abortion clinics.

As I write this, over 24 hours have passed since the slaying of Army Private William Long at the recruiting station in Little Rock and I have seen no statement released by the President (Private Long’s Commander-in-Chief) on his behalf nor have I heard of any Marshals being dispatched to guard our recruiting stations. I just watched the President introduce his new nominee for Secretary of the Army on National television and neither could spare a few words to mourn the death of this soldier nor denounce the islamic terrorism which precipitated it. As far as interest expressed by the press; I will bet that prior to reading this, most of you did not even know the slain soldier’s name and probably less than 50 % knew the name of his attacker (Abdulhakim Muhammad) or this: A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier “because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.”

I have been pondering why the President has not publicly acknowledged the death of Private Long and three reasons immediately come to mind:

A) he is preparing to tour the middle east this week where i suspect he will continue to kiss up to the muslim nations and apologize for making them so angry and talking about this incident would detract from his mission.

B) He hasn’t given this soldier’s death a second thought, it just isn’t very important to him.

C) He does not want to acknowledge that a terrorist has conducted a successful attack on our soil within the first five months of his administration after the previous administration was able to prevent those attacks for seven years.

I suspect that the correct answer is all of the above. Whatever his reasons, the contrast between his actions in these two deaths graphically illustrates his priorities.