Could I suggest that folks use a phrase more suitable to context, such as “so-called right wing extremists” because if we’re talking about people like the Oklahoma City bombers, there was nothing really “right wing” about those guys, more like paranoid anarchists. They sometimes attach themselves to the fringes of conservative groups but this is mostly because they heard at some point in their mis-education that anything anti-communist is “right wing” and they feel anti-communist so they look for conservative groups to join. By definition, conservatives (which is what people like Wolf Blitzer mean when they say right-wing) are not terrorists. We conserve, not destroy. You can be as far right as anybody out there but if you have an agenda to blow things up out of anger and hatred, then that’s some other ideology than conservatism. My guess is that in this case, it’s an Al Qaeda offshoot, or a wannabe group in that sort of mode. If it turned out to be “home-grown so-called right wing extremists” then we need to make it quite clear that there is no place for such people in conservatism and they can say what they want but we didn’t invite them in.
We have to stop letting the left frame the debate (right wing terrorists), which causes us to defend why it wouldn’t be right wing terrorism. Instead, we need to be pushing their buttons. Why not OWS? Why not the radical leftists who riot and protest the world trade org, world bank? They destroyed Seattle a few years ago. Why not an organization like weather underground?
GREAT point, and here in Boston, we have some historical background with anarchists . . . and bombs. Granted, it's 100 year old history, but the anarchists and Galleanists were all very active here with bombing at the close of WWI and into the 1920s.
That said, it also ignored the connection between Nichols' wife (Phillipina) and possible connections with Abu Sayef in a Khobar Towers style vehicle bomb as the alleged cause of the Murraugh Building Collapse.
Then, too, over 100 accounts of something rising up before Flight 800 came down, intersection the flight path, from witnesses on the ground, in the air, and on the water were ignored while we were sold a cartoon telling us the center fuel tank blew up. The journalists who snitched a strip of recovered seat fabric which tested positive for PETN residue were incarcerated for their efforts and we were all told it was a leftover from testing bomb sniffing dogs. Yeah, right.
The Clinton administration did all it could to ignore Islamic terrorism, and tried to deflect that which it could not ignore onto "Right-Winged" groups. Within hours of the Okalhoma City bombing he was apologizing to CAIR and the hunt for the John Does stopped.
The necessary military expenditures could not be made for a war the administration had no idea how to conduct and still damage the military he and Hillary continue to hold in contempt.
It was not until there was an undeniable act of Islamic terrorism on our shores with readily visible attribution that there came a reaction, and by then (thankfully) the Clintons were out.