Pundits tut-tutted
when a left-wing publication (see Salon.com)
hoped out loud that white, anti-tax, domestic terrorists perpetrated the Boston marathon massacre.
They had reason to hope: Wouldn’t backwoods, pick-up-truck radicals pick tax
day for their strike? What a disappointment
to learn that the terrorists were young Muslim devotees of extremist web sites.
Such a liberal Wunschtraum was indeed in bad taste, but terror
incidents do have political consequences, sometimes vast; so why shy away from
discussing them?
The Oklahoma City bombing by
white anti-government terrorists resuscitated a faltering Clinton presidency. George Bush’s performance
at the ruins of the World Trade Center
in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was the high point of his presidency.
Boston
extremism should plague Barack Obama throughout his second term as it raises
legitimate question about his handling of the war on terror. It will help
Vladimir Putin remove the last vestiges of democracy and free press from his
totalitarian Russia without
a peep from the U.S.
The Boston Marathon attack undermines Obama’s claimed
foreign-policy achievement (“I killed Osama and Al Qaeda is on the run.”) on
which he based his campaign. A newsman as respected as Tom Brokaw refuted Obama
in clear words (on Meet
the Press) that could not be
misunderstood: “With the death of Osama Bin Laden, Islamic rage did not go
away. In fact, it is in some ways more dangerous.”
Imagine the effect of a Brokaw making such a statement on
the eve of the election, but Obama no longer has to face the electorate. He is
home safe.
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