President Obama has described this event as terrorism. He learned his lesson on that one. Odds are that he will still wonder what motivated two young men to do such a thing. He may even spike the football saying that the criminals have been brought to justice, assuming we actually get the second killer. We may even hear something like: “the criminal justice system worked.”
But the problem is that it didn’t. It didn’t work because the terrorists were largely successful. They managed to kill three people, injury more than 170 others and terrorize a nation. That is the problem with the Obama approach to this subject. We arrest people after they have completed their mission.
There is no mystery as to the motivation behind this attack. They told us. They are both devout Muslims. They are both filled with hatred for anyone or anything that is not Muslim. We have already know, that like a lot of other Muslim terrorists, there is an association with a radical Muslim cleric:
Odds are they were also motivated by the bomb instructions graciously published in “Inspire.” That was the point of the article.
It should be no surprise to anyone that two brothers with this background turned out to be terrorists. This is not exactly the first time something like this has happened. So while the TSA was busy patting down 85 year old grandmothers along with infants in strollers at Boston Logan, no one seem to notice that two terrorisms were casually walking through the crowd at the Boston Marathon carrying backpacks loaded with bombs.
At first the main stream media was thrilled to learn that the terrorists are white. They didn’t look like Muslim males, so the liberal left thought their prayers of a non-Muslim terrorist had been answered.
In the meantime the Tea Party was also active last night. They were getting together to help the victims of that fertilizer plant explosion in Texas:
It is easy to see why Janet Napolitano is so concerned about violence from what she calls right wing extremists.
I can pretty much guarantee that Janet Napolitano will declare that there is no evidence that this is part of some bigger plot. I doubt that President Obama will even hint at a relationship with Islam. I don’t know if they will do this because they are hopelessly naïve or because they are simply unwilling to tell the truth. Some in the main stream media may even try to portray these two Muslim extremists as Russian freedom fighters, conveniently ignoring the Muslim connection.
But the truth is there for all to see. There is a segment of Islam that is radical and it is out to destroy the rest of us. I am certain that most Muslims, particularly in the U.S. are peace loving people who are equally abhorred by these events. We cannot and must not lump all Muslims into the same category. But we must also not ignore the obvious reality that radical Muslim is most definitely a threat and we ignore that to our peril.
TDM