July 09, 2002

Read John O'Sullivan on LAX Shooting on National Review Online
Was Hadayet an Islamist "terrorist?"
Of course he was.
O'Sullivan maintains that the Federal Government, in the form of the F.B.I., is more afraid of the reaction of the American Public than it is of the deaths of innocent Americans, Jews and/or Israelis that Arab Males have committed already and/or will commit.
His concluding paragraph says this:

In fact only one thing is likely to provoke the unfair suspicion and hatred of Muslims and Arabs that gives nightmares to Uncle Sam; namely, the fear of ordinary Americans that their government is not taking commonsense measures to protect them against terrorism because it is afraid of offending groups from which the current crop of terrorists comes.

Sooner or later--preferably sooner, President Bush (and his Administration) is going to have to come out and NAME THE ENEMY, be the name Islamo-Fascism, radical Islam, all of Islam that preaches jihad against non-Muslims, or a variation on all of the above.
When (dare I include IF?) he does, it will be Katy Bar the Door.
The global gloves will be truly off.
The "Arab street" will go crazy (like they haven't already! Their mullahs have been whipping them to a white hot frenzy, you can tell!).
But then and only then, will the U.S. start to make real headway in this War!
The consensus is growing in the American Street that we cannot continue to call our Foe "Terror" forever and expect people to be behind the War or even know what it is we're fighting.Of course, we all know who the real Enemy is.
We Americans know and the Arabs/Muslims know only too well.
It's the "elephant in the living room."And boy! Is that elephant angry and making great piles of crap there, too!
Christ said, "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free."
Not until we voice the Truth about who and what our Enemy really is--ISLAMOFASCISM and Islamists--will we feel free enough, bold enough and strong enough to FIGHT THIS WAR, abroad and at home.
I think that the American Public's reaction since 9/11 has more than shown our leaders and the rest of the world that we are patient, tolerant ADULTS and responsible Citizens and we can handle ourselves as Civilized Human Beings.
The downside of all this PC velvet-gloved treatment that the Islamofascists are currently enjoying sends them the message, however wrongly, that we are AFRAID and we are WEAK.
And you know what they do when they have *that* impression.
God help us.

[Thanks to Charles Johnson (again) for this link.]