The Threat Remains
Say it ain’t so!
Even though the United States elected a man the entire world could love. A man of change and the last best hope for hope. A man who wowed em’ in Berlin and had Parisians weeping with joy in their bouillabaisse. A man who had the whole world eating out of his hand like tame little does. Even though this man of vision and change is residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the Taliban still wants to blow stuff up and kill people in Washington DC. Go figure.
Since taking office just a few short months and a few trillion dollars ago, Barack Obama has signed a presidential directive to close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Began the process to relocate and repatriate the murderous thugs housed there. Promised an accelerated plan to remove troops from Iraq. Dropped any use of the term “war on terror” and made sure his Secretary of State did the same thing. Made a video explaining to Muslims around the world that this new president wants peace and understanding and is looking to bring relationships between America and the Muslim world back to the glory days of yore.
He stopped all the straight talk of President Bush which was erroneously blamed for inciting violence and creating all the bad karma around the world and replaced it with the smooth rhetorical babbling of a true pacifist. And still the leader of the Pakistan chapter of Taliban R’ Us has announced his intent to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S. capital.
Baitullah Meshud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban said “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world.” It is believed that Meshud and the Pakistan Taliban have ties to al Qaeda and have been responsible for numerous terrorist attacks within Pakistan over the past several years.
During the Bush presidency any time a terrorist with a bad attitude made any kind of disparaging remarks about the U.S., Democrats were quick to blame George W. for their bloodlust. But now that we have a full fledged pacifist in the oval office folks will have to start looking for new excuses for terrorist behavior. I am certain that GW will continue to get the blame for a while like a bad terrorist hangover, but even for the biggest Bush haters that will only be plausible for so long.
Meshud claimed responsibility for the recent murderous terrorist attacks within Pakistan and said they were due to increased American military drone attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds. He unfortunately did not explain all the other murders for which he and his merry band are responsible over the past 4 or 5 years.
The ongoing financial crisis has taken up most of the headline ink in newspapers and air time on news shows since the new president was elected. The critical point to this most recent dire threat is that whether or not we use the term “war on terror” there are still folks out there that are just looking for an opportunity to kill Americans. They don’t care if GM files for bankruptcy or if the AIG executives give back their bonuses. They are looking to kill, period.
All the “Why can’t we all just get along” video tapes in the world will not deter these zealots bent on the destruction of America and all that we stand for. The threat is real. These guys do not believe in change and their hope is for our demise.
It remains to be seen if al Qaeda has the necessary personnel and plan in place to actually carry out their threat. But with President Obama installing a political hack like Leon Panetta into the post of CIA Chief, politicizing almost every department concerned with national security and quietly eliminating the program that allows private pilots to carry firearms on commercial flights there may be more to this threat than just a Taliban chief having a bad hair day.
I hope the 7 years of safety we enjoyed under the Bush administration after 9-11 is not the change we were promised.
