re: "PJ’s Poor Judgment"

Greg Gutfeld at Big Hollywood is experiencing an increasingly common symptom of distust.

Money quote(s):

"(W)hen I hear of an act of terror, an internal clock starts clicking.

I wonder, how long before we find out the suspect is a radical Islamist.

And then, how long before that affiliation is rejected as vital to the crime.

Witness the murderous acts against our military in Frankfurt: it was only a matter of hours before the killer’s links to radical Islam were exposed.

And it was only a few hours later, that we saw an Administration official dismiss that notion."

A/S Crowley (Colonel, U.S. Air Force Retired) has an unenviable job. I wouldn't take it at gunpoint. Well, not that anyone's likely to ever offer me any job anywhere near the assistant secretary level, but he has to walk a very fine line between needing to put lipstick (our lipstick) on a pig (our pig) and uttering any actual untruths.

Diplomacy can be like that.

Remember that we don't want the GWOT to devolve into an actual civilization-level all-out total war between the West and Islam. That's what UBL and Al-Qaeda would like.

(After all, an ideology designed to thrive in the 7th century might be just the thing to dominate the rubble remaining after such a conflict.)

Pres. Bush (43) got that (and several other big things) right.

"(A) killer can shout Allahu Akbar – just like at Ft. Hood – and the Administration still won’t “commit.” They only see a man with no affiliation–because decades of ingrained political correctness have taught them to be fearful of pointing out that affiliation. It’s bigotry, after all.

Look, making no mention of terror won’t make terror go away."

This is one of our American cultural blindspots, and it's something we can't afford to persist as a mental default position. At this point, short of firing squads the most effective remedy for this sort of knee-jerk political correctness is to ridicule it. Hold it up to the light and laugh at it; once enough comedians are poking fun at it and enough Americans realize what a laugh-line it is, it's bound to change.

re: "Obama Promises Inquiry on Airmen Attack—Huge Sigh of Relief"

Robert J. Avrech at Seraphic Secret ("blogging his way to... What?") echoes a growing sentiment of exasperation.

Money quote(s):

"Now come on, admit it, the first thought that popped into your head when you heard about an attack on American servicemen in Germany was that it must be a Mormon, a Catholic priest or a right-wing Evangelical who pulled the trigger."

Actually, the first thing I thought was to check my watch so I could start the countdown to the official FBI announcement of there being no connection to terrorism.

Then I had some thoughts about how this sort of attack, of people just outside of an airport's security screen, were recently projected as the next most likely targets.

"(I)t's really a mystery why this German-born, devout Muslim slaughtered American soldiers.
And as long as it remains a mystery—or a man-caused disaster—to Barack Hussein Obama and his clueless administration, we in the West will continue to be sitting ducks for the jihadists who are determined to destroy Western civilization."

JG - WARNING IGNORED! Despite airport-security audit prior to attempted hijacking, Jamaican authorities failed to plug loopholes

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

WARNING IGNORED! Despite airport-security audit prior to attempted hijacking, Jamaican authorities failed to plug loopholes

Published: Sunday April 26, 2009

>Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator


THE CRACKS and weaknesses in the security systems at the island's two international airports were identified long before 21-year-old Stephen Fray armed himself with a gun, walked through the critical checkpoints and attempted to hijack a CanJet aircraft at the Sangster International Airport, St James, a week ago.

Read the whole article here.