Ground Zero Insanity

This one is from No Sheeples Here:

"The Ground Zero mosque is not a bridge for peace. If it were, it would not open on September 11th within walking distance from the hole where America’s heart is..."

Thank you for the much-needed reminder, No Sheeples.

So many have forgotten what happened on that day, it's almost hard to believe that it hasn't even been 9 years yet.

The 9/11 attack(s!) weren't just an assault on a random target in lower Manhattan. Remember the planes that went down in Virginia and Pennsylvania?

Those men were going after the heart of our society that day... it was an attack on all of Western Civilization. The attackers weren't a little band of wingnuts, cut off from the rest of the world. They were part of an international islamic network that is still alive and well.

The people who want to build a mosque at ground zero aren't interested in dialog and healing. If they were, they would be talking. Where will the money come from? Why build your mosque in the debris field of the most horrific attack in American history? Why are you insisting on ripping open "old" wounds?

Defiance does not foster good will. Silence does not engender trust.

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Listening to Liberals: an Exercise in Folly

The war in Iraq may be drawing to a close, but the war against common sense rages on.  For a good summary of everything wrong with the liberal view of the global war against Islamist terrorism, look no further than Rosa Brooks' sloppy Op-Ed column published in the LA Times on December 4.

In this column, Brooks lumps together the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Virginia Tech rampage, the D.C. Sniper attacks, 9/11, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the first century Zealots of Judea to make a few asinine points:  

• Terrorism has been around for a long time: "Get used to it"
  
• Disturbed adolescents, crazy ideologues, and international networks of radical Islamists are all pretty much of the same species and can be neutralized with "sober" law enforcement tactics. Military conflicts are unnecessary and, in fact, probably make things worse by "effectively lump[ing] together many different organizations motivated by many different grievances."
  
• By responding to terrorist attacks with decisive action, were are "lashing out," and this "increases the psychological effectiveness of terrorist tactics."
  
• Appeasement is the ultimate solution.

Leftists (including Obama & friends) need to be educated to understand that international Islamist terrorism is a unique, serious and deadly problem much like a metastatic cancer.  

To treat metastatic cancer, careful efforts to make an accurate diagnosis and to assess the extent of the disease must be followed by an aggressive and individualized treatment regimen. The goal of course is to KILL the cancer and spare the patient.  

Similarly, to deal with the problem of international Islamist terrorism, we must identify the problem accurately, continously assess the growth of new terrorist networks, and persue aggressive efforts to target and KILL the terrorists.  

Confusing the activities of sophisticated networks of well-funded international Islamist terrorists with the cowardly acts of homegrown sociopathic murders is as dangerous as misdiagnosing a deadly cancer.  No problem can be effectively addressed if it is not properly identified.

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