Time for Thorns

This  group of Muslims  planned to blow up the London Stock Exchange.   Honor killings are  part of the same religious belief system,  too.

While we’re on the subject of radical Islam,  it’s apparently news  that the Taliban  wants to take over Afghanistan after we leave,  something His Oneness  can’t wait to assist  them with by ending combat operations.   Pakistan is as usual  denying anything  to do with any and all of it.   Obama is also wanting to transfer more Taliban fighters from Gitmo to Qatar.  Obviously ending only a single war without achieving victory wasn’t enough.

And AEI reports that  the Taliban reconciliation  among its various elements in Pakistan is less than the unification which has been so widely reported.

That would be FBI analyst William Gawthrop,  who got caught telling  agents to ‘forget Al Qaeda’ and ‘go after the  Death Star’ of Islam.

Mr Gawthrop will be punished by the PC police,  but he is right.

John Podhoretz has an  interesting piece  on the purpose of 9/11.

Hollywood hasn’t been supportive of our troops,  but certain people,  like actor Gary Sinise,  got a wake-up call on 9/11  and did something about that.

Watch  Sen.  Macro Rubio  reflects on  the event.    Cesar Conda gives us  his view from  the White House.   Judge Michael Mukasey has a  different perspective.    IBD wants to know what  the Saudi role  was,  a question still largely unanswered,  which is suddenly pertinent again.

The Anchoress has some  very good links  for you.   America has made  considerable progress  in fighting terrorism,  though I don’t agree that we have lost none of  our civil liberties  in the process.   I concur with Stella  Paul’s views on  how 9/11 gave us His Oneness.

Finish with a feel-good story about  a boat lift  larger than the one at Dunkirk.

British spies  hacked into an  extremist e-magazine,  and replaced its bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.   I hope our cyber security people share that sense of humor.

This reminds us  why it is worse than useless to utilize the United Nations for anything of consequence.   The irony,  of course,  is that tyrants and progressives love putting the UN into play for their own purposes,  which are never to solve the ostensible problem.

It suits most of the member nations to never have terrorism defined,  so that their own regimes,  legitimate and otherwise,  don’t run afoul of the magic words.   And after all,  if you ever get around to defining terrorism,  somebody just might expect you to get up off your collective corrupt,  incompetent asses and do something about it.

UPDATE:   Richard Miniter points out what I was thinking with his view  of UN war  involvement.

Absent Andy McCarthy’s  warning,   I would never have believed the Reuters report,  and would have wasted a lot of time searching for attribution to The Onion.

This is the same John Brennan who couldn’t hack it in the Bush Administration,  but still thinks he’s the smartest terrorism expert in the world,  whose boss is the smartest president ever.    And they both think there are moderate elements in Hezbollah and are looking for them in an outfit still designated a  “foreign terrorist organization”  by the U. S. government?   This is hardly Brennan’s first foray into insanity.   Liberal,  but admirably hard-headed Michael Totten accurately  terms this a snipe hunt.

Andy also points us to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air,  who  reminds us that the group has killed a number of Americans,   yet His Oneness is reaching out to it,  not Israel.    Not to mention that the murderous thugs are  promoting themselves hrough “Jihadi Tourism.”

Daniel Pipes has a  jolting post to The Corner pointing out the absolute refusal of almost everyone to assume that the Times Square bomber was motivated by ideology rather than mental illness or some sort of emotional upset.

And bless Pipes for mentioning a pet of mine — if you won’t name your enemy,  you can not defeat him.   Avail yourself of the wealth of information available at  his home site,   here.

Why do we still need a  government program to train people to use common sense and be observant?    It made sense right after 9/11 to tell people some things to be especially aware of,  certain behaviors  we were used to ignoring.    Did we really become so accustomed to a lack of successful attacks that even with the Times Square jihadist we no longer notice oddities?   Yet another government program destined for eternal life.

Perhaps we should send His Oneness and his cabinet through the program next.   Their instinct is to claim lone wolf or lunatic,   or perhaps a Tea Party member.    An Islamic terrorist is so far down their list because acknowledging what extremist Islam has stated plainly it means to do would  requires a violent shift in their worldview,  one which I do not judge any of them capable of.

Dennis Prager has a  knockout column on the failure of the Left to understand the evil of extreme Islam,  while assuming that the Tea Party movement is evil itself.

If  this is true, what a huge deal!

But if His Oneness is suddenly getting a clue,  Ralph Peters’  observation may be at least partially answered by the first link.

UPDATE:  Or maybe a different high-value target has been helpful.  Marc Thiessen’s  piece raises some interesting questions I’m sure His Oneness will not want to answer.