Well Said

Here is a must read commentary from David Harsanyi of the Denver Post, and you really must read the whole thing. He's writing about the Times Square SUV bomb and the absolutely idiotic response of so many political and media types.

Anyone who acts surprised that it was yet another Islamic Jihadi is retarded!

People like to blame Islamic terrorists for blowing stuff up or trying to blow stuff up because, well, 99% of the time they are responsible. Duh! If a Muslim finds that offensive that's just too bad, and if you believe in political correctness you're a moron anyway.

Even as investigators were hunting for the perpetrator of the botched "man-caused disaster" in Times Square, our cool Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was reassuring a frazzled nation that the failed bombing appeared to be an isolated incident — a "one-off" — and avoided the notion of (much less the word) "terrorism."

Thankfully, law enforcement agencies refrain from leaping to conclusions before they have all the facts. Not Janet. And citizens should not infer anything based on a litany of historical and anecdotal evidence, even after the fact, lest some group feel demonized.

Janet Napolitano is a moron. On her best day. She really isn't very bright, and I don't say that just because I dislike her and disagree with her. She doesn't know when to shut up, and she gives me a very bad feeling about the safety of the Nation. (FYI - I was and am opposed to the Patriot Act simply because government power grabs always end poorly.)

Mike Bloomberg? Dude, I thought you had a little sense.

"If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that," explained Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who has plenty of quarters to spare — during the investigation's early stages. "Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.

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It could be anything, said the mayor of New York City. A mentally deranged person, perhaps? Maybe some crazy from the fundamentalist faction of around 56 percent of us who opposed health-care reform. After all, in the deep recesses of some imaginations, conservatives are not above murdering hundreds of tourists to make a point about Obamacare.

Great line, huh? Maybe some crazy from the fundamentalist faction of around 56 percent of us who opposed health-care reform. After all, in the deep recesses of some imaginations, conservatives are not above murdering hundreds of tourists to make a point about Obamacare. Now I have some liberal friends who will think that is extreme. Yet there were liberal talk show hosts and politicians who said exactly that. The thin-skinned Obama crowd is all about demonizing the opposition.

Or it could be something totally unanticipated! Like Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized American citizen from Pakistan, who was taken into custody at JFK Airport in New York as he attempted to escape to Dubai. A senior U.S. official said Shahzad already admitted to interrogators that he received (not very effective) bomb-making tips during his five-month trip to Pakistan. Reason dictates Shahzad wasn't upset about reconciliation.

It is also clear that Shahzad worked "alone" in the same way that Nidal Hasan or Najibullah Zazi or Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab or that bumpkin who threatened the South Park creators or the 9/11 terrorists or Umayyad and his armies worked alone.

Man, that's like Johnny Carson-quality humor. These jihadis don't work alone. They are vermin, yet we treat them as if they have rights. They don't - not under the law of war. I believe we have authority to summarily execute them, and while I have reservations about the death penalty in the context of our own judicial system, in this instance I have none.

Seriously, what is the downside? If we were wrong the world would have one less guy named Faisal. No sane person would have any issues with that.

If I had to guess 25 cents, I'd bet the administration makes no mention of fundamentalist Islam even when it reluctantly admits we're dealing with "terror."

Ouch! Could it be that Obama and his administration are really just a bunch of pussies? (I'd give Rahm Emanuel a pass on that one. I don't like him and I disagree with him on most everything, but I don't think he is a pussy.)

Yet, such an obvious admission is neither a condemnation nor endorsement of any brand of foreign policy. It is neither a condemnation nor endorsement of the idealistic notion that we can "eradicate terrorism" nor the naive idea that a charismatic president can plead for friendship enough times that jihadists worldwide will be lulled into submission and awe.

After all, the administration has never been scared to call out despots and extremists, such as insurance companies, Wall Street executives, Tea Party activists and the Israeli government. This is the Department of Homeland Security that issued a report alerting us to potential violence from "right- wing extremists" who are ginned up about "illegal immigration," "federal power," and the Second Amendment. (So at least half of you qualify.)

Ouch again.

Insurance companies, oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street executives, Tea Party activists and the Israeli government? Evil.

An Islamic terrorist? Not so much.

To be perfectly blunt, we just have a bunch of folks in the media and in politics who need an ass-whupping. If they didn't get into fights as kids, well, they should have. It would have made them a little tougher, a little smarter.