Much as the left wants to believe it never even started, the fact remains there are people out there who want to kill all of us:
A Nigerian man, claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda, allegedly tried to set off an incendiary device aboard a transatlantic airplane Friday as it descended toward Detroit’s airport in what the White House called an attempted act of terrorism.
The man was quickly subdued after another passenger leapt on top of him, others on the plane said, and Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam landed safely around 1 p.m. Friday. The suspect was being treated at a hospital for burns he suffered while igniting the device, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The FBI is investigating the incident.
A good job by that alert passenger – not so good a job for the people who allowed the incendiary device through. We all, naturally, expect that the authorities are looking for whatever gap it was this terrorist slipped through. For those of who travel, please treat this as a reminder that the security checks are not just a tiresome bother – they are for a very real purpose. The enemy is going to keep coming at us until he’s defeated – and he’ll only be defeated when the Islamo-fascist worldview is discredited.
That worldview, by the way, won’t be discredited by making nice with Iran or demanding that Israel pull out of the settlements. It will only be discredited when a new socio-political settlement is reached in the Moslem world. Such a settlement must include at least a semblance of democracy in order that the wishes of the Moslem people – in secret ballot – can be known. As we’ve seen in Iraq, when Moslems are given a real choice they don’t tend to choose the people calling for Jihad. Even if we wish to believe that all Moslems are consumed with a white-hot hatred of America, the fact remains that in the day to day, Moslems want what everyone else wants: to be left alone to live their own lives.
President Obama and the rest of the liberals should pay heed to this happily thwarted terrorist attack and draw the proper conclusions. We are not dealing with man-caused disaster but with wicked men who want to do evil things and who are able to do so because of the injustice of government in the Moslem world. Only if this is grasped can rational policy be developed for dealing with terrorism.
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