The war of the ritards

Let’s review some of the events of the last year in the war against actual terrorists, shall we, beginning with the Christmas Day bomber who put a bomb in his Underoos that misfired and the only thing destroyed on that flight into Detroit was the possibility that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would be able to father more little bombers.

Jumping forward to May, in New York’s Times Square, Faisal Shahzad detonated fireworks in his recently purchased SUV and fled the scene, only to realize moments later that he’d locked the keys to his getaway car inside the bomb. The bomb fizzled, Faisal Shahzad missed his flight and he stayed in the country just long enough to foil his own escape. Meanwhile, federal agents discovered Faisal Shahzad’s identity, put out an alert to brother agencies and yet Faisal Shahzad was able to make it all the way to his seat through layers of security that were established to prevent such a possibility. During which time there was probably a 90-year-old lady being strip searched at that very moment a few yards from Faisal Shahzad’s arrest scene.

Last week, federal agents were able to arrest Farooque Ahmed, who federal agents were able to convince to do some terrorist-type work for them so they could have a reason to arrest him. Was Farooque Ahmed a danger? Yes, probably. The fact that he was willing to recon Metro stations around the Pentagon is probably a pretty good indicator that he was a potential danger to the people who lived around him. But it was no mean feat to get an arrest on Farooque Ahmed when it was probably federal agents, or someone who was working for the feds, who approached Farooque Ahmed with the plan in the first place. I’m just judging from the reports, not any special knowledge on the case.

And then on Friday, the Saudis called the US government and warned them about the mostly phony bombs that were on flights to Philadelphia and Chicago. The UPS employees on the first flight found the first phony bomb while the plane was still in the air and yet we get to hear Janet Napolitano tell us how she personally was responsible for no one being injured by the phony bombs…phony bombs that would not have killed anyone because they were phony bombs. Yes, yes, I know that they stopped some real bombs from reaching us, but wouldn’t that be reasonable after find the phony ones?

Well, my point about all of this is; so what? If all of those bombs had worked properly, or had they been delivered properly, they would have killed people. So this administration is taking credit for only being attacked by ritards.

The incompetence of the guy who either made the bombs or trained the bombers to make the bomb themselves, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, is worshiped in the media. He’s called a “master bomb maker”:

How can a guy who hasn’t had a bomb explode since the “ass bomber” who only wounded the Saudi prince get to be called a “master bomb maker”? The only thing I can think of is that he’s in a union which awards ranks of proficiency despite the incompetence of the person with the title.

And luckily for us, their incompetence has allowed our own government to brag about their proficiency at stopping incompetent bombers. That’s probably good that our ritards can stop their ritards from being successful, but I’m pretty sure that sooner or later, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri’s shop steward is going to influence him to make a working a bomb that actually kills people.

So instead of counting on the ritards to continue being ritarded, we’d better do something about gearing our security measures towards successful attempts.

Category: Terror War