The War Against Terror, in case you forgot

It’s been easy to forget that the war against terror is actually a war against terror the last few years while Iraq and Afghanistan became (and still are) political footballs. With the Left trying to call the war “imperialistic” and “immoral” they seem to forget that there are folks out there trying to kill us all. The action in Mumbai last week has brought that home to those of us who remain sane. While IVAW and World Can’t Wait (the Maoist-rooted communist organization) were protesting the war in San Francisco, innocent people were dying in Mumbai for no other reason than to shock the world. Gateway Pundit writes that the death toll may reach 300 after scores of bodies were found stacked in some of the hotel rooms.

At least four of those killed were Americans. Not American spies, or American military personnel, but just Americans. Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi were probably the same types who were protesting in San Francisco (Washington Post);

Alan Scherr was an art professor with a comfortable life in the Maryland suburbs, but he spent 25 years studying Transcendental Meditation in a quest for something more. The search took him and his family to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where they shed their old life in Silver Spring and meditated in the complex of a New Age mystic.

Rabbi Gavriel N. Holtzberg, 29, and his Israeli wife, Rivka, 28 were apparently bound with telephone wires before they were executed in the Mumbai Jewish Center (Washington Post);

“They were killed,” whispered Yeshiva boys just out of school, holding scooters and book bags.

Grown men turned and strode away, suddenly tearing up.

“I don’t understand how this works,” said Yosef Rodal, 18, a yeshiva student who said Gavriel Holtzberg was a distant relative. “How do bad things happen to good people?”

Four peaceful people murdered purely for the shock value – no military goals, no tactical advantage. Just mass murder – and the 200 known dead weren’t enough. The only terrorist captured alive claims they were going for 5,000 dead (Daily Mail);

Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were meticulously planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people.

He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages.

Well, no they weren’t really highly trained – anyone can pull a trigger and pull pins on grenades. A highly trained force would have gotten out alive after killing a lot more people. As Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive wrote last night these ten people were “not much more than chimps with an evil purpose”. Curt at Flopping Aces says they’re just run-of-the-mill cowards.

Does anyone think that ANSWER or World Can’t Wait or Not In Our Name are going to protest the people who sent the ten chimps out to kill innocent people? Not on your life. A few days ago, I got to listen to the same types defending Bill Ayers’ domestic terrorist activities as a logical result of American foreign policy. They damn sure aren’t going to condemn foreign terrorists.

In fact, The Nation finds a Pakistani to condemn American and Indian State terrorism as the reason for the attacks. In between rants about ‘Hindu facism” and in the typical sleight-of-hand language of the terrorist apologists in this country to which we’ve become accustomed, Humayun Gauhar writes;

Group terrorism is a last-resort cry of a people long oppressed. Poorly armed, in utter desperation, they turn their own bodies into bomb delivery systems for lack of cannons, missiles, Predator drones and helicopters armed with Hellfire Missiles, fighter jets and bombers that State Terrorists have. They don’t have Daisy Cutters so they make ‘Improvised Explosive Devices’. India is one of the biggest State Terrorists of them all. Pakistan is the biggest victim (and sucker) of both State Terrorism and group terrorism, a hapless country that always becomes a frontline state in a superpower imperialist adventure gone wrong in return for millions of ingrate refugees to share scare food with and thousands of foreign terrorists and freedom fighters pushed in by the failure of State Terrorism.

So as long as it remains perfectly legitimate to kill innoncent people in large numbers to make a point, we can’t expect the Left to engage in meaningful discussions about how to defend ourselves since everything we do in that regard seems to be the wrong answer. If we can’t agree that there’s no rational justification for murdering innocents, I guess there’s nothing to talk about.

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