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A Napolitano Divided Against Herself Cannot Stand! by Ed Driscoll.
Quoting Ace:
“Al Qaeda has long had a fascination with big, spectacular, blow-your-mind attacks. The trouble is, they’re really difficult to pull off.
What many have been worrying about — me among them — is the day they figure out that big spectacular attacks are too difficult, and it’s far easier to just do a series of small attacks. Blowing up one plane. Walking into one mall and opening fire.
Napolitano had better realize that she can’t rely on terrorist incompetence to save us forever…”
Jihadists target airplanes because they know their medieval Death Cult could never produce one and it shames them, as does, well, just about everything.
But they also understand that airplanes are where we have to put our trust in other authorities, to both secure and operate the plane. They like the fact that passengers are to a degree helpless and that an attack, even an “unsucessful” one, undermines public confidence. (And they must surely attribute their great and good fortune to be treated as innocent criminal defendants with full Rights of Americans as the Blessing of Allah, instead of what it is: the Blessing of Obama.)
This is exactly why governments should concentrate on their core function of security and public safety, rather than trying to seize one/sixth of the economy.
Government, in America, anyway, exists to perform those few functions we cannot accomplish individually. We cannot field an aircraft carrier ourselves, for example. But we can run a health care system ourselves. In fact, most of the distortions in health care have been caused by government, not cured by it.
To Obama, terrorism is but a pesky, annoying distraction from The Real Statist Project: having Government Run Everything, Everywhere, All the Time.
But a government that tries to do everything ends up doing nothing particularly well, and can’t help but neglecting the few functions that truly are its responsibility. …………….
Amid many other great posts, Ed also has this one:
P.J. O’Rourke quipped in early January of 2009, “Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn’t president yet?” [obviously, it wasn't-N.] But at the end of the year, with plenty of benchmarks established, Hugh Hewitt declares it official:
[...]“2009 is the worst year for a president since 1978, which began with Jimmy Carter standing by paralyzed as the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran and ended as Jimmy Carter stood paralyzed as the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.”
You know who this helps? No–not Mitt Romney. It helps Jimmy Carter look like slightly less of a failure.
“Vote for me! I’ll help Jimmy Carter look like slightly less of a failure!” It’s something, I guess.
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