Because We Don't Want To

Simon Constable is right to say that we must go on with our lives as best we can; that otherwise the terrorists win. Besides, the whole terrorist thing is beginning to get a bit fishy – like ‘global warming’, perhaps. It’s starting to resemble George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a world perpetually at war with shadowy entities (that could very well be we ourselves), pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, rewritten histories, manufactured fear, and the voiding of citizens' rights.

Even with his domestic policies in shambles, Barack Hussein Obama clearly is not about to give up on his vision for America. He will now concentrate on an area where he, as chief executive, has maximum power and discretion: foreign policy. Not unlike such Obama initiatives as wealth redistribution through punitive taxation; health care, cap and trade, banking and immigration reform, his foreign policy remains equally unpopular with the general public.

His approach to terrorism, for instance, is like Swiss cheese. Though, he never explicitly said so, (since the Van Jones revelations) it is now no longer unthinkable that Obama sides essentially with the 9/11 Truthers’ assessment of the incident. So, let’s stipulate (just for the fun of it), that the 9/11 was an inside job; that Bush did it to start a war in Iraq for oil and all the rest… I remember even Clinton supporters lamenting that 9/11 didn’t happen during his term; that he could have been a great president. So, let’s just say, for arguments sake that Bubba actually lit the fuse.

It seems to me that ever since Abdulmutallab’s father reported his suspicions about his son to the U. S. embassy in Nigeria, we did practically everything we could to bring the kid over here. Then we promptly made it so that he wouldn’t talk. We continue to subject our own people to criminal trails while offering constitutional protections and pro bono lawyers to self-proclaimed jihadis, affording them high-profile platforms from which to spew their condemnation of us. We purge our dictionaries of language. We muzzle our press. You know all the rest… And nothing makes sense anymore.

I ask you, which of the last three presidents had more cause to perpetuate terror as a tool for any reason? All three, perhaps; but certainly Obama, who has already shown his rogue colors in trying to foist an alien agenda on the American public.

I’m just asking, why would we implicate Bush in the 9/11 plot and leave out the possibility of Obama’s involvement in the 2009 Christmas Day outrage – or even in the 11/5/09 Fort Hood massacre?

As I see it, terrorism has become a convenient tool for our leaders to blame and destroy political opponents and bridle the public. Why else would we put up with it for close to a decade?

All these things have become suspect within my own mind. I recognize that in politics nothing is as it appears. I think there’s a good chance we’re being taken for a ride. There is no reason on earth why we, the most powerful nation on earth, couldn’t solve the issue of terrorism for once and for all. If we can set our minds to putting a man on the moon, and succeed; if we can bring down the Berlin Wall; if we can achieve the highest overall standard of living among nations, how is it we cannot deal with a handful of 6th century religious reprobates? How is it we let them walk all over us. How is it, we must bend over and take off our shoes at airports? How is it we must cower in fear in our own cities? How is it, we simply throw up our hands and tolerate color coded alerts, telling ourselves to march on obediently as if nothing were amiss? Why don’t we just marshal our forces and put an end to it as we did in World Wars I and II? The answer may well be, because we don’t want to.