A few
cheering thoughts on terrorism. This column specializes in cheering thoughts.
Terrorism
by Moslems in America and Europe cannot be stopped. If attacks do not occur, it
will be because nobody tried very hard. Stopping them would require excluding
Moslems, deporting them, or controlling them by totalitarian methods. Or,
improbably, minding our own business in the Middle East.
What you
think of the foregoing approaches doesn’t matter, since none of them will be
used. In France the result would be a civil war. America is too divided to do
anything about anything.
The notion
that the government can prevent terrorism suggests studied inattention to the
obvious. To begin, the intelligence agencies have proved useless. NSA did
not prevent the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993, nor the successful
one. French intelligence did not prevent the recant attacks in Paris, nor
Russian intelligence the downing of the airliner over Syria. On and on………..
What
goes on at airports is not security. It is Security Theater. When the
government’s own agents try to smuggle “weapons” aboard airliners to test the
system, they succeed
ninety-five percent of the time......
It is interesting to remember
that terrorism is not bad for everybody. For the Pentagon, Nine-Eleven was a
windfall, providing wars and new drones; for NSA, a massive expansion in its
powers; for Israel and AIPAC, the destruction of Israel’s arch-enemy, Iraq; for
the arms manufacturers, hundreds of billions; for the federal government in
general, near-dictatorship and, for jihadists, the involvement of the US in
crippling and endless wars. Which is what they wanted. Everybody profited
except the American public.
The future? Hard to say. As I
write, President B. Hussein Obama is endeavoring to import tens of thousands of
Moslems. It will be impossible to screen them, presumably making the
importation a free ride into the US for terrorists if they so choose. It is not
politically incorrect to note that the countless Moslem terrorists in recent
years have been countless Moslem terrorists. It is, however, true. The greatest
question about terrorists is not whether they can, but why they haven’t.
