Well, let’s see: in the past couple of months, Islamic terrorists have had two successes and a scary near-miss—at Fort Hood on November 5, aboard Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, and in Afghanistan last week. Do you have any doubt that if they happened on Dubya’s watch, the media would have been swarming over him, like blackflies in the Maine woods? But with the light-skinned, non-dialectical Mr Obama in charge, the story is played rather differently: hey, no big deal! This very morning, the New York Times has a ‘news analysis’ arguing that ‘the politically charged clamor has lumped together disparate cases and obscured the fact that the enemies on American soil in 2009, rather than a single powerful and sophisticated juggernaut, were a scattered, uncoordinated group of amateurs who displayed more fervor than skill’. (The suicide bomber in the 'Stan isn't part of the 'analysis'.)
To be sure, our chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are vanishingly small. I'm really not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be. Shall we set al-Qaeda aside as a nuisance on the lines automobile accidents and the seasonal flu, or do we conclude that the war again terrorism has been won? Blue skies! – Dan Ford
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