The president referred to the Knickerbomber as an “isolated extremist.” By this time, it was already clear that young Umar had been radicalized by jihadist networks in London and fast-tracked to training in Yemen by terror operatives who understood the potentially high value of a Westernized Muslim with excellent English from a respectable family. Yet President Obama tried to pass him off as some sort of lone misfit who wakes up one morning and goes bananas. Could happen to anyone.
-Mark Steyn
"Knickerbomber" It would be even funnier if this weren't such a deadly business. -proof
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"Lone bomber" "isolated" "just snapped" feeds public uncertainty. Steyn is right on: This is quite explicable, no mystery here.
ReplyDeleteIs the government purposely trying to keep us off balance?
I think more likely that one of the geniuses in the Obama administration was seeking to avert widespread panic by telling Obama that he should blow smoke up everybody's skirt.
ReplyDeleteSadly it was the would be bomber who was bananas, but the commander-in-chief who is bananas. Stop and think about it. The bomber knew what he had to do and set a course and sought to follow it. The president, if you choose to call him that, says he's fighting terrorism, but refuses to allow questioning of this guy, by providing him with an attorney who promptly tells his client to shut up. Who is bananas here?
ReplyDeleteClosing Gitmo, giving lawyers and Constitutional rights to enemy combatants...I think Obama may have formed a suicide pact with someone and just forgot to tell us!
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