Tim Sumner

Political wind, War on Terror

Edwards is so over the ‘War on Terror’

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Former Senator John Edwards makes a lot of promises; if it is a problem, he’ll create a government program to “fix” it. With him as the Commander-in-Chief, Osama bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda will need good lawyers except he never says how he is going to get them into court:

Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a “global war on terror,” calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained American military resources and emboldened terrorists.

In a defense policy speech he planned to deliver at the Council on Foreign Relations, Edwards called the war on terror a “bumper sticker” slogan Bush had used to justify everything from abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison to the invasion of Iraq.

“We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq military that is mission focused on protecting Americans from 21st century threats, not misused for discredited ideological purposes,” Edwards said in remarks prepared for delivery. “By framing this as a war, we have walked right into the trap the terrorists have set—that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war on Islam.”

With John Edwards as President, ours would be a parade field military. That ought to scare our enemies into submission.

American jihad

Tiny lunatic fringe here adds up to a big threat

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Michelle Malkin, in this morning’s New York Post:

So, why are younger Muslims turning on their countrymen?

The answer, the blame, lies with their educational diet. The jihadi recruitment videos they can download on YouTube. The jihadi social networks on MySpace. The apologist lessons they consume in p.c. schools.

The numbers should be a wake-up call, not another excuse for the mainstream media to downplay the threat of homegrown jihad.

The poll comes on the heels of the Fort Dix jihadi terror bust involving young, American-raised Muslims and the conviction this week of Muslim doctor Rafiq Abdus Sabir – born in Harlem, based in Florida – who had pledged loyalty to al Qaeda and vowed to treat injured al Qaeda fighters so they could return to Iraq to kill Americans.

The tiny minority of jihadi sympathizers aren’t just sitting around stewing harmlessly about their beliefs. They are recruiting, proselytizing, plotting and growing.