We can choose to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil or take the necessary steps to do all we can to keep our country safe

Israel does the best job of screening and preventing terrorist attacks,
period. There is so much more we should be doing to protect ourselves.
Let it the this administration to take only steps to upgrade and improve
our protection. Is Obama afraid of profiling because we may insult
someone, a race, a religion, and ideology? Why should we care about
those politically correct, diversity and multiculturalisms if it prevents ONE
terrorist attack and save one American life? We need to be doing much
more than the steps taken by Obama and his band of wussies. It is like
closing the gate after all the cattle have escaped and run away.


Our Incompetent Civilization Sometimes we have to choose between evils.

By BRET STEPHENS

Wall Street Journal

When does a civilization become incompetent? I've been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an acceptable time frame.

But the question came to me again in Brussels on Sunday as I watched my children—ages six, four, and four months—get patted down before boarding our U.S.-bound flight. The larger-than-allowed bottle of cough syrup in my carry-on, however, somehow escaped our screener's humorless attentions.

Yes, the screener in this case was Belgian, not American. Yes, terrorists come in any number of skin colors, and they aren't above strapping explosives to their own children. And yes, the Obama administration took a half-step toward sanity by ordering additional screening of passengers from 14 countries, including Yemen, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, home of Flight 253 would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

But here's a predictive certainty: Not one non-Muslim from any of these countries (or others such as Egypt or Jordan, which were oddly excluded from the list) will ever become a suicide bomber. The localized case of Sri Lanka's Tamils aside, suicide bombing is a purely Islamic phenomenon. Note that during the whole of the intifada there was not a single case of a Palestinian Christian blowing himself up, making a nonsense of the view that Israel's checkpoints and curfews and security fences were the main cause of the terror.

Continue reading