“Bush will rise only if history veiws a small band of Islamists that killed a few thousand people in the West as a great enough crisis that Bush’s domestic disasters,” comment by C-fudd

More Americans killed in this event than at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese naval air forces left a mess in their wake.

Also, it was just one large event in a long chain of them going back to 1979. Airline hijackings, Marine barracks’ bombing in Beruit, kidnapping and murder of CIA and embassy personnel, Khobar Towers, embassy bombings, Mogadishu, “maybe” even involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing, 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the U.S.S. Cole, and others…

When the worst one happens on your watch and there’s a pattern to the jihad, either you put your foot down or you continue to do what prior administrations did: appease. It must be said that President Thomas Jefferson’s decision to give the Muslim pirates the cold, hard steel rather than continuing to pay the jizya was politically unpopular, even when the jizya was about 20% of our Gross Domestic Product in those days.

We have a long history of appeasing Muslim terrorists and it was time for another American president to either take it up the **s or dish it back. Otherwise our deterrence posture would continue to deteriorate.

Oh, and dose joooooos had to be behind it all…