Bob,

“Far better than the alternative Weary G”

No doubt, but its worse than depressing to think that, once again, the larger calamity could have been averted had the will to act NOW existed.

Hell, forget will to act. How about the ability to see the threat in the first place? After 9/11, and the following seven years of blatant evil shown by the Islamists, some of it even displayed proudly on video, there are many STILL thinking these are rational actors with some sort of legitimate cause.

WHAT crime is left for the terrorists to commit before everyone but the certifiably insane are forced to see them for what they are?

The willful blindness here leads me to one of two conclusions:

1) Mankind has a built-in self-destruct mechanism in its DNA.

2) Evil is an actual active force, clouding people’s minds as part of the plan.

Sound fantastic? Not anymore so than the mental contortions people, whether Reids/Pelosis on the left or Buchanans/Paul on the right, go through to come to their deluded conclusions that the problem is with us.