Islamic terrorists are paying a high price for the July 17th bombings. Police have made dozens of arrests, and killed several key terrorist operatives (who opened fire when the police came after them.) Much carefully hidden terrorist infrastructure has been destroyed. Operatives who took years to recruit and train are now dead or in prison. Most importantly, the politicians and police have gotten a reality check. They had mistaken an absence of terrorist attacks with an absence of terrorist activity. Always ready to ease off on Islamic radicals (Indonesia is a pretty tolerant place), to avoid more Islamic conservative protests and demonstrations, the politicians now realize that the hard core Islamic radicals are implacable, and will not give up on their murderous goals.
Too many here mistake the absence of terrorist attacks on us at home with an absence of terrorist activity.
