Monday, December 28, 2009

Still Not Clear on the Concept

The New York Times, writing of the Yemen government's battle, with our help, against jihadis, writes of the campaign:

In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.

We opened the front? Huh. I thought the jihadis opened that front. We're just joining the fight. If we hadn't joined the fight, would Yemen not count as a front if it just sent terrorists to our shores on our planes?

What does our enemy have to do in order to convince some of our people that we are at war with relentless killers who we need to kill wherever we find them? How on Earth can you think we are responsible for this--or any--front?

We just want to be left alone. We fight because our enemies won't do that.