Barone writes:
If you want to watch someone squirm, take a look at the two-minute videotape of Attorney General Eric Holder dodging Republican representative Lamar Smith’s question of whether “radical Islam” motivated the Times Square bomber.
Holder, who last year called America “a nation of cowards” for refusing to talk frankly about race, plainly didn’t want to say what is plain to everyone else, that Faisal Shahzad, back from five months in Waziristan, launched his terror attack because of his Islamist beliefs.
Holder has no business being involved in our war effort. But as I noted, this episode actually demonstrates that he is not involved in our war effort.
Funny enough, news from Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrates that a lot of Moslems would have no problem accepting that radical Islam motivates jihadis to kill even other Moslems.
In Afghanistan:
Militants shot and killed a prominent Muslim cleric who had called for peace in insurgency-wracked Afghanistan along with two members of his family, officials said Monday, the latest in a string of killings targeting figures perceived as pro-government.
Cleric Rahman Gul, his brother and a relative were gunned down in an ambush Sunday while returning to their homes in the Chapa Dara district of Kunar province, the Interior Ministry and provincial police chief Gen. Khalilullah Zaiyie said.
And in Iraq:
An Iraqi police official says assailants wearing Iraqi military uniforms beheaded a Sunni cleric and displayed his head on an electricity pole in the town where he preached against al-Qaida.
The police official says four gunmen stormed the house of Abdullah Jassim Shakour Monday morning and beheaded him in the town of Sadiyah, north of Baghdad.
But our government, and many on our Left, can't articluate why certain people seek kill us.
We're losing ground, people. After 9/11 our Left expressed bewilderment about why "they" hated us. Now they can't even figure out who "they" are.
