The Obama administration says Osama bin Laden's death has raised the risk of anti-American violence worldwide.
Got it. Bin Laden dead. More danger. Cause and effect.
Wait. What? Killing bin Laden has made the world more dangerous for Americans?
But didn't Democrats spend more than half a decade complaining that we'd "taken our eye off the ball" by fighting in Iraq and therefore failing to devote our resources to finding and killing Osama bin Laden, the true source of our jihadi problem?
But now we are being led to believe that killing bin Laden only inflamed our jihadi problem?
I know this is difficult for State Department types and most Europeans to grasp. But noting that jihadis try to kill us whether we've ignored or killed bin Laden misses the point that the jihadis are trying to kill us regardless of what we do. It isn't about bin Laden's brain wave status or any other policy. We really haven't caused their hatred of us and we really can't appease them by doing something we aren't doing now or halting something we are doing now.
Much like trying to kill us whether bin Laden was alive or dead, the jihadis will keep trying to kill us whether we buy their oil or don't and whether we do this or that or don't do this or that.
So let's just keep killing the jihadis when we find them. We can beat them--and we could crush al Qaeda prime if we keep hammering them (tip to Instapundit). And try to make sure that the time we are buying will allow the Moslem world to defeat the jihadis within them and strangle the ideology that breeds that vermin (who victimize fellow Moslems far more than they hurt us, remember).
The war on terror is not about us and it never has been.
