The FBI arrested a man suspected of planning to carry out a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol on Friday. But the would-be suicide bomber, identified as a Moroccan national who resided in Alexandria, Virginia, was the target of a lengthy FBI undercover investigation and the public was never in any danger, FBI and Justice Department officials stressed.
I don't mind these operations despite worries that they are "entrapment" of otherwise law-abiding people. While we need to watch these operations to make sure they don't cross the lines to do that, these do increase the level of uncertainty for actual jihadis in seeking help and deter pro-jihadi people from acting on their feelings.
But my question is why did this young man want to bomb us? I mean, Bush is long gone from the White House; President Obama gave a lovely speech in Cairo to reach out to Moslems everywhere with an open extended hand of friendship; and we are completely out of Iraq--which supposedly was the one thing that really inspired Moslems to become jihadis. Heck, we even "led from behind" on Libya, where jihadis seem to be quite happy with the opportunities they now have there without American boots on the ground to defeat them.
What's their excuse now for wanting to kill us?
Oh yeah. I keep forgetting. The question isn't what sets them off. The question is what doesn't set them off?
