I guess that tide of war abroad receded all the way into Boston. I'm not sure this was the intended result.
Maybe we could fight the war instead of trying to avoid admitting we are at war. Pretending that killing Osama bin Laden solves the al Qaeda problem--as if the problem of Islamo-fascist terrorism can be restricted to the al Qaeda problem--is obviously an error.
Maybe we could keep killing jihadis; and if we capture them, hold them until they grow old and feeble--or until their comrades stop trying to kill us.
Further, like a counter-insurgency campaign, we have to take the lead in the fight until we can help Moslem societies strengthen themselves so that they can police themselves locally. Killing jihadis is a way to enable Moslems to police themselves by reducing the fear factor of standing up to too-numerous jihadis.
And maybe we could try winning the war before we need cavity searches to go get a snow cone at the mall or run 26.2 miles with a large group of people.
UPDATE: Related on the limits of what we know. While I don't think that being self-radicalized jihadis is any reason for comfort, we really don't know if the two bombers were part of anything bigger or not.
UPDATE: More related thoughts:
The Obama administration and most of those working for it have taken Islamic terrorism about as seriously as I am taking the Memphis Grizzlies/L.A. Clippers game currently on my TV — in other words, at best mildly interested. Not being a fan of either team, I could watch — I could switch to something else.
As I've long said, our president just doesn't think of himself as a war president. Why he thinks he periodically gets those casualty lists from his military advisors (He does, doesn't he? I still do.), I don't know.
UPDATE: And more (tip to Instapundit):
The Boston Marathon terrorist attack allegedly hatched by two brothers from Chechnya is threatening to disrupt President Obama’s second-term agenda.
Forfend!
Well then, perhaps the anti-war left can work up a little anger at these suspects, eh? This assessment, so soon after the bombing, is only a higher level of this self-centered blindness.
Will the administration finally raise the threat level (in their revised system) to Code Pink?
