The Insanity Goes On: America and Terrorism

The Insanity Goes On: America and Terrorism

Einstein’s now-famous theory of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, is in process of being proven as valid as his equally-famous theory of relativity and the leaders of Western civilization are its most proficient proponents.

America’s and the West’s policy toward Islamic terrorism and terrorists, if indeed it can seriously be considered policy, is fundamentally, and insanely, flawed and reactionary: We wait, they do something, we react. It can be reduced in equivalency to the advice many practical parents give to their sons when they are the victims of school bullies: If he hits you, hit him back or else he will continue to hit you, or worse.

Other parents instruct their kidlets to go tell a teacher or tell an administrator or tell it on some mountain, all of which tactics invariably result in Little Johnny being ostracized, labeled a snitch, being bloodied even more by the bully’s buddies and/or by the bully himself off schoolgrounds in a dark alley.

The chief problem for America and the West with employing either of those approaches is that America and the West aren’t being threatened by some snotnosed kid out to make a schoolyard name for himself or merely acting out some psychological issues. Radical Islamists are certainly out to make a name for themselves and are acting out of a deep-seated and perverted visceral fury, intermixed with a disturbed religious fervor, but their aims go far beyond those of a bully.

Their intent is not to bloody noses but to maim and murder Americans and Western Europeans, to destroy our basic institutions and the societies in which those Americans and Western Europeans live, and to establish a new, world, Islamic-sharia-Koranic order. And there is no one we can turn to to ”tell on” them.

Yet, as seen in the case of the recent Stockholm bombing and the multiple attempts to execute mass mayhem in the United States, from the “Underwear Bomber” last Christmas to the Portland “Holiday Bomber” last week, we patiently wait and wait and wait.

We seem to be waiting for another 9/11, or worse . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3070)