It's been nine days since the bombings at the Boston Marathon and with one perpetrator dead and the other
1. Overall, excellent police work. The suspects were identified, located and neutralized in four days with no additional loss of civilian life. (One MIT campus police officer was killed, sadly, and a Boston PD officer was critically wounded in the pursuit.) You can't really expect more than that.
2. The placement and timing of the bombs coupled with no claim of responsibility initially suggested a crafty, well-trained adversary but now we know that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were probably just partly-trained amateurs. Dzhokhar was clearly identifiable in multiple photos at the scene, he blabbed on his Twitter account the day after the bombings and both perpetrators remained in the Boston area, so if they had a plan to remain anonymous and quietly escape, it was poorly executed.
3. On the day of the attack, the legacy media like David Sirota and Dina Temple-Raston were practically wetting themselves in excitement, hoping against hope that the bombers were angry white guys like Timothy McVeigh, but five days after the Tsarnaev brothers were neutralized, I've seen nobody on the Left who made these accusations retract their statements. It's OK, then, to impulsively blame the NRA in particular and angry white guys in general for the worst terror attack since 9/11 because the Left just knows that's what the Right really wanted to do. That's not journalism.
4. Conversely, I've noticed the Left is disappointed that the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslims. No matter how many times Muslim terrorists attack us and our allies, no matter how many people they kill, no matter how many times they announce their outright hatred for America and democracy and Christianity, the Left is surprised when they follow through on their threats. As smart as liberals claim to be, ignoring piles of empirical data in favor of a political agenda is stupid, and deadly.
5. Since Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended last Friday, a parade of liberal commentators like Juan Williams, Chris Matthews and Dianne Feinstein are suddenly concerned about his civil rights. Jay Carney has defended the Justice Department's decision to try him in criminal court rather than remand him to Guantanamo Bay for interrogation as an enemy combatant, even though he repudiated his citizenship by taking up arms against his country and there's plenty of justification and precedent for doing so. This handwringing over civil rights is in line with liberal ideology, that treating terrorism as a crime and not an act of war demonstrates to the rest of the world that the United States is not a vengeful tyrant. The libs crave the approval of the international community, they want other countries to love us, they'll fall all over each other to protect the rights of half-baked bombers but simultaneously defend Priest-King's authority to kill American citizens with Predator drones on just the suspicion of terrorism, which only enflames Muslim sentiment against us. This fundamental contradiction in liberal philosophy - more concern for the rights of the murderer than his victims, advancing policies that cancel each other out - is what drives conservatives like me crazy.
6. As much as the Left doesn't want to admit this, it was Muslim ideology that drove the Tsarnaev brothers to commit this heinous crime. Maybe Tamerlan felt disconnected and isolated in his adopted country but that wasn't because he was mistreated. If he was radicalized by Anwar al-Awlaki, now dead at Priest-King's hands, and Feiz Muhammad of Australia, it was because violent jihad appealed to him, not because he was neglected and ignored and pushed aside. He was granted political asylum and various government benefits after he arrived in the United States, he became a promising Golden Gloves boxer with hopes of making the US Olympic team and his brother Dzhokhar attended a prestigious Boston area high school and earned a $2500 college scholarship, and despite their attaining UScitizenship, they never really assimilated into American culture and that is at the heart of the issue. Muslims have been attacking us for forty years because their ideology drives them to it. We are the enemy, we are the Great Satan, we protect Israel, we persecute the Palestinians, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and killed the great Muslim heroes Saddam Hussein, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the sheikh of sheikhs Usama bin Ladin. We represent all that has gone wrong with the umma. The Tsarnaev brothers detonated their bombs at the Boston Marathon, murdered a police officer and wounded another because we had it coming as far as they were concerned, regardless of how much the United States had done for them: If your adopted country gave you every benefit, then you still blow them up. That is what we are dealing with, and as long as the Left clings to their irrational belief that all human beings are good and reasonable and that tolerance and dialogue can overcome intractable cultural differences, then Americans will continue to die, for absolutely nothing.
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