All That Is Necessary

Tag: Islamic Fascism

  • Obama: “Our Nation is at War Against a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred”

    Perhaps all of the criticism from Dick Cheney and others about a law-enforcement approach to terrorism has had a positive effect.  In his weekly address today, President Obama reprises one of the better lines from his Inaugural Address: It’s been nearly a year since I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and took […]

  • Christmas Attack Was an Act of War, But It’s Being Treated Like a Crime

    After allegedly telling investigators “there are more just like me who will strike soon,” Captain Underpants apparently has been allowed to lawyer up and stop talking. In the Wall Street Journal, former Justice Department official Victoria Toensing explains why this is madness: Abdulmutallab is in effect in possession of a ticking bomb, but we cannot […]

  • Honeymoon-Over Watch: He’s Lost MoDo

    MoDoIf we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?

  • Oh, That Nigerian Terrorist… Oopsie-Doopsie!

    So the latest terrorist is being interrogated, but why should we believe anything he says?  His pants literally were on fire! We can laugh because the terrorist botched the job, but it could have been very unfunny.  And while I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that intelligence agencies “should have known” about 9/11 in […]

  • Gitmo, Politics and Unintended Consequences

    The good people of Thomson, Illinois, are eager for the jobs that would be created if the Obama administration moves some of the prisoners held at Guantanamo to the Thomson Correctional Center. Ironically, the detainees themselves seem to want to stay put in Gitmo, where they get ample exercise under the Caribbean sun.

  • Not All Deaths Are Created Equal

    I could post about several entries from this week’s FDD Update, but I’ll confine myself to excerpting Cliff May’s takedown of a drivelous U.S./Muslim body count comparison.

  • Resolved: Western Civilization is Morally Superior to Certain Other Cultures. Discuss.

    Even though the bishop in question supports the comprehensive anti-gay legislation in question, he doesn’t actually WANT to kill gay people. He wants scientists to cure them. I suspect this qualifies him as a liberal by Ugandan standards.

  • The Folly of KSM’s Civilian Trial

    Krauthammer: What happens if KSM (and his co-defendants) “do not get convicted,” asked Senate Judiciary Committee member Herb Kohl. “Failure is not an option,” replied Holder. Not an option? Doesn’t the presumption of innocence, er, presume that prosecutorial failure — acquittal, hung jury — is an option? By undermining that presumption, Holder is undermining the […]

  • Senator Graham vs. Senator Clueless, on Trials for Jihadists

    Senator Leahy, don’t you think there are a few questions we might want to ask a captured bin Laden? Such as: "Dude, where you been hanging out all these years?" Or: "Any of your peeps have any plans we might wanna know about?"

  • Politics Outweighs Principle in Ordering a Civilian Trial for KSM

    It certainly can’t be understood as a principled decision. The administration intends to continue on the path of holding military commissions for other captured jihadists. I know of no way to articulate a principled reason for bringing some but not all terrorists into the criminal justice system.