We can never really “win” the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, or even a war on child abuse or pedophilia, and we don’t empower our police forces with the idea that these things can be utterly and totally eliminated by a certain date.

Agree with you on the unwinnablity of the War on Nouns.

Since organized terrorism can never be reduced to a tolerable level

I think it can but it would require doing non-liberal things like deporting all Muslims and then enforcing a travel ban. Isolating the Muslim world and weakening it. Muslims can opt-out of jihad if they feel themselves too marginalised to wage war.

Also: needless to say, this man should have been quietly put to death, like a rabid dog. Until we take these murderous vermin seriously, things will go badly for us.

Jaibones on July 3, 2008 at 9:04 AM

Amen to that. The political class debates the wisdom of a “law enforcement” approach to terrorism over the military approach, while events like this prove that not only is the law-enforcement model less effective, it’s the only system under which the terrorists have a chance of accomplishing their goals. Dead terrorists don’t get released early by idiotic judges, and any value to their evil cause that might come from “martyring” them is far outweighed by the value of a released senior operative coming home to share his experience, enjoy the adulation of his comrades, and recruit more young people into the terrorist fold.

In order for terrorism to prevail, it needs a way to keep its most experienced operatives alive, and a way to regroup in safety after it suffers losses. It needs an aura of immortality – the impression that the terrorists can never be defeated, that the campaign of murder will never be over, producing an accelerated version of the “war weariness” that affects any free society engaged in a violent conflict. The objective is to make the targeted citizens conclude that submission to the terrorists is more reasonable than continued resistance. Treating terrorism as a law-enforcement matter provides exactly these benefits to the enemy. Law enforcement is, by definition, a maintenance activity, not an energetic application of force designed to achieve a finite objective.

We can never really “win” the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, or even a war on child abuse or pedophilia, and we don’t empower our police forces with the idea that these things can be utterly and totally eliminated by a certain date. Instead, the police system is designed to reduce these crimes to a minimum level that society can tolerate (by which I mean society can go on about its business – obviously even one child murder is morally intolerable.) Since organized terrorism can never be reduced to a tolerable level, treating it as a law enforcement matter is doomed to fail, and the terror masters will slowly, inevitably, get what they want… starting with domestic leadership that openly states it plans to negotiate with them.

Funny you should say that, because I predict a train bombing in Londonistan’s near future, with U’s fingerprints all over it.

… is the height of politically-correct lunacy.

Coming soon to a city near you! Thanks, Lefties!

I’m sure peace loving man will just quietly go about his business of worshipping five times a day. There’s nothing to worry about, and if you ARE worried, then … then, you’re a muslim hater, and, and that’s a hate crime! (points finger) HATE CRIME!
Yeah, blowing up trains is ok, just don’t suspect anybody of doing it, that’s the REAL crime.

That leaves open plenty of possibilities for both Abu Qatada and U to connect with their networks once again through intermediaries and pick up where they left off in the war.

All the while laughing their heads off (ooooops, pun!) at the stupid infidels who set them free. If they pull off an attack, these judges need to be held accountable.

This is the same country that used to offer theives the choice of hanging or Australia.

Akzed on July 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM

This is also the same country who favors Obama as our next president over McCain by a 3:1 margin. Maybe they gave “U” bail so he could run off to America and become Barry’s VP.

Time to stick a fork in the Brits.

Britain wanted to deport U, but the courts have dragged their heels on that question for years. Instead, the man whom intel officials say trained AQ terrorists in Afghanistan before 9/11 now can relax in the English countryside.

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Now, apply that same logic to the Guantanamo detainees, and you have a glimpse at what liberals want to do to us.

This is the court system which informs leftists like Steven Breyer, a douchebag of the highest order and Clinton appointee. Wait, never mind who appointed him – the GOP appointed two of the four judges (Souter and the apparently senile Stevens) who voted in favor of repealing the 2nd Amendment last week.

We’re so screwed.

Also: needless to say, this man should have been quietly put to death, like a rabid dog. Until we take these murderous vermin seriously, things will go badly for us.