"At one point in my life, I thought the Zombie Apocalypse was a bunch of phooey. No longer..."
What in the world happened to our War on Terror? Is it over? Our President has told us so. The War on Terror is dead - over. Then in the dark of night, when nobody was looking, the dead came back to life. Welcome to the Zombie edition of the War on Terror....
As usual, some of the bigger news stories are released during a busy period or a holiday weekend. This Fourth of July weekend we found out the resurgent Al Qaeda offspring (ISIS or ISIL) is doing things other than re-writing the maps of the Middle East. It is also coming up with bombs that are very hard to detect, yet powerful enough to take down an airliner. For that reason, a new terror alert was issued this weekend to cover inbound aircraft from certain parts of the world.
One of the news stations had an analyst trying to explain the gravity of the situation. In his words, the new bombs could be infused within electronic equipment and remain undetectable unless the device was turned on. Factor that into how long it will take to get through a TSA line. In addition, due the number of people fighting for ISIS that have US or Euro passports, has raised concerns that these measures might have to be initiated in the United States as well. Can strip searching by the TSA be far behind?
Last night on one of the talk shows I listen to, a couple of pundits who I really respect were talking about how our President is reacting to this new surge in the War on Terror. They both agreed he was paralyzed in his actions. Be it fear, be it playing to parts of his PC base, be it still the "anti-Bush", he is doing nothing. Meanwhile, in Syria and Iraq, all hell is breaking loose. Now their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is sizing up Jordon. Hey - once a caliphate is declared, you cannot have countries nearby that are secular and modern. Hear that Saudi? You might be next after Jordon!
Obama's world view on the War in Iraq was to exit "stage left" as soon as possible. In a chess game where a good player thinks many moves ahead, this guy barely was able to pull off the first move. The fact that when we left (absent) a Status of Forces Agreement, was of no consequence to him. He was warned by many on the Right and even some of the Left that evil was lurking, and waiting for the fragile peace to unravel. We left, the peace unraveled, and now we have a mess of historic proportions.
Just an editorial word about Iraq. I have said before this war was justified as it was a continuation of the Gulf War once the United Nations truce was broken by Iraq (many times). Some say Iraq would not be in this mess if Saddam was still alive and in control. I disagree. He was the head of a secular state that was antithetical to the way many Islamic purists (like ISIS) think. I believe Iraq would have been a target for the caliphate with or without Hussein.
Barack Obama is now making Woodrow Wilson look like a warmonger. We are spectators, or bystanders if you will, to events happening in Northern Africa and the Middle East that will shape our world for many years to come. Some believe the War on Terror is really the start of World War III. They might be correct. No, this is not the Zombie Apocalypse. This is much scarier, much worse, and ladies and gentlemen, this is for real.
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