"But you can't keep a city or a country on lockdown forever."
Another month, another terror attack. This time Brussels. This time a coordinated attack of an airport and subway stations. And the perps? Anyone care to take three guesses? Hint: it was not Norwegian Lutherans. Already some are blaming what is happening in Europe on their "open border" policies. Just like in the Paris massacre, bad guys can come in hidden, riding on a wave of refugees.
I always equate a terrorist attack to sucker punching someone. Or kicking a guy in the groin when he is not expecting it. Anyone can do it, and the results are most always the same. Hitting an unsuspecting soft target loaded with innocent men, women and children is the most vile of acts. Yet, they keep happening. Most often, by the same type of people. And because many of us in the United States and Europe are all wrapped up in PC knots, we are powerless to stop these attacks.
Terrorist have a saying - "You in the West may have a watch, but we have the time." And that is exactly what I suspect happened here. Right after the November Paris attacks, Brussels anti-terror experts must have picked up some valid "G2" that an attack in Brussels was imminent. So the entire area went on "lock down" for days. But you can't keep a city or a country on lockdown forever. Life must go on. And it did. Then this morning, the coordinated attacks came.
What did we learn from the horrific attack in Paris last November? Not much. The attacks just keep on coming. Practitioners of asymmetrical warfare know one thing for certain - using conventional warfare, they do not stand a chance against any country in the West. However, using the "suckerpunch" method of terrorism, it works just about every time. Why? Like I just said, life must go on. Staying in a lockdown mode your entire life is not life at all.
What should we do? Surrender to the Caliphate? Give up our faith? Our way of life? Or will that be enough? Just like the alien said in the movie Independence Day, maybe they just want us all to die.
One more thing about this never ending War on Terror. The reaction to the lack of action by Obama is someone like Donald Trump. He does not want to understand the enemy. He does not want to play nice. He does not want a "COEXIST" bumper sticker on his cars. Nope. His words - "I will bomb the s..t out of ISIS". And, "I will go after the families of terrorists."
Our solution to terror must be somewhere between a Barack Obama and Donald Trump. To continue with the Obama doctrine would mean a continuance to the terror status quo. To accept the Trump doctrine would make us something less than what we are.
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