By: Linda Case Gibbons
When George Bush dodged an Iraqi journalist’s shoe in Iraq in 2008, he wasn’t just showing off his good reflexes. He figured out why the guy threw the shoe.
The Iraqi TV journalist hated him.
So why is it so hard for liberals to swallow the fact that two radicalized Muslim terrorists blew up the Boston Marathon because they hate America?
If the libs cracked a history book, they would see that historically the goal of Islam has always been to take over the world. That hasn‘t changed. The goal of Islam has always been to convert the world to Islam. And yes, they hate America and want to kill us.
But the liberal left will not admit any of that. Instead they choose to be conflicted about these terrorists, wringing their hands in misery, seeking to understand "why” these "kids” did what they did.
Denying facts that are in play, Rush Limbaugh pointed out, CNN’s Erin Burnett insisted on describing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as "this all-American kid, who smoked pot, went to parties, a totally normal kid,” and whom the New Yorker’s Julia Ioffee said sadly "seemed out of place in Boston. He seemed to be alienated.”
"He’s still a teenager,” whined MSNBC’s Don Lemon, "He’s a l9-year-old; he’s still a kid.”
And in case you were focused on the dead and injured Americans in the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, CNN’s Debrorah
Feyerick hastened to remind us sadly, "This is a kid who is on a ventilator.”
What she didn’t say was he still had both his legs and arms, while others in Boston that day were not so lucky.
And all the while, all of the mainstream media types scrupulously avoided the dreaded words, "Islamic terrorists.”
It can’t help make you wonder: What world do these people live in?
New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, terribly puzzled and concerned about "why,” despite the carnage and heartbreak in Boston, decided to reach out to psychological studies on young men between the ages of 15 and their mid-twenties, who, for psychological or biological reasons, failed to make good decisions because of their "disaffection” and "inability” to do so.
"We have to admit what we don’t know and what we don’t know is how disaffection or even interest in radical ideas leads to an evil act.”
Huh?
How about what we do know about this miserable, dangerous pair, David? There are plenty of facts that outweigh your evaluation of them being "mixed up kids.” There are photos, and yeah, there is even a confession by Dzokhar if you cared to check.
Start there, David, start with the facts that are already out there, confirmed by law enforcement and you’ll have a pretty good picture, looking down from your ivory tower, and answers to your questions that none of us are interested in.
Yes, it’s hard to believe when you look at Tsarnaev the younger’s "baby face” that he blew up people at the Boston Marathon.
But he did.
Ask the fourteen people who lost limbs, the 264 people who were grievously injured, including eight children, the families of the three people who were killed. These typical "Islamic terrorists,” not innocent "kids” did that.
In the aftermath of any senseless tragedy, no one can believe living, breathing human beings could be capable of such callous disregard of human life.
But they are.
It’s probably hard to believe when you look at Jeffrey Dahmer that he ate the people he tortured and killed.
But in fact he did.
Facts are facts, whether you like the facts or not. And by the way, loyalty to your country is in there somewhere, outrage at those who attack that country in any way, and certainly with terrorist acts.
Where’s your outrage, David?
So what the heck are these Ivory tower, media types looking for when they are asking "why?”
Well, what they are not looking at and reporting is the facts, or defending the America who took this crackpot family in under political asylum, who gave this ungrateful Russian family welfare benefits and afforded the Tsarnaev brothers the luxury of attending colleges you and I could never hope to attend.
They’re not looking at that.
They’re also not asking why anyone and especially Tamerlan Tsarnaev could afford to visit and stay in Russia for seven months, and who could have bankrolled that, or why Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano missed Tamerlan’s return to America after his Russian, terrorist training sojourn in Dagestan, Chechnya.
They’re not asking Secretary Napolitano to explain her statements as to why "the system pinged when Tamarlan left the United States,” but "by the time he returned, all investigations -- the matter had been closed.”
They’re not asking her why he was on an FBI watch list, but no one was watching.
And they are certainly not asking why she made the ridiculous statement to the Senate this week that the screening process for
America’s political asylum is "rigorous, effective and extensive.”
And finally, after they don’t ask her all these questions, they can also not ask her how in heck she is managing to keep her job.
So while the New York Times does a feature story on the Boston terrorists showing them in a sympathetic light, with the headline "Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying to Fit In,” and while Robert Redford glorifies terrorists with his latest movie about the Weather Underground, there are those like Professor Alan Dershowitz who are puzzled why people do not see terrorists as terrorists when they are clearly domestic terrorists.
These include Bill Ayers, teaching at Columbia. Angela Davis, teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"These are all people who were terrorists,” said Prof. Dershowitz, law professor at Harvard, appearing on NewsMax hosted by Steve Malzberg.
"They are much worse because they’re much better educated. They had all the privileges in the world. I don’t understand the way some people on the left glorify American terrorists without realizing that it’s indistinguishable morally from kinds of terrorism we’re condemning here. I just don’t buy it.”
Luckily there are people on the job, including the freshman congressman from Arkansas who keep on asking the hard questions.
Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) went public recently, expressing his doubts about the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism policies and programs.
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama: the Boston Marathon bombers, the underwear bomber, the Times Square Bomber, the Fort Hood shooter and, in my own state, the Little Rock recruiting office shooter…
"We need to ask, ‘Why is the Obama Administration failing in its mission to stop terrorism before it reaches its targets in the United States?’”
Why indeed.
Hold the line, America.