The right-wing: "It's Obama's fault!"

On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely suggested that
President Obama isn't serious about fighting terrorism because Obama is
"reaching out" to the Muslim world, and because Obama has said that
America is not at war with Islam. In fact, the Obama administration has
increased resources dedicated to fighting extremists abroad and has
achieved significant counterterrorism successes -- often by working in
cooperation with Islamic countries.

http://tinyurl.com/32m8u69

In a May 4th post to National Review Online's blog, Victor Davis Hanson
suggests there is "a pattern" to be found in attacks on American soil
since Obama took office:

"The jihadist symptoms of Major Hasan were ignored; General Casey
lamented the possible ramifications of Hasan's killings to the army's
diversity program; the warnings of Mr. Mutallab's [sic] father about his
son's jihadist tendencies were ignored but the latter's Miranda rights
were not; and the Times Square would-be bomber was quite rashly and on
little evidence falsely equated with a "white" bomber with perhaps
domestic-terrorism overtones (when it looks like there is a Pakistani
radical-Islamist connection) -- a sort of pattern has been established,
one both implicit and explicit.

One, we are doing our darnedest to playact that radical Muslims who are
trying to kill us are not trying to kill us; and two, we are not seeing
a lot of peaceful blowback from the virtual closing of Guantanamo, the
virtual trial of KSM, the reach out in the Al Arabiya interview, the
"reset" rhetoric, the Cairo speech, and the apology tour -- 2009 saw the
most terrorism attempts since 2001.

And that, of course, is the charitable take: that these near-miss (and
not-so-near-miss) radical-Islamist incidents are incidental to, rather
than a symptom of, our new de facto policy of suggesting that the
problem with our "contingency operations" against "man-caused
disasters" is with us rather than with hostile Muslim terrorists."

http://tinyurl.com/2ekm9nm

--- Xnews/5.04.25