Monday, March 29, 2010
US Transit Lines Tighten Security
Washington, DC, New York, and Atlanta are stepping up rail security, as reported here and here.
But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees no elevated threat to the nation's rail system.
In the meantime, President Obama has denounced the suicide bombings on Moscow's subways that have killed at least 37 people and injured 65. He issued a statement saying Americans "stand united" with Russians in opposing "violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks that demonstrate such disregard for human life."
Obama's statement--especially, his use of the taboo T word--was an improvement over the condolences he sent Russia after November's Nevsky Express passenger train bombing, which killed 27 people. Obama called that terrorist attack a "tragedy."
References to radical Islam, however, are not expected to be forthcoming.
Use of such words as Islam and Islamic, Islamist and Islamism, and radical Islam (let alone Islamofascism) in the context of the Islamist/Islamonazi terrorist onslaught has practically been banned by the White House and an adoring liberal media (who prefer "militants" over terrorists). Any and all references to Islamic or Islamist terrorism are regarded as offensive to "Muslim sensibilities"--meaning, more specifically, the imams and mullahs and so-called Islamic scholars who not-so-secretly support, sanction, sympathize with, and apologize for the terrorists.
After 9/11, even President George W. Bush felt the need to praise "peaceful and beautiful Islam" so as not to offend (organized) Muslim sensibilities.
After the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon praised "diversity," a code word for suicidal political correctness and appeasement of radical Islam.
Why? What about the rest of us--our sensibilities? Our security?
What will it take to shake and wake up our leaders and the liberal media--an atomic attack on an American city?
But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees no elevated threat to the nation's rail system.
In the meantime, President Obama has denounced the suicide bombings on Moscow's subways that have killed at least 37 people and injured 65. He issued a statement saying Americans "stand united" with Russians in opposing "violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks that demonstrate such disregard for human life."
Obama's statement--especially, his use of the taboo T word--was an improvement over the condolences he sent Russia after November's Nevsky Express passenger train bombing, which killed 27 people. Obama called that terrorist attack a "tragedy."
References to radical Islam, however, are not expected to be forthcoming.
Use of such words as Islam and Islamic, Islamist and Islamism, and radical Islam (let alone Islamofascism) in the context of the Islamist/Islamonazi terrorist onslaught has practically been banned by the White House and an adoring liberal media (who prefer "militants" over terrorists). Any and all references to Islamic or Islamist terrorism are regarded as offensive to "Muslim sensibilities"--meaning, more specifically, the imams and mullahs and so-called Islamic scholars who not-so-secretly support, sanction, sympathize with, and apologize for the terrorists.
After 9/11, even President George W. Bush felt the need to praise "peaceful and beautiful Islam" so as not to offend (organized) Muslim sensibilities.
After the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon praised "diversity," a code word for suicidal political correctness and appeasement of radical Islam.
Why? What about the rest of us--our sensibilities? Our security?
What will it take to shake and wake up our leaders and the liberal media--an atomic attack on an American city?
