Saturday, August 20, 2005
Bad Idea
Attackers firing Katyusha rockets narrowly missed a U.S. amphibious assault ship docked at this Red Sea resort Friday, but killed a Jordanian soldier in the most serious strike at the Navy since the USS Cole bombing nearly five years ago.Here's what I think -- shooting at a military vessel prior to 9-11 when Clinton was in charge was not too much of a risk for terrorists, but now, it's stupid.
The point of terrorism is that you lack the military capability for actual war, so you attempt to "terrorize" the populace. But this is, as was the Cole attack, though that administration failed to realize it, an act of war. What's the old song chorus?
You don't tug on Superman's cape,
You don't spit in the wind,
You don't pull the mask off the 'ol Lone Ranger,...
...and you don't mess around with the US Military.
