A Few Things

Greetings from Legatus. It's been a hectic year and a half with family medical issues and job postings going haywire which has robbed me of my time at the computer. But I believe I now may be able to share my thoughts and ideas in regards to all things political/religious/economic, if you'll be so kind as to indulge me.

Boston: My first thought when I heard there were explosions at the Boston Marathon was Islamic Terror had struck again. Occam's Razor states that the most obvious answer is the answer and in this case when people were struck down by two bomb blasts seconds apart in Boston last Monday then we were looking at Moslem-inspired terrorism par excellence. Could we have been wrong? Certainly, but let us not throw out common sense for the sake of political correctness. Was this "home-grown" terrorism with no political state-sponsored support? Perhaps. But I suspect that with John Kerry as the newly minted Secretary of State that someone or some nation was sending a message in no uncertain and bloody terms. Consider that John Kerry, ex-Senator from Massachusetts, hails from this state and with his recent elevation to this post, some rogue nation or perhaps even the remnants of Al Qaida wanted to send a message that would get past the big noses at the State Department specifically and the Obama Administration generally. The arrogance of this administration to assume that since Obama is not George W. Bush, the world would just come running to Obama and Company for succor and guidance, has proven to be a red herring. This administration in many ways has simply carried on where George W left off. Right or wrong Obama's foreign policy has been a continuation of the Bush Administration which in turn has followed the dictates of the U.S. State Department.

The State Department has recommended that we embrace the Moslem Brotherhood and has done so since the mid-2000's starting under the GW administration. Perhaps they know something we don't and that the Moslem Brotherhood of Egypt has indeed been embraced by the Sunni Arab/Moslem peoples of North Africa and the Levantine region of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Perhaps the United States is simply bowing to the inevitable? Perhaps neither GW nor Obama can do anything about it but simply hope by recognizing the MoBro's that they in turn once they take power over all of the Sunni Arab world will come to embrace the United States specifically and the West in general. Guess we'll wait and see. In the meantime, we should be honest with ourselves and admit we have an "Islamic Terror" Agenda being played out in the West by both state and non-state actors.

When will this agenda of Islamic Terror be discarded? I suspect that when the Moslem Brotherhood has finally rested political control from Western supported despotic regimes from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and erects an official Moslem Caliphate then perhaps we'll see a cease and desist order come down from on high to stop attacking Westerners in their home countries. By attacking us at home they believe we will remove ourselves in their own countries and regions, both politically and militarily, thus paving the way for the Moslem Brotherhood to take control from regimes that we have supported since the Cold War. Their calculus may unfortunately prove correct since political correctness on our part has only served to embolden them to follow this course of action. Drones will not stop them. Sanctions will not stop them. Boots on the ground will stop them, if we have the courage. Alas, we don't have that courage anymore.