Michelle Malkin has a piece at NRO about the string of attacks by wannabe jihadis against the military here at home. When jihad-bent American Muslims target American soldiers on American soil, why does America yawn? The Fort Hood massacre has faded from view. The Little Rock Army–recruiting station ambush barely registered on the national radar screen. And the arrest this week of a Baltimore-area bomb plotter, intent on blowing up a military center and murdering our troops in the name of Allah, was met with a collective shrug. It’s pointless to rally citizens around “never forget” when their heads are in the sand....Our soldiers, God bless them, carry on without protests or grievance-mongering because that’s just how they roll. But it’s a damned shame more Americans can’t muster as much anger over troop-targeting “Allahu Akbars!” as they do over “Dancing with the Stars.” She has a very valid point, and if any other group had been targeted like this we would hear wailing and gnashing of teeth. Hell if a Muslim catches a dirty glance on the sidewalk CAIR immediately fires off grievances. I am going to take the position however that if terror attacks are going to happen in the US, it's better that they target the military. And let's parse the definition of terrorism as well. My working definition is "the intentional killing of innocents to further an ideology". You could argue, and I'm gonna, that someone targeting US soldiers is not a terrorist since we are at war with al Qaeda and we have claimed the whole planet as a battlefield. If we can whack them with a drone in Pakistan, why can't they bomb a recruiting station in America? Now I'm not saying that this legitimizes what they are doing, but it is certainly different than someone who blows up kids at a playground. Even when attacking the military they will generally run afoul of the Laws of Land Warfare and various and sundry other legalities. In the end this may just be a distinction about what level of Hell they will eventually inhabit, but I think it is a serious difference. Our sheepdogs are engaged in this war in dozens of countries around the world. We had made the assumption that when they returned home to the kennel, they were safe. That is obviously not true, so we need to adjust. The death of anyone serving our country is tragic, the idea that coming home from battle doesn't remove all the risks is tragic as well. But we don't get to choose the tactics our enemies use against us. We should adapt ours to disrupt them before they can act. We have had some successes doing exactly that recently and we need to double or triple down on our spying. I don't care how loud CAIR whinges, when Islamists stop trying to kill us we will stop spying on them.
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