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This observation is up at the excellent ReasonOnline site:
Still, even the most imaginatively fearful can’t help but notice that if our nation is indeed crawling with al Queda sleeper agents with the desire and ability to pull off murderous assaults on our way of life, they are sleeping suspiciously soundly. It seems most likely that America really isn’t acrawl with such enemies, and if it is, they are singularly unimaginative and incompetent. Any random gang of Soldier of Fortune-reading teenagers could land serious blows to America’s infrastructure every day if they didn’t care if they lived or died.
This seems to indicate that Al Qaeda’s gone from our shores, and we can relax. But to assume this would be a mistake with potentially dire consequences.
Yes, any random gang of American teenagers could carry out terrorist actions, as Brian states. But can we really think Al Qaeda, out of any free choice, has decided not to harm us?
Of course not. They continue to be active in Pakistan, France, etc.
In fact, the CIA did a brilliant job of shutting down the recent terrorist attempt to hijack a French airliner.
There is no doubt that they want very much to hit us. So how come they haven’t been able to do so? Fortunately, there are far more obstacles to Al Qaeda operatives in attacking us, than there would be to a random group of Americans. This is because, politically incorrect though it may be to say it, most Al Qaeda operatives don’t look or sound at all like any random gang of American teenagers. That makes it very difficult for them to come here unobserved. It makes it easier to spot them and shut them down, if we are working hard to find them.
It’s only our vigilance that is stopping Al Qaeda from operating successfully here at this time. Relaxing such vigilance would lead quickly to more terrorist attacks on our soil.
