Via Matt, Michael Ledeen is talking crazy:
As of 9/11, the terror masters were five: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran,Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Today they are three, which is certainly goodwork on our part. But it isn't nearly good enough. We cannot possiblyhave decent security in Iraq unless we end the murderous tyrannies inTehran and Damascus, and convince or compel the Saudi royal family toshut down the global network of terrorist brainwashing centers theyspend billions of dollars to operate.
All this should convince us that it is a mistake to microanalyzethe London operation. It is just another event in the terror war, oneof many, with many more to come. Its real significance should be seenas a further wake-up call to us and our allies. Our enemies know theyare at war, and they are attacking us everywhere they can, in every waythey can. Do we really know we are at war, and that we cannot win itwithin the parameters we have set for ourselves?
This sort of lunacy fascinates me. Ledeen says that our enemies are seized with bloodlust, attacking us wherever and whenever they can. Yeah? Really? So far as I know, the post-9/11 list of terror attacks reads: Indonesia, Madrid, London. Not to minimize their seriousness, but the monstrous "masters of terror" could only pull off three bombings in radically different portions of the globe? We're talking five countries that have or had standing armies trying to attack us anywhere that they can, yet the US (thankfully) hasn't suffered a second attack, London just absorbed their first, Americans safely travel around the globe, Israel still stands...
Ledeen likes the rhetoric of total war (in no small part because he'd like us to declare it), but it's ill-fitting for the situation. America, happily, has not seen any suicide bombings, car bombs, truck explosions, missiles shot at airplanes, nor anything else since 9/11. Why we've gotten such a pass is unclear, but we have. And what that proves, if nothing else, is that they're not attacking us whenever and wherever they can. Indeed, they're doing quite the opposite, hitting us wherever and whenever they want, and doing so rarely.
