A Match Made In Hell

As those who actually still follow this site regularly know, I am a fan of striking bold contrasts between quotes to illustrate my points for me. Sure, it's lazy, but why not let my foes bury themselves with as little help as possible? Besides, it keeps the scourge of carpal tunnel at bay for a little while longer.

First up is the dismissive sniff dropped on the thwarted Islamist Fort Dix plot by everybody's favorite left-wing blogging Legion, Wonkette (via The Tank):

The FBI has successfully broken up yet another fiendish terrorist plot on American soil. These brave defenders of freedom have once again ensured that Americans can rest easy, safe from the threat of a couple guys buying some guns and trying to… take over an Army base???

Not "take it over," hon. Try "blasting the hell out of" and you'll be getting warm. And it was six guys, not "a couple."

Ok. So, the plot was: six dudes from New Jersey buy some guns and storm Fort Dix. The Fort Dix that is full of lots and lots of Army reservists with way, way more guns. And, like, extensive military training and shit. Yes, thank God these terrorists have been caught and locked up before they could be killed within minutes of deciding to carry out the dumbest fucking terrorist plot we’ve ever heard of.

Indeed. Kind of like how Hurricane Katrina was a soft afternoon rain shower. Or, as Ann Althouse notes, nineteen guys with box-cutters and olive forks couldn't possibly seize four airliners on the same morning and use them as guided missiles against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and damn near the U.S. Capitol or White House. "Dumb fucking terrorist plots" are only "dumb fucking" until they succeed, after which they are "huge fucking tragedies" that George W. Bush "should have prevented," eventually "knew about in advance and did nothing to stop," and finally "masterminded" in his "non-dolt" moments.

Turns out that almost all those "way, way more guns" are locked away when not in training use. Only the MPs are armed, and if the plotters had gotten the jump on them, they could have done a lot of damage and killed a lot of people, just like they planned. Had the terrorists succeeded, that would doubtless have been one of the Dem "Bush is incompetent" talking points.

Of course, they didn't succeed because the FBI had warrantlessly monitored and infiltrated the cell, plus a video store clerk was alert enough to notice one of the plotters having footage of his fellow jihadis' paramilitary training exercises burned onto DVD and phoned in the tip. These are things Wonkette's various and sundry incarnations would bitterly condemn as "gross, gestapoesque violations of civil liberties." To the rest of us it's "pre-empting terrorism" and saving American lives.

You'd think that we could all agree that saving American lives is a good idea. Indeed, you'd think that there would be unanimity, even across today's cavernous partisan divide, that this is a war that must be fought and won by any means necessary. And, furthermore, you would think that the Left would be leading that charge, given that Islamic Fundamentalism is antithetical to everything (equality for women, gay rights, suffocating secularism) they claim to stand for, and that it is Islamist ideology, not any particular organization or network, that fuels the global jihad.

To quote Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, "You'd think wrong, dude" (via the Admiral):

Over the past year, multiple international conferences have featured leaders of the anti-global left and Islamist groups working together. Go to any anti-war or anti-globalization demonstration in the West and chances are you will see the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas waved by people wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. And at some of these meetings, members of such radical Islamist groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah have enjoyed starring roles.

The roster of Islamist-left alliances quietly grows every day: Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor Noam Chomsky praises Hamas and denounces America on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television. London Mayor Ken Livingstone invites a leading Islamist, Sheikh Yosef Al-Qaradawi, who is known for supporting suicide attacks, to visit his city. Iranian President Ahmadinejad calls for a world without America even as he plays host to a Tehran peace conference attended by American Mennonites, Quakers, Episcopalians, Methodists, and leaders of the National Council of Churches.

The key forum at this year's annual Cairo Anti-War Conference was titled "Bridge-building Between the Left and Islam," and focused on practical ways to increase cooperation. The aim of the conference sessions were described in one piece of literature as tackling "the challenges and prospects facing the international anti-war and pro-intifada movements" and planning "strategy and tactics for bridging the gap and uniting Islamist and leftist ranks in the face of U.S. imperialism and Zionism."

Breathtaking, isn't it? In the sense of getting sucker-punched in the solar plexus, that is. If you're a Christian, and particularly if you engage in online or face-to-face apologetical debates, be sure to keep this "bridge-building between the Left and Islam" in mind. It establishes beyond any possible doubt what the priorities of the Left truly are, and how much they have in common with the anti-Semitic, Christophobic, America-hating pathologies that dominate Islamic culture. This is why I refer to the Left as a "fifth column" in our midst. They may not take up arms and join the jihad themselves, but like the perfect dhimmis they're more than happy to pitch in and maximally facilitate Mohammed's warriors' efforts by doing everything they can to undermine every aspect of our struggle against them. Wonkette's aforelinked ignorance is just the latest contribution.

That America is falling back under the sway of these collaborationists even as Europe seems to finally be undergoing a second Enlightenment is particuarly depressing and ominous, given reports like this:

In Britain MI5 is expanding substantially, from 1,800 staff in 2001 to a projected 3,500 in 2008. But the number of suspected terrorist networks is growing exponentially, roughly doubling every year since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5's recently departed head, said in November that her service was tracking more than 1,600 known active militants (up from 250 in 2001, according to a parliamentary report). Those extremists operated in a pool of perhaps 100,000 sympathisers who, according to one poll she cited, thought the London bombings were justified. Referring to a popular British television series about MI5, Dame Eliza said: “I wish life were like ‘Spooks’, where everything is (a) knowable and (b) soluble by six people.”

In fact, surveillance uses manpower intensively. Dozens of people are required to keep track of a single suspect 24 hours a day. Those deemed to pose a “threat to life” take precedence, but these days there are so many of them that MI5 has to decide which threat to life appears to be the most acute. Indeed, some security officials suspect al-Qaeda may be deliberately flooding Britain with terrorist plots in the hope of overwhelming its defences. [emphasis added]

How's that for some Fort Dix context? Now figure in that America has no equivalent of MI5, and sure isn't going to create one under Donk auspices any time soon, and that Hillary Clinton is almost certainly going to be the next president of the United States, and try and get a peaceful eight winks tonight.

I know I won't....