Bedwetters Lament

Responding to the recent arrest of terrorists, Canadian columnist David Warren includes 5 points that I believe need to be understood by us here in America as well:

(1) Pretending it's not happening, or that it will stop happening if we meet some fanciful demands (such as withdrawing from Afghanistan, or surrendering Andalusia), does not change the reality.

(2) Intrinsic to the threat against the West is not terrorism, alone, but terrorism in combination with legal efforts to use the more fatuous provisions of our "human rights" codes to subvert our defences.

(3) Do not listen to the nonsense that will be argued, increasingly, by the bed-wetters of the Left in our academic and media establishments, who blame the terror not on its perpetrators, but on their own domestic political opponents.

(4) Accept, that we are going to be in this for a long time.

(5) The threat -- both international and local -- is real, large, and growing. We remain at the point of deciding whether to defend against it with "sensitivity", or with vigour. "Both" is not an answer.

Defend with Vigour, Not 'Sensitivity'