Criminals usually kill people to get cash. Terrorists get money so they can kill people.

The brilliant Jonah Goldberg (author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning) explains what Obama, Joe Biden, and other Democrats should know, but don't:

Al-Qaeda isn’t full of cartoonish nihilists like the Joker. They don’t want to see the world burn; they want to see the world in a burqa. But burning the world is preferable to not getting their way.

“We shall continue the Jihad no matter how long the way, until the last breath and the last beat of the pulse — or until we see the Islamic state established,” proclaimed Abdullah Azzam, one of the spiritual founders of al-Qaeda.

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