Newsweek’s Michael Isokoff writes:

“Intel director john Negroponte gave Congress a sobering assessment last week of the continued threats from groups like Al Qaeda and Hizbullah. But even gloomier comments came from Henry Crumpton, the outgoing State Department terror coordinator. An ex-CIA operative, Crumpton told NEWSWEEK that a worldwide surge in Islamic radicalism has worsened recently, increasing the number of potential terrorists and setting back U.S. efforts in the terror war. “Certainly, we haven’t made any progress,” said Crumpton. “In fact, we’ve lost ground.” He cites Iraq as a factor; the war has fueled resentment against the United States.”

Bull crap. Islamic extremist have been mad at us for decades - Iranian Embassy anyone? World Trade Center - I?

Isokoff and the rest of the liberal press want you to believe that it was our invasion of Iraq have made things worse, as in “It’s Bush’s fault”. Yet anyone with half a brain (not applicable to liberals) knows it’s a load of crap.

If you have a wasp buzzing around your front patio and spray it with with insectacide, you kill it, but you don’t solve the problem. The fact is that wasp came from a nest and until you find the nest and destroy it you’ll continue to have the problem. To do that you have to “shake up the nest” so that you can get them all.

We shook the nest and now as President Bush says “We are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here”. That’s exactly what we have been doing and it’s working. But it’s not to say that the danger still isn’t there.

Isokoff quotes this from Henry Crumpton, an old mate, and a top notch expert in counter terrorism.

“Crumpton noted some successes, such as improved joint efforts with foreign governments and a weakening of Al Qaeda’s leadership structure. But he warned of future attacks. “We don’t want to acknowledge we’re going to get hit again in the homeland, but we are,” he said. “That’s a hard, ugly fact. But it’s going to happen.” Crumpton cited no specific intel, but said the most worrisome scenarios involve lone operatives who slip into the country and take directions through cyberspace. “How do you penetrate that?” he asked. Citing family financial pressures, Crumpton leaves office in two weeks. A State official, anonymous when discussing personnel matters, said no one has been nominated to replace him, so it could be a while before the post‚Äîa top counterterror job‚Äîis filled.

Sure we most likely will get hit someday, but let’s not forget it hasn’t happened at all in the last five years. You’ll remember that during the previous administration you had one attack just about every two years. Sure our involvment in Iraq has ginned up the Radical Islamic masses, but that’s what we want. Fact is that we want them mad as hell because that’s when they swarm and when they swarm that’s when you swat them. What’s all this “baby talk” about?

You see the left’s way of dealing with terrorism is by , you know, not “rocking the boat”. “Don’t get them upset, just try to understand their plight, understand their motives.. etc,

*barf*

Fact is that the only thing that has truly made it easier for an attack has come from the MSM which Isokoff belongs. How many of our tactics have become front page news over the last five years? It’s not like Al Qaeda can’t read. The greatest internal enemy we have is our MSM. If we have an attack, and God forbid we do, I will bet you will be able to trace it, not to Iraq, but to a “slip of the lip” across the page of the Ny Times, Washington Post or even Newsweek.

I remember about 25 years ago an operative from another unnamed country told me, “We have spies to find out what you are doing, but we don’t need them. We only have to read your newspapers”.