Let’s hope not.

“Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists.

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected.

President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within a year of his taking office.

His aides have pointed to al-Qaeda’s first assault on the World Trade Centre, which occurred little more than a month after Bill Clinton became President in 1993. There was an alleged attempt to bomb Glasgow airport in Gordon Brown’s first days in Downing Street and a London nightclub attack was narrowly thwarted.”

As we know Joe Biden promised that Barack Obama would be “tested” and that he would show his ‘metal’ or something like that. But the more interesting question would be how would he shows his stuff? Would he throw everything we have against the instigators, or take it as a crminal act like the Clinton administration has.

Would he consider it a tiny event as Iran is tiny, or would they “not stand a chance” as he famously made both declarations.

If Obama would decide on retaliation, would it inflame the uber antiwar left who fight America and protect the terrorist, or would he kick them to the curb – thank them for their support – and kick ass?

For all of our sakes, lets hope we never have to answer those questions. But until now Barack Obama hasn’t been able to answer them clearly.

That makes the possibility all the more frightening.