Terrorism in a post-terrorism administration meets Faisal Shahzad The War on Terror by any other name continues

NYC, NY—Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani born naturalized American citizen attempted to bomb NYC’s Times Square on May 3, 2010 using an SUV packed with explosives. The 30 year-old had returned from a trip to Pakistan in February.

The administration is lauding itself for the capture of Mr. Shahzad, but it wasn’t law enforcement or military personnel that made him; a Times Square vendor, Duane Jackson did that when he noticed the driverless Nissan Pathfinder idling.

The motives (according to multiple news copy) of the suspect are still “unknown” but perhaps we here at KP can give them a clue: terrorism.

Regardless of Shahzad’s “motives” his intent was terrorism—pure and simple. The interesting dichotomy is the campaign promises of President Obama to restore America’s standing in the world and to approach international affairs differently from his predecessor. Yet despite the many apologies and hand-wringing the president has done, the US remains a target (see the Christmas Day bomber and the Fort Hood massacre).

Which only goes to prove one simple fact, America is Judeo-Christian nation as endorsed by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and any number of writings by the Founding Fathers. Radical Islam is diametrically opposed to Judaism and Christianity—it does not have a problem with Shintoism or Buddhism or any number of religions—so as long as we remain a Judeo-Christian nation, radical Islamist will hate us.

-- Killswitch Politick

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The US at war on its southern border While Arizona’s new immigration law sparks debate, the war has been raging for years

PHOENIX, AZ—Rancher Robert Krentz was murdered on his own property March 27^th, his untimely death perhaps the catalyst for a public frothing at the federal government’s porous border issue; Mr. Krentz is not the only American casualty in a war that has been largely ceded.

Border states are the most affected by illegal’s consumption of emergency care and social assistance programs. Many hospitals have scuttled in the wake of rendering unpaid services and public assistance monies have been siphoned off directly away from US citizens.

For those familiar with KP’s format, this section typically addresses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan along with foreign affairs, but this piece is not about foreign affairs or the US relation with Mexico, it is about fighting a war against illegal immigration. And make no mistake about it, illegal immigration has become a war—a war the US (regardless of its White House occupant) simply does not want to fight for fear of alienating Hispanic voting blocks.

But the problem of illegal immigration has reached critical mass, with too few border patrol and heavily armed drug cartels, too little fence and too many flagrant mule operations, the time for action has come.

Arizona’s new law should be an abject lesson in the despair border states have long faced without adequate fencing and without adequate enforcement of Article IV of the US Constitution.

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