2010: A Long, Hot Summer of Bombs and Misery?

While Barak Hussein Obama and his radical leftist fellow traveller Eric Holder want to treat war-making terrorists as criminals, the Islamic terrorists are plotting to attack the United States and its people directly with any means available to them. This weekend's car bomb in New York City and the earlier efforts of the panty bomber was just the first salvos in what I expect will be a series of Islamic attacks that will be conducted inside the United States this year.

Pakistan-based Taleban leader Hakimullah Mehsud appears to have survived a missile attack against him, and has vowed to attack US cities in communications since the attack. His group claimed credit for the attempted car bombing this weekend, although it remains to be seen if there is evidence that ties the Taleban this car bomb.

"The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities," said Mehsud in a recent Internet posting.

All of this comes on the heels of the statements by Noman Benotman, who was the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in 2000 and a former associate of Osama bin Laden. Benotman reported in a recent interview that “What happened after the [9/11 attacks] was beyond [al Qaeda's] imagination.” He said that al Qaeda was convinced that the United States had no appetite for military actions overseas based on the US response to the terror group’s attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

It appears that al Qaeda now understands that there are differences between George W Bush and Barak Hussein Obama, and that the United States is free to attack again without fear of a devastating military response from the United States in their own homeland. After all, the innocent must not suffer for the actions of accused criminals with legitimate gripes.

The weakness of Barak Hussein Obama and Eric Holder invites attack, and I believe attacks will come. The United States is a wide-open society full of soft targets, undocumented foreigners, and mosques. We are demonized for looking at anyone with suspicion, not matter what their behavior might be. We punish law enforcement for taking initiative to defend the nation.

The most likely response from the Obama Regime will be to further curtail the civil liberties of the American public by having the Department of Justice bring profiling cases against law enforcement, signing Executive Orders curtailing the possession and transfers of weapons and ammunition, making construction and agricultural materials harder to come by, and slapping travel bans on private citizens.

I truly believe that the Islamic enemies of the United States will not be content with bombings and shootings this year, and will attempt biological or chemical attacks within the United States. I am frankly surprised that such attacks have not yet occurred. And, frankly, the posture of the United States government invites attack.

I do not mean to suggest that Obama or Holder wish attacks upon the United States. I do suggest that they are so ignorant and inexperienced in matters of national security that they have no earthly idea how to protect a country beyond what their radical leftist professors taught them. The actions of the Obama Regime back up my beliefs. From changes in communications (no more "global war on terror" its an "overseas contingency operation" and from "terrorism" to "man-made disasters"), reading terrorists their rights before intelligence agencies can interrogate them, deciding to prosecute foreign terrorists in U.S. civilian courts, destruction of the CIA's interrogation facilities, the hiring of al Qaeda lawyers at the Department of Justice, and the attempt to shut down Guantanamo Bay all within B. Hussein Obama's first year in the Oval Office demonstrate that the Obama Regime operates in a mindset of a leftist fantasyland.

The United States economy is fragile right now, along with much of the world's economies. Even if no material terrorism occurs in the next twelve months, I believe that we will see a default of sovereign debt somewhere in the world this year.

Add to the current economic instability a series of effective terrorist attacks within the United States, and we will see an economic meltdown in the United States that will spread to Europe and Asia. This economic posture cannot be overlooked by Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the "Great Satan" United States. This is their moment if they truly wish to do the United States harm. We can only pray that our military, fighting with one hand tied behind its back and the Department of Justice out to prosecute anyone who fights effectively, can stave off attacks against us through the use of timely intelligence gathering and immediate, violent action based on that intelligence.

But if the intelligence leads the military to believe the actionable targets are already within the United States, all bets are off because the military has to had the intel over to the Department of Justice and look the other way.

Under the Obama/Holder regime, Justice Department intel sharing is starting to become a one way street as the DoJ has taken some or all their intelligence work completely in-house and off the government intelligence sharing processes. This action runs completely contrary to the underlying reason the Untied States reformed the intelligence services following the Trade Center Attacks by Islamic terrorists. Intelligence sharing between government agencies was at the core of the justifications for the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Under this law, the Department of Justice is a member of the United States' Intelligence Community under the direction of the Director of National Intelligence. The goal of the law was to force more effective sharing of national security related intelligence. A member of our intelligence community keeping their intelligence away from the other members only hinders our ability to defend the nation.

Responsible, forward-thinking individual action should be taken now to protect yourself, your family, and your community. http://www.ready.gov/ may be a good place to start.