"Luck" won't help us combat jihadists
Reader comment on item: The Boston Bombing and the Case for FBI Stings

Submitted by Edward Cline, Apr 22, 2013 16:46

"With a few lucky breaks, last week's Boston Marathon bombing could have had a dramatically different outcome." It's a sad comment on the state of affairs that the FBI didn't or was not allowed to trawl the Internet for jihadist plots and potential conspirators. The younger Tsarnaev, fleeing from the police, was spotted hiding in a boat by a Watertown resident who went outside for a smoke and called in the authorities. That was luck. The U.S. should not depend on luck to effectively defend Americans and this country from Islamic attacks. Sure enough, the Tsarnaevs have been linked to a 12-man cell that taught them how to make IEDs. And where did they get the money to buy all those weapons? That's a question not being asked by the MSM. Instead, they're shedding tears and playing violins over the Tsarnaevs because they found it so hard to "fit in." The FBI and local law enforcement agencies should be empowered to entrap as many of these killers and would-be killers as possible, and without recriminations or having to apologize to Muslims or CAIR or any other Islamic "advocacy" organization. We must wonder about the motives of those who pounce on counter-terrorism agencies: are they with the U.S., or against it? Don't they realize that under Islam, there are no such things as "civil rights."

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