Why Is The Left Constantly Downplaying The Terrorist Threat?
Some deranged jihadist in Great Britain loads a car up with gasoline, propane and shrapnel and drives it in to London looking to inflict maximum casualties. Yet when he’s caught, and his plot is thwarted, certain elements on the left get all dismissive. They claim that the guy was never a threat. They call the attempted attack “fear mongering” and concoct wild conspiracy theories about the CIA pulling the strings on the attack in order to keep the populace scared so that the war on terror (which they also dismiss) can be perpetuated.
What I don’t understand is…why?
And it’s not that I don’t understand the impulse to reject government attempts to control us by keeping us scared (as though liberals have any room to talk in that area given that they love letting the government control us via regulations, invasive tax laws, socialized medicine, etc.). I get that impulse. I’m down with it. But even so, I’m not down with dismissing the terrorist threat simply because this guy’s plot may not have worked.
Yet that’s exactly what the left would have us do. They’d have us roll back security measures. Stop counter-terrorism intelligence efforts. Quit detaining sworn jihadi radicals and stop fighting against the terrorist threat in the middle east, thus leaving terror sponsors and groups like Syria, Iran and al Qaeda to foment jihad against western targets instead of concentrating most of their resources on middle eastern fights.
Why? Who knows. A lot of it has to do with liberal self loathing (they wouldn’t be fighting us if we weren’t such imperialist jerks) and a lot has to do with fear over appearing racist and/or unsympathetic to other people’s culture (because apparently terrorism is a cultural thing), but mostly I think this mindless twits take this “there is no terrorist threat” position because, well, their political opponents take the opposite position. And they’re incapable of admitting when their political enemies are right.















