Americans quickly forgot 9/11, they got hit again!

attack on marathon runners - Boston, MA

The twin bombing at Boston Marathon, Massachusetts, demonstrated just how quickly the US let its anti-terrorism guide down. After more than a decade without being hit, the US government and local authorities seemed to let their guard down, giving American haters the opportunity to strike again. Many critics accused the rights of going after President Obama for not calling the bombing in Boston, a terrorist attack. But the criticism is right, and it will be like this for remaining of this administration the refusal to call any major attacks on America a terrorist attack. 
After eight years of leading America, Bush exited the White House touting his success in defending American homeland - a president whom terrorists feared so much. After Bush toppled the Taliban and rolled into Iraq and disarmed Saddam Hussein, the Libyan leader - Muammer Qaddafi - who was watching, quickly announced his government was abandoning its nuclear program and cooperated with US and its allies in targeting Al Qeada's cells in Northern Africa. Evidence also surfaced that Iran halted its nuclear program for fear of being invaded by the allies. This fear is not felt today - US is seen as a weak, retreating powerless superpower. It is not a myth - terrorists activity in US spiked after Obama won the election of 2008. Not only did the axis-of-evil resumed nuclear testings, terrorists began hitting US again. The way this administration approaches terrorism is far weaker than any administration in US history, fortunately, these terrorists failed to achieve their goal. Not because their plans were foiled by the FBI or CIA, but they failed to achieve their goals owed only to their amateurism and inadequacies. They had themselves to blame for not successfully attacking targets in America. 

For instance, the Nigerian man who almost blew a jetliner over Chicago with an underwear embedded bomb, was reported to the US authority by his own father who feared his son was radicalized and may seek to harm US targets, and though his name was on the "no-fly list", he was somehow on the plan to the US. The bomb failed to ignite and he was muscled to the floor by passengers, including a foreigner. Like wise, a Pakistan man packed a SUV with explosives and parked it somewhere in Town Square area but failed to detonate as planned because of error in the making of the explosive, else it would have destroyed the American icon - the Time Square. The man, as was known later, had some extensive training in Pakistan, and may have linked to Al Qeada cells. And though travelers to that part of the world are often monitored, this man somehow sneaked through the cracks and carefully orchestrated a bombing that could have caused considerable damage to a city already scarred by decades of internal and external attacks. 
The incompetence of the intelligence community under this president can be attributed to the political tug-of-war between the right and the left over whether the US government can monitor certain groups and restricted profiling of wanted terrorists, and the new Democrat approach to terrorism. All attempts to follow terrorists have been thwarted by the left for the sake of "civilian rights to privacy" a right they even extended terrorists. Even leftwing civil rights organizations offered shelter and legal representations to GITMO detainees for believing that these people are somehow innocent and were wrongly accused by the US government. In every turn, the left doesn't want America to be as strong as it is known in history, nor as vigilant as it as it should. This new approach is based on one major ideology - a flawed one - which built on a myth that if America stops attacking its enemies, its enemies would somehow lay their weapons down and embrace peace. It is this notion that the Obama administration built its foreign policy and we know how dumb it is because we already saw the results: a US ambassador was murdered along with four officers of the CIA and the US embassy and many other instances, and more terrorists sought to attack US in the past years.

Two Chechen brothers who attacked Marathon runners at Boston, MA

The two Chechen terrorists that successfully attacked Boston have ties to terrorist cells in Chechnya, a Russian caucus territory wrecked by years of Muslim insurgency and Russian counterattacks. The Obama administration was warned by the Russian government that the older brother was a member of a terrorist organization in Chechnya, but after interviewing the man the CIA found that he was not a danger to US. Evidence now surfaced that the man had returned to Russia recently for half a year and may have reunited with terrorist groups in Chechnya, yet the CIA turned a blind eye. Even after returning to America and posted terrorist propaganda videos of his favorite radical Australian cleric on youtube, no one seemed to raise a red flag. Last Monday, he and his brother bombed the Marathon in Boston, killing three and injured hundreds. They also killed a Boston police officer, threw similar explosives at police officers and injured some.The elder was killed in that encounter and the younger brother who sustained severe injury in the shootout was later apprehended and now in critical but stable condition in the hospital. 

The Muslim Fort Hood shooter.

The attitude of this administration is reminiscent of Fort Hood shooting. Despite the shooter's screaming - Allah Ahu Akbar - while gunning down his fellow soldiers in an apparent murder in the name of Allah, the Obama administration calls it a "Work Place Violence" and has since refused to call it a terrorist attack. Naming these Islamic related attacks something other than what it is, is an attempt not to mention Islam and in accordance to the new directives of the Obama senior advisers and the president that Islam is a peaceful religion and must not be blamed for anything done by terrorists. It is not a mystery they don't believe in the existence of terrorism because they have a distorted view of America. Those on the left and the media believe an attack on America by terrorists must be blamed on America and Americans themselves. They see American's activities around the world as justification for the attacks even if the attackers targeted innocent children. Somehow these attackers' motives are justified! This is a new approach by an administration that doesn't believe in the American greatness. Everything America, to the left, is evil and that its wealth and power had been acquired through cruelty and evil doings. This is the notion that Obama, as a candidate, embraced. In Turkey and France, Obama was asked about "American Exceptionalism" and he replied - everyone in the world believe their country is "exceptional". Though US is known for doing great things in the world including the liberation of Kuwait and Bosnia, the left doesn't believe it deserves the "exceptional" status it has been claiming for decades. 
The saddest thing, however, is that no matter how much evidence pointing to the radicalization of these two brothers by Islamic radical clerics, the Democrat party and their leftwing accomplices would remain vigilant in their refusal to call any attack on America a "Terrorist Attack" by an "Islamic Extremists". To them, the branding and the sounding of words are more important that the truth. The Democrats and Liberal civil right organizations are now gearing up to prevent these two men from being tried in a military tribunal. They would want to see these men tried in civilian courts and accorded the same rights as Americans have though these men attacked the country that welcomed them as political asylums - which is amount to treason and betrayal. This is the administration that killed an American cleric who inspired so many attacks on America, yet refused to charge those who directly harmed America with either guns or explosives. This is the administration with supporters who didn't have any problem leveling peaceful Teapartiers terrorists and extremists and rendered them extremely dangerous to America, but refused to call those attacking America in the name of Allah, Islamic Terrorists. 
Sad indeed!