17+ War Deaths on U.S Soil

And that's only since the atrocities of September 11, 2001.

Daniel Pipes shows in this column and this blog entry that the metastasis of political correctness throughout our body politic is causing our government (as well as others in the West) to fail to call an act of war an act of war. And in ducking this issue, our public servants are failing to protect us from our Islamofascist enemy. First, let me enumerate what has happened in the United States alone. I've prepended the body counts, but these are all from the Pipes column.

4: [A]ll four members of [the Armanious] family were savagely executed in the ritualistic Islamist way (multiple knife attacks and near-beheading) [this January in New Jersey.]

2: [The] July 2002 LAX murders [were] initially dismissed as "a work dispute."

10: [T]he October 2002 rampage of the Beltway snipers went unexplained, leaving the press to ascribe it to such factors as a "stormy [family] relationship."

1: The 2003 murder and near-decapitation in Houston of an Israeli by a former Saudi friend who had newly become an Islamist found the police unable to discern "any evidence" that the crime had anything to do with religion.

If you need to know in more detail how any of these were inspired by the "religion of peace," follow the links. And there are more that happened before the atrocities in New York, D.C., and the skies of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, I'm not even counting this one from the blog entry: "[S]ome airplane incidents might have been whitewashed. The year 2001 saw ... the crash of American Airlines 587 in New York, killing 265, where the NTSB found 'no evidence [of] … any criminality' despite the possible presence of an Al-Qaeda operative."

Read both items. They are hard-hitting and shocking and, except for the confusion caused by the term "hate crime," right on the money. As Pipes puts it:

And so, police, prosecutors, and politicians shy away from stark realities in favor of soothing and inaccurate bromides. This ostrich-like behavior carries heavy costs; those who refuse to recognize the enemy cannot defeat him. To pretend terrorism is not occurring nearly guarantees that it will recur.

Furthermore, in addition to the infiltration of law enforcement I blogged about before, it turns out that some in our press corps may have joined the enemy. From Michelle Malkin:

A part-time cameraman who worked for NBC found out the hard way that "Akbar," the international broker he had met on eBay, wasn't really looking to ship stolen night-vision lenses to Iran.

Instead, the broker was a federal customs agent, and the cameraman, Erik Kyriacou, 24, of North Babylon, found himself in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday pleading guilty to four federal counts, including trying to export technology to an "axis of evil" country...

I wish more government officials would get on the same page as Customs. The infiltration of law enforcement is bad enough, but Pipes has done all of us a great service. We have all been jaded to various degrees from the constant onslaught of multiculturalism from our media, universities, and press. By pointing out the carnage this has caused so far, maybe we can get to the business of fighting this war.

-- CAV