Today's foiled plot confirms the last vestages of neoconservatism's worst fears: we are in a war on terror against a bunch of pipe bombers. Men who mix together cocktails of death on commuter airplanes.
Gone are yesterday's enemies, fearsome military powers bent on world domination, just scattered islamist thugs making videotapes in underground bunkers or hollowed out office buildings. We are the United States of America, we have the CIA, the FBI and the deadliest arsenal on the planet and we go to code red over these guys? World commerce grinds to a halt in the sky.
If only we were on the ball on September 10, 2001.
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