Car bombs and a Happy 4th

Admittedly, belated on both counts, but we’re on vacation, and after all, this blog is in its infancy.

In Britain, security forces stopped (with help from seemingly incompetent terrorists, it would seem) a series of car bombs designed to create chaos and kill a lot of people | Coverage of thwarted plot |. Britain’s seen its share of terrorist attacks, and will undoubtedly see more, while we in the U.S. still wait for our first Islamo-terrorist car/suicide bomb attack (though some claim the Oklahoma City attack was the work of Middle Eastern terrorists).

These would-be attacks in the UK are a bit of a mystery. How could an organization with the reputation of Al-Qaida be so incompetent? How could a group that can’t seem to blow up three cars in the West possibly import, assemble and detonate a nuclear weapon, as so many people fear? Or were the people responbible for these failed attacks simply amateur freelancers following some misguided sense of mission? Either way, they need to disappear in a deep, deep hole, never to be seen again.

Whatever the case, our enemies still plot, but their weapon seems to be more PR than explosive, at least here in the U.S. and another celebration of our nation’s independence passes with little to mar the festivities.

Happy Birthday, America.

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