I guess the "Terrorism Recession" is finally over

Under the Bush Administration, Islamic terrorism suffered a fairly awful recession of sorts. But under Obama, it appears that recession is over. Recent stimulus packages such as Obama's Ramadan speech, the freeing of the Lockerbie bomber and the omission of illustrations from a book about the Danish cartoons, against the advice of experts as well as the sensibility of normal people, have boosted the market for Islamic Jihad. I guess "happy days" are here again if you are into targeting civilians, caning women and mucking up elections in the name of the Prophet Mohammed and war and violence upon everyone else.

Ralph Peters has the scoop. Excerpt:

Scotland's craven release, "on humanitarian grounds," of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the mastermind of the bombing that killed 270 passengers aboard a Pan Am flight two decades ago, was merely the noisiest terrorist triumph during a week of shame.

And noisy it was: Libya's Moammar Khadafy staged a huge homecoming party for the terrorist. (Think that would've happened while W was president?) The gleeful Khadafy rubbed the West's snout in our feckless taste for appeasement.

Appeasement was also the watchword back in the United States, where Yale University Press delighted Islamist extremists by removing all illustrations from a scholarly work about the Danish cartoon debacle -- not just the caricatures of Mohammed.

Can't wait for that unillustrated Calvin and Hobbes retrospective. Or that exciting scholarly work on the philosophy of Charles Schultz sans pictorial representations of Charlie Brown or Snoopy; preview following:

Frame 1. [Shot of Snoopy with right ear draped over wooden dog house] Snoopy: (thought bubble) "Today is my first day as "Head Beagle". (secondary thought bubble) "As soon as my new secretary arrives, I can begin work." Frame 2. [Snoopy now sitting on dog house. Woodstock the bird approaches from left in upside-down flight pattern.] Frame 3. [Snoopy covers eyes with both anterior paws. Bird not shown; assumed to have struck dog house causing loud "Bonk!" sound and "pain star" symbol to issue forth from the soffit area of said dog house.] Frame 4. [Snoopy looks down at Woodstock who sits underneath dizziness scribble] Snoopy: "I had sort of hoped the head beagle rated a better secretary..." (source)