Moreover, there is a specific jihadist connection here.........This is a sobering reminder for those who think it?s too expensive to wage a war against jihadists. I spoke to Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute, who has been critical of proposed cuts in defense and of President Obama?s Afghanistan withdrawal plan. ?There has been a lot of talk over the past few months on how we?ve got al-Qaeda on the run and, compared with what it once was, it?s become a rump organization. But as the attack in Oslo reminds us, there are plenty of al-Qaeda allies still operating. No doubt cutting the head off a snake is important; the problem is, we?re dealing with global nest of snakes.?
Oh, they desperately wanted Norway's attacks to be the handiwork of jihadists so they could continue justifying the trillions of dollars and countless lives wasted on our overseas adventures.
Then, it turned out the terrorist was a white Christian conservative, and poof! They lost interest. I mean, how dare you smear an entire group of people based on the actions of just one bad apple?
Then those same conservatives shifted into damage control mode when it also turned out that the terrorist was hugely inspired by the tea party. From his manifesto:
We, the European Revolutionary Conservatives know very well that it will take many years, even decades before we successfully manage to consolidate to a degree where we can seize political and military power in the first Western European country. In the US, the Tea party movement is one of the first physical, political manifestations which indicate that there is a great storm coming. The creation of similar conservative organizations, even the creation of revolutionary conservative movements ... is about to materialize. The cultural Marxists are losing their momentum to our advantage.
He was also a fan of several top right-wing blogs, no matter how much those bloggers might protest to the contrary.
Ironically, in the U.S. it was the tea party that tamped down a spate of right-wing violence in the wake of Obama's election (which I also detail fully in American Taliban). Their victories in 2010 gave them hope that the public was moving in their direction.
But what'll happen in 2012 if Obama is reelected and the Democrats retake the House, as is more likely than not?
This frothy mix of paranoia, gun fetishization and the belief that violence is a solution will inevitably lead to violence. It has before. It will again.
It's just folly to pretend otherwise.
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