For several days, perhaps weeks, after the horrific explosions in Brussels that killed and injured innocent people, the Belgian police raided the homes of ISIS suspects and found spy cells along with wanted people hiding in many neighborhoods. The local constabulary also discovered weapons, ammunition, and stockpiles of the necessary supplies to manufacture more bombs.
I don’t get it.
Suddenly they discovered they had many of these addresses with suspicious individuals all along? Why in the world did they wait for a tragedy to occur before the crucial raids? Please don’t tell me that the necessary information was given to them only after the heartbreaking disaster. Everybody knows that the authorities are well aware of many of the particular areas where the bad guys are.
They knew it in France, they knew it in Belgium, and I am sure they know it here in the United States. Is my president waiting for something terribly horrifying to happen here? I just heard one of the talking heads on the tube saying something about our leaders in the District of Columbia waiting for an incident to occur.
Yes — he used the word “incident.” To me an incident is stepping on your toe or bumping into someone in the doorway. Or a fist fight in the schoolyard that requires an “incident” report, but setting off an explosion where many people congregate is not an incident. An incident is not a frightening situation. An explosion or the bombing of an airplane is. Stories on the Internet talk of certain areas here in America where we have agents spilling the beans to the FBI. Why are we not raiding those addresses on a daily basis to prevent a tragedy? Huh Mr. Obama?
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Those of us who are, or have been, world travelers are on loads of mailing lists. Obviously tourism to certain parts of this planet is now discounted way down. Many Americans are afraid to leave the United States, and I am one of them. Ever since the multiple murders in Paris, the travel companies are doing everything they can to get me to travel back to Europe.
The theocratic rebel group, which Obama derided as “junior varsity,” is still in my daily newspaper. As long as ISIS is in the headlines, I ain’t goin’ abroad — no matter how cheap they make it and neither are my many friends. Just like the Gershbeins, they are visiting each of the United States. By the time this column reaches you, Carol and I will be touring Nevada. We have been in Las Vegas many times, but now we have a rental car waiting, and we intend visit many other cities in the Silver State. Maybe we’ll do Kentucky next month. Meetcha in Louisville.
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I very rarely watch “The View.” The day after the horrific terror attacks in Brussels I was given an ABC report of what the liberal ladies on the show had to say. They really found themselves declaring that none other than the much reviled GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump, the “voice of reason on terrorism.”
Wow! Well waddya know? I am StanG
