THE THREAT – AT 8:35 A.M. ET:  ISIS is taking "credit" for yesterday's carnage in Brussels, and is promising more.  From Times of Israel:

The Islamic State terror group threatened the US and European countries with continued attacks early Wednesday, hours after taking responsibility for a series of blasts in Brussels that left at least 34 people dead, and as police is Brussels carried out a massive manhunt for suspects in the attacks.

A statement from the group promised “dark days” for countries allied against the Islamic State.

“What is to come will be more devastating and bitter,” reads the statement directed against “crusader nations allied in their war against the Islamic State,” a reference to the US-led coalition bombing the group’s positions in Syria and Iraq.

The communique was published in Arabic, French, and English according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.

IS also released photos purportedly showing its fighters in Syria giving out candy to children to celebrate the Brussels attacks, according to SITE.

Twitter accounts linked to the group also distributed a picture of a fighter standing above a beheaded Statue of Liberty.

Three intelligence officials in Iraq told the AP that they had warned European colleagues last month of IS plans to attack airports and trains, although Belgium wasn’t specified as a likely target.

COMMENT:  We have no excuse for being surprised.  But we will have, for the next ten months, a commander-in-chief who went to a Cuban baseball game yesterday in the midst of the bulletins about the Brussels horror. 

Britain is on high alert, expecting an attack in as many as ten places simultaneously.  I worry about the same thing here.  Remember that 9-11 was a multi-pronged attack as well – on the World Trade Center, on the Pentagon, and a failed attempt to attack another target in Washington by United Flight 93, which was brought down in Pennsylvania.

March 23,  2016