QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 3:52 P.M. ET:  From Victor Davis Hanson, on our anti-terror strategy:

One, we are doing our darnedest to playact that radical Muslims who are trying to kill us are not trying to kill us; and two, we are not seeing a lot of peaceful blowback from the virtual closing of Guantanamo, the virtual trial of KSM, the reach out in the Al Arabiya interview, the "reset" rhetoric, the Cairo speech, and the apology tour — 2009 saw the most terrorism attempts since 2001.

And that, of course, is the charitable take: that these near-miss (and not-so-near-miss) radical-Islamist incidents are incidental to, rather than a symptom of, our new de facto policy of suggesting that the problem with our "contingency operations" against "man-caused disasters" is with us rather than with hostile Muslim terrorists.

COMMENT:  He nails it.  But the strategy won't change, as it's part of the core beliefs of the liberal left, and the colleges that produced this kind of thinking. 

Just after 9/11, Mollie Haskell, the not-so-politically-correct film critic, was at a Manhattan party.  When it came time for toasts, she raised her glass and pronounced, "To victory."  And everyone laughed at her.

That is the problem. 

May 5, 2010