TERRORISM – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:12 A.M. ET:  As we literally wait for another terrorist attack, the great historian Victor Davis Hanson contemplates why the West has become such a target-rich environment for terrorists, who attack even countries that have been friendly to the Islamic world.  From NRO: 

Many Westerners are more scared of being labeled as illiberal or nativist than they are of being unsafe.

Islamic terrorists sense that Westerners are increasingly materialist rather than spiritual. Europeans in particular are becoming more secular. Their birthrates are declining. And they seem to believe more in satisfying their appetites than in finding transcendence through children and religion.

As a result, jihadists trust that they can cull a handful of Westerners every few weeks from an otherwise indifferent herd. Their only challenge is to keep the harvest of Westerners down to a few dozen and not to get greedy in their bloodlust.

Terrorists seem to believe that as long as they avoid another 9/11-like massacre, they can continue to take lives and insidiously weaken the West without awakening it from its morally indifferent slumber.

And they may be right.

COMMENT:  Boy, that nails it, doesn't it?  We saw recently the obscene display of Western, including American, corporations, rushing to get into Iran, despite the fact that Iran is one of the world's greatest exporters of terror.  Let the profits roll.

It also helps terrorism when we have a president of the United States who is vaguely sympathetic to some of the terrorists' causes, and who believes Islam has been slandered.  How many Obama apology tours do we have to endure? 

March 31,  2016