THE NEW TERROR THREAT – BRITISH PERSPECTIVE – AT 11:31 A.M. ET:  We reported earlier in the week that there are new terror threat being reported, and that they involve attempts by jihadist bomb makers to make an undetectable bomb.  The threats are being taken seriously, especially in Britain.  From The Telegraph: 

Terrorists are plotting to use new stealth bombs in laptops and even humans to bring down a US-bound passenger plane, it is feared.

Airport security was increased across the UK, US and other countries amid fears al-Qaeda bomb experts have successfully designed a new explosive that can bypass current checks.

They are believed to be targeting the thousands of Western jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq as would-be suicide bombers.

The threat, which originated from US intelligence, had an immediate impact at British airports where passengers were subjected to more stringent and rigorous security checks.

It raises the prospect of a summer of delays and chaos for holidaymakers with long queues at airports.

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said the safety of passengers “must come first” while Nick Clegg, the Deputy PM, warned travellers the new checks would be a permanent feature.

It's nice to know that the British prime minister actually addressed his people on this point personally.  We get no such attention from Field Marshal Obama.

Changes to security measures were announced after Washington homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson ordered beefed-up security at foreign airports which have direct flights to the US.

There are concerns that al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and specifically its master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, have linked up with the Jabhat Al-Nusra jihadists in Syria and passed on bomb making skills.

COMMENT:  It is long past time for the president of the United States to address the American people, and inform them that the struggle against terror will go on indefinitely, and that it is similar in some respects to the "twilight struggle" against Communism that President Kennedy described in his inaugural address, (which was not a great speech, but had some fine points).

It is also time for the president to concede that he has been wrong on major aspects of foreign policy, and has vastly underestimated the will and the resilience of America's enemies.  He will not make any such concession, of course, because the collective ego of his administration prevents it.

July 4, 2014