I'd Rather Be Here Than In Philadelphia

In the column I referenced in my last entry about July 4th according members of America's 4th Estate, pretend journalist for the Philadelphia inquirer and poor excuse for a human being, Chris Satullo, whose last name shall now forever be the expression one utters to toast defeat, made this despicable comment:

"And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven't made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they've spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears."

Jack Kelly writes today with a slightly different, i.e. accurate, perspective:

"Doubtless much of our good fortune is due to increased vigilance by the FBI and other security agencies. And some of it is due simply to good luck. But the principal reason why we've been safe at home these last seven years has been the war in Iraq."

He goes on:

"Sen. Obama describes the war in Iraq as a "distraction' from the war on terror. But that's not how al Qaida saw it. In a 2005 letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaida's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri, described Iraq as 'the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era,' (and) "Osama bin Laden himself said... 'The whole world is watching this war and the two adversaries; the Islamic nation on the one hand, and the United States and its allies on the other. It is either victory and glory or misery and humiliation.'"

Earlier today on Special Report with Brit Hume, the usually unremarkable Fred Barnes noted that Obama's "distraction" has rendered al Qaida unable to mount attacks elsewhere.

And the result according to Mr. Kelly...

"In 2003, Canadian columnist David Warren hypothesized Iraq would be the flypaper that would lure in al Qaida, and where it would be destroyed. While I doubt this was a deliberate Bush administration strategy, that's the way it's working out. Al Qaida was right that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, but wrong about the outcome. America's Democrats have been wrong about both."

Perhaps instead of atoning on July 4th as he said he'd be doing, Chris could make it Take A Terrorist To Lunch Day? Or launch a telethon to raise money for victims of American torture?