Terrorists are more than criminals, they are a cancer on the flesh of society. They should be eliminated as soon as they are caught, no mercy. They show us none. There only objective is to kill as many infidels as possible.

I do not understand. We keep protecting them, having trials, making sure we do not violate there rights, all the while they will have no mercy. There is only one thing they understand, and that is killing. So lets make sure they understand who we are

Terrorist should NOT be treated as "criminals" but as the non-uniformed "terrorist combatants" they are. Treating them as mere "criminals" would create legal chaos and, more to the point, give them a huge soapbox from which to proclaim their martyrdom and hatred of America.

I was schocked when our new President took his European apology tour. I have continued to be appauled his bold unpatriotic moves against our country injuring her with his lies on policy and huge debt increase. His administration acts like beginners in the game of life when they are in charge of the world largest economy. I pray we can make it to 2012 Uncle Sam is getting pretty beaten up!

Obama is supportive of the Islamic Brotherhood whose goals, though seemingly less violent, are the same as Al-Qaida.

They are not criminals, they are not soldiers, they are low-life terrorists, who care nothing about civilization and normal values in society, they must be eliminated.

To me they are clearly combatants, criminals usually do not kills on mass numbers.

The act of 9/11 was purely an act of terrorism to this country. It cannot be portrayed as a criminal act. Anyone in their right mind cannot conceive of this atrocious act being anything but a Terrorist Attack on this nation and their only goal being to kill Americans. That was their goal and is still their goal. It's time for ALL AMERICANS TO REMEMBER AND KEEP FIGHTING BACK.

9/11 is a Day of Rememberance not a Day of Service.

God Bless America.

If we don't get rid of these vermin while we can, our grandchildren and their children will be fighting for their very way of life. Our government leaders do not seem to fathom the notion that they want us all dead...that includes them and their children and grandchildren. But all they care about is being re-elected and how much money they can steal from the American people. I am so disgusted with them all from our Muslim president who nobody seems to care that he is ruining American to all his lying thieving cabinet!!!

Neither. They are saboteurs and should be shot or hung accordingly.

They are military combatants bent on killing us all and we should strike first!

Thugs, criminals, religious zelots, should be taken out without mercy.

What exactly is "Islamo-fascism?"

Terrorists are criminals with deranged thinking. Attacking innocent people is not warfare, it is terrorism. The terrorist’s purpose is to frighten masses of people with their antics and change everyone’s way of living. They consider themselves patriots but they are not; they are sick human beings who prey on fear. They are hate mongers. Life means nothing to them and yet they claim to believe in God and sell the bombers who blow themselves up a lie, a very big lie. Why do they believe that they are acting in a manner that God would approve? Because their god is not my God who is - loving, merciful, kind, slow to anger and yes – alive and well - despite claims to the opposite by our liberal friends. As such, all terrorists deserve and should to be imprisoned or eradicated as fanatical killers, which they are. Any person who spends their entire life planning harm and mayhem to other human beings do not deserve to live themselves. Terrorists are so indoctrinated in hate that only God has the power to show them the truth. They are our enemy and we need to pray for them and their souls as we Christians have been called to do.

They are un-uniformed combatants that should be brought before a Military Tribunal, then executed in a matter of days as they did after WWII.

Berry is an islamist, and has done more to help the fanatics than Bin Laden.

Terrorist are combatants who refuse to wear uniforms. Therefore, by Geneva Convention standards, they are to be afforded none of the rules that it calls for. Summary execution, much as a caught spy would get, is the appropriate punishment.

No they are not combatants! Many years ago I read in Soldier of Fortune magazine that the rules of war had been changed and that in order to be protected by International Law and Treaties, an idividual must be wearing a recognized uniform of a legitmate fighting force.

Therefore terrosist have no rights under International Law.

No we are not safer, I believe that terrorists are pouring into the US across our un-protected southern boarder and placing themselves in our population for a specifit day of terror and the current administration has done nothing to make us safer.

The acts of terrorists far exceeds that of a criminal. Therefore, the only category that makes sense, unless you are part of the class of individuals who are intellectually impaired, is that of terrorists!

B.O. has shown weakness and wants to "improve relations". Weakness always emboldens the "bully". Peace through strength is the only motto that is respected.

Why is it that 10 years after the 9/11 attack so many patriots are so woefully ignorant of the numerous, massive questions regarding culpability for the attacks as raised by hundreds of experts in science, engineering, politics, intelligence and the military and as memorialized in books such as David Ray Griffin's excellent work, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 is Unscientific and False? Patriots need to know who our real enemies are, and the official conspiracy story is an utter joke at identifying them. I want Alexander to prove his patriotism by telling his readers how WTC Building 7 collapsed at free-fall speed.

There was another similar fact between pearl harbor and 9/11-

They knew it was coming and didn't recognize (or ignored) the clues-and failed to act. When our Govt says of Pakistan (of Osama being in their Country) "they were either incompetent or complicit", I say the same of our Govt about 9/11. No matter the premise, the result was the administration used the crisis to remove your Liberty and take us further from our founding documents. This program continues unabated today.

We are the real terrorists, for letting it happen.

Terrorists or whatever other name you wish to give them do not have the protection of the Geneva Accords. Therefore they should be tried by a military tribunal and not in any civilian court as are common criminals. We need to get our heads out of our behinds and identify who the enemy is and it is not terror as terror is a tactic. Think what it would have been if President Roosevelt had declared war on sneak attacks after Pearl Harbor.

Since I firmly believe that Mr. Obama is a muslim, I do strongly believe his actions not only embolden Al Qaeda but also empower them to do more than ever before.

In the history of modern warfare, combatants have some obligation to wear a uniform of the country they represent. In the case of terrorists they seem to have only a religious allegiance and not a national one. Therefore according to the rules of modern warfare terrorists do not qualify as combatants but rather as common criminals and cowards!

These are enemy combatants, who should recieve the same treatment General Pershing gave them in the Phillipines, just prior to WWI. He caught 5o terrorists, lined them up for summary execution, then had his men bring in two pigs, and slaughtrer them in front of the terrs. He then had the soldiers soak their bullets in the pig's blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of them. Then dug a hole, dumped in the bodies, covered them in the pig's blood, entrails, etc. and covered them up. They let the 50th man go, to spread the word. If these idiots know we will do this, they will think twice before attacking any where. Also be sure to include ham sanwiches on ALL airlines flights.

Are we safer today under the Obama administration? No! Whether by purpose or naivete, the current administration's blindness regarding the dangers of Islamic terrorism are frightening. AG Holder, let's focus on the real enemy, not Gibson Guitar.

Are we safer today? NO way, as long as there are Muslims in this world we will never be safe for they have no respect for human life. Just look at how they treat their own people. I feel that they should not be allowed to even be in our military, but I know that we cannot do that because it wouldn't be politically correct which in it self is a bunch of horse poop. I don't trust them and I will never trust them.

The rank and file of al-Qa'ida are delusional religious zealots and fight for a cause that they believe is worth their personal sacrifice.

The leadership are psychopathic malevolent criminals. Any of them that aggressively participate in the injury and death of civilians, are guilty of murder. I believe they will be surprised that their reward is not virgins in paradise, but a judgment to be with the vilest of humans such as Hitler and Mao and Manson in hell for eternity. Just my humble opinion

There are two obvious methods of attack on th U.S. which would be nearly impossible to prevent: One, a nuke or dirty bomb in a cargo container on a ship in a major port, probably NYC. The death toll, even from a nuke, wouldn't be that high, surface balsts aren't that effective. The psychological effects, the need to evacute a large area, would be devastating. When Katrina hit the Big Easy, about a half million folks moved out. Hit the Big Apple, and 10 million would need to relocate. The surrounding area couldn't accept a fraction of that.

The good news, for the moment, is that the folks who would do this don't have the means. That could change in the near future.

The second attack takes less technology. A handfull of jihadists, in groups of 3 or 4, shoot up a few airports or train station entry and ticketing areas at the same time. Small number of casualties, but major impact.

The bad part is the current administration does not seem to give a tinker's d--- about any of this, preferring to worry about domestic terrorism. Returning vets, tea party types, etc.

Sooner or later, and the MSM will blame it all on Bush.

I realize I may seem "radical" in my view but it is shaded by eight years in the Marine Corps and many years as a constitutional advocate.

I believe Obanma is Muslim, supportive of their idealogy.I believe he is not a citizen of this country and I believe his socialist views will be the downfall of this great nation if he is allowed to persist. What confounds me is how Nancy Pelozzi and Harry Reid, could possibly support this President, since both are born and raised in the US. What drives their ignorance?

Mark, your parents named you well You are on the "Mark" again. How long does SAFE last? Our nation is safe until the next attack. Vigilence is the only answer and equals safe. Safe equals strenght. So until we let down our guard, weaken our military, think we are safe on our own shores bring our military home will we no longer be safe. Oh isn't that Obama's current policy!

Are we safe today?

The living are never safe.

To say that we are "safer" than before, is to say that "it" can't happen again!

Maybe safer against airplanes crashing into tall buildings in areas of mass populations, but not anywhere near "safe" from individuals with twisted minds.

"Terrorist profiling" should be the M.O of our Homeland Security and Border Patrol.

Yes, obama has definitly emboldened the jihadists, by cow-towing to islam at every opportunity. He has declared this nation to not be a Christian nation ( which it is, and will continue to be) , and has tried very hard to hamper any and all attempts to root out jihadists in America, and declared we will never be at war with islam. They are at war with all the world over their assinine "religion", so we must be at war with the entire nation of islam.

Anyone who, as part of a larger group that carries out systematic & violent attacks on our nation, our troops, and anyone else who disagrees with them is far more than a criminal. They are - at least - enemy combatants and, as terrorists, almost undeserving of any Geneva Convention rights or even basic human rights. They act like mad dogs and should be treated as such.

Are we safer today? I would say yes for now. However, it will take constant vigilance and preemption to stay that way. I fear for the country that Obama and the democrats in Washington have allowed our security to become lax instead of increasing our security. To say that the southern border is secure is a great overstatement or if you prefer a lie. Where is the allegiance to the oath they took when assuming office? I think that was just a formality to too many.

We are not safer. We are weaker internally due to our decline both patriotically and morally. America is not as "pro-American" as we were 10 years ago, due as much to the economic woes we face daily, as the liberal media barrage. When our current government determined it was OK to blatantly lie, cheat, and pillage, with no fear of prosecution or prison, it severely wounded our national pride and set a terrible example for the under 40 population, who tend to believe "at first glance" without verifiying information. With much of the population fearful of economic catastrophy, their focus is not on our porous borders or the jihadis roaming our cities right now.

As a card-carrying bed-wetting pantywaist, I chaffe at your application of that description when referring to "the left". For the record, they are not associated with bed-wetting pantywaists in the similar manner in which Congress is not associated with drunken sailors. I will accept you retraction in your next posting.

Thank you.

In Obama's own wordshttp://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28

No, I do not feel safe. There is always that little bug in the back of my head saying: Better watch out what you do or say. We should pay attention to the Boy Scout Motto of "Be Prepared"

As a life-long Republican and a veteran, the American people have much more to fear from the neocons who have highjacked the Republican Party than from a gang of Arab cavemen.

Ron Paul for President.

They are Enemy Combatants and should have a Military trial.

I note, with interest, that the liberal left continue to goad conservatives, perhaps hoping that someone will actually physically attack some prominent liberal, so that they may appear justified in gun confiscation, internet censorship, and the like. Then I consider that America has goaded people all over the world with their "benevolence", and I wonder if 9/11 wasn't the desired response, so that the Patriot Act could be enacted, the 4th Amendment destroyed, and the like. It disturbs me that the Patriot Post seems to equate conservative with imperialism. I think you have taken the bait and swallowed.

Islamo-Fascists are terrorist combatants; B. Hussein Obama and his henchmen are CRIMINALS !

No, sir, we are NOT safer, now. The threat of jihadists to this country remains as great, or perhaps even greater than ever before, due to the insane garbage the administration, and the lefist panty-waists ( read that traitor, on both counts ) in our government, and the media.

A declaration of war followed by an act of war is just that, no less.

Obama is 100% Muslim and "in bed" with the terrorist that would bring out country down. He has apologized and encouraged all the Arab nations in such a way to let them know he was on their side. We need to be more alert than ever before of the threats to our country and our way of life.

Terrorists are criminals. I would not honor them by calling them anything else.

NO,NO,NO

Until our commander-in-chief believes his military commanders instead of his socialist friends we will be just waiting for the next attack.et us pray that his troop withdrawls don't put our military and America at a greater risk than already exists.

Obama IS the personification of the jihadi movement and objectives.

Criminals - enough said.

I believe that any individual or groups of people who attack any nation with or without provocation have declared War on that nation. This including that nations own citizens. There are military cobatants as well as non military, Then there are the religious and anti social group fanatics from repressed and non repressed nations who hate all whom do not believe the same as they do whom should be treated as common terrorists tried of their crimes and punished, weather by death or imprisonment. All who attack my country become my mortal enemy and I will assist in their punishment and destruction.

We will never be safe until we prosecute traitors. We have a traitor in the White House, some in Congress, the Senate, and the Legal System. We must identify and eliminate all of them through an American Legal system. We must expel illegal aliens, repeal Carter era laws, then enforce our laws and regulate immigrants as we did in the 1800's and early 1900’s.

Mr. Watson, please recall the Germans who infiltrated US troops leading up to the Battle of the Bulge, by wearing US uniforms. If I recall correctly, they were summarily executed. I agree these terrorists are cowards, who use civilian clothes, women, children and Mosques to hide behind. Regardless of their methods or their allegiance, they are combatants, and are not entitled to any of the rights granted US citizens. We have to stop this PC pandering to them, most notably by BHO but including many of his sycophants as well as Ron Paul, and put a boot up their backsides. I have several Islamists in my neighborhood and they simply think the rules don't apply to them.

We will not be safe until we remove the Muslim from the Whitehouse and quit being the "nice guy" when attacked by this threat. Any person who can read the swill coming from most mosques or see video of Imams nationwide spreading their hate against the USA knows were are in a war one that has lasted hundreds of years against the "Infidels".

It sure doesn't help when "O" brings in waves of possible terrorists from Gaza at government expense.

So-called terrorists are combatants. Criminals cannot, by definition, declare war on a sovereign nation.They are islamic soldiers and should be treated as such.

Yes, we are somewhat safer than we were 10 years ago, but only because 9/11 happened. If that horrific event hadn't taken place, we'd still be where Clinton had us. It took that event to wake America up and take action.

Bush wasn't perfect, but at least he did SOMEthing, which is more than you can say for Clinton, and a ton more than you can say for our cow-tow puke of a president today.

They are combatants to be held as detainees ( POW )

Military Tribunals to determine execution or life at Gitmo.

Big government jelousy over turf.

Great report, Bravo Zulu. Everyone should read this.

Fair winds and a following seas

ETC USN (Ret)

The enemy we face neither know nor care about the internationally accepted laws of war. Since he chooses to ignores those laws he should also be deprived of it's protections. Upon capture, and upon demonstration that he engaged in unlawful armed conflict, he should be adjudged guilty and promptly subjected to execution by firing squad. The treatment of franc-tireurs is well established in international law and the failure to execute those who are so identified is both counter-productive and short-sighted.

Yes and it seems by design.

Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. – Koran, Sura 9 verse 5

It does not matter what Americans think terrorists are--it simply matters what the terrorists think they are--and they believe they are combantants fighting a long-term war to defeat Western values and way of life. It would seem that that view from our enemy would be easily seen and understood. One can argue on how to fight them-asymetrically or conventionally, but fight and defeat them we must. Terrorism is their weapon of choice (and necessity)in this war. This is not a criminal action; rather it is all out war.

obama's main job is the safety and security of this great Nation.Somebody needs to explain that to him.Read The Constitution!!!

We're only as safe as the dictators need us to be, until such time as the need another incident to justify their actions of robbing Americans of their Heritage.

Those who do not learn from history, or sleep thru the present will not recognize the threat as it approaches, again.

I think the Islamists have exposed us and will wait out our eventual economic collapse from both the war expenditure and welfare bloat. We are where the Soviet Union was 25 years ago.

War always causes economic calamity. Couple that with us adopting much of the Socialist platform andd an aging demographic, the economy is going to crater as the Baby Boomers break the economic backs of the GenX, GenY, and Millenials.

Given our current monetary system, the only solution is default or inflation. Inflation will silently steal the wealth of all savers and reward the people in debt up to their eyeballs. Outright default would finally expose the Keynesian socialism as the true fraud that it is.

The guys at the top will not let us default. They will continue to plunder us from DC to the TBTF banks where our wealth ultimately ends up. War is just another way to redistribute wealth and the Jihadists have done a fair job of forcing us to wreck our economy in pursuit of an assymetric diffusive guerilla enemy. It has cost them a lot, but it has cost us much more.

That depends entirely on what you are comparing it to.

Terrorists are combatants without uniforms and as such when captured they should be tried in military courts, and shot as spies.

According to the brief article in Wikipedia:

After World War II, during the Hostages Trial (or, officially, 'The United States of America vs. Wilhelm List, et al.), the seventh of the Nuremberg Trials, the tribunal found that, on the question of partisans, according to the then-current laws of war (the Hague Convention No. IV from 1907), the partisan fighters in southeast Europe could not be considered lawful belligerents under Article 1 of said convention.[7] In relation to Wilhelm List, the tribunal stated:

We are obliged to hold that such guerrillas were francs tireurs who, upon capture, could be subjected to the death penalty. Consequently, no criminal responsibility attaches to the defendant List because of the execution of captured partisans...[7]

The Geneva Conventions established new protocols, namely, according to Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, francs-tireurs are entitled to prisoner-of-war status provided that they are commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates, have a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly, and conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

I can't say Obama has emboldened the jihadi movement, other than releasing brainless timetables for troop withdrawal, although I can't say he's done anything to discourage it either.

The reason he has not appreciably emboldened the jihadi movement isn't because he is intent on stopping the threat, but because another devastating attack will make him and his party look bad, torpedo his re-election chances, and place an indelible black stain on his presidency. It is for those reasons he has left Gitmo alone, left the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and left the Patriot Act in place, not specifically because he's interested in keeping America safe.

Get rid of homeland security and let airlines check their passengers. The border is completely out of control with no help from the federal government. The federal government is not functioning, but is destroying this country.

No we're not safer now. I've read numerous posts as to why. Again, we have this us, against them, Obama is... Some are radical just as they're radical Christians, they are dangerous as some Christians, maybe more so for they believe in there faith. The question isn't are we safer for we aren't, the question is why did Bush/Cheney put us in a conflict we cannot win? Step back and look at the big picture. They knew the Cowboy has this western swagger. By us going in force to Muslim countries, they insured more moderate Muslims rallying to their cause. They can point to: "see the Christians, they don't follow there own beliefs and torture us, take over us, want to westernize us. By us embarking on 2 wars all we did is reenforce there warped values against us. we created enemies out of people who cared less.

We say, it's the left, is it? They baited the trap, use our sense or morality and the urge to get even, they played us to set afire the Muslim wold thus insuring a battle we cannot win. When we water board, they use it as torture. They say, "look at the Christians, it's against federal and international law, they are harboring war criminals, they don't practice what they preach."

Are we safer? No, we aren't. Do they respect force, yes they do. Did we overkill? yes we did. They played us now we have to deal with it. we are now in and have been in a catch 22 situation with no out. The longer we stay the more they will despise us, the longer we detain them, we make them hero's for the cause. to them, it's the true faith against the B(**&^ faith.

Politics aside, and I will be blunt, we ahve a strike alert team that goes on a moments notice, grab nuclear/Bio weapons, bring them back home. The less government approach has cut that program. are we safer? Tea party cut it, argue about all the other programs but make us safe. It's not the DNC, it's the GOP who did this.

Sarin gas is easy to make, I can make an EMP device, so are we safer/no, is it part our fault, yes.

To D R, Darrel, and others, it's black and white, blame the other political party never mind the fact we were played. I've read, Obama is going to cut the military. then make a deal in budget cuts, you forced the issue. Budget cuts killed our nuclear strike team.

Are we safer? part of the problem is created by the man or woman in the mirror. Ric Perry doesn't want a federal military, so ask yourself, are we safer, is it all the other parties fault and is it as easy or simple as we want it to be.

All they have to do is gas a movie theater, a rail tunnel, and we give up more freedom, bleed off more resources, and they will in the long run win.

Alex asked the question, are we safer? No, we're not. It isn't the question, one should ask, the question is how can we extract ourselves from a battle we cannot win.

They are terrorist combatants who carry out criminal plans against innocent people......... They need to be handled by the military by whatever means are necessary.

On the legal status of terrorists:

According to the Geneva Conventions, any combatant in uniform is protected as a POW. Irregulars from either country are also protected, hence Iraqis fighting US forces in Iraq would be protected regardless of whether or not they wore uniforms. However, foreigners, say those Saudi recruits for Al Qaeda in Iraq, or anyone caught wearing the opposing side's uniform, are treated as spies under the Geneva Conventions and are authorized to be executed on the spot without trial.

Hope this clears up a few things. And for the record I am active duty Navy.

They are Criminals, purely and simply. Treat them as such.

they are combantants....and should be treated like opposing military

Obama's foreign policy is a joke. Islamo-fascists understand one thing and one thing only. Force. If we kow tow to them, they will perceive that as weakness. Obama has bowed to how many foreign leaders now? He's a traitor to this country as far as I'm concerned. If a Republican president had done that, he would have been impeached and rightly so.

In regards to the Fort Hood massacre, I have to wonder why we have our troops in our own military facility without weapons. I am not in nor have I ever been in the military, so I am ignorant to the protocol, but that just seems absurd to me. We need to stop with the political correctness nonsense and use common sense. I think we should probably change that to uncommon sense, because it's sure not prevalent in our society anymore. We should be very careful who we allow to serve in our military. I don't care what race you are, what creed you are or what religion you adhere to, though I am partial to Christianity. Each applicant should be thoroughly checked to make sure there is no questionable history that would lead intelligent people with "common" sense to reject said application from serving.

In this country, babies are murdered, terrorists are treated with political correctness, the President bows to foreign leaders and apologizes for our greatness, wrong is right and right is wrong, etc. It's a sad state of affairs.

En boldened and facilitated. Our southern border is an easy entry point and the word LAX does not adequetly describe our border enforcemet. In addition the president shows weakness when dealing with the countries of Radical Islam coulture, and demeans our allies and our own country. Domestic Enemies are more dangerous as we do not expect traitors in our midst yet we have them today at the highest levels. just look ! UN treaties ,judicial dictat,signing statements ,unconstitutional rulings and laws.

Terrorists are combatants, in civilian clothes, in WWII someone found in this situation would have been shot on sight. No questions asked! An enemy combatant in “plain” clothes was considered such an extreme risk and so far outside the accepted norms, that it was accepted.

All of the enemy combatants should not be allowed any rights or given any quarter.

We as a country should demand that “normal” “peace loving” muslims denounce these terrorist and distance themselves from them or face the same fate. Witch should be the total annihilation of all who feel that we as a nation should not exist.

This may be nitpicking, but I find it contradictory when the colleague in Afghanistan says "The odds of anyone pulling off another 9/11 are pretty slim, but they'll find something equally shocking to do soon enough." Of course the odds are slim that airplanes will be flown into the world trade center again. We're great at reacting and preparing for something that has already happened. But to my mind, if it is equally shocking it IS another 9/11. For several years I've said that terrorists are stupid to continue to try "nickle and dime" type attacks. Why not load a Cessna with explosives and fly it into an NFL game on live TV? Or perhaps coordinate a half dozen suicide bombers to blow up the SECURITY LINES at several busy airports simultaneously? Either of these would be relatively simple to pull off and would be considered by most to be "another 9/11." The terrorists will eventually figure it out and pull off something like this. Equally shocking indeed.

We should deal with terrorist the way all governements have throughout the ages, be they nihilists, "freedom fighters', anarchists, or what not. Get all the information we can from them, using "enhanced" interrogation methods as needed and then shoot them, hang them but in any case get rid of them permanently.

These terrorist are nothing more than cavemen with explosives and we cannot bomb them back to the Stone Age because they have never left! Sadly enough their simple caveman minds are brain-washed by their psychopathic religious leaders into thinking their murderous acts are acceptable in Gods eyes. No, they are not combatants they are nothing more than murderers! Just sayin’…

They are most definitely, war crimianals and combatants

Terrorists are not legitimate combatants, soldiers of their cause. Soldiers do not kill unarmed non-combatants - precisely the target of terrorists. Like the schoolyard bully, they do not pick on kids their own size - men with weapons who can fight back.

Terrorism is is the quintessence of cowardice and dishonor.

If they do not carry an ID card from some countries Armed Forces they are just terrorists and should have no rights to civil treatment. They cannot claim they are prisoners of war as they represent no country.

You might have included the murder of the soldiers at the recruiting station in Arkansas by a Muslim convert from Memphis, and the recent capture of an AWOL Muslim convert at Killeen, Texas right outside Ft.Hood...We need to keep the pressure on here in our Country and anywhere overseas that these extremists exist. We need to put more pressure on those who provide support, funds, and sanctuary for the festering evils.

How is it that the low life U.S. Army major nidal malik hasan who murdered fourteen and wounded twenty nine in Fort Hood Texas IS STILL ALIVE? Or is it that our current, INEPT attorney general does not have the courage or the muslim's permission to decide what to do with him? The time has long passed for us in being the "nice guy", let's go through the motions of a military trial(since the low life is an enemy soldier, and was caught wearing an American uniform) ,find the bastard guilty, put him against the wall and send him to his waiting seventy virgins. And I am certain that the Swiss won't mind.

American citizens who murder Americans and attack US government citizens or property are criminals. Foreigners who do the same are combatants and are not granted the protections and/ rights of legal system. Most democratic and other forms of government around the world already apply this distinction.

Hippies still suck, communist always lie and a terrorist will kill anyone, anytime, anywhere just because....Axiom

That's a insight as to the how and why of terrorism, and having confronted this kind of individual personally, I can tell with personal expertise, if you do not pull the trigger first and shoot to kill, your the casualty or statistic. If you do not plan for their demise and hunt them down, then you are a open invitation to mayhem.

Terrorist are criminals but they wage war, to me their credo is a open invitation for me to eradicate them in any way possible without mercy. Never think they understand compassion, your tradition, culture and belief in God and freedom are all subject to removal in their intolerant world....

Obviously the former. To commit destructive and frightening murderous acts in order to gain political objectives is the definition of terrorism.

President Obama and "I"

Some people have criticized President Obama for using first person singular pronouns like "I," "me," and "my," too much. In fact, though, Pennebaker found that the opposite was true. He says: It turns out [Obama] uses the word I or first person singular pronouns, 'I, me, my,' at the lowest of any modern president. And by quite a bit. He rarely uses I, me and my, compared to others, compared to George Bush, compared to Reagan, compared to Clinton.

"One of the interesting issues is that the use of 'I, me' and 'my' actually suggests being more personal," according to Pennebaker, "being more self-attentive, being more self-focused. Someone who's actually arrogant or cold or distant or even who is viewed as a leader, tends to use these words at a lower rate."

The use of pronouns can even reveal if a person is lying. Pennebaker says people should look to the use of "I" words. People who tell the truth tend to use them more.

source:

http://www.pri.org/stories/arts-entertainment/books/how-you-use-pronouns-lie-detectors-personality-projectors5676.html

For lack of a better term I'd have to say combatant, however, terrorists are murderers.

They are cowardly and totally without honor.

The best resolution I can come up with is extract All information - regardless of methods used including physical torture - when finished the bodies can be turned into Fertilizer for garden soil. This is about the only usefull thing that can come from a terrorist.

A Terrorist is a person without a country or nation/state that can or will declair war on the U.S. or any other country. He is in fact an illegal combatant that does not fall under the Geneva Convention and is outside all international law. He is to be treated as a mad dog, a threat to all goverments everywhere and should be hunted down, killed or captured and the prisoners examined by a military tribunal. If found guilty of the crime of terrorism, then exicuted as quickly as possible.

President Obama is doing everything possible to strip our country of it's independence of personal freedoms, military strength and preparedness, and individual responsiblity to prusue happiness. Nationalizing health care is one of the worst programs to be enacted. Government regulation of our personal lives is robbing this country of its fundamental foundation.

Is our security better, more diligent, more prepared and the answer is never enough, that is a time tested fact.

We believe in a loving God with Christian Judeo base and a Constitution that ressembles that governmental base. We are always a risk because while we seek peace, we will put those who prey on us at risk. The best defense is a good offense and the more power we project the more our allies trust us and the more our enemies detest us, so we can never consider ourselves safe to the point we lull ourselves into carelessness...

"Weak-kneed politicians continue to placate Islamists, even seriously considering the use of our tax dollars to build a mosque just two blocks from the 9/11 memorial."

Can I have a link please? What happened to the disestablishment clause?

Good article. Our nation's first need is a spiritual revival among real Christians. Our "leaders" reflect the people's lives and habits. We don't seem to have the will to fight on all fronts. Islam is allowed to thrive within our shores, and the religion of peace is not a religion at all. It a gang of criminals pretending to have religion in order to abuse our freedom of worship. Once they get the majority, there will be no tolerance for us. The liberals blindly push for a soft approach, and if the enemy takes over, they will be killed too. We must pray for revival of Christians and for the mercy of God on our nation. He is our only hope, not the Conservatives or even the military (and I do support both). Thanks

Who cares! Kill'em all and let GOD sort'em out!

I'm sick to death of this mandy-pandy federal govt in the treatment of these "SOB's". If Eric Holder's daughter was murdered by these "BA*****S" do you think he would still want to try them in a US court?

Terrorists are non-uniformed combatants and deserve the same treatment that a German or Japanese soldier in civilian clothes or otherwise out of their military uniform while continuing military action would have and did during WW II. They don't deserve ANY rights or treatment that civilian criminals receive.

Low level captive terrorists need to be questioned by whoever is capable, using whatever techniques are available to extract information, then chucked into a hole someplace. High level captive terrorists need to get the full treatment with top level interrogators, then chucked into a hole someplace. Terrorists in combat need killed out of hand with the same level of tolerance our troops receive, i.e., none.

They are most definitely combatants and should be prosecuted in a Military Court and not be accorded the same rights as Americans Citizens in an American court of law. Obama and Holder are so full of Muslim crap.

Obama has done NOTHING to discourage terrorism. Instead he's tried to show them that we're nice people and friendly and don't want them any harm. Showing weakness invites attack. The Romans had it right: "Si vis pacem, para bellum". It still works today.

We are absolutely NOT safer today than we have ever been. Mark Alexander is spot on with his current assessment. How can we be safe when we have an administration more concerned with homosexual advancement in the military, cutting needed military budgets, weakening the US economy, dividing any unity we did have, and fulfilling his own selfish vacation/golfing needs? Many of these people anguishing over 9/11 are those who have forgotten most, as they scream for tolerance to the very group who declared war on us ten years ago. There are many of these people who voted, on purpose, for the very man who is in office now, the man who supports these terrorist agendas by his statements and actions. America, you have forgotten already, as a nation, look at the direction we have gone. We had the power to "change" course, and we didn't. We chose to put a traitor in office. We deserve what we have.

Combatant, Terrorists, Criminal? Does it matter what we call them? Do we have to label them so we can be at peace with whatever our resolve is or isn't? They have killed our people, attacked us here, and we debate the tag? Serious? Oh wait....I forgot where I lived. The press and the current administration doesn't like ugly names. Lets just call them "misguided non-Americans in need of Eric Holders justice".

This administration has not only facilitated future attacks, it seems to welcome the possibility. Wouldn't we the people REALLY need the Government then. This beholden to the Government Liberal movement disease that discards God as fallacy, the Constitution as trash, and those who believe in both as internal terrorists will eventually take this country down the tubes. And do they really care how it happens?

"Are terrorist combatants or just criminals?"

It is clear that they are both. They are war criminals until, at minimum, they start wearing uniforms when they commit acts of war. If captured, they should be treated according to the Rules of War; interrogated in ANY manner conducive to gaining intelligence from them, then shot.

No courtroom, military or civilian, need be dishonored by the presence of these vermin. Summary court martial, conducted by the capturing military commander, is quite sufficient for the purposes of justice.

Any outcry, domestic or international, should be stolidly ignored.

According to the brief article in Wikipedia:

After World War II, during the Hostages Trial (or, officially, 'The United States of America vs. Wilhelm List, et al.), the seventh of the Nuremberg Trials, the tribunal found that, on the question of partisans, according to the then-current laws of war (the Hague Convention No. IV from 1907), the partisan fighters in southeast Europe could not be considered lawful belligerents under Article 1 of said convention.[7] In relation to Wilhelm List, the tribunal stated:

We are obliged to hold that such guerrillas were francs tireurs who, upon capture, could be subjected to the death penalty. Consequently, no criminal responsibility attaches to the defendant List because of the execution of captured partisans...[7]

The Geneva Conventions established new protocols, namely, according to Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, francs-tireurs are entitled to prisoner-of-war status provided that they are commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates, have a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly, and conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

As your friend stated: Are We Safer? Yes - Are We Safe? No. We are safer because even our president and his left wing radical Czars can’t take down all the measures that were put in place by the previous administration. But that doesn’t keep them from trying. They are weakening our nation economically. They try to take down all that the founding fathers built for us. They circumvent the laws of the land and trash the people for trying to do right. If they had their way, they would take us to the stone age (like those Muslims in the mid east). If it weren’t for some strong conservatives the United States, as a nation, would cease to exist. Let’s get someone in the White House who will not only make us feel Safer but make us Safe.

Crime: an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment.

Illegal aliens are criminals.

Combat: 1. a fight or contest between individuals or groups 2. conflict, controversy 3. active fighting in a war.

Terrorists are combatanta.

Terrorists are definitely combatants, not criminals. However, because they are not IN UNIFORM, they technically do not fall under the rules of the Geneva Convention. Thus, if captured, they should be executed for crimes against humanity. The rules of engagement should not be restricted by the Geneva Convention.

Killing these people gives them too much respect - we need to put them in a cage for life. By killing them we incite a cycle of violence - by incarcerating them in a cage their entire life we treat them like the animals they are. Like the Soviets used to do - these should be captured and disappeared. . . . not many will see glory in living in a 6x10 cage the rest of their lives.

The constitution guarantees freedom of religion. That is a given. The question then needs to be asked: Is there a religion called Islam. The answer is no. They worship no god but an idol that was formerly the moon god of the Arab people. The correct names for them is Mohammedans. Their leader was a rapist and a pederast who invented his "religion" as a way of gaining power and wealth. He was a bandit of the worst stripe. Therefore it is incumbent upon all of us to realize that the mohammedans represent a fifth column army, in place and ready to explode against us, killing or converting as they are commanded to do by their book. It is past time to deport them all, destroy their bases, the so called mosques, and uproot this evil before it can put the plan into action.

Patriot Post staff -- have you investigated the evidence that 9-11 was an inside job? I'd love to see that theory refuted because it breaks my heart to think it's true, but it seems to this grandmother's mind, that it is. See below websites and please comment in a regular Patriot Post. Thank you.

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As your own eyes witness — WTC Building #7 (a 47-story high-rise not hit by an airplane) exhibits all the characteristics of a classic controlled demolition with explosives: (and some non-standard characteristics)

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Rapid onset of “collapse”

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Sounds of explosions at ground floor - a full second prior to collapse

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Symmetrical “collapse” – through the path of greatest resistance – at free-fall acceleration

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Imploded, collapsing completely, and landed mostly in its own footprint

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Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds

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Several tons of molten metal reported by numerous highly-qualified witnesses

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Chemical signature of Thermite (high tech incendiary) found in solidified molten metal, and dust samples by physics professor Steven Jones, PhD.

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FEMA finds rapid oxidation and intergranular melting on structural steel samples

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Expert corroboration from the top European Controlled Demolition professional

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http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/LEVY.html

Anyone "connecting the dots" would have to conclude that Chandra Levy had come upon some of the most incredible intelligence secrets in history, including the plan to use huge terrorist strikes in America to justify global wars, finance the military industrial complex, and justify a police state here at home in a huge power grab. David Schippers, Chief Council for the House Judiciary Committee and head prosecutor responsible for conducting the impeachment against former President Clinton, went public revealing that in the months BEFORE the 9-11 attacks, many FBI agents had come to him informing him about the impending attacks. These agents knew the names of the hijackers, the targets of their attacks, the proposed dates, and the sources of the terrorists' funding, etc., many months in advance of the 9/11 attacks. The FBI command pulled them off of their investigations into these terrorists and threatened them with the National Security Act.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x55602

I look at all Muslims as Terrorist with most of them as common Criminals! To call them terrorist lets them off the hook as far as Democrats are concerned. To me all are suspect, not trust worthy Snakes in the grass! Will I turn my back on them? Absolutely not! They will never assimilate into American life, NEVER! Their Koran teaches too many treturous thoughts and deceptive ways why they need kill all non believer's. It is only a peaceful religion when they are out numbered.

Neocons? A leftist buzzword, describing defectors from the liberal mantra.

Terrorists? Anyone who is too gutless to take on armed troops , but who would rather kill civillians. ie; men, women,and children who have done NOTHING to them because it's "safer" All of them deserve nothing more than a long drop from a short rope.

*Might does not make right but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding generation.*

The world changed forever on 9/11. To think that Peace is attainable without force is deadly. IMHO

I am surrounded by these people(at work in Southern New York State):

(excerpt)

*A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a MISERABLE creature who has no chance of being FREE...continues...John Stuart Mill

Terrorists to be sure. And noteably, HIS ONENESS is also one for enbabling and encouraging the Islamist extremists to continue to provoke the free world at every turn. They should be considered and treated as traitors and given to the American military (when they attack us in any way) and let the military deal with them. Hanoi Jane included.

Were this WWII (God forbid going backwards), any traitor would be dealth with harshly, not pampered and coddled. The shame of it all.

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they realized they had 'awakened a sleeping tiger', and if the world of terrorism hasn't realized it yet, they soon will as soon as we get a decent Republican/Tea Party president in the White House.

God Bless America and Her fighting sons and daughters.

YES! By kowtowing to our enemies; alienating our allies; stating he will support Muslims before Christians; refusing to close our borders by enforcing our immigration laws; making policies coddling illegal aliens at tax-payer expense; trying desperately for amnesty for all illegal aliens; using our military for social experiments rather than the defense of our nation; weakening our defenses; ad nauseum.

i found at least twenty things that happened before, during and after 9/11. I will just mention three events that may be significant or may not be. Why was there no mention of the gold, silver and other precious metals worth an estimated $1 billion being moved from the vaults under the tower? Why was only $230 million ever recovered? Why so little mentioned about how the Mossad agents were taking movies of the attacks of the two airliners? How did they know the date and time of the attacks? Not only was their van white but so was the van stopped by the NYPD full of explosives on the George Washington Bridge. Thes individuals just happeded to be Mossad agents dressed as Palestinians according to the NYPD reports.When they jumped out of the van they starting yelling, it is not us you want. It is the Palestians you want.Most Americans feel it is unpatriotic to question the government. Many Americans truly have become dumbed down by the propoganda put out by the Whitehouse and the coporate controlled news media.

I watched the Shah fall while stationed in Shiraz, Iran. Not all Muslims are extremeists but all Muslims are afraid of the extremeists and will not do or say anything that will bring attention to themselves. If they are successful in calling attention to the extremists they are marked for death. We have a number of Muslims in our Country and our Government is inviting a large number of Muslim displaced people to reside in our Country. Be careful, be watchful and remember their Religion can easily be described as a way of life and their Koran does not recognize our Constitution

We are not any safer today. If our government was tending to the responsibilities as outlined in our Constitution, an not involved in growing the government, more of our tax money would be going to our military, and support services. During President Obama's time in office, our military is treated like an afterthought.

absolutely they are enemy combatants, foreign or domestic.

You only touched on "southern borders" referring to illegal immigration.

Why doesn't someone state the simple fact that 9/11 was the result of INS failure to deport illegal immigrants.

We look at the results but forget that a "once of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

Look at the pounds of freedoms we have lost, in the cure, when the ounce of prevention could have stopped the pain before it began.

Enforce the rule of law and be free!

Ron Doty Sr

I read about how clinton just walked away from the operation control,while playimng golf,when the Air Force officer had the hit team in place,and asking for the GO to kill OBL.This happened twice!

Where is Chris Mathews,on this one?!Thanks to slick willy,we were hung out to dry.

His wife,Silly Hilly,is worse!

"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749

I don't think we are quite there yet, but close.

First off, terrorists, and they are fascists of the worst order, and use the Islamic religion as their so called shield or their twisted sense of right to exact death and terror and intimidation or threats of same anywhere we let them get a foothold. They do not honor any rules of any kind in war and will not be held accountable by the United Nations, which is one of the worst ideas ever conceived, and put on our soil. If you put them in a conventional warfare, where they would have to fight like men instead of the cowards and savagry they use when they have the upper hand on captured enemies, if they are put in this conventional warfare with uniforms and distinguishing identification markers, they would never even go to a battlefield, you couldn't drag them there with a bulldozer. Problem is, in another area of all this, is that our politicians as a rule don't even know what these people are all about, or even the different sects of the Islamic religions and why that we have Arab nations that have contempt for one another, not all, but, I don't have the time to get into that.

The American people are not informed as they should be, about many things, but, this war on Terrorists should be at the top of our list of to do things.

The Muslims have been fighting countries all over the World since the seventh century, so, in a way, the central theme of that religion is absolute control of theology and use of Sharia law everywhere, including the United States, and which is already occuring in some locales. Wherever they go, they try to dominate if they can, and when they get the upper hand, you have to submit to their ways of doing things. We don't need to hit the brakes with these people, we need to build more pressure in the steam vessel and keep it on tap, and apply it steadily and relentlessly, and not until the white flag, but, to maintain what we have now as Americans if we continue to desire freedom. We have already been too lenient, and we have a President that has set this country back in so many areas, and National Defense is one and the most important. I expect some very unconventional things could happen in this country. The American people need to be vigilant and well armed, at all times, not just these times. These terrorists are not going to quit or give up on trying to destroy The United States of America.

Terrorists are NOT criminals, but combatants in a Jihad ( their word) a Holy war. It iws their stated intention to destroy this country and it's way of life with the same fervor as shown by the Japanese or Nazi's in WWII. At least in that war the combatants were brave enough to be recognized as such thru uniforms. TErrorists deserve neither the rights afforded criminals, nor mercy. They deserve the fate of any non-uniformed (or falsely uniformed) combatant operating against US forces or on US soil. Those sort of irregular troops should be summarily shot.

I say that terrorists are both combatants and criminals but as combatants should be tried in a military tribunal. Since they were captured in civilian garb, (not a uniform), they should be tried as spies and if convicted , hanged. Conventional rules of evidence do not apply as in civilian trials. After all there are RULES to warfare. , just ask Maj. Andre and Nathan Hale.

No, we're not safer. Our deadliest enemy is from within. We have a President who, in my humble opinion, is a muslim, not a muslim sympathizer, and his goal is to destroy our country. He's well on his way to destroying the economy and will do all in his power to gut our military. The feeble minded democrats and liberals who follow him like lemmings and do his bidding are just as guilty along with the media. Yes, we have the terrorists from without, but it's our own countrymen from within who are our biggest threat. It's so sad and so hard to comprehend.

Once again Mr. Alexander has published a pointed, relevant and succint editorial that brings home the need to maintain a vigilant watch. Bravo.

The Muslim extremist have learned for the past attacks that The us can not be brought down by military force. They have gone to what Carl Marx said. He said that the only way to distroy the US is to distroy the economic system (Capitalism)is to distroy the currency (money) which is what Obama and Brenankie are doing by printing so much money. They know that there is a move in the world financial to move from dollars as the standard to something else. They know that this will distroy America.

no we are in serious trouble!

both!

Terrorists are targets of opportunity and should be treated as such. No negotiating, no mercy, no chances. These type of people have no regard for anyone but themselves and have a bizzare sense that "God" told them it was OK. Well the God I believe in loves ALL his children.....not just a select few. Don't believe me??? Ask Him when you see Him. As for the terrorists, well I would be happy to arrange the meeting!

NO, We are not safer. Obama is destroying our country.

One of the issues is defining "terrorists". The term has been so PC'd that one is not sure what people are talking about. As a 30 veteran state police officer I believe acts of violence committed within the USA by USA citizens are primarily criminaland deserving of Constitutional protections. However anyone committing crimes of violence against USA citizens or USA interests (within USA or outside USA) who are not USA citizens should be delt with under the Genevea Convention. As I understand it "enemy combatants" not associated with a COUNTRY who has declared war on us, and are not wearing a uniform of that country are ILLEGAL COMBANTS and are subject to trial and execution. Therefore non USA Muslim extremists who meet that critera are NOT afforded the rules of the Geneva Convention and should be treated as illegal combants. USA citizen Muslims should be charged with the crimes AND the crime of treason.

@Marlene You need to get out more. Those planes hit the builidngs, the buildings burned and collapsed. I mean what more do you need? Why would ANYONE do such a thing form the inside.

GET REAL!!!

THEY ARE CRIMINALS JUST LIKE THE POLITICIANS THAT ENABLED THEM! JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Safer today? Your question sets the tone for doubt.

And this "we" stuff. Just who are 'we' to which the

last two dozen refer? Chairborne rangers use that word like it is a gift to their intellect.

We are better armed and better informed than ten

years ago. However, without leadership to put that

to use, of what good is it? WE The People share info

and feelings, preach active defense; and cannot do

either for fear of homeland leftists who are well

armed against the very people who made this nation great. As a nation, we have all that is needed to

make and keep us safe. It is the "WE" word used by

several that softens the cement of will. WE did not

put the traitor-in-charge where he is. Leftists with

no backbone put him there with help from subversive

organizations known to all. Please refer to them as

we fools and those of us who fought for the US as

"We the Backbone of America" We shall prevail, it

is God's will and our sacred promise to all. But

only if the 'we who have had our cahune's on that cold hard anvil, make it happen. Stop sitting in front of a screen and go out and discuss, argue and

sooner or later, fight for what you preach.'

Since the attack required military action they are combatants. Furthermore, the attack was on the Country, not individuals. They want us all dead - not wounded. Criminals are smarter than that.

Pirates where considered enemies of humanity and could be hung (if not killed ourright) by whomever caught them. For the life of me I can't see why Terrorists can't be dispatched under the same rubic as being enemies of humanity. They have forfieted theri right to a trail or any other consideration. Kill them.

From the sound of things George Bush and D H S knew all about 9 11 2001 before it ever happened just like the English knew about the Japanese attack 5 days before it happened but didn't tell the United States You can't trust any body in the government

Killing these people gives them too much respect - we need to put them in a cage for life. By killing them we incite a cycle of violence - by incarcerating them in a cage their entire life we treat them like the animals they are. Like the Soviets used to do - these should be captured and disappeared. . . . not many will see glory in living in a 6x10 cage the rest of their lives.

Terrorists are enemy combatants, pure and simple. Any entity that organizes to attack large numbers of people, regardless of their civilian or non-civilian status, is an enemy, albeit unconventional, but far more than mere criminal.

They are enemy combatants who should be tried by military tribunals.

Obama has done every thing he can to help the Enemy and turn the entire world against the U S

We are NOT safer now nor will we be as long as Obama, Napolitano, and Holder are in office.

I see what's in the world of shadows called false flag, or Black flag scenario. to be honest, false flag is where we do it and pin it on some other nation or group. same as black flag with an exception, we allow it to happen for political gain as in false flag. As for this, I have no operational details. Let me ask those of you who espouse this line of thinking this. What would they hope to gain beyond the communistic Homeland Security where we signed all our freedoms away to the government. If this is the case, then doesn't that make certain elements of the right complicit in setting the stage for a faciest/communist take over? Doesn't;t it make the other party willing partners later on?

I AGREE WITH YOUR JIHADIST ASSESSMENT AND HE POSITION YOU TAKE ON OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT.

We are losing our safety net with the current administration and with our political correctness. Until we can correctly call "The War on Terror" by its correct name and approach it as such, we are only fooling ourselves and not the terrorists.

We will never be safe as long as the Government and the Gun Banners are trying to get our guns away from us

Terriorists - to be killed on sight!

Islamofascists are illegal combatants, not criminals. Like pirates, they should be categorized under international law as "enemies of all mankind" and hunted, killed and defeated wherever they can be found.

We do not bring them to justice in the sense that a criminal is arrested and goes to trial. The war itself is the trial. We did not enter World War II with the Japanese to arrest the attackers of Pearl Harbor; we went to war to bring about the unconditional surrender of the Nation of Japan. That Jhihadists conduct their combat illegally and irregularly should merely strip them of protection of the Geneva Conventions, not turn them into criminals with a presumption of innocence and due process rights.

Islamist believed that non-believers are their enemy, should be killed because of this belief. They are terrorist. They should not be allowed to imposed their will on the USA and AMERICANS should do whatever they can to stop them.

While our nation continues to accelerate both political correctness and the de-Christianization of our governmental operations, including EXcluding evangelicals from the 9/11 remembrance, our country will continue to hemorrhage from within. When our nation loses its moral underpinnings and compass, we will surely die from within as there will be nothing to separate us from the Hoards and no will to resist.

Our Founders, 37 of whom had divinity degrees, envisioned a nation governed by the Judeo-Christian God but not recognizing a state church. The latter-day notion of "separation of church and state" is intellectual chicanery at its most insidious.

Thank God the Patriot Post, and you, Mr. Alexander, stand fast as the online voice for "right"-thinking America. Together, and with our current President's continuing help in devastating our country, we may be able to elect a new generation of leaders that will return us to First Principles.

You've got to be kidding. Those who some label as "criminals" are evil combatants. I completely agree with John Duggan who posted above!

Apparently we have to look to the various laws and treaties to determine how to characterize "terrorists" (those captured and detained during battles and skirmishes with our troops as well as those who are encouraged to commit/attempt to commit attrocities against civilians and members of our military on "US soil"). I don't believe that the terms and definitions under the Geneva Convention are applicable to either of these types of terrorists since the US is not participating in declared wars between two or more sovereign states. But even if the Convention was deemed to be applicable, it seems to me that a significant number of (if not all) "terrorists" can properly be determined to be "mercenaries" and not subject to the Convention, i.e. not lawful combatants. Further, if a detainee was found to be a national of a "neutral" county, then the Convention would not apply to them either. In any event, considering the ultimate intent of terrorists (to destroy our federal government which is based on the US Constitution), they should not be characterized simply as felons (e.g. equivalent to civilians who are charged with committing/attempting to commit the crime of murder) with full protections afforded by the very Constitution they seek to destroy.

Obozo is the ring leader.

Back in the Vietnam era, PC was starting to read it's ugly head; no fire zones, no fly zones, get permission to shoot, all in the name of being 'nice' to our hosts. What a bunch of crap! I am so sick of pols from both parties who, when faced with war, try to be nice to the enemy. If you want to be nice, don't get involved. Otherwise, see the enemy, shoot the enemy! In the process, win the war! Barring any action being in play results in more deaths and heartache than would otherwise be realized. Fifty eight thousand names on the wall in D.C. attest to this fact. I think you can guess my view as to handling these Islamic terrorists.

"Has Obama emboldened the Jihad Movement?"

"When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers." -Proverbs 21:15 NIV

"Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully." -Proverbs 28:5 NIV

"When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong." -Ecclesiastes 8:11 NIV

I agree in the main with the views expressed by Mr. Alexander, but I continue to be troubled by the more aggressive assertions of executive power made by both Presidents Bush and Obama. In specific, it is blatantly unconstitutional to declare an AMERICAN citizen as an enemy combatant deprived of habeus corpus and other Constitutional protections. The Padilla case is a clear example (U.S. citizen seized in a U.S. airport) of such a violation. I am a Constitutionalist, but that means acknowledging that in a Constitutional Republic, there are limits to executive power and the shibboleth of enemy combatant status.

Terrorists attacks on our country are acts of war. We need to identify our enemy and engage in the activity necessary to eliminate them for our countries safety. That includes intelligence activities, covert ops and a strong military; all of which are allowed to do their jobs by a President with the fortitude to be a true Commander and Chief.

It don't`matter if they're terrorists or enemy combatants or criminals, they shoulld be treated the same. They kill one of yours, you kill 10 of theirs. They kill 10 of yours, you kill 100 of their's etc. When their number gets to 1,000,000, somebody will start paying attention!! Problem solved!!

"Has Obama emboldened the Jihad Movement?"

Obama has aided our jihad enemy in every way that he can!

Do you really think he pulled the Border Patrol off the Arizona border because he likes Mexicans?

Once a muslim, always a muslim!

Safer ? No perhaps we have just been lucky.

Herb Earnest

The fabric of Islam's prayer rugs is stitched together with the tenets of The Prophet and tied in knots by Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah -- who are tentacles of the Moos a lum Brotherhood.

It's not coincidental that there is a sequence of "protests" in the Middle East, not since Obama has let his favoritism for Moo salums be widely known.

He genuflected (that's "bowed" for your Libbies) and scraped his way across the Arabyan world. 

He invited them to the White House for dinner.

He encouraged them to "express the uniqueness of their culture."

He recalled that "One of [his] favorite childhood memories was the morning Call to Prayer."

He refused to decorate the National Christmas tree with traditional, Seasonal decorations. 

He supports the Ground Zero mosque.

In one of his books, he wrote that if he had to choose during a crisis between America and Islam that he'd "stand with" Islam. 

He has allowed $20 M in funding for immigrants with connections to Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah.

The opinions of the American President carry international repercussions. Is it possible that the unrest spreading across the Middle East is a response to his encouragement to “express the uniqueness of their culture”? Has Obama given them his tacit approval?

It remains to be seen just how infiltrated and motivational the Moo s alum Brotherhood has become in the unrest. 

Let's not forget that the Moos a lum Brotherhood has tentacles tied to al Q'aida, Fatah, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Let’s not forget that Obama “led from behind” in Libya. Could it be that he didn’t want to offend the Arbyan world to whom he so willingly bowed and encouraged?

Is there any rational person who can state that "democracy" and Islam can occupy the same time and place?

Only starry-eyed Libbies FEEL that Islam would evere tolerate Infidels.

The stupids in the media would like us to believe we are safer now ten years after because nothing serious has occurred. Well, geez you dummies, we thought we were safer 10 years before 9/11 too. Obviously, we weren't. Another thing they are asking - Did 9/11 change my life. No, it didn't. The activity that changed my life was 12/7/1941. I was eleven years old then, and my whole world changed completely. I guess the media feels that those of us alive then are all dead and only those around on 9/11 had a life-changing epiphany. I'm out of the travel loop now, so don't have to suffer the indignities of the TSA. However, we have thwarted quite a few attacks, yet we must always be vigilent and on the lookout for those foreign and domestic) who would rob us of our freedoms and way of life.

"Has Obama emboldened the Jihad Movement?"

Only by appealing, so very loudly, to his sycophant leftist base.

He is not a Muslim or a Muslim sympathizer. He is simply a not-very-bright product of leftist upbringing and leftist education who was thrown, via a single speech at the Democratic Convention, to the forefront of the Democratic Party. He's stayed there by flapping his gums interminably, producing the the most abominable pollution that any President has ever spewed into the political atmosphere.

Interestingly, in his conduct of the war on terrorism, when he has followed the advice of the military and intelligence communities and ignored his political base, he has done quite well. Targeted assassinations and drone strikes have worked well for us.

The following article was written by one of the "only a handful of Americans were convinced that a deadly enemy had coalesced in our midst"

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/56-56/7349-the-lessons-of-911

Yes he is. It is a shame that it may be to late before the American people open their eyes to the evil that is in the White House. I am not a racist. I do not like his white side either.

If all Islamic people use the Quran as we use the

Bible, word for word, Then in my opinion all Muslims are terrorists. Quote the Quran ;Go out and

spreaad the islamic faith to all nations. Convert all to the Islamic religion if they cannot be converted then use the sword. In other words kill the infidels.

In the email, the question to weigh in on was "Are terrorist combatants or just criminals?"

In answer to this; they are criminals and cannot be considered otherwise.

Their methods are extreme, yes, going for the most death and destruction they can achieve, but their crime cannot be classified as other than Premeditated (First Degree) Murder (in counts that account for every victim). There should be no sentence other than death to remove such from our society.

Are we as safe as we thought we were on September 10, 2001? Nope. Never were. That doesn't mean it's OK to ignore obvious threats.

Some areas we have ignored - rich Muslims outside the US financing jihadist operations (and their British lawyers who sue those who expose them), the madrassas in Afghanistan, and above all, the ambivalent US Muslims who may or may not support anti-jihadist policing.

And of course, the US bureaucrats unwilling to carry out their duty to protect and serve. Patting down grannies and feeling up pre-teens while refusing to profile the kind of people who actually did attack us is a capital crime.

These people are terrorists, not military combatants. As i was told cocerning the Geneva convention on warfare, military combatants must wear uniforms of their country; otherwise, when captured, they may be shot as saboteurs.

The idea that these devils deserve the right to trial by jury is insane. Any American citizen who sympathizes with, or actively supports these Muslim terrorists is guilty of treason, and should be disposed of!

They are most definitely enemy combatants. An enemy does not have to act under a nation state to wage war. AQ is a cause and a perversion of Islam. They have been at war with us over ten years now. They do not deserve the benefits of our justice system. They are POWs and should be treated as such.

What concerns me Mark, is that there are Terrorists Training Camps in numerous locations on American Soil. Are the FBI and the CIA monitoring them? What about the large stores of food and supplies now in Secret Areas under FEMA control where Consentration Camps could be set up immediately?? Do we have the Fifth Column now in Power in DC? Why is Congress complacent and unresponsive to the fact that our present Commander in Chief has never unsealed his documents that prove who he really is? Are they part of the Plot to control and bring this nation to it's knees, economically, destroying capitalism which is the engine that we need to reve up to bring us fiscal stability?

These are questions that bother me and many other Americans in our present economic condition - is it ineptness or is it intentional??

If anyone doubts there are terrorist cells in America by way of our open southern border they have mush for brains. It is only a matter of time before things start to go "BOOM" and the first thing our government will do to make us "safe" is try to take our guns away. That will make us as safe as those people at Virginia Tech. The good guys had no guns, the bad guy had one. The score was good guys 0, bad guy 26.

We will never be safe. Maintaining this Republic is a labor of constant vigilance against enemies that are not often visible, not often apparent. The fight needs to be fought in the educational system, in the press and in the home. We need to teach our children about the Constitution of the United States of America and what it means. The true function of the Federal Government and the responsibilities of every citizen of the Republic. Otherwise, it won't matter if we are defeated from without our borders because we will have been defeated from within.

Am in complete agreeement with your assessments of the pussy footing around with our so called liberal leaning policies towards immigration, and muslim molly coddling. th

WE HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE AT WAR AGAINST US AND NO ONE

IN THAT ONCE FAIR CITY (MY RESIDENCE FROM 1926 TIL

ENLISTING IN THE NAVY IN 1943) IS WILLING TO ADMIT.

THE ENEMY HIT US QUITE HARD AND IN TWO OF OUR MAJOR

CITIES. UNTIL WE ARE WILLING TO STRIKE BACK IN LIKE

MEASURES WITH OUR BEST(ATOMIC/HYDROGEN) WE WILL BE VIEWED AS A SOFT PATSY TARGET. A MUSHROOM BLOSSOMING ABOVE A MAJOR CITY IN ANY MUSLIM CITY,

READ: MECCA, WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION AND FOR ME,

WORLD OPINION BE DAMNED

jl

THIS IS JUST FOR UR STAFF...THIS MODERATION CRAP

YOU CLING TO IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN OUR NATION TODAY.

GET SOME BALLS AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY

MAY! MODERATION IS NOT IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE

PUSSIFIED, LIMP WRISTED, PENCIL NECKED GEEKS ACROSS

THE ISLE AND AS LONG AS YOU TRY TO BE CIVIL YOU

WILL FEAST ON FECAL HASH.

jl

They don't wear uniforms and march like soldiers. But, they have killed thousands our soldiers and our allies. When many have been released, they return to kill again. They will in time hit us again.

BRAVO, Mr. Alexander!! You have spoken the truth with a no-holds-barred approach. I appreciate your exposing the Clinton administration as well as our current pretender-in-chief for their lack of commitment in keeping America safe. It is not politically correct to actually connect the dots and find these two "weighed in a balance and found wanting".

The Islamic Fascists are Terrorist... on the battlefield and in America they should be given "No Quarter"!

The cold hard facts are...

There is no place in an Islamic Fascists world for any of us... to sum up this issue simply, "It is a winner take all proposition, and the loser will no longer exist...that's a fact!

And for the Demokrats, Liberals along with others who are blind, deaf and dumb to what is at hand...

Not to worry, if you deal with the Islamic Fascists on an amicable basis, they'll just behead you last...

Western civilization hangs in the balance!

Many of us are aware of the struggle before us, for others it is time to get their heads out of the sand [a polite way to say it] and Fight the Great Fight.

Europe is among the walking dead; their future is an Islamic one. America, however, still has a choice if we have the courage to make it.

The Jew may be the canary in the coal mine, but I say to you my friends, we will be next.

Those of us who are not part of the solution are the problem...

Barrack Hussein Obama is a Muslim Terrorist.

We shall only be safe when we have replaced all in the government with true PATRIOTS.

09/09/11

When MY CREATOR INSPIRED OUR FOUNDERS TO CREATE

OUR LAND,AND THEIR SONS THROW the "CREATOR UNDER

THE BUS" SO TO SPEAK,IF YOU DON'T WANT HIM FOR

HIS continued guidance WE MAY NOT UNDER HIS CARE,

ANY LONGER..?

I don't think so. Our pres. BHO sides with the Terrorists.

The "useful idiots," media sycophants, race-baiters in this nation are aiding and abetting the enemy. For some strange reason, they refuse to pull their collective head out of the "fourth point of contact," and see the danger. The enemy is smart and determined. He will not attack us from the front; he's not strong enough. But he knows that we are weak-willed and is hitting us when and when he can, patiently, and often.

I am re-reading "Executive Orders," by Tom Clancey. The scenarios proposed in that book are viable and especially frightening. If anyone doesn't think so, I suggest reading its predecessor, "Debt of Honor," also by Clancey. Who would have thought that someone would deliberately fly a jumbo jet into a building in a kamikaze attack?

If you do nothing else, America, get involved. Work to get the people you want elected to office. Work for your candidates, and vote. Encourage others to vote. Talk about it.

We didn't get this way overnight, and we cannot correct it overnight, either.

Combatants operate within a government structure and are bound by rules of engagement. Terrorists are not. Whatever name you (or they) wish to assign, any threat to me, my family, or my country will be met under the laws of self defence.

Ralph

It is without a doubt a terrorist combatant act. It is also an act of espionage, and a war crime that should be treated as such. The self-righteous haters who did this, or actively recruit and support it, need to be permanently REMOVED from the earth.

This starts with the end of the Sheik Obama regime and the restoration and maintenance of the Foundational Principals - which every American citizen must know and hold close to their hearts - those very principles that make our country exceptional!

The supream ruller of the USA Is in my openion, is part of the very people who are determen to elemanate all GOD fearing people from the earth .This man with all his apointed theaves are out to destroy the USA.Look at all his friends, J.Wright,Bill Ayres, and the democRat Party.

The United States has been and is being attacked with all of Satan's ammunition because he knows the time is short. His army is filled with those who will stand against Jesus. There are terrorists in our churches, neighborhoods, and demons fill the clothes of humans. Muslim terrorists are the least of what ails America, but they are an ailment without a doubt.

Combatants, without question.

Short answer: No.

Unless we the people can get this islomic presadent empeached now we are on the way down,if he laste thru 2012 he will completly destroy the USA with the help of the democRat party and the union MOBS. PS I forgot all the people on goverment handouts.

We are not safer now, Mark. The creation of DHS and TSA has only made the fiscal picture worse. Our bloated bureaucracies throughout the entire government have only made the threat worse, as eventually, we will not be able to afford to fund all of it. We have already reached that point. Now, our ability to defend ourselves effectively has become a great concern.

We are not safer today. We are complacent, lazy, and uneducated. Americans lack common sense, and initiative. We are so worried about being politically correct that we have dumbed down our society to the lowest common denominator who pulls the race card. We need to be profiling for the sake of our safety and security. Follow the guidelines that other nations use for profiling. Israel has one of the best security systems. Switzerland is another country that is serious about their nations security.

Who cares if the islamic terrorists are offended because we profile, they hate us anyway. They are not our friends, and they have no intention of EVER being our friends.

Prior to 9/11 our suburbs were being infiltrated with muslim terrorist. Today it is our own government and armed forces that's being infiltrated with the enemy. I am suspicious that their leader may be our commander in chief. Give them another 4 years and ... Well 9/11 may be small talk.

In fact, I believe our government, through legislation and executive order, has the people so divided among ourselves that we could never overturn this through the ballots. We've been had.

Jack Wheeler addressed the subject of the traitorous media and offered a plan for defeating them. Here it is:

ARE JOURNALISTS FASCISTS?

Jack Wheeler – 8 September, 2011

As acolytes of Saul Alinsky who preached the politics of personal destruction, liberals consistently demonize their opponents as either stupid or evil. Since nobody can honestly oppose their worldview, those are the only two alternatives. It's one or the other, sometimes both, but never neither.

The libs couldn't claim Nixon was stupid, so he had to be evil. They couldn't make the sale that Reagan was evil, so he had to be stupid. Infected with BDS, they raged at Bush 42 for being both.

Last week (8/29), we saw the con applied to Rick Perry. Some hack named Jonathan Martin wrote a piece in the widely-read Politico site entitled, Is Rick Perry Dumb? The Perry-is-stupid meme instantly flooded the liberal blogosphere. Google "Perry" + "dumb" and you'll get 22 million hits.

All conservatives are driven crazy by the gargantuan bias and hypocrisy of the liberal media. It's been that way all our lives. It's time to put an end to it. If media hacks can ask if Rick Perry is stupid, then we can ask:

Are journalists fascists?

And look upon the question as rhetorical, for of course they are.

There's almost no way to overemphasize the importance of doing this, of discrediting what is called the Mainstream Media (MSM) but should instead be known as the Fascist Media (FM) in the public's eye.

For the voting public must choose between freedom or fascism in 2012 and the FM will do everything it can to see it chooses the latter.

There is now proof of this. Dr. Tim Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics, a full professor of political science and a full professor of economics at UCLA. For years he has been objectively analyzing and quantifying media bias of all political stripes. His research demonstrates conclusively an extraordinary liberal bias throughout American media - and that it profoundly distorts election results.

Dr. Groseclose shows that liberal media bias enables the Democrat candidate in a typical election to get between 8 and 10% more votes than he otherwise would have gotten. Were it not for such pro-Democrat media bias in 2008, for example, Zero would have lost to McCain 46% to 53%, instead of landslide-winning by 56% to 42%.

His rigorous analysis confirms that every mainstream national news outlet has a liberal bias, and that only 4 out of every 100 news outlets examined lean right.

Which is why the very first thing conservatives must do to end the bias and hypocrisy of the Fascist Media is to read Dr. Groseclose's book: Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.

Every Tea Party group in the country should study and discuss the book, for then they'll be armed for battle.

And battle it must be. The Fascist Media can never be defeated if we continue to bitch, moan, complain, and stay on the defensive. The only way to win any game is to go on the offensive, to go on the attack - and to do so smartly, no stupid Pickett's Charge at the enemy's strong points. You attack him where he is most vulnerable.

Yes, the Fascist Media is slowly bleeding to death, typified by their flagships of the New York Times and Washington Post sinking in a sea of revenue loss. The problem is the qualifier "slowly." We need to speed this process up and put the FM out of its misery.

It won't be done with advertiser boycotts. That's too indirect with too many targets. No, we need a direct assault at a critically vulnerable chink in their armor. So let's ask - what's the one word libtards are most afraid of? More specifically, the word they hate to be called, putting them on the defensive, more than any other?

You can call them communists, socialists, lefties, they don't care. Calling them Nazis is offensive to everyone. Calling folks racists doesn't mean anything anymore - the libs have so emptied the accusation of meaning that it's just a schoolyard taunt, the equivalent of sticking your tongue out at someone.

No, the word they hate and fear and can't tolerate being called is fascist.

Most of you are familiar with the term meme - a cultural gene (a belief or behavior) replicated by imitation that becomes part of the way folks look at or act in the world. We need to have the perception of the liberal-biased media as fascist be a widespread and accepted meme.

This is a job for the Tea Parties. In every letter to the editor, every message to politicians, in every communicative way possible, use the term Fascist Media, FM, rather Mainstream/Lamestream Media or any other term.

Journalists, reporters, commentators, pundits who work for the FM are fascists. They are not legitimate reporters of the news. They are propagandists of the Demagogue Party and its fascist agenda of never-ending government control over our lives. They are not honest, they are liars and professional distortionists of the truth.

In every Townhall with a local, state, or national politician, Tea Partyers should use the FM term in any question, and directly request the politician denounce the FM's unmitigated bias as fascist. They need to pressure politicians to use the FM term themselves, and to call biased journalists fascists to their faces in interviews and press conferences.

FM journalists need to be stripped of their legitimacy, their pretense of being "reporters" of the "news." What we really need is a presidential candidate like Perry or Bachmann who has the moxie to confront the FM as such with no holds barred. Gingrich could do it, as he enjoys taking down lib debate moderators, but it's doubtful Romney could.

In fact, a good place for this to begin would be the Republican presidential candidate debates. The first question to ask here is why should lib moderators and their gotcha questions be tolerated at all? Next, take the fight to them, make their FM bias an issue in the debate itself, and then a campaign issue.

After all, the examples of FM bias, dishonesty, and hypocrisy are endless. Here's a compilation of their scurrilous attacks on conservatives. Newsbusters has examples by the truckload. The Media Bias Page has more. There's a comprehensive discussion of the phenomenon in Conservapedia

Perhaps the most infuriating strategy of the FM is its resolute refusal to report on Zero/Dem scandals that it would bray to the moon as impeachable if committed by Pubs. Solyndra-gate is Obama's Enron . Eric Holder is the most corrupt Attorney General the US has ever had - as typified by the Fast and Furious scandal, which the FM ignores. Hoffa Junior can publicly call conservatives sonsofbitches who should be beat up or killed ("take them out") by union thugs, and it's no problem for the editor of Newsweek.

At some point, a presidential frontrunner like Perry has got to say this to a reporter from The New York Times while looking at him right in the eye:

"Look, let's get something straight. You are not a legitimate reporter. You do not work for a legitimate news organization. Stop pretending you are and do. You are instead a professional paid propagandist for the Democrat Party and its fascist agenda. As such, you are a member of the Fascist Media.

"Accurately reporting truthful news is not the purpose of your work. Your purpose is achieving a fascist level of government control over the lives and businesses of Americans. So stop pretending to be something you are not. I'm sick of it, I won't tolerate it anymore. Just admit you're a Democrat propagandist, and then we might be able to have a honest discussion."

And should the FM member ask, "Are you calling the President of the United States a fascist?", Perry could smile and reply, "You have a marvelous grasp of the obvious."

Time to rise up, TeaPartyers. Time to read Left Turn, time to take on the Fascist Media head on, time to demand conservative politicians on every level do so as well. Our country's existence as a free nation is at stake. It's time to put an end to fascism pretending to be journalism.

Free the engines of Capitalism!

Hoist the banner of Christ!

Honor Crusaders and annihilate Jihadists everywhere, when they dare so much as speak their intentions.

Knock down every invading Mosque and be done with the pretense that freedom need be granted to Tyrants and Fascists.

Send 10,000 of the Islamo-Uber-Left-Cabal to live happily in Zimbabwee and North Korea.

Lock Washington down for 6 months while investigating Every Congressman and Influence Peddlar.

And yes Terrorists should be shot but not before yeilding all possible intelligence. No Mercy for Mass Murderers.

By definition, as well as actions, terrorists act in a manner designed to produce that maximum amount of terror in the civilian population of countries they decide to attack. They do this by targeting the weak, the innocent and those who are unable to defend themselves in order to force change the conditions of the societies they find unacceptable. Those who prey on the defenseless are little better than animals and believe that those who don't believe as do they are not worthy of life and deserve whatever type of torture or death that the terrorists are able to inflict. You don't jail a rabid animal, you put them down.

As any student of history can attest, whenever Islam has raised its head, it has always attempted to take over the world. Today is no different except for technology. The attacks are first of all planned. This is not a war of random individuals creating terror but organised and concerted effort to destabilize and eventually destroy any remnant of any opposing culture or social order. And further, so long as they may remain united against the infidels they will not fight among themselves.

This being war, we should make every attempt to drive wedges of suspicion, distrust, and grudges among the different cells, sect, and other hierarchy. They will win if they can do those things to us, so lets do it to them better.

The question being, "Has Obama emboldened the Jihad Movement?"

The answer: ABSOLUTELY!

In answer to the second question, "Are we safer now?"

Answer: Not Hardly!

Terrorists are just plain criminals. Combatants face an equally armed opponent openly; they don't sneak attack civilians going about their daily lives, neither attacking nor otherwise threatening those doing the attacking. Moreover, as often as not the attacked are the SAME people as the attackers, come from themselves. They're just bullies who have grown up and use weapons now.

Obama has gone way beyond emboldening terrorists who are avowed enemies of America and American people; he's INVITED them right into our nation, and succored them on our tax dollars!

A Criminal is a person who commits a act against a written or established penal code. Usually this person is of a member of that society or community. A Terrorist is an individual who uses violence, terror, and intimidation to achieve a result- mainly for political purpose. At times certain criminals from society have "crossed the line", so to speak, to the terrorist aspect of the definition. The argument can go back and forth like a ping pong event, but that is just semantics.

No, I do not feel safer ! !

And who was the person who approved that these alien terrorists murders deserve American miranda rights ? ? They are military terrorists combatants.

They belong in a military prison. Lets get real here. 0b0mba and Eric Holder have gone over the edge on this subject. Their position have done nothing but embolden the enemy ! ! And we the tax payer are on the hook for the money ! !

I have read the comments of, and spoken to, many people who have demanded that we back off the war on terrorism. We are to bring our troops home from Iraq, and Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East. They are under the impression that we can kiss and make nice and it will all blow over.

I have news for them

This all started because of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center, blew up a marine barracks killing over 200 marines, blowing up two embassies with heavy casualties and the attack on the USS Cole killing 17 sailors.

The terrorists have been, and still are, harbored in these Middle East countries, and the hostilities were intended to root them out and kill every one of them. If we should back away it will give these vicious killers a free pass and encourage them to further murderous outrages.

These beasts are in it for the long haul, and regardless of what we do, will do everything in their power to kill as many Americans as possible into the long, long, historical future.

They have observed a truism from Viet Nam. When Americans start counting body bags they go home.They are counting on this, and it will probably come to pass.

Terrorists are the same as spies and saboteurs. They should all be tried and, if found guilty, executed. If caught in the act, just executed. No need to waste money on a trial. I know this is harsh, but God has final judgement. The sooner they get to God the better for everyone.

Exterminate the Islamo-fascists like you would cock roaches in your home. Bug bomb them back in to the stone age...oh, wait a minute...they're already there! This is not about "tolerance" and "getting along". This is about the SURVIVAL of this nation, as a nation. Nothing else matters. Period. End of story. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine.

We are not any closer to safety, in fact we are falling further into the trap that the Socialists and Progressives want us to be in. Under the current administration, the threats are becoming more prevalent. Not only must we contend with threats abroad, threats from people in country who came from abroad, we must also deal with the weakening of our borders, and the very dangerous threats from cartels and smugglers. Perhaps what may be the worst threat of all comes to us directly from the very leaders of this nation. These enemies of the state are the root cause for all the other threats combined. These traitors must be replaced for good in order to secure our safety once again. This will come from the people, as it did 235 years ago. Only then will we sleep peacefully again.

Absolutely!

Terrorists are not covered by the Geneva Convention rules. They are not combatants in uniform serving a legitimate government or country and are not entitled to the protection afforded by the Geneva Convention. They are outlaws and criminals and justice is served best by having them judged by a military tribunal and if found guilty, executed summarily. This justice should be swift and final.

Criminals usually act for self-serving personal reasons - personal gain. Steal money through robbery, embezzlement and hostage taking or participate in black market operations, drugs, etc. Organized crime does become involved in politics... to obtain leverage within a certain district or city. One could even argue many Union 'organizations' operate as a criminal organization to obtain influence with the end goal of obtaining 'benefits' and preference to large contracts 'for' their workers. By extension... one could also say organized workers within our own state and federal governments operate in a similar fashion. In all of the above society is the recipient.

On the other hand, a terrorist or terrorist organizational goal's are typically aimed at causing social change through the use of violence and usually violence on a large scope and scale using military grade equipment and resources. However, splinter groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood are actively using penetration and placement of their personnel into government, national and local influential organizations and our schools, prisons and military to deliver their message. Again, society at large is the recipient.

So I draw a slight distinction between 'criminals' and 'terrorists'. The distinction may simply be in the lack of violence in one group and and the reliance of it on the other. However the use of violence is not always present. The end state if both criminal activity and terrorism are left unchecked are not desirable. Both should be dealt with severely. Neither are being checked in reality.

They are combatants and should be treated as such.Quit playing paddywack with these people.Capture them,strip them in front of cameras and put the pictures on the internet. Embarrass them instead of them being heroes they would be laughed at.

As a 68 year old Canadian, I cannot believe how stupid the Americans are who cannot see their President is sucking up to these so called terrorists. Thats what they are, GET OVER IT OBAMA.

No way we are safer with Obama in power. There are so many ways to cripple both the US and Canada with all the power dams, power stations etc.etc. even if they pulled all the troops from other countries ( which they should do ) and spread them around the country, any terrorist with a half brain could still disrupt the system.

Terrorists are criminals since murder, mayhem, violation of human rights, crimes against humanity are all serious crimes. Then invasion of privacy along with disturbing the peace are also less serious crimes.Ethnic cleansing (killing all who do not believe the way these Muslim Terrorists do) is not accepted; therefore non Muslims have the right to defend themselves through the process of eliminating this threat.

Typical of Mark's analysis, this one too is spot on. Complacency or reckless denial of the still real threat will only give "intention" greater opportunity.

Also, it is not speculation that "stealth" or "civilization jihad" is being implemented in lieu of or in addition to military attacks, as is confirmed in "Shariah, the Threat to America" by the Security Policy Center. As it should, this book will alarm; it will provide the need to, "know your enemy." Go to: shariahthethreat.com

Your article is so blatantly Republican and WRONG it would be laughable if it were not so serious a matter. Clinton was ill prepared? You make little effort to include the security folks who were responsible for maintaining vigilence. On the other hand, W tried to distract us with two unwinnable wars that just spent money and has caused the deaths of our youth and saved the oil industry. Your observations border on treason.

Targets, take them down.

Yes.

Of course we aren't safer, and you know why. I saw the twin towers on television as it happened. It was horrific. CBS news was interrupted by a report that an airplane had flown into one of the towers. CBS put it all on the program and it was shocking. What happened to anger in this country? All week long I have been seeing lugubrious stuff on PBS. It boggles the mind.

No because the "Inmates are running the asylum". The media keeps talking about "home-grown terrorists", I have to agree and believe many of them are in DC and in charge. I haven't seen such an effort to ignore our Constitution as this present administration demonstrates.The Presidential Office is not the Potentate office. Instead of worrying about his future, he should worry about the nations future.

This article is mostly a bunch of twisted facts that, in retrospect, do not hold water.

How can you lay 9/11 on Clinton's watch, when Bush was president and his FBI held the terrorist king pin and refused to listen to reports of an impending attack using airplanes?

Furthermore, it was Cheney(Bush) who fell into Ben Laden's trap and invaded the Middle East. The mistake has cost our country dearly and is the cause of our present financial loss and world status crisis.

First, define terrorism. According to Dictionary.com, it is: 1) "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes" and 2) "the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization".

Radical Islamic terrorists are truly military combatants who use terrorism in any way possible to accomplish their goal, that being total submission to shariah law. First, their violent tactics place their victims in a state of fear that enables them to demand submission in order to 'make the violence stop'. If that fails to produce the desired result, they continue to escalate the violence, using greater weapons, including WMD if/when they can get them (can you say Iran?), until they destroy anyone standing in the way of their success.

They should be accorded the same fate as all combatants who try to force their will on fredom-loving people anywhere in the world: "if you throw a stone at me, I will drop a boulder on you". This is the only response they will ever understand.

Do I feel safer today? No Way! The underwear bomber would not be caught with the airport searches the USA is doing today. I do not think the jihadists' research stands still. Explosives sown in cloth can now be developed in very tiny particles that are deadly. We have to copy what the Israelis are doing and that is profiling travelers before they get to the airport using phsycology by using proper questions with astute observation of reactions of the traveler.

It should be abundantly apparent that we are dealing with enemy combatants. Since they chose to wear civilian clothing they are also spies and should be treated that way. Usually spies are shot.

They are combatants. Clear and Simple. Their goal is to bring down the United States.

We must understand that this is different than any other enemy we have ever faced. They have no uniform. They have no defined country. Their religion and political ideology are one in the same. That is something that our leaders have had a difficult time understanding. This has led to this wishy-washy problem of how to handle the so-called "prisoners". Criminals or war prisoners. Any other war they would be shot on sight for not being in uniform. They are lucky not to have been shot.

Terrorists are combatants and should be treated as an enemy soldier, if they are useing deadly force, then deadly force should be returned or deadly force should be used to stop them or to take them prisoner. They are also criminals and should be incarcerated if captured or executed if they have the caused the death of any American citizen.

Terrorists are enemy combatatents and should be treated as such, after enterogation should either locked up perminatley or hanged, at their choice.

In my opinion, a terrorist is a criminal. There are always more peaceful ways to get a point across. However, I do not feel that freedom figthers who are fighting a bad regime are terrorists. Unfortunately we do have terrorists masquerading as freedom fighters in several countries around the globe.

The events of September 11, 2001 were the result of a meticulously planned, coordinated and methodically executed attack of quasi-military precision. Truly terrorism is warfare by other means.

terrorists are vermin, criminals and need to be exterminated like cockroaches!

yep, he has emboldened the simple minded...but he has also emboldened Americans against his socialism!

no!

I'm told that the reason for the attacks occurring on Sept 11th is that it is the date when the Muslim advance on Europe was stopped at the gates of Vienna. Not sure if that's according to the Julian calendar or not, but I suspect it's according to the Muslim [lunar] calendar. The other advance, through Spain [al-andalus] was stopped, of course by Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles the Hammer.

Regards,

Old Henry >

Absolutely, the terrorists are enemy combatants!!

Only a fool like Obama (and his administration)wants to treat them like ordinary criminals !!!

His weakness and dithering have surely emboldened

evil terrorists and their sponsors.

They are enemy combatants, and should be treated as such.

Terrorists are enemy combatants at war with the US. Bill Lembright

As a retired SGM of Security Plans and Operations for a 3 star command , I believe the increased cooperation and communication between different intelligence agencies has helped, but the porous borders we have both North and South, still would allow terrorists to infiltrate our country. Additionally, the lack of profiling at all security check-points is limiting the ability of security personnel to thwart another attack.

"The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation."Louis L'Amour - Last of the Breed – 1986

Terrorists are combatants. There is no other definition for them!

Absolutely! His conciliatory, apologetic abeyance to the world community has seriously damaged the credibility of the US of A.

R we safer today? Au contraire, with a Sunni Muslim in the WH, they have carte blanche with victory mosques rising moment by moment, Muslims not only in legislation but given "the green light" by compromising, ignorant Christians abdicating their pulpits. No wonder we haven't seen another "9/11", the victory is all but evident to all.

They are not a military force, therefore they are hate-filled terrorists, and murderers, preying on innocent victims as in the case of 9-11-11. They are, however loosely formed, united in their zeal to kill Israelis and Americans, and they pass their hatred on to all who will listen and believe their lies, creating a constant force to be reckoned with.

Yes he has, Obama has done nothing to protect America, has done everything to cripple her. Obama has crippled our great nation financially, spiritually and militarily.

Terrorists are both criminals and criminal combatants. Some day, it may be legal for the citizens of America who respect and obey the law to be allowed to defend themselves and get involved with American Security. Now we are held down by police ego and corruption in the higher echelons of government authority with no or very little citizen authority. California is significantly bad for using political correctness to protect terrorists.

If they Shoot,

We Kill!

Any questions will be answered, after we please stop the Brass.

Semper Fi!

You bet he has. He's one of them.

Terrorists are both combatants and criminals. They should be treated as warrior opponents and tried and prosecuted as such. They should not be treated any differently than any other criminals who commit a crime except that they do it under the role of a combatant.

Obama has emboldened the Jihad Movement by openly stating that as an Islam, he will side upon their goals and objectives when they are opposed to those of the USA. He will not even properly salute the flag during the pledge of allegience. Nor will he wear a flag emblem on the lapel of his suit. He goes so far as to allow any/all Islam religious ceremonies while cancelling all Christian events. He is/tries to introduce Marxism to replace our democratic freedoms including capitalist endeavors. He is so blatant about his acts as to, in my opinion, be judged as a traitor to this country.

Terrorists found on the batle field should be sumarily executed. Those we find in our nation should be handled through the civil criminal process.

Why? On the field of battle, there is no question of their guilt and should be no doubt of the appropriate punishment.

Inside the nation, we need to examine what is wrong with their mind and if correctable, correct it. If uncorrectable, then their execution should provide an education to observers, that we tried and failed to change those with criminal minds.

These people are war criminals and should be treated as such. They should not be treated as ordinary street criminals. They are out to destroy the United States, not commit a crime against other citizens. If they are caught in the act of perpetrating a crime against this country, then they should be treated as such.

The Defenders of Islam aren't criminals nor are they terrorists, rather they're Defenders of the Faith from Crusading Infidels who reject the blessings of Muhammad and Allah. As a progressive nation with a Fabian Socialist who has a love for Islam as our dear leader it's time for conservative reactionary Christians and Jews to either acknowledge the benefits of Mar al-Islam or as Hoffa said, “Let's take these son-of-a-bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.” Where America belongs is a progressive/socialist nation with a firm central government that overcomes the confines of the archaic Ninth and Tenth Amendments and recognizes that the USSA (no Typo) belongs to the Ummah, the Muslim world. We need to give up the arcane notion that this country was established on Judeo-Christions principles by Christian Founders. As everyone knows, the Founders were secularists and chauvinist white slave owners.

It's time that those living in the eastern US buy prayer rugs and learn the direction to Mecca. Those living in the west should learn Spanish so that they can understand the meaning of "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada." Only then will the white supremacists understand that America belongs to the Pan Arabic Nation under the gentle tutelage of Islam and under the progressive nation of Aztlan. We must educate the American people that it was Christian Crusaders who invaded Europe and the Mideast to steal lands occupied by Islamic troops and that they must accept the concept of Mar al-Islam, that any lands once occupied by Islamic forces belong to the Islamic nation in perpituity. We must teach the white oppressors that it was Americans who decimated over seventy percent of the population of the New World, that the free market capitalist system by definition is fascism.

Then we can bring to justice those who dared to invade the sacred lands of Allah or supported the stealing of land from Native Americans. It would include those like the Bushes, their advisors and appointees, the Tea Party terrorists and racists, and the gun and Bible owning conservative Neanderthals who believe in the Constitution. Then we can set up the necessary psikhushkas, gulags, and Pol Pot fields to deal with them as they deserve.

Now folks, the above is meant as satire but I think it approximates the thinking of certain groups.

We are not safe today as long as the Southern border is wide open. I think that is the greatest problem facing the U.S. today! That and our President, who clearly does not have our best interest at heart.

Let me see if someone gets it right. They wear no uniforms, no badges of rank, no military ID, no known unit designation. Therefore they do not have the status oc combatants according to the Geneva Convention. They are to be considered "frank tireurs" and are subject to be shot on the spot. Why are we making a cause celebre for this terrorists?

Both. And if they happen to be citizens of the USA, they should be executed as traitors.

Obama has relinquished his position to Hoffa and his thugs for all things economic which promises to accelerate the deterioration of homeland security as well as international trade and undermine defense operations. Combined with his acting the sycophant to all Muslims including Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and all their minions does indeed threaten our national security. All the radicals are further strengthened by his astounding incompetence in all energy policy matters which emasculate the nation's ability to persevere in time of war. With dramatic new oil and gas discoveries and the capacity to rapidly expand both refining as well as nuclear power, we should not be dependent upon Saudi, Russian or Venzualean oil. Clearly he has emboldened our enemy and jeopardized America.

obama is the head of the islamist terrorists and is doing his job without opposition from our pansy politicions of which there are dam few that are true patriots. The other group is the so called media , they are bought and paid for by islam. Prove to me otherwise and I might listen

We may be a tad safter today due to increased awareness and preparation. We will never be totally safe as there are too many out there who seek our destruction. Our immediate problem, though, at least as I see it, is a pathetic leader propped up by a pathetic congress. This has to be the worst administration in the history of America and it gets worse daily. I pray Americans will wake up and start using their heads when voting instead of repeat voting for the same dolts and expecting things to get better.

Mark,

No I don't believe we are safe now, and I don't

believe the greatest threat is the Islamo-Fascist terrorists you discuss in this article. I believe the greater threat to us all is the progressive liberalism that has engulfed this nation and has resulted in so many people with their heads "buried in the sand"! Truth and Facts are of no consequence to them in their effort to control the people and destroy this Republic, and they will stop at nothing to achieve this goal. How can anyone with half a brain elect Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States? Now I admit if you ran Nancy

"Drain the Swamp" Pelosi against him I might vote for him as the lesser of the two evils but that would be the only way he would get my vote. Actually he would never get my vote, I am being facetious, I would simply write in a name or not vote at all if Barack and Nancy were all I had to choose from. Anyway, no we are not safer and the reason why is the progressive liberal movement that has engulfed the country. It is a far greater threat

that any outside terrorist threat, and we must confront it and stop it and return to the values that made this country the beacon of light for the free world.

Are we safer today? Emphatically, NO! The United States government has systematically stripped away our rights. Those that would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither. Ring a bell? A Liberty Bell maybe?

Terrorists are combatants and are not entitled to the same rights as an accused in a criminal or civil court. This is war, beyond any shadow of a doubt. However, we must ensure that we do not confuse ordinary peaceful Muslims with al-Qa'ida terrorists and we need to work diligently to not repeat the mistakes of WWII and the Japanese camps. I believe it is a tightrope we must walk while continuously checking where our feet are.

Mark:

Have you read this-

http://www.dailypaul.com/155091/257-foreign-trade-zones-across-america

How can we be safe when we setup Chinese Communists and open our borders for Jihadists?

My answer to your question is NO I don't feel safer.