Remember, those convicted today have been just that. Convicted. Without having put their plot into action. There is no need of any further erosion of liberty. Neither the shoe bomb, nor the ink bomb, nor the underpants bomb was ever detonated. Always remember these things.
And always remember these people's motivation, about which they are entirely candid. That to which they object is not our "way of life" or our "values". It is our foreign policy. Stay out of Syria. We are being bounced into intervention in support of an Islamist invasion of and insurrection in that last great outpost of pan-Arab pluralism.
Nor ought we to console ourselves that by backing the jihadis, we might somehow be protecting ourselves against their future actions. That has never worked anywhere else. Think of Afghanistan. What goes around, comes around. We do not want, we could not stand, we will not tolerate the possibility of, any more of its coming around here.
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