re: #779 tradewind

When the problem is addressed as a cultural and sociological aberration rather than as the full-out assault on our very way of life that it is, the results are predictable.
If the administration was even that concerned, why did Obama take six days to talk to the nation, and then, not even face to face? Bush caught hell just for finishing a chapter in the book he was reading to first graders.
After the uproar, he had to talk tough, but the terrorists are not fooled. We are not serious enough about this, and they know it.

Agreed. In addition, and to draw upon an old saying:

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it