Editorial: Denial not an option when it comes to terrorism
This is no rush to judgment on the San Bernardino massacre - not when 12 pipe bombs are found in the home of the two now-dead killers, along with three pipe bombs wired to a remote control device, hundreds of bomb-making tools in their garage, and thousands of rounds of ammunition in their car following their slaughter of 14 innocent human beings.
Workplace violence? Really? Is that some kind of sick joke?
Surely President Obama knew about most of that when he went on national TV from the Oval Office yesterday and said, "It is possible this is terrorist related ... We don't know. It is also possible it was workplace related."
Yes, life is complicated. But the more complicated it gets the more the American people are entitled to straight answers from the commander in chief, not more pap from a man who is apparently so blinded by his political agenda that he will use every opportunity to advance it.
Before the bodies were even identified Wednesday night, before they could even be removed from the scene, the president said, "The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there's some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently."
Apparently the man has a short memory - or did Paris not count.
He, of course, wasn't the only one to rush to make the it's-all-about-guns argument. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein also put out a press release even as victims were still being triaged.
This isn't an argument against better gun control laws and better records checks - far from it. It is an argument against taking the easy way out - which this president will do at every opportunity.
Don't blame Islamic terrorism when there are any other options - find another reason, however remote, for the willful act of a couple who turned their home into a bomb-making factory, dropped off their 6-month-old child with relatives, slaughtered 14 people and wounded 21 more at a department party and then returned home to do what?
Workplace violence?
That Syed Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014, picked up his would-be bride Tashfeen Malik, who traveled on a Pakistani passport, is simply a piece of that puzzle. A more compelling piece of evidence is that the three pipe bombs found in their home attached to a remote control device bore all the earmarks of the bomb-making recipes of the jihadists' Inspire magazine.
Barack Obama can obfuscate if he chooses. But the act is growing tired. The American people are entitled to truth from their president. Well, maybe the next one.
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