Many thanks to Katrina Vanden Heuvel of The Nation for just beating the December 31 deadline for the dumbest comment of the year award. Regarding the failed terror attack on Flight 253, Vanden Heuvel writes:

I believe the lesson is that we need to end as quickly as possible the military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and call for an end to permanent war against Islamic terrorists.

Because the terrorists will stop trying to kill us if we do these things, right? You would think that if the last decade has taught the world anything - from 9/11 to London to Bali to Madrid to scores of other places around the globe - it's that laying down our arms and giving the Islamic terrorists a big hug will not achieve the preferred outcome.

These people wanted to kill us yesterday, they want to kill us today, and they will want to kill us tomorrow (and every day after that) until either 1) we cease to exist or 2) reform-minded Muslims finally stand up and take their religion back from these violent lunatics.

To think otherwise is to indulge in a fantasy - and an exceedingly deadly one at that.

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