Leadership

Those sowing fear about terrorism play into al Qaeda's hands.

During the protests following Iran's June 12 fraudulent elections, Robert Kagan castigated President Obama as being objectively on the side of Iran's tyrannical rulers for his reluctance to rhetorically embrace the protesters.

Now, if I were a neoconservative bent on engaging in the worst sort of demagogic rhetoric, I'd say that lawmakers trying to gin up fear about America's capacity to deal with terrorism in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attempt are objectively pro Al Qaeda, because they're attempting to scare the American people and do the terrorists' work for them.

But instead I'll take the high road and just lament the fact that the first response from our political leaders to this plot was to fall on each other in partisan snipping.