Sorry, Israel Won’t Be a Sitting Duck

SETH MANDEL (Commentary.org 24-9-24)

Terrorism, according to some of America’s esteemed defense officials and intellectuals, is when you jump out from behind a bush and yell “BOO!” at an unsuspecting passerby. Campfire ghost stories, snake-in-a-can, rollercoasters—terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.

All these things make people afraid, maybe even momentarily terrified, and are therefore terrorism—it’s right there in the word!

“This is going right into the supply chain,” former CIA chief and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said about Israel’s targeted pager plot against Hezbollah soldiers in Lebanon. “And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question, What the hell is next?”