Fort Dix

I really don't have much to say about the recently-revealed plot by a bunch of savages to massacre soldiers at Ft. Dix.

They're out there, people. There are the major leaguers. They have the nice membership cards and they've been to the real nice training camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Bekaa Valley. They've probably got baseball caps that say "I waged jihad in Chechnya/Najaf/Algeria." They might be Sunni (Al Qaeda) or Shiite (Hezbollah, etc). We can think of it as the American and National League of Terror.

Problem is, they've also got bush leaguers. Guys without enough talent, enough training. Guys who just need some seasoning. Guys who want to get noticed by a scout. Guys with nothing but ambition.

This group fucked up. They got stupid. They talked outside of school, used services outside their network. Dumb mistakes. But remember - we also got lucky.

No matter what anyone would like to believe, the threat is not gone. There are literally thousands of these evil bastards out there in the world who want to kill Americans. Hell, by their standards, these assholes were being honorable - at least they were targeting American warfighters.

We're having a war, whether we like it or not. We choose to fight them over there, and because they are not equipped (yet) with planes and ships and missiles, we can pretend, for the most part, that the entire war is there.

But there is just one battlefield. The war is wherever they think they can get to us.

Incidentally, I've been to Fort Dix. It's a dismal place. The only thing more depressing than spending time at Fort Dix would be getting shot by a bunch of yahoos waging My First Holy War while you were there.