Less than a week after seven aspiring Muslims were arrested in Florida as
they plotted a massive terror attack on Chicago⊃s Sears Tower, hardly a word
of the story can be found anywhere in the ⊃mainstream⊃ media. Nor was the
event treated as earth-shattering news when it first broke.

Of course the liberal political machine and its media accomplices seek to
downplay the horrific possibilities suggested by the incident, since doing
so would not further their cause. The safety and security of the United
States is clearly not high on their list of priorities, unless of course
they think they can claim credit for improving the situation.

Throughout the Cold War, which was the last major threat to the future of
Western Civilization, leftists ardently sought to undermine and ultimately
to destroy any cultural and societal firewalls that might stand in the way
of communist world dominance.

Fortunately for them, certain crucial institutions of the much-reviled
⊃establishment⊃ were unwavering in their dedication to the preservation of
the American way of life, and communism was thus defeated. Leftists yet
remain completely oblivious to the fact that, in the process, their own
interests were being preserved and protected as well.

From Vietnam to Nicaragua to the massive American presence in Western
Europe, this country⊃s efforts to thwart and stall the advance of communist
tyranny proved to be the chief means by which Soviet dreams of world
conquest were held in check.

Yet so far were these battles from American soil, and so obscured from the
lives of the common citizen in this country were any accounts of the squalor
and oppression inherent in communist states that liberals remained
blissfully ignorant of the Pandora⊃s box they were attempting to open. They
remain so to this day.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they have successfully mutated their
virulent anti-American philosophies by which they had justified the
barbarism of communism, into a belief that no matter what enemy this country
faces, it must be inherently more morally and philosophically legitimate
than any vestige of traditional America.

Hence the country is ceaselessly subjected to their rationalization and
sanitization of the murderous brutality of the Islamists, while concurrently
they reserve such words as ⊃torture⊃ and ⊃cruelty⊃ for their condemnation of
Abu Ghraib prison and the terrorist prison at Guantanamo.

However, such abominable political posturing from the left may (and on some
grim day, likely will) very literally blow up in their faces. Though the
Cold War threat was massive, its architects were orderly and methodical in
their efforts. Thus, even at the height of the Vietnam era, the American
homeland remained relatively safe and secure.

In contrast, news that the latest target of the Islamists was the Sears
Tower in Illinois, which is among the ⊃bluest⊃ of the blue states, should
open the eyes of even the most dogmatic liberals to the indiscriminate
nature of this threat. Despite their erudite and enlightened philosophies,
the hatred and violence of the Islamists is no less directed at them.

Had the Sears Tower plot succeeded, it easily could have wreaked death and
destruction on a scale rivaling 9-11, in the heart of a city that is every
bit as dominated by the liberal/Democrat political machine as was Manhattan,
where the Twin Towers once stood. Hatred for Western civilization burns in
the hearts of the Islamists, irrespective of political party affiliation.

The single aspect of the Sears Tower conspiracy that makes it so ominous is
its eminent feasibility. Like 9-11, this one could have worked, and did not
require complex or expensive WMD type devices to be successfully carried
out.

What manner of thoroughness and dedication must be present within the
Department of Homeland Security to foresee and avert this attack, and who
knows how many other attacks of varying makeup, with the absolute success
that they have enjoyed during the past five years? Conversely, what could
possibly motivate those on the left to remain as committed as they are to
undermine the entire effort?

It seems unthinkable that they can actually believe that their own numbers
will remain completely unscathed by any future attacks. Yet their actions
suggest as much. Perhaps they are aware of the risk, but consider such loss
of life to represent acceptable levels of ⊃collateral damage⊃ in their war
on traditional America.

During the same period that the Sears Tower plot was uncovered and its
principals taken into custody, the New York Times has been busy revealing
information of a secret government effort to track the financial
transactions among terrorists throughout the world. Thus they alert the
enemy to yet another means by which America has kept ahead of their plans to
rain death and destruction upon us.

Do the members of the Times organization really believe themselves to yet be
invincible, or do they, like the rest of liberalism, simply consider
themselves to be far enough down on the list of potential targets that they
can afford to take such risks at the expense of the rest of America?

Just across town from Times Square is the hole in the ground where the World
Trade Center towers once stood. The Sears Tower could have been the next to
go.