David French:
There are a few terror-related memes that crawl all over the left side of the internet — all of them designed to minimize, to downplay, the jihadist threat. “Bathtubs are more dangerous than terrorists.” “Toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists.” This weekend, Nicholas Kristof added a new twist, declaring that “husbands are deadlier than terrorists.” Here’s Kristof:
The bottom line is that most years in the U.S., ladders kill far more Americans than Muslim terrorists do. Same with bathtubs. Ditto for stairs. And lightning.
Above all, fear spouses: Husbands are incomparably more deadly in America than jihadist terrorists.
And husbands are so deadly in part because in America they have ready access to firearms, even when they have a history of violence. In other countries, brutish husbands put wives in hospitals; in America, they put them in graves.
By that logic, never mind about those Nazis. Much ado about nothing. After all, ladders, bathtubs, toddlers, and husbands were all more deadly “in America” from 1939-1945 than the SS or the Wermacht. Millions of died overseas, including hundreds of thousands of Americans, but the Germans couldn’t strike us here at home. So all that hysteria over Hitler? Fearmongering, really. He couldn’t hurt us.
Of course that’s absurd — but it’s also absurd to use post-9/11 domestic terror stats to claim that terrorists aren’t all that dangerous to Americans. After all, on 9/11 terrorists hit America arguably harder than Japan did at Pearl Harbor. It was one of the deadliest single days in the entire history of the United States, and it caused staggering economic damage. Since then, we launched a more than decade-long war designed to destroy terrorist safe havens all while ramping up security here at home. As I wrote last year, when you look at the total cost of American casualties at home and abroad (much less the cost of civilian casualties abroad), the terror threat looks much more formidable:
Kistoff is a babbling pinhead just as stupid as John Kerry callong Air Conditoners more dangerous then the terrorists and 60% of the DUMB-O-CRATS say christians are as dangerous as the Islamic radicals more proof the demacratic donkey is the worlds stupidists political animal in the world
The Left is too emotional to pull off Obama’s actuarial attitude toward Muslim terrorism.
It never is the goal of Muslim terrorism to KILL everybody!
They need slaves.
Read the Koran.
It is all right there.
They refuse to do a full days’ work.
They need slaves to do that for them.
Kowing a population into dhimmitude it the goal.
If Sweden is any indication, less than 20% Muslim population, has been enough to cause Swedes to withdraw from Muslim zones while simultaneously supporting Muslims with their own tax dollars!
Sure, in Sweden, we’ll still see an occasional terror attack. But that will just be to remind the Swedes who their boss is.
So, Obama’s take, parroted by his own, is irrelevant.
Eventually, if we followed Obama’s view, we would be like Sweden.
It would just take so much longer to build up the Muslim population AND find a good reason to collect all our guns.