Boston Marathon bombing lesson – political correctness kills

4.24.13

This combination of undated file photos shows Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left (deceased), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. (AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young)

America is facing a jihadist enemy. It is an enemy that has proven it can inflict more civilian casualties on the United States than any other foreign enemy in almost 200 years.

Just last week this enemy killed 3 innocent people, wounded more than 100 and paralyzed a major American city.

Yet, our obsession with political correctness, with a strong desire not to offend our enemies makes our self-defense immeasurably more difficult.

The evil nature and intentions of our jihadist enemies are already clear. They hate us enough to pack pressure cookers with ball bearings, to hijack airliners and turn them into weapons of mass destruction, to wear underwear bombs, shoe bombs, and any other kind of bomb they can smuggle onto aircraft.

Yet we still can’t face facts. Consider these recent events:

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