Mall Bombers Beware!

So well-known weasel Richard Clarke takes a look at "future history" in his cover story in The Atlantic on the future of terrorism. It's pretty grim. Here's an interesting take on it from the Lead and Gold blogsite:

He does not paint a pretty picture. His worst-case scenario has a series of devastating attacks on America- suicide bombers, mass shootings, strikes with biological and nuclear weapons. After each assault, the economy sinks a little lower and we sacrifice a few more civil liberties...

One thing Clarke totally disregards is the deterent effect of an armed populace. Yeah, yeah...I can already hear liberals laughing. But let's take the Israeli experience, where armed civilians stopping terrorists' strikes has become almost commonplace. Or how about this from...Iraq. That's right, I...R...A...Q, courtesy of the iraqilibe blog:

Citizens of Al Mudhiryiah (a small town in the "death triangle") were subjected to an attack by several militants today who were trying to punish the residents of this small town for voting in the election last Sunday.

The citizens responded and managed to stop the attack, kill 5 of the attackers, wounded 8 and burned their cars. Three citizens were injured during the fire exchange.

Perhaps someone would like to explain to Mr. Clarke the difference between "citizens" and "serfs." I suspect that if we see concerted terrorist attacks on American civilian targets — and I think it's foolish to not consider such an option — Mr. Clarke and his ilk are going to get a fascinating education in the "real" meaning of the Second Amendment. In my heart I believe we will respond like our brothers and sisters in Israel — and now our brothers and sisters in Iraq — as opposed to, say, our bleating forefathers in England or the cheese-eating surrender monkeys in France. This time, the revolution will be televised!