Liberal Translation,"Man Caused Disaster"

The new term for terrorism being used by President Obama's secretary of Homeland Security would be comical if it were not so scary.

Instead of referring to threats from terrorists,Janet Napolitano is referring in her speeches to "man caused disasters." This is yet another "Liberal translation" that again shows weakness and, even more so, denial.

By this logic, the FBI should refer to  crimes committed by serial killers and serial rapists as "man-caused afflictions."After all, we don't want to create fear about serial killers.

Any parent knows that the way to protect their children is to teach them about the dangers they may face.But in "Obama Land",calling a threat by its real name is politically incorrect.White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Obama is using"different words and phrases" for War on Terrorism in order to reach out to moderate parts of the world. I think he means "LIBERAL" parts.

This effort to avoid calling terrorists what they are signals a return to the complacent atmosphere that led to the 9/11 attacks.For example, prior to 9/11,because of relentless "liberal" media criticism,the FBI became so gun shy and politically correct that even though terrorists were known to hatch their plots in mosques, they were adverse to following suspects there.

Under federal guidelines in place before 9/11,FBI agents could not even look at online chat rooms to develop  leads on people who might be recruiting terrorists or distributing information on making explosives.They had to determine that there was a sound investigative basis first before signing on to a chat room that any 12-year old could enter.

In other words,"a crime practically had to be committed before you could investigate."

Obama has built his career on words.But unfortunately words won't protect us from terrorists.His "soft" verbiage sends a message to those on the front lines against terrorists to thread softly.

Instead of being in denial about terrorism,Obama should constantly warn us of the danger we face, as the Bush administration did post 9/11 with terror threat levels.

But when another attack occurs,at least it will be a "man-caused disaster" and not another terrorist attack.