Success comes from provoking a U.S. overreaction. Like a TSA agent’s hand on a traveler’s genitals and a resultant national freakout. These people, simply put, are fucking with us, and hoping we’ll treat them as a Threat To Civilization. Happy Thanksgiving from al-Qaeda.

There’s little chance that our nation’s security strategy and Defense Department will change over the rest of Obama’s term in office or that pressure by the military industrial complex to “drill, baby, drill” will ease any time soon.

Two very revealing snapshots from CPAC yesterday.

This is the speech that should have been given to the Muslim world by President John Kerry in 2005.