THOUGHTS ON THE LONDON NIGHT CLUB BOMBING

What's interesting to me about the London nightclub bombing attempt is that it was not a suicide bombing, it was planned as a remote detonation. Apparently the detonator, a cellphone, was shut off by an alert bobbie prior to the arrival of the bomb squad.

Al-Qaida? Al-Qaida doesn't do remote detonations. NONE (count 'em) of the events that involve al-Qaida have lacked the very powerful fear-inducing suicide element. The Madrid bombings were thought to be al-Qaida directed but the remote detonations turned out to have been perpetrated by a rag-tag group of Moroccans.

So, what we have here then, is an attempted massacre, via remote detonation. Has the jihad run out of willing martyrs? Are there no more heavenly virgins to parcel out?

Or are we winning?

Why is no one willing to die for the cause? And rest assured no one was willing or this would not have been a remote detonation. Can it be that the jihad is now viewed by the minions as a losing cause? I believe so. Please note that the jihad attacked America, not because of an abundance of hatred, but for a profound lack of respect. Respect is far easier to restore than it would be to quell the hatred. We may be safer than we think. Perhaps our willingness to stand for over four years and shed blood in Iraq has something to do with giving us the upper hand on the all-important psychological battlefield. How else to explain the 5 year dearth of attacks on American soil since 9-11? I'm sorry, our people have done a wonderful job of prevention, but it is apparent now that the jihadis just don't want to hit the Great Satan again. Respect, through consequences and fear of more consequences, may have been restored.

It should be both indicative and instructive that our enemy more and more is displaying an inability to deploy its most potent weapon. Bin-Laden has recognized from the beginning the power of the suicide/homicide weapon. A remote detonation actually demonstrates a lack of resolve, and thus, abject vincibility.

In this war, there will be no formal surrender, no white flag, no indication that one side or the other has capitulated. We will only know as events like the London attempted night-club bombing unfold, and this one just reeks of capitulation, to me.