This would be hilarious if it weren't so tragically and dangerously sad. Giuliani and Gingrich take the podium to worry us about barely (or maybe non-) human cretins blowing us up, and that's then labeled as "fear mongering."
OK, so here's the way this really shakes out. If someone says to you, "Don't go outside because there might be bad people afoot who want to hurt you," that may well be conspiracy-theory fear mongering. I get that. But if someone says, "Steer clear of Charles Manson," well, that's simply good, smart advice. Newsflash - if someone says to you, "Run, there's someone coming after you with a machete," then you . . . ahem . . . run. It's just not fear mongering if it's true.*
Hey, guess what? These crazies DO want to blow us up. And they DO have the resolve to do so. And they DO have the ability to do so. 1+1+1=3. This is not fear mongering, but rather is simply good, smart caution.
I'll go you one step further: the opposite approach is irresponsible complacency. And, indeed, that irresponsible complacency starts with the demagogic, dismissive labeling of on-the-money cautionary statements about extremist jihadi terrorists as being "fear mongering."
Geez, when will the politically-correct apologists wake the heck up?!? I would've thought that the umpteenth incomprehensible set of pointless mass (and other) murders might have been a sufficient wake-up call . . . but I guess not.
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* Shades of Seinfeld's notion that, if you believe it, it's not a lie?
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