Another Victory

The Olympics are now finished. And despite the fears of countless pundits, there were no terrorist strikes.

In the third year of the Islamicist War, that’s a major victory.

No bloodbaths; no beheadings; no bombings; no horrific sequel to Munich.

Praise and honor to all those who made it possible; from the security teams on the streets of Athens, to the analysts in windowless rooms who sift the mountains of raw data that must be reviewed, to the Marines and soldiers in Iraq who pressured the fanatics inplaces like Najaf, to the specwar units prowling the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and keeping refuges from becoming bases of operation.

There aren’t enough laurel leaves in Greece to give them all wreaths. Nonetheless, they too are victors of the Games; heroes of the Olympics.