Ms. Maglalang Responds

Teeheehee!

A number of flippant liberals are e-mailing me now with calls for all Filipinos to be interned. Grow up. The safety of the president and the country was put at risk, and it may have been due in part to the blinders of political correctness and complacency. If it means now that the White House will be applying extra scrutiny to naturalized Americans of Filipino descent working at the top levels of government and in the military, well, yes, I support that. It's obviously overdue. And, as I argued in my last book, it's just one small step towards the kind of national security profiling we should have introduced aggressively after 9/11. But didn't.

Why couldn't they just, you know, apply the same appropriate scrutiny to EVERYBODY who is in charge of the president and this country's safety? 

And leave it to the wingers to be in reactive mode and fight the last war: 'political correctness'?  Give me a fucking break.  It's the same backward-looking attitude that blinds them to current reality and makes them incapable of anticipating new circumstances and adapting. 

"Oh shit, who knew that a hurricane aftermath would be just like a terrorist attack?  Good thing a major earthquake won't be anything like either of those situations..."

"Holy crap, now we have to worry about Filipinos?  Who next?  White Christians?  Nah..."

"The horses got away?  Quick!  Lock the barn door..."

Please, somebody get a handle on our OODA loop before it's too late.

ntodd

[Update: not only does Ms. Maglalang not allow comments on her blog, but it now appears she's blocking my trackbacks.  A bit prickly, eh?]