I'm still confused...

You can't throw a rock at a website anywhere and not hit an article that claims that increasing monitoring of radical criminal behavior in majority Muslim neighborhoods is "hateful."  Of course, my own fave place to go to raise my blood pressure is Huffington Post as can be seen by most of my posts, including the one I made yesterday.

So imagine the look of utter confusion on my face when I read today on HuffPost that "U.S. Frustration Simmers over Belgium's Struggle with Militant Threat".

Here we see Belgium, where the policy on immigration and diversity has been a model that liberal America wants to emulate and yet frustration and simmering abound at Belgian handling of the threat? But then, it all becomes clear that the issue for them is not that migration has lead to the importation of a small percentage of migrants who are criminal, radicalized, and just all around undesirable; it is that Belgium can't get its counter-terrorism act together.  That, and as I noted yesterday, liberals' notion that the cause of such atrocities is not bad people, it is disenfranchisement.

The article suggests that the Belgians are:

- understaffed

- uncooperative

- speak too many languages

The clash in worldviews is startling:  The first three of those issues are post-problem.  They accept that there is a problem, but do not address the problem, only address the consequences.  The problem is the situation that leads to the events themselves.

The problem is not one that is inherent to Belgium, it is a problem they have allowed to grow, to fester, and become untenable.  It is only American liberal hubris that makes anyone believe that the same problem with the same consequences is not on the table here and that, in the end, America will also be understaffed, uncooperative, and unprepared for what comes next.