Global Warming more of a threat than - what, uh oh

The New York Times (among many others) reports on the thwarted terrorist plot in Miami, with targets in many cities including the Sears Tower in Chicago:

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director said today that a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago by seven Miami men now facing federal conspiracy charges was 'more aspirational than operational,' but illustrated the threat posed by small groups without connections to international terror networks. "

Of coarse the NYT chose to use the qualifier 'more aspirational than operational' early in the article. The problem with terrorism is, the difference between aspiration and action is extremely small and with aspiration, terrorism wouldn't exist - it needs people willing (aspiring) to do whatever it takes. It seems the group had found a vision and in the market for the means:

"The only overt acts described in the indictment were swearing oaths of allegiance to Al Qaeda and taking video footage of the F.B.I. office. "

"The aid he sought from Al Qaeda included $50,000 in cash, firearms, vehicles, radios, binoculars, bullet-proof vests and military boots. The boots were the only items delivered, after a meeting in which Mr. Batiste provided shoe sizes, according to the indictment. Mr. Batiste was also given the digital video camera that he used to take pictures of the F.B.I. building. "

Regardless of how the left chooses to spin this: "harmless", "aspirational", "unlikely to take action", etc, I'm happy we got them before they acted and proved the spin wrong.

"He said the members of the group shared a "common ideology," although he did not say what that was. He called them "separatists in the sense of not believing that the United States had the authority to enforce certain laws against them."