The coming Obama administration and terrorism

Interesting--one of Barack Obama's most vocal, and liberal, op-ed cheerleaders, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, is rather critical today of the Obama team for perhaps lacking a coherent battle plan for the war on terror:

"A concept that excludes nothing defines nothing. That's why one of the most urgent tasks for President-elect Barack Obama's "Team of Rivals" foreign policy brain trust is coming up with a coherent intellectual framework -- and a winning battle plan -- for the globe-spanning asymmetrical conflict that George W. Bush calls the "war on terror"...In his opening statement[at a news conference yesterday], Obama vowed to continue the fight against "those who kill innocent individuals to advance hateful extremism." Is that his definition of terrorism? Is any one-size-fits-all definition sufficiently flexible to allow U.S. Special Forces to go after Osama bin Laden but also to keep nuclear-armed India out of nuclear-armed Pakistan?"

Everyone's talking about the economy. But the terror attacks in Mumbai show that a coherent anti-terror policy can't wait. And promising to talk with their leaders without preconditions surely, surely won't be enough.

By the way, it's not only writers such as Robinson who are sounding the alarm today concerning terrorism's dangers:

"The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden."

What will the left wing of the Democratic Party think?

Obama's advisers today lay out a blueprint for a much more active U.S. military role in Afghanistan during an Obama administration.

They claim to want a more active ground war vs Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorist forces there, and they claim they'll intensify the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

Might be a defensible policy. But apparently they also still plan for a steady withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq after next January 20th.

We conservatives should point out the danger of encouraging terrorism with such a move.