TERROR UPDATE – AT 7:53 A.M. ET:  A new terrorist attack against an American target in Pakistan reminds us that the war goes on every day, even though Americans seem to have put it largely out of their thinking:

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A terrorist attack near the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan killed two consulate security guards and at least four others Monday, authorities said.

The two consulate employees who died were Pakistani, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said, and "a number of others were seriously wounded."

At least six people were killed in all, a government official said.

The coordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and attackers who tried to enter the consulate by using grenades and weapons fire, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.

The blasts in the capital of the North West Frontier Province came hours after a suicide attack killed at least 30 people and wounded 50 others in another part of the province.

The two attacks reflect "the terrorists' desperation as they are rejected by people throughout Pakistan," the embassy statement said.

Peshawar is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Islamabad, the country's capital.

COMMENT:  This new attack comes at a time of increased aggressiveness by terror groups in Iraq.  This is the long war.  It will not end on President Obama's timetable.  The terrorists believe they can wait us out and wear us down.  Now that the president has given time schedules for our withdrawal from Afghanistan, the terrorist thinking may be right. 

In a catastrophic and dishonorable action, the United States Congress cut off aid to South Vietnam in 1975, dooming that country to a Communist takeover.  Once the reds took over, the "anti-war" groups in the United States, and their allies in the press, who had been so weepy about the "Vietnamese people," had nothing more to say about them.

History can repeat...unless that is prevented by a GOP victory at the polls in November.

April 5,  2010