Saturday’s failed car bombing in Times Square was a reminder that the terror war is still on, if a reminder was needed. And as with the Christmas Day bomb plot, America only avoided catastrophe because of terrorist incompetence.

Investigators on the case have found leads pointing to foreign terrorists. It’s possible the hit was ordered or inspired by Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, thought slain in a Predator strike but seen this week in a new video declaring that the United States is his organization’s main target. Considering coalition forces have been trying to kill him for some time, it makes sense that he or others might seek some form of direct revenge, but whether they’re capable of doing this remains to be seen.

The fact remains that America is a prime terrorist target, and the plots and attacks keep coming. Add the Times Square car bomb to a growing list that includes: the June 2009 fatal shooting at an Army recruiting station in Arkansas by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a homegrown, Yemeni-trained Muslim; Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian illegal alien arrested in September 2009 for planning to car-bomb a Dallas office tower; Michael Finton, an American convert to Islam, is charged with attempting to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfield, Ill., in September 2009; the November 2009 Fort Hood massacre; the December 2009 arrest of five men from Northern Virginia in Pakistan for terrorism-related activities; Christmas Day 2009 would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; and lethal ladies Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, of Pennsylvania and Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado, charged with various terrorism related-crimes. Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu and 12 others were charged in 2009 with supporting the al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabab group; and last week, Brooklyn residents Wesam el-Hanafi and Sabirhan Hasanoff were indicted on charges of trying to help al Qaeda with modernization efforts.

New York has been the target of several attack plans in the past year. In May 2009, four men were arrested for plotting to blow up a New York City synagogue and use an anti-aircraft weapon to attack military aircraft in Newburgh, N.Y. Najibullah Zazi and two others planned to conduct a suicide attack on Grand Central Station in September 2009. Queens-born Bryant Neal Vinas, aka Ben Yameen al-Kanadeeis, received al Qaeda training in Pakistan and agreed to plan an attack on the Long Island Railroad before being apprehended by Pakistan authorities.

Obama announced yesterday that the United States is in a war on terror.

That is progress. But it won’t last. There are two narratives in this struggle, which is not fundamentally about terrorism at all for the Left, but about America. The Right sees terrorism as threat to America, and works to fight terrorism.

For the Left, the war on terror is a threat to multiculturalism, which is a cover for transforming America politically and socially.

The Left needs to downplay the war on terror to promote its agenda.

What have we found since we opened America’s borders to everyone, that is, those who are likely to vote for the Democrats, in an effort to remake America? Some bad people are going to come in. They are going to attack you. These attacks threaten the multiculturalist agenda. They run the risk of alerting the American people to the risks of the Democratic agenda, and may lead Americans to question it, and reject it. So Islamic fundamentalist terrorism has to be downplayed. It does not happen. The attack in Arkansas–a troubled man. Same for the Ft. Hood attack. But too many attacks, too quickly. Reality intervened to force Obama’s acknowledgement. Absent more attacks, it will fade. And even if more attacks are made, despite harsher rhetoric from the Obama team, they will not change the Democratic agenda of transforming America into a socialist paradise. That is the objective, and no terror attack will change it.