A foreign-born Islamic State suicide bomber reportedly slaughtered 10 foreign tourists and injured another 15 in Istanbul, Turkey, the latest in a series of Muslim terrorist attacks aimed at Westerners.
Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) has no doubt been emboldened because President Obama's response so far to its aggression and provocations has been timid and half-hearted. Muslim terrorists may vilify Obama in their propaganda but they don't fear him. After all, he's their great benefactor. He's the one who -- with Hillary Clinton's help -- set the Middle East and North Africa on fire during the fateful so-called Arab Spring.
The Islamic State assault Tuesday that killed eight German nationals also constituted an act of economic warfare, apparently the first such attack to target Turkey's $30 billion tourism sector, already hard hit after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border two months ago. According to BBC, Germany provides the greatest number of tourists to Turkey, providing 5.1 million tourists in 2014.