Posted on 05/25/2017 4:47:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
he post-Manchester analysis festival is under way, with all parties occupying predictable bandwidths. Conservatives are using the concert bombing as evidence of the dangers of insufficient attention to Muslim migrations, while liberals engage in posturing designed to limit the damage to their already flagging reputations on national security.
As details dribbled out of yet another jihadist plying his murderous trade in Europe, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took to CNN Tuesday with his list of concerns. Did they include beefing up American resolve to identify and root out Islamists in America? Was there a call for increased European vigilance?
Not so much. One of Murphy’s main worries is the absurd leftist lament that speaking truth and taking bold action are actually counterproductive, giving ISIS “recruitment fodder.”
“Many of us are worried about some of the rhetoric of the Trump administration, because we worry that that, combined with robust online recruitment might end up in an attack like this happening in the United States."
Good Lord. If anything energized ISIS, it was eight years of feckless Obama leadership vacuums. Now we have a president interested in actually speaking and acting against Islamic terror, and the left suggests such realism will spark the next ISIS bombing in America.
This is not a new trick. Obama-style engagement always taught that terrorists would bend to nebulous diplomatic overtures, seasoned with a smattering of sanctions. Liberal processing of terror threats also yielded a dictionary of diversionary terms designed to lure Americans away from conclusions that are kryptonite to Democrats, such as sober recognitions that evil exists and must be fought.
Some of these terms, keenly hazardous in their capacity to distract, have cropped up in the aftermath of the Manchester attack. They should never be spoken by anyone serious about addressing jihadist terror.
The first is “lone wolf,” a term intended to deceptively suggest that terrorists are unconnected individuals amazingly hatching similar plans by happenstance.
The second is “home-grown,” an adjective designed to disguise the connection between all jihadists and the Middle Eastern cauldrons that boil with the hate that inspires them.
The third is “self-radicalized,” a false depiction of terrorists as spontaneously combusting with visions of innocent victims to kill, requiring no external accelerant.
So, to be clear, in recalling Manchester, Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino, Orlando, Nice, and other Islamist-inspired acts of terror:
There are no “lone wolves.” Every jihadist killer is part of a murderous network strung together by the webs of hate and lunacy taking instruction from Islam’s most violent layers.
There is no such thing as “home-grown.” A terrorist born and raised in the country he attacks (as in the Manchester example) did not absorb his evil motivations from the culture of his European or American roots. It all traces back to the dank caves of Mideast Islamism.
There is no such thing as “self-radicalization.” This is perhaps the most noxious card in the left’s deck of deceit, a fraudulent attempt to conceal where radicalization comes from: Islam’s bloody dark side.
Every terrorist event is an opportunity to rediscover lost clarity on what we are up against. No one should overstate the threat or paint with overly broad brushes of accusation. But we must reject those who dismiss or minimalize the daunting menace of global jihad by playing word games in a politically correct campaign of denial.
I saw one media report which blamed these attacks on “a pack of lone wolves”.
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We (Westerners) do not see this as a serious threat and won’t until enough loved ones have died so that even the libs suggest dipping the bullets in pig’s blood. By then, we will have some serious fighting on our hands.
Very well-written article. I concur with all points made.
It ain’t lone wolves, but rather KNOWN wolves.
by 2banana | December 29, 2015 - 10:27am
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Islam is “religion” based on cruelty to the unbeliever. Unbelievers can be other Muslims from other sects of Islam or non-Muslims. Muhammad was a child rapist, slave trader, slave master, sex slave trafficker, kidnapper, genocidal mass murderer, blissful torturer, thief and liar. This and more is well documented in the Koran and Hadith.
The Muslims joining ISIS are just Muslims wanting to be “Good Muslims.” They want to follow the way of their prophet. In the exact way Muhammad lived and ruled. No amount of sugar coating or mumbling about “moderate” Muslims will change that. “Radicalized” Muslims are simply Muslims who want to be “Good Muslims” in their host country according to the very same Koran and Hadith.
Let’s look at reality if the US Military had the mission that was truly to “Defeat and Destroy ISIS in Syria.”
1. Stop arming and training the “moderate” Syrian rebels. They are just barely one degree removed from ISIS and have/will install a brutal apartheid ISIS type of Islamic Governmental System just as bad as ISIS if they were ever to achieve victory.
2. Ally, support, train and share intel with those who are bringing the fight to ISIS. This includes the Assad Regime, the Russians, the Kurds, the Christians, the Yazidis and certain Sunni Tribes. This does not include Turkey or Saudi Arabia.
3. Bomb and mine all border crossings. Nothing gets in or out of the “Caliphate.” Destroy all power facilities. Any covered truck in the highway that the cargo cannot be verified. All refineries. All factories or production sites that are paying a tax to ISIS. Anyone posting ISIS propaganda online. Any communication site. Anything or anyone that gives any kind of support to the ISIS Regime. Without warning. Without regard to civilian causalities. After the first few days, the civilians will get the message and get away from ISIS targets as ISIS now uses our own ROE and bombing approval process against us.
4. The Geneva and Hague Conventions are suspended in Syria. America does not need to be abide to these Conventions when our enemy does not. ROE is to be “close with the enemy by fire and maneuver and destroy them and their will to fight.” Summary executions for any ISIS terrorist caught without a uniform (this was the norm in all America’s Wars pre-1946). The use of Napalm, Cluster Munitions, anti-personnel mines and flamethrowers are now authorized.
In short – Terrorize the Terrorists. Total war for anyone or anything that supports them. Ally with anyone fighting them.
Total War is not pretty. It is not PC. It is brutal and barbarous. But is will accomplish the mission in the shortest time period with least amount of American casualties. And it will result in Victory.
Or we can spend another 15 years and another $2 Trillion from our Treasury in the Middle East to get nothing accomplished except writing more “white papers” on how to win.
Nothing serious will be done until some of the so-called “elites” are victims of these savages.
A variant of “home grown” is “home brewed”
Both attempt to downplay the severity of the bomber or the server
One day historians will examine why the West was so vulnerable to assault of a bizarre culturally alien Islamists. Given the terrorism, widespread crime, non assimilation and huge welfare expenses why did Western Europeans really allow this debilitating invasion? The answer lies in the indifference that pervades modern Western peoples. Patriotic nationalism, religious ideals, cultural pride and a sense of being a part of something good and important for the most part is no longer common. Over the last fifty years the West has entered an era of post Christian neo pagan decadence. Ideals have been replaced with neo pagan, crass epicurean self gratification. Drug use, open homosexuality with all its permutations, widespread unrestricted abortion, earth and celebrity worship pornography and hedonism are common and acceptable or preferred practices. Such a drugged and debased population, so intent on self gratification, does not become enraged or demand definitive action when barbaric ,demented jihadists slaughter young children. A sigh will do and within a day or two let the party resume.
The West is vulnerable to the assault of the bizarre alien culture because it has rotted from within.
These swine are not lone wolves but KNOWN wolves. It seems the authorities know who these pos are but still they are able to kill people.
Actually, the reason for the apparent surrender is WW II.
The death and destruction in Europe wrought by that war is incomprehensible to Americans. The numbers that died, both civilian and military can not really be grasped. The result is a pacifist, never again anti war mentality.
The rules against war have come about such that trivial enemies have a distinct advantage. The Euros and the Euro worshipping Americans won’t fight. They would rather moan and groan and light candles and put out flowers.
Pointing with pride. Viewing with alarm but in the final analysis doing exactly NOTHING!
The jihadist intends to create an environment of cowardly groveling. That is precisely his intention. Liberals are perfect dhimmi subjects. They grovel. They whine. they are pitiful. The more violent the jihadist’s actions the more likely his morally unhinged victims will cower in fear. Simple bully tactics 101.
Ain't that the truth!
No question. The loss forever of the best Y chromosomes between 1914-1945 throughout Europe has resulted in the present population of girly, vulnerable men who are not really inclined or capable of defending anything.
Wasn’t it Marie Harf or Barfie that claimed ISIS wouldn’t be killing people if we just gave them jobs?
The Manchester murderer was already on the radar of the authorities. Therefore, again he was a known wolf and not a lone wolf.
Sometimes I wonder if we should be looking at the timing and what gets taken off the front pages when the media goes 24/7 glorifying these killers.
1. President Trump’s successful meeting with Arabs and Jews.
2. The Seth Rich story.
3. Others?
We need a massive war against Islam that results in a few hundred million dead Muslims, cities that are reduced to rubble and stay rubble for centuries, and a population so terrified by our retribution that a thousand years from now goat humpers huddled in tents will tremble in fear at the tale being recited.
No more of this pathetic candlelit vigils, worry about backlash against Muslims, no more stupid changing Facebook icon to some stupid flag of a Western country attacked.
We need to unleash real terror against THEM. I don’t want their love or their respect. I want their undying fear.
I want them to look over their shoulder in fear when they merely urinate on a bush, and wonder if that will make some drone operator somewhere angry and kill them.
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