Posted on 03/23/2016 4:08:00 PM PDT by pookie18
Another day, another city, yet the script that started unfolding in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 and that shocked the world on 9/11 in New York is the same — jihadi killers let loose on unsuspecting "infidels." On Tuesday, Belgium's capital of Brussels fell in line with London, Madrid, and Paris as Western capitals brought to their knees by jihadi terrorists seeking the annihilation of Western civilization. If the actions committed by the soldiers of international jihad were predictable, the reaction of Western leaders was also familiar to ordinary, anxious citizens of North America and Europe – cowardice wrapped in political correctness. When jihadis struck New York, president George Bush saw it as his duty to defend Islam and save it from any serious critique. "Islam is a religion of peace," he declared as his White House pandered to American Islamists.
As anger at the inability of Western countries to fight the spread of jihadi Islamism grows, the reaction of their leaders has numbed into cliché-ridden rhetoric. U.S. President Barack Obama, whose administration has gone out of its way to avoid linking jihadi terrorism in any way with the words "Islam" or "Muslim", kept to his script once again, making no mention of Islamist terrorism. In brief remarks while in Cuba, where he was making an address to the Cuban people, Obama said, "We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium in bringing to justice those who are responsible. This is yet another reminder that the world must unite ... we must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism." As if there was any doubt the Brussels attack was carried out by Islamist terrorists on behalf of the Islamic State, ISIS. When the leader of the free world is careful not to name the entity that attacks the U.S. and its allies, how can we expect it to defeat this evil cancer that keeps spreading? Imagine President Franklin D. Roosevelt not naming the Nazi regime of Germany as the enemy Americans fought and laid down their lives to fight against in the Second World War. If Obama was ambiguous in his condemnation of the Brussels attack, our [Canadian] prime minister, too, was careful not to name Islamic State or the ideology of armed jihad. Justin Trudeau tweeted: "I strongly condemn today's deplorable terrorist attacks in Brussels. My thoughts are with the victims as we stand with Belgium & the EU."
But calling it a "deplorable terrorist attack" without naming who was responsible, just doesn't cut it anymore. Our NATO ally, Belgium, deserves more than clichés. Trudeau's tweet, to me, reflects his earlier surrender to the forces of international jihad when he pulled Canada out of the air war against ISIS. But Trudeau and Obama are not the only ones who dare not call a spade a spade. Across the West, few leaders were willing to utter the word "Islam" in connection with the Brussels attack, although Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz tweeted: "Radical Islam is at war with us. For over 7 years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality." If there is one thing we can learn from Brussels, it is that our enemy is international Islamism. Trudeau should recognize this and change course. If not, be prepared for a Brussels in Toronto Tarek Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress and columnist at the Toronto Sun, is a Robert J. and Abby B. Levine Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
We’ve had so many “wake up calls” that it should be impossible to sleep. Yet the GOPe and the Dems are still asleep at the switch and Lyin’ Ted wants to blame Trump for saying we should reduce our NATO footprint when the terror attacks have nothing to do with NATO.
Sigh.
The calls have been horned in for ~ 1400 yr now.
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Another wake up call?
Like a loser pushing the snooze option all day
It’s time for the Belgians to start training dogs and pigs to sniff out explosives and to use those animals to seek out the bomb makers. Since the Muzzies hate both dogs and pigs, when they find explosives and precursors to explosives, they turn the animals loose on the Muzzies and let them run through their apartments so they can never use them again.
Wake up call? For a corpse? Europe lies rotting in its winding sheet. They probably won’t even hear the trumpet call on Judgment Day. As in the Monty Python skit, that parrot is dead.
The best they can do is fart in their general direction.
Europe is the junior varsity scrimmage trying out
the play book. When they are ready they will take on
the home team and it won’t be easy to stop their drive.
Coming soon to a mall near YOU.
Sorry. Wake up calls can’t wake up someone who is brain dead. The civilized world has had enough warnings. It still doesn’t get it. If this country elects a democrat we may as well get ready to get raped, pay the jizya, and have our heads chopped.
They keep hitting the snooze alarm. People that don’t REACT after this past year are beyond worrying about. They wanted the refugees, they got ‘em, and they are getting killed by them, and they don’t seem to care. I’m sure not going to lose sleep over Godless Belgium. The potential for problems here keeps me wide awake.
Europe will just keep hitting snooze until their precious eu building in brussels gets blown up by jihadis. Even they they may just roll over and put a pillow over their ears and fall back asleep...
Got to recognize the enemy and act accordingly. All of islam is at war against all non-believers. There are no moderate muslims. Non-believers cannot peacefully coexist with muslims on the same piece of geography.
If you see something, say something. And don’t worry about being sued like the kid with the fake radio invention did.
Turn the savages in anyway. But, how many people would actually realize that these two savage Muslims had gloves on the left hand only.
When shopping, we stay a long distance away from hijab wearing women and Arab Muslim looking males. That’s life in the 21st century.
Obama’s message is that this is the ‘new normal’. Get used to it.
Their horsemen will be riding out of their sleepy hollow without heads. DO NOT DISTURB
We should be leading NATO against Islamic terrorism.
Not really. NATO has nothing to do with this. It’s not a NATO thing. It’s a border thing.
Pretty easy to stop ISIS if individual countries seal their borders.
NATO is obsolete, no better than the Third Coalition.
ISIS Sends 400 Specially Trained Fighters To Unleash “Wave Of Bloodshed” In Europe
With NATO, at least the US would have some help in defeating ISIS, etc., wherever they are...otherwise, things continue to worsen. Sealing borders may help some, but there has to be a show of strength both before and after they are sealed.
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