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If ISIS Attacks Again, What Will U.S. Do?
Townhall.com ^ | August 26, 2014 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 08/26/2014 5:05:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Obama administration is reportedly considering airstrikes in Syria against the terrorist group ISIS. The New York Times quotes "a top national security adviser" to the president as saying the U.S. is "'not going to be restricted by borders' to protect its interests..."

What about American cities? If ISIS attacks one or more U.S. cities, as it has threatened to do, what then? We can't bomb ourselves. How would we counter a nosedive in the stock market or the ensuing chaos and fear?

The U.S. and Europe are vulnerable because of a false belief that we can somehow "convert" ideological and religious fundamentalists into pluralistic, tolerant people by exposing them to our way of life. So we let them into our nations. They build mosques, often with funding from Saudi Arabia, which practices and teaches a radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, and allow them to set up Islamic schools, at least some of which teach hatred of Jews, Christians and Western values.

France has seen its Muslim population explode to more than 8 million, and growing, according to the Gatestone Institute. It is the same in other European nations. While not all of these immigrants are terrorists, no doubt terrorists immigrated along with those looking for a better life, or were radicalized after arriving. Many Muslim immigrants have lived in isolation from Western cultures and values which their faith has taught them to hate.

According to the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project, "the estimated share of legal Muslim immigrants entering the U.S. each year has roughly doubled, from about 5 percent of legal immigrants in 1992 to about 10 percent in 2012." While it is a diverse group with not all holding to the same ideology or hatred of the West, there are enough radicals among them to constitute a clear and present danger. Groups like the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) intimidate some politicians and the media with cries of "Islamophobia" whenever anyone warns of the radicals' agenda.

As the Center for Immigration Studies points out, "Since the November 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane by an Egyptian, the immigrant Muslim community has been associated with a great number of violent incidents -- all these even before the atrocities on September 11, 2001. In its long history of immigration, the United States has never encountered so violent-prone and radicalized a community as the Muslims who have arrived since 1965."

So, if even a small number of Muslim immigrants -- or American citizens who have been radicalized by imams -- attack a shopping mall, killing and terrorizing shoppers, what will the president do? Will he treat it as a crime, "workplace violence," or call it by its right name? Will civil libertarians have their way in opposing further surveillance of potential and actual radicals, deporting some and stripping others of their U.S. citizenship, if they travel to align themselves with ISIS fighters and try to return to the U.S.? Will they be allowed in? They should be barred.

These and many other questions must be answered before another attack, which our leaders repeatedly warn is coming. Why is it coming? Because presidents over several administrations have not done all they could to prevent it, preferring soft words to tough action. What will the current president do when the next attack comes? Will the public take matters into their own hands and fight back?

Vigilantes are the last thing we need, but they could rise up, if government fails to perform its constitutional duty to protect us from enemies, foreign and domestic.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: isis; residentbarackh0bama; terrorism; unitedstates
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1 posted on 08/26/2014 5:05:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Blame Bush and go golfing.


2 posted on 08/26/2014 5:06:28 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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To: Kaslin

Give them more arms in secret moves behind are backs. There always has to be an enemy for political power.


3 posted on 08/26/2014 5:07:34 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing. Next question.


4 posted on 08/26/2014 5:11:53 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Kaslin

Reach for 9-iron.


5 posted on 08/26/2014 5:14:00 AM PDT by wdk535
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To: Kaslin; MeshugeMikey; Republicanprofessor

Muslim Commander in Chief Obama will follow the BENGHAZI RULE.

The field-tested, Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule is as follows:

1.) ALWAYS STAND DOWN WHEN MUSLIMS ATTACK;

2.) WAIT FOR THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH THEIR BLOOD SPORT KILLING;

3.) DO NOTHING.

BTW, how much longer will Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner keep Obama on as his CIC?


6 posted on 08/26/2014 5:15:50 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Kaslin

Be complete unable to find a tee time anywhere on Martha’s vineyard?


7 posted on 08/26/2014 5:17:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: wdk535

The U.S? No, that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and the liberals yes. Their belief is that the terrorists won’t attack them


8 posted on 08/26/2014 5:18:33 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Redleg Duke

Naturally, who and what else?


9 posted on 08/26/2014 5:19:20 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Resupply them with armaments.
10 posted on 08/26/2014 5:23:33 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Kaslin
VACA time!


11 posted on 08/26/2014 5:30:18 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Kaslin

Scary thing is even some inside this wretched administration seem to be coming to the conclusion that ISIS must be dealt with.

But to their boss it’s been No Sale.


12 posted on 08/26/2014 5:33:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Redleg Duke
Blame Bush and go golfing.

Come on, you know there will be more than that. We will also apologize for whatever we did to offend them.

13 posted on 08/26/2014 5:36:11 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Kaslin

say oh me oh my someone should do something


14 posted on 08/26/2014 5:40:35 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bmwcyle

Give them more arms in secret moves behind are backs. There always has to be an enemy for political power.


Fast and furious international.


15 posted on 08/26/2014 5:48:10 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Linda Frances
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
I have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
16 posted on 08/26/2014 5:53:01 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Graewoulf

Muslim Commander in Chief Obama will follow the BENGHAZI RULE.

The field-tested, Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule is as follows:

1.) ALWAYS STAND DOWN WHEN MUSLIMS ATTACK;

2.) WAIT FOR THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH THEIR BLOOD SPORT KILLING;

3.) DO NOTHING.

BTW, how much longer will Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner keep Obama on as his CIC?


1.) ALWAYS STAND DOWN WHEN MUSLIMS ATTACK;

2.) WAIT FOR THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH THEIR BLOOD SPORT KILLING;

3.) DO NOTHING.

4). LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FIND A VIDEO OF TEAPARTY RALLY AND BLAME IT ON THEM.


17 posted on 08/26/2014 5:54:13 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Kaslin

Mark that date a “National Holiday”?

Call it....”Jihad Day”.


18 posted on 08/26/2014 6:00:19 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: Kaslin

IF?


19 posted on 08/26/2014 6:07:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Didn’t you get the message from the 0bama administration that we don’t have to worry about ISIS?


20 posted on 08/26/2014 6:15:24 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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