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The United States, they have come to believe, has a soft spot for revolutionary societies over stable and traditional allies. And the other message they have gotten is that America does not really belong in the Middle East, where, prior to Obama, it supposedly played a neo-imperialist and counter-productive role. No administration official seems to grasp that destroying ISIS in the Middle East tarnishes the romantic appeal of radical Islam to Western wannabe Islamic terrorists.

There will be more ISIS-inspired attacks. The terrorists will likely conclude that the last six months of the Obama administration offer them opportunities not seen in the past and perhaps not likely to reoccur in either a Clinton or Trump administration. More disturbing, radical Islamists have studied the reactions of Westerners to particular strains of their terror. Targeting sports events, rock concerts or gay nightclubs, especially with firearms, might ensure that Western internecine blame-gaming, rather than a unified and unequivocal outrage against Islamic radicalism, is the most likely reaction. Meanwhile, conservative opponents of Obama’s efforts to radically restrict the use of firearms or to airbrush away Islamism as the chief terrorist catalyst inspire more presidential furor than do the ISIS perpetrators—a fault line known to our enemies and likely to encourage further radical Islamic aggression.

We are seeing the second wind, not the decline, of ISIS terror.

Omar Mateen purchased his weapons legally—although one gun shop owner refused to sell him firearms and body armor, and contacted authorities afterward, but they did not follow up.
Terrorists who are not directly dispatched from the Middle East (as were the 9/11 killers) are “lone wolves” who emerge from the shadows, channel Islamist extremism, and are almost impossible to preempt. But that is only a half truth.

The highlighted sections above are contradictory, if Dr. Hanson will excuse me for saying so.

And the reason they are contradictory in this case is simple: it is not in the interest of the elites who run our nation for firearms-murderers to be preempted. Let anyone think I am exaggerating, I need only remind that person of the details of Operation Fast and Furious, in which very dangerous military-grade weapons were allowed to be exported to Mexico by members of the Obola administration, in - I am certain - a direct attempt to further the wishes and desires of President Obola himself.

My thesis is not only not far-fetched, it is completely obvious, and has been admitted to - implicitly, anyway - by the disgusting Obola administration itself.

And nothing has been done about this.

Obola took an oath to "preserve and protect" the our Constitution, which oath he has demonstrated over and over again might have well been made of used toilet paper.

Which is literally true, since it was made with one hand on the Koran, if the rumors be true.