Posted on 11/08/2017 5:57:13 PM PST by Rummyfan
Peggy Noonans observation in the Wall Street Journal that the most recent jihadist mass murderer is an idiotunlike the men who perpetrated 9/11, but like all who have struck us sinceprovokes more thought than likely went into it.
Noonan correctly notes that 9/11 led us to expect more attacks with comparable planning and execution. Instead, weve been hit by random idiots, the most sophisticated of whom (the Bataclan murderers) operate at an elementary infantry level.
So what? Our ruling class concludes that more and better policing has precluded attacks on the scale of 9/11, limiting Islamist terrorism to a level with which we can live. But this lumping of terrorism into a single category misunderstands how very different 9/11 was from what has followeddifferent kinds of perpetrators, different bases of support, a different relationship with Islamism, and different in the dangers they comport for us. Hence they misunderstand what military and police action can accomplish.
Focusing on these differencesespecially in the light of the recently released Osama Bin Laden documents and their emphasis on al-Qaedas latter-day relationship with Iraninvites us to cut through the establishments parrot-chorus of what everyone knows about terrorism and to unravel the complexity what we are really up against. The following is the first of a four-part attempt to do this.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Las Vegas was a terrorist attack. Leftist terror!
Hence, by acting as an immunosuppressant, our ruling class has enabled the terrorists to infect Western societies with a sense of helplessness that may prove more lethal than shocks such as 9/11.
There you have it in a nut shell my friends.
We are at war, We have been at war since 1979. The first engagement was the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Jimmy Carter lost that battle.
It is not a conventional war. The other side doesnt wear uniforms and strictly speaking does not even have a country. But it does have a virulent ideology.
Out leadership as the article points out is mentally ill prepared to lead us in this war. The ruling classs internationalist ideology of inclusiveness and cultural diversity precludes our best form of defense which in a conventional war would be a no brainer; Dont let the enemy cross your boarders.
But since our leaders dont accept the reality that our nation (and the West) is at war with Islam and not terrorism they do not recognize the need to keep people from Muslim majority nations out of the US.
Until our leaders acknowledge that we are at war with Islam the religion/ideology we are nearly defenseless in this war. If we can not keep the enemy out of our country we destined to have more and more of these mass killing perpetrated by Muslim soldiers. They are Jihadis (soldiers of the Holy War) not terrorist. Terrorism is their tactic not their identity.
Until it is widely acknowledged that we are currently fighting World War III, the War against Islam we are fighting a losing battle.
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