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We Can Kill Our Enemies Abroad And Fail To Save Ourselves
American Thinker ^ | 13 Sep, 2026 | Clarice Feldma

Posted on 09/13/2026 5:07:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The failures that led to 9/11 remain unaddressed to this day.

uch has been written about 9/11 on the 25th anniversary of this attack on our soil. To my mind, the most prescient was by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Tablet Magazine.

Before I get to it (and I hope you will take time to read more than I can summarize here), we need to review failures that led to the attack and failures that followed.

In this regard, we are aided by this week’s CIA declassification of 71 Presidential Daily Briefs from 1998 through December 2001.

SHOCKING DECLASSIFIED CIA FILES PROVE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAD MANY CHANCES TO STOP 9/11. Newly declassified CIA files reveal something absolutely chilling. 1998: Intelligence warns Bin Laden may fly an explosives-packed airplane into an American city. 1998: CIA warns: “BIN LADEN PREPARING TO HIJACK US AIRCRAFT.” 1998: Intelligence reports members of his network had received hijacking training, and operatives reportedly conducted a TRIAL RUN at a NEW YORK AIRPORT. 2001: Bin Laden appeared in at least 18 Presidential Daily Briefs. August 6: “BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN US.” September 11: America was attacked. These documents do not show the government knew the exact 9/11 plan in advance. But 25 years later, Americans can finally see just how many warning lights were flashing before nearly 3,000 people died.

To G.W. Bush’s discredit, he acceded to the Muslim Brotherhood and others, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (run by Sami-Al-Arian, who was later tried and convicted of terrorism-related charges, imprisoned, and deported), and claimed against all evidence that Islam was a religion of peace and otherwise muddied the waters about the threats we face.

Apparently, Moslem election assistance in Tampa and Michigan blinded him to the obvious dangers. Also hamstringing our defense was the wall Clinton’s appointee Jamie

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illegalimmigration; islam; leftism; terrorism

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1 posted on 09/13/2026 5:07:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How many Nawaf al-Hazmis and Khalid al-Mihdhars did Joe Biden fly into the country? We have not learned our lesson and now there are mosques (or armories?) popping up everywhere in the USA.


2 posted on 09/13/2026 5:07:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
The Ayaan Hirsi Ali article was posted on FR here:

FR: What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us

3 posted on 09/13/2026 5:12:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Dems believe Islam is a religion of peace.


4 posted on 09/13/2026 5:14:06 AM PDT by chopperk
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Why do we continue to support the Saudis?


5 posted on 09/13/2026 5:14:54 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Her conclusion is, I think, hard to argue against: If we can’t redesign our protections to shelter citizens “rather than adversaries,” “resist civilization subversion without abandoning liberty itself,” and wall out these people, it doesn’t matter how effective we are on the battlefields.
6 posted on 09/13/2026 5:16:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: chopperk

Idk, I think they like using Islam to gain power, mistakenly believing they can control it later.


7 posted on 09/13/2026 5:16:28 AM PDT by Kudsman (4728)
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The enemy like Iran doesn’t need to nuke us. The nuke they do have is that we have allowed them and their ilk to come in and infiltrate our land and government.

While we waste our resources and time fighting them over there, they are multiplying within our borders.

We are the architects of our own future demise.


8 posted on 09/13/2026 5:17:29 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

The enemy like Iran doesn’t need to nuke us. The nuke they do have is that we have allowed them and their ilk to come in and infiltrate our land and government.

While we waste our resources and time fighting them over there, they are multiplying within our borders.

We are the architects of our own future demise.


9 posted on 09/13/2026 5:17:34 AM PDT by dforest
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To: chopperk

So do some republicans. George Bush being one of them.


10 posted on 09/13/2026 5:18:31 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

From Gotham to New Gaza? Hmmmm, with the foothold established, how do we remove them without the media propagandizing ‘phobia’?


11 posted on 09/13/2026 5:25:18 AM PDT by Kudsman (4728)
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To: dforest
The enemy like Iran doesn’t need to nuke us. The nuke they do have is that we have allowed them and their ilk to come in and infiltrate our land and government.

Exactly. Using an atomic bomb on us would be a huge mistake for the Muslims. That would force us to actually fight them. Why do that when they are winning by slow invasion?

12 posted on 09/13/2026 5:27:18 AM PDT by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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