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Steven Emerson,
Executive Director
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November 17, 2015
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Jihadists
Crippling the West from Within
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The success of a small group of terrorists in essentially taking down
the third most powerful military in the world on Friday is a milestone in
the history of Islamic terrorism being celebrated by jihadists around the
world.
More than 14 years ago, they succeeded in killing nearly 3,000 Americans
in a plot carried out right under our noses. In those intervening years,
billions of dollars were spent on creating and connecting massive databases
between countries to share intelligence, new counterterrorism intelligence
units were formed, tens of thousands of jihadists around the world were
placed under surveillance, entire militaries were transformed to fight the
new type of asymmetrical war, and government leaders vowed to wipe out the
nest of terrorist vipers wherever they were.
Yet, the jihadists still succeeded in carrying out the single largest
attack in Europe since World War II, slaughtering more than 120 innocent
men, women and children. If there is any lesson that can be drawn, it is
that the jihadists are now coming for us.
The highly coordinated attack on the French was an attack on the Dutch,
British, Germans, Swedes, and the U.S. It was an attack on all Western
liberal democracies based upon basic Judeo-Christian values.
It is the tragic result of a naïve misreading of the world by the
current administration. The resulting chaos created by U.S. foreign policy
represents a diplomatic and national security failure of unfathomable and
horrific proportions.
In policies reflecting deeply flawed thinking, Obama and his advisers
believed from the very beginning that it should support Islamists
represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, which created nearly all of the
existing jihadi groups. The administration believed that the Arab Spring
represented an opportunity to depose despots and replace them with
democratic regimes.
It decided that secular autocrats represented the real enemy. The
administration never considered the far more murderous evil that would
follow. So in recent years the U.S. stood by or helped jihadists to depose
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, murder former Libyan dictator Muammar
Gaddafi and wage a bloody civil war against Syria's Bashar al-Assad. In
recent weeks, they randomly stabbed Israelis on the street, bombed a
civilian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and killed dozens and
wounded hundreds in Beirut in signature attacks.
By leading from behind, U.S. policy emboldened the jihadists to create
instability and ungovernable territory in the Middle East, which drove
millions of refugees into Europe in a humanitarian crisis that provided
cover for operatives to infiltrate the countries that welcomed them.
It has enabled them to create a genocidal caliphate in the Middle East
from where they can more easily prepare and instigate attacks against the
West, as we sadly witnessed on Friday.
Let's state the obvious. The administration has operated under the
misguided belief that jihadists can be contained. If we just treat them
nicely and don't identify them for what they are, they'll leave us alone.
It explains why we still have not seen the manifesto from the young
California college student with a reported ISIS flag, references to Allah
and writings about beheadings who stabbed four people last week. Why would
that matter? He was upset about his study group. Nothing to see here.
Nobody in law enforcement would dare to link it to jihadist ideology
under the watchful eye of the administration. After all, these are the same
folks who banned the words "radical Islam" from the halls of the
White House -- any reference is nowhere to be found in the president's
statement on Paris and was avoided at all costs by former Secretary of
State Clinton in Saturday's Democratic debate -- scrubbed the FBI training
manual of any text that might offend Muslims, and described Major Nidal
Hasan's 2009 massacre at Fort Hood as "workplace violence."
For nearly two full weeks the administration blamed an innocent U.S.
filmmaker as the cause of the murder of four Americans 7,000 miles away in
Benghazi in 2012. They were dead wrong, and they knew it. Clinton
documented the lie for posterity in her emails.
As much as the administration denies it, they hate us, they want to
destroy us and they already have a significant presence in the U.S. It is
only a matter of time before the Paris jihadists attempt to replicate their
unparalleled success in the U.S.
The progressive left that blames America first, led by Obama and his
secretaries of State, destroyed Libya, destroyed Syria, and destroyed Iraq.
They failed to intervene in the genocide of religious minorities in the
Middle East and stood by while Islamists destroyed the lives of thousands
of women through sex slavery and human trafficking. They refused to grant
asylum to tens of thousands of Christians being persecuted, tortured, and
murdered throughout the Middle East. Don't trust our word on this. Go to
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the ground and they will tell
you horror stories that will drive you mad.
The U.S. is not immune. The cover of Muslim Brotherhood fronts like the
Council for American-Islamic Relations has facilitated their arrival here
in significant ways.
What will it take for the administration to realize that radical Islam
is the cancer, and that the legitimacy it have provided to their front
groups is crippling the U.S. from within?
Perhaps nothing will. The president who promised to end all wars has
instead placed us at the epicenter of World War III.
Steven Emerson is the Executive Director of the Investigative Project
on Terrorism and Pete Hoekstra is the Senior Shillman Fellow at the
Investigative Project on Terrorism.
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