This appeared here. My thanks to Alan for his permission to post his work. RK
The news from Sydney, Australia was of another incident
in which a lone Islamic fascist took civilians hostage to fulfill a demented
notion of a “holy war” on non-believers. After a siege by police two of the
hostages he had taken were dead along with the gunman.
These attacks are becoming more frequent, referred to as
“lone wolf” events, but in a larger context, they represent an effort by al
Qaeda and the Islamic State, ISIS, to recruit individuals to wage a war of
terror everywhere.
Looking back over the year, in May Mehdi Nemmouche who
had returned to France after fighting for ISIS, entered the Jewish museum in
Brussels and killed four people. In October Martin Couture Rouleau ran down two
Canadian soldiers in Quebec, killing one of them. The same month, Michael
Zehaf-Bibeau killed a soldier at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. Also in
October, Zale Thompson attacked four New York police officers with an axe,
injuring two in an incident that was deemed to be an Islamist attack.
In the wake of these attacks police everywhere are
grappling with what they can do to anticipate and respond. In the attacks that
have occurred, the perpetrators were all known to law enforcement authorities
for their extremist views. In September, the Department of Homeland Security
and the FBI put out a joint intelligence bulletin that the Islamic State has
the capacity to mount attacks on U.S. targets overseas with little or no
warning. Presumably the warning also included domestic attacks as well.
At a time when the threat is real and growing, there are
forces in America that have deliberately sought to undermine public support and
trust in the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, both on
the front line of defense against the Islamist menace. The release of a report
by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Senate Intelligence Committee chair, was widely
denounced for its evident failure to interview those named as engaging in
“torture” to deter further attacks. This 20-20 hindsight and reinterpretation
of events is an offense on many levels.
One has to ask why it is always liberals who are unable
to acknowledge an actual threat and defame those charged with preventing them.
It is as if they live in a parallel universe, a make-believe world where our
enemies do not exist.
This is the mind-set that led the President to remove our
troops from Iraq, creating a vacuum that ISIS filled. He is now lowering our
role in Afghanistan and the news of the day is a barbaric attack by the Taliban
in Pakistan that has killed 130, mostly school children. Can liberals grasp the
barbarity of the Islamist enemies of our nation and the whole of humanity?
Most serious, though, are the negotiations with Iran, led
by the Obama administration, that are sure to permit a leading sponsor of
terrorism to acquire its own nuclear weapons.
This is why many cringed when the anticipated Democratic
Party candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State,
recently touted an approach she calls “smart power,” urging America to use
“every possible tool and partner” to advance peace. This, she said, includes
“leaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one’s enemies,
trying to understand and insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with
their perspective and point of view.”
This is the classic liberal excuse and attitude for not
taking our enemies seriously when they say they want to destroy America. There
isn’t a single justification for empathizing with people who want to kill you!
I frankly find the outcry against the nation’s police
corps curious and outrageous. In the Ferguson incident, it was a case of
self-defense that got Michael Brown killed. In Staten Island, it was the
unanticipated death of Erik Garner who had resisted arrest and had a long
record of similar offenses. The police did not set out to kill him, but a
combination of his ill health and the takedown triggered his death.
The response of the communist Mayor of New York, Bill de
Blasio, was not to defend his police force, but to join in the condemnation.
Around the nation thousands marched, repeating the lies about Brown’s innocence
and the claims about Garner’s death. The marches, held in a number of U.S.
cities, were organized by groups with an agenda and it was aimed at undermining
public support and trust in our police corps.
Remember, too, liberals are also opposed to the Second
Amendment which empowers Americans to “keep and bear arms.” There is no way to
misinterpret or not understand the limit this puts on government from the
federal to the local level. Even so, the calls for such limits are constant.
Reportedly, “according to the Geneva-based Small Arms
Survey – the leading source of international public information about firearms
– the U.S. has the best-armed civilian population in the world, with an
estimated 270 million total guns. That’s an average of 89 firearms for every
100 residents.” Liberals translate this as an invitation to mass murder in the
streets and homes of America, but the reality is that gun ownership prevents
criminal mayhem and protects lives. In states that permit concealed carry, the
crime rate is less than in those that do not.
Liberals, though, would have you fear your local police
force and those agencies that are tasked with protecting the nation, the CIA
and the NSA. And, yes, the FBI too.
If not resisted, liberals would cause us all to be killed
by our nation’s very real foreign enemies and the domestic perpetrators and
criminals who prey on our society. Next time you see a police man or woman,
take a moment to tell them how much you appreciate their service.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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