It’s obvious from the recent events at our
diplomatic outposts in parts of the world that the war on terrorism is far from
over. Notice that we did not close
embassies in predominantly Christian countries or predominantly Jewish
countries. We closed embassies in Muslim
countries. Perhaps a bit of unintended
profiling from an administration that keeps trying to sell us on the idea that
we’re not really at war with Muslim terrorists.
Make no mistake about it. We’re at war with radical Islam. We can pretend that’s not the case but it
doesn’t change the facts. When a nation
is at war with a certain people it just makes sense to look at people who fit
the profile a little more closely. It
was that head-in-the-sand approach that got us killed on 9/11. Then Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta
strictly forbade any type of profiling.
One airline ticket agent said he checked a man in at his counter and a
chill ran down his spine. He said
everything about the man told him he was a terrorist but he had to “mentally
slap” himself and process the ticket anyway.
That man turned out to be Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11
hijackers.
It’s this continued naiveté that continually makes
us vulnerable. The Fort Hood terrorist
attack by Maj. Nidal Hasan is still officially logged as a “workplace shooting.” The mainstream media, in the wake of the
Boston Marathon bombing when we knew the suspects were Muslim, continued to
caution us not to jump to conclusions.
It’s conclusion-jumping that makes us safer.
Apparently, the Obama administration jumped to a
conclusion when it closed embassies in Muslim countries. They had intelligence indicating another “9/11-style”
terrorist attack and, to their credit, they acted accordingly. Which raises the interesting question of why
we still allow people who fit the profile from countries known to sponsor or
encourage terrorism into our country? We
can debate the NSA snooping and its merits in keeping us safe but much of it
would be totally unnecessary were we to simply take some common sense steps to
ensure that those most likely to kill us aren’t allowed into the country.
That’s not even counting the possibly hundreds of
thousands of people from terrorist-sponsored nations who have slipped into this
country under the cover of darkness across our southern border. While Congress is fixated on an amnesty
program they are completely ignoring the biggest threat to our country.
Hopefully, the all-out alert recently at our
embassies will be a wake-up call to the nation.
We cannot let our guard down. And
we cannot tip-toe around the political correctness of the threat. Not all Muslims are terrorists but most of
the terrorists these days are Muslim. To
ignore that fact is to leave us wide open to another attack.
We need to, first and foremost, secure our borders
and stop this nonsense about amnesty. We
also need to cancel visas from anyone who might fit the profile of a
terrorist. The risk is just too great.
It’s time we got serious about this terrorist threat. We’re never going to kill it completely,
especially overseas, but we certainly need to be taking every precaution here
in the U.S. Closing embassies is one
thing but what about the threat that’s already here? What do we do about that? In some senses it’s already too late. The back door has been left open for too
long. Sleeper cells are already here. At
the very least we should be profiling those who might already be members.
We ignore the truth at our own peril.
