THREAT?

Do we make too much of radical Islamic terrorism?  Is ISIS a threat to America?

The New York Times has an extensive ARTICLE entitled "How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe's Gaze".  They estimate that ISIS and their affiliates have murdered at least 650 people in Europe.

While that ghastly information tries to find a place in your brain, consider something else.  This LINK  lists the ISIS killings across the globe IN JUST THE LAST 30 DAYS.  Take a wild guess.  How many people would you think they could kill in a month?

There were Islamic terror attacks in 147 countries...1165 people were killed...and 3221 were injured.  That includes Sunday's attack in Lahore, Pakistan where the TARGET was innocent women and children in a playground on a warm Easter afternoon.  Really?  Over half the 70 deaths were children.

Who is this that comes to steal people's peace and kill the innocent?

The NYTimes article mentions the taxi driver who drove the Brussels bombers to the airport.  That driver said the bombers refused to let him help load their heavy bags, they sat in tense silence for the ride, and he noticed a strong odor wafting into the taxi from the trunk.

That strong odor that the Brussels taxi drive detected was the smell of death.  The people who want to kill have made it necessary for the people who want to live to think defensively.  If we are at war (and we are) and the enemy says they have infiltrated the immigrants (and they have), then it is folly to  flood our country any further as Europe has.  It cannot be smart to bring people here who hate our country, hate our religion, and hate our ways...and who have no plans to  assimilate.

We must employ smart immigration policy because we cannot afford to become Europe.

The one in charge of protecting us  has dragged his feet all along the way, still not naming the enemy and turning planes around to abort bombing missions.  He flings the door open wide for Muslim immigrants but denies Christians who are fleeing genocide.  His public comments (delivered with his "too cool for school" demeanor) would suggest that alarm about the JV is ridiculous.

My alarm centers on his inability to make an accurate threat assessment...while at the same time dealing with "bad guys", bad-mouthing our country when on foreign soil, and dancing while Brussels burned.

You may have heard that now he has actually said this death cult is NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT.  What the heck does "existential threat" mean if not that they threaten our existence?

Is he suggesting that ISIS doesn't want to eliminate the United States (or as they call us, "the great Satan").  Or would his assessment be that they are not able?  They have been able to terrorize Europe, Asia and Africa.

People intrinsically know that left unchecked, this threat is coming and is here.  We do not choose alarmism when we choose wisely.

Choosing strategic immigration policy is not a compassion-deficit, nor is it permanent.  Rather, it is a wartime choice to pragmatically recognize radical Islamic terrorism as an existential threat.  We must not be mesmerized by political correctness.

Wake up, America!