Most,
if not all, of the presidential candidates participating in the two Fox
News Channel debates on January 28 told us that as president of the
United States they would destroy the Islamic State, ISIS. They only
differed somewhat in their operational concepts to achieve that end.
Not one of them, however, discussed the overarching strategic question
of the “What Next?” How would each prepare a strategy to deal with a
Middle East featuring an ascendant Jihadist, terrorist, nuclear
expansionist Shiia Iran? Due to American success against ISIS, the
mullahs would be unchallenged on the ground by significant Sunni
forces. To be fair to the candidates, the moderators never asked this
all-important question.
The Islamic State is a self-declared 7th Century Islamic Caliphate in the form of a 21st Century Islamist supremacist state. We know the horrors its adherents are inflicting on Christians and other non-Muslim populations which fall into its grasp -- and on the many Muslims with a different interpretation of Islam from theirs. Together with the many other groups which are practitioners of the Worldwide Jihad, ISIS is inspiring home grown Jihadists in the United States, many of them American citizens, many of them converts to Islam.
Islamic Jihadist terrorism is growing in the West, including in the United States. More and more Americans recognize that their current federal government has demonstrated no effective strategy to protect them from terrorist attacks here. They also recognize that our first responders, despite their best intentions, cannot respond quickly enough to save us from terrorist attacks. So Americans are buying guns to protect themselves and their families, and are learning how to use them. This is an individual, defense-only, strategy.
The Islamic State is a self-declared 7th Century Islamic Caliphate in the form of a 21st Century Islamist supremacist state. We know the horrors its adherents are inflicting on Christians and other non-Muslim populations which fall into its grasp -- and on the many Muslims with a different interpretation of Islam from theirs. Together with the many other groups which are practitioners of the Worldwide Jihad, ISIS is inspiring home grown Jihadists in the United States, many of them American citizens, many of them converts to Islam.
Islamic Jihadist terrorism is growing in the West, including in the United States. More and more Americans recognize that their current federal government has demonstrated no effective strategy to protect them from terrorist attacks here. They also recognize that our first responders, despite their best intentions, cannot respond quickly enough to save us from terrorist attacks. So Americans are buying guns to protect themselves and their families, and are learning how to use them. This is an individual, defense-only, strategy.
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