This will be a short blog post. While most Americans want to forget the “forever wars” and move on, America’s adversaries remain steadfast in their determination to destroy us. We all need to put aside our domestic partisan gripes and remember that all of these foreign adversaries hate all of us, not just fervent MAGA Americans or flaming liberal Americans. ISIS and other radical Islamist terrorists have been regrouping since Biden withdrew all US troops from Afghanistan in 2021.
Early this morning a terrorist rammed a pick-up truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. 10 people reportedly were killed and dozens more injured. The driver has been identified as Shamsud Din Abbar and there are reports of an ISIS flag on the truck. As details roll out, it’s important to remember more attacks are likely and our porous border has allowed America’s enemies to flood in both fighters and military materiel.
Some Americans don’t want to think about radical Islamist terrorism and prefer to think of that as in the past. It’s very present and the threat we are facing, due to American leaders allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood into our country, puts us at more risk than even 9/10.
This isn’t a happy new year’s message, but it’s one I think every American needs to hear and take seriously. If we refuse to pay attention to this looming threat posed by our leaders’ failures to secure our borders, that increases our vulnerability
No matter how many ways politicians, left or right, try to spin our post 9/11 foreign policy, America lost the “global war on terror” and we lost in our policy objectives to spread democracy in the Muslim world, which hates us. In fact, all those failed policies fueled more radical Islamist terrorism.
Just so we’re all clear, the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel was a prelude for what the West will be facing too. That’s the reality check – the right who rants about no more forever wars or the left who blames America and makes excuses for radical Islamic terrorism – America has determined adversaries, both countries like Russia, China and Iran, but also a wide array of radical Islamist terrorists, still committed to “killing the Great Satan.” Situational awareness always matters.
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Oh LB, I worry you’re overly pessimistic. Don’t you recall the assurances we received back at the very beginning?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/27/jake-sullivan-biden-national-security-440814
And haven’t all those assurance panned out as promised?
Oh my JK, don’t get me started on Jake Sullivan. He was taking a victory lap on his great foreign policy in the ME right before October7th in a Foreign Affairs magazine op-ed. It had already gone to print, but that magazine allowed him to do a rewrite of his op-ed for their online edition. So a supposedly prestigious foreign policy publication ran two different versions of Sullivan’s op-ed in that edition. I bought that print version to keep for posterity sake, lol. That’s how the media establishment killed their credibility becoming Dem mouthpieces.
On X today, the New Orleans police chief’s bio was mentioned – she was fired as the Oakland Police Chief, even though she had been touted as their first female police chief. In August of 2024 she hit two children with her car while on duty, omg. She doesn’t exude competence so far and the FBI lady came out initially asserting it wasn’t terrorism, even though later today the FBI released a photo of an ISIS flag from the truck, at the scene. Doesn’t really inspire any trust in competence or credibility, so far.
Honestly the CAIR lobby had so much influence in Washington, that quickly after 9/11 our national security apparatus got co-opted by the Islamophobia lobbying. All along the FBI fixates more on not “inciting” Islamophobia than actually countering radical Islamist threats to Americans. Heck, the FBI left no stone unturned tracking down anyone who was at the Capitol on J-6, but somehow the same song and dance happens with radical Islamist terrorist attacks – the terrorist had been known to the FBI…
The FBI acts like they’d rather be tracking J-6, PTA parents, or Catholics rather than radical Islamist terrorists here in America. I was listening to a discussion by some journos & former national security peeps on X Spaces tonight. One of them was talking about different tentacles of this threat, beyond ISIS. He was talking about Hezbollah’s presence in South America and Mexico. And he mentioned that there’s another group of young men, who are kids of refugees here in the US, who aren’t joining ISIS or Al Qaeda, but are engaged in criminal gang activity.