Real Threats

Mike Swetnam / Potomac Institute

I keep hearing from “experts” that ISIL is not a large current threat to our homeland.  One commentator on the Sunday talk shows, a former Deputy Secretary of State, stated that they were not really an Al Qaeda-type group, they were more a conventional force that did not really threaten our homeland.

This is total disillusionment at the extreme!  Not even before 9/11 did we so under estimate a severe and major threat to our homeland.  ISIL states publicly every opportunity they get that they will come the to west, the USA and Europe; that our streets will flow with blood.  Yet, in the past week the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center both stated publically that ISIL poses only a limited threat to the homeland.

I remember all too well statements by almost all government officials prior to 9/11 that AQ posed no real threat to the US.  Yet, thousands died on 9/11!  I suspect thousands will again die before our ‘head-in-the-sand’ leaders get the true nature of this global threat.

When are we at risk?  When you combine leadership that believes there is a small threat with a dedicated and fanatical enemy focused on showing us to be weak and stupid.  All too often we play into the hands of these enemies by being stupid.

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