Tel-Chai Nation

Daniel Greenfield's got a vital point that Islamic terrorism cannot be mainstream, and what the precise historical mistakes were that enabled it to occur:

In 2025, Hamas and Hezbollah flags became regular sights on Ivy League college campuses, a Muslim immigrant who embraced an unindicted coconspirator in bombing plots in New York City became its mayor, presidential envoys chatted with Hamas and an Al Qaeda leader who used to have a $10 million reward on his head visited the White House and met with the president.

The mainstreaming of Islamic terrorism didn’t happen overnight. A decade ago, the Obama administration backed the Al Qaeda militias that would eventually go on to take over Syria and first forced Israel to negotiate with Hamas after the kidnapping and murder of three teens.

What went on under the cover of plausible deniability a decade ago, where our government pretended we were backing the Free Syrian Army, a ‘democratic’ and ‘secular’ movement, (which critics like me pointed out was just Al-Qaeda in drag), or where our negotiators did not directly meet with Hamas, where anti-Israel campus groups claimed that they supported BDS rather than mass murder, and Muslim politicians denied they were terrorists, is out in the open.

How we got here was inevitable once American leaders responded to 9/11 by trying to draw distinctions between good Islamization and bad Islamization, between moderates and extremists, between good terrorists and bad terrorists in the hopes of dividing our enemies.

The false ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’ paradigm, which no Muslim leader or movement ever actually accepted, didn’t divide up Islamic terrorists, it mainstreamed them. We lost the ability to draw lines and with it any larger sense of who we were, who they were and what we had set out to accomplish by fighting them until all we wanted to do was find someone to surrender to.

What the Dubya administration set in motion is precisely what enabled Democrat politicians to drive the car wreck to where we are now. It will not help at all. On the subject of the embarrassment with Syria's new despot, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Daniel N. Hoffman also notes:

Among other things, the CIA is tracking the Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip; Russia’s war on Ukraine; China’s ubiquitous espionage, nuclear buildup and threats against Taiwan; North Korea’s growing supply of weapons of mass destruction; Iran’s ballistic missile production, nuclear program and material support to proxy terrorists; and narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean and from Mexico.

By far the national security threat with the shortest fuse, which we must detect and preempt with the greatest alacrity, continues to be terrorism.

The U.S. military and intelligence community have a presence in the Middle East and an impressive record of finding, fixing and finishing terrorist threats, often in coordination with our regional allies. Yet Afghanistan, a failed terrorist state full of ungoverned space and sanctuary for the Islamic State group and al Qaeda terrorists plotting against us, presents an altogether greater challenge.

When I served as a station chief in a South Asian war zone, my CIA colleagues and I held repeated and sometimes heated conversations with Pakistani government officials over Pakistan’s material support to the Afghan Taliban, with which we were at war, and the Haqqani network, which the U.S. had designated a terrorist organization. Even after the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, launched a barbaric terrorist attack on the Peshawar school in 2014, killing 132 children, the Pakistani government persisted in its doomed strategy. The Afghan Taliban, of course, eagerly welcomed Pakistan’s assistance and provision of sanctuary space inside Pakistan, which severely complicated and restricted the government of Afghanistan’s counterinsurgency strategy.

The Afghan Taliban is now providing sanctuary to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has a long history of conducting terrorist attacks and suicide bombings against Pakistani government officials, civilians and the military. From base camps in Afghanistan, TTP conducts operational training and plans terrorist attacks against Pakistan with impunity.

[...] Dealing with the terrorist threat in Afghanistan is now squarely on the shoulders of President Trump. The Americans who voted for him expected his administration to chart a new course to ensure our country’s safety and security. Afghanistan, to paraphrase former CIA Director George Tenet’s pre-9/11 warnings, is “blinking red.”

[...] The Trump administration, especially our military and intelligence community, should be clear with the American people and congressional oversight about the threat picture in Afghanistan, especially the growing external operations capabilities of al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. The administration should have a strategy to take the fight to the enemy, preferably with as small a U.S. military footprint as possible.

Well so long as excuses are made for the Religion of Peace continuing to be used as a "learning" tool, that's why it will not be enough to simply take the fight to enemy. They have to make clear raising their subjects on Islam cannot continue, and that different religions with better values must be accepted as replacements instead. But so far, it doesn't look like the Trump administration will do that, and it's regrettable.

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