The other day George Will said no matter how cynical we become, we can’t keep up. I believe that describes this administration perfectly. Now there appears to be an imminent threat and we don’t even have a plan to deal with it. Great Britain issued the highest possible security level. Experts are saying the threat here in the United States is even higher, yet we are doing close to nothing about it.
The following article from National Review Online is nothing short of chilling:
Here is part of what Obama said:
“I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” “I think what I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggest that folks are getting a little further ahead of what we’re at than what we currently are.”
Obama not only doesn’t have a plan, he doesn’t appear to think a plan is required. If you still have the faintest hope that Obama is up to the job of being President of the United States it is either time to stop drinking, stop smoking pot, and/or stop watching MSNBC. Even CNN, CBS and NBC are reluctantly admitting we have a problem.
The threat may be even more severe than we thought. According to Judicial Watch:
“Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
Specifically, Judicial Watch sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.
What is frightening is that this is just what has been reported. The most serious threats are likely to be those we don’t anticipate. For example, no one predicted al Qaeda using suicide pilots to deliberate crash airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. All we know for sure is that ISIS is extremely brutal and is more than willing to inflict mass casualties. We know that ISIS now has access to enormous funds. We know that ISIS has several “volunteers” from Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Now it appears as though we know ISIS has some presence at or near the Texas Border.
Incredibly, we may have responded to this by telling our only line of defense that the situation is so dangerous they should just avoid the area. What if we accidentally shot a terrorist?
Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting.
I pray that Obama has got this right and there is no significant risk. I pray that Judicial Watch has grossly exaggerated this and that the problem is not nearly this extreme. But I fear that the opposite is true. They say history repeats itself and I believe that is true. On May 7, 1939 Leo Amery said the following to Neville Chamberlain:
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
In reality, America was quoting Oliver Cromwell’s words spoken to Parliament on April 20, 1653. They seem even more appropriate today.
By the way, on May 10, 1939 Hitler invaded the Low Countries and France. By then things were so awful that even Neville Chamberlain figured it out and resigned. He was replaced with Winston Churchill.
TDM