HAYDEN AND SIMCOX: The terror that grows at home
The war against the West has breached America’s borders
By Michael V. Hayden and Robin Simcox
Details continue to emerge in the investigation of the deadly Boston Marathon blasts, which left three dead and more than 260 wounded. What is immediately clear is the need for security officials to undertake a careful review of the terrorist threat that exists on U.S. soil.
Much has changed since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, formed America’s modern terrorism experience. Those attacks were inspired by a foreign terrorist (Saudi Arabian) and conducted by foreign individuals (mainly Saudis) who planned the attack overseas (in Afghanistan). Terrorism came to be seen as an external threat that breached America’s borders.
The Boston bombings show that this is an increasingly outdated frame of reference. Unlike 9/11, the Boston terrorists were living next door and attacked from within. Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the United States as a teenager and held a green card. His brother Dzhokhar arrived as a child and subsequently became a U.S. citizen. ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/9/the-terror-that-grows-at-home/#ixzz2T5bEIifE
Many have commented that there are black and Latino neighborhoods in America that are like simmering insurgencies. As with Muslims, this is what happens when deeply different peoples and cultures try to coexist in one nation. Assimilation once worked, sort of, because the nation was overwhelmingly Western. But today America exists as if Chinese elites had decided that massive numbers of Somalis, Mexicans, Muslims, Italians, you name it, can be imported into China, with the ethnic Chinese being phased out, and Chinese civilization will continue sailing right along. As for our own elites, some are probably just being brainlessly fashionable, while others are purposely working for the destruction of Western civilization.
Posts
