Last Friday Paris took center stage of the world by being the location chosen by the terrorists for their latest round of attacks on the Western World. We were on our break in the company commissary that afternoon as the news of the attacks were breaking. We knew that a lot of people were killed and that there were anywhere from three to seven attacks. As better news was known, the impact was not lessened, and for the first time since 1944 France instituted a night time curfew and they closed their borders.
ISIS has since claimed responsibility for the attacks. ISIS has been something of a household word for several months now and does not appear to be of any immediate concern of the White House. President Obama told the nation several hours before the attack that they were "contained", which really isn't much of an improvement over a comment made several months earlier where he described them as "junior varsity".
The French, to their credit, are doing something about this. Several airstrikes have been launched and the Russians are joining them in this. The French are retaliating, and in my mind are positively adding to their reputation. Unfortunately they may be locking the barn door a little too late since they let in a bunch of people that they shouldn't have, but they're doing something about it.
The White House response so far, has been token strikes against ISIS targets, but simultaneously they are accelerating efforts to bring in more so-called refugees from Syria. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that this is what got France into trouble in the first place.......letting people in without properly vetting them. One of today's Drudge headlines is eight Syrians being caught at the Texas border and another headline is fifteen terrorists getting US citizenship. This kind of response is bizarre to say the least, but I'm also disturbed by something else.
Newly elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is calling for a "pause" to admitting Syrian refugees. Please dwell on that for a few minutes. He's not calling for this to be "stopped". He's calling for a "pause". This suggests that after some time has elapsed, that it's going to "resume". Speaker Ryan, who I once thought highly of, is a member of that Republican elite that stated several years ago that they want President Obama to "succeed". They have never backed down on this. Oh, they want you to think that they're going to oppose him, but they only want you to think that in even-numbered years when they're running for re-election. They show their true colors once re-elected, and they not only enable Obama to "succeed", they help him carry that football over the goal line.
"Pause". Does that make sense? Terrorists are trying to get in, and the answer is "pause"?
So, while France retaliates, and doesn't wait for a U.N. resolution to tell them that they can do this, our leadership is essentially doing nothing to make our nation more secure.
As I said to a co-worker on Friday afternoon, I now say to you: look at what happened in France.
It's coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
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