Vincent J. Curtis
20 Sept 2016
In contrast to the press session on her aircraft, when she
looked “like a zoo animal that had been hit with a tranquilizer dart,”
yesterday Hillary looked well-rested and bland as she calmly and cold-bloodedly
told reporters that Donald Trump’s rhetoric is “giving aid and comfort to our
adversaries.”
Luckily, nobody asked Hillary that if Trump’s hateful rhetoric
is a recruiting tool, how much more a recruiting tool is Obama’s bombing
campaign against them? Isn’t actual
bombing more offensive than mere talk?
Hillary’s thesis is that because Donald Trump wants to halt
Muslim immigration, or at least to impose ‘extreme vetting’ on Muslim immigrants
and refugees from Muslim civil wars, that ISIS is using such rhetoric to
recruit adherents. Hillary even cited
retired Air Force General Michael Hayden to say that Trump was a “recruiting
sergeant” for ISIS. Hence, in a way, it
is Donald Trump who is responsible for terrorist attacks in the United States -
because he inflames Muslim feelings.
Hillary campaign spokesliar Brian Fallon weighed in, “For
most of his campaign, Donald Trump has made dangerous and irresponsible statements
that experts say play directly into the hands of ISIS and its perverse
ideology.” In plainer English, Fallon
was arguing that Trump should just ‘shut up’ - a standard progressivist tactic in
the middle of a political campaign. Fallon
doesn’t want to win the argument, he wants to close the argument. Well, at least Fallon didn’t use Obama’s
increasingly odd formulation, “ISIL.”
The media coverage of Hillary’s accusation focussed,
naturally, on the content of the accusation and neglected its larger
implication. The ‘aid and comfort’ line
nobody seriously believes, not even Hillary.
And if Hillary does believe it, then that is more proof of her unfitness
for office. The 'stronger together candidate' felt she needed to
dump another bucket of manure over Trump’s head, and the terrorist attacks in
New York – New Jersey and Minnesota provided as good an occasion as any.
Acts of domestic terrorism by Muslims in America, especially
Muslim immigrants, plays into Trumps campaign theme of security, law and order,
and bringing order and control to America’s borders. If a terrorist cannot get into the United
States, he can’t carry out a terrorist attack in the United States. If entry to the United States is made
orderly, and common sense measures such as profiling and special attention being
paid to migrants from certain countries, then America ought to be made safer.
But the Obama-Clinton policy can’t abide by common sense
thinking. That policy holds that America
reduces Muslim hostility by allowing greater Muslim immigration to America,
opening her citizens’ breasts to a knife-thrust by the bad-apples who come in,
and trusting that they won’t take advantage.
America needs to prove to the Islamic world that she is at war with
radicalism, not with Islam per se, and does so by exposing the breasts of her
citizens. The incoherence of this
position is glossed over by saying that opposition to it amounts to
Islamophobia, or, in Trump’s case, giving aid and comfort to terrorists.
Hillary’s bucket of manure was an attempt to thwart the
power of Trump’s argument, or at least to make him seem like the guy who
shouldn’t be one implementing it.
In fact, ISIS doesn’t care a ‘flying fatwa’ about what
American politicians say, or American elections. ISIS came into being because the American
withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 provided space for it to grow and no one to nip it
in the bud. Its fundamentalist ideology
combined with its military successes are what gives it recruiting appeal. As ISIS says in its own literature to the
West, “The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us,
torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate
you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you
embrace Islam.”
To say that America has to prove something to the Islamic
world that it is fighting extremism and not Islam per se, fundamentally
misunderstands Islam, and even human nature.
Muslims are human beings before they are Muslims, and as human beings
they ought to understand that if you attack a powerful person, expect a return
blow. To Muslims, there is no ‘radical’
Islam, there is only Islam, and Muslims are notorious complainers about the
West. (“If it’s not colonialism, it’s
the crusades.” Said George W. Bush in an unguarded moment.)
I can understand why Obama does what he does, but Hillary
has no excuses. If she thinks that
unlimited immigration from the Muslim world is what America needs, and what the
world needs to do to end the civil wars in the Muslim world, then she is one at
sea, she is the one who is manifestly is not up to the job of being president
of the United States.
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