Prez will likely skip best way to reduce homegrown terror attacks

     

       

 
“It’ll gradually dawn on people that we’ll be living for a long time with the possibility of low-level attacks that can never be predicted and can rarely be prevented.” - Bruce Jones, a former United Nations official and the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.

That inconvenient, disheartening truth is what makes President Obama's address tonight on ways to safeguard Americans from mass murder attacks from jihadi-inspired locals so difficult. He'll talk about extra screening at foreign airports, tighter visa scrutiny, reaching out to the Muslin community to self police; maybe even stronger gun control. What he won't talk about is how our endless 14-year war against Muslims in the Middle East is the likely biggest inspiration for homegrown attacks here. During that time we've dropped over 120,000 bombs on 7 Muslim countries, killing directly or indirectly over a million Muslims, and leading to 60 million seeking safer ground. The cost? $3.3 trillion and an endless supply of potential citizens right here in the US who'd like to engage in 'blowback', the inevitable consequence of that madness. 
 

The president should say tonight we'll stop all bombing. He should say we'll finally close the US gulag in Guantanamo. He should say we'll cease selling US made WMD to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States who use them for their involvement in the Sunni-Shi'ite civil war. He should say we'll cooperate with any country or peoples who seek non-violent, peaceful solutions in a region whose tribes and sects are simply re-drawing the artificial boundaries drawn by the West after World War 1. He should say America cannot afford to even consider electing a successor like some who call for massive carpet bombing of Muslims or other forms of self destructive insanity.

Until he says and does those things, America's road to ruin will continue apace.