The Patriot Post® · Obama's Terror Failures

In the past 24 hours, we have learned a lot more about New York City bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami.

His ex-wife says he hates America, the military and homosexuals.

He has a criminal record, including a domestic dispute.

His father says he called the FBI to warn his son was radicalized.

He made multiple trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan. On one trip, he married a new wife. She left the United States days ago and is currently being held in the United Arab Emirates. Remember the wife of the Orlando shooter? She disappeared too.

One of his brothers posted this on Facebook: “I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.” That’s a quote from Khalid al-Walid, one of Muhammad’s generals.

Yet with all these markers the FBI did not have Ahmad Khan Rahami on a watch list.

The first temptation is to excoriate the FBI because this is not the agency’s first failure. There were warnings about the Tsarnaev brothers. They were interviewed.

There were warnings about the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen. The FBI interviewed him too.

But it’s not the FBI’s fault. They have an almost impossible job. We’ve been told there are ISIS investigations going on in every state.

Yet the Obama/Biden/Kerry/Clinton administration, their left-wing media allies and, sadly, even some elements of the Republican Party have continued to bring in hundreds of thousands of people who may be fertile recruiting ground for Islamic supremacists. While we may catch some, we are not going to be able to catch every Islamic supremacist.

So what do we do? Continue bringing in more potential jihadists? Not unless we want to end up like France, which has 15,000 jihadis roaming the country.

Donald Trump is right. Immigration security is national security. We have got to call a time out until we can figure out how to identify the potential murderers.

If we don’t, we are all going to end up living in a police state. There will be more demands for more law enforcement if these attacks continue. I urge our libertarian friends to join us and jettison the idiotic idea that people should be able to freely cross borders in an age of Islamic supremacist terror.

Hard Decisions?

Hillary Clinton told reporters [Monday], “I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield.” In other words, Hillary is claiming that she has made the “hard decision” to kill terrorists.

Well, first of all, as secretary of state, she didn’t make those decisions. But more importantly, in what world is that a hard decision to make? Please, Mrs. Clinton, explain to us why you found taking out terrorists such a hard call.

And while she’s at it, Hillary should explain to the American people why she and Obama made the idiotic decision to send terrorists we already had in Gitmo back to the battlefield.

Tough Hillary

Donald Trump ripped into Hillary Clinton [Monday] during a rally in Florida. Trump said:

“Hillary talks tougher about my supporters than she does Islamic terrorists… She called patriotic Americans who support our campaign … deplorable and irredeemable… Has she ever talked that way about radical Islam? No. Or about those who murder women and gays overseas? Has Hillary Clinton ever called people who support these practices deplorable and irredeemable? No!”

The Clinton News Network

Talk show host Laura Ingraham said [Tuesday] morning that CNN is acting like a pro-Clinton super PAC. She is right.

Sunday CNN removed words from Hillary’s statement so they could attack Donald Trump for saying a bomb had gone off in New York City while pretending that Hillary had not said the same thing.

[Monday] CNN added a word to a Trump statement. During an interview with Fox News Trump suggested we should adopt profiling. CNN then ran headlines such as this one: “Donald Trump Defends Racial Profiling In Wake Of Bombs.”

There’s just one problem with that headline: Trump never used the word “racial” in his Fox interview.

What Trump is talking about is profiling based on behavior and demographics. That is what Israel does because it works.

By the way, the left-wing media are melting down today over … Skittles.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.” It’s a very reasonable point. Hundreds of immigrants have been charged with terror-related offenses in this country.

Polling tells us that significant percentages of people in Muslim nations harbor extreme views. If 100 people come from a culture that promotes extremism, how many would have to be jihadists before society decides not to let the 100 in? It’s just common sense.

But then again, Hillary and her allies are at war with common sense on issue after issue.

The Pro-Life Candidate

For many voters, the sanctity of life is a paramount issue. Hillary Clinton has been very clear about her pro-abortion extremism.

Pro-life voters should be reassured about Donald Trump’s commitment to life. First and foremost, he chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his running mate.

In addition, the Trump campaign has announced the formation of a Pro-life Coalition, and I am honored to serve as one of the co-chairmen of this advisory group. In announcing this new coalition, Donald Trump once again pledged his commitment to the following critical issues:

• Nominating pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Signing legislation ending painful late-term abortions.

• Defunding Planned Parenthood.

• Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.

You can read his letter here.