Joseph Lieberman is at it again. He teamed up this time with
Christian Beckner, intent once again on giving the administration advice
related to security matters. He, and a number of others like him, have been
doing this sort of thing for years; a span of time during which the Middle East
got into the predicament where it is today, and the North American Continent
saw itself get edgy.
The two men co-authored an article that came under the
title: “The Homegrown Jihadist Threat Grows” and the subtitle: “ISIS's online
recruitment is reaching into North America, yet the Obama administration still
has no strategy to fight it.” It was published on October 24, 2014 in the Wall
Street Journal. If Lieberman had any sense of what intellectual honesty stands
for, he would have written a more appropriate article under a title such as
this: “The Homegrown Jihadist Threat Grows, where did we all go wrong?” instead
of accusing the administration of lacking a strategy to fight it.
Lieberman and Beckner begin to lay out their view by citing
the story of the three teenage American girls that tried to join the Islamic
State. They, and many others, were attracted by “online predators … operating
the most sophisticated propaganda machine,” say the two authors, quoting other
people to reinforce their point.
And so they lament that “despite all this, the U.S. government
still has no strategy to counter ISIS's and al Qaeda's violent online
propaganda when it is directed at Americans.” But they quickly back off and
admit to the outreach program that several government agencies are running to
discuss the threat with community leaders. But then, Lieberman and Beckner add
that this is done “without a comprehensive strategy for countering the online
radicalization of U.S.
citizens.”
Well, do they offer a strategy of their own? No they don't.
Instead, they borrow the trick used extensively by the “Hate Obama Machine”
otherwise known as Fox News, and they throw a catalog of instances when they
believe that someone from the Obama administration (1) had said something, (2)
seems to have said something, or (3) gave the impression that the
administration was working on a comprehensive strategy or about to do so.
While discussing the subject in this tone, they reveal the
work that is being done by the administration, citing among others, the
creation of the “interagency Working Group to Counter Online Radicalization to
Violence.” And they lament once more that: “There is no evidence this new
Interagency Working Group has done anything.”
But what did they expect could have come out of that agency
if it had done something? They don't say what they expected. They, however,
pull another “Fox News” trick. They say what the interagency did not do: “it
did not look at the relationship between domestic and international
radicalization,” they say. Are these two clowns promising that if the
interagency did that, America 's
problems will be solved? No, they are not making this promise. After all, Fox
News is not here to solve problems; it is here to amplify America 's hatred for America … and this motivation is
now shared by Lieberman and Beckner.
Then – in the unmistakable style known to be vintage Jewish
– Lieberman and Beckner end the article by making a prediction and a false
promise: “the Obama administration should make this strategy a priority. That
would help the U.S. combat
the spread of violent Islamist ideology, and reduce the threat of homegrown
terrorist attacks in the U.S. ”
It is the same old KOOL Aid that brought the Middle East
to the predicament where it is today, and the North American Continent to the
edge.
Let me tell these two characters something they must never
forget. When, as a teenager, I went to Egypt with the family a year after
the armed assault on that country by the colonial powers of the day, there were
something like ten so-called pirate stations beaming hate propaganda against
the country and its president Gamal Abdel Nasser. That was in addition to the
BBC, the Israeli and French stations. They did nothing to turn the people
against their country because the people felt that their country was not trying
to fool them.