Brussels still on lockdown
The Paris attacks did not accomplish all the terrorists’ goals. They had big plans for mass murder at the stadium, and perhaps even the assassination of the president of France. In that, the day resembled 9/11, where one of the hijacked airplanes was taken down by its passengers before it reached its likely Washington DC destination.
Despite that, both operations were a big success in terms of numbers of people killed (France being a smaller country than the US, the numbers killed there were even bigger than they might initially seem), shock and fear throughout the Western world, and jubilation among Muslim jihadis and their sympathizers. The more long-term repercussions from 9/11—the War on Terror, plus the Afghanistan and the Iraq wars—have been difficult for the terrorists, but thanks to the West’s decline and the influence of the left (two linked phenomena), jihadis have overcome that and strengthened their forces and influence lately.
So not only were the terrorist attacks in Paris wildly successful in those ways, but the continuing post-attack disruption of Brussels, one of the major capitals of the Western world, must be an extra source of tremendous jihadi joy. Brussels is not just a big European city, and home to many Muslim immigrants and their offspring, it is also a center for numerous international organizations of the Western world and what passes for international governing bodies. This list tells you some of them: NATO, for example, also Eurocontrol and many UN agencies. It is also the de facto capital of the EU, being the official seat of “the European Commission, Council of the European Union, and European Council, as well as a seat (officially the second seat but de facto the most important one) of the European Parliament” (more here).
The fact that a city of this magnitude and importance on a world scale can be so easily hog-tied is disturbing. I don’t have a solution—it’s not that I think it should be business as usual there right now. My solution would have been the obvious one of not letting the situation get to this point; for example, better police work and less denial, and a different immigration policy, to begin with. Now a city like Brussels is playing catch-up, and that’s a lot more difficult, particularly since its city government is particularly Balkanized and inefficient.
It’s also difficult to play catch-up when you refuse to admit that unfettered immigration from countries that are the seat of Islamic terrorism is a stupid, self-defeating policy.
Until liberals in the west realize that this policy is suicidal we will not get the upper hand in this battle. We are just importing 5th columnists.Pray that Hilary, who has been bought by the Arab states (ok, perhaps she’s only been rented) is not elected.
Pray that Hilary, who has been bought by the Arab states (ok, perhaps she’s only been rented) is not elected.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll out yesterday asked Americans if they would trust Clinton or one of five Republican candidates more. She led Trump 50% to 42%, Carson 49% to 40%, Ted Cruz 47% to 40%, and Marco Rubio 47% to 43% and Jeb Bush at 46% to 43%.
And it looks like security is going to be the number one issue next year. We are doomed.
I meant to say the poll asked who they’d trust more on handling the threat of terrorism.
Ann:
Recent Fox News poll has virtually all the GOP candidates beating Hillary.
People are fickle. It’s early yet.
France didn’t like our enhanced interrogation output? Well now they’re getting their just desserts, let’s see how much info they can extract from terrorists that aren’t easy to capture.
I also hear that local Belgian politicians run their cities/districts like fiefdoms. Brussels is like San Francisco in its “sanctuary” status under recalcitrant leftists like Gavin Newsom.
The first step to cleaning up the mess is coming down hard on the malcontent politicians. They either get on the team, or get steamrolled (maybe arrested).
It’s too late for Europe, the fat lady is waiting in the wings. They sense it but are still in denial. By the time that its liberal/leftist public awakens to reality, resistance… will be futile.
The UK’s Rotherdam, Oslo – rape capital of the West, France’s no-go zones… Europe gave up long ago. They simply refuse to admit the truth. Reality will disabuse them of their illusions and delusions.
The sheep have defanged their sheepdogs. The Islamic wolf will not be merciful.
Resistance is never futile, since after all, the French can buy the American Civil War 2 time to finish, instead of handing their nuclear reactors over to the terrorists.
People have avoided thinking “long term” strategically.
Europe has been under Islamic slave raids and Viking raids for centuries. About 300-400 years for the vikings and 1350 years for Islamic jihad.
If epigenetics is correct, the European Ultras will awaken and hold something at least.
“Resistance is never futile”
The ability to resist is not at issue, it is the will to resist that is at question.
Certainly some Europeans will resist mightily. The ‘wild card’ is how badly will European PC, pacifistic, civilizational guilt driven self-hate… hamstring European resistance to the Islamic jihad…
Europe may well stop jihadists but left unchecked, demographic birth rates spell her doom. The same ultimately applies to every Western nation.
They’ll need their own civil war to purge the collaborators and traitor scum, just as the US will need it.
After that, then extrapolations can be projected and made. Right now, things are chaotic and full of potential.
Tourist dollars will be a bit short for the next few years…
“The fact that a city of this magnitude and importance on a world scale can be so easily hog-tied is disturbing.” Yes it is, and Americans don’t seem to find it so, which is even more disturbing.
I’ve been trying to remember where I recently read a statement that Europe won World War II but died anyway, and maybe we did too. Does that sound familiar to anyone? I wonder about that a lot.
Gail Finke:
The idea is familiar but I have no idea where I might have read it. I’ve seen it said many times, especially about Great Britain in particular.
Actually, though, I think it was WWI rather than WWII that did it. World War II was just the death throes. Here’s a post I wrote about the influence of WWI.