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Hello Friends,

The question arises again and again what can we do to stop Radical Islam and their nefarious jihadi terrorist attacks? Obviously the answers are actions not taken in the past in order to prevent further terrorist acts.

In this climate of political correctness and the agenda of B Hussein who implores us not to "jump to conclusions" it seems that we better flush Political Correctness down the drain and become extremely politically incorrect.

Let's start calling a spade a spade and not make up names for actions any thinking person knows is terrorism. As uncomfortable as it might sound and be profiling should become part and parcel of the system in order to better protect the innocents from further jihadi terrorist attacks.

Newt Gringrich wrote an interesting article on this very subject and well worth the read.

Shalom,

Peter

On Terrorism it's Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate

by Newt Gingrich

12/30/2009

After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions.

Overeight years after 9/11 and 30 years after the Iranian illegal seizureof the United States embassy and the 444 day Iranian hostage crisis,Washington is still avoiding being intellectually honest about the warwe are in.

Our Politically Correct Government is Making Life More Miserable For the Innocent

Americais long overdue for a serious global strategy that includes targetingthreats such as the terrorist killer at Fort Hood, the individualsrecently arrested in Detroit, Denver and New York, and the fiveAmericans detained in Pakistan.

The scale, persistence and sophistication of the enemy requires an honesty, a clarity, and a scale appropriate to the response.

Onceagain, instead of targeting the source of the threats, our politicallycorrect government decides to make life more miserable for thetravelling public by imposing hopelessly meaningless rules such as notallowing passengers to leave their seats in the last hour of theflight. Bound by cultural sensitivities, the default reaction of thebureaucracy is to review the procedures and wring its handsineffectively.

Today, because our elites fear politicallyincorrect honesty, they believe that it is better to harass theinnocent, delay the harmless, and risk the lives of every American thanto do the obvious, the effective, and the necessary.

It’s Time to Be Honest About What We Know

Before a lot more Americans are killed we must acquire the courage to tell the truth and to act on that truth.

It is time to be honest about what we know.

We know our opponents are radical extremists of the irreconcilable wing of Islam (Islamists, some would call them).

Weknow they have an ideology which is anti-female, desires to imposefundamentalist Sharia as a form of law, is hostile to other religionsand is prepared to kill the innocent to achieve their goals.

We know how to identify these enemies but our elites have refused to do so.

Protecting the Rights of Terrorists Has Been More Important than Protecting the Lives of Americans

In the Obama Administration, protecting the rights of terrorists has been more important than protecting the lives of Americans.

That must now change decisively.

Itis time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile forterrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terroristinformation.

TheUnited States should track down the owners of every website thatpromotes terrorism and systematically root them out. It should be asdangerous to a person promoting terrorism as it is to execute an act ofterrorism.

The same should apply to the electroniccommunications of every known radical (and using these communicationsto track down every unknown radical).

The United States Must Actively Root Out Every Terrorist Website

Thepeople behind these websites should be barred from getting a U.S. visaif not in the United States (concurrently, we should make it easier --not harder -- for non-terrorists to get visas because we want toencourage the law abiding while discriminating against the potentialterrorist).

An integrated data base for threats should have been expected, we now learn that it does not exist. This must be fixed.

Itshould be reasonable for the flying public to have expected that whenthe Nigerian terrorist's father reported he was going to a terroristtraining camp he should automatically have been barred from getting avisa and from flying into the United States.

We Need a “Grand National Strategy” That is Bigger Than the Debate Over Afghanistan

Theemergence of Yemen as the new planning, equipping, and training centerfor terrorism should remind us we need a worldwide "grand nationalstrategy" (to use the World War II term) that is far bigger than ourcurrent debate over Afghanistan.

Americans should also note that ABC News is reporting thattwo of the plotters to blow the Amsterdam to Detroit flight out of theair were released from Guantanamo in 2007, attended an “artrehabilitation program” in Saudi Arabia, were released and took upsenior leadership positions in al Qaeda in Yemen. Americans shouldalso know that nearly half of the remaining detainees in Guantanamo arefrom Yemen.

The recent arrest of five Americans in Pakistanand the report there are 25 British citizens training to be bombers inYemen should remind us this is a global war.

Moreover, thereport that 74 Guantanamo detainees who have been released are back inthe war trying to kill Americans should stop any further effort toclose Guantanamo or to release terrorists.

The New Honesty Should End Any Thought of a Civilian Trial in New York for KSM

Thisnew honesty about the threat should end any thought of a civilian trialin New York for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad with its dangersfor exposing American intelligence information. All terroristsincluding would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should be tried inmilitary tribunals as part of a serious war strategy.

TheAttorney General and every Justice Department appointee whose law firmsprovided pro bono counsel for terrorists should be fired and replacedwith lawyers who believe the lives of Americans are more important thanthe rights of terrorists.

The United States must have apolicy of effective interrogation to understand our enemies and disrupttheir planned attacks (read Marc Thiessen’s column from yesterday).

We Need a New Homeland Security Secretary Who Knows We Need a New Strategy

Secretaryof Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's claim that the Detroit bomberwas allowed to board a plan with explosives hidden in his underwearproved the system worked is proof we need a new Homeland SecuritySecretary who knows we need a new strategy and a new focus.

These are the first steps toward defeating the extremists.

We should take them before there is a tragic attack that kills a lot of people.

We have been warned. Again.

Will we now act?

Your friend,