THE CONTINENTAL TERROR BASE...
I can fully understand that one of the biggest threats to US security may now come from within Europe, as US Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff has told the BBC. He said militant attacks and plots in Europe over recent years had made the US aware of the "real risk that Europe will become a platform for terrorists".
However he is wrong! "Will" is the wrong tense. Europe HAS already become a vast floating platform for Islamic terrorism. How could it be otherwise with the tsunami of Muslim immigrants that has flooded Europe - most of which (in UK terms anyway) seem to have been uncontrolled. I know that European security agencies are doing their best to save our necks and I think we have to commend them insofar as that goes. It's the POLITICIANS that are the problem, the pathetic Euro-dhimmis who wish to pretend that Islam is our friend and that Jihadism is not something to worry about. Europe has a real problem centred on the refusal of the political elite to want to confront and defeat militant Islam.
That means that significant cells of Islamic terrorism can grow and plans can be hatched. Naturally the US must see itself as a target, as Chertoff claims, however I happen to think that Islamic killers will be just as happy to slaughter us on the streets of Paris, or Rome, or London. (As already proven) The European political elite are the real obstackle here and I'm not sure that they are capable of rising to the challenge to stop Europe being one vast inculcator for Jihadism. At least until the body count gets higher.
David Vance
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>>"real risk that Europe will become a platform for terrorists".<<
Maybe he's been reading ATW and fears a second Oklahoma.
Mohammad Atta and other 9/11 perps were based in Hamburg so this is not new. But I agree that they're more likely to attack in Europe in the short term anyway. Several terror plots have been uncovered in Germany and elsewhere within the past two years, including the Eiffel Tower only this week.
David,
"Naturally the US must see itself as a target, as Chertoff claims, however I happen to think that Islamic killers will be just as happy to slaughter us on the streets of Paris, or Rome, or London."
Which should be equally fine with the US - after all having people (including Americans, but mainly Iraqis) be slaughtered abroad rather than in the US was apparently the strategy in Iraq.
Haven't you also said you'd rather fight them there than here? So what's the difference if it is in Paris or Rome rather than Iraq? Are the Iraqis more expendable?
Well Frank, to an American or Briton or anybody really, foreigners are more expendable than one's own people. BTW Frank, who are your own people, if any?
The US should definitely put Europe up there on the Axis of Evil.
Hi,
My name is Lauren and I am with the BBC World Service, on the programme World Have Your Say, an international discussion show. We are doing a show today based on the US believing that Europe is a terrorism threat. We would love to hear your opinion on this matter. The show will be today and you could appear by phone. Please contact me back if you're interested. I can be reached by email at lin.liu@bbc.co.uk or you can call +44 2075570635
Thanks,
Lauren
Thanks for the notice, Lauren. Seeing as you'd 'love to hear' opinion on this, I assume you were addressing the Leftists hereabouts.
Pete Moore
Your're real well-balanced, seeing as you have a chip on both shoulders.
Noel, that was a boneheaded comment. It's only been repeated 10,000 times by left when trying to make the lame "white unreligious men commit terrorism too!" argument.
You folks have a problem with radical islamism in your midst and because of your (collective) raging fear of appearing racist or intolerant, you refuse to deal with it or even acknowledge it in some cases.
If I could trust the competency of my government to keep terrorists out, or illegals for that matter, I would shrug my shoulders and not give another it thought. Just another European self induced problem.
>>that was a boneheaded comment. It's only been repeated 10,000 times by left<<
Daphne, how long does it take after a Romney victory before you get your sense of humour back?
>>raging fear of appearing racist or intolerant, you refuse to deal with it or even acknowledge it in some cases.<<
I, and I'm sure nobody else who refuses to get paranoid without due cause, am not afraid of appearing racist or intolerant.