If we could do it all over again, after 9/11 we would've plotted our response by first studying the enemy and knowing his threat doctrine. Over time, we explicitly forbade that, purging materials that described what jihadists believe, why they believe it thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Since 9/11 was, on a practical level, an immigration failure, we would've frozen immigration, put in place laws to ensure Islamists and aiders/abettors/enablers couldn't. Instead, since '01 we've imported immigrants from majority-Muslim countries en masse thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Foreign-born terrorists have continued to perpetrate attacks against America, and now we learn that an estimated hundred Afghan evacuees have been flagged for terror ties. What rational/sane country would respond as we have? thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Since the strong horse rules in the Islamic world (h/t @LeeSmithDC), we would've responded to 9/11 w overwhelming force in select situations as a signal to anyone who would dare endanger us, or harbor 'em, that threats will be mercilessly eliminated thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
We got mired in an endless/obviously futile project to make Islamic states bastions of Jeffersonian democracy. In our PC, sheer naïveté, and useful idiocy, we even changed the name of the original operation so as not to offend Islamist sensibilities thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Since 9/11 our worst enemies could've asked for nothing more than what we've given — expending maximum blood & treasure in pursuit of goals that were ever-shifting & unreachable, if identified. We frittered away dominant geopolitical position, China rose thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Since 9/11 we created a raft of NatSec and intel powers that have been turned on Americans who would dare to raise Ruling Class criticisms. Perhaps the worst mistake our enemy goaded us into is diminishing liberty and justice thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
How should we honor the fallen 20 years on from 9/11? We should be America once again — not a decadent, woke, rump kowtower to a gulag state; not a briber of mullocrats that bends over backwards to appease 7th century throat-slitters... thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Honoring the fallen since 9/11 (amazingly) means not putting our warriors through struggle sessions, making them social workers/babysitters in hellholes, asking that they do it all while hamstrung w suicidal rules of engagement that privilege their enemies thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
Honoring the fallen means once again being a nation that cultivates excellence; that instills in its people confidence; that creates patriots. America — exceptional in the history of mankind — must be loved, cherished, and defended thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
America is a great country. It needs defending. On our current trajectory, there'll be little left to defend, and even fewer left willing to defend it. Those who've died over these last 20 yrs must not have died in vain. Let us honor them with how we live thefederalist.com/2021/09/10/wha…
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