Yes, It’s Terrorism. Ditch the Bizarre Verbal Contortions and Say It.
Yes, it’s terrorism.
Say it.
Why is this so difficult for political leaders? They engage in verbal contortions to avoid stating the obvious after a terrorist attack.
While it’s perfectly appropriate to gather the evidence and available information on the Chelsea explosion before drawing a definitive conclusion as to the motive, it’s bizarre the lengths to which some left-leaning politicians will go to avoid using the word “terrorism.”
Speaking to Americans as if they’re children and intentionally, consistently avoiding the word “terrorism” — while simultaneously telling people that an explosive device was intentionally placed in a crowded downtown area of Manhattan on a Saturday night — is the pinnacle of leadership failure. Avoiding calling a threat what it is speaks to a persistent weakness among our political leadership and sends a dangerous signal to the people around the world who wish to do us catastrophic harm.
There are two clear consequences to this hesitancy to call the terror threat what it is.
First, it sends a signal to the American people that this isn’t the severe threat we all instinctively know it is. This isn’t a law enforcement matter to be treated as some nuisance crime, it’s an attack on liberty and our way of life and its severity demands a commensurate response.
Second, it sends a dangerous signal to our terrorist enemies that politics matters more to elected leaders than public safety. They have already leveraged political correctness, the culture wars, and the American legal system against us all, just to make sure we focus on grotesquely exaggerated and politically motivated charges of “bigotry”before we focus on the threat to our public safety.
American politicians need a wake up call. American citizens don’t.
We will never remedy a problem which our failed political class can’t recognize. (For more from the author of “Yes, It’s Terrorism. Ditch the Bizarre Verbal Contortions and Say It.” please click HERE)
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