JORDANIAN
FACES OF EVIL ISIS radicals prepare to brutally murder (from left) U.S. captives Steven Sotloff and James Foley, Japanese captives Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, and Jordanian Muath Kasaebeh.
tique of the president’s foreign policy came from New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who told col- leagues at a hearing of the Foreign Relations Committee: “I have to be honest with you, the more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran.” Whispers could soon be heard in
the cloak rooms on Capitol Hill that not only was the war on terror alive and well, but there was reason to sus- pect America might be losing. Indeed, former House Speaker
President Obama assured Americans in a national address that ISIS could be contained because his strategy would follow the model “we have suc- cessfully pursued in Yemen and So- malia for years.” Equally disturbing for conserva-
tives was the president’s comparison at the National Prayer Breakfast of ISIS atrocities with the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. Obama warned Christians not to
get on “our high horse” because “peo- ple committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” This remark provoked Samaritan’s
Purse leader Franklin Graham to fi re back that Jesus Christ “taught peace” and did not take life, while the Proph- et Muhammad “was a warrior and killed many innocent people.” Added Graham: “True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mu- hammad emulate Muhammad.” California Democratic Sen. Di-
anne Feinstein, whose Senate Select Committee was busy in December fl ogging the CIA for enhanced inter-
rogations — even perhaps as the fi nal plans for the Paris attacks were laid — warned that terror cells of the sort wreaking havoc in Europe were op- erational in the United States as well. “Hopefully,” she told CNN, “we
can be more active in terms of doing those things which enable us to fi nd terrorists, [to] see who they’re com- municating with and to track that.” Perhaps the most devastating cri-
Terror’s Terrible Toll
SUICIDE-ATTACK DATA, 1982—2014
Total Attacks Globally Total Killed
Total Wounded
Avg. Deaths Per Attack Avg. Wounded Per Attack
4,118 41,733
100,107 10.1
26.8
SOURCE: Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, Suicide Attack Database
Newt Gingrich dared to say as much at the Iowa Freedom Summit. “The U.S. today is losing the war with radi- cal Islamists,” he declared. “We have to have the courage to confront just how badly we are doing in this war.” Among the indications America’s
war on terror may be dangling on the precipice: Exhibit No. 1: Spreading havens for terror. The roster of failed nation- states in Africa and the Middle East — precisely the sort of jihadi spawn- ing grounds that provided the base of operations for the 9/11 attacks — ap- pears to be growing. Among them: Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia and possibly Afghanistan, where the U.S. commitment is uncer- tain and the Taliban are resurgent. “Yemen could become another Af-
ghanistan — a failed state dominated by warlords and extremists,” warned Woodrow Wilson Center scholar Rob- in Wright in an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal. Exhibit No. 2: The rising death toll from attacks. The 14 years leading up to 9/11 saw an average of 132 deaths
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