THE LOYAL OPPOSITION
By Sean Delonas
blood on U.S. soil. They say the lone wolf assaults by ex- tremists are just too tough to stop. “We’re going to get the
kinds of attacks like a drive- by shooting in Little Rock or an SUV in Times Square,” former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden tells News- max TV. “This is going to be the new fl avor of the threat from Islamic terrorism.” Sarah Stern, president of
the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a right-leaning think tank, says her group is monitor- ing several cells of which the U.S. gov- ernment is aware. Stern insists “we can be reasonably
sure that in a short time, what we saw happening in Paris will be happening in America.” She is among a growing number
of observers who eschew the phrase “lone wolf.” Their preferred, alterna- tive term is “known wolves.”
“America’s Forum” anchor J.D. Hayworth: What do you say to libertarians who say intrusive collections of cellphone and other data have gone too far? Gen. Michael Hayden: The French have found diff erent communications devices, and they know that the NSA does magnificently collecting metadata in a variety of areas around the world. A lot of people were
hyperventilating about that six, 12, or 18 months ago. The French are [coming] to us to ask: ‘In that ocean of metadata, do these new numbers that we’ve just associated with these people
Their point is that law enforce-
ment often knows the attackers. This was the case with the Boston mara- thon bombers, the Charlie Hebdo at- tackers, and many others. “The danger with the Islamic ter-
rorists who have been living with us,” says Stern, “is that they have learned how to use our religious tolerance and freedoms to hide intentions of those who want to do us harm. Unless we
. . . show up? What have they been doing and with whom have they been in contact?’ We did that stuff for a reason. We did it to keep you safe, not to invade your privacy. After Paris, what major changes do you anticipate in the war on terror? Future attacks against our homeland are going to be smaller, less well organized, less likely to succeed and less lethal — even if they do succeed — compared to 9/11. The tools we have that go after these individualized small groups, self-radicalized, self-motivated, and low- threshold attacks, are fairly limited.
realize that, and realize that soon, we are all sitting ducks.” Some experts argue the
occasional attack on U.S. soil on the scale seen in Lit- tle Rock and Fort Hood re- fl ect a reasonable degree of success in the war on terror. “I think the West has
done a very good job,” says Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis for the Austin, Texas-based Stratfor fi rm. “If you look at the abil- ity not only of the al-Qaida
core, but of the various franchisers . . . these groups have not been able to conduct spectacular attacks in the West. “We are not seeing al-Qaida send all-star teams of trained terror- ist operatives to the United States to conduct 9/11 attacks.” Whether that view would be vi-
able in the political arena following a domestic attack on, say, the scale of Sydney or Charlie Hebdo is another
Some of icials are urging that surveillance activities in mosques should continue. We have the right to keep
ourselves safe. We should go to our Islamic communities and give them a message that this is not us making war on them. This is us protecting their youth from predatory jihadists who recruit them for these kinds of activity. What was your reaction to Egyptian President Abdel al- Sisi’s historic call for reform within Islam? It was a remarkable
performance and very impressive. I frankly have been a bit uncomfortable with al-Sisi’s authoritarian strain. He
put a lot of journalists in jail, for example. But he is a man of faith. He is a practicing Muslim and here is someone who is both Islamic and modern, and he’s challenging his faith to reconcile itself with the modern world. Frankly, that’s what we’ve
been waiting for for 13 years. We can kill our way out of immediate problems . . . people already convinced they want to come do us harm. But the production rate of those kinds of people seems to be unabated, and will remain unabated until Islam resolves some questions within itself. So God bless, Allah bless, President al-Sisi.
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