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Tainting a city’s water supply could result in mass
casualties and widespread panic.
This one weak point
pre-dates World WarII when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover warned that water supplies were “a vulnerable point of attack to the foreign agent.” Just how vulnerable became evident last April, when the city of Portland had to dump 38 million gallons of drinking water after a teen relieved himself in a reservoir.
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Terrorists looking to shock the world regularly plot to attack schools. In 2014, school children were abducted by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. In December, 140 school children were killed by Taliban terrorists in Pakistan. Goldenberg says the killers
aim to send the message that no one is safe, so as to “instill horror in the hearts and minds of people [and] to make people live in fear.”
matter. One big problem for the ad- ministration: How do you fi ght a war on Islamic terrorists when you’re un- willing to say “Islamic” in the context of terror? The confusion spawned by this
rhetorical ambivalence is evident. It emerged in the early eff ort to reclas- sify acts of terror as “man-caused disasters.” Law enforcement agen- cies labeled the attacks at Fort Hood “workplace violence.” Today that doublespeak contin-
ues. When Palestinians throw Molo- tov cocktails at Israeli civilians, the State Department refuses to identify the assailants as terrorists. In the FBI’s National Domestic
Threat Assessment, it lists white su- premacists, black separatists, and oth- ers. The one category mysteriously absent: Islamist extremism. Radicals get lumped in with “internation- al terrorism,” even when they occur do- mestically. George Friedman, author and
the place to launch political attacks, especially given the reality of today’s threats,” he says. David Inserra, a specialist on homeland security and cybersecu- rity for the Heritage Foundation, says America’s setbacks in the war on ter- ror indicate that it is time seek a new paradigm altogether, to re-evaluate the threat from the ground up. “We need to have a new way of
facing this enemy,” he says, “because the threat we face today is unlike any- thing we have seen in the past.” In Panetta’s book, he saves his
When the FBI releases its National Domestic Threat Assessment, the one category
mysteriously absent is Islamist extremism.
founder of the Stratfor global intelli- gence fi rm in Austin, Texas, says the desire to avoid marginalizing anyone based on their religion is probably well intentioned, but creates “a tre- mendous practical problem.” Fried- man writes that it means “you have paralyzed your ability to defend your- selves.” U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who
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serves as the ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmen- tal Aff airs Committee, tells Newsmax leaders of both parties should keep politics out of national-security is- sues — especially the Department of Homeland Security. “The budget for the agency
charged with keeping Americans and our nation safe should not be
sharpest criticism for one retreat in particular: Obama’s last-minute de- cision to back away from attacking Assad, who crossed the red line by us- ing chemical weap- ons against his own civilians. “By failing to respond,” Panetta wrote, “it sent the wrong message to the world.” Of course, no one
can say whether the world would be safer
today if Obama — who green-lighted the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and ramped up drone strikes to un- precedented levels — had pulled the trigger on Assad. It is noteworthy, however, that long
after the Charlie Hebdo killers were laid to rest, and 13 years after George Bush grabbed a bullhorn and vowed to chase terrorists to the end of the earth, French offi cials continued to blame the Paris violence on Obama’s inaction in Syria. “France was ready,” lamented
French President Francois Hollande, as he prepared to send the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier into harm’s way in the Persian Gulf. “Orders had been given, the means were in place. “Another path was chosen. We now
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