Speaking the Name That Shall Not be Spoken, at Last

Well, if nothing else positive comes out of this horrific atrocity in Orlando, Donald Trump did manage to finally, after 7-1/2 long years, get both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to utter the words “Radical Islam”.  This is a breakthrough that no establishment Republican, no conservative critic, no member of our fake national “news” media had ever been able to accomplish with these two uniformly dishonest and politically correct politicians.

Both Hillary and Obama naturally pooh-pooed the notion that their willingness to actually utter the true name of the real existential threat to American democracy was in any way important, and in doing that they were both entirely incorrect.

This is a big deal.  Really, it is.

It’s a big deal because the Clinton/Obama policy of attempting to fight Islamic terrorism in a squeamish, politically correct way has been woefully inadequate, and has gotten thousands of Americans needlessly killed both here in the U.S., and abroad in the myriad Middle Eastern conflicts in which our military has been ineffectually engaged during this presidency.  One truly cannot effectively fight an enemy if one is not just unable, but unwilling to accurately name who that enemy happens to be.

The result of such an approach is that we force the FBI and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to spend days and weeks following an obvious case of Islamic terrorism wasting precious resources speculating about what, oh, what might his motivation have actually been?  The result is we have 49 dead Americans shot up in a club by an obvious Islamic terrorist who had been under FBI surveillance for more than two years, who was known to be violent, was a known wife-beater, had a father who was apparently a CIA asset, had regularly associated with radical jihadists, had openly and loudly proclaimed his support for ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and who had, despite all of this, somehow been able to not only obtain firearms, but also managed to – unbelievably! – hold down a job as a security agent, a job that required a background check by the Department of Homeland Security.

Folks, this makes the background story of the government’s awareness and surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the Kennedy Assassination look positively sane by comparison.

But don’t blame the FBI and other law enforcement/Intelligence agencies.  The Obama/Clinton policy of attacking Islamic terrorism through the lens of political correctness requires that the FBI – which interviewed this terrorist twice but let him go both times – pretend that such a person is just another ordinary American.  Mustn’t “profile” him based on his associations and obviously violent intention, oh, no. Why, that would be “racist” (even though Islam is not a “race”) or even worse, “Islamophobic” (even though most adherents to Islam in the U.S. do not openly associate with or proclaim allegiance to ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and thus do not require monitoring by law enforcement).  Why, that might harm this poor man’s sense of self-esteem, and we mustn’t do that, because the #1 job of the federal government in this administration is the maintenance of everyone’s self-esteem, isn’t it?

But because Trump aggressively condemned this Clinton/Obama policy of forced national insanity in his speech on Monday afternoon, both felt compelled to actually utter the words the next day, Hillary in yet another puff interview on one of the lapdog networks and the President in an extraordinarily petulant and thin-skinned “press conference”, during which he naturally took ZERO questions from the uncomplaining mannequins who make up our fake press corps.

Of course, other than this far overdue actual naming of the real, true enemy, the Democrat strategy was, as it always is, to distract, shift the subject and attempt to blame this latest Islamic Terrorist act on Christians and guns.  They’re so focused now on denying you your rights under the 2^nd Amendment that they now have Jeh Johnson, Director of Homeland Security, out there saying that gun control is now a key national security objective.

You should really pay attention to that new reality, because it is not just a new talking point.  These people do not say things like that just for fun.  What it means is that this administration – and, God help us all if it comes about – a Hillary Clinton administration will now begin finding ways to subvert the 2^nd Amendment under the Patriot Act and other homeland security measures passed following 9/11.

Don’t believe me?  Read the Tuesday New York Times editorial advocating that DHS establish a new “secret court” that would have as its mission the steadily-increasing undermining of 2^nd Amendment gun ownership rights.  In case you hadn’t figured this out by now, the New York Times is the official mouthpiece of this Administration, and quite often takes its cues and talking points directly from Obama officials.  If you think this editorial coming simultaneously with Mr. Johnson’s new talking point is a coincidence, check back in with me a year from now.

What this latest incidence of Islamic terrorism should bring home to any thoughtful American is how critical it is for November’s election to produce a real change in direction for our policy towards the threat.  The only real change of direction available to voters is Donald Trump.

But at least the country’s two leading Democrats have finally been forced to utter the threat’s real name.  As sad and tragically hilarious as it is to say it, that’s progress.