BY
European security has collapsed, perhaps irretrievably. So many prospective terrorists are now operating in Europe that security services have lost the capacity to monitor potential threats. There is no historical yardstick against which to gauge the breakdown of law enforcement in Europe. Most remarkably, the wound is self-inflicted.
Two suicide bombers today shut down Brussels, home to NATO as well as the European Union, killing at least 21 bystanders and severely injured 35 at the city’s airport and the Maelbeek metro station. Air and rail transportation has stopped and mobile telephone networks are saturated. The authorities presume that today’s attacks avenged the capture of Salah Abdeslam, the last man at large from the cell that executed the Paris attacks last Nov. 13.
Several thousand trained terrorists reached Europe among more than a million migrants in 2015–4,000 by one account in the UK media, or 1,500 according to NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove in Congressional testimony March 1. In fact, security services have no possible way to verify the bona fidesof migrants. The cost of a Syrian passport and passage to Europe is about US $3,000. ISIS and other terrorist organizations can send as many terrorists as they wish to Europe, and a very small cell can shut down a major city.
That leaves the West with unpleasant choices. America has had few large-scale terrorist incidents since Sept. 11, 2001 because it spends $80 billion a year on intelligence operations, including intensive monitoring of Muslims living in the United States, and because it admits very few immigrants from prospective centers of terrorism. American public opinion overwhelming favors less immigration. One poll shows that a majority of Americans support Donald Trump’s proposal for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration by a margin of 46% to 40% (with 14% undecided). Today’s events are good news for the Trump presidential campaign.
Europe continues to favor mass immigration on humanitarian grounds. Despite the electoral gains of the anti-immigration Allianz für Deutschland earlier this month, more than three-quarters of German voters favored candidates who support Angela Merkel’s immigration policies. The German authorities do not know who the refugees are, and in many cases where they are. According to Germany’s Die Welt, thousands of migrants have left refugee camps; at least 7,000 are missing from reception centers in the state of Brandenburg alone. Very few of these are prospective terrorists, to be sure, but the collapse of controls makes it impossible for security authorities to track prospective terrorists.
This does not necessarily imply that ISIS and other terrorists will conduct a major attack every week. The point is that the frequency of attacks is now a matter of the terrorists’ choice. Mass attacks like the November atrocity in Paris and today’s suicide bombings in Brussels establish ISIS’ credibility. But ISIS does not want to provoke a European reaction; it wants to establish a foothold in Europe so tenable that European authorities will not be able to dislodge it in the future.
Europe has the simple choice of allowing humanitarian disasters to occur on its borders, or losing control of its own security. Germany has already chosen the second alternative, and today’s events will have no effect on Berlin’s attitude towards migrants.
The opinions expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the view of Asia Times.
@ Keli-A:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210122
I didnt see a video and based on past fraudulent calls… like the neutral story… I would need to see it myself… too many liars around the place
Keli-A Said:
hard to beleive, I would have to see that in context in a video… got a link?
meanwhile
Trump just made an amazing statement that women should be punished for having an abortion…. Most republican pro life positions support the position that the abortion practitioner should be punished but not the so called victim the women, which is in my mind ridiculous….. If as the pro life advocates believe, that abortion is immoral and even murder why give and or absolve the women from legal and moral complicity??? Trump is probably correct but it will cost him possibly the nomination….. stay tuned.
I continue to be amazed by those pundits who suggest Donald Trump can’t beat Hillary Clinton.
There are three principal reasons for such faulty conclusions:
These folks are working under the strictures of an old paradigm. That is the one that says Democrats start out with a base of unlosable states and electoral votes and need only to win two or more swing states.
Polls taken today, before the Trump-Hillary campaign even begins.
Trump’s high negatives.
Let’s look at one big reason none of these factors will come into play after the conventions.
The success of Trump’s earth-shaking bid for the presidency to date is actually unprecedented in America’s modern political history.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-cant-beat-hillary-really/…
Just like today, where they manipulate the news to favor the euro and muslim narratives on Israel.
Ca plus change……….?
OOOPs, looks like more terror is coming to belgium from the muslims until the veep figures out whats going on….. Trump knows that while you are figuring it out you must ban them if you want to be safe but the belgian veep prefers to err on the side of terror in order to maintain his PC narratives. Like Trump said “a cesspool” in more ways than one. I wonder how many fool euros will die while they are trying to figure it out?
Looks like Trump cant help getting it right every time before even the locals… he noted that the jihadis were protected by their neighboring muslims… he gets it… he knows that its the muslims who are a problem and who must be banned… the belgian veep finally noticed what Trump noticed from thousands of miles away….Its uncanny how Trump’s one liners hit the mark everytime… albeit very uncomfortable for the PC who want truth manipulated.
Now you begin to see why even an Israel-hating leftist like Greek PM Tsipras is being nice to Israel.
thanks obama, and the gop establishment.
EVERYTHING has a cost! Freedom in PARTICULAR! Hundred of millions have died to give it to the FREE “MAN”. Europe wants to squander it at any cost.
They may see the down of Socialo-Islamism. We already know who the losers will be. No tks.
Europe has made a choice! Rejection of procreation and importing pro-creators be they Muslims.
this has now gone over 50%
Trump is the only candidate and leader who recognizes that Islam and muslims are the problem and that they must be banned. The longer the USA takes to internalize that fact is the greater the danger…. that is the main reason it is important to elect Trump, everyone else will play the electoral PC game of not wanting to offend folks
the Jews are the worst offenders. the Jews will be blamed for advocating for the influx of muslims into europe and the west. Soros already does it
and then there are these despicable “jewish” lunatics who still collect money from jews while leading them like the pied piper into the ovens. either the muslims will kill the jews or everyone will turn on them for advocating muslim immigration.
ADL is a fraud collecting money from jews while defending muslim terrorists.
This despicable creature appears to equate escaping jews “beleifs” with the “beliefs” of muslims. That shows how little he knows about judaism and jews. It is jewish orgs and people like this who will fuel the greatest anti semitism in the west. In the same way that the euros now suffer for the lies they spread about Israel so will diaspora jews suffer for the lies spread about muslims and Islam.
Only lunatics would equate the behavior and beliefs of escaping Jews with the behavior and beliefs of the muslim refugees. because those lunatics are jews there will be a terrible blowback on the diaspora Jews and Israel. these Jews like the euros beleive they can win the love of the muslim refugees but those refugees will end up slaughtering Jewish children in jewish schools. Already many blogs on the internet name Jews and jewish orgs as being behind the push to admit more muslims, and the arguments put forth are very convincing as are the Jewish names cited. If Jews dont do something about their lunatic behaviors in Israel and the diaspora it will get much worse.