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Retired generals: Be afraid of ISIS
На самом деле не столько предупреждают, сколько - резко критикуют.
Just take the National Strategy for Counterterrorism published by the White House in 2011. That document contained the assertion that, "Since the beginning of 2011, the transformative change sweeping North Africa and the Middle East -- along with the death of Osama bin Laden -- has further changed the nature of the terrorist threat, par-ticularly as the relevance of al Qaeda and its ideology has been further diminished."Yet, fast forward to January 2014 and America's top intelligence official, director of National Intelligence James Clapper, advised Congress that al Qaeda was no less capable of threatening the United States and our allies than a decade earlier. Soon after Clapper acknowledged al Qaeda was not a band on the run, as President Obama had described the terrorist enterprise, a report by terrorism expert Seth Jones of the RAND Corporation highlighted yet another inconvenient truth for the White House: As restraints on freedom of expression of radical religious views vanished in places like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring, those states became fertile recruitment grounds for terrorist groups -- including al Qaeda and groups aligned with it. According to data compiled by Jones, from 2010 through 2013, the number of Salafi jihadist groups increased by 58%. These groups are fueled by Salafiyya Jihadiyya, an ideology that not only informs the agenda of al Qaeda, but is the source code for the agenda of the al Qaeda offshoot ISIS...
Not only Americans, but also our allies should be very, very afraid. Indeed, President Obama's refusal to simply call a problem like radical Islam by its name strongly suggests he is unwilling to make the difficult decisions that must be made today if we are to stand a chance of defeating radical Islamist groups. History has shown the dangers that millions can be placed in if our leaders don't face down a looming threat by calling it what it is and putting our full weight behind efforts to vanquish it.
Обращает на себя внимание, что статья появилась на ресурсе CNN. СМИ, которое к "правым" не относится практически никаким боком. Единственным объяснением (конспирологического толка, сам понимаю) может быть то, что президентская кампания некоей Хиллари К. будет основана на жесткой критике внешней политики Обамы (которую никто иная, как сама Хиллари и проводила, но кому сейчас до этого дело? Даже и не вспомнят!). В общем это плохо. Президенство напыщенной дурищи Хиллари может быть более вонючим и опасным для всего цивилизованного мира, чем президенство миротворнейшего Обамы. Кто там говорит, что хуже не бывает? Ну так посмотрите на одну большую страну, которая пробивает дно поминутно, если не посекундно. Вы думаете, у "дарагих рассиян" есть эксклюзивные права на пробивание дна? Вот уж не думаю!
На самом деле не столько предупреждают, сколько - резко критикуют.
Just take the National Strategy for Counterterrorism published by the White House in 2011. That document contained the assertion that, "Since the beginning of 2011, the transformative change sweeping North Africa and the Middle East -- along with the death of Osama bin Laden -- has further changed the nature of the terrorist threat, par-ticularly as the relevance of al Qaeda and its ideology has been further diminished."Yet, fast forward to January 2014 and America's top intelligence official, director of National Intelligence James Clapper, advised Congress that al Qaeda was no less capable of threatening the United States and our allies than a decade earlier. Soon after Clapper acknowledged al Qaeda was not a band on the run, as President Obama had described the terrorist enterprise, a report by terrorism expert Seth Jones of the RAND Corporation highlighted yet another inconvenient truth for the White House: As restraints on freedom of expression of radical religious views vanished in places like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring, those states became fertile recruitment grounds for terrorist groups -- including al Qaeda and groups aligned with it. According to data compiled by Jones, from 2010 through 2013, the number of Salafi jihadist groups increased by 58%. These groups are fueled by Salafiyya Jihadiyya, an ideology that not only informs the agenda of al Qaeda, but is the source code for the agenda of the al Qaeda offshoot ISIS...
Not only Americans, but also our allies should be very, very afraid. Indeed, President Obama's refusal to simply call a problem like radical Islam by its name strongly suggests he is unwilling to make the difficult decisions that must be made today if we are to stand a chance of defeating radical Islamist groups. History has shown the dangers that millions can be placed in if our leaders don't face down a looming threat by calling it what it is and putting our full weight behind efforts to vanquish it.
Обращает на себя внимание, что статья появилась на ресурсе CNN. СМИ, которое к "правым" не относится практически никаким боком. Единственным объяснением (конспирологического толка, сам понимаю) может быть то, что президентская кампания некоей Хиллари К. будет основана на жесткой критике внешней политики Обамы (которую никто иная, как сама Хиллари и проводила, но кому сейчас до этого дело? Даже и не вспомнят!). В общем это плохо. Президенство напыщенной дурищи Хиллари может быть более вонючим и опасным для всего цивилизованного мира, чем президенство миротворнейшего Обамы. Кто там говорит, что хуже не бывает? Ну так посмотрите на одну большую страну, которая пробивает дно поминутно, если не посекундно. Вы думаете, у "дарагих рассиян" есть эксклюзивные права на пробивание дна? Вот уж не думаю!