Why ISIS, Al Qaeda, And Irans Mullahs All Love Donald Trump - by Gene Lyons
February 8, 2017 12:07 am
Have Americans really become a nation of gullible cowards? Sometimes it looks that way. Take President Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries. If you think it has anything whatsoever to do with protecting against terrorist attacks, then you haven’t been paying attention.
The Trump administration’s policies are designed not to deal with real problems in the visible world, but to rile up partisan ignoranuses (sic) here in the USA. Also to stimulate nativism and fear of dark-skinned foreigners, and to make Democrats appear to be defending Muslims instead of the Constitution.
Poorly thought out and incompetently drafted, to the extent that Trump’s order has anything to do with ISIS or al Qaeda terrorists, it will help them. The reasons are quite simple, and pretty much undeniable.
New York Times reporter David Zucchino spoke with Iraqi soldiers barricaded inside the city of Mosul, where they are fighting a brutal house-to-house battle against ISIS fighters for control of the country’s second-biggest city. Its outcome is crucial to breaking the terrorist insurrection for good.
“If America doesn’t want Iraqis because we are all terrorists, then America should send its sons back to Iraq to fight the terrorists themselves,” Capt. Ahmed Adnan al-Musawe said. Officers and enlisted men interviewed in Mosul unanimously described Trump’s order as a grave insult to their honor, and that of their fallen comrades.
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