9/11 Commission top dogs say “terrorism needs to be prevented at the source,” ignore its source

[rangerrebew]

9/11 Commission top dogs say “terrorism needs to be prevented at the source,” ignore its source

Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer 43 Comments

“Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean and former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana served as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the 9/11 Commission. Over the past year, they served as the chairs of the congressionally mandated Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, which was convened by the United States Institute of Peace.”

And they haven’t got a clue. We are not going to be able to buy our way out of this fix, and no amount of US aid to help leaders “create alternatives to violence and extremism” is going to work unless the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism is addressed. Kean and Hamilton here present their plan as something new, but actually it is what the United States has been trying to do ever since 9/11, both domestically and internationally. Jobs programs for Somali Muslims in Minneapolis were supposed to provide “alternatives to violence and extremism,” but Somali Muslim communities in Minneapolis have been hotbeds of jihad recruitment. And the nation-building projects that Kean and Hamilton rightly decry were supposed to create stable republics that would provide their citizens with “alternatives to violence and extremism.”

 https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/9-11-commission-top-dogs-say-terrorism-needs-to-be-prevented-at-the-source-ignore-its-source

[Smokin Joe]

You can't force people to BE civilized, only force them to act that way, and even that has limited success.

If they refuse to adopt "alternatives to violence and extremism" on their own, it is unlikely they will have a cultural epiphany and do so at the point of a gun, whether that gun be borne by military or police.

To say it is a mistake of brobdingnagian proportions to have imported the problems of the terrorist inclined sectors of the Third World is an understatement.

[skeeter]

The 'better to stop the terrorists over there than fight them here' line really rings hollow when we allow every kind of trash to immigrate here without so much as a health check. See Ilhan Omar.

Its more of an evasive answer to those who ask whats the plan for victory so we can get some kind of idea when we'll wrap up and get the hell out.