In FrontPage this morning I discuss how the jihad mass murders in Algeria are the fruit of Obama’s foreign policy:
Jeremiah Wright was right after all. The Algeria jihad attack proves it.
Not long after the 9/11 jihad attacks, Barack Obama’s mentor and
friend, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preached a sermon in which he uttered
the now-notorious words: “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”Wright meant, of course, that the U.S. had brought the attack upon
itself by its own acts of violence against others: “We bombed Hiroshima,
we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New
York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye”¦ and now we are
indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back
into our own front yards.”In a certain sense Wright was right: the U.S. did bring 9/11 on
itself — but not in the way that he thought. The jihadists who destroyed
the Twin Towers and damaged the Pentagon had not been brooding about
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and no action by the U.S. did or could have
justified the mass murder those jihadists perpetrated. If it could be
truly said that the U.S. brought 9/11 on itself in any way, it was only
by failing to recognize the implications of and to confront the ideology
behind the jihad attacks that immediately preceded it.There was an abundance of indicators of what was coming. In December
1988, an Islamic jihadist murdered 259 people, including 189 Americans,
by bringing down Pam Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. In February
1993, Islamic jihadists murdered six people and wounded over a thousand
in their first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center towers. In
June 1996, Islamic jihadists murdered nineteen people and wounded 515,
including 240 Americans, in a bombing at the Khobar Towers in Saudi
Arabia. In August 1998, Islamic jihadists bombed the American embassies
in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, murdering 291, including
12 Americans, in Nairobi, and murdering ten more and wounding 77 in Dar
es Salaam. In October 2000, Islamic jihadists bombed the USS Cole in
port at Aden, Yemen, murdering seventeen sailors and wounding 39.In response to all this, the U.S. lobbed a few cruise missiles into
Afghanistan and took out a chemical weapons factory (or aspirin factory,
depending on one’s source) in Sudan, and did little more. No serious
attempt was made to come to grips with the full nature and magnitude of
the ideology that inspired those jihad attacks, and to work to
neutralize its violent potential. And so it would have been more
surprising if the 9/11 attacks hadn’t happened than that they did.So it is today. Barack Obama has overseen the installation of Sharia
regimes in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. While paying lip service to the
importance of distinguishing jihadists from genuine democratic forces in
Syria and elsewhere, the Obama administration has offered no criteria
for doing this. And now al-Qaeda jihadists in Algeria have carried out a
brazen assault on BP”s natural gas plant in that country, killing at
least eighty-one people and demonstrating anew the falsehood of Barack Obama’s recent claim
that in Afghanistan “we achieved our central goal “¦ or have come very
close to achieving our central goal, which is to de-capacitate al-Qaeda,
to dismantle them, to make sure that they can’t attack us again.”