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Security experts call Donald Trump’s response to the Belgium attacks ‘preposterous’
[WASHINGTONPOST] Appearing on Fox News to discuss the attacks in Belgium, Michael Chertoff, who was the secretary of homeland security in the George W. Bush administration, labeled the candidate’s ideas "preposterous."

"First of all, we have a much, much tougher refugee program than the Europeans have," Chertoff said. "The problem the Europeans have is people showed up on their doorstep -- hundreds of thousands, coming directly from the region. That does not happen in the U.S. We check people very carefully before we admit them as refugees."
How about the 11 million refugees from Mexico and Central America?
"The idea that you can identify people who are a risk based upon their religion or the way they look is completely fallacious. It’s like going after cancer with a meat axe instead of a scalpel."
When the scalpel doesn't work, and just as importantly when you're not willing to use a scalpel, someone's going to start thinking that the meat axe is an appropriate tool...
During an appearance on MSNBC, terrorism expert Malcolm Nance said Trump’s "bluster" in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks was hampering U.S. intelligence and the armed forces.

"Donald Trump right now is validating the cartoonish view that they [Islamist turban groups] tell their operatives and that they tell their terrorists," Nance said. "That the United States is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and that that’s why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them."

Nance said that type of rhetoric is detrimental to global counterterrorism missions.

"There are intelligence officers right now that are going to have to contend with their partners over what’s being said during the U.S. presidential race," he told MSNBC. "It’s irresponsible, and it needs to stop."
Contend? I'll bet there's a fair bit of agreement at the lower levels...

Posted by: Fred 2016-03-23
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