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Home Front: WoT
Security experts call Donald Trump’s response to the Belgium attacks ‘preposterous’
2016-03-23
[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

#12  These experts see the conflict as a popularity contest where the West and the terrorists are the competitors vying for the good will of the general Muslim populace.

The problem is that in order to win this competition the West will have to prove to the Muslims that it is a better servant, and a better tool with which to enforce the will of Muslims than the terrorists would be.

IOW the West must submit to Muslims in order to win.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2016-03-23 21:09  

#11  Dude, you have a credibility problem and it gets worse every time there is an attack. People don't trust you anymore. It's time for a different approach.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-03-23 12:28  

#10  We check people very carefully before we admit them as refugees.

What about that bitch from Lal Masjid?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-03-23 12:23  

#9  Chertoff's mendacity is appalling. Generally, the UN High Commission for Refugees does the paper work and the US goes along with its findings, which are cursory at best.
Posted by: Skunky Ulomoling4702   2016-03-23 10:29  

#8  We have top men working on it right now. Top men.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-23 09:45  

#7  Harrumph.....
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2016-03-23 09:43  

#6  "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,"

Perhaps it's time for new 'partners.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-23 05:29  

#5  "First of all, we have a much, much tougher refugee program than the Europeans have,"

Not anymore we don't.

"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."

Obviously BS if you haven't succumbed to PC disease.

"That the United States is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and that that’s why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them."

Not any more correct than the theory that Benghazi was caused by a movie. They will do it and blame it on the direction of the wind if they have to.
Posted by: gorb   2016-03-23 03:54  

#4  Dear Mr Secretary, you people had your way for 15 years. Time to try a different way?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-23 03:29  

#3  Unfortunately for Chertoff, Denial is not a river in Egypt
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2016-03-23 02:37  

#2  The Fed Executive + Legislative Barnches are now getting in trouble wid the Fed Courts, the latter demanding that illegals have no rights to stay permamently "illegal" while receiving all forms of Fed-controlled or supported public assistance as SEMI/QUASI-LEGAL CITIZENS-RESIDENTS.

EITHER DEPORT 'EM EN MASSE LIKE POTUS IKE EISENHOWER, OR ELSE PUT THEM ON A PATH TOWARDS NEAR-TERM DE FACTO CITIZENSHIP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-03-23 01:57  

#1  ...We check people very carefully before we admit them as refugees."

"Look at the great job we did with the Tsarnaevs."
Posted by: charger   2016-03-23 00:16  

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