America's Open Southern Border is a Red Carpet for Terrorist's

 On Aug. 28, President Barack Obama told the whole world -- including our enemies! -- he has not yet developed a strategy to combat ISIS. His remarks come weeks after ISIS has seized Iraqi cities and village and declared war on all "infidels," and more than a week after it has beheaded an American journalist.

To quote Mr. Obama: "We don't have a strategy yet." But you can be sure that ISIS does. Their strategy is "We are coming for you" to "kill Americans any way we can."

The beheading of two American journalists should indicate to any president, that ISIS is serious. Connecting the dots in this instance isn't that difficult. Try it yourself.

-- Dot 1: On Feb. 26, Gen. John F. Kelly, the U.S. Marine Corps commander of the U.S. Southern Command testified before the House Armed Services Committee. Here are the remarks by the commander responsible for all Department of Defense security cooperation in the 45 nations and territories of Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea remarks concerning the convergence of transnational" drug crime and terrorism:

"Criminal networks can move just about anything on these smuggling pipelines. My concern ... is that many of these pipelines lead directly into the United States, representing a potential vulnerability that could be exploited by terrorist groups seeking to do us harm. Supporters and sympathizers of Lebanese Hezbollah are involved in ... the region ... in ... drug trafficking. ...

"Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even quite easily bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States."

-- Dot 2: A July/August 2014 Mother Jones headline states "70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year?"

The article tells the story of "Adrian," a 17 year-old boy from Guatemala, who found his way to a dessert safe-house in Northwestern Mexico. There, the drug traffickers "asked him" to strap on a load of marijuana and walk across the border into Arizona. Adrian" agreed to do so.

Mother Jones said, "When the Border Patrol caught Adrian a week later in the Arizona desert -- he'd ditched the pot at a drop point along the way -- he became one of the 38,833 unaccompanied minors apprehended by the Board Patrol in fiscal year 2013. That was a 59 percent jump from the year before, and a 142 percent increase from fiscal 2011; no one knows how many more kids avoided Border Patrol detection... . This year, officials have told advocates they anticipate the numbers to double again, to as many as 74,000 unaccompanied children. That's equivalent to every single student in Dallas' 81 public middle and high schools." (motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/child-migrants-surge-unaccompanied-central-america)

-- Dot 3: Now King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is warning the U.S. that jihadists could target the Europe and the U.S. if world leaders do not react to the growing terrorist threat from ISIS.

"If neglected, I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America.

"These terrorists do not know the name of humanity and you have witnessed them severing heads and giving (the heads) to children to walk with in the street."

 -- Dot 4: According to senior U.S. officials, the United States government is tracking as many as 300 Americans supposedly fighting with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. "We know that there are several hundred American passport-holders running around with ISIS in Syria or Iraq."

Washington is worried that these radicalized American fighters, presently fighting abroad, could create havoc in U.S. if they return and carry out jihad in the U.S. (washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/26/us-citizens-joining-islamic-state-pose-major-threa/)

So, if 300 American jihadists opt to come home to fight "holy war" here, how are they going to get here? Use their passports to re-enter? Enter illegally from Mexico?

If 70,000 unaccompanied children can walk across our open southern border (and if no one knows how many of those aren't being caught by the Boarder Patrol), it should be duck soup" for 300 trained terrorists try to infiltrate. And if kids can slip past the Border Patrol, is there any reason to believe that trained terrorists will fare any worse?

Our open southern boarder is a red carpet to Muslim terrorists to pull off a second — and perhaps worse -- 9/11. But if it happens, rest assured President Obama will quickly advance a strategy: Blame George Bush!

We elected a president to preserve and protect" the Constitution and the country. We don't need an "Ethelred the Unready," or "Nero fiddling while Rome burns."


Posted Online:  Sept. 8, 2014, 11:00 pm - Quad-Cities Online
by John Donald O'Shea

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