I hope this ends the silly idea that we can simply withdraw from the Long War. It's here.
San Bernardino Attacker Pledged ISIS Allegiance
Michael Schmidt, New York Times
WASHINGTON — The woman who, with her husband, killed 14 people in San Bernardino pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post the day of the attack, officials said Friday, and the F.B.I. announced it was treating the massacre as an act of terrorism.
“The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers, and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations,” the F.B.I. director, James Comey, said at a news conference here. But, he said: “so far we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group, or form part of a cell. There’s no indication that they are part of a network.”
On ISIS, Barack Obama Is Baghdad Bob
Sean Davis, The Federalist
“ISIS is contained” is the new “American tanks are not in Baghdad” of 2015.
In the throes of a tight re-election campaign in October of 2012, President Barack Obama
declared that al Qaeda was “on the run.” In one sense, he was right: al Qaeda was running into the arms of ISIS, which was running wild in the Middle East. But his intended implication–that his policies had routed the terrorists, rendered them incapable of hurting Americans, and as a result made America safer from the threat of terrorist attack–was
demonstrably false.