(rickwells.us) - With the cancellation of a popular German street carnival in the wake of the Copenhagen attacks, with credible information that Islamist were planning terrorist attacks on the popular event, which attracts 250,000 persons, John Bolton is asked for his take on just how do we in the West respond to this threat.
Ambassador John Bolton, in recognizing the many dangerous shortcomings of the regime in defense of our nation, says, “The first thing that a civilization has to do is understand it’s under attack. When you’re standing on the edge of the abyss in history, you can say ‘oh well that attack wasn’t that big, this one wasn’t that serious. You can act like the ‘president’ of the United States and say these are, you know, ‘random acts of violence in different places,’ or you can try and understand the pattern and try to act accordingly.”
He says, “I think the Europeans, who for decades have criticized the United States as being ‘such a violent society, so many murders and attacks with weapons,’ in the past few years have seen the level of violence all over Europe rise and I think have finally started to ask themselves why.”
He continues, saying, “So I think is, tragic though it may be, this is a wakeup call for Europe, for the United States. We had one on September the eleventh 2001; a lot of people seem to have forgotten it already. The question is whether we’re going to wake up and do something now or suffer something much more serious, perhaps with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.”
Eric Shawn points out that the European authorities admit that they are overwhelmed with thousands of ISIS fighters, who possess Western passports having returned to their shores. He cites our own National Counterterrorism Center has predicted ten attacks per year inside the United States.
Bolton notes that “We are facing an ideology. It’s an ideology that is anti-Western and we’ve seen it manifest itself in outright anti-Semitic attacks and attempted murder. We’ve seen it directed against anybody who criticizes the ideology and the religion that these radicals hold and it’s about time we understand that. And if we do understand it then I think the steps to take going forward are pretty clear. This is a war that they’re waging against us. Not random acts of violence.
They compare the situation now to that of Jews in Nazi Germany when Hitler first started his rants against them, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for Jews worldwide to come to Israel being illustrative of the serious risk of history once again repeating itself.
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