An article at Strategy Page, Inventing New Lies, describes the evolving European stance on Islamic terrorism. According to the article, Europeans once had an effective informal truce with the terrorists in their midst, providing safe haven for terrorist organizations and welfare benefits for terrorists and their families. In return, host countries were relatively free from terrorist attack. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq ruined that arrangement.
After that, European intelligence agencies began tracking the terrorists and sharing information. It soon became evident that Islamic terrorists were far more numerous and better organized than anyone imagined.
Despite the European intelligence agencies now realizing that they had a serious Islamic terror threat even before 2001, European politicians and media still cling to the old ideas that negotiation and understanding would have kept Europe safe, were it not for those reckless Americans. Politicians and journalists would rather invent new lies, to justify the old ones, than admit that they had made a mistake.
Our Democratic party and their allies in the mainstream press bear a stiking resemblance to those European politicians and journalists.
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