New York, New Jersey and Minnesota
are reeling from the latest round of terrorist attacks. The people of the
United Kingdom have voted to leave the European Union, in substantial part as a
response to problems caused by that body’s refugee program. Germans have ousted
Angela Merkel’s ruling party for the same reason.
However, President Obama and former
Secretary Clinton are vowing to increase the number of refugees annually
admitted to 110,000, starting in October. The Wall
Street Journal notes that “this represents a nearly
30% increase over this fiscal year and an almost 60% increase over the 70,000
admitted in 2015. The last year that the U.S. committed to resettling as many refugees
was in 1995, when President Bill Clinton set the ceiling at 112,000.”
The bombing attacks in New York and
New Jersey were reportedly committed by Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old
naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, another of the many young Moslem men
of military age admitted into America. Of course, federal officials took early
and unconvincing pains to state that Rahami may not have links to organized
terror groups.
Wholly ignored are the complaints
that those already admitted are more representative of those doing the
oppression which created the refugee crisis, rather than those who have been
victimized by it. Also ignored are the complaints of almost
two dozen governors, as well as many in Congress
about the White House’s dangerous and inexplicable positions on terror and
resettlement of those from terrorist-concentrated lands into the United States.
The inability of the Department of
Homeland Security to ensure that those admitted are not linked to terror is
increasingly clear. Yahoo
News reports that an internal Homeland
Security audit recently released found that at least 858 immigrants from
countries linked to terror and immigration fraud and who had pending
deportation orders were mistakenly granted citizenship. The fact that the White
House has gone to great lengths to accelerate citizenship for many groups who
are expected to vote Democrat should not be ignored.
The Administration’s response to and
perspective about the terrorist threat is becoming increasingly bizarre and
indefensible. Earlier, the Obama Administration inadvertently created the
conditions for ISIS to thrive by its premature withdrawal from Iraq. It
mistakenly created an environment favorable to terrorists by its support for
the overthrow of Libya’s existing government. It favored a Moslem
Brotherhood member over the pro-peace, pro-U.S. leader Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
It failed to respond at all to the attack on the American facility in Benghazi.
Each attack on American soil was blamed on anything but terrorism.
The White House was again in denial
after the latest attacks in three states, as press spokesman Josh Earnest
admonished those who early on blamed terrorism for the incidents. He added to
the list of strange Administration statements on terror by claiming that the
western fight with ISIS was a “narrative battle.”
While some try to attribute those
policy missteps to inexperience, incompetence or bad luck, the White House’s
relations with Iran remains inexplicable.
Iran is the chief state sponsor of
terrorism. The
State Department’s latest review of terror
activities notes that
Iran continued its terrorist-related activity in 2015, including
support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and various groups
in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. In 2015, Iran increased its assistance
to Iraqi Shia terrorist groups, including Kata’ib Hizballah (KH), which is a
U.S. designated Foreign Terrorist Organization… Iran used the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to implement foreign policy
goals, provide cover for intelligence operations, and create instability in the
Middle East. The IRGC-QF is Iran’s primary mechanism for cultivating and
supporting terrorists abroad… Iran has historically provided weapons, training,
and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including
Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-General Command.
These Palestinian terrorist groups have been behind a number of deaths
from attacks originating in Gaza and the West Bank… Iran continued to declare
its vocal support for Palestinian terrorist groups and its hostility to Israel
in 2015… Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ)
members it continued to detain and refused to publicly identify the members in
its custody. Iran previously allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core
facilitation pipeline through Iran since at least 2009, enabling AQ to move
funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria.
Not mentioned in the State
Department report was the Iran-sponsored terrorist activities in North and
South America.
Despite Iran’s record, President
Obama has repeatedly found ways to reduce sanctions and transfer funds, some in
cash, to the world’s leading terrorist regime. He has even sought to
cover up some of his generosity.
Politico reports that
The United States made at least two separate payments to the Iranian
government via wire transfer within the last 14 months…Responding to questions
at an Aug. 4 press conference about a $400 million payment delivered in cash to
the Iranian government, Obama said, ‘The reason that we had to give them cash is
precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we do not have
a banking relationship with Iran that we couldn’t send them a check and we
could not wire the money.’
But a Treasury Department spokesman acknowledged on Saturday that on at
least two occasions, the U.S. did make payments to the Iranian government via
wire transfer. In July 2015, the same month in which the U.S., Iran and other
countries announced a landmark nuclear agreement, the U.S. government paid the
Islamic republic approximately $848,000. That payment settled a claim over
architectural drawings and fossils that are now housed in the Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art and Iran’s Ministry of Environment, respectively. Then, in
April 2016, the U.S. wired Iran approximately $9 million to remove 32 metric
tons of its heavy water…
Congress, the media, and the
American people have been largely left out of the process, as the White House
continues its unexplained and unsuccessful policy towards terror.
Frank Vernuccio serves as
editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government. After
graduating Hofstra Law School, he was a legislative editor for a major
publishing company, then served in both Republican and Democrat
Administrations.
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