GR gets it right

Seldom do I say such a thing, and it's only up to a point, anyway.

Liberals have chosen The Donald as their 'Destructor'

He is right that the French and American peoples feel their leaders are not doing much or doing enough to keep them safe.

They are quite wrong.

Their leaders are doing plenty, and in some respects too much, though in others too little.

The American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are examples of what is "too much," as is our ridiculous PC frisking policy at airports.

The refusal of our and Europe's classe politique to stop or even limit Muslim immigration and sojourning are examples of "too little."

But nothing in the world can "keep them safe," and despite O's foolish denial terrorism is indeed integral to "the new normal," a cancer in Islam, just as he says, that will be with us until it goes into remission as spontaneously as it appeared and grew.

Still, this bit is good.

Likewise, it’s a bit hard to take people seriously about Trump’s threat to civil liberties when President Obama was just endorsing an unconstitutional gun ban, when his attorney general was threatening to prosecute people for anti-Muslim speech (a threat later walked back, thankfully) and when universities and political leaders around the country are making clear their belief that free speech is obsolete.

Hearing that Yale professor Erika Christakis won't be teaching at Yale because of the abuse she received over a respectful but non-PC email, former DNC chair Howard Dean tweeted: “Free speech is good. Respecting others is better.” 

To his credit, CNN’s Jake Tapper responded: “Of course only one of them is enshrined in the Constitution.”

But Twitter humorist IowaHawk had the last word: ”With the exception of POTUS, the Atty General, both leading presidential candidates, the media, and universities, Americans love free speech.”

We Americans should at least stop actual immigration of Muslims to keep the population in which, as O says, terrorism grows like a cancer from getting larger.

And a diminished flow of visitors and sojourners would be a good thing, too.

And we can and should do those things even if we don't shut the door to anybody else.

I am not aware that, in Europe or anywhere else, immigrant populations of other faiths have shown themselves especially dangerous.

As for Europe, things have already gone so far it may be politically impossible to prevent the continued growth of Muslim populations, much less to diminish them.

Their goose may already be cooked.

Which is not to say there won't be an effort.

Le Pen's FN vote skyrockets

Wilders tells Turks: 'You will never join EU'

I had to laugh at this one.

Geert Wilders hopes Trump will become next US president

Wilders' party is right wing in things connected to economics and he is an avid supporter of Western defense of Israel.

Marine Le Pen's FN is economically more centrist.

Her party is perhaps more anti-EU and pro-national sovereignty than Wilders'.