President Trump was very careful to avoid causing casualties in Syria during his term of office and to minimize US military involvement in Syria. He also had only one Islamic terrorist attack in the US during his term of office.
In contrast, President Biden launched a airstrike that took at least 22 lives within a few weeks of taking office. See: ‘At least 22 killed’ after President Biden orders first military strike | The Independent Reports are that the Colorado shooting suspect is an Muslim immigrant from Syria. If this attack turns out to be the result of Islamic terrorism, Biden has already exceeded the death toll under four years of the Trump administration.
Are Biden’s actions in the Middle East starting to fuel another round of Islamic terror in the US?
Here is background information on earlier attacks. During the last four years of the Obama administration there were multiple attacks that resulted in dozens of deaths:
During the Trump administration there was only one Islamic terrorist attack in the US.
I think this is exactly correct. In a simplistic sense they smell Biden weakness. It is more…it is a lack of respect and conviction. Extremists see Biden as a cartoon that will say anything. Trump spoke from conviction and that earns respect.
Yes, it looks like Biden is moving to reverse many of Trump’s policies that brought unprecedented peace agreements between Israel and Arab countries while reducing the influence of Iran.
Trump did use force when necessary to protect US forces. Will Biden have the guts to do the same? Or are we looking at more Benghazis?
Yes … when a Muslim immigrant shoots a bunch of white people, it causes other people to surmise that it might involve Islamic terrorism, which is the subject of the thread.
Yes. Obama had a policy of regime change and air strikes in the Middle East, especially in Syria. There were also a long list of terror Islamic attacks in the US.
Trump changed that, and terror attacks went way down. He also restricted immigrants from Syria and several other countries.
Biden has reversed Trumps policies, and we have already seen a major attack with total casualties roughly equal that of Trump’s four years.
Is this cause and effect?
Are we likely to see levels of Islamic terror attacks similar those with the Obama?
With the recent alleged terrorist attack against American troops in Kabul, it looks like Obama-levels of Islamic terrorism are on their way back. The US is going back to bombing targets in a Afghanistan and the Middle East, while at the same time accepting hundreds of thousands of potential terrorists from the same areas we are bombing.
Of course Islamic terrorism was a bit of a misnomer, as the FBI and CIA have frequently been complicit in ignoring threats. In many cases, their relationship appears to be closer to instigation.
For example, Saddique Mateen, the father of the PULSE Nightclub shooter was a long-time FBI informant at the time of the shooting. The father immigrated to the US in the 1980s, and there are rumors of CIA connections as well.
The shooter, Omar Mateen, was quite explicit that the attack was in retaliation for Obama-era bombing of Muslim countries. Here is what he said:
Because you have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there. … You need to stop the U.S. airstrikes. They need to stop the U.S. airstrikes, OK? . … This went down, a lot of innocent women and children are getting killed in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan, OK? … The airstrikes need to stop and stop collaborating with Russia. OK?
Are we really heading back to Obama-levels of terrorism?
The CIA is angry as well. Don’t expect them to stop any terror attacks.
The US just launched a drone attack against an alleged terrorist leader in Afghanistan. That sounds suspiciously quick; it as if the CIA had a pre-planned response.
