Letter: US cannot repeat Europe’s mistakes

For decades, Europe has followed a politically correct path toward self-destruction. Their open-borders policy threatens Europe’s way of life as millions of refugees and covert terrorists pour in. Still, Western Europe continues welcoming hundreds of thousands more un-vetted immigrants, including some who will add to the carnage.

Countries without borders are merely land masses unable to maintain their cultures, control their economies and protect their citizens. Some European countries are belatedly closing theirs in wake of the recent jihadist atrocities, perhaps too late.

Jihad has come to America. The attacks of the last several years will continue metastasizing until our southern border is closed and airport security is tightened. This administration doesn’t perceive jihad as “an existential threat to America.” Global warming’s our most portentous problem.

President Barack Obama seems to view the Boston, Fort Hood and San Bernadino attacks as acceptable casualties while he continues his Neville Chamberlain worldview. “ Strategic patience” is another of his oxymoronic non sequiturs we’ve come to expect in lieu of foreign policy solutions. GOP concern over Muslim refugee immigration is met with snide remarks like, “They’re afraid of widows and 3-year-old orphans.” Cute.

Post Obama America will require leadership that removes the anchor on our global commitments, rejects Europe’s solution to their immigration problems, unabashedly identifies jihad for the menace that it is and implements effective information-gathering guidelines commensurate with the terror threat.

This story was originally published April 12, 2016 at 6:23 PM with the headline "Letter: US cannot repeat Europe’s mistakes."