AT LEAST THEY GET IT – AT 9:06 A.M. ET:  We often associate European public opinion with self-delusion and a bent toward appeasement.  Maybe, with poll results like this things are changing.  You can hide reality only so much.  From Reuters: 

BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) - Europeans view the militant group Islamic State as the biggest threat facing their countries, ahead of climate change, economic instability and refugees, a survey by the Pew Research Center showed on Monday.

Respondents in nine of 10 European countries surveyed said they saw IS, also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL, as the greatest danger, with 93 percent of Spaniards and 91 percent of French describing the group as a "major threat".

Most of the surveys were conducted in April, a month after militants loyal to IS killed 32 people at the Brussels airport and metro. The Pew report was published a day after a gunman who had pledged allegiance to IS killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Greece, struggling to return to growth after nearly seven years of recession, was the only country where respondents did not list IS as the top threat. Instead, 95 percent of Greeks said that global economic instability posed the greatest risk to their country.

COMMENT:  The question, of course, is whether the European elites, and the governments they control, feel the same way.  After all, it's not "sophisticated" or "intellectual" to be overly concerned about ISIS.  Some of the European elites still take their cue from the hopeless Barack Obama.

It is much easier for ISIS or Al Qaeda operatives, based in the Mideast, to strike Europe rather than America.  Europeans know this, and know that something big is coming.

June 14, 2016