ISIS IS GOING GLOBAL – AT 10:34 A.M. ET:  Despite reassurances from Grand Admiral Kerry that ISIS is being defeated, it appears that the terror group is simply changing its strategy.  From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:    

According to the latest EUROPOL counterterrorism report, the Paris attacks and subsequent investigations demonstrate a shift by the Islamic State toward "going global" in its terrorism campaign. The Islamic State has developed an "external action command," EUROPOL notes, which "trained for special forces style attacks in the international environment." The police organization's warning for Europe was stark: "There is every reason to expect that [the Islamic State], [Islamic State-]inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group will undertake a terrorist attack somewhere in Europe again, but particularly in France, intended to cause mass casualties amongst the civilian population."

If the evolution of the Islamic State threat to Europe was not yet perfectly clear after the Paris attacks, it has become so in the wake of the Brussels bombings. And yet, while Europe is now fully aware of the scope of the threat, it remains unprepared to cope with it. This includes shortcomings in both the counterterrorism capabilities of European states as well as their efforts to integrate immigrant communities into the larger European societies in which they live.

COMMENT:  And the United States isn't providing much leadership.  The Paris attacks were in November.  Brussels was this week, only four months later.  ISIS is stepping up its pace.  We can expect another attack before our election, and it could be here. 

ISIS is based on an ideology  It recruits through ideology, not by offering scholarships.  As we learned from World War II, it is extremely hard to defeat an ideology.  In that war we had to defeat and occupy the main ideological perpetrators.

I'm afraid there's a great deal of conflict ahead.  Obama has done so much damage to our national will, and national will is in very short supply in Europe. 

March 25, 2016