"After more than 13 years of war with thousand of Americans dead, tens of thousands wounded and several trillion dollars spent the US and its allies are losing the war with radical Islamism. The terrorist of Islam State are ravaging Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram is widening its bloody swath through Nigeria. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are killing with impunity in Somalia, Yemen and beyond and the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. "......"The US and its allies must now design a strategy to match a global movement of radical Islamist who sincerely want to destroy Western civilization". Newt Gingrich WSJ 1/15/15.
His 8 point plan addresses both the global strategy and dealing with radicalization and discovering the lone wolf..
And as a side bar let me insert my belief that profiling not only assists in rooting out these cells but it also allows us to educate in these communities make contact with people in the community who share our views, recruit some of them to our cause and infuse the community with the desire to root out these radicals from their communities
And as a side note it really doesn't matter what Gingrich did before or after his political career or whether he is using this issue to restart it. No the pertinent point here is that he has a good plan because he may not be many things but one thing he is is highly intelligent and has offered some of the better solution coming out of Washington
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