Malcolm Nance is an intelligence officer who has worked the Iraq mission since 1987, fighting in all of our Middle East wars since 1983. He has lived in and out of Iraq since 2003. This afternoon he gave a very passionate and compelling interview on MSNBC about how Isis will use this ban to expand their influence and create a surge in recruits. He explained that the terrorist group is on the ropes in Iraq, but this ban is likely to bring in a flood of recruits and bolster their claims that the West, particularly America, is at war with Islam.
He added that we risk isolating and radicalizing moderate Muslims who may feel that they have no other place to go. I will add the video as soon as it is available on the web.
One doesn’t need to be an intelligence officer to see how dangerous this situation is. Trump has now put a target on Americans and US owned businesses in Islamic countries around the world and made the entire region more unstable with a stroke of a pen.
Senator Chris Murphy-CT made this chilling statement-
"This is why today’s proposal is likely to get Americans killed.
ISIS, the most dangerous of a global array of radical Islamic terrorist groups, is in retreat. Every day, they lose more territory, and it is only a matter of time before their self-proclaimed caliphate disappears before the world’s eyes. The continual loss of territory robs from ISIS one of their two main rationales for existence – the creation of a geographic entity based on their perverted interpretation of Islam.
But ISIS has a second purpose – to take part in an imagined global struggle of civilizations between Christians and Muslims. President Obama and President Bush before him knew the danger of stoking talk of war between east and west. Obama knew how important this kind of talk was to ISIS’s recruitment and expansion, and he went out of his way to tamp it down.
The decision to turn our backs on millions of men, women, and children attempting to flee torture and terror shrinks us as a nation, and marks an unconscionable abandonment of our founding principles."