Is President Obama’s Terrorism Policy Making Us Safer?

When you cut through rhetoric on terrorism, the thing we care most about is whether President Obama’s policies are making us safer.

The Obama Administration believes that one of the terrorists greatest recruitment tools for the last eight years was the Bush Administration’s misguided approach – that they went overboard in fighting the war on terror, and gave a new generation of young Muslims a reason to enlist in holy jihad against Christians and Jews.

So President Obama reversed course – he’s courted the Muslim world and its leaders. He’s banished the word Muslim from any connection to terrorism.

The War on Terror? Erased from the Obama lexicon.

Terrorist incidents? They’re man-caused disasters.

Suicide bombers? They’re not soldiers in Al Qaeda’s army, they’re isolated radicals.

President Obama thought his program of outreach would de-radicalize the Muslim world, make them like us more, and attack us less. He’s had a year to try it.

But has it worked? Has it made us safer?

No. If anything, terrorists have been emboldened. We’re now up to a terrorist attack every three weeks.

By trying terrorists in civilian courts rather than the military tribunals, we’ve given them the right to remain silent. They don’t have to tell us about the terrorist network that trained them….Or other terrorists who might be on the way…. Or how they were recruited.

And we’re still focusing on weapons terrorists might use, instead of profiling for terrorists. Political correctness means we’re treating granny from Daytona, the same as a 20 year old from Yemen. By focusing on everybody – we’re focusing on nobody. And by looking only for weapons they’ve used before, we’re always one step behind. We’re still taking off our shoes eight years later – but terrorists have moved on to underwear. We’re still looking for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan – but they’ve moved on to Pakistan and Yemen and Cyberspace.

It’s time to declare the experiment a failure and reverse course – because the next terrorist attack could be successful.