Please read the following excerpts from a heartfelt commentary by (?????), and then tell me who (?????) is:
How many more?
That’s all I could think this morning as news broke of yet another ISIS terror attack, this time in Brussels.
How many more innocent men, women and children are going to be blown to pieces by these murderous bastards?
How many more airports, train stations, sports stadiums, restaurants or concert halls will be obliterated in a hail of suicide bombs and bullets?
How many more world leaders will wring their hands on national television afterwards and spout pointless platitudes about the ‘poor brave victims’ and ‘heroic emergency services’?
How many taunting, gleeful claims of responsibility will the despicable perpetrators of these evil crimes be able to issue?
I’m sick of this, aren’t you?
Sick of feeling sick about such endless, senseless barbarism.
And the worst thing about it is that I see no end.
The inherent problem which causes it, chaotic war-torn instability in the Middle East, is getting worse, not better; just as the financial and military resource of the enemy is growing greater, not reducing.
Yet just as the world is crying out for strong decisive leadership, there is none.
America has a demob happy President Obama eeking out his last few months in office. A man whose infamous ‘leading from behind’ philosophy to foreign policy has been partly responsible for the war in Syria raging uncontrollably for five years – allowing fundamentalism to ferment.
Obama has zero interest in doing anything tangible to really deal with ISIS. This is now parked in the tray marked ‘next president’s problem.’
Hate Donald Trump all you like, but at least he seems to recognise the magnitude of the threat and at least he has firm proposals for how to try to defeat it.
They may not win him the Politically Correct Pontificator of the Year award. But how many more scenes like this morning’s appalling images from Brussels are we going to tolerate before we try a non-PC option to beat these disgusting excuses for human beings?
At the end of our interview, I asked Donald Trump to send a message to the large majority of non-violent, decent Muslims who are as disgusted by these attacks as the rest of us.
‘I have great respect for Muslims,’ he said, ‘I have many friends that are Muslims. I’m just saying that there is something with a radicalized portion that is very, very bad and very dangerous. I would say this, to the Muslims, when they see trouble, they have to report it, they’re not reporting it, they’re absolutely not reporting it and that’s a big problem.’
Is he so wrong?
Very, very strong words. Very, very decisively anti Barack Obama and pro Donald Trump.
So who said it? What mouth-breathing neanderthal right wing Republican hairball put that garbage up?
The answer is…………………
Piers Morgan.
That’s right. Piers Morgan. The usually dutifully-leftward Piers Morgan. A man who no one would ever confuse with the description I just put up above.
Why did he go this far to the other side? Well, maybe repeated terrorist acts, always by people with the same mind-set, with the promise of more to come, and world “leaders” – especially the President of the company that most of the world expects to be the leader – doing nothing, and not even calling these acts what they are: Islamic terrorism.
Mr. Morgan’s transformation reminds me of another famous media luminary, the late Tony-winning actor Ron Silver, who was a decidedly liberal/left thinker…until 9/11 — after which he said:
“I think there are September 10 people and there are September 11 people. I’m one of the latter. Everything changed for me. Since then I see everything through the prism of what happened that day.”
Is Donald Trump the answer? I personally don’t think so, and I’m not even sure that Piers Morgan does: he is only saying that Trump is saying the right things and making important points .
But is Trump, at least directionally, more in tune with our current reality than the Obamas and Clintons of the world, whose idea of fighting terrorism is an air strike here and there – as ISIS continues to grow exponentially anyway – and a promise to bring the perpetrators of terrorism “to justice”…after they have done their killing?
Mr. Morgan thinks so. And so do I.
