The US does not have a clue — what a vital national interest is — an illustrating quote from our Secretary of Homeland Security

© 2018 Peter Free

 

02 February 2018

 

 

Consider this strategically idiotic statement — from the US Secretary of Homeland Security

 

Kirstjen M. Nielsen essentially proposed that terrorism is an existential threat to the United States:

 

 

A terrorist on the loose in a foreign land, is a terrorist that poses a threat to our homeland.

 

Jihadists are going underground, dispersing to other safe havens -including on the internet and returning to their home countries, so we must focus on rooting them out. The counterterrorism policies of other countries have never mattered more to our own security than they do today.

 

We have to recognize that we’re in a place where it’s not a question if we will be attacked, it’s how often we’re being attacked each day and how much we can withstand.

 

© 2018 Juergen T Steinmetz, Tourism, terrorism: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen speaks, eTurboNews (29 January 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

I do not mean to single Secretary Nielsen out for ridicule

 

Her thinking perfectly illustrates the deadly vacuity of decades of American policy.

 

I only picked on her conveniently short statement because it so concisely illustrates our inability to separate what is vital to national survival and what is not.

 

Terrorism is not a threat to US existence. Acting as if it does threaten American survival is strategically, economically and murderously harmful.

 

 

The moral? — According to Secretary Nielsen, we have to intrusively meddle all over the world for our own safety

 

Score another profitable one for the United States' berserk Military Industrial Complex.