Netanyahu, an adult on the world's stage, states obvious truths, usually denied or suppressed by the West. From NRO:
“Between the United States and the West, and the rising powers in the East,” says Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “there is a malignancy of militant islam . . . [that] is growing and spreading. It’s sending its tentacles to the West.”
“I wrote 20 years ago that you will see domestic international terrorists, because you will see them send people — jihadists — to live in the West to raise jihad against the West,” said Netanyahu on Face the Nation, “and unfortunately that has come about.”
But an even greater danger exists, he says: “that they will marry their mad ideologies to weapons of mass death. That is a threat not only to my people — the Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel — but to your people.”
“They view us as one because of our tolerant societies. They think us weak and corrupt. We understand the value of diversity and human freedom and choice. They abhor it. They want to wipe us away. If they had the weapons to wipe us away, they will try. They will fail, ultimately, as did the Nazis, but they took down tens of millions of people with them, and that should not happen again.”
-- Andrew C. McCarthy helpfully explains Obama's "minimizing the threat" approach.
. . . Obama’s approach is to atomize al-Qaeda into its separate parts. Politically, this is intended to make it appear that the president has made great progress against a network that, in actuality, has gotten larger and more threatening on his watch. Philosophically, it fits the Obama agenda of miniaturizing the enemy into small outfits, consumed by regional or parochial concerns and largely unthreatening to the United States — nuisances unconnected by Islamic-supremacist ideology and manageable by law-enforcement processes.
Obama implausibly bragged that the killing of bin Laden by U.S. special forces during his first term was a fatal blow to the global terror network. Patently, this has proved not to be the case, so administration officials now maintain that the president was referring merely to “core al-Qaeda” — the hierarchy of al-Qaeda said to be holed up in Pakistan and Afghanistan. That is deceptive revisionism . . [more. . .]