It's true that the worst terrorist attack on our country was carried out by Osama bin Laden's extremely well-orchestrated and well-funded 9/11 foreign, mainly Saudi Arabian, assault teams.
It's also true that we are the target of many different groups of foreign actors whose principal goal is to cause us harm, simply because we are Americans.
Our law enforcement and intelligence agencies do a mind-boggling and amazing job keeping them in check.
But Donald Trump wants to give them some unrequested help.
He's doubling down on his Muslim ban, and now would ban entry into the United States by entire countries of people he'd have us fear.
This is not sitting well with the Republican leadership. We haven't heard anything but words that distance them from Trump since his sickening response to the Orlando massacre.
Though it is true that radical Islamic terrorism is a genuine threat, a far bigger threat is terrorism from within.
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| I could be your son. I could be your next door neighbor. Heck, I could have babysat your kids. What I am is the face of terror. Look familiar? |
The next two worst terrorist attacks on American soil were carried out by Americans, not foreigners, and a ban on Muslims would have done nothing to stop them.
The Orlando massacre, no matter how much The Donald would deny it, was perpetrated by one of his fellow natives of Queens, New York.
He was as American as any other citizen born here.
I'll just mention how slippery the slope is for Herr Drumpf to make any implications about others' ethnic heritage.
And like any other very large country, we grow plenty of our own sickos. Case in point.
The more heinous of the two attacks, an act even more horrendous than 9/11 because of the number of small children who lost their lives or were maimed, was perpetrated by someone just like Donald Trump...ethnicity-wise.
Timothy McVeigh, who in 1995 bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, killing and wounding 848 people, was your average angry white Christian male.
It's a good thing white people still maintain a slim majority in the United States. Who knows who might be prevented from entering the country if that majority ever slips away? Turnabout is fair play.
Before we ban people with brown skin who worship the same God as most of us do, albeit a little differently, we ought to take a close look at ourselves in the mirror.
The enemy is looking back at us.
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