America under siegeHonestly, we are under siege. I told a friend years ago that the U.S. was going to be assailed relentlessly - that was before 9/11. Ever the optimist, he was befuddled and asked why.
Because we've had it too good for too long - that's human nature. Here are the facts: Americans have lived better than almost any other group in history, especially in these numbers. Americans exported an idea that they lived like kings and queens through TV shows like "Dynasty" and "Dallas." Americans went into other countries and ostensibly made a mess of them, such as Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Naturally, there is much more to those stories, but the impression of imperialism and invasion is clear. What is also clear is that Americans have used a significant percentage of the world's resources for their more comfortable lifestyle. None of this situation has gone unnoticed.
Many millions of people globally are either envious of the American way of life - with good reason! - and want in to experience it, or want to destroy it because they can't have it.
Others want both and will use whatever excuse it takes, including perceived imperialism and so on, to justify their hostility and aggression.
In any event, we are under siege, just as predicted. And things are probably not going to get better before they get a whole lot worse.
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Looming threat from illegals: terror Arizonans will be grateful for some extra help from the National Guard, starting Sunday, in protecting the border and fighting drug violence -- especially now that a federal judge has blocked key parts of their recent illegal-immigration law. But there's a more pressing border issue that goes beyond Arizona: the alliance between drug cartels and groups that aim to smuggle terrorists into our country through the Mexican border.
Last week's detonation along the Texas-Mexico border of an Improvised Explosive Device similar to those used in Iraq and Afghanistan strongly suggests that Hezbollah is working with the drug cartels -- and that America is unsafe. Law-enforcement officials and intelligence analysts believe that terrorist groups like al Qaeda have been working with such gangs as the ruthless MS-13 to smuggle terrorists into America.
Intel briefings and other sources suggest that al Qaeda spends as much as $50,000 to smuggle in a single terrorist, while Hezbollah, funded by Iran, pays as much as $10,000.
Indeed, some analysts estimate that thousands of terrorists have already been smuggled into the United States through the Mexican border since 9/11. Last year, a worker at the Mexican embassy in Beirut was caught selling visas to enter Mexico for $3,000 apiece. Hezbollah terrorists know that once they get to Mexico they can make their way here through our southern border.
A congressional report on homeland security acknowledges this threat. The report, "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border," addresses the alarming rate at which the number of aliens referred to as "other than Mexican," or OTMs, are crossing the border. Many OTMs are nationals and terrorists from countries such as Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Our biggest threat is that a nuclear, dirty or biological bomb could be smuggled by OTMs into America soon....
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