Tuesday, March 22, 2016

No, They Just Don't Learn

At the same time the headline in the Detroit News reads IS claims responsibility for deadly terrorist attack (changed now to this link: Islamic State says it set off deadly bombs in Brussels. With the link now going to a story that reads Local cops: Security ramped up after Belgium attacks reflecting heightened security in Detroit due to the threat of terrorist attacks, and with over 20 people are now dead in Belgium after a series of terrorist attacks by the enemy-that-shall-not-be-named, we have the following editorial that ran right underneath the story:

The Detroit News: Our Editorial: Keep door open to refugees

They certainly didn't read the text of their own story about local security:

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress last month that Islamic State extremists posing as refugees “will probably attempt to ... direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016.”

In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said accepting Syrian refugees escaping their country’s civil war could pose a security threat, adding that security has been stepped up.

And they're not just advocating for just any refugees, but the very same refugees that are claimed by ISIS, the perpetrator of the Belgium attacks, to have terrorist infiltrators among them.

The lack of self-awareness on the parts of the editors regarding risk management, reality, and even on what is reported in their own paper at the same time as their editorial is rather staggering.

2 comments:

ProudHillbilly said...

If it was just the oblivious ones who would pay for their stupidity I'd just call it chlorine in the gene pool. But unfortunatly many others will pay for the stupidity of others.

ProudHillbilly said...

If it was just the oblivious ones who would pay for their stupidity I'd just call it chlorine in the gene pool. But unfortunatly many others will pay for the stupidity of others.