7 Ways US Can Prevent Another Orlando Attack

From The Daily Signal.com (June 17):

In the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack, the Obama administration has been quick to blame gun control laws. This is because the administration refuses to admit its policies to defeat the Islamic State have failed.

Islamist terror attacks within the U.S. have dramatically increased within the past year—with Orlando being the 22nd instance of Islamist terrorism in the U.S. since 2015. This is out of 86 plots since 2001.

Gun control will not stop this rise in Islamist terror attacks, and the president is wrong to suggest so. To stop these attacks and defeat radical Islamism, the U.S. needs to defend the U.S. homeland and combat terrorism abroad.

We must maintain essential counterterrorism tools to help law enforcement and intelligence agencies find and stop terrorists before they attack.

Here are seven policies that will help prevent another Orlando:

1. Combat Terrorism Abroad and Deny ISIS Territorial Gains. Rolling back—and defeating—ISIS requires a global approach in which the U.S. leads a multipronged, multination effort that seeks to deny ISIS the ability to hold territory. This will disrupt its recruitment of foreign fighters, and will counter its destructive ideology.
2. Shut Down the Foreign Fighter Pipeline. In order to defeat terrorism abroad, the U.S. must lead an international effort to deny ISIS territorial gains and shut down the foreign fighter pipeline. While military victory would undermine ISIS’ legitimacy, the U.S. must also improve intelligence capabilities to identify potential recruits and preempt Islamist violence.
3. Ensure That the FBI Regularly Shares Information. The FBI must share information with state and local law enforcement—treating state and local partners as critical actors in the fight against terrorism.
4. Expand Active Shooter Threat Training Across the Country.
5. Community Outreach Remains a Vital Tool.
6. Maintain Essential Counterterrorism Tools.
7. Counter Islamist Ideology.

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Good ideas although the last way might be trickier to do. First Obama has to name the problem: Islamic radical terrorism. Or if you prefer militant Jihadism or something along the same lines. Glenn Beck thinks calling them “radicals” is a mysnomer. He says the radicals are the ones in the Middle East (and in Ameria) that are trying to reform the religion. He has a point. America should support the reformers. The ones causing all the violence are the devout fundamentalists—not the moderates and traditionalists. Mr. Beck confuses the tradional Muslims (the Sufi) with the fundamentalists (ISIS and Al Queda). The Sufi are persecuted too. Anyway, Donald Trump is the only presidential candidate willingly naming the problem. Hillary Clinton had to be shamed into it.