JustASC

Investors Business Daily exploits the foiled Riverdale bomb plot in service of some creative xenophobia.

Today, would-be terrorists are still on the defensive. But they might be a lot more on the defensive if we were more careful about letting terrorists relocate to America.

You have to read the whole thing to see how they arrived at this conclusion, considering three of the four alleged plotters are AMERICAN BORN.

And then there’s this:

Imagine synagogues in the leafy Riverdale section of the Bronx going up in fireballs simultaneously. Further imagine, in a coordinated attack, a Stinger-style surface-to-air missile taking out a massive, four-engine U.S. Air Force C5-Galaxy cargo plane as it takes off from Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York.

In its audacity and focused intent, such an operation might have been more devastating than the 9/11 attacks.

Really? Not to take anything away from the Newburgh nudniks, or belittle the havoc they might have caused, but I think  the razing of a major financial center, the devastation of a global economy, a direct hit on the center of American military power, and catalyzing wars on two different fronts is still pretty hard to beat.

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