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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaura Ingraham: "The left's intolerance & mean-spiritedness knows no bounds"
COMPLETE DISGRACE
BY PETER W. SINGER
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
We have been too quiet about a threat that is regularly killing our fellow citizens.
Ask any of us who works in national security what to do about ISIS, and wed have no problem pitching you ideas. Even if we lack expertise in the topic or dont work directly on it, wed still have opinions and thoughts, because weve been swimming in a sea of articles, op-eds, books, hearings, programs, and overall research and debate for years. But ask us about right-wing extremism, a violent ideology thats killed more Americans than ISIS in the last decade, and most of us would pause either because we were unaware of the problem or, worse, we were afraid to speak openly about it.
So lets talk about it now.
Over the last decade, individuals and groups fueled by this virulent ideology have committed 71 percent of the known politically or religiously inspired killings in our country that is, 274 of the 387 Americans murdered by extremists. Reports now indicate it was part of the recent murder of 17 school children and teachers in Florida, just as it was part of mass shootings that have happened everywhere from California to Charleston. It has not just hit inside the US, but has struck many of our closest allies, both causing near-tragedies and horrible massacres. It is not a new threat; it has killed hundreds of Americans in past decades. But it is growing in power and influence, worrisomely being stoked by foreign nations like Russia that wish our nation harm. It is a clear, present, and proven danger to the United States. Yet we find it awkward to talk about.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2018/02/national-security-pros-its-time-talk-about-right-wing-extremism/146319/
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Never us, always them. The mean people say.
dlk
(11,562 posts)poboy2
(2,078 posts)onethatcares
(16,168 posts)where the NRA has spent countless millions advancing the "lefts" agenda.
Gaud I hate that term.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)maveric
(16,445 posts)Keep it up Laura. Some may believe you but most dont.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Conservatives are just so precious! (Solly says in a southern accent and with full inflection)
Bettie
(16,100 posts)has said.
dameatball
(7,397 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,475 posts)Is English not your native language, Laura?
Initech
(100,068 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)I would definitely take my kids and walk if that were the case
librechik
(30,674 posts)after what she said about David Hogg.
No, Laura, we aren't going to give you a break. Are you still on the air? Not for long.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Right wing has made a living of doing this.
sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)theaocp
(4,236 posts)That's right! YOU! Bye, Felicia.
Cha
(297,196 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)They have no sense of shame or irony.
They will blatantly accuse Dems or other opposition of that which they clearly do themselves.
She needs every example of RW intolerance and mean-spiritedness thrown right back in her face, including her own examples. Bury her in them.