Terrorists Target Turkey & Common Sense Still Prevails
Also note previous related article today: Breaking: Hundreds of Military Dependents Ordered To Leave Turkey
by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Terrorists Target Turkey
ISIS-inspired terrorism from Syria and Iraq is increasingly spilling over into Turkey. The nation has been rocked by a series of recent bombings that have killed nearly 100 people since the beginning of the year.
Today, there are credible reports that a major ISIS attack targeting Jewish children is "imminent." The intelligence was obtained from six ISIS jihadis who were arrested last week.
Various media outlets are now reporting that the Pentagon and the State Department have ordered the evacuations of family members of diplomats and military personnel in southern Turkey. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged Israeli tourists to leave Turkey immediately.
Common Sense Still Prevails
Reasonable people can disagree about whether there should be a total ban on Muslim immigration. I have argued that we need to institute serious screening efforts in our immigration policies.
Not only must we keep out possible terrorists, but I would argue that we should not allow into the country immigrants of any faith who embrace hatred toward Christians and Jews, or any faith. We don't need haters coming into America.
When Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have said we need a time out on Muslim immigration, not only do the media and many Democrats go crazy, but significant Republican leaders join them in piling on.
Well, they may want to call their offices. A new poll finds that 50% of all voters support a temporary ban on Muslims coming to the United States. That includes 34 percent of likely Democrat voters and 49 percent of independents. Just 38% oppose a temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
Here's more: 49% of voters, including 35% of Democrats and 46% of independents, support Senator Cruz's call for more surveillance of Muslim communities. Only 36% of voters oppose additional surveillance of Muslim communities.
And more Americans (45%) support the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, than oppose them (35%).
On each of these issues the public supports the conservative position, but many establishment politicians are shocked. Part of this problem stems from the fact that too many GOP elites spend too much time reading the editorial pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post and not enough time connecting with the American people!
Quite frankly, more Americans support these commonsense proposals than much of the GOP economic agenda like cutting Social Security and more trade deals.
Once again, on culture and values -- issues like immigration policy, marriage, life, what America is about -- Republican Party insiders too often preemptively surrender and allow the left to redefine us. This is just one of many reasons we have been unable to win the presidency in recent elections.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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| Injured people get assistance on the scene of an explosion on pedestrian Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on 3/9/167. (AFP/ETKIN NEWS AGENCY/STRINGER via The Times of Israel) |
ISIS-inspired terrorism from Syria and Iraq is increasingly spilling over into Turkey. The nation has been rocked by a series of recent bombings that have killed nearly 100 people since the beginning of the year.
Today, there are credible reports that a major ISIS attack targeting Jewish children is "imminent." The intelligence was obtained from six ISIS jihadis who were arrested last week.
Various media outlets are now reporting that the Pentagon and the State Department have ordered the evacuations of family members of diplomats and military personnel in southern Turkey. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged Israeli tourists to leave Turkey immediately.
Common Sense Still Prevails
Reasonable people can disagree about whether there should be a total ban on Muslim immigration. I have argued that we need to institute serious screening efforts in our immigration policies.
Not only must we keep out possible terrorists, but I would argue that we should not allow into the country immigrants of any faith who embrace hatred toward Christians and Jews, or any faith. We don't need haters coming into America.
When Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have said we need a time out on Muslim immigration, not only do the media and many Democrats go crazy, but significant Republican leaders join them in piling on.
Well, they may want to call their offices. A new poll finds that 50% of all voters support a temporary ban on Muslims coming to the United States. That includes 34 percent of likely Democrat voters and 49 percent of independents. Just 38% oppose a temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
Here's more: 49% of voters, including 35% of Democrats and 46% of independents, support Senator Cruz's call for more surveillance of Muslim communities. Only 36% of voters oppose additional surveillance of Muslim communities.
And more Americans (45%) support the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, than oppose them (35%).
On each of these issues the public supports the conservative position, but many establishment politicians are shocked. Part of this problem stems from the fact that too many GOP elites spend too much time reading the editorial pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post and not enough time connecting with the American people!
Quite frankly, more Americans support these commonsense proposals than much of the GOP economic agenda like cutting Social Security and more trade deals.
Once again, on culture and values -- issues like immigration policy, marriage, life, what America is about -- Republican Party insiders too often preemptively surrender and allow the left to redefine us. This is just one of many reasons we have been unable to win the presidency in recent elections.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, terrorists target Turkey, Jews, Israelis, Americans, U.S. Military, To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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