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“Even at the seeming height of the crisis immediately after 9/11, there really weren’t that many members of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan,” former CIA officer Robert Grenier told NPR Tuesday, “and the thrust of our campaign there was, yes, to hunt down Al Qaeda, but primarily to remove the supportive environment in which they were able to flourish. And that meant fighting the Taliban. And I think that is the heart of what we need to deal with here. Hunting down people who are who are criminals.”
No one in Washington appears to think this kind of talk is alarming in a formerly peaceful republic like ours. Just today, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sent out a tweet blasting Vladimir Putin for some misdeed or other in the U.S. Senate. Russia is still the real threat. But what McConnell didn’t mention, and almost never does, are his own voters, the ones now being reclassified as Al Qaeda terrorists and treated accordingly.
On Monday, The Washington Examiner, which claims to be a right-of-center publication (whatever that means at this point) ran a piece by a former CIA officer called Kevin Carroll. According to Kevin Carroll: “We saw five dead in the Jan. 6 attempted coup d etat.”
Now, Carroll didn’t explain who exactly those five people were or how exactly they died. It would be nice to know that, but facts were not the point. The point was that this was an attempted coup d’etat and the U.S. government needs to act accordingly.
“We defeated al Qaeda [sic] and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month,” Carroll concluded his piece. “But only if we take similar hard measures against the enemy within.”
Treating Americans like Al Qaeda, the enemy within. Apparently, that’s the new conservative position on the riots of Jan. 6. And why wouldn’t it be the position of everyone in this country? Because that’s the history they are writing and we’re letting them.
But we should be prepared for the consequences of that history.