I used to have a very strange job. For years of my life, I read the most perverse materials and watched the most diabolical videos. My job was to digest the ideology of global jihadism, read the screeds of their seminal “thinkers,” including Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda; Hassan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood; and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, the Islamic State. And worse, to watch the videos from Al Qaeda and ISIS of their animalistic killing of the “enemies of Islam,” innocent civilians like Daniel Pearl, or our military allies, like the brave Jordanian fighter pilot, Muath al-Kasasbeh, who was burnt alive in a cage by Jihadi terrorists.
Why would anyone do this? Because my job was to travel the nation and train our brave military, intelligence analysts, and police officers in what the enemy believed, what their objec- tives were, and what it would take to crush them. Reading and watching the horrific materials was rewarding, especially when, after a few years of working with the likes of our Green Berets and US Navy SEALs, the feedback would start rolling in. When a man with multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan tells you he is grateful for what he learnt, and that it is still used “in the sandbox,” well, that is more important to me than any offi-
cial commendation or recognition by the “brass.” Then we won the election, and I ended up in the White House as a strategist for President Trump. My work was no longer theory, and it was then that we unleashed our military for real. Obama had actually told you and all Americans that Jihadi groups like ISIS were a “generational threat” we just had to get used to. Team AMERICA First disagreed. Once we moved into the White House, we got the Penta- gon lawyers and pencil-pushers out of the way and told the “quiet profes- sionals” at Fort Bragg and Coronado to destroy our enemies as they were supremely trained to do. And they did it. Fast.
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