[Hoot Gibson]

I don't understand the argument over liberal/left, conservative/right and their connections to terrorist attacks. I like to categorize them as terrorists, unaffilliated with anything other than terrorism.

What concerns me is our public officials and media trying their best to be politically correct when discussing these two killers. It's obvious they are Muslims that hate our country and are willing to kill to prove it. There's not a bigger form of cowardice. We better deal with the thousands just like them walking the streets of our cities, and the ones standing in line to enter.

We better get serious about controlling our borders and being much more selective as to who we let visit. We can send plenty of suspicious Muslims (or whatever) packing while stoping them from coming. We can do that without allowing those that truly want to live the American dream from doing it. At the same time we need to be just a vigilant with those that are born and bred right here.

There's a lot of people around this world that (unjustifiably) want us dead, the sooner, as a country, we realize that the sooner we get a better grip.

This administration has actively promoted the idea that white male terrorists are one of the greatest threats to national security. I agree with you that the threat of terrorism is not a left/right problem but that is the way that Obama and his supporters are treating it. Acts of terror are usually committed with a political objective in mind. "Jihad" is a religious concept but it seeks changes that require the establishment of radical Islamic theocracies. I don't see religion-based terrorism as either right wing or left wing.

When convicted Muslim murderer Hasan Karim Akbar killed two Army officers and wounded 14 others at Fort Hood, the Obama administration refused to classify it as terrorism and decided that it was merely an incident of "work place violence." There were no Purple Hearts or other military honors for the victims of former Major Hasan. They were not considered casualties of war.

I don't know about you, but I am tired of my own government falsely portraying white American men as equivalent threats to national security as radical Muslim terrorists. The Obama administration seems to have its priorities misplaced when it comes to identifying the greatest national security threats to this country. Maybe a country $17 trillion in debt could find better ways to spend its borrowed money than on studies such as the one described below. The only time that liberals want to ignore the politics of terrorists is when the suspects are neither white nor Christian.

As for controlling our borders, I agree with you 100 percent. If a nation cannot control its own borders, there can be no security for any of us.

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New Study Highlights Threat From Far Right-Wing Groups in U.S.

A new study from a think tank connected to the West Point Military Academy highlights the threat of violent far-right movements in the United States, leading to the conclusion that, while diverse in in their causes, they are similar in their use of violence to achieve their aims.

West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center was founded in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and has primarily focused its research on international terrorist threats. Titled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right,” this new report instead looks as the risk that domestic groups pose to the U.S. Breaking down these groups into three categories — the Racist/White Supremacy Movement, the Anti-Federalist Movement, and the Christian Fundamentalist Movement — allows the study to examine the background ideologies and methods of each subset thoroughly, opposed to lumping them all together as most studies have.

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