Former U.S. Representative to the United Nations General Assembly Robert C. O’Brien, co-chairman of the U.S. State Department’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan and author of the new book While America Slept: Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the weekend terror attacks.
O’Brien said:
It’s amazing, I’ve been watching the mainstream media over the last couple of days, and instead of calling these acts of terrorism, and now people shouting, “Allahu akbar” and quizzing people on their Muslim heritage, to decide whether or not they’d be knifed in a mall in Minnesota – it’s the same old trope of, “We’ve got to disarm Americans, we need gun control, and maybe this is mental illness, and it’s really too early to comment on what’s happening here.”
He warned that we’ve “hit a point of peak political correctness that prevents us from identifying who our enemies are, and this is a very dangerous place for the United States right now. It’s time to identify our enemies and go out and destroy them.”
O’Brien expanded on that “peak political correctness” idea by comparing it to “fighting in World War II against Japan and Germany, but without being able to mention the Nazis, or the imperial warlords in Japan, or talk about their ideology”:
Certainly, we have great Muslim-Americans who came here to get away from the type of tyranny that these jihadis want to impose on us and impose on their people in the Middle East. This isn’t about good, law-abiding, upstanding Muslim-Americans. There should be no backlash against them. We appreciate the fact that they’re here, and part of the fabric of our society. But this unwillingness to name the ideological fact behind these attacks is astounding.
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