The origin of the idea of a terrorist-friendly America is opaque.
C1 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A16-17 EditOurals: Our terrorist-friendly borders; the real on-time budget; that Scalia charm.
We take issue with your statement in "Our Terrorist-Friendly Borders" (editorial, "An Insecure Nation" series, March 21) that "suspected terrorists have long been entering the country from Canada".
Arun Jaitley, the law minister and a leader in the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, scathingly denounced the Congress Party, India's second-largest party, calling its opposition "a terrorist-friendly stand".
In your March 21 editorial "Our Terrorist-Friendly Borders," you address issues to which officers of the Border Patrol and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have sought to call attention over the past year, with little success.
On the other hand, he said, they recently monitored radio traffic reports on a return trip from upstate before taking the George Washington Bridge instead of a less direct -- and presumably less terrorist-friendly -- route.
Unlike the global war on terror, its success is measured not by the number of high-value combatants taken into custody, or by the acreage of terrorist-friendly territory brought under control, but by the absence of something — another attack.
Working with Republicans on Capitol Hill trying to block Chuck Hagel's nomination to become Secretary of Defense, Breitbart's Ben Shapiro recently posted a report suggesting Hagel had allegedly received "foreign funding" over the years from a terrorist-friendly group called Friends of Hamas, but that the payments were being kept secret.
One supporter of Trump said yesterday: "We can't look at a Muslim and tell whether they're a terrorist or friendly".
Terrorists are never friendly if caught by spies, so be extra careful if you are assigned to watch terrorist groups.
It could be a "green on blue" attack (an assassination by a terrorist posing as a friendly), units retreating, the selling or abandoning equipment, or just general incompetence.
