Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 14, 2011

For a decade, we?ve been told that America s is engaged in a ?generational conflict? with Islamic terrorism.

In a sense, this is partially true. The loose aggregation of Islamic radicals conventionally referred to as ?al-Qaeda? has existed for more than a generation. However, it began its existence as an asset of the CIA, rather than an acknowledged enemy of America. What we call ?al-Qaeda? was created as a result of the CIA?s July 1979 intervention in Afghanistan, which fomented a coup intended to bring about a Soviet invasion of that country. This was proudly admitted by former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in a 1998 newspaper interview.

At present, according to newly appointed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, al-Qaeda consists of ?10 or 20 remaining leaders,? and ?fewer than two dozen key operatives? scattered across Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

As commentator Glenn Greenwald points out, terrorism kills fewer Americans each year than intestinal ailments. Rather than dealing with it on a rational basis, Greenwald observes, Washington ?is doing everything possible to ensure that Terrorism remains as large a threat as possible? ? by, among other things, exaggerating it by several orders of magnitude.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.