Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an Air National Guard major and leading House GOP voice on national security issues, broke sharply with Trump.
“I guess I appreciate Mr. Trump’s fieriness in talking about it, but you don’t do it by alienating the very people that we need, and those are moderate Muslims,” he said. “We have to use the folks that frankly are not radicalized, which is the vast majority of Muslims, to win this war.”
Did we need the majority of moderate Germans or Japanese to help us win WW2?
Not only did no such creature exist, but we got along fine without the mythical moderate beast. Wars are won through applications of strength, not through supplications of weakness.
The very people we need are military and law enforcement. A Muslim fifth column would be nice. Just as a German fifth column or a Japanese fifth column would have been nice, but it can never become the core of our strategy to the extent that all other operations are subservient to the need to manufacture and maintain this imaginary fifth column.
And that's been the failed core of Obama's strategy. The strategy has failed utterly. It's time to cast it aside and actually win this war.