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We Are Losing the War Against Radical Islam

Congress needs a strategy to defeat both violent and cultural jihad.

On Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the leadership of Chairman Michael McCaul, held the first of a series of very important hearings on the threat of radical Islamism. As I told the committee in my testimony, it is vital that the United States Congress undertake a thorough, no-holds-barred review of the long, global war in which we are now engaged with radical Islamists. This review will require a number of committees to coordinate, since it will have to include Intelligence, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Homeland Security at a minimum. There are three key, sobering observations about where we are today which should force this thorough, no-holds-barred review of our situation. Read_More_button

Source: Newt Gingrich, nationalreview.com