Obama Has Turned Jihadist Terror Attack Into Personal Gun War
17th June 2016
Indeed, to make the comparison to Adam Lanza of Newtown and James Holmes of Aurora all but explicit, Obama described Mateen not as a jihadist but as a “single deranged person.”
The president did so because he doesn’t want us to view Mateen as a volunteer in a war against the United States in which he served as a combatant against a cleverly chosen soft target. He wants us to view Mateen as another psychotic American with improper access to dangerous weaponry.
It’s all about the narrative, Larry.
‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ — Rahm Emmanuel