John Kerry’s plan to defeat jihad: Cover your eyes and ears

When the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism,” one wonders if it could have been imagined that only a few short months later the head of the State Department would come out and personify precisely such a policy. 

Yet according to the Weekly Standard’s Jeryl Bier, it just occurred.

During a visit to Bangladesh — where three American students were hacked to death among 20 murdered by ISIS this past July — Secretary of State John Kerry said:

No country is immune from terrorism. It's easy to terrorize. Government and law 

enforcement have to be correct 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 

But if you decide one day you're going to be a terrorist and you're willing to kill 

yourself, you can go out and kill some people. You can make some noise. 

Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn't cover it 

quite as much. People wouldn't know what's going on. [Emphasis mine]

Got that?

The appropriate response to the global jihad is to ignore reality. The less the public knows about it, the better...