u/border_dad
· 5h
1,081 jihadists. 110 hostages. 18 months. Keep that scoreboard.
Exclusive — Sebastian Gorka: Under President Trump's Leadership 'Global Jihadi Movement Is on the Back Foot'
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Eighteen months. 1,081 jihadists killed. 110 American hostages home.
Summary
- Breitbart reports Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and NSC Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka told Breitbart News Saturday that under Trump the global jihadi movement is on the back foot.
- Gorka said jihadi goals 25 years ago were to shake down Arab monarchies, starting with Saudi Arabia, and to undermine the West starting with America. He said the Gulf Cooperation Council states are closer to the United States than ever, especially after Iran began shelling them, and that America is stronger than it has ever been.
- He credited Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and U.S. war fighters, including operations against cartels and Midnight Hammer against Iran.
- Gorka said that in the past 18 months, after Trump reverted to first-term rules of engagement, U.S. forces killed 1,081 global jihadists who were planning to kill Americans or already had American blood on their hands, and that Trump liberated 110 U.S. hostages in the same period.
Commentary
A Fort Hood dad still folds a flag case on a dresser and knows a war is supposed to end with a name coming home, not a seminar. He did not bury a friend so a fatwa could outlive the rules of engagement.
Eighteen months. 1,081 killed. 110 hostages home. The honest household already paid the casualty list. The vinyl chair at the USO still waits.
Look every working father who still salutes a casket at a county airport in the eye and answer this: if the first-term rules already put 1,081 plotters in the ground, who still owns the next hostage file on that desk?
Comments
If 110 hostages already came home, what is the next 18 months for?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a line so a fatwa still met a rule of engagement. A seminar is not a raid.
u/rule_first
· 4h
First-term ROE restored. Midnight Hammer. GCC closer after Iran shells. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied desks still treat a hostage return as a duty, not a press cycle.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Bin Laden and Zawahiri goals, 25 years on: monarchies and America. File the miss.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next plotter in the ground, not in a briefing.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A hostage on a tarmac is not a slogan. It is a warning the household already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A unused ROE is a second border around a safe house. The first raid should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed Gorka, Hegseth, and the two numbers. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the ROE. Keep the raids. A fatwa is not a cease-fire.
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