Travel Ban Would Not Have Stopped Previous Attacks

The claim by the Trump administration that the travel ban from these countries would make the US safer and would have prevented previous attacks is quite hollow. The Washington Post has an article that basically said that the current policy would not have stopped those attacks, because the attackers were either US citizens, permanent residents, or were not from one of those banned countries.

This is a table that summarizes the attacks by so-called Islamic extremists since 2001.

“The ban is less about national security and more about advancing a worldview based on religious and racial exclusion,” J.M. Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague and co-author of “ISIS: The State of Terror,” wrote in an email Sunday. “It’s not likely to make us safer, and it is far more likely to help our real enemies, ISIS and al-Qaeda. We don’t do ourselves any favors when we make their talking points into reality.”

So instead of making us safer, it has made us even more vulnerable.

Zz.