GORKA OUT OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER PRESIDENT’S FAILURE TO IDENTIFY ISLAMIC TERRORISM AS ISLAMIC

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Gorka himself has been known to equivocate on this issue,
but he was one of the last, if not the last, member of the Trump
administration who was upholding, even in part, Trump’s apparent
campaign promise to speak honestly about the motivating ideology of the
jihad threat. Now that he is gone, it appears that the proponents of
Obamaesque denial and willful ignorance have won the day. Trump may
recover, of course, or he may not. But right now, in the context of the
Left’s intense ongoing efforts to deny all dissenters any access to the
means of communication, the Trump administration’s abandonment of
honesty regarding jihad means that soon those who speak honestly about
this threat could have no voice at all in the public square. In the wake
of Charlottesville, when the Left began moving aggressively to cut the
ground out from under the feet of foes of jihad terror, Jihad Watch
received a few thousand dollars in donations, for which I am most
grateful. At the same time, the hard-Left smear machine Southern Poverty
Law Center received tens of millions to continue its defamation and
marginalization of legitimate organizations by lumping them in with the
KKK and neo-Nazis. This only means there will be more assaults on
truth-tellers coming in the near future.
Gorka wasn’t perfect, but his departure, whether he jumped or was
pushed, is another light going out in the failing Trump administration,
and a harbinger of rough days to come.
“Breaking: Sebastian Gorka Resigns From Trump Administration,” by Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist, August 25, 2017:

Sebastian Gorka is resigning his post as Deputy Assistant
to President Trump, multiple sources familiar with the situation have
told The Federalist.
In a blunt resignation letter, the national security and
counterterrorism expert expressed dissatisfaction with the current state
of the Trump administration. “[G]iven recent events, it is clear to me
that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now –
ascendant within the White House,” Gorka wrote. “As a result, the best
and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside
the People’s House.”
Gorka’s letter expressed unhappiness with the direction the Trump
administration’s foreign policy has taken, as signaled by the
president’s recent speech on Afghanistan:
“Regrettably, outside of yourself, the individuals who most embodied
and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have
been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in
recent months. This was made patently obvious as I read the text of your
speech on Afghanistan this week…
“The fact that those who drafted and approved the speech removed any
mention of Radical Islam or radical Islamic terrorism proves that a
crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost…
“Just as worrying, when discussing our future actions in the region,
the speech listed operational objectives without ever defining the
strategic victory conditions we are fighting for. This omission should
seriously disturb any national security professional, and any American
who is unsatisfied with the last 16 years of disastrous policy decisions
which have led to thousands of Americans killed and trillions of
taxpayer dollars spent in ways that have not brought security or
victory.”
During his time in the Trump administration, Gorka focused on issues
such as countering the Muslim Brotherhood, the crisis in Qatar,
supporting efforts to draft a new long-term national security strategy,
and combatting China’s economic warfare. Before coming to the White
House, Gorka was the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair at Marine
Corps University and also contributed to Breitbart News….
The Forward has written dozens of attack pieces against
Gorka, including several attempting to align him with Nazism. Most
recently that publication retracted a story about his son’s schoolwork.
Gorka strenuously objected to allegations he had ties to Nazi groups in
his family’s home country of Hungary, where he had previously been
involved in national politics. Even detractors eventually acknowledged
the Nazi accusations were unfair smears….
UPDATE: In response to this story, the White House issued a statement
that said, “Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no
longer works at the White House.”

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“It shows a lack of understanding of the president’s broader policy
when it comes to protecting Americans at home and abroad from all acts
of terrorism. Terrorism has manifested itself in many types of
organizations.”

Yes, of course. Just consider that worldwide network of Amish terrorist groups.

What this is about is whether or not the U.S. is going to identify
and study the terrorists’ motivating ideology. If it doesn’t, it will
have failed to know the enemy, which is the first adage of how to pursue
a war successfully.

The Trump administration has betrayed its promise.

“Tillerson: Gorka is ‘completely wrong’ on ‘radical Islam’ term,” by Julia Manchester, The Hill, August 27, 2017:

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday former
White House aide Sebastian Gorka was “completely wrong” to criticize the
president’s Afghanistan speech because there was no mention of “radical
Islam.”

“It shows a lack of understanding of the president’s broader policy
when it comes to protecting Americans at home and abroad from all acts
of terrorism,” Tillerson told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Terrorism has manifested itself in many types of organizations. The
president has charged us to develop policies and tactics both
diplomatically and militarily to attack terrorism in its many forms,
wherever it exists in the world, and wherever it might present a threat
to the homeland or Americans anywhere. This means that we need to
develop techniques that are global in their nature.”…