Point 2, turning jihadist threat into a NATO focus will not happen. After the collapse of the sovjet regime and the Berlin Wall, NATO surely must have made the excercise of redirecting their resources towards the next most important threat, which was at that time already clearly emerging from fundamentalist islam. Sure they were aware of this and they could have addressed it, as also the EU could have reflected this in its "vision". Instead they paved the way even further for jihadi incubation in the Western world and poisoned even further many Traditional Western values.

The fact that all this did not happen is not a coïncidence, nor a lack of alertness but clearly a political and stratigical choice. I am certainly not a believer in messy conspiray theories, but certain agendas must have carried more weight than others... The decision to look the other way was deliberate and premeditated. If these guys are still holding the reigns, the 2nd point in the proposal is not a straightforward option...

Nevertheless a very constructive view and an enormous relief to see some no nonsene coming out of the mostly leftist UG environment.

Professor Cogan, I salute you for your clarity and complete freedom from the politcal correctness infesting Western Culture.

My guess is that sometimes you must be very lonely!

Thanks for this piece, I'll pass it around.

"Political Correctness" these days is, in fact, exactly what he proposes.
Unhappily, "fighting" terrorism means violence applied against a potential : overreaction and unfairness trammelling centuries of successful tactics against civic unrest. We had a prime example of that in Nazi Germany : a corporate/police state geared to nothing except economic exploitation, murder, slavery and violence.
When even saying that the values our parents, grandparents, and their siblings fought and often died for are disloyal - which happens - tradition values are being cut with abandon. And what are they ?
Methodical examination to find truth.
Open confrontation of opinions.
Restraint of the state's methods and powers.
Suppression of talk advocating violence and oppression of religions and races.
Talk of Iran is unproven. What is known is that the US is openly funding subversion : again and still. And lying without letup.